GERRY MULLIGAN “Home when shadows fall”
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GERRY MULLIGAN “Home when shadows fall”
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JOHNNY HARTMAN From the Clint Eastwood film (with Meryl Streep) The Bridges of Madison County.
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FRANCOIS PARISI: “Le Parc de Plaisir” from Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris.
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By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
It’s April in Paris, right now. And it is a fine time to visit that most romantic of cities, but sometimes April there can dip down to the 40’s—sound familiar?
And, despite Yip Harburg’s lyrics, chestnuts in blossom don’t happen till May, and nobody is setting “holiday tables under the trees.” In Luxembourg Gardens, blooms are starting to pop in April, and they have a bandstand there.
However, choose May to visit Paris.
“I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never knew my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace
This song, “April in Paris” was written by Yip Harburg and Vernon Duke for a 1932 Broadway show called, “Walk a Little Faster.”
Harburg also wrote the lyrics for “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Many have recorded “April in Paris,” but Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald made the most famous version.
ELLA FITZGERALD WITH THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA:
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KELSEY GRAMMER AND DOUGLAS HODGE. “Song on the Sand.” From La Cage Aux Folles. Broadway cast album.
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Hi Paul:
Greetings from Manhattan. Over fifty years ago, my grandmother said a few things to me shortly before she died that I knew would eventually find their way into a poem. Here is “Grandmother’s Note” from my 2008 collection, Father of Water.
Best wishes,
Charles Pierre
Grandmother’s Note
By Charles Pierre
Looking for less with each added year,
I’ve begun to live in the small space
that surrounds me now, in the shadows
that gather at my feet and follow
as I walk along, and in the breezes
that take my shape for an instant,
leaving nothing but gentle creases
in my hair and a cool ripple
over my skin. Expecting little,
I go where my handwriting leads me –
become just a sound, a word, a phrase,
part of the impression on the page
for a moment, not an old woman
with the obvious lines of age, but
a clear thought in this surrounding space
CAL TJADER: “The Night We Called it a Day”
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This image is on permanent exhibit at Cheese on Main in Ocean Grove. Americans often arrive too early for dinner.
LUCIENNE DELYLE
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JULIETTE GRECO from the soundtrack of the movie An Education “Sur le quais du vieux Paris”