Thanks, Judy, it's nice to be back, probably mostly as an occasional
commentator, as my poetic embers are dying, Egypt, dying. Sad about
YouTube's lack of Butt support, as it were, but try this:
http://www.lastfm.de/music/Clara+Butt/_/Sea+Pictures%3A+Where+corals+lie?autostart
Listening to it in this clearer transcription (my old LP in France is of
antique provenance, I'm in Berlin this winter) I do perceive more that OTT
quality noted by Dave in this, but it's unique & lovely.
cheers
Martin
Gimme eastern trimmin' where women are women
In high silk hose and peekaboo clothes
And French perfume that rocks the room
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows.
Livingston/Evans 1947
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Prince" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: blossom dearie
> Welcome back, Martin.
> Wish I could get a YouTube version of her "Where corals lie".
>
> Best,
>
> Judy
>
> 2009/2/22 Martin Walker <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Actually, Dave, Dame Clara was a very versatile singer who could do
>> tender
>> & restrained as well - viz. her recording of "Where corals lie" which is
>> as
>> evocative a quintessence of Edwardian yearning for Another Country as any
>> I
>> know.
>> cheers
>> Martin -
>> Gimme eastern trimmin' where women are women
>> In high silk hose and peekaboo clothes
>> And French perfume that rocks the room
>> And I'm all yours in buttons and bows.
>> Livingston/Evans 1947
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
>> [log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 2:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: blossom dearie
>>
>>
>>
>> The opposite of which might have been the voice of the awesome Dame
>>> Clara Butt, a recording of which I chanced to hear this morning, of
>>> whom Beecham remarked that on a clear day you could hear her across
>>> the Channel.
>>> She used to dress as Britannia to sing for the Empire and her voice
>>> could politely be described as elephantine.
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> dav
>>>
>>> 2009/2/22 Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>
>>>> My mind slips sideways to the death of Blossom Dearie, news of which
>>>> led
>>>>> me
>>>>> to
>>>>>
>>>> Youtube.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNpHSCiDVAo&feature=related
>>>>
>>>> 'Blossom Dearie's voice, critic Whitney Balliett once wrote, would
>>>> scarcely
>>>> reach the second story of a doll house.'
>>>>
>>>> Max<
>>>>
>>>> Now that is poetry.
>>>>
>>>> Tim A.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Bircumshaw
>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>>
>>
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