September's here and the days are becoming shorter...
This is the first cloudy and rainy day here after almost two months of heatwave (above 40)!
Let's welcome this beautiful season with an excellent song written for the occasion!
This single is the very first release by Echo and the Bunnymen's singer Ian Mc Culloch. In 1984, right after their "Ocean Rain" LP, he released this cover to Kurt Weill's classic song "September song" (first public performance in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday).
It has since been recorded by numerous singers (James Brown, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Robert Wyatt are some of them).
The wonderfull classic Irish song "Molly Malone" or "Cockles and Mussels" is on the b-side. The song tells the fictional tale of a beautiful fishmonger who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin, but who died young, of a fever. She is typically represented as a hawker by day and part-time prostitute by night.
In contrast she has also been portrayed as one of the few chaste female street-hawkers of her day.
In 1988 the Dublin Millennium Commission endorsed claims concerning a Molly Malone who died on 13 June 1699, and proclaimed 13 June to be "Molly Malone day". The city of Dublin made a statue of Molly Malone in 1988.
This is the first cloudy and rainy day here after almost two months of heatwave (above 40)!
Let's welcome this beautiful season with an excellent song written for the occasion!
This single is the very first release by Echo and the Bunnymen's singer Ian Mc Culloch. In 1984, right after their "Ocean Rain" LP, he released this cover to Kurt Weill's classic song "September song" (first public performance in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday).
It has since been recorded by numerous singers (James Brown, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Robert Wyatt are some of them).
The wonderfull classic Irish song "Molly Malone" or "Cockles and Mussels" is on the b-side. The song tells the fictional tale of a beautiful fishmonger who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin, but who died young, of a fever. She is typically represented as a hawker by day and part-time prostitute by night.
In contrast she has also been portrayed as one of the few chaste female street-hawkers of her day.
In 1988 the Dublin Millennium Commission endorsed claims concerning a Molly Malone who died on 13 June 1699, and proclaimed 13 June to be "Molly Malone day". The city of Dublin made a statue of Molly Malone in 1988.
Have a nice Autumn!
Take it here
Είναι μια απίστευτη διασκευή.-
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήΕυχαριστώ πολύ που το ρίπαρες.Τυχερέ,έχεις αυτό το πανσπάνιο σινγκλ.Το έψαχνα χρόνια στο slsk,το βρήκα, το κατέβασα ,το έχασα και να που την πιο κατάλληλη εποχή το ξαναβρήκα.Και το b side είναι εξαιρετικό.Το ευχαριστώ πολύ είναι λίγο....
Ευχαριστώ Χρήστο. Ήμουνα φανατικός των Bunnymen μέχρι και το Ocean Rain και φυσικά όταν είδα ότι ο Mc Culloch έβγαλε προσωπικό σινγκλ έτρεξα να το πάρω. Δεν το ήξερα ότι είναι σπάνιο, θα το ψάξω στο discogs.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήΔεν κατάφερα πάντως να βρω ποιοί μουσικοί τον συνοδεύουν. Σόρρυ για τα λίγα σκρατς που ακούγονται στην αρχή και στο τέλος του κομματιού. Ελπίζω κατά τ' άλλα η ποιότητα να είναι καλή. Δεν σκέφτηκα να το ανέβαζα σε wav.
Νά' σαι καλά. Για κάτι τέτοια μ' αρέσει το blogging.
καλησπέρα! Άργησα να γράψω σχόλιο γιατί άργησα να το ακούσω. Δεν γνώριζα την συγκεκριμένη κυκλοφορία. Πολύ καλός ο Mc Cullogh στα 2 κομμάτια. Δεν γνώριζα ούτε αυτά. Η βαθιά μαγευτική φωνή του Mc Cullogh δένει άψογα με το ήπιο ακουστικό ύφος - όχι πολύ μακριά από τον ήχο των Bunnymen, επίσης αγαπημένο συγκρότημα.
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