Interludes

Hugh -

It's good to know that someone who is 102 years old is up to the new technology of youtube. :-)

You've been adding them up, the years, the fleeting years. 98 plus 4. How time flies.

Great stuff Hugh. And thanks.

OK tarbaby man, we might have found something uncontroversial we can agree on (lol).

You've convinced my three year old son that you have very good taste. He is obsessed with Modern Times. He begs to see it every day, and when we let him, he watches start to finish.

I should amend the above: you've proved that your taste is at least as good as mine, because you've identified my favorite scene in the movie. My son, however, would nominate Charlie's nervous breakdown in the factory, particularly when he goes down in the gears of the machine.

Here's a performance to lift the spirits! Gilels makes it look so easy.

http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://it.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVXU7I_Yyi2Y&prev=/search%3Fq%3DNON%2BHO%2BPIU%2527LA%2BVESTE%2BA%2BFIORI%2BBLU%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Here's the Gilels link that actually works (ignore the earlier thread link):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VXU7I_Yyi2Y

GREAT IDEA, I LOVE IT!!!

Before posting suggestions here, please click on the "here" in the first sentence above, a link to the original explanation of what prompted the "Interludes" feature, and what criteria must be met in order to be considered for inclusion as an Interlude. Those criteria were spelled out both in the original announcement, and in repeated replies, on the thread that followed, to those posters who refused to heed what had already been clearly spelled out.

Then, please, instead of posting them here, email those suggestions so that they can be considered by our Panel of Judges for possible inclusion.

Oh, one more thing. Unlike the boilerplate rules for all those contests that offer financial rather than esthetic rewards, relatives and friends of those serving on the Panel of Judges are not merely not forbidden from participating, but are encouraged to do so. Just one more feature that distinguishes the "Interludes."

Thank you.

The Management.

What a sad commentary on Islam, the "Religion of Peace", the religion of Allah the "merciful", that harmless entertainment such as you have listed is strictly forbidden (and probably subject to the death penalty) in a Muslim-occupied land.

One could probably say that Musical Interlude #3
(Black Coffee, by Marjorie Stedeford) is not exactly a Christian-approved selection. But no one will cut your head off in a Christian land if you have the DVD in your home.

I much prefer the peace and mercy of the Christian God (i.e. the real God) than the "peace" and "mercy" of the Muslim god (i.e. the wannabee god).

IT'S ABOUT TIME WE STOPPED CRINGING AND APOLOGIZING FOR OUR CULTURE AND WORRYING ABOUT PEOPLE BEING OFFENDED BY IT! OUR CULTURE IS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!

OK, sorry about the shouting. I feel better now. Had to get that off my chest.

JihadWatch is now my #1 bookmark! Thank you Hugh, Robert, Marisol, & Greg.

Hugh, what is the e-mail address you want us to send them to?

I love it.

I love it.

Email me c/o Robert, at his email address. He will then print it out on a Post-It note, affix that note to the hind leg of a well-trained homing pigeon, and then let it loose. The message always gets to me in no time.

Isn't Lee Morse something? And Annette Hanshaw? And Jessie Matthews? Where have they been all our lives?

Thank you Hugh.

The Black Coffee makes my feet want to tap the quick step.

I have never seen Irene Dunne but she is great! I'll have to find the complete movie. It's on Youtube but not marked by part and order like it should be.

And Jean Sablon -Wow. I would like to hear more.

"Jean Sablon...I would like to hear more."

You will be hearing more of Jean Sablon, in the weeks and months ahead, and also of Jean Sablon accompanied by the great Mireille (who was in the Resistance with her husband the philosopher Emmanuel Berl) in the role of his petite amie and sweetie, as he takes her to the Gare (de Lyon, du Nord, du Montparnasse, du Quelquepart), in order to see her off on what will be a two-week separation, their very first, and then at the last minute he decides...well, why don't we wait for the song.

Well, here's that song. Click on the link below, and then on the note to the right of "Puisque vous partez en voyage."

http://www.chanson.udenap.org/fiches_bio/mireille.htm

Something to tap the feet to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2KRG7cVMF0

Wow, I haven't listened to this all, but I am impressed with what I heard. Only Bessie Smith and Charlie Chaplin were already familiar to me.

I may now have to neglect house and family, kith and kin, friend and neighbor and stay indoors searching You Tube for more of these 78's.

I see a new line of coffee cups in this: "Hugh Fitzgerald: A Victrola on the Internet".

"You will be hearing more of Jean Sablon, in the weeks and months ahead,.."

I very much hope it will include the precious "J'attendrai".

I was amazed to see in the "interludes", Peter Leschchenko and Hanka Ordonowna (or Ordonka, as her loving audience, including my late father, called her).

And "Dancing with tears in my eyes" with Ruth Etting was a real treat. I heard it first time with, incredibly, Leadbelly (wonderful) some 40 years ago and never since. I remember wondering how that very "white" song would sound performed by a white person. How strange that I had to wait for "Jihad watch" (and, indirectly, jihad) to find out. Evidently, no hay mal que por bien no venga.

Thank you Hugh.

At the very end of

Cinematic Musical Interlude #4:

Voulez-Vous Le Taximeter? (Charlie Chaplin)

there is a final screenshot which states:

THE END

Passed by the National Board of Review

It boggles the mind to imagine what such a National Board run under Sharia would permit.

Thanks for the interlude, Hugh.

justask,

I would like to hear your suggested redition of Jeremiah's Lamentations (doubtlessly plainsong) offered here also, as you mention on the inaugural Interludes thread.

Perhaps YOU are the one who can up-load that onto YouTube.

"I very much hope it [Interludes] will include the precious "J'attendrai".
--- from a posting above

I have already posted Rita Ketty's rendition of "J'attendrai" , with accompanhing photographs of Louise Brooks, at JW, and there was a long discussion about Brooks on the thread following. It is Ketty's version that deserves to be put up again at "Interludes" if only one is put up (I may do both). But there will be several of Jean Sablon's songs; he'll be amply represented.

And there is to be more of Pyotr Leshchenko. Unfortunately it seems there is no Vertinsky on YouTube -- if there, or at another samaritan site, you find an example of his singing, please email me with it.

Finally, I love Hanka Ordonowna, and there will be a few more songs from that same movie. And also Adam Aston, and others from pre-war Poland, and then from Germany before Hitler, Leo Monosson (in any of a half-dozen languages) and Marek Weber's Tanz-Orkester and so on. Wait for the song about Siegried who just couldn't help being so good looking -- a schlager, the hit of 1930, whose singer's name I right now cannot recall, but you would know it. He performed sometimes with Trude Berliner.

Yes, we shall bring back the entire pre-war period. And that's not all.

profitsbeard - Well, that didn't make me want to tap my feet but it was very pleasant listening.

miira- That Charlie Chaplin clip would not make it today since it used the word darkies.

Thank you Hugh for this collection of works.

Are you adding more after the original postings? We will not see them unless we come back days later.

Follow the Van - funny and nice to see the audience participation.

Tout Va Bien Madame La Marquise - Thanks to the poster for the subtitle translation. I would not have enjoyed it and laughed without that. I wish they all had translations.

Hugh,

I was travelling for some time and away from the JW so I have missed "J'attendrai with Rita Ketty and the ensuing thread with Louise Brooks. Pity, but I’m already looking very much toward your putting up Jean Sablon’s songs.

And Pyotr (Pyetier?) Leshchenko! Can’t wait.
I was looking for Vertinsky myself, but no sight of him. I will make a few calls to my old friends and see if they can help. Will let you know as soon as I can come up with something.

You can’t imagine how happy I am hearing your declaration of love for Hanka Ordonowna.
And so do I, although I only know her from a terribly scratched 78rpm record I found a million years ago and from what I heard of her from my father.
He often talked of her lovely Mein JIddishe Mamme she chose to sing at the time of a wave of anti-Jewish attacks in Warsaw. A noble soul.

Wait for the song about Siegried who just couldn't help being so good looking -- a schlager, the hit of 1930, whose singer's name I right now cannot recall

Wasn’t it Sigismund rather than Siegfried who just couldn’t help being so good looking? I think so, because in Polish it is “co winien Zygmus, ze on taki sliczny”. It would be so good to have my father here, he could settle the matter immediately - also the name of the German singer, who, as my neighbour here suggests, was Max Hansen.

Yes, we shall bring back the entire pre-war period. And that's not all.
Wonderful! Let’s have it - even at the cost of a possible fatwa!

Thanks again.
PS.The neighbour just called to tell that the German title of the song (about good looking Sigi) is “ Was kann der Sigismund dafür, dass er so schön ist”

How lovely!

Here's a clip that would meet the aesthetic criteria: a Garland Wilson piano solo that demonstrates his curious, schizophrenic style that combines straight Fats Waller with an eccentric soupçon of Earl Hines:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dvDMQzcvGkQ

Yes, not Siegfried but Sigismund. The Big Hit and Schlager of 1930. Three years later, the singer, Siegfried Arno (Max Hansen was also a singer, I think with the Comedian Harmonists, but the best version of this song is by Arno)and many of those in Marek Weber's Tanz-Orkestra, fled Germany. Marek Weber himself. Adolf Ginsburg. The multi-lingual Leo Monosson. The Comedian Harmonists. Trude Berliner. Later on Ilja Livshakoff. Few of them found work as singers or musicians, though some managed to do so. Many died in poverty. And in Poland, many were killed. Hanka Ordonowna, who fled Poland to join General Anders' army, and got as far as Kazakhstan, and then wandered through all kinds of places, finally died in Beirut -- a very different and much more worldy Beirut -- in 1951. Yes, you are right, she was not Jewish but she insisted on singing "Mein Yiddishe Mama" in Poland, in the mid-1930s., a song written by her friend Marion Hemar. And that, of course, was telling.

Those actors and singers who were best, even if they were not directly threatened, because not Jewish, were so often the ones who couldn't stand it and either fled -- think of Jean Sablon -- or found other ways out. Think of Renate Muller in Germany. She killed herself in 1937.

My God, how is it possible for anyone to stockpile so much information on so many topics and still have the time and ENERGY to manage and contribute in such great degree to the JW website. This is one of these moments I doubt very much you’re 98. On the other hand your evident love for that Europe of yesterday of which only few have an idea and for which even fewer care would indicate you are in a rather ripe age.
Do uslyszenia and thank you.