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Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927
Posted by Lupu21 on 23 November 2011 - 6:23pm.
There are probably a few songs AS GOOD as Louisiana by Randy Newman. Wild Horses by the Stones, Wichita Lineman, Bowie's Strangers When We Meet.... but can anyboy genuinely claim they know of a BETTER song? £10 to anybody I agree with.
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Send In The Clowns...
...specifically the Judy Collins recording. Unsurpassable in my view.
But other opinions are available and I'm expecting everyone on this blog will have one...
great song but what about
Dylan 'Blind Willie McTell' - The version on 'the Bootleg Series Vols 1-3'
It's right up there
And here's another excuse to post one of my favourite covers ever, Aaron Neville's pellucid version of that song.
Agree, a lovely
version of a great song though did anyone catch him on Later a few weeks back ? Her didn't look at all well.
I love this version ....
.... by Martin Simpson. Saw him do it live in Crouch End a few years ago. Lovely guitar playing.
Didn't look well...
And sounded really ropy too, though it grieves me to say it. I first saw the Neville Brothers 25 years ago, and I love Aaron's voice dearly.
I claim my ten pounds. Please send it to Children In Need.
Misty
I look outside at the rain
which I will soon have to experience first hand along with my dog.
And I wish the fish was jumping and the cotton was high.
Moon River
and Audrey Hepburn
That's my favourite song
And Johnny Mercer is my favourite lyricist.
I know of none better
than 'This Guy's In Love With You' by Burt Bacharach and this version by Herb:
My favourite band's most beautiful song
is XTC's "Chalkhills and Children". Andy Partidge's finest hour (of many):
Yes
yes, yes and indeed, yes.
Perhaps the rare exception to the rule that the pram in the hall is the sombre enemy of good art.
On that note
... how about "Pale and Precious"? Too good to be on a pastiche record.
The answer, as always, is Summertime.
It's so good there's a programme about it tonight on BBC 4.
Ella & Louis, Miles, Sam Cooke, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Smith or, my own favourite, Kathleen Battle. I think you get the picture.
The Ella & Louis
is up there ^^^
:-)
It all depends on what mood I wake up in
they are all brilliant songs but TODAY this is better
Written when he was
Written when he was 15...such a good song.
Right now
Hem's Lazy Eye is as good as anything
This...
...is the best song ever written.
(The Way You Look Tonight by Fred Astaire)
Louisiana takes some
Louisiana takes some beating. Probably something by the Beatles. I really like 'things we said today', just a great song tucked away within the catalogue. I also think 'west end blues' is as close to perfection as popular music gets.
Staying with Randy
Louisuana is great. Try and find John Boutte's version (he also does the Treme theme song).
But Sail Away is a better song.
Here it is
This is John Boutte of New Orleans singing Louisiana 1927. Listen to how he reprises the lyrics and personalises the song. There is a great audio only version out there of him singing this at the first Jazzfest after the storm and it is one of the best things I have ever heard.
John Boutte may be the best singer in the world right now.
Brilliant! Thanks for this.
Brilliant! Thanks for this. Is there a more fulfilling feeling than discovering a song that you instantly skip back and relisten to? Several times....
Thanks
I'm happy to be the Louisiana messenger (the state, not the song) to the massive.
I don't quite understand this thread
But here's a good song:
Gordy...
Sorry, but most songs are child's play
compared to this-
I have a bit of a problem
I have a bit of a problem with this song, good though it is, as it pretty much killed Billie's career.
Randy's best song for me
is In Germany Before The War. 'I'm looking at the river but I'm thinking of the sea' is probably my favourite line in any song ever.
Another day
another best song... Today, I think this might be the best song in the world ever:
Good Call.
You beat me to this post...
Good Call.
You beat me to this post...
Had a bit of a Peter Green
night and, as always, this track stopped me in my tracks
Man of The World
I'm on a Gillian Welch
kick since seeing her on Wednesday.
At the moment the finest song written in the history of mankind is Time (The Revelator)