Sunday, April 27, 2008

Between The Sheets / Between The Lines

“What’s that you are reading then?”
For the third time in ten minutes my eye is dragged from the words, and once again I know that I shall probably start all over at the top of the page. She Of The Townhouse has an impish gleam in her eye.
“It is a tale about a chap whose girlfriend wouldn’t get up and make a cup of tea on Sunday morning!”
“Oooh! Romance or murder mystery?”
Darkly. “I can’t say for certain yet I haven’t got to the end……”

Now then, hastily exiting the Hallett Boudoir I find myself among the growing ranks of youtube viewers. Often I feel the resort of a lazy blogger to flag up things and merely add ‘look at this’ or LOL as their only contribution for the day. Nevertheless I did stumble across a real gem this week. It started on Wednesday evening when Mike Harding played ‘On again’ By Jake Thakeray on radio two. A treat for me. The next day I looked it up in the workplace and was led on via a Gorilla to Georges Brassens and thence to Jaques Brel.
If you have the time and the inclination I recommend that you watch this all the way through. And then if perchance you enjoy it, then look up the others. I promise you wont be disappointed.
Back in the seventies this song meant a lot to me.

Happy Birthday Izzy
XXX

14 comments:

Unknown said...

Thank you for popping on over and especially for discovering my newest blog that as you notice I just started up yesterday.

Ooo those mushrooms looks really good to eat too...

Hope you gotten your glasses fixed by now.

I will be adding your link to my newest blog..so there will be no way that I will loose track of your postings again.

Vi said...

He's a bit sweaty isn't he?

Anonymous said...

Oooh yes. One of my favourite songs - even though it makes me cry.

buffalodick said...

We all have moments of music that are touching and memorable to a person- maybe sometimes only just that person....

startare said...

This is a song I keep wishing did not do what it does; somehow it seems so corny, and yet so true, you can't help being moved to tears. I love Nina Simone's version.

Sophie said...

Another Jake Thackray fan - huzzah!

Utter Basketcase said...

I live for music! It's like my fuel! I'd probably drop dead if I lost power to my radio! *GiGGLeS*

BTW RAT GiRL Part 3 is out now if you wanna have a squiz! :-) xx

Lori said...

Jacques Brel, a classic! That was really beautiful. Such a touching song.

headless chicken said...

It's interesting when people let you see what music presses their buttons.
Beautiful....made me a bit teary!

headless chicken said...

Izzy says thanks. It was indeed a happy one! x

Spiky Zora Jones said...

Howdy babes. Why is/was this song important to you?

I saw Nina Simone at the end of the video...now I like lots of her stuff. I think her earlier works was actually better then her later work. Probably because Her voice had more youth to it and seemed to have a more passionate tone to it as well. Her later work seemd to be...like it's just a job to her...maybe I've somehow misslead myself.

Thanks for stopping by...I like your blog.

Ciao babes.

Spiky Zora Jones said...

Vi...right. He is a bit sweaty, Why isn't the air conditioner working? hehehe.

Ciao babes. :)

Anonymous said...

lovely .. i feel quite chilled and woozy now, from his voice.


i shall listen again.

Lesley said...

I saw Sting sing this at the end of a concert in the eighties. He was good, but not as good as Jacques.