Some fun here! Got into a discussion today about 60’s music. Somehow, on YouTube, looking up a song, I came up with this –
Big Momma Thornton wrote this song …
Then I remembered Janis Joplin also tore this song up in her interpretation at Monterey Pop in ’67 –
This version by Etta James –
Funny thing is, Janis did it in respect for Big Momma… And Etta did it in salute to Janis.
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Dwjazzlover
January 5, 2011 at 12:06 AM
Amazing isn’t it..
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nanakwame
January 5, 2011 at 9:00 AM
My Ladies – Support our Classics, we gave it to the world.
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CNu
January 6, 2011 at 4:43 PM
chasing that dragon whilst tore up on acid and backed by big brother and the holding company will do that for a “standard”…,
but I digress……,
so while I’m at it, I’ma go hard and waaaaay out on a limb and note to your attention my considered opinion that both Peggy Lee and Julie London do a helluva lot more with Black Coffee than either (here comes the heresy) Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughn.
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btx3
January 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Uhhhhhh Ohhhhhhh!
I’m going to leave you to the tender mercies of Nana and BrotherBrown on that one!
Me? I just leaned how to convert some of that Haitian rubble into a base layer aggregate for about 4 miles of runway…
Or in this case, a bunker strong enough to mayhaps in which to survive without being collateral damage from the cruise missiles and slings launched due to such heretical apostasy!
Here is Julie’s version…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFN_Iu_PD-g
Ella –
Sarah –
And Peggy Lee –
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CNu
January 6, 2011 at 11:05 PM
cass elliot’s face at 3:30 into that Monterey Pop festival performance is absolutely priceless…., thanks for pulling that up out of the crates!
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nanakwame
January 7, 2011 at 9:05 AM
I would say Peggy Lee was underestimated and got a lot of slack for her love of black folks. Her rendition of Black Coffee is quite smooth.
I did not know you were still in Haiti. I have to get this man’s work
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june11/kwamedawes_01-04.html
His Mother of Mothers hit the heart
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CNu
January 7, 2011 at 10:32 AM
I would say Peggy Lee was underestimated and got a lot of slack for her love of black folks. Her rendition of Black Coffee is quite smooth.
It’s the high-mileage over hard roads that comes through in both their renditions, now if Billie left a version, I have little doubt that it would put to rest any competition.
Bottomline for me, church-ladies can’t evoke the pathos required for torch-songs…., and that’s what distinguishes the presentations in my estimation – but that’s just me…,
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