Testing.... ---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote:
No one responded to my post about The Paris Sisters' version of Dream Lover. I claimed there was something almost perverted about the Phil Spector production - love *sickness* as pathology. Underground film-maker Kenneth Anger clearly agreed as he used it for a 3-minute clip Kustom Kar Kommandos. (Part of the reason could be that, being English, such music has an "exotic"appeal to me that you Yanks might not register. Another reason could be that I like the Decadent movement.) Here's another song that mines the same territory: April Stevens and Nino Tempo's Deep Purple. (Note how the production is clearly influenced by Phil Spector.) When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the stars begin to twinkle in the night In the mist of a memory you wander back to me Breathing my name with a sigh The song has a long history and is a typical lament in which a man or woman recalls a lover from the past. Previous versions are suitably sentimental. When April Stevens and Nino Tempo first tried recording the song as a demo, Tempo forgot the words, and Stevens spoke the lyrics to remind him. The producers thought Stevens' spoken contribution was "cute" and should be included on the finished product. That gave their version a unique angle. But what really strikes me is that when April speaks she sounds almost ecstatically happy. It's almost as though she *prefers* her nocturnal memories to the past reality of a warm-blooded man. It's positively necrophiliac. Seraphita, have you ever thought of writing reviews? Or maybe you do? This is quite creative. And morbid. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkVqCS64joo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkVqCS64joo
