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16/07/2024

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Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society - MBAS

12/07/2024

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Tuesday night at Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society - MBAS

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25/05/2024

The Black Music Project highlights the primary genres created by African-Americans from 1619 to the dawn of the 21st century.

Only one artist defied categorization.

Who was it ?

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The Black Music Project presents: A short video outlining the major eras and genres of Black American music. This music helped define America and helped chan...

25/03/2024

Blues, you are the mother of sin.



Blues, you're a lingering shadow,
Blues, you get under my skin.
You're a vicious refrain,
You're a pleasure and pain,
Blues, you're the mother of sin!

You were born in a dive
And weaned on misery,
Then you put down some jive
And crashed society.
You can weaken the strong,
Make the righteous do wrong,
Blues, you're the mother of sin!

When I'm feeling happy, glad, merry, mad,
You come along with your troublin' song,
Making me lonely, sad as can be.
Won't you ever get wise?
Try some happier guys!

Blues, blues, you're a lingerin' shadow,
Blues, can a man never win?
You have made people grieve
Since old Adam and eve,
Blues, you're the mother of sin!
Blues, you're the mother of sin...

BLUES, THE MOTHER OF SIN
(Billy Eckstine / Sid Kuller)

Billy Eckstine
with Count Basie & his Orchestra
recorded 1959

Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKBlues the Mother of Sin (1994 Remaster) · Count Basie & His Orchestra · Billy EckstineBasie/Eckstine Inc℗ 1994 Parlophone...

16/03/2024

The song "Schöner Gi**lo, armer Gi**lo", was an Austrian composition from 1928 by Leonello Casucci with lyrics by Julius Brammer. It was performed in Germany in 1929 by several orchestras and emerged in other countries with their own translations.

The concept behind the song describes the social collapse in Austria after the First World War. The singer remembers himself as a soldier in uniform but who now has to earn a living as a hired dancer. ‘The music features a simple melodic sequence, but nonetheless has a clever harmonic construction that highlights the mixed emotions in the lyrics, adding a nostalgic, bittersweet effect.’

In 1931 Bing Crosby recorded a version including a "lost verse" (where the soldier is now portrayed as French!) that doesn't make it onto Louis Armstrong's rendition, recorded with Fats Waller on piano, also recorded in 1931.

"It was in a Paris cafe at first I found him.
He was a Frenchman, a hero of the War,
But war was over and here's how peace had found him,
A few cheap medals to wear and nothing more.
Now every night in the same cafe he shows up
And as he strolls by ladies hear him say
'If you admire me, hire me', a gi**lo who knew a better day".