Claudine Longet - Love Is Blue (1968/2018)
Artist: Claudine Longet
Title: Love Is Blue
Year Of Release: 1968/2018
Label: A&M Records
Genre: Pop
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 00:31:04
Total Size: 74 mb | 214 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Love Is Blue
Year Of Release: 1968/2018
Label: A&M Records
Genre: Pop
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 00:31:04
Total Size: 74 mb | 214 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Falling In Love Again
02. Happy Talk
03. Love Is Blue
04. Holiday
05. Dindi
06. Claudine Longet & Tommy LiPuma - Who Needs You
07. When I Look In Your Eyes
08. Walk In The Park
09. Small Talk
10. Snow
11. It's Hard To Say Goodbye
Claudine Longet's third album continues the middle-of-the-road tendencies of her first two, leading off with an oddly jaunty reinterpretation of "Falling in Love Again," Marlene Dietrich's theme song, whose jaded world-weariness Longet replaces with her own pleasantly insubstantial persona. With its cinematic background noise staging and odd ragtime piano accents, it recalls Harpers Bizarre's playful deconstruction of pre-rock standards. More successful are the straightforward bilingual version of the title track, one of the evergreen tunes of '60s easy listening; the oft-recorded Alan Gordon and Gary Bonner sunshine pop tune "Small Talk"; and a mournful, skeletal version of Randy Newman's little-known early tune "Snow" that's among Longet's finest interpretations of her career. Even better is Longet's take on the Bee Gees standard "Holiday"; Longet's endearingly pitch-poor, lispy vocals are tailor-made for this spooky, unconventional song, which arranger Nick DeCaro gives a suitably off-kilter arrangement featuring a chorus of wordless Longets between the strings and the increasingly florid piano accompaniment. Longet's next album, the masterful Colours, would benefit from even more of this gently psychedelic experimentation.