Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"


(I am standing with one foot in the grave),

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Bonnie Dobson and Robert Plant – Morning Dew



Bonnie Dobson and Robert Plant – Morning Dew




Bonnie Dobson - Morning Dew - Live At Folk City 1962



  

Bonnie Dobson - Morning Dew - Live At Folk City 1962

Bonnie Dobson (born November 13, 1940, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)[1][2] is a Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist, most known in the 1960s for composing the songs "I'm Your Woman" and "Morning Dew". The latter, augmented (with a controversial co-writing credit) by Tim Rose, became a melancholy folk rock standard, covered by Fred Neil, Ralph McTell, Lulu, Nazareth, the Grateful Dead, the Jeff Beck Group, Robert Plant, the Pozo Seco Singers, The 31st of February (including Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, and Butch Trucks of The Allman Brothers Band), Long John Baldry, DEVO and Einstürzende Neubauten, among many others.













Taj Mahal - Queen Bee - Bloody Sunday Sessions

  

Taj Mahal - Queen Bee - Bloody Sunday Sessions





MORNING DEW (1968) by the Jeff Beck Group (extensive slideshow video)



MORNING DEW (1968) by the Jeff Beck Group (extensive slideshow video)


Morning Dew was off the 1968 'Truth' album by the Jeff Beck Group featuring Jeff Beck (guitars), Rod Stewart (vocals), Ron Wood (bass) and Mickey Waller (drums).  Nicky Hopkins played piano on this track and also Blues Deluxe from the same album.  

Morning Dew is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962. According to Dobson in a 1993 interview, Morning Dew was inspired by the film On the Beach. Fred Neil heard Dobson's song and re-arranged it to suit his own style. Tim Rose heard Neil's version and then recorded his own in 1966, adding himself as co-writer. Through a loophole in US copyright law, Rose was able to claim royalties. Dobson has consistently questioned Rose's right to a co-writing credit. (Summarised from Wiki).

I have put together the most complete slideshow video I could of the Jeff Beck group, including some photos with Aynsley Dunbar on drums, although he did  not play on this track.

See also my slideshow videos of Beck's Bolero and Rock My Plimsoul also from the Truth album.  






STAGGER LEE (1969) by Taj Mahal



STAGGER LEE (1969) by Taj Mahal






Putin messes Trump's hair

Saturday, December 21, 2019

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence




“Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.”

― Jim Wallis





Taj Mahal - Cakewalk Into Town 1973

  





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'Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.' Hermann Hesse


Photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson® Hamburg, Germany
(1952)







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Henri Matisse 'The Bay of Nice', 1918







“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” — Joseph Campbell





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What does being dismayed mean?
1 : to cause to lose courage or resolution (as because of alarm or fear) must not let ourselves be dismayed by the task before us. 2 : upset, perturb were dismayed by the condition of the building. dismay. noun. Definition of dismay (Entry 2 of 2)











Nina Simone - Love Me Or Leave Me (1958)

  

Nina Simone - Love Me Or Leave Me (1958) 



Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

Born in North Carolina, the sixth child of a preacher, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of the few supporters in her hometown of Tryon, North Carolina, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York.


Waymon then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied despite a well-received audition. Simone became fully convinced this rejection had been entirely due to her race, a statement that has been a matter of controversy. Years later, two days before her death, the Curtis Institute of Music bestowed an honorary degree on Simone.

To make a living, Eunice Waymon changed her name to "Nina Simone". The change related to her need to disguise herself from family members, having chosen to play "the devil's music" or "cocktail piano" at a nightclub in Atlantic City. She was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and this effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist.

Simone recorded more than forty albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy".

Simone's musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.

To fund her private lessons, Simone performed at the Midtown Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, whose owner insisted that she sing as well as play the piano, which increased her weekly income to $90 a week. In 1954, she adopted the stage name "Nina Simone". "Nina" (from niña, meaning "little girl" in Spanish), and "Simone" was taken from the French actress Simone Signoret, whom she had seen in the movie Casque d'Or. Knowing her mother would not approve of playing the "Devil's Music", she used her new stage name to remain undetected. Simone's mixture of jazz, blues, and classical music in her performances at the bar earned her a small but loyal fan base.

In 1958, she befriended and married Don Ross, a beatnik who worked as a fairground barker, but quickly regretted their marriage. Playing in small clubs in the same year, she recorded George Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy" (from Porgy and Bess), which she learned from a Billie Holiday album and performed as a favor to a friend. It became her only Billboard top 20 success in the United States, and her debut album Little Girl Blue soon followed on Bethlehem Records. Simone lost more than $1 million in royalties (notably for the 1980s re-release of My Baby Just Cares for Me) and never benefited financially from the album's sales because she had sold her rights outright for $3,000.

After the success of Little Girl Blue, Simone signed a contract with Colpix Records and recorded a multitude of studio and live albums. Colpix relinquished all creative control to her, including the choice of material that would be recorded, in exchange for her signing the contract with them. After the release of her live album Nina Simone at Town Hall, Simone became a favorite performer in Greenwich Village. By this time, Simone performed pop music only to make money to continue her classical music studies and was indifferent about having a recording contract. She kept this attitude toward the record industry for most of her career.

Simone married a New York police detective, Andrew Stroud, in 1961. He later became her manager and the father of her daughter Lisa, but he abused Simone psychologically and physically.


FROM WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Si...









Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Mike Tyson Ruminates, Revelator Quotes



Mike Tyson says seeing himself interviewed that he was frightened by that guy he once was. 

"I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off." 

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.


I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.


 “Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. 

“When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I've lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.” 

I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal.


 
“Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.” 


“The boxing's the easy part. When you get into the ring to fight, that's the vacation.


'Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is ... 
  

"Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage." 



"One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible."




Monday, September 9, 2019

Since I've Laid My Burdens Down Mississippi John Hurt


Since I've Laid My Burdens Down
Mississippi John Hurt

Pictures are from the Library of Congress, American Memory Project and are of various people and places in Mississippi. The dates range from 1935 - 1945.

Mississippi John Hurt had two albums of very limited success in 1928. He was later "rediscovered" in the sixties and put out or took part in a number of albums and small concerts. I think he is the sound of grace and could listen to his sing and play all day.




CLIFTON CHENIER - THE KING OF THE 'ZYDECO' (LIVE)







Doug Kershaw avec Steve Riley "Jolie Blonde"

  
July 17, 2014: Shot with a Canon 5d Mark ii - 

Steve Riley is playing Amede Breaux's Monarch accordion with Doug Kershaw (age 78)

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You Used To Call Me - Clifton Chenier - His Red Hot Louisiana Band


The King of Zydeco (pronounce Za-ri-co please) Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 - December 12, 1987), a Creole French-speaking native of Opelousas, Louisiana, was an eminent performer and recording artist of Zydeco, which arose from Cajun and Creole music, with R&B, jazz, and blues influences. He played the accordion and won a Grammy Award in 1983. In 1984 he was honored as a National Heritage Fellow and in 1989 was inducted posthumously into the Blues Hall of Fame... "Tu connais tu 'pélé mo tous les matins...et asteur tu 'pélé pu mo"






Little Walter - Last Night I Lost The Best Friend

  

Little Walter - Last Night I Lost The Best Friend 




Big Walter Horton

  
Big Walter Horton 

Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton, (April 6, 1917 -- December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player. A quiet, unassuming and essentially shy man, Horton is remembered as one of the premier harmonica players in the history of blues. Willie Dixon once called Horton "the best harmonica player I ever heard."






Sunday, September 1, 2019

Sam Chatmon: Make Me A Pallet On the Floor (1978)



Sam Chatmon performs "Make Me A Pallet On the Floor," vocal and guitar. (1978)


Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long at Sam Chatmon's home, Hollandale, Mississippi, August 1978. 
For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit http://culturalequity.org 

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Lost Highway - Hank Williams




Lost Highway - Hank Williams






Jimmie Rodgers and Carter Family - In The Jailhouse Now and Wildwood Flower

  

Jimmie Rodgers and Carter Family 
 In The Jailhouse Now and Wildwood Flower 

There's such a huge selection of music on YouTube that Ranch Radio tends to focus on the rare or hard to find tunes.  

But last night we got a request for two classics - In The Jailhouse Now and Wildwood Flower.  

Here are the original versions of these tunes by Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family.  

Both tunes were recorded in Camden on Feb. 15, 1928 and May 10, 1928, respectively.  

This Special Edition goes out to Jim Holder.  The Westerner  http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/





Friday, August 30, 2019

Otis Rush - Three Times a Fool


Otis Rush - Three Times a Fool




Duke Ellington(Paul Gonsalves)-Crescendo+Diminuendo In Blue









Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Barney Wilen, Guy Lafitte, Cannes Jazz Festival

  
Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Barney Wilen, Guy Lafitte, Cannes Jazz Festival


58/10/13, Jazz Festival Du Cannes, "Tenor Conclave", Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Barney Wilen, Guy Lafitte (ts) Martial Solal (p) Arvell Shaw (b) J.C. Heard (d): Indiana
LP Giganti del Jazz (It)10 (wrong titled on screen:"Now's the time" )
filmed by Jean-Christophe Averty for ORTF-TV (F)
I do not know the reason why BBG1 2009 had uploaded only a fragment of better quality together with
"Ghost Of A Chance" by Stan Getz - therefore I let it here in less quality for impression. and invite you to look whether INA makes it available on their webside.

For reasons of Don Byas´rare appearances on screen and for jazz research I´ll upload later a few other 1958 Cannes clips with him.

I hope any copyrhight holders will tolerate this non commercial use and look at INA whether they make it available on their webside.





Charlie Musselwhite w/ Richard Bargel








Thursday, August 29, 2019

Soaring Eagle



Soaring Eagle

Squawk the Crow


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 Squawk 

Squawk is a minor character in Bob the Builder.

He is Spud the Scare Crow's Rival

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Spud the Scarecrow

Squawk is a minor character in Bob the Builder animation series.  Squawk is Spud's rival.




Cream Farewell Concert



Cream Farewell Concert as transmitted on BBC TV January 5th 1969  Tony Palmer Films




Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder: Statesboro Blues


Taj Mahal + Ry Cooder: Statesboro Blues

Nashville Tennesse September, 2014 - Ry Cooder (Lead Guitar), Buddy Miller (Guitar), Don Was (Bass), Joachim Cooder(Drums),Tim Lauer(Piano), Taj Mahal (Guest Performer) 

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. 

Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.





Monday, August 26, 2019

Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat


Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

The saxophonist is Seamus Blake. The piece is an homage to the great Lester Young who always wore a pork-pie hat.






Mississippi John Hurt - You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley (Live)



Mississippi John Hurt - You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley (Live)








Mississippi John Hurt - Goodnight Irene



Mississippi John Hurt - Goodnight Irene
1972






Oscar Peterson - Boogie Blues Etude


Oscar Peterson - Boogie Blues Etude

Ronnie Scott's Club in 1974 -
Oscar Peterson-piano,
Niels Pedersen-bass,
Barney Kessel-guitar.





Oscar Peterson - Boogie Blues Etude


Oscar Peterson - Boogie Blues Etude

Ronnie Scott's Club in 1974 -
Oscar Peterson-piano,
Niels Pedersen-bass,
Barney Kessel-guitar.





Bill Evans - Never Let Me Go


Bill Evans - Never Let Me Go

Evans's Universal Mind

Alone. 1968





Otis Rush - Three Times a Fool











Otis Rush - Three Times a Fool

Otis Rush And Eric Clapton - All Your Lovin' [Miss Loving].avi

  
Otis Rush And Eric Clapton - All Your Lovin' [Miss Loving].avi 

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Otis Rush ~ ''Double Trouble''(Original Recording Electric Blues 1958)


Otis Rush ~ ''Double Trouble''(Original Recording Electric Blues 1958)

Recorded Cobra Studios , Chicago , 1958
The song was produced by Willie Dixon and features Rush (guitar and vocal), Dixon (bass), Ike Turner (guitar), Little Brother Montgomery (piano), Harold Ashby and Jackie Brenston (saxophones), and Billy Gayles (drums). Although Rush plays the lead guitar introduction to the song, Turner plays the signature vibrato guitar parts.
*Disclaimer: All audio & visual parts in my videos are the sole property of their respective owners.
The videos are purely for entertainment and recreational purposes.
No Copyright infringement intended!
All rights go to their rightful owners.







Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Mita Nag and Uday Kumar - Raga Yaman - The Biryani Boys



 

Mita Nag and Uday Kumar - Raga Yaman - The Biryani Boys



Preserving and Promoting Indian Music for Everyone! "...infused with hipster humor featuring prominent Indian musicians" - The New York Times
www.thebiryaniboys.com

Our Kolkata adventures continue as we present this full length performance of Raga Yaman by Mita Nag (sitar) and Uday Kumar (tabla) that takes place in the home of the great sitar maestro, Pandit Manilal Nag.

Mita Nag is the daughter of Pandit Manilal Nag. As one of the leading female sitar players in India, Mita serves as the torch bearer of the Bishnupur Gharana (music tradition/style) that was lead by her father but also by her grandfather, Gokul Nag.

Uday Kumar is a senior disciple of the great tabla maestro Ustad Shabbir Nisar of Hyderabad, India who guards many historic/sacred tabla compositions stewarded by his father, the great Tabla Nawaz Ustad Shaik Dawood Khan Saab.

We hope you enjoy this amazing performance.
www.thebiryaniboys.com





Willie Nelson and Shania Twain, Blue eyes crying in the rain







A+++ Norah Jones Help Me Make It Through The Night Slow







Monday, July 15, 2019

Dr. John Collection on Letterman, 1982-2008








Dr. John Collection on Letterman, 1982-2008


with
Bonnie Raitt, Sippie Wallace 





Beulah "Sippie" Thomas grew up in Houston, Texas where she sang and played the piano in her father's church. 



While still in her early teens she and her younger brother Hersal and older brother George began playing and singing the Blues in tent shows that travelled throughout Texas. In 1915 she moved to New Orleans and lived with her older brother George and got married to Matt Wallace in 1917. 



During her stay there she met many of the great Jazz musicians like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong who were friends of her brother George. 



During the early 1920s she toured the TOBA vaudeville circuit where she was billed as "The Texas Nightingale". In 1923 she followed her brothers to Chicago and began performing in the cafes and cabarets around town. 



In 1923 she recorded her first records for Okeh and went on to record over forty songs for them between 1923 and 1929. Her brother Hersal died of food poisoning in 1926 at age sixteen. 



Wallace was unique among the Classic Blues singers in that she wrote a great deal of her own material, often with her brothers supplying the music. The sidemen who played on her recording sessions were always excellent and included the cream of New Orleans Jazz musicians, like King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Sidney Bechet and Johnny Dodds among others. 



Sippie moved to Detroit in 1929 and left show business in the early 1930s as the Blues craze ran its course. In 1935 and 1936 her aunt Lillie, her husband Matt and her brother George (who was hit by a streetcar) all died . 



She found solace in religion and during the next forty years she was a singer and organ player at the Leland Baptist Church in Detroit. She occasionally performed over the years, but did little in the Blues until she launched a comeback in 1966 after her longtime friend and fellow Texan, Victoria Spivey called "Sippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey". Wallace's next album was called "Sippie Wallace Sings the Blues" for the Storyville label in 1966. 

Wallace suffered a stroke in 1970 but managed to keep recording and performing. 



With the help of Bonnie Raitt she landed a recording deal with Atlantic Records and recorded the album, "Sippie", which featured Raitt, was nominated for a Grammy in 1983 and won a W.C. Handy Award for best blues album in 1984.






Dr.John -IKO IKO- (with Sunday Night Band)



Dr.John -IKO IKO- (with Sunday Night Band)







Thursday, July 11, 2019

Albert Collins - If trouble was money











Johnny Winter - SUZIE Q (Live at Rockpalast)


Johnny Winter - SUZIE Q







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Helen humes - today i sing the blues



Helen humes - today i sing the blues







Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter - Tobacco Road (Live)



Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter - Tobacco Road 




The Best of Billie Holiday - Playlist




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 Jazz Music


THE BEST OF BILLIE HOLIDAY 

1 On the Sunny Side of the Street (McHugh - Fields) (1944)

00:00 Eddie Heywood (piano), John Simmons (bass), Sidney Catlett (drums) 2 All of Me (Marks - Simons) (march 21, 1941) 

02:59 Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra ft: Lester Young (tenor sax) 3 I Can't Get Started (Duke - Gershwin) (1938)

06:01 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Lester Young (tenor sax) 4 God Bless the Child (Holiday) (1941)

08:48 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, ft: Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Eddie Heywood (piano) 5 Am I Blue (Clark - Akst) (1941) 

11:42 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, 
featuring: Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Eddie Heywood (piano) 6 Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) (Holiday) (1944)

14:31 Eddie Heywood (piano), John Simmons (bass), Sidney Catlett (drums) 7 Body and Soul (Green - Heyman - Sour) (1940) 17:38 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Roy Eldridge (trumpet) 8 Summertime (Gershwin - Heyward ) (1936)

20:34 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Bunny Berigan (trumpet). Artie Shaw (clarinet) 9 Georgia on My Mind (Carmichael) (1941)

23:27 Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra ft: Eddie Heywood (piano) 10 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (McHugh Fields) (1936)

26:43 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, ft: Jonah Jones (trumpet), Ben Webster (tenor sax), Benny Goodman (clarinet) 11 Lover come Back to Me (Romberg - Hammerstein) (1944)

30:08 Eddie Heywood (piano), John Simmons (bass), Sidney Catlett (drums) 12 Pennies from Heaven (Johnstone - Burke) (1936)

33:26 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, ft: Ben Webster (tenor sax), Benny Goodman (clarinet) 13 My Man (Yvain - Pollack) (1937)

36:40 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, ft: Prince Robinson (clarinet), Buck Claytron (trumpet) 14 Night and Day (Porter) (1939)

39:41 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Joe Sullivan (piano) 15 Them There Eyes (Pinkard - Tracey - Link) (1939)

42:37 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Tab Smith (alto sax), Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Kenneth Hollon (tenor sax) 16 Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson - Kahn) (1941)

45:25 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, ft: Babe Russin (tenor sax) 17 Lover Man (Ramirez - Sherman - Davis) (1944)

48:43 Orchestra arranged and conducted by Toots Camarata 18 The Man I Love (Gershwin) (1939)

51:58 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Lester Young (tenor sax) 19 The Very Thought of You (Noble) (1938)

55:00 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Margaret Johnson (piano), Busk Clayton (trumpet), Lester Young (clarinet) 20 Yesterdays (Kern - Harbach) (1939)

57:43 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, ft: Sonny White (piano), Kenneth Hollon (tenor sax) 21 These Foolish Things (Strachey - Marvell)(1936)

1:01:02 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, ft Wilson (piano), Harry Carney (baritone sax), Johnny Hodges (alto sax), Jonah Jones (trumpet) 22 My Old Flame (Coslow - Johnson) (1944)

1:04:19 Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 23 They Can't Take That Away from Me (Gershwin) (1937)

1:07:17 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Teddy Wilson (piano), Buster Bailey (clarinet) 24 St. Louis Blues (Handy) (1940)

1:10:18 Benny Carter and His Orchestra, ft: Benny Morton (trombone), Georgie Auld (tenor sax), Bill Coleman (trumpet) 25 Strange Fruit (Allan) (1939)

1:13:10 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra ft: Frank Newton (trumpet), Sonny White (piano)




The Best of Billie Holiday | Jazz Music



The Best of Billie Holiday | Jazz Music





















Charlie Chaplin "The Little Tramp"








Charlie Chaplin "The Litlle Tramp"






: Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp



                    Charlie Chaplin

The Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp, was British actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinemaduring the era of silent film. The Tramp is also the title of a silent film starring Chaplin, which Chaplin wrote and directed in 1915.