Sun 6 Jan 2019
Music I’m Listening To, Selected by Michael Shonk: BLUE LARGO “Elevator to the Gallows.”
Posted by Steve under Music I'm Listening To[4] Comments
SELECTED BY MICHAEL SHONK:
A good blues tune with a noir story, taken from their album Sing Your Own Song:
The band has a nice website to learn about them and listen to more of their stuff.
http://www.bluelargoblues.com/bio.asp
January 6th, 2019 at 3:47 pm
Elevator to the Gallows/Lift to the Scaffold/Ascenseur pour l’échafaud was Louis Malle’s first film, with a score by Miles Davis.
January 6th, 2019 at 8:33 pm
Right you are, Roger. The video itself consists of clips from the movie, but the song is original, not one that Miles Davis wrote.
You can believe this or not, but the DVD of the movie is right at the top of my To Be Watched pile located on the lamp table right next to the sofa where I do all my watching:
I don’t know how things like this happen, but they do.
January 6th, 2019 at 11:38 pm
Cool. I did not know about the movie. The music is the main appeal. The lyrics had its weakness “Its was a dark and stormy night” is considered by many critics to be the worst sentence ever written for a novel. But the words add to the mood well and for the song to end in a surprise twist was unusual until you learn it is based on a movie.
January 7th, 2019 at 1:50 pm
Nothing wrong with “It was a dark and stormy night.†as the first sentence for a novel. The trouble is, it isn’t the first sentence, or not all of it: “It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.” …and so on!