During the last year many of our blogging community, especially Khayem and Ernie, introduced my to a lot of great new female singer and therefore many thanks. I got to know artists whom I would otherwise certainly have overlooked. As I listened to some of these discoveries again recently, I remembered an album by a singer that I always enjoyed listening to and which, inexplicably, I have never featured here before.
In 1962 Nana Mouskouri had her first Schlager successes in Germany with White Roses From Athens and became very famous with those old style pop songs. Quincy Jones who was the A&R man at Mercury at the time went to Europe to find some new talents to sign. At the time, Nana was working on an album in France, and Jones was so impressed by her voice that he arranged a recording session in New York with his label colleagues.
The result was an incredible album filled with Jazz standards and a cover by a song by Gilbert Becaud What Now My Love. The songs were sparsely orchestrated, allowing her clear soprano voice to shine through. I am not a fan of jazz, nor do I claim to be particularly knowledgeable about it, but this voice deserves to be praised.
Nana Mouskouri - I Get A Kick Out Of You
Nana Mouskouri - What Now My Love
Nana Mouskouri - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
1 Kommentar:
I like the Gilbert Becaud cover. Thanks for bringing some much needed class to the internet.
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