Members LCK Posted September 18, 2015 Members Share Posted September 18, 2015 Frank Sinatra, "When the World Was Young," (music M. Phillipe Gerard, English lyric Johnny Mercer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rickidoo Posted September 19, 2015 Members Share Posted September 19, 2015 It is a lovely song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted September 19, 2015 Members Share Posted September 19, 2015 I imagine you have seen Alex Gibney's 2 part documentary on Sinatra entitled : 'All or nothing at all'?Released by HBO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted September 19, 2015 Members Share Posted September 19, 2015 Never heard that song...that's heavy stuff, thanks LCK. Here's an amazing French song by Brigitte Fontaine from 1969 I had never heard before the other week: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted September 19, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2015 Never heard that song...that's heavy stuff, thanks LCK. It's said that most lyricists of the era -- Cole Porter, Larry Hart, Ira Gershwin -- were "indoor" songwriters while many of Mercer's songs were set outdoors. Mercer's first hit song, "Lazybones" (written in 1933), was about a Southern farm-hand (presumably African-American) who was too lazy to move because of the heat. And when you're fishin' I'll bet you're wishin' the fish won't grab at your line... "When the World Was Young" (1951) shows a wonderful contrast between the urban life of Paris (as a kind of stand-in for Mercer's time spent living in New York and, later, Hollywood) and Savannah, the land of his youth. He never lost his yearning for his early life in Savannah as found, once again, in the lyric in his most popular song, "Moon River." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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