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Post by Jaga on Oct 8, 2018 21:59:39 GMT -7
I had to post this beautiful artistic video with Grace Jones - partly in English, partly in French.
This song was a hit in Poland but not known in the US:
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Post by pieter on Oct 9, 2018 6:51:05 GMT -7
Love this song, loved Grace Jones music and liked her performance as 'bad woman' in James Bond.
This magic song was one of the vynil pop music singles I bought during the eighties
I get goose bumps from this song. For me it is electiffying. I felt alive and kicking when I heard this song as a 15 year old boy.
And another great Grace Jones song. The song is actually a cover of a 1978 song by Australian band Flash and the Pan
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Post by pieter on Oct 9, 2018 8:31:44 GMT -7
The original of the Australian band Flash and the Pan
The song was originally composed and recorded by Australian band Flash and the Pan (the songwriting and producing team of ex-Easybeats Harry Vanda and George Young), and included on their eponymous 1979 debut album. In 1981 it was covered by Grace Jones, who included it on Nightclubbing, her second Compass Point album and later released as the last single from the record. The song was released in various remixes, among them a 7:30 12" mix including additional vocal overdubs, first released on CD in 2014 on the deluxe edition of Nightclubbing. The B-side, "Peanut Butter", credited to the Compass Point All Stars, was actually an instrumental dub version of "Pull Up to the Bumper", which was unavailable on CD until 2014 when her album Nightclubbing was remastered. "Walking in the Rain" was included in Jones' music documentary A One Man Show, and a snapshot from the video was later used as the cover of the 1985 Warm Leatherette reissue.
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Post by karl on Oct 9, 2018 10:53:00 GMT -7
For some reason, I had not thought of Grace Jones as such a good singer. For she has a very lovely deep voice and characterlizes her music with her own rhythm. Maybe my self have been walking on a different side of the fence.
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Oct 9, 2018 22:10:28 GMT -7
Karl, I agree with you. She seems to be doing other things on stage rather than singing... but her interpretations are like art performances.
Pieter found more of her performances which are really good, so she is definitively not just a one song performer.
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