Xavier de la Prade
Xavier’s play list was ‘Mademoiselle de Paris’, ‘Sous les Ports de Paris’, ‘ La Seine’, Palez – moi l’Amoure’, ‘La Mer’ then to introduce George Simko, ‘El Paso’. Great job Xavier, keep them coming. Charles Trenet was an extremely gifted composer. He wrote many French standards but his most famous is “la Mer”.
“La Mer” that Charles wrote about had nothing to do with “Beyond the Sea” by Bobby Darin. Charle’s version is not a love song. It gives a description of the Mediterranean as he was travelling from Marseille to Sete where he spent his youth. He describes the colors, the white birds and the bending rushes, etc., sort of an impressionist view of the sea. However, the melody lives on. What he could do with seven notes. Supposedly there are over 250 recordings of this melody. Upon his death he was receiving over $200,000 dollars a year just from this song. I for one never get tired of playing it. ~Xavier
Elmo Fama
Elmo wowed us with ‘My blue Heaven’, ‘Alley Cat’, and ‘My Love Forgive Me’
Jane Tripi
Jane’s play list was ‘This Love of Mine’, ‘Deed I Do’, ‘Your Cheating Heart’, and ‘Tuxedo Junction’.
Jane, you just keep getting better and better!
George Simko
George wowed us with a list to long to itemize, but the few that I can remember are ‘My Shawl’ ‘Latin Evening’ and ‘Lets Dance till Dawn’.
Many of had requests and George obliged us. What a great evening, thank you so much George
