What is your MusAsm???

[bigboab]

Harry Bellafonte sang a song called 'Jamaica Farewell' back in the fifties. The first line went:


'down the way where the nights are gay....'

Bet he did not realise the future connotations.

That song also cantained another funny line that got an entry in the funny lyrics forum.

Harry Bellafonte's, "Jamaica Farewell"
The funny Lyrics:
I had to leave a little girl in Kingston Town
Why They're funny:
I can laugh now, but this line really frightened me when I first heard the song as a kid. I thought he was talking about child abandonment.

[Yogi]

Great stuff, BB!!

Did he ever return to Jamaica????

[bigboab]

I think he did actually. He was one of the 'Black Power' originators and left the states in protest. A lot of people forget that he was a singer before he went into the movie business.

[Yogi]

Didn't he work as goodwill-ambassador for the UN???

[bigboab]

Yes I think he did. Things were that bad in America at one time. Bellafonte made a movie and they actually 'dubbed' his singing voice.

[Yogi]

Yes I think he did. Things were that bad in America at one time. Bellafonte made a movie and they actually 'dubbed' his singing voice.

With what??

[bigboab]

I can only assume it was a 'white' man singing. Cant remember the name of the movie. could have been Carmen Jones.

[Yogi]

So it was in the age of Governor McCarthy....

[Lilmiss]

Even though this is in the wrong place, and we should be promoting the use of Musicworld....

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
May You Never - John Martyn
Song For Dot - Space Raiders
Fiesta - The Pogues
Birdhouse in your Soul - Thy Might Be Giant
and
Riverflow - The Levellers

Always get me going, among with 10000's of others.

[Yogi]

Thanks Lillmiss!!


But i was aiming at moments in a song that elevate you.......

And this thread is about that emotion.

I could make a same thread on a smell or taste that takes you back, etc.....

Hence it is not in musicworld.....


Yogi


Btw. that would be nice: a SmellWorld!

Edit2: John Martyn, wow.....