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I'm listening to a live Van Morrison 1973 UK show and the version of "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" was amazing.

This is great. Without a doubt Svetlana's best effort to date:

Judy Henske

Big Fat Man
I want a big fat man with meat shakin' on his bones
I want a big fat man with meat shakin' on his bones
All I want is a big fat man
Slats in the bed go blam de blam
I want a big fat man with meat shakin' on his bones

Cocktail World
She says, "bartender...I'll have another
Make this one tall and cold
just like the man that left me here with you.
Bartender, it's not what I want,
It's just what I order.
Bartender, I'll have another."

jacques brel - 24 greatest hits.

bladdy marvellous!

Is this singer well-known in Portugal?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsf_yZ8vD8I

Pinhedz i really cant tell you , i don't know her but maybe she is cause brazilian music its very well known in Portugal , we listen to it a lot (like American-English music but portuguese music and brazilian music are very diferent because of the accent and the influences )

Kikimora
--by Anatoli Liadov


Kikimora [ki-KEE-mora] lives behind your stove (it has to be a Russian stove). She’s very mean and spiteful, but whatever she does to you, you deserve it (this is supposed to make you feel better about it). If you don’t cross yourself when you get up from the spinning wheel, she’ll shred all the work you did. If your dishes aren’t clean, she’ll tickle your kids at night. And if your housework isn’t done, she’ll screech all night. It’s as if your mother-in-law is shrunk down to nine inches and is living in your kitchen.

This is the story that the tone poem tells:

"High in the mountains of stone lives and grows Kikimora with the wizard. And the livelong day to her delighted ear the fairy-tale cat purrs legends of faraway lands. From evening ‘til the light of day gnomes rock Kikimora in a crystal cradle. In exactly 7 years Kikimora is fully grown. Such a dark and shriveled little thing is Kikimora, such a tiny head no bigger than a wee thimble, and a body stringy like a stalk of straw! From break of day ’til the dying light Kikimora stomps and roars. From rising moon ‘til murky night she carries on, hissing and snarling. From inky night ‘til the crack of dawn, she spins a distaff of hemp, twists a thread of flax, and lays a warp of silk. And Kikimora bears only ill will toward all you righteous folk."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP6wcoIiMFo

Down By The Riverside
by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
with Lucky Millinder's Band

At one time she sang blues, but then she decided that, because it was sinful,
she had to stop. So she started singing sanctified songs--with a swing band.

You could for sure dance to it--but at least she was reaching the sinners.

Her version of "Where You There (When They Crucified My Lord)" is, along with Blind Willie Johnson's "God Don't Never Change" the two best ever for what they are. She takes the word "tremble" breaks it into 15-20 syllables. Amazing.

I'm reading Clapton's autobiography so I've pulled out The Bluesbreakers and Cream and Blind Faith albums out for the weekend, all of which I like.