Via Metafilter, the top 25 ‘earworms’ in France, with audio examples. ‘Earworm’ is a direct translation of the German word Ohrwurm, meaning a tune that you can’t get out of your head. The more euphonic French term musique obsédante is perhaps the reason why Paris is better known as the city of romance than Berlin or Gelsenkirchen.
www.jazzstandards.com
Here’s a nice site: extraordinarily detailed and well-presented details about jazz standards such as Ain’t misbehavin’. There’s a list of the 1,000 most recorded jazz standards, and very detailed records for the top 300. For each of these, you find details of the writers, the history of the song, biographies, sound clips, musical analysis, context, quotes, links to more detail and albums & downloads, further reading.
I’ve been looking for this for ages, a rendition of the French children’s song Bon voyage cher Dumollet, the contredanse-like bit in Act 1 of The Nutcracker which is usually danced by children. Here it is:
And if you’d like to singalong and learn the words, here’s a children’s Karaoake version:
Happy Easter!
This is the nicest story I’ve come across for a long time. Ninette was a student on a course I taught on the BA (Hons) in Dance Education at the RAD a few years ago. All of a sudden, a song she recorded when she was 15 found its way onto the new licence fee adverts, and now the song’s been re-released after all these years. Unfortunately, I never recorded a song for PYE when I was a kid, so I’ll never know what it feels like to have this happen to you, but I can imagine!
There’s a facebook group “Push a little button and help get Ninette to Number 1!”
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