According to Buddy, “We owe it all to Elvis.”
Voila
Francoise Hardy, from her album Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp released in 1967.
Accompanied by Jacques Denjean.
Love Rescue Me
Love rescue me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don’t let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me
Many strangers have I met
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me
And the sun in the sky
Makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I’m here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said, love rescue me
In the cold mirror of a glass
I see my reflection pass
See the dark shades of what I used to be
See the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love rescue me
Yea, though I walk
In the valley of the shadow
Yea, I will fear no evil
I have cursed thy rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me
Sha la la sha la la…
I said love
Love rescue me
I said love
Climb up the mountains, said love
I said love, oh my love
On the hill of the son
I’m on the eve of a storm
And my word you must believe in, oh
I said love, rescue me
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Yeah, I’m here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said, love rescue me
I’ve conquered my past
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me
From U2′s 1988 Rattle & Hum, co-written by Bob Dylan, U2 recorded this at Sun Studios in Memphis during their 1987 US tour.
Paid In Firewood
Not a big Bon Jovi fan but heard an interesting story about his 1989 record, “New Jersey.”
Apparently the Russians put a moratorium on rubles leaving the country so rather than paying the band in money they paid them in firewood instead.
Gotta love the Ruskies.
German Lollipops
If you would like to hear the German version–really German lyrics mixed with English lyrics sung in a German accent–then listen to the following!
Millie Smalls
Had the first ska/reggae hit in 1964 with ‘My Boy Lollipop.’ Originally written 10 years earlier, Smalls brought the record to #2 in the U.S. with her version.
