Today's record is an example of everything I want from my big band vocals....swinging instrumentals, great arrangements, and a lovely Frenchman singer to provocatively rrrrroll his rrrrrrrr's. Sacha Distel's version of Ting Tung has been in my top 100 of weirdness for a while now, but he recorded lots of stuff that was pretty normal, too. I recently came across a few blogs offering several different Sacha albums, and liked most of them....but "From Paris With Love" really hits it out of the park. If Frenchmen play baseball.
Isn't Sacha hunky? especially those eyessssss. Especially the right one, the left one is a little wonky. Anyway, I just looooove Sacha. sigh.
From Paris With Love - Sacha Distel (1962)
RCA LSP-2611
4 comments:
Thank you.
Well, he is a bit of a swarmy little frenchy eh? oozes accross these classics just like a big ol' french oil slick - like the back up band though...coome baabie, lezz fall in loove......well shared.
Mac
This is my first "meeting" with Sacha Distel. His relaxed singing is nice but I´ll have to agree with Mac, I like the band better. I always thought Sacha was just a french film idol, but after a look on the LP-cover I read he was also tops on jazzguitar. Thanks for sharing.
Sten
Excellent jazz guitarist that Sacha. This is a cool record. Thanks for bringing to our (my) attention. It's kind of hard to find his pop stuff in the U.S. The Jazz stuff is pretty easy to find.
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