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October 19, 2012

BLUE MOON - 3/2 : Original




BLUE MOON
電影 "Manhattan Melodrama 俠友" 已經面世, 但歌曲仍在美高梅影片公司手中, 以營商之道, 決定將歌曲錄音發行, 但是, 由於唱片公司認為原作品開始時的一段引子, 與曲調格格不入, 要把它删掉。最後, 撰詞的 Lorenz Hart 和作曲 Richard Rodgers 被唱片公司説服, 以副歌取代全曲, 但曲名仍以 "Blue Moon" 面世。

1934年十二月首張唱片錄音面世, 由大型樂隊 "Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra" 與男歌手 Kenneth Sargent 演繹, 這就是至今天, 大多數樂迷所認識的副歌而已。


Blue Moon - Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra, Vocal: Kenneth Sargent
Blue moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the moon had turned to gold

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

"Blue Moon" - Original
原曲被放棄的引子歌詞, 確令人沮喪、消沉和憂鬱, 與主曲歌詞亦談不上押韻, 祗不過是 Lorenz Hart 一篇最簡單平庸, 和最真摯的作品而已。這段原作品幾乎被樂壇遺忘, 但仍有蒼海遺珠, 1935年, 首張以原創曲詞, 亦是稀有的錄音版本, 出自一位生於維也納的歌廳女藝人 Greta Keller 的演繹; 當年, 德國女歌手瑪蓮德列治 Marlene Dietrich 在表演舞台上衹是任 Keller 的副手, 而成名後的 Dietrich, 她演唱時呼吸和咬字不清的獨特唱腔, 亦是模仿自 Greta Keller 這種唱腔, 至今在樂壇仍是難忘的演繹。


BLUE MOON - Greta Keller 1935 Original
Once upon a time
Before I took up smiling
I hated the moonlight!
Shadows of the night
That poets find beguiling
Seemed flat as the noon light.
Once I awoke at seven
Hating the morning light.
Now I awake in heaven
And all the world's all right.

Blue moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue moon
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the moon had turned to gold

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

BLUE MOON in movie and before - Shirley Ross
Oh Love
What's is a man with me
I'm just one minute to see
The bad in every man

I'm here in love
I could be good to a lover
But then I always discover
The bad in every man

They like it tell you that they love you all year
and you believe it, though you know you all wrong
A little whole room can be awfully lonely
And then I can be hoped very long

Oh love
Perhaps I love you my plan
and over look it I can
the bad in every man


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