1000 SONGS - DAY 380 Songs #413 & 414

Michelle Gurevich is a Canadian musician, who first tried her luck as a filmmaker, but later turned to music, a field in which she found it was easier to succeed. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants from Leningrad, her first language is Russian. Her father is an engineer and her mother was a ballerina in the Maliinski ballet. Her songs have a special atmosphere, I really just like them. Here are two of them, one a kind of tongue-in-cheek comment on being a woman, the other one on the first six months of love. Great stuff (the videos, too).

1000 SONGS - DAY 379 Song #412

THREE WAYS TO DO A SONG

There are many versions of that song, even one - horribile dictu - by Andreas Gabalier. The three ways to do it I introduce here are a) the classic crooner-style, as perfectly mastered by Elvis the Pelvis, b) the Stadium-Rock-Concert style (although not performed in a stadium) by Bruce Almighty & the E-Street-Band, and finally c) the Mexican Waltz in which the wonderful Leftover Cuties have transformed this song, that is originally in 4/4. In my counting, Leftover Cuties do a 6/4 (or 6/8?) rather than a 3/4 version, although this is always hard to say. Be that as it may, the three versions featured here also represent three attitudes to cope with the situation of facing a blue Christmas.