Tag Archives: 1927

RIP Anita Kerr (1927 – 2022)

Happiness (1968)

Anita Kerr was een Amerikaanse zangeres actief in wat men ‘beautiful music’ noemt. Vocal harmony heet het specifieke genre.

Ze coverde daarbij vooral. Om u de sound voor te stellen: denk Pet Sounds van de Beach Boys. Die plaat heeft dezelfde kwaliteiten als het werk van Kerr, maar Kerr is gespeend van enige vorm van artisticiteit. Kerr is gewoon entertainer. Er is een Rhino compilatie met de titel Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults (2004) die haar nummer “Happiness” (1968) heeft, die track is een goed voorbeeld van haar sound.

RIP L. Q. Jones (1927 – 2022)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAP14OMIQkM&ab_channel=SurfdawgTV
 A Boy and His Dog (1975)

L. Q. Jones was an American actor and film director. I remember him from A Boy and His Dog (1975), a cult film about a boy and his telepathic dog who hunt for food and women. They end up in a handmaid’s tale type world. There is some nudity and lots of misogyny.

RIP George Lamming (1927 – 2022)

George Lamming was a Barbadian novelist known for such novels as In the Castle of My Skin (1953).

1953 also saw the appearance of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Junkie by William Burroughs, Watt by Samuel Beckett, The Portrait of an Englishman in His Chateau by André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.

RIP Norman Gimbel (1927 – 2018)

This happened in 2018 but I’ve only just found out.

“¿Quién será?”

Norman Gimbel was an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes known for the lyrics of such songs as “¿Quién será?” (1953), “Meditation” (1961), “How Insensitive” (1963), “Água de Beber” (1963), “Summer Samba” (1964), “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964) and “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (1972).

Meditation”
“How Insensitive”
“Água de Beber”
“Summer Samba”
“The Girl from Ipanema”
“Killing Me Softly with His Song”

RIP Vladimir Naumov (1927 – 2021)

From the Legend of Thiele

Vladimir Naumov was a Russian film director, best-known in my universe for Legend of Thiele. This film is an episode in the Till Eulenspiegel legend.

I’ve known Eulenspiegel since my youth but I recently stumbled upon him again in that wonderful history of irreverence: Critique of Cynical Reason (1983) by Peter Sloterdijk.

RIP Juliette Gréco (1927 – 2020)

Juliette Gréco was a French actress and singer. 

She first appeared on my radar in 2010 in the Gainsbourg movie Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life where she is played by Anna Mouglalis.

The scene from Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life in which Gainsbourg meets Gréco and plays for her “La Javanaise”.

Below the song “L’Accordéon” (1962) in which she plays her own black-clad body as an instrument. Very French and sensual.

While cycling to work, it dawned upon me that “L’Accordéon” reminded me of the Mary Poppins song “Chim Chim Cher-ee” (1964).

RIP Vittorio Gregotti (1927 – 2020)

And the first covid-19 victims start to come in.

Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste (1968)

Vittorio Gregotti was an Italian architect. He contributed the essay “Kitsch and Architecture” to Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste (1968) by Gillo Dorfles.

While the essay references Googie architecture and the kitsch of the roadside attraction, it fails to cite God’s Own Junkyard (1964).

It also fails to foreshadow the positive view of kitsch in Learning from Las Vegas (1972).