currently reading ‘The Offset’ by Calder Szewczak
currently reading ‘The Offset’ by Calder Szewczak
I’d never listened to this album or artist before this playthrough. Really enjoyed this album it, a definite feel of Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill, that feel of modernist German musicals tinged with French pop. very show-tuney. A very melancholic album, lots of retrospection and self-exploration throughout the album, which sometimes feels like prose set …
Songs for Swingin’ Lovers was the first official No. 1 album in the UK charts, reaching that position on 22nd July 1956 and was number one for a total of 3 weeks. I remember listening to this album quite a bit at my Nana’s house on a Sunday as she was a huge Sinatra fan …