My Musical Alphabet : F

Another break from work (entirely above board) and we reached the letter after E, that is F, but first the usual housekeeping:

As I keep saying, this stuff isn't mine and may very well be pulled for breach of copyright. You can, of course, go looking on YouTube, or its foreign variants, for copies. I'm sure you know how.

I'll start off with something from my childhood. That was some time back, so it's in monochrome, or Black&White for you youngsters. There are colourised versions out there but the less said about that the better. Anyway skip to about 1:25 for the song. The puppet series was Fireball XL5 from Gerry Anderson. Him of Thunderbirds fame. Believe it or not there are Facebook groups for all us oldies of XL5 vintage. I wonder if this is where my interest in that big place outside of the Earth started? Again, another believe it or not moment - there are more modern covers of this song as well as a French version!

Moving on from the old days, something I heard a bit more recently is this offering from Germany featuring Roland Kaiser - Friedensangebote. Not sure how it came about but was more than likely heard when I was trawling the radio waves as is my want. Some more trivia, the lady, Julia Meynen, is a German voice artist.

The Fs must contain some Fleetwood Mac. Like many other of my musical choices, I have had to make a choice as to what track particularly tickles my fancy. For 'Mac, it is this number from more recent times. As I type this I am painfully aware that the blues classic "Need Your Love" isn't here. Sorry fellas.

I also have a soft spot for many things French and I'm quite taken with this from Alizee; (the short dress/coat is purely coincidental). Unusually, this foreign language song charted in the UK. Maybe that is where I originally heard it. I very much doubt that, as the charts at that time (as now) were never on my "to do" list. I did not watch MTV either but maybe it was on one of the other music channels that I sometimes skipped through. Whatever, I was recently awakened from a post mid-day bierfest, to hear the song on an intercom and had to use my old friend, Google, to track it down.

Also a French song I quite like is Rina Ketty's interpretation of J'attendrai:

I know this song from an interest in the last world war. It has been covered in many languages but I like this one. Only bettered, IMHO, by Lili Marleen, in German.

I'll finish with Foreigner, in the studio as I've not been able to track down a decent live recording. I'm not really a big fan of theirs but what I like about this is the production - the overdubs and all that gubbins.

And so we come to the end again.

Comments more than welcome and until next time, cheerio!