by Jack Foley
Dear one,
with the girl singer
the world
(with her single voice)
is waiting for the sunrise—
or with the band—
every rose
with its MULTITUDE
is heavy
of voices?
with dew—
* * * *
has tenor John Steel in a 1921 recording of “The World is
Waiting for the Sunrise” (1919, lyrics
by actor Gene Lockhart, music by concert pianist Ernst Seitz), matched with
images of The San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. The Palace of Fine Arts had
been built as a “fictional ruin” by architect Bernard Maybeck for the 1915
Panama-Pacific Exposition. Steel mispronounces “trysting.” The tenor’s peak
moment was probably when he sang Irving Berlin’s “A Pretty Girl is like a
Melody” in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.
is a red-hot version of the song performed by Django
Reinhart and Stéphane Grappelli.
has Les Paul and Mary Ford’s version, from their TV show.
A correction: Steel's pronunciation of "trysting"
isn't a mistake: it's possible though not preferred. I had never heard it
pronounced that way.
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Jack Foley’s radio show, Cover to Cover, is heard on Berkeley,
California radio station KPFA every Wednesday at 3; his column, “Foley’s
Books,” appears in the online magazine Alsop Review. He has
published 11 books of poetry, 5 books of criticism, and Visions and
Affiliations, a chronoencyclopedia of California poetry. In 2010 Foley was
awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Berkeley Poetry Festival, and
June 5, 2010 was proclaimed “Jack Foley Day” in Berkeley. A webfestschrift
celebrating his life and work can be found in the current Tower Journal: www.towerjournal.com.
Website: www.jack-adellefoley.com/
Wikipedia
article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Foley_(poet)#Biography.
Jack Foley contributes regularly to this blog.
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