SYBIL GRAHAM - Blue Skies

SYBIL GRAHAM, who died in 2004, was a gifted singer-pianist and a peerless interpreter of the Great American Songbook. For the last three decades of her life, she was an Adelaide legend, one who could achieve the rare feat of transforming a noisy saloon crowd into a rapt audience. I was lucky enough, at age 18, to be taken to hear her sing at SAILS in Hindley St in 1977 - it was my first (!) piano bar and I was spellbound by Sybil. Here she is zenning her way through an encounter with morning maven Jaye Walton on Adelaide TV in the late 1970s.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Sybil
• graham
• saloon
• singer
• American
• Songbook
• Jaye
• Walton

[blabadiblabla]

Lol, the host irritates me because she reminds me of my mother hehehe, but wow some nice note choices in that song. Very nice indeed.

[bobdowne4real]

I've got one word to say to Jaye... HALVE THE DOSAGE LOVE!

;-) hehe

[bobdowne4real]

Isn't Sybil magic??

[sholbt]

Isn't she just! Wish i coulda seen her play live :(

[bobdowne4real]

I was taken to see her in 1977(!) at Sails Bar in Hindley Street - my very first piano bar experience - she was amazing and i bought her cassette, SIMPLY SYBIL, which i treasured until some queen swiped it from me.

[555Filters]

Couldn't you just put a ribbon around her and tuck her inside your heart.

[bobdowne4real]

Who... Jaye Walton...?

;-) lol

MARK (BOB)

[futurelegendfilms]

So Delaide.

[MercMan280se]

Jaye Walton is in her 80th year this year, and still has her own TV program, titled, Thai Oz Talk, which she produces entirely in Bangkok. And she has held the position of the Honoury - Consular General of Thailand for SA & NT for 28 years.

[sholbt]

:( 6 years before i was born :p

Hindley street is slightly different on a saturday these, alas! As is Veale gardens :s

[sholbt]

haha i was thinking exactly the same thing!!