A French Entertainer sings a wonderful song - 1929

From 1929: A famed French stage and cabaret singer, performes a love song in only one of her two surviving Jazz Age film appearances

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Music

Tags:

• 1920's
• Broadway

[perfectjazz78]

Yes

[MrKingtwig]

Ok, this is a lovely song...and I hate to be crass, but if you forward it to 1min45 and listen....it sounds like she saying "and let me drink your jizz like wine" :o)

Just an observation! LOL

[HermanZelig]

Irene Bordoni, n'est-ce pas? Magnifique!! They don't make em like that anymore. Cole Porter wrote her name into " You're the Top." I think he rhymed "Coney" with "Bordoni".

[Jotaemesg]

Miss Bordoni's is probably the most beautiful voice in the early talkies, as this clip proves

[alain97133]

@MrKingtwig

In the song she meant "and let me drink your kiss like wine"... In real life, I assume she did both ! :o)

[phillippatterson1]

@MrKingtwig By golly your right! She may have had a frog in her throat?

[asopaso07]

@MrKingtwig

Hahaha I think she IS saying that! But she says it around 1:52 Good observation! :DD

[rogharm]

this is great she is purposely overacting and has a great voice. she was serious. that probably was her style of performing. i love it. it was meant to be stylish in her style. the junk they perform today is trash. you might laugh but she had a great voice and yes she overacted but did the marx brothers look like they looked in their movies off stage? probably not. bing and russ were crooners. that was their style. was stan laurel really dumb in real life? stan did assault his wifeROGHARMgreat

[jhmillan54]

@MrKingtwig " . . .and drink your KISS like wine." This is a song from the 20's -- not the 90's.

[chrisz78]

@MrKingtwig You should invest in better speakers (or a hearing aid?) - despite the noisy 1929 recording, the strongly aspirated "K" in "kiss" is very obvious, no "j" sound anywhere. Throughout, Ms. Bordoni's diction is exemplary despite her heavy French accent, you can hear that she learned her trade when singers had to fill a hall and make every syllable understood in the upper gallery without the help of a microphone and a PA system. Obviously you're not only being crass, but stupid as well.

[UncleCharlieOakley]

@MrKingtwig Funny isn't this where mediocre minds always go? I mean ALWAYS.

[tomitstube]

@MrKingtwig ~ uhm, that would be "kiss" dumbass.

[grofuss88]

@MrKingtwig  LOL