Radka Toneff - Ballad of the Sad Young Men (live, 1977)

Lyrics by Frances Landesman, music by Thomas J. Wolf Jr. Live on Norwegian TV, 1977, with Jon Balke (piano), Jon Eberson (guitar), Arild Andersen (bass) and Espen Rud (drums). A studio version of this song is released on "Winter Poem" (1977). It is also on the Radka Toneff compilation album "Some Time Ago - A Collection of Her Finest Moments" (2003). This video is a bonus on the album "Butterfly" (Curling Legs, 2008), together with a video of Kurt Weill's "Lost in the Stars". Buy it, and all the other Radka Toneff records!

Radka Toneff was born in 1952 in Oslo, Norway, of Bulgarian father (folk singer) and Norwegian mother. She is Norway's greatest jazz singer to this day, and her album "Fairytales" (1982) is Norway's best selling jazz record. She died in 1982.

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Music

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• jazz
• landesman
• wolf
• balke
• andersen
• eberson
• christensen
• norge
• norway

[moroc99]

tonight,tonight, would you belive,i have never ever heard of this wonderfull singer,29th june 2011 i feel like ive missed out,wowwwww

[jazzdrake]

The bass played across my heart, the piano played down my spine, and her voice brought tears to my eyes. Here's to the sad young men, and heres to Ms. Radka Toneff

[BurtaDiddley73]

Download the audio from this tune at tubepull doht cohm.

[gladstonegill]

amazing, after Cleo Lane, very cool and sexy. Aretha did it best though! Flip side of the 45 " Respect "!How old am I ?

[maidoodesu]

nice !...

[CheronBrash]

I love this version of the song a little better than Shirley Beasly's because it was more Jazzy, while Shirley's was more dramatic (to me).

[360danceNYC]

Thanks for posting all these Radka Toneff clips.

what beautiful artist!

for en fantastisk kunstner!!!