Romantic Music

[Perris]

 

[Brooks_]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

While not known for romantic songs, as thread starter, I'm taking the liberty pay tribute to my dear Miss Leggs, Tina. Though born in Nutbush Tennessee, she spent a great deal of her early life in St. Louis. She graduated from Sumner High School here and would go to clubs with her then 19 year old sister when she was only 16 in both St. Louis and East St. Louis where clubs stayed open all night and was a much more wide open town, as it still is. Her sister introduced her to Ike Turner, whom she later married.
But the reason they were important in my life is that The Ike and Tina Turner review played at the Club Imperial across the street from my house. No one had air conditioning in those days and on hot summer nights our windows were open and they were all open at the club upstairs across the street. I went to sleep every night to the distant sounds of Ike and Tina. I became aware a couple years ago that Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist for Ike for a while back then.
George Edicks Club Imperial was the in spot in St. Louis back then and many big name acts performed there. Here are a lot of nostalgic photos of the place back in my day.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stl...its-heyday-photos/Slideshow/37134777/37127589

This is a song she wrote about the Manhattan Club on Broadway in East St Louis where she frequented when only 16. It was very prominent in those days in the area music scene.
I guess when Anna Mae Bullock dressed up she looked older.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Club_(nightclub)

 

[N F C]

While not known for romantic songs, as thread starter, I'm taking the liberty pay tribute to my dear Miss Leggs, Tina. Though born in Nutbush Tennessee, she spent a great deal of her early life in St. Louis. She graduated from Sumner High School here and would go to clubs with her then 19 year old sister when she was only 16 in both St. Louis and East St. Louis where clubs stayed open all night and was a much more wide open town, as it still is. Her sister introduced her to Ike Turner, whom she later married.
But the reason they were important in my life is that The Ike and Tina Turner review played at the Club Imperial across the street from my house. No one had air conditioning in those days and on hot summer nights our windows were open and they were all open at the club upstairs across the street. I went to sleep every night to the distant sounds of Ike and Tina. I became aware a couple years ago that Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist for Ike for a while back then.
George Edicks Club Imperial was the in spot in St. Louis back then and many big name acts performed there. Here are a lot of nostalgic photos of the place back in my day.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stl...its-heyday-photos/Slideshow/37134777/37127589

This is a song she wrote about the Manhattan Club on Broadway in East St Louis where she frequented when only 16. It was very prominent in those days in the area music scene.
I guess when Anna Mae Bullock dressed up she looked older.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Club_(nightclub)

Thanks for sharing this tribute...Tina Turner was one of the best and will be missed.

 

[Perris]

I find this a hypnotic and hauntingly beautiful piece that conjures in my head an image of a couple waltzing endlessly in an empty space

 

[Noellereagan]

Really liked this when it was released. Not sure if it's quite the romantic style ChickenCanoe had in mind.

Love this. Reminds me of my late best friend.

 

[janiedoe]

I find this a hypnotic and hauntingly beautiful piece that conjures in my head an image of a couple waltzing endlessly in an empty space

Eloquently said! You managed to put that image in my head too.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Really liked this when it was released. Not sure if it's quite the romantic style ChickenCanoe had in mind.

I love that song too. If it tugs at your heartstrings, it is good enough for this thread.

 

[samanthsen]

Sorry for the video. Can't embedd them but here are links to excerpts from SoundCloud or Deezer.
If you're asking about whether we find our french accent romantic when speaking in english, of course not. Like the rest of the world we find it completely hilarious .
If you're thinking of french language itself that's hard to say, it's romantic enough for literature and poetry, as for the way it sounds...somewhere in between lovely Italian and Spanish, and much harder sounding northern Europe languages. It's all in the "r" .

How do French people perceive their accent when speaking English, and how do they view the French language's romanticism in comparison to other languages?

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

How do French people perceive their accent when speaking English, and how do they view the French language's romanticism in comparison to other languages?

I would imagine they don't notice it at all. I was told once by my friends in Chicago that I have an "Indiana accent" to which I said "I don't have an accent. Y'all got the accent"