Night in Tunisia lyrics
Gary Milliken
someone asked for the lyrics to Diz's "Night in Tunisia", and
a recent response indicated that it can be found on Ella
Fitzgerald's album "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!" So I now
have the disc at work and I'll try to transcribe the words
-- they are kind of hokey, but what did you expect? The
credits are (Gillespie-Paparelli-Hendricks), so I don't know
how much of the words below are Jon Hendricks and how much
are 'Paparelli'. My best guess is that these words are by
Paparelli, whoever he/she is, and that Hendricks' contribution
was the words to the jazz improvisation (the Charlie Parker
solo), which appear on the Manhattan Transfer album 'Vocalese'
sung by Hendricks himself [indecipherably, for the most part].
Ella's version includes only the main head of the song:
The moon is the same moon above you
Aglow with its cool evening light
But shining at night in Tunisia
Never does it shine so bright.
The stars are aglow in the heavens
But only the wise understand
That shining at night in Tunisia
They guide you through the desert sand.
Words fail to tell a tale
Too exotic to be told
Each night's a deeper night
In a world ages old.
The cares of the day seem to vanish
The ending of day brings release
Each wonderful night in Tunisia
Where the nights are filled with peace.
Jeff Beer
Troy Whitfield <twhi...@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>I heard a version of "Lonely Woman" a while ago that had a (female)
>vocal part. I don't know who the artist was, but I believe the
>recording was on a French label. I wonder if anyone knows of vocal
It might have been the Italian singer who has been getting a lot of
Lacy's people on her albums. Don't remember the name.
>arrangements for "Lonely Woman"? Who penned the lyrics? Also, I notice
>that the songwriting credit for "Lonely Woman" on Metheny's _Rejoicing_
>goes to Horace Silver, not Ornette Coleman. What gives?
Two different songs. Horace has a version, as does O.C. BTW, they also
both have written a tuned called "PEACE". Then Corea and O.C. have
written a tune called Humpty Dumpty.
Jeff
Troy Whitfield
vocal part. I don't know who the artist was, but I believe the
recording was on a French label. I wonder if anyone knows of vocal
that the songwriting credit for "Lonely Woman" on Metheny's _Rejoicing_
goes to Horace Silver, not Ornette Coleman. What gives?
Finally, are there any opinions here on the new Bill Frisell album _This
Land_? I see it's the same band from _Have a Little Faith_...
Troy.
Seth Tisue
>I heard a version of "Lonely Woman" a while ago that had a (female)
>vocal part. I don't know who the artist was, but I believe the
>recording was on a French label. I wonder if anyone knows of vocal
>arrangements for "Lonely Woman"? Who penned the lyrics? Also, I notice
>that the songwriting credit for "Lonely Woman" on Metheny's _Rejoicing_
>goes to Horace Silver, not Ornette Coleman. What gives?
There are two different unrelated "Lonely Woman"s, one by Ornette
(_The Shape of Jazz to Come_, Atlantic) and one by Silver (_Song For
My Father_, Blue Note).
--
== Seth Tisue (s-t...@anl.gov OR s-t...@uchicago.edu)
Philg8
twhi...@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Troy Whitfield) writes:
As far as i know the Lonely Woman by rnete does ot have lyrics. The Lonely
Woman by Horace Silver has lyrics. Helen Merrill, i believe, recorded the
Horace Silver tune on a CD on Owl in the late 80's.
Glenn Lea
Finally, are there any opinions here on the new Bill Frisell album _This
Land_? I see it's the same band from _Have a Little Faith_...
I think it's as good or better than Faith -- this one is all original
compositions, some of which are excellent. The band is not quite the
same (no accordion, yes trombone) but is similar in sound.
I hope Jimmy Carter is pleased to have such a majestic composition
written and performed in his name.
--
Glenn Lea
Paul A. Wells
Now, it seems to me that Pat Metheny would have recorded Ornette's tune,
given his longstanding Ornette fixation. But since Rejoicing is one of the
Metheny albums I haven't heard, I can't say. Silver's tune is definitely its
own thing -- nothing to do with the Ornette tune -- and a very pretty ballad
in its own right.
On the new Frisell album: Really good, similar in mood to Have a Little Faith
but with new compositions and, I think, richer orchestration. It's as though
Frisell did the Ives-to-Madonna archive work of Have A Little Faith so he
could arrive at his own definition of what a pan-American musical idiom might
sound like, then implemented that definition on This Land. Which would
explain the title, at any rate.
Malte Rogacki
In article <2pj7ve$8...@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> mill...@excellence.Corp.Sun.COM
(Gary Milliken) writes:
>I can't go back to find the original posted request, but I know
>someone asked for the lyrics to Diz's "Night in Tunisia", and
>a recent response indicated that it can be found on Ella
>Fitzgerald's album "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!" So I now
>have the disc at work and I'll try to transcribe the words
>-- they are kind of hokey, but what did you expect? The
>credits are (Gillespie-Paparelli-Hendricks), so I don't know
>how much of the words below are Jon Hendricks and how much
>are 'Paparelli'. My best guess is that these words are by
>Paparelli, whoever he/she is, and that Hendricks' contribution
>was the words to the jazz improvisation (the Charlie Parker
>solo), which appear on the Manhattan Transfer album 'Vocalese'
>sung by Hendricks himself [indecipherably, for the most part].
Oh, you mean this:
"Living in the middle and relaxin while you loosen only a little
means you gotta figure out..." - stuff.
I always wondered how Hendricks does such a speed.
Back to the main topic:
There is also a "funky" version of "A Night In Tunesia" called "And the melody
still lingers on" done by Chaka Khan. Its melody follows roughly the original.
Malte Rogacki ga...@sax.sax.de 10011...@compuserve.com
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