Ninety minutes entertainment at the seaside with a variety of multi-lingual related tracks from my music library.
| Title | Artist | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| In The Navy | Village People | “In the Navy” is a song by American disco group Village People. Village People is an American disco group known for its on-stage costumes and suggestive lyrics in their music. The group was originally formed by French producers Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo and lead singer Victor Willis following the release of the debut album Village People, which targeted disco’s large gay audience. The group’s name refers to Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, with its reputation as a gayborhood. The characters were a symbolic group of American masculinity and macho gay-fantasy personas., |
| Super Strut | US Navy Port Authority | ‘US Navy Band Port Authority Soul Band’ or ‘The U.S. Navy Soul Band’ is a soul/jazz-rock group comprised of United States Navy personnel, active from 1971-85. “Super Strut”, written by Eumir Deodato, appeared on their album “Together”, released In 1974. |
| French Navy | Camera Obscura | Camera Obscura are a Scottish indie pop band from Glasgow. “French Navy” by ‘Camera Obscura’ with Tracyanne Campbell’s gloominess was released in 2009. |
| Captain of Your Ship | Reparata & The Delrons | The song is unusual in its atmospheric use of sound effects (foghorn, ship’s bell, Morse code) and features psychedelic instrumentation and treatments including electric sitar, backwards piano, filtered vocals and phasing. In 1969, the group provided backing vocals for The Rolling Stones’ single “Honky Tonk Women”, The Delrons started out as a five-piece group in 1962 at St. Brendan’s Catholic School in Brooklyn, New York, led by lead singer Mary Aiese (born 31 December 1945). Reparata was Aiese’s confirmation name, which she had taken from one of her favorite teachers at Good Shepherd Catholic grammar school, and which Aiese says sounded more marketable than either of her given names, Mary and Katherine. The other original members included Nanette Licari, Regina Gallagher, and Anne Fitzgerald, but they were soon replaced by Sheila Reilly, Carol Drobnicki, and Cathy Romeo. When Romeo was allegedly forced out of the group, she was replaced by Marge McGuire. |
| Sloop John B | The Beach Boys | The Beach Boys released in 1966 “Sloop John B”, Brian Wilson’s adaptation of a Bahamian folk song from Nassau, originally published as “The John B. Sails” in 1966. It was the first single my dad offered me when he bought me my first record player. |
| Rock The Boat | Hues Corporation | The Hues Corporation was a Los Angeles band formed in 1969. ‘Rock The Boat’ was written by the band’s manager, Wally Holmes. |
| Love Will Keep Us Together | Captain & Tennille | “Love Will Keep Us Together” is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield in 1973. Dragon and Tennille acknowledged Sedaka’s authorship—as well as his mid-1970s comeback—by working the phrase “Sedaka is back” into the song’s fadeout, where the applause from the studio musicians can be heard. In 1976, Captain & Tennille released a Spanish version called “Por Amor Viviremos”. |
| Swimming Into Deep Water | Don Rosenbaum | Donald Paul Rosenbaum (born in Amsterdam, April 1947) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. “Swimming into Deep Water” was produced by Boudewijn de Groot at Phonogram. |
| Too Many Fish In The Sea | The Marvelettes | “Too Many Fish in the Sea” is a 1964 hit song recorded by Motown singing group The Marvelettes written by Norman Whitfield. |
| El Rey Tiburón | Maná | ‘El Rey Tiburón’, in English “The Shark King”, is a song performed by the Mexican rock group Maná, formed in 1981, originally called Sombrero Verde. |
| Burbujas de amor (ft. 440) | Juan Luis Guerra | Juan Luis Guerra wishing he was a fish to swim inside his lover’s… fish bowl. The lyrics of Burbujas de Amor (meaning Bubbles of Love) by this Dominican pop singer are romantic and sexual in nature. The narrator, in an ironic and slightly shameless manner, wants to turn into a fish so that he can touch his passion with his mouth and blow bubbles of love all night. |
| Octopus’s Garden | The Beatles | “Octopus’s Garden”, is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written and sung by Ringo Starr. The idea for the song came about when Starr was on a boat belonging to comedian Peter Sellers in Sardinia in 1968. He ordered fish and chips for lunch, but instead of fish he got squid (it was the first time he’d eaten squid, and he said, “It was OK. A bit rubbery. Tasted like chicken.”) The boat’s captain then told Starr about how octopuses travel along the sea bed picking up stones and shiny objects with which to build gardens. |
| All Time High (From Octopussy) | Rita Coolidge | All Time High is the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy (Octopussy played by Maud Adams). “All Time High” is written by John Barry and Tim Rice and produced by Stephen Short and Phil Ramone, the song was released through A&M Records in 1983. |
| Tommy and the Whale | Dorléac | Dorleac owes its existence to the film Adem by Flemish director Hans van Nuffel. In 2010 Arnaert was brought together with Spinvis to work on the soundtrack of Breath (original title: Adem), a Belgian film about young people who suffer from mucovisidosis. Having written more material than needed for the film, they released a record, calling themselves Dorleac for the project. . The collaboration went so well that Arnaert and Spinvis improvised an entire album together. Given its cinematic roots, the end result was named after the French actress (1942-1967). Her life came to an abrupt end when she was tragically killed at the age of 25. Dorleac’s music is not particularly cheerful, not to say: very heavy on hand. The low tempos make the simple yet effective listening landscapes as idyllic as they are viscous. Arnaert’s whispering voice cuts right through the production of minimalist electronics, creating a dreamy effect. With this debut in the background, your own life will also turn into a movie. That is a plus, although there is also the danger that the listener will regard the collaboration as musical wallpaper. |
| Zoutelande (ft. Geike Arnaert) | BLØF | “Zoutelande” by the Dutch band BLØF with the Belgian Geike Arnaert is an adaptation of the German song “Frankfurt Oder” by Axel Bosse with Anna Loos. Zoutelande is a tourist resort for beach recreation in the southwestern Netherlands and part of the “Zeeland’s Rivièra”. “Zoutelande” is about a couple in love who have no money for an expensive holiday, so they spend the holiday in their parents’ old beach house. |
| The Sea | Morcheeba | The Sea by Morcheeba was released in 1998 and published on their album Big Calm. The sea represents a place of calmness and freedom for the protagonist. Despite the temptation to stay, they know they have to go back to the city. |
| Mediterraneo | Lolita | ‘Mediterráneo’ was written in 1971 by Joan Manuel Serrat. Lolita Flores recorded her version for the soundtrack of the 2002 movie Rencor in which she played Chelo, a female singer. |
| La Mer | Charles Trénet | La Mer” (“The Sea”) is a song by the French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet, based on a poem he wrote at the age of 16. |
| Gente Di Mare (ft. Raf) | Umberto Tozzi | “Gente di mare” (“People of the sea”) was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987, performed in Italian by Umberto Tozzi & Raf. |
| Les Filles Du Bord De Mer | Salvatore Adamo | “Les Filles Du Bord De Mer” is a song written and performed by Adamo. The song is about swimming young girls at the seaside. Salvatore Adamo, first of seven brothers, emigrated to Belgium from Comiso, Sicily, Italy at age three in 1947. Since 2019 he has the dual nationality Italian and Belgian. |
| Vista Do Mar | Rosalia De Souza | Rosalia de Souza featured on the album of the London-based Les Hommes with her song ‘Vista Do Mar’. Rosalia de Souza is a Brazilian bossa nova singer. After travelling to Italy at the age of 21, she began to study music theory, Cuban percussion, and jazz at the Scuola Popolare di Testaccio (Popular school of Testaccio) in Rome. |
| Aquí no hay playa | The Refrescos | «Aquí no hay playa» by the Spanish band “The Refrescos”. Written by band member Bernardo Vázquez, the song complains that despite all its benefits (leisure, museums, parks), the city of Madrid lacks a beach. |
| Islands In The Stream (ft. Kenny Rogers) | Dolly Parton | The song was written by the Bee Gees for Marvin Gaye, however it was recorded instead as a duet by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. The title came from an Ernest Hemingway story that was published in 1970. |
| Harborlight | Windjammer | Harborlight by Windjammer is written by band members Peter van Asten and Richard de Bois. |
| Shipbuilding | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | “Shipbuilding”, written by Elvis Costello was first recorded by Robert Wyatt. Costello asked Chet Baker to come in and play on the recording to make it distinct from Robert Wyatt’s original 1982 single. Written from the perspective of workers in British shipbuilding seaports during the buildup to England’s war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982, before the Belgrano conflict (Argentinean Navy cruiser sunk by British forces during the 1982 Falklands conflict in controversial circumstances). |
Sources
The information sources of the song facts include, but are not limited to, Wikipedia, songfacts.com, discogs.com, secondhandsongs.com, YouTube and artists’ related websites.
