happy tunesday! חמישה פחות אחד

 Last week I posted a lyric video of Tobias Wilson's recording of my song, "Five Missing One." When I shared it on Facebook, I offered bonus points to whoever can identify the old Israeli pop song that inspired it.

Well, this is it: חמישה פחות אחד by החברים של בני (which translates, roughly to "Five Minus One" by Benny's Friends")

My song actually began as an attempt to translate the Hebrew song. And my chorus is -- lyrically -- very similar to Benny's Friends' chorus. Of course, it's in a different language, the melody is very different and the choruses are very different.

Benny's Friends' song is much more poetic, and certainly less literal than mine. In case any of my reader is not fluent in Hebrew, here is a translation of their song (aided by Google Translate):

Soon the light, the light
Will surprise an endless black night
We are waiting for this light.
That’s why we’re here.

Soon the time, the time
Will start a different count, a different sign.
We are waiting for this time.
That’s why we’re here.

We’re five minus one.
We gave heart to heart and hand to hand.
We had a friend who was not afraid.
We’re five minus one.

Soon the song, the song
Will fly over the sea, over the city.
We are waiting for this time.
That’s why we’re here.

We’re five minus one.
We gave heart to heart and hand to hand.
We had a friend who was not afraid.
We’re five minus one.

it's zmedsday!! (cvii)

 

happy tunesday! five missing one

Toby Wilson's latest recording for me.

I started this song by trying to write a translation of an old Israeli C&W song. Bonus points if you can identify which. After coming up with a passable translation of the chorus, I decided to take the song in a different direction. I was trying to get a bit of a Louis L'Amour vibe going. I don't think I succeeded, but I still like the song. Before putting out the album, I may ask Toby to rerecord with a different arrangement.

sharon art

Three and a half years ago Sharon took an art course at the Bridgeview Academy of Fine Arts. I wrote about that here. As that class came to an end, she said she wanted to take another class. But not right away. Eventually.

Eventually has come, and Sharon is back at Bridgeview. After all this time she decided to take the same course over again rather than jump to a successor class. The illustration here is from her easel at the end of the first session.

The above should not be interpreted to mean that she stopped doing art in the interim. Sometimes it seems that she's always drawing -- whether digitally on her computer or non-digitally with pen and paper. I could shae a practical gallery of her art on this post, but that's not the point. Maybe I'll devote a post just to that. At this point, a good bit of her art -- at least the digital stuff -- is commission work. So people are paying her for her work, which is really cool.

cinema history class: dr. jekyll and sister hyde

Session: Saucy Jack, Week 4
Movie: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
Directed by Roy Ward Baker

As always, there may be spoilers here. And the trailer may be NSFW and/or NSFL.

Plot:
Trying to end all disease, Dr. Jekyll finds a way to turn himself into a woman, which leads to a battle for control. Horror ensues.

Reaction and Other Folderol:

The interesting thing about DJ&SH is that it's a three-way crossover, trying to combine the stories of Dr. Jekyll, Jack the Ripper and Burke & Hare. What's even more interesting is that it actually works. Brian Clemens managed to put together a script that combines these elements seamlessly in a way that doesn't seem forced.

Also to Clemens' credit, the dialog is smart and snappy with lots of well-placed humor and clever lines.  As the guys in class were quick to point out the film never gets to the point of being a comedy, but it is clever and humorous. Similarly, the romantic subplots have raise the potential for this to become a screwball comedy, but it never actually went there.

I loved watching Jekyll/Hyde descend into a tug of war, as the two personalities vie for control of the one body they share. And I felt sorry for Howard and Susan, the well-meaning but unknowing Spencers who each had romantic interests in Jekyll/Hyde. But, of course, their loves were not to be.

The casting of Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick as Jekyll and Hyde was really well done. The two look like they could be brother and sister, which lends an air of believability.

 

Ratings

Me: 9

Bob-O: 9

Dave: 9.8

Ethan: 8.5

Joe: 10