Black Coffee with Julie London

Posted over 4 years ago
Part 2 of my cheap coffee saga.I'm just about to finish off my tin $2.69 Meijer Brand coffee - French Roast, 326 grams. Meijer is a local (to Michigan) chain grocery store. Not too bad, it's pretty much on par with the Kroger brand coffee I sucked down last month. If I had to choose one over the other, it'd be a tough call. But so far I'd be tempted to go with the Kroger brand. Although the Meijer brand is 30 cents cheaper.And, now, for the coffee song to go along with this round of cheap grounds - Julie London's version of Black Coffee. I still have a crush on Julie London, she was so classically beautiful. Her LP covers always showed her as such. Awesome, beautiful voice and she knew how to use it, way better than any popular songstress around today. She may have been a bit of a one-and-a-half trick pony with her voice but WHAT a trick it was. The combination of Julie's voice and a song about black coffee makes me feel like life should be in black and white, and I should be in a diner or jazz club hoping Ray Luca doesn't show up. Anyway she sang tons of songs of the time way back when. She had sung a lot tunes that the Rat Pack guys performed. I find it interesting to hear a woman perform those songs, mostly male oriented, and make them rather feminine. And very effectively at that! I'm pretty sure her whisper voice could knock over any man, as if it were a storm coming off the ocean. She may have sung virtually every song very softly but there was a power in that voice of hers. In fact I'm pretty sure when Iggy Pop wrote "raw power can destroy a man" he must have been thinking about a woman like Julie. She may not have been as popular, but she was definately every bit as good as the Rat Pack guys.Is it still OK to use the words "broads" and "dames"? Or has political correctness ruined all that?

Comments (1)

  1. Kate says Nothing wrong with a little 'broads and dames'. And nothing wrong with a little Julie London! Her cover of Dylan's "Might Quinn" is wonderful.
    Permalink posted 07/24/2007

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