2025-05-23 16:07:02流浪阿狗

老歌亂談(1260)In The Misty Moonlight

1965,美國鄉村男女歌手Bobby BareSkeeter Davis合出了一張專輯《Tunes for Two》,成績不差 ( 8),其中倆人合唱的《A Dear John Letter》,成為了經典傳世的版本。此首《In The Misty Moonlight》,也包含在此專輯中。

Bobby Bare最為知名的歌曲是1963發行的《Detroit City》與《500 Miles Away From Home》,前者替他贏得了一座葛萊美獎 ,之後又被提名了4次,惜均落空。Skeeter Davis1947出道,50年代晚期開始單飛,1963的一首The End of the World,雖只奪得排行榜的亞軍,卻開始在鄉村歌壇大放異彩。Skeeter很擅長的是以多重錄製方式、自己一個人唱多部合音;也很喜歡唱回答歌 ( 曲調不變,將歌詞改寫成對原曲的回應。 ),曾4次被提名葛萊美獎的年度最佳鄉村女歌手,但均槓龜。

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此曲為也是鄉村歌手的Cindy Walker所創作,最早是由Jim Reeves錄唱,但卻在他1964因飛機失事的身後才發行。Dean Martin翻唱此曲並於1967作為單曲發行,在易聽排行榜獲得第一名,也是他5首冠軍曲的最後一首。此曲的翻唱者眾多,而包含Dean Martin在內,均採抒情的唱法,Bobby & Skeeter以輕快的方式來詮釋,也算是有些符合歌詞所想表達的,只要兩人能在一起,環境和財富這些都不重要了。

同場加映,專輯中的另一首《Together Again》。

In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight
[ Skeeter ]
Any place is all right long as I'm with you
[ Both ]
In a faraway land on the tropic sea sand
[ Bobby ]
If your hand's in my hand I won't be blue
[ Both ]
Way up on the mountain a way down in the valley
I know I'll be happy anyplace anywhere I don't care
In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as you are there
[ Skeeter ]
You know I could be happy in just one little room with only a table and a chair
As happy as I'd be in a kingdom by the sea darling if you're there
[ Bobby ]
And I could be rich or I could be poor but if you were by my side
I could be anyplace in the whole wide world and I know that I'll be satisfied
[ Both ]
Way up on the mountain...
Any place is all right long as you are there