Billie Holiday: You're My Thrill

"Onnellinen siksi et sun mä omistin"

"I'm gonna buy me a Mercury & cruise it up & down the road" * Albert Järvinen Band: Mercury Blues * written by K.C. Douglas & Robert Geddins in 1949 * the song first recorded by K. C. Douglas * live at Tullikamarin Pakkahuone, Tampere on Mar 22nd, 1989 * footage from Yölinja, broadcast by (Yle) TV2 on Mar 29th, 1989; directed by Matti Grönberg

"Clouds a drifting across the moon / cats a prowling on their beat / spring's a girl in the street at night" * The Pogues: Dirty Old Town * written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 * produced by Elvis Costello * released in early Aug, 1985

"I've never seen a night so long / when time goes crawling by / the moon just went behind a cloud / to hide its face and cry" * Diamanda Galás: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry * live at the Vogue Theater in Vancouver on Nov 9th 2002 * written by Hank Williams * arranged by D. Galás * produced by Blaise Dupuy * the song released originally in 1949 * released on Dec 8th 2003

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli: Stormy Weather * written by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler in 1933 * recorded in Rome, Jan or Feb 1949

Gute Nacht (composed by Adolf Eduard Marschner in the mid-1800's, lyrics probably trad.) * performed by an unidentified sextet of "graduates", incl. choirmaster Matti Ranin (as Kaarlo "Kalle" Härkönen) * footage from the film Katupeilin takana (directed by Toivo Särkkä, premiered on Nov 4th 1949)

Matti Ranin 1926 - 2013