Connie Converse：How Sad, How Lovely

Connie Converse

在Connie Converse消失35年后，她与众不同，优美而哀伤的个人音乐终于被发现了。二十世纪五十年代左右，早在“创作歌手”这个概念被提出之前，Converse 就开始创作并演唱了。而如今，我们衡量创作歌手的个人价值观、内在的洞察力、原创性、同情心、智慧、幽默和讽刺 ，统统在她的音乐中被丰富展现。

当时很少有人听过Converse的音乐，她走在了时代的前端，风格并不适合五十年代的音乐市场，因此也没有录制任何商业唱片。在纽约工作和生活近十年之后，Converse逐渐气馁搬到了密歇根州的安娜堡，在接下来的十二年里为密歇根大学编辑过一本关于国际争端解决方案的一本学术杂志。1974年，她打包行李，开车远走，至此再无消息。

Gene Deitch是动画制作人兼乐迷，五十年代在纽约时，他时常邀请一些朋友开私人聚会，同时用录音机录下一些嘉宾的表演。1954年他录下了Converse的一些音乐带，随后在她家发现的一些录音合并成了这张专辑：《How Sad, How Lovely》。

  How Sad, How Lovely

Talking Like You来自迷你超新星00:0002:30

In between two tall mountains

There’s a place they call Lonesome

Don’t see why they call it Lonesome;

I’m never lonesome when I go there

See that bird sittin’ on my windowsill?

Well, he’s sayin’ whip-poor-will

All the night through

See that brook runnin’ by my kitchen door?

Well, it couldn’t talk no more

If it was you

Up that tree there’s sort of a squirrel thing

Sounds just like we did when we were quarrelling

In the yard I keep a pig or two

They drop in for dinner like you used to do

I don’t stand in the need of company

With everything I see

Talkin’ like you

Up that tree there’s sort of a squirrel thing

Sounds just like we did when we were quarrelling

You may think you left me all alone

But I can hear you talk without a telephone

I don’t stand in the need of company

With everything I see

Talkin’ like you

See that bird sittin’ on my windowsill?

Well, he’s sayin’ whip-poor-will

All the night through

Just, whip-poor-will

All the night through

In between two tall mountains

There’s a place they call Lonesome

Don’t see why they call it Lonesome;

I’m never lonesome now I live there