Pour faire contre-poids aux boîtes de chocolat en forme de coeur, et autres gadets un peu trop sucrés ... / Not your typical St-Valentine's celebration : an offering to counterbalance all those heart shaped chocolate boxes and other sweets.
Vous trouverez ici My Funny Valentine, chanté par Jack Kerouac, grand amateur de jazz, dont le roman culte Sur la route (On the road) a été publié il y a 50 ans cette année. / You will find here a recording of My Funny Valentine, sung by Jack Kerouac, a real fan of jazz, and who published 50 years ago this year the emblematic novel On the road.
Cette chanson, quel qu'en soit l'interprète, est toujours touchante, envoûtante, à la fois triste et joyeuse. / No matter who sings this song, it always has something haunting, something sweet, someting sad.
Origine de l'enregistrement / Source of the recording :
Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady Tapes : In the early 1950s, Jack Kerouac lived with Neal and Carolyn Cassady in northern California. Before Jack arrived, Neal had purchased a new tape recorder hoping he and Jack could send tapes back and forth to each other as an alternative to their frequent letter writing. Once Kerouac moved in, they would often amuse themselves recording their conversations or reading aloud to each other from various books. Cassady's widow, Carolyn, says the recorder was rolling all the time, but they could only afford a few reels of blank tape, so they would often record over earlier recordings. Of all the recordings they made, Carolyn Cassady retains only a 15-minute fragment. She told NPR's Renée Montagne the tape was recorded in 1952 at their home in San Jose. Recording courtesy of Carolyn Cassady. Source : NPR.org
Crédit photographique / Photo source : Jack Kerouac listening to himself on the radio, New York City, 1959. Photo taken by John Cohen.
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