Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
We put out to sea in The Palace of Nostalgia. Woody Guthrie sings about the Titanic disaster, the Comedian Harmonists treat the love life of sailors, we hear Trenet’s sea classic ‘La Mer’ in a fresh interpretation by Chantal Chamberland, next Shirley Horn with ’There’s a boat that’s leavin’ for New York’ from ‘Porgy & Bess’ and Frank Sinatra together with Gene Kelly.
Billie Holiday, together with an excellent jazz combo, shows how a simple song about a little sailing boat in the moonshine can be turned into something spectacular. Followed by bass-baritone Peter Dawson in ‘We saw the sea’ of Irving Berlin.
Then, something completely different by the ‘nonsense’ orchestra of Spike Jones which is hooting and banging (‘By the beautiful sea’), and actor Conrad Veidt who sings impressively in a recitative way (‘When the lichthouse shines across the bay’).
Next, the best Dutch singer when it comes to the subject of seafaring life, Frans van Schaik, and the forgotten entertainer Huub Martron who sings about ‘Zandvoort an das Meer’ (Zandvoort on sea).
Furthermore: Lee Wiley, the Raymond Scott Quintette (in fact, it was a sextet), and Sylvain Poons and Oetze Verschoor with ‘De Zuiderzeeballade’.
