Music Video Tribute: "Louise Brooks, Turning Away" by Paul Humphrey

Welcome to Music Video Tribute Week on the Louise Brooks Society blog. Here is the fifth installment, "Louise Brooks, Turning Away" by Paul Humphrey. This song dates from 1997, and was done on Video-8: videotaped in Boulder, CO and Nederland, CO, featuring clips from various Louise Brooks films. Camera, Editing, Guitar by Paul Humphrey.

Music Video Tribute: If U Seek Amy [Louise Brooks]

Welcome to Music Video Tribute Week on the Louise Brooks Society blog. Here is the fourth installment, "A little tribute to the iconic Louise Brooks," titled "If U Seek Amy [Louise Brooks]". Girl power, rock on.

Music Video Tribute: "Lulu a Hollywood" by Olivia Louvel

Welcome to Music Video Tribute Week on the Louise Brooks Society blog. Here is the second installment. French artist Olivia Louvel performs "Lulu a Hollywood" from album Lulu In Suspension. This live footage from a concert at Le Cube in 2009 with mastered audio. Deluxe Digipak CD available at Optical Sound http://www.optical-sound.com/

From Wikipedia: Olivia Louvel is a French-born, British composer, producer and performer, crafting electronic songs from laptop and voice. In 2011, she won the Qwartz Album Award at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards for Doll Divider. She works on the frontier of art and electronic music, often blurring the boundary between the two. Her innovative and quirky songwriting brought her to perform alongside artists such as Planningtorock at the Earsthetic Festival, The Irrepressibles at the Brighton Dome, and Recoil for concerts on the European 'Selected' tour.

Initially trained in classical singing, she began to work as a singer for the renowned flying trapeze circus 'Les Arts Sauts' performing at 12 metres in the air a Meredith Monk composition 'Madwoman’s vision'. She toured with them for 3 years. From 1996 to 1999, she attended the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris, and graduated in 1999.

Lulu In Suspension, inspired by silent-movie star Louise Brooks and her book 'Lulu in Hollywood', was released as a digipak CD on Optical Sound Records and Fine Arts run by French artist Pierre BelouÏn. In 2009, she presented an AV performance of 'Lulu In Suspension' at Le Cube, the digital art space in France.

For more, check out her website or Facebook page.

Roarin' 20s: Girl of My Dreams (I Love You)

from YouTube, the video features a bit of Louise Brooks

"Blue STEELE & His Orchestra, with Vocal refrain – Girl of My Dreams [I Love You], HMV 1927 (American recording; UK pressing)

NOTE: Blue STEELE (b. Eugene Staples in 1893 in Arkansas, USA – d. 1971) American trombone player and band leader, whose greatest activity was in late 1920s thru 1930s. Serving in Europe during the Great War he got injured in his head - the accident which was responsible for recurring outbursts of his rough behavior and had a negative impact on his whole career. Blue Steele’s first engagement was in early '20s with a hot dance band known as Watson's Bell Hops, then came the Blue Steele’s Orchestra, which was formed in the late 1920s in Atlanta. Their arrangements were a very danceable blend of jazz and sweet music, therefore the band quickly achieved popularity, playing mostly in holiday resorts in Florida. Until 1930, Blue Steele’s Orchestra cut about 30 well-selling records for Victor, yet maintaining the success for a prolonged period was too a difficult task for Steele’s violatile temperament. Only a few musicians stayed with him for longer, including trombonist Sunny Clapp – who was a composer of this lovely waltz, and who finally left Blue Steele to form his own and very successful Band O’Sunshine. In 1940s-1950s Blue Steele’s career almost completely waned, he occasionally conducted various orchestras, including the symphony orchestra in Mexico City.

The Sunny Clapp’s waltz “Girl of My Dreams” belongs to one of the most beautiful American songs composed in the 1920s. Being myself not any particular waltz-lover, I however enjoy listening to this tune a lot. Several years ago I came across an unusual recording of that song, made in 1928 by a little known American singer Jack Pepper – ever since “Girl Of My Dreams” in his phenomenal rendition belongs to my absolute favs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YerJ...
 
However, the Blue Steele band’s version is lovely too. Some time ago, when I was still active in my another musical channel in Dailymotion, I happened to upload this hereby version, which was issued under Victor’s label and was in much worse condition – while now, it's a British HMV pressing in an excellent shape. (I got it in a junk store for equivalent of 5 euro). I think it's worthwhile listening to again."

Happy birthday Charlie Chaplin, from the Louise Brooks Society

Happy birthday to Charlie Chaplin, from the Louise Brooks Society. In this excerpt from the 1986 BBC Arena documentary on Louise Brooks, the actress looks back on her summer long affair with the famed actor.

Listen to Louise Brooks on Arena describe her two months summer romance with Chaplin, during one of his visits to New York for the premiere of 'The Gold Rush' in 1925.

From: Louise Brooks (1986). Directors: Charles Chabot and Richard Leacock. Series editor: Anthony Wall. Narration by Linda Hunt.

Happy birthday Charlie Chaplin! (16th of April 1889)Listen to Louise Brooks on Arena describe her two months summer romance with Chaplin, during one of his visits to New York for the premiere of 'The Gold Rush' in 1925.From: Louise Brooks (1986). Directors: Charles Chabot and Richard Leacock. Series editor: Anthony Wall.#arenaoftheday
Posted by BBC Arena on Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Jesus And Mary Chain ♫ Just Like Honey (( Special Louise Brooks ))

The Jesus And Mary Chain sing "Just Like Honey" to imagery of Louise Brooks. I like this video, as I had seen the Jesus And Mary Chain perform in San Francisco in the late 1980s at the old I-Beam on Haight Street.

New tribute music video features Louise Brooks

This new music video by David C. Williams pays tribute to both 1960's pop and Louise Brooks.

Universal Lulu: "Eloise Brooks"

As found on YouTube..... "Eloise Brooks" special effects video set to OMD's "Pandora's Box"

Spectres from the Past ~ A spooky video featuring Louise Brooks

For Halloween.... Visions from a past, once forgotten...but now scarcely remembered. Courtesy of our "Dream Girl" Louise Brooks, of course.

The Lulu Project, by Bruce Brownlee

The Lulu Project, by Bruce Brownlee. Transformations of photographs of silent film actress Louise Brooks. Created in 2006.

Look at me now - Electric Light Orchestra - Louise Brooks

Here is a video for "Look at me now" by Electric Light Orchestra. I don't think this is any sort of official video, just a fan made issue. It's here because it features Louise Brooks. (As a kid, I loved the Beatles' music. Still do. And this video reminded me of how much I like the early work by ELO, whose music was indebted to the Fab Four.)

The Art of Time Travel Act I Louise in the Late Afternoon Pt. 1

The Art of Time Travel Act I Louise in the Late Afternoon Pt. 1. I think you will recognize the song.

É SEMPRE BOM OUVIR "LUIZA" E REVER "LOUISE"

É SEMPRE BOM OUVIR "LUIZA" E REVER "LOUISE".
(Homenagem a Antonio Carlos Jobim e Louise Brooks).
Créditos no final do clip. Acervo: Rádio Educativa Mensagem (REM).

The Ghosts of Hollywood

This short documentary titled "The Ghosts of Hollywood" shows the sad condition of many of the silent movie studios in Hollywood as they appeared in the 1930s. Included are the Keystone and Metro Studio locations. You see Mabel Normand and Rudolph Valentino's dressing rooms among other locations.

New Silent Film Documentary - Silence is Golden

Check out this swell new short documentary telling the story of cinema's origins from the pioneers of the first films till the first full talkie The Jazz Singer. I like it, and not just because Louise Brooks makes an appearance.

Louise Brooks & Frankie Trumbauer - Bye Bye Blues, 1930

Happy Valentines Day! Please enjoy these images of Louise Brooks set to the music of Frankie Trumbauer's "Bye Bye Blues" (1930), with vocal by Scrappy Lambert (who a couple of years earlier had recorded Beggars of Life).

Tribute to Louise Brooks ( Music By Editors)

A video tribute to Louise Brooks; the song is "Munich" by Editors.

Video: Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box (clip)

Pandora's Box will be shown in Huntington, Kentucky on Tuesday, October 29th at 7:30 pm with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model. Here are the details from the host venue, the Cinema Arts Center. (Follow the link to purchase tickets or for more information.)

Video: Louise Brooks Tribute / Telepathe - 'So Fine'

Another Louise Brooks tribute video found on YouTube. Nicely done, except the image of the nude kneeling before a statue of Buddha is not Louise Brooks. The song is "So Fine" by Telepathe, an electronic pop duo from Brooklyn.

louise brooks - berlin berlin

The song "Berlin" by Gosta Berling was inspired by the life of Louise Brooks. Her story and iconic image have inspired many tributes - songs, books, plays and movies. The fascinating and frustrating saga of her life is captured in the biography Louise Brooks by Barry Paris - which the songwriter says they devoured while writing the words to this song. The images for this video were all scanned from the book Lulu Forever by Peter Cowie. This song is from the band's first EP, Everybody's Sweetheart (2007).