Marianne Faithfull - Mad About The Boy (The Songs of Noel Coward)
Album : Twentieth-Century Blues The Songs of Noel Coward Song Info : Written ostensibly about the generic matinee idol of the 1920s (with a sardonic nod towards the supposed heterosexuality of Valentino, Novarro and many other Hollywood male leads of the time), it was said that Coward had written about either Douglas Fairbanks Jnr or James Cagney - an unlikely pair of. The song had an unperformed verse in which a besuited businessman confessed his obsession: 'and even Doctor Freud cannot explain/Those vexing dreams/I've had about the boy.' The song debuted in Words and Music (1932), and was repsised by Dinah Washington in the 'Swimmer' Levis commercial
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RIP Marianne Faithful. Here she is in the late 90s singing this rather lovely world weary version of Noel Coward's Mad About the Boy www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Sf...
Marianne Faithfull has died! So sad. Let this be the day you listen to her version of Coward’s ‘Mad About The Boy’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Sf...
from this great compilation… youtu.be/t7SfcARX_nQ?...
youtu.be/t7SfcARX_nQ?... #MarianneFaithfull
Marianne Faithfull's cover of Noël Coward's 'Mad About the Boy' is my favourite. RIP 🖤 🎶
I have always thought Marianne Faithful had the perfect voice for this song - it's my favourite rendition. Her recordings of Kurt Weill's work are also wonderful. youtu.be/t7SfcARX_nQ?...
Thank you, Marianne. Possibly not on a lot of people's radars as far as hew music goes, but her recording of Mad About The Boy on the 20th Century Blues charity album is phenomenal. youtu.be/t7SfcARX_nQ
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