I failed to express my self clearly. I meant to say that I have always been surprised that no recording of it has ever achieved real fame despite all the greats having a go, eg, Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme etc.
I picked up the following extract from Google which may interest the Haiku lovers:
"These lyrics are from Moonlight in Vermont, by John Blackburn. I wonder if the lyricist knew he was also composing some very nice kigo in the process?
-Tak
(Autumn)
pennies in a stream falling leaves ~ a sycamore moonlight in vermont
(Winter)
icy finger waves ski trails on a mountainside snowlight in vermont
(Summer)
evening summer breeze warbling of a meadowlark moonlight in vermont "
I meant to say that I have always been surprised that no recording of it has ever achieved real fame despite all the greats having a go, eg, Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme etc.
Aha! I'm with you now.
Don't ask me what a "kigo" is!
the_wild_iris explains it better in her essay, but the kigo is the 'season word' that haiku conventionally contain, either the name of the season, or something traditionally associated with it.
Sorry, assumed from Mr. A going to California that you were USA-based. Should have known really because how many Yanks have heard of Blakes 7? There again, how many Brits wished they never had?
Interesting reading your 'enhancements' below - they might just as well have been written in Sanskrit! But what hope is there for me, the only SF I ever read is "The Tempest" and "The Dream". David Duff
I did my best to take B7 to a broader audience in the USA only last month - and, in fact, I was amazed at how many people at the conference turned out to be aware of it (or, at least, to have a frame of reference ('Dr Who') whereby they could understand it).
I don't read much SF either. But I do watch an awful lot of it.
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Haiku
Date: 2003-11-14 09:04 pm (UTC)"Moonlight in Vermont" (Blackburn & Suesdorff) is the only popular song written in Haiku form, thus:
Pennies in a stream
Falling leaves of sycamore
Moonlight in Vermont etc, etc.
As we say over this side of the pond, 'Not a lot of people know that!'
It is also a beautiful song and melody and I have always been amazed that so few singers have recorded it.
David Duff
Re: Haiku
Date: 2003-11-15 11:41 am (UTC)Re: Haiku
Date: 2003-11-15 06:04 pm (UTC)I picked up the following extract from Google which may interest the Haiku lovers:
"These lyrics are from Moonlight in Vermont, by John Blackburn. I wonder
if the lyricist knew he was also composing some very nice kigo in the process?
-Tak
(Autumn)
pennies in a stream
falling leaves ~ a sycamore
moonlight in vermont
(Winter)
icy finger waves
ski trails on a mountainside
snowlight in vermont
(Summer)
evening summer breeze
warbling of a meadowlark
moonlight in vermont "
Don't ask me what a "kigo" is!
David Duff
Re: Haiku
Date: 2003-11-18 12:23 am (UTC)Aha! I'm with you now.
Don't ask me what a "kigo" is!
Geography
Date: 2003-11-14 09:33 pm (UTC)Interesting reading your 'enhancements' below - they might just as well have been written in Sanskrit! But what hope is there for me, the only SF I ever read is "The Tempest" and "The Dream".
David Duff
Re: Geography
Date: 2003-11-15 11:40 am (UTC)I did my best to take B7 to a broader audience in the USA only last month - and, in fact, I was amazed at how many people at the conference turned out to be aware of it (or, at least, to have a frame of reference ('Dr Who') whereby they could understand it).
I don't read much SF either. But I do watch an awful lot of it.