Une édition de cet album — et, en définitive, de cet UNIQUE album — est enfin disponible! On la doit au label Kismet (“la réalisation du Destin” en turque!)*. Bon! c'est un repiquage. Mais un bon repiquage; le son ne chuinte pas désagréablement comme souvent; et s'il n'est pas celui qu'offre un vrai
remastering, si de menus poques affleurent deci delà, il est tout de même très satisfaisant. Il suffit pour s'en convaincre d'écouter “Sometimes you wander” (le 4ème titre): l'une des chansons les plus délicates de cet opus, l'une des plus attractives — et dont je me délecte plus qu'auparavant.
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http://www.theraremusicshop.com/the-gla ... -738-p.aspCertes, j'entends mieux les finesses instrumentales, mais je saisis aussi mieux les paroles — de cette belle aria et des autres! Et j'ai pu réviser profitablement la translation que j'en avais faite. Voyez ci-après, chers lecteurs. Soit! elle n'est pas nickel — mes connaissances en anglais étant défectueuses —, mais les forts en thème rectifierons aisément mes erreurs et comblerons mes lacunes; évidemment, je leur saurais gré de bien vouloir me les signaler!
Revenons à l'édition! La pochette — comme le montre la photo (que l'on peut agrandir — voir l'adresse ci-dessus) — est joliment soignée. Elle se déplie en deux, et l'intérieur révèle un article du Billboard (16 juillet 1968), commentant la rencontre du groupe avec Raul Abeyta, leur manager, ainsi que deux courts et favorables compte-rendus du LP, datés de février 1969.
Février 1969! Voilà qui est formel, indiscutable: l'album — cet unique album de Glass Family, comme l'assure un résumé au dos du CD — est bien paru en 1969, en février 1969! D'autre part l'article révèle le lieu d'origine des musiciens: Catalina Island (ou l'île de Santa Catalina*), partie du comté de Los Angeles.
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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Santa_CatalinaEt n'oublions pas les bonus, car il y a des bonus! Copies droites de la face A du 1er
single — “Teenage rebellion”, court et bien fruste, dispensable! — ainsi que du troisième (promo) — “Guess I'll let you go”, version ramassée d'un titre de l'album. Plus intéressant, bien plus, est la face B de ce dernier: "David's rap”, un témoignage enjoué de David Capilouto (bassiste, organiste) sur l'origine du groupe et le sens de l'album. Ça s'arrête là. Ne figure pas “I'm losing you”, titre gaillard et gorgé de
fuzz guitar que l'on trouve sur les compilations citées dans mon article; titre fort sympathique qui répond fort bien à "I want to see my baby”.
Pour finir, chers lecteurs, chers auditeurs, écoutez cette sélection:
10/ Mr. Happy Glee
5/ The means
3/ Once again
4/ Sometimes you wander (Henry’s tune)
6/ Do you remember?
9/ Passage # 17
11/ Guess I’ll let you go
Sept chansons pleines de la dominante
dolce vita californienne, dont cinq (les dernières)
cool,
really cool — et balsamiques!
LES PAROLES:
1/ House of glass
This house is made of glass
Come inside, watch it lasts
We’re storing life for our winter's day
Come inside and with us play
No need to hide in a house of glass
Love can be seen and it’s such a gas
2/ Born in the U.S.A.
This is the story about where I was born and the things that are weighin’ down
I was born right here in the U.S.A.
They got to my head before I had a word to say
The ... to the movie is everything the man was awful bad
They made me look down on the first girl I ever had
Yeah, and I was born right here in the U.S.A.
They took me twenty years to learn how really pray
They send me off to church, where they think I was going to burn
But I had my soul free there that I could love my neighbour in return
Yeah, yeah, yeah, look what they done to me
Oh but I got free right here in the U.S.A.
Forget what they told me and feeling good anyway
They said that when you grew up, you're gonna think just like them
They could have not seen a laughter.... be late again
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah ook what they done to me...
3/ Once again
They haven’t touched for nearly two years
She wants to ask him but she knows he will not hear
And the sun is sagging in the sky once again
And she grows more fond of her little baby girl
He joins the fellows one more game and one more twirl
And the sun is sagging in the sky once again
She keeps waiting for the day he’ll find him lover,
But doctor says “Don’t worry, men that are busy can’t be lovers,
It’s the twenty eighth century, what’s natural’s forgotten”,
So she waits for something, for something
Hardly she mentions exactly how she feels
But her way from her returns she wanders what is real
And the sun is sagging in the sky once again
Maybe she’ll elope and leave him one day
Trying to start a new life of bright new shining day
But the sun is sagging in the sky once again, once again
4/ Sometimes you wander (Henry’s tune)
Sometimes you wander, trying to conquer all your feel
Into a day-dream with human you don’t see how to love
I ask for a purchase, can I buy you, mister ?
You see that I’m blind, I can see for me
I’m laid in the evening after the day-dream as spends its time
She’ll ask those questions, all the best ones make up your mind
You’d better to tell her, don’t wait for tomorrow
You may hurry a thousand times and she would spread sorrow
People have got to be free to do as they please
Free from possessing someone they’ve been told they want
We are one each other so why don’t we scream it?
How but I could........ the last was a jealous one
And I want to free you, just so to be you any how
But you go on leaving and trying to find someone
And I’ll go on lovin’ each and everyone
And didn’t you know we can all be together that way
5/ The means
I use to ride to the moon
On wings of purple .....
And kiss the bride I’d sparkling down
Until they told us it was wrong
Then I rode a street in mire [?]
Open and make machine so blue
Ran freely through the ages of my life
Until they told us it was wrong
Step a lively, the barbarians are coming over land and hill
And they all get ready for the second coming
And always love you first, right now!
Through the marble dust are chidren’s carrousel
Deep into the ocean wishing well
Lost in very sound and side and smell,
Until they told us it was wrong
I’m a lover fey with chocolate icecream
I’m the rived maze in images in green
Who could forbid the automate dream
No one, it would be to mean, to mean...
6/ Do you remember?
In the evening when we made love in the silence
that you worry by the next day
And if we had not been so high,
would you mind to find a reason to turn away
Oh, but now we love down through the night
Our color world it was so bright
Do you remember? (bis)
I never had a woman fit so well into my arms as you, my dear
You’re sensitive too, I know you did,
you’ve got to hold your worries and your foolish fears
Yeah! you turn, with your eyes you said to me, «I never knew
Oh wah whoopee!»
Do you remember? (bis)
I was the one to call your name, so namelessy, so you’d come running to my door
And in the morning when my love was still so deep inside you,
what would you’re thinking
I know it didn’t matter cause the feelings overcame ..........
Oh, every mouvemement was in perfect time
Making love, wah! making love is so done [?] fine
Do you remember? (bis)
7/ I want to see my baby
I don’t wanna go to the city
I don’t wanna be dressed a pretty
I don’t wanna absolve* with the band [man?]
I just wanna see my baby
Faster as I can
Faster as I can
I don’t wanna fly like Mary Poppins
I don’t wanna hang up blue stockings
I don’t wanna absolve with the band [man?]
I just wanna see my baby
Faster as I can...
* ou assoil (†)
8/ Lady blue
She can bring you down when you think you’re up, oh, oh
Feed your horse and make you think that wine is in your cup
Well, you know you’ve got a lot of nerve to tell me about your secret cure
Lady blue ain’t the girl for you, oh, oh
She walks through the room talkin’ about you do, my, oh
She sits you on a bed and then she messes with your head, oh, oh
You know you’ve got a lot of nerves, you tell me about your secret cure
Lady blue ain’t the girl for you, oh, oh
No, she ain’t!
She lives in a house with colours in a loud deep ride
And everything she does, she always does it on a slide
And you know you’ve got a lot of nerves to tell me about your secret cure
Lady blue ain’t the girl for you, oh, oh (bis)
Lady blue is the bad in you, oh, oh
9/ Passage # 17
Leave the dream what you'd been
You will enter passage # 17
Take the time, use your mind
You learned every sign
You can be anything
You want if you want to
We’ve always been and always we’ll be again
When I feel you are here
You will find your mind is clear
Leave the dream what you‘d been
You will enter passage # 17
10/ Mr. Happy Glee
Don’t try flying, you just may stumble and fall
Don’t try cryin’, you won’t proove nothing at all
And don’t you believe the words has just said
Words that defeat you can only make you dead
Don’t try smiling, just hold on that round
Don’t try dancing, you just may look like a clown
And don’t you believe the words has just said
Words that defeat you can only make you dead
Just try living, I think that you will see
The only one to listen to is Mr. Happy Glee
(Yes, folks, when the threaters [?] of your happiness try to tell you their sadness, do not listen. When they try to tell you that you can’t dancing and make love, shoot down their words. Just remember the words of the most hippiest grooviest cat that ever live, and that was love, love, love.)
Just try living, I think that you will see
The only one to listen to is Mr. Happy Glee
11/ Guess I’ll let you go
Yes, I'll have to let you go, my baby
Yes, I have to talk you about a man like me
Who must be free (bis)
Yes, we’ll have to let it go, my baby
Possessing you ain’t where is gonna be
Oh, you must be free (bis)
Oh, but baby, didn’t I tell you I would love you
Even if you love another man
I will love you just for you, my love
And what other things that you may plan
Maybe I don’t need to let you go, my baby
You say you understand someone like me
And we both must be free, we must be free
Oh, for what ever you may do, if you fly on up to the moon
Girl, it really still is you, and you are the one I love
12/ Agorn (Element of complex variables)
(instrumental)