It may be the May Day Bank Holiday, but...
...it's still a Tacky Music Monday! And, with the sad loss yesterday of one of our cherished Patron Saints Regine, who better than she to start the week off in a fitting manner - complete with safety gays, bien sûr?!!
Regine - La Grande Zoa [Mardi Gras Story, 1969]Quand vient l'mardi, la grande Zoa
Met ses bijoux, ses chinchillas
Et puis à minuit, la grande Zoa
Autour du cou s'met un boa
Y en a qui marmonnent
Que la grande Zoa
Ce serait un homme
On dit ça!
Which translates as:
When Tuesday comes, the Great Zoa
Puts on her jewellery, her chinchillas
And then at midnight, the Great Zoa
Throws a boa around her neck
There are those who whisper
That the Great Zoa
Appears to be a man
People say that!
Have a good week, dear reader...
[I was torn between two video versions of this song - so here's the other (live) version for your delectation, in which the "Queen of the Night"'s safety gays get even camper!]
Thanks for sharing the link and the translation. In the first video, I couldn’t get beyond the guy with the gold chains and comb-over. They just didn’t work with the cowboy outfit. Glad he lost the gold chains for the live version.
ReplyDeleteHe lost the gold chains - and gained a boa! Jx
DeleteI didn't realize she was a singer, I only knew from her nightclubs. And her pet safety gays are adorable.
ReplyDeleteShe was a marvel. It was her singing career that really made her a "gay icon" - she even did Sondheim's Follies!
DeleteHow fun. Her eyes are a little scary. Sort of dead, but something working back there... very mysterious. Love the campy set and her trio of back up dancers. How fun. Love me a melodrama and a saloon set. She looks like she's ready to do The Unsinkable Molly Brown! Kizzes.
ReplyDelete"The Unsinkable Régine Zylberberg" has a ring to it! Jx
DeleteHave a good week, Jon! Don't get tied down by the ribbon people. Or any stray Morris Dancers.
ReplyDeleteSx
The good thing about Morris Dancers is, like cats, they have bells on so you have plenty of notice to run away... Jx
DeleteRunning from Morris Dancers! Sounds much more p-zazzy than my "running from a drunken sailor."
DeleteDepends on the calibre of his hornpipe, I suppose. Jx
DeleteY'all had me certain that today was going to be a holiday here in the USA, but according to the Krewe that ain't so, they had work, and all the grands had school today! Of course, none of it mattered to me because I am officially retired! xoxo
ReplyDeleteThe USA has many more official holidays than the UK (we have nothing between the Late Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May until the end of August, and nothing between August and Xmas), but it seems that this one is a more European thing... Jx
DeleteThe Maypole dancing brings back fond memories from when I was at school. Well, except for those times when some uncoordinated child would go the wrong way and ruin the ribbon plaiting!
ReplyDeleteI was always off the opinion that ribbons should be worn in the hair, not strung from a pole... Jx
DeleteHells Bells! Blogger ate my comment!
ReplyDeleteIt was something like this: The Maypole dancing brings back fond memories from school. Well, except for when some stupid, uncoordinated child went the wrong way and RUINED the ribbon plaiting!
Ah. Maybe Blogger didn't eat my comment - I just noticed the comment moderation pop up the second time. Although it was very quick. Is it shy?
ReplyDeleteAwww bless. I have moderation on for any post that's older than two days (thanks to the continued spam assault from various dogy escort agencies in Bangalore, voodoo doctors who have apparently solved people's love-lives, casinos, Bitcoin and the rest...).
DeleteYou've been awol for a while, so catch-up comments will be met with that layer of "shy security", sorry.
I check the moderation list every day, but obviously yours were trapped in the "time eddy in the time vortex" like the Fourth Doctor... Jx