Radka Toneff - Ballad of the Sad Young Men (live, 1977)
Lyrics by Frances Landesman, music by Thomas J. Wolf Jr. Live on Norwegian TV, 1977, with Jon Balke (piano), Jon Eberson (guitar), Arild Andersen (bass) and Espen Rud (drums). A studio version of this song is released on "Winter Poem" (1977). It is also on the Radka Toneff compilation album "Some Time Ago - A Collection of Her Finest Moments" (2003). This video is a bonus on the album "Butterfly" (Curling Legs, 2008), together with a video of Kurt Weill's "Lost in the Stars". Buy it, and all the other Radka Toneff records!
Radka Toneff was born in 1952 in Oslo, Norway, of Bulgarian father (folk singer) and Norwegian mother. She is Norway's greatest jazz singer to this day, and her album "Fairytales" (1982) is Norway's best selling jazz record. She died in 1982.
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