Les reprises des chansons...

TALLY BROWN was a bohemian artist and underground star living in New York. She starred in some ANDY WARHOL films and was a student friend of LEONARD BERNSTEIN. Her beautiful interpretation of "Lady grinning soul" by DAVID BOWIE from his album ALLADIN SANE is taken from the soundtrack of the wonderful portrait documentary film TALLY BRWON NEW YORK by german director ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM.

I love the way Tally is singing and that she is singing in first person singular instead of third person singular as the original lyrics go.

The video footage is taken from two silent films:

The first one is SALOME from 1923, the one and only camp silent film, as far as I know. It starred ALLA NAZIMOVA as Salome (not seen in this youtube-clip). Gossip said, that the whole male cast and crew of that film was gay. The costumes and extravaganza of that silent film is unique. If you have a chance to see it, don't miss this film! In my youtube-clip I have picked the blue tinted scenes with Mitchell Lewis as Herod.

Second source is PICCADILLY from 1929. In my youtube-clip I used the red tinted scenes of ANNA MAY WONG doing a night club dance. I think, that Miss Wong's brilliant dancing can be described as playing the Luftpiano in the beginning, similar to LUFTGUITAR - playing ;-) hankoegal