Remember Vanity 6? When this lingerie-clad trio shocked and excited the world, and thus raced up the charts, copycats sprang up. One of those was the Dutch trio Centerfold. Also lingerie-clad, with cheesy songs with lots of innuendo and out-of-breath-vocals. I used to have the hots for darkhaired beauty Rowan Moore (like real hard), but coffeecoloured Laura Fygi had some real vocal talent. Years after Centerfold broke up, she re-invented herself as a jazzsinger, and scored a contract with the legendary Verve-label. Although she could sing, her cocktailjazz was way to safe for me. Last month Rendez-vous was released, an album with French songs, most of them translated standards. One of them is Duke Ellington's Caravan, an instrumental older Dutch readers might remember as the theme from Wie van de Drie (although in the version of Wes Montgomery). It's classic lounge, and it stays that way in Laura's quality-cover.
Laura Fygi - Caravane
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