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Familiar Stranger by Russell Taylor
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fave it Cabaret | Crooners/Vocals
5 tracks | 15 minutes
Released Jun 2005
on PlanetMonk Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 There's Time Enough lyrics BUY MP3 02:54 There's Time Enough lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:54 There's Time Enough
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:39 Let Other's Laugh lyrics FREE 03:39 Let Other's Laugh lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:39 Let Other's Laugh
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A French Cabaret song, a Bosa Nova, a Little Big Band tuner, and a couple of Ballads: All originals, and all performed by the Fabulously Successful Cabaret Artist Russell Taylor.
Bio / Background
I first met Phyl Fraser at a monastery on the edge of California's Mojave Desert when I was just 22. She was 56 -- or 53 (much to Phyl's dismay, I always got that wrong). It was a friendship made in heaven -- well, heaven adjacent. That Summer, while visiting Phyl at her London flat, she played me a vinyl record of five songs she'd written and had recorded 20 years earlier. As we listened to the scratchy, hiss-and-pop laden recording, Phyl told me how she'd never really been satisfied by the 60s Pop arrangements, but that, sadly, this single well-worn record, along with an envelope of smudged and faded lead sheets, was all that remained of a time in her life when she was a songwriter. I made a cassette of the record and photocopies of the lead sheets, and headed off to explore the Continent for the rest of the Summer.
And so the years go by...
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