Tuesday, June 16, 2009

35 Millimeter Dreams on YouTube


Fixated movie star fever with as many names as I could conjure and still make sense. Today I'd include Pacino, De Niro, Duvall, Eastwood, Finney and Streep.
All the Best,
Garland
"35 Millimeter Dreams" on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PJF46u8tho


Broadcast on ABC's "Fridays" November 13, 1981. Garland Jeffreys - Vocals, Brinsley Schwarz - Lead Guitar, Carter Cathcart - Guitar, Steve Goulding - Drums, Brian Stanley - Bass Guitar.

Words and Music: Garland Jeffreys. Originally issued on the album "Ghost Writer" (A& M Records, 1977). Reissued on the album "I'm Alive" (Universal International, 2006).

35 MILLIMETER DREAMS
I got 35 Millimeter dreams
And Greta Garbo's here
Queen of the movie queens
She's playin' hard to get
She wants her tea and her toast
She hasn't got none yet
She just flew in from the coast
But she loves Broadway best

I got 35 Millimeter dreams
35 Millimeter dreams
35 Millimeter dreams

John Garfield cries out loud
And Humphrey Bogart smiles
Bette Davis she weeps
She plays the pure white slave
There goes her Rolls Royce car
Her loyal fans all wave
Here comes a full blown star
But Brando's still the rave

I got 35 Millimeter dreams
35 Millimeter dreams
35 Millimeter dreams

Bump into Orson Welles
Everybody says he's workin' on his script
They say it's rated X
Mae West will never tell
It's starring Cary Grant
And Valentino's vamps
And Charlie Chaplin's tramps
And Jolie Jolson he chants

I got 35 Millimeter dreams
35 Millimeter dreams
35 Millimeter dreams


From the album "Ghost Writer" (A& M Records, 1977)
"35 Millimeter Dreams" Studio Recording:
GARLAND JEFFREYS Lead and Harmony Vocals
ALAN FREEDMAN Electric Guitar
STEVE GADD Drums
ANTHONY JACKSON Bass
DAVID SPINOZZA Electric Guitar and Piano

1 comment:

Skip Shea said...

If you added I hope it would be new verses keeping the rest in tact. Orson Welles must stay. Great line. But what about yourself, now that you have entered the realm as a movie actor?