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(Message started by: Jason on Nov 30th, 2003, 8:27am)
Title: Tower of Song
Post by Jason on Nov 30th, 2003, 8:27am
Sarah will be on CBC Radio next week performing one song for the inauguration for the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.


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On Wednesday...the inauguration of an institution that has been his obsession for most of his professional life, the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame. It will come into existence with a gala ceremony at CBC Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio, where Canadian songwriter icons Gordon Lightfoot, Félix Leclerc, Hank Snow, Madame Bolduc and Alfred Bryan, as well as 12 of the most influential Canadian songs of all time, will be honoured in what Leonard Cohen might call our first official "Tower Of Song."

The gala, hosted by Musimax's Sonia Benezra and CBC Radio's Shelagh Rogers, will feature performances by Blue Rodeo, Tom Cochrane, Ron Sexsmith, Molly Johnson, Marc Jordan, Sarah Slean and Jean-François Breau, among others. A two-hour version of the event will air on CBC Radio's OnStage next Sunday on Radio One at 8:05 p.m. and Radio Two at 2:05 p.m.



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SARAH SLEAN

"I'll Never Smile Again"

"I knew the Sinatra hit, but had no idea that the woman who wrote this song came from Toronto," says Slean, who has just emerged from 4 1/2 months in isolation — in a shack in the woods — with a slate of new songs for her second CD, which she envisages as "dark, orchestral pop with sprinklings of Disney, Judy Garland and Radiohead."

"And when I heard the story behind it — about her love for a man from Chicago who caught some disease, died on the operating table ... the devastation, waking up with the song fully formed in her head ... it just crushed me.

"The song has very delicate chords, and I see Ruth Lowe as a kind of Disney heroine ... that's how I'll approach the performance."

The Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame, Slean says, is "a great idea, a celebration of a very Canadian quirk — we're all such natural archivists."


http://thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1070106096446&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630
Title: Re: Tower of Song
Post by Jason on Dec 7th, 2003, 10:40am
Sarah will be playing soon...in 10 minutes maybe.  Tune in to CBC Radio 2 to hear it. :)
Title: Re: Tower of Song
Post by Jason on Dec 7th, 2003, 12:47pm
Quick and dirty mp3 encode. :)

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/sleanfan/sarah_-_never_smile.mp3
Title: Re: Tower of Song
Post by obi-john on Dec 7th, 2003, 4:30pm
doh never worked, for me at least
Title: Re: Tower of Song
Post by Jason on Dec 7th, 2003, 5:46pm
Dang it.  Lemme find another host.

edit: hopefully this works.

http://www.geocities.com/muffin_sandwich/sarah-never_smile.mp3
Title: Re: Tower of Song
Post by obi-john on Dec 7th, 2003, 6:48pm
doh, yet again :)
its the thought that counts ! ;)
Title: Re: Tower of Song
Post by ProdigyBoy on Dec 10th, 2003, 12:44pm
Thank you very much Jason, the 2nd link worked for me.
I find this version rather haunting.

I'm hosting the video of her preforming that song on CBC's Play.  Maybe it's just me but I find this sound a bit more romantic, a more happy tear.

http://members.rogers.com/theprodigyboy/Sarah Slean - I'll Never Smile Again - live on play.WMV
*right click, save target as*

The 35mb vcd version I captured is here.  I dont have the web space to host it.
ftp://human:season@24.42.104.186
pass- human
user - season

Cameron Bay.
Title: Re: Tower of Song
Post by sandonthebreeze on Dec 10th, 2003, 3:44pm
thanks so much.! ;D