CLEMENTINE MOVIE
CLEMENTINE TORRENT

CLEMENTINE MOVIE

The song plays during the opening credits for John Ford's 1946 movie My Darling Clementine, with Henry Fonda.( March 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. In 2012, Neil Young and Crazy Horse recorded a minor-key hard-rock version of 'Clementine' on their album Americana.The song references some of the lyrics from the original. Megan Washington recorded 'Clementine' in 2010.The second, 'Sweet Adeline', appears three years later on XO. The first, 'Clementine', from his 1995 self-titled album.

The song is referenced in the lyrics of two separate songs by Elliott Smith.

In 2004, the song was recorded by Westlife on their Allow Us to Be Frank.

The American pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist Connie Francis added her interpretation of the ballad into the 1961 album Connie Francis Sings Folk Song Favorites.

Television host Jack Narz recorded the song for his 1959 album Sing the Folk Hits With Jack Narz.

Tom Lehrer recorded a set of variations on the song in 1959 on his live album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, demonstrating his theory that 'folk songs are so atrocious because they were written by the people.' He performs the first verse in the style of Cole Porter, the second in the style of ' Mozart or one of that crowd', the third in a disjointed bebop sound parodying the style of Beat Generation musicians like Slim Gaillard or Babs Gonzales, and the final verse in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan. It was released on the Dore label (SP DORE 539 (US)) in November, 1959 'You're on My Mind' was the B Side. Jan and Dean had a hit with 'Clementine', charting as high as 65 on the Billboard Hot 100. After she falls into the water, Darin suggests that Clementine has transformed into a whale and calls out to those on the high seas to watch for her in a rhythm and style reminiscent of Darin's rendition of ' Mack the Knife': 'Hey you sailor, way out in your whaler, a-with your harpoon and your trusty line, if she shows now, yell. There have been numerous versions of the song recorded over the years.īobby Darin recorded a version of the song in 1960, credited to Woody Harris, in which Clementine is reimagined as a 299-pound woman. The re-written lyrics include a reference to Gene Autry ('could he sue me, Clementine?') amongst the five swinging verses. It was given an updated and up-tempo treatment in an arrangement by Hal Hopper and John Scott Trotter. It is unclear when, where and by whom the song was first recorded in English, but the first version to reach the Billboard charts was that by Bing Crosby recorded on June 14, 1941, which briefly reached the No. No particular source is cited to verify that the song he used to hear in the 1920s in a remote Spanish village was not an old text with new music, but Brenan states in his preface that all the information in his book has been checked reasonably well. It was also given various English translations. It was best known from Romance del Conde Olinos o Niño, a sad love story very popular in Spanish-speaking cultures. In his book South from Granada, Gerald Brenan claims that the melody was from an old Spanish ballad, made popular by Mexican miners during the California Gold Rush. The lyrics were written by Percy Montross in 1884, based on an earlier song called 'Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden'. In Montross's version, the song ends somewhat farcical by noting he will not go so far as necrophilia: 'Though in life I used to hug her, now she's dead-I'll draw the line.'

CLEMENTINE TORRENT

One day while performing routine chores, Clementine trips and falls into a raging torrent of brine and drowns, as her lover is unable to swim and unwilling to attempt to rescue her. Multiple variations of the song exist, but all center around Clementine, the daughter of a 'miner forty-niner' and the singer's lover.