#Tenderly

[jerytoon21]

PotD_2118_BelAmi : Kevin Warhol + Todd Rosset

[jt1674]

[dareall0ve]

[dumblr]

I will hold your heart more tenderaly than my own.

[flintstill]

real talk tho Crowley deserves to be drowned in love

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Art Tatum :: Tenderly

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Song of the Day - “Tenderly”

70 years ago today, December 29th, 1953, the brilliant piano man Art Tatum had an impressive recording session.

Tatum, who was universally seen as a genius pianist, never seemed to have a successful career commercially. He always worked, and is cited by most every other piano player of the era as being a teacher and an inspiration. But he just never had a career commensurate with that stature.

Tatum also had a terribly unhealthy lifestyle, drinking vast quantities of beer while only exercising enough to get himself from one club to the next. By 1953, Tatum’s kidneys had started to fail.

But the smart impresario producer Norman Granz decided to do right by Tatum, by at least immortalizing him forever on record. He signed Tatum to one of his labels, Clef Records, and on December 29th, 1953, booked Tatum a studio, open-endedly, put a few cases of Pabst on ice, and told Tatum he wanted to record his entire repertoire… or really just whatever the heck Tatum felt like putting down. Tatum obliged with recording an astonishing sixty-nine acceptable tracks - by midday.

One of the tracks was this one, “Tenderly”, which was composed as a waltz by Water Gross, a pianist and a conductor at CBS Radio in the 30s and 40s. Years later, the lyricist Jack Lawrence added the lyrics. But Gross always said the song was meant as “pianistic” and that Tatum’s performance of it was/is the ultimate interpretation ever.

This is classic Art Tatum, who really may indeed “own” “Tenderly”…

The album Granz made out of this day of tracks recorded, was titled “Tenderly”… and the whole album is sublime, all standards… each one outdoing the last… On the other tracks, Granz added in sidefolk - some drums and bass… But “Tenderly” needed none…

[Thanks to Mary Elaine LeBey]

[mcu-and-buckybarnes-things]

Tom Cruise: Top Gun is too gay and we need to make sure TGM doesn’t make the same mistake.

The crew: Understood. No half naked locker room scenes. More ladies. Everyone is heterosexual.

Tom Cruise: Perfect.

Also Tom Cruise: Oh but I must touch his hand and hug him.

[maggiethecatchatterley]

"Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips

Our silence, our words

Light that goes, light that returns

A single smile between us

In quest of knowledge I watched night create day

Oh beloved of all, beloved of one alone

Your mouth silently promised to be happy

Away, away, says hate

Closer, closer, says love

A caress leads us from our infancy

Increasingly I see the human form as a lovers’ dialog

The heart has but one mouth

Everything by chance

All words without thought

Sentiments adrift

A glance, a word, because I love you

Everything moves

We must advance to live

Aim straight ahead towards those you love

I went toward you, endlessly toward the light

If you smile, it enfolds me all the better

The rays of your arms pierce the mist”

 ❤️

"La tua voce, i tuoi occhi, le tue mani, le tue labbra

Il nostro silenzio, le nostre parole

Luce che va, luce che ritorna

Un solo sorriso tra di noi

Alla ricerca della conoscenza ho osservato la notte creare il giorno

Oh amato da tutti, amato da uno solo

La tua bocca in silenzio prometteva di essere felice

Via, via, dice l'odio

Più vicino, più vicino, dice l'amore

Una carezza ci accompagna fin dalla nostra infanzia

Vedo sempre più la forma umana come un dialogo tra amanti

Il cuore ha una sola bocca

Tutto per caso

Tutte parole senza pensiero

Sentimenti alla deriva

Uno sguardo, una parola, perché ti amo

Tutto si muove

Dobbiamo avanzare per vivere

Punta dritto verso chi ami

Andavo verso di te, incessantemente verso la luce

Se sorridi, mi avvolge ancora meglio

I raggi delle tue braccia squarciano la nebbia”

- Paul Eluard

[jerytoon21]

PotD_2087_CorbinFisher : Elijah + Dawson

[soulmusicsongs]

Tenderly - Nichelle Nichols (Down To Earth, 1967)

[nikkisticki]

It really should be said that Studio Triggers desire to only do what they want has always led them down the right path

no I don't care about Franxx it's not real it can't hurt me

But now, I'm really surprised. From their string of shows based on their own ideas since K.L.K exploded the internet...to their second every full adaptation (the first one being pretty unmentionable, they did it pre- KLK for money) they've ever done...and as far as I can tell, it's exclusively because they just love Dungeon Meshi

You should love Dungeon Meshi too.

[goodglove]

hello, a new post after 2 years and it's an art from 2023 ✍(◔◡◔) i'm trying to move from insta, even though i still post there

[sarahmoonxxs]

sunsets

we wander through a foreign town

strangely, there's nobody else around

so you open your dress and show me your tits

on the swing set at the old playground

[bea-lele-carmen]

[1eos]

touch and sketch was truly life changing

everyone who has ever listened to touch and sketch should have their wikipedia biography separated into 'before listening to touch and sketch for the first time' and 'after listening to touch and sketch for the first time' bc that song? formative

[mishalogic]

Softly and tenderly

God and Jesus

are calling!

"Are you listening"???

WARS ARE WRONG!!!

These two small children!

Know!

The!

Reason!

WHY!!! ... Misha