Celebrity Jukebox #88: April Stevens

I'm guessing Caroline Vincinette LoTempio changed her name to April Stevens because she was born in the fourth month of the year. Sadly she passed away April just gone, aged 93. With her brother Nino Tempo, she had a big hit in 1963 with a song that would later name a famous rock band...

Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Deep Purple

A few years earlier, she'd caused quite a scandal with this raunchy solo hit...

April Stevens - Teach Me Tiger

The Celebrity Jukebox remembers April through two fine tunes, both referencing her tiger cub days, firstly from another of our Canadian pals...

You be April Stevens, I'll be April Wine
You be Israel, I will be Palestine
Come on "Teach Me, Tiger", come on and show me tricks
Let me take my time and take a couple lazy licks

And secondly from our old pals Tullycraft...

From a mic stand on a milk crate
To a rhinestone Butterfield 8
Audition tapes play on
The house band plays behind her
A pinned-down "Teach Me Tiger"
The stage lights flicker on

The barkeep whispers treason
And lights a flame for April Stevens
And the Nino Tempo fanbase
As he defends and counts the reasons
The pavement shows on her skin
Like the distant sounds of Berlin
He's convinced to death that she’ll fail
Still she paints her toenails red for him

Snapshots #196: A Multicoloured Top Ten

Yesterday's link, to be specific, was not just songs with colours in the title... there are millions of those. No, the link was songs whose title is just a colour, nothing else. Far fewer of those to choose from, but here are the ten I found...

10. The Iceman Cometh, perhaps?

"The Iceman Cometh" is a play. A cold one, presumably.

Coldplay - Yellow

9. Makes trousers for fast birds.

A swift tailor?

Taylor Swift - Red

8. Graffiti found in Berlin nightclub.

Apparently that's where they got their name.

Spandau Ballet - Gold

7. Preserved in an ample jar.

A jam is a preserve, "ample jar" is an anagram.

Pearl Jam - Black

6. Boy from New York City goes without tea when he joins a Formula 1 team.

Darts sang about The Boy From New York City. Take the T from Dart and you get Dar.

Williams is an F1 team. (Thank you, Sam.)

Dar Williams - Emerald

5. Sgt. Snarler.

Anagram!

The Stranglers - Golden Brown

4. Body enhancement, hun?

Anagram!

Echo & The Bunnymen - Silver

3. The speed of your National Insurance Number is directly proportionate to a foolish Cat. 

That would be your NiNo tempo and April (fool) (Cat) Stevens.

Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Deep Purple

2. Flighty Elliott.

Aero relates to flight, Elliott was a Smith.

Aerosmith - Pink

1. Help! I'm trapped between a Yes man and a Webb collaborator.

The Yes Man would be Jon Anderson, the Webb collaborator was David Mitchell (so Robert Webb, not Jimmy). Put an I in between those and you get...

More next week? Colour me interested...