Thread of Hedy West awesomeness

mostly just the first clip, because damn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjcgluPyJQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpWUDU_GEL4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6KwubpmImM

eleven years pass...

well damn, RIP that first clip. but here's a haunting live version of "Erin's Green Shore" from 1975:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DYbsIDJMcc

it's interesting to compare this version her 1963 recording of the song. her voice got a lot deeper over the course of her short career, and at some point she developed a singing style where she's speak the first couple words of a line, pause, and sing the rest, as if she was constantly on the verge of slipping into a talking blues cadence. it doesn't always work, but I generally prefer her singing on her later records

Wikipedia says she was engaged to Roger Zelazny for a few months in 1962

a couple more songs from the same German TV appearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W035ynqono0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5fEJTZPcQ

Wikipedia says she was engaged to Roger Zelazny for a few months in 1962

...and maybe five people in the world will be fascinated to learn that she and Zelazny both majored in drama at Columbia University. too bad I can't find any photos of them together