I once figured out this song on electric guitar and had the brilliant idea of giving this Michel Legrand song the heavy metal treatment. Wammy bar, soaring leads, the works.

And I think it's Legrand's own fault: I have a live album of him performing his own songs, and his version of "I Will Wait For You" turns the mother out, breaks down the tempo. I think he was probably so sick of playing that song he wanted to make it six songs in one. Anyway, for this Covers Edition, we explore some of the many versions of the love theme from Les Parapluies de Cherbourg:









Oscar Peterson's here;







(Is that canned applause?)

Labels: Beyond Camp, Covers Edition