This Bitter Earth/On the Nature of Daylight
""This Bitter Earth" is a 1960 song made famous by rhythm and blues singer Dinah Washington. Written and produced by Clyde Otis, it topped the U.S. R&B charts for the week of 25 July 1960 and also reached #24 on the U.S. pop charts. The song is a key piece in the 1977 film Killer of Sheep by director Charles Burnett.
It also featured on the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Island in a mash-up form alongside Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight", and again for a trailer for the MMORPG video game "The Secret World" by Funcom (Ragnar Tørnquist, creative director).
Max Richter (born 1966), a German born, British composer.
Photos include: memorial (cross-legged knight) to Sir Henry Fitzherbert (d. 1315) at Norbury, Derbyshire; Herbert Mason's iconic photograph of St Paul's dome emerging from the smoke of raging fires in surrounding streets during the Blitz of London in World War II; abandoned boy with his toy hippo amidst the horrors of the Blitz, by Toni Frissell; other images I took of various places in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England.
Dinah Washington & Max Richter
Arranged by Robbie Robertson
(P) Rhino Records
9 years ago
9 years ago