Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)

Subject: LIsten to the ocean
From:
Date: 29 Apr 98 - 08:21 AM

Does anyone remember Nina & Frederik? Scandinavian folk singers active in the '60s. They recorded a ?West Indian song "Listen to the ocean" that almost made the pop top 40 charts in the '60s. Does anyone know the words or a source thereof or a currently available recording of it (by anyone)? Or the original source? I've tried web lyric & record sources without success. I can only recall one line "Listen to the ocean, echoes of a million seashells".

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: AndreasW
Date: 29 Apr 98 - 08:39 AM

Did you try International Lyrics Server
Or Folk Song Index

Good Luck, Andreas

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 30 Apr 98 - 05:26 PM

I certainly remember this one, and wish I had it. I'll be watching to see if it turns up......Tiger

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 01 May 98 - 04:30 AM

That's a long time back!

For what little its worth.... I think the next phrase was ".. forever in motion, moving to a ...."

Maybe we can reassemble it collectively!

Regards

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: Roger Shrigley
Date: 13 Jul 98 - 04:12 AM

Thanks for all suggestions. I now have the words (via another search site) kindly supplied by Paul van Lawick ([e-mail]). Roger.

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: Martin Ryan.
Date: 13 Jul 98 - 05:17 PM

Aaaaaaaghh!

Post them here please, Roger. I could drown in nostalgia - never mind the ocean!

Regards

Subject: Lyr Add: LISTEN TO THE OCEAN (Moller, Pallandt)
From: Roger Shrigley
Date: 14 Jul 98 - 06:58 AM

OK Martin, here goes:

LISTEN TO THE OCEAN
(Nina Møller & Frederik van Pallandt)

There's a world of sun and sand
Full of sky and far from land
Where evening breezes caress the shore like a gentle comforting hand
Fragrant blossoms, honey bees
Careless laughter upon the breeze
And lovers fade into pools of deep purple shadows among the trees

CHORUS: Listen to the ocean, echoes of a million seashells
Forever it's in motion
Moving to a rhythmic and unwritten music
That's played eternally

The sound of a seagull's distant cry
His wings like parentheses drawn in the sky*
And two white birds clinging like foam to the crest of a wave rolling by
The silence of noon, the clamour of night
The heat of the day when the fish won't bite
These are the things that remind me of the day you sailed out of sight

CHORUS


* I assume continental style < > rather than "" ! to make sense! RMS
(Paul van Lawick can supply it in MP3 format)

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: Martin Ryan.
Date: 14 Jul 98 - 06:40 PM

Manya thanks!

Regards

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Jul 98 - 06:17 PM

Nina, of Nina & Frederik, was (and this is truly taxing to my memory) involved in some strange scandal I think. Did it have something to do with Andy Williams? Or the death of his wife, a French lady, under unique circumstances? Whew, when your memory goes, forget it!

If you hold a cardboard toilet paper tube to your ear, you can hear the toilet flush!!! ;-)

Art

Subject: RE: Listen to the ocean
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 06:38 AM

This is where I came in! My first venture on to the Mudcat two years ago was trying to track this down. Things have just come full circle. I had the words, but not the recording, but didn't give up. This week while on Amazon checking book details I decided to investigate "zshops", did a search on this song and found a UK site with the vinyl 45rpm available at a reasonable price and an honest description of condition.
So, those 'Catters who complain if they don't get instant successful response to queries- it sometimes takes time and a little more work by ourselves!
The site that supplied it claims "5,000 rare and reasonably priced records online" is called thespacebar and is at
Click Here
RtS

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: MMario
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 09:04 AM

"" are quotes, not paren's.....(just being picky)

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 09:13 AM

And the ^^ or {} symbols would be more like seagulls than < > or () or [] !

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: Lanfranc
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 09:32 AM

Nice to see this old nugget surfacing again. I have often sung this song round barbecues and brys on beaches - it's a good audience filter you have to be a certain age to remember it!

I have always sung "the silence of noon, the clamour of night" which seems to make more sense.

Must try and find a record of it!

Thanks for the memories

Subject: RE: LIsten to the ocean
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 09:49 AM

Alan, I'm sure your reading is right, probably my fumble finger typing. N & F don't seem to be available on CD and I couldn't trace any of their LPs on secondhand record sites with this track on, so I was pleased to find the EP.
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the ocean
From: GUEST,me
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:57 PM

there my familie:D

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)
From: GUEST,tonniegotje
Date: 06 Jan 13 - 01:22 PM

1 jaar geledenA to A7, (lift middle finger on A) D E to E7 (lift middle finger on E) A (slide finger 2nd fret, first fret then off to A 7) D to B natural minor (shore) E and E7 A (sleep) Repeat Listen to the E E7 D A Forever E E7 A E E7 A Repeat hum D A E E7 A Repeat. Not too difficult, cos I ad lib on the guitar. Taba is my web site on reverbnation. God Bless
Beantwoorden ·

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)
From: GUEST,#
Date: 18 Oct 15 - 09:17 AM

Here's the original on YouTube.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 18 Oct 15 - 11:11 AM

2nd verse, 4th line: "The silent of noon, the glamour of night..."
*The silence of noon, the clamour of night...

RIP Frederik (1934-1994)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Oct 15 - 01:24 PM

A blast from the past!
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)
From: GUEST,David Dowrich from BARBADOS
Date: 23 Feb 20 - 12:32 PM

Hi, I know the song...It was recorded by The singing group, The Merrymen, from my island Barbados, in the Caribbean....I'm trying to find out if they wrote it or did someone else? Anyone knows?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 23 Feb 20 - 02:32 PM

"Listen to the Ocean written by Nina van Pallandt, Frederik van Pallandt English 1959"

That is from

https://secondhandsongs.com/work/126144/all

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Feb 20 - 06:42 PM

Going back a long time on this thread:
His wings like parentheses drawn in the sky*
Parenthesese (UK usage) = 'brackets'.
Imagine two "open brackets" ' (' placed together with the centre of the curve uppermost (almost like a number 3 places on its side with the curves uppermost). This is a very lazy way of depicting seabirds, but it works.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Listen to the Ocean (Nina & Frederik)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 04:40 AM

Surprised to see yet another resurrection of my first Mudcat post in the days when I was still working and didn't have a home internet. I think anything that needed to be said about this song has been ("many times; many, many times").
RtS