including Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most and Ballad of the Sad Young Men, became jazz standards, recorded by singers including Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Shirley Bassey.
In London, Jay's publishing ventures produced regular collections of Fran's poetry, including The Ballad of the Sad Young Men and Other Verse (1975), and Fran began to perform her poems as a live show that rapidly acquired a dedicated following. She half spoke, half sang her lyrics, with the authentic passion of the author.
from The Guardian: Fran Landesman obituary
then The Guardian: Fran Landesman performing White Nightmare--audio
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