And Mr BK, I hate to throw water on your firecrackers, but the three ladies you mention are not singers I go out of my way to listen to, search for, or even....well I may own one Peggy Lee CD - and a couple of used Streisand LP's.
But the only way to have made the TOD less appealing and applicable to me is if you had included Bernadette Peters in the mix...sorry DRGEORGE.
I never knew that, Tomovoz.Ah. So Young! (a Zabriski point reference - obscure!)
My most "unusual" Babs 45rpm disc is " He Could Show Me" by Ford and Cryer bw "Our Corner Of The Night". Any DRs know more about these tracks?
I also have Babs singing (with Larry Bleidon) "Wait Till You're Sixty-Five" That may not be all the common either. Babs also does backing la las etc to a Jack Nicholson track cut from "Clear Day" I think that one is fairly well known though.
Oh, and I slept surprisingly well last night considering I was in a "new" bed.
I own no Streisand recordings at all. While I think she had a lovely voice in the beginning of her career, she now cannot sing anything straight with a simple melodic line. It's become all about showing off the instrument. The singer has become more important than the song and subsequently no longer serves the song.
Ella: All of the Rodgers & Hart and Gershwin Songbooks!
No, DR Jose, Barbra has released two Christmas albums. The second one was called CHRISTMAS MEMORIES, I believe. Anyway, I have both.
...you've spouted Kerouac and Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg...I am well known for my clay-throwing, and particularly for my Kerouac, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg teapots. Although getting a handle on Ginsberg took a bit of doing, at first.
As for Barbra, I think her first decade of albums eclipses just about anything any singer has ever had. They're astounding in their musical variety and virtuosity.
I guess DRDANISE and I should form a non-recording owners of specific singers mentioned here at HHW club.
DRs ELMORE and CP - the tale is still told of Miss Barbra Streisand in concert at the newly opened Clowes Hall (where we had the MidWest HHW gathering) - the curtain had barely closed before Miss Streisand began volubly taking her conductor to task for several tempii during the performance. The musicians fled the stage so quickly, many music stands were turned over, and much sheet music was left behind.
The first few rows were privy to much of her dissatisfaction - and the conductor was not able to say one word....or get a word in with a shoehorn so to speak.
Her quest for perfection has been long and ongoing. And she spares no one, not even herself. I don't like to listen to her, never did, but she made a great success with only talent to back it up - and I respect her for her accomplishments.
My most "unusual" Babs 45rpm disc is " He Could Show Me" by Ford and Cryer bw "Our Corner Of The Night". Any DRs know more about these tracks?
I also have Babs singing (with Larry Bleidon) "Wait Till You're Sixty-Five" That may not be all the common either. Babs also does backing la las etc to a Jack Nicholson track cut from "Clear Day" I think that one is fairly well known though.
I'm not really a great Babs fan. But then I'm not a great Judy or Liza fan either!! Missed out on that gene I guess.
The madness continues!
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I lost part of the sentence. Hmmm . . .
Any more talk like that, and you
may be required to give back the microwave!
Topic of the Day:
Barbara Streisand - "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from "Yentl", and that crazy version of "Jingle Bells" from the first (and only?) Christmas album.
Jrand54, I wonder how many composers find Streisand's versions of their songs perfection. Her idea of perfection may not be someone else. The test for me is I don't like most of her renditions of the classic American songbook. As Rosemary Clooney once said of a singer showing off her instrument with lots of swoops and swirls and adornments on the original melody, "I just wish she'd light somewhere."
DR ELMORE and CP - your comments on Ms. Striesand RE:my comments, have been noted. And there is a LOT of truth in what you both write.
DR CP - put me firmly in Rosemary Clooney's camp. Rosemary, Doris, Betty Hutton, and all those great band singers and vocalists in the 1950's didn't feel the need to "personalize" a song by changing the rhythm or notes - but nonetheless they made songs "theirs" with their distinctive voices and phrasing...
Doris Day in particular, I think, needs to be listened to more today - I think she is dismissed because she is "movie star" - but she can sing like nobody else. Rosemary Clooney is also in a class by herself. And even the "second rung" of 50's ladies like Giselle McKenzie, Polly Bergen, and Jane Morgan still sound contemporary and fresh.
I've said before - and I'll say it again - years ago, when I was nine, I was one of the kids in a "Starlight Musicals" production of GYPSY - a traveling tab version that traversed the Midwest in the summer....local talent was picked up for the smaller parts, including the kids.
Giselle McKenzie was Rose - and I have NEVER heard anyone sing "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "Rose's Turn" with more power or real emotion. She had the audience in the palm of her hand - and could get a laugh with a look or bat of her eyes. And she was great to all of us local people, too.
Hmmm.....Giselle was on Jack Benny and Your Hit Parade, but I think she escaped the indignity of the terror of North Dakota, DRELMORE.
She was a great gal - and always dressed to the teeth with jewels and furs even in Indiana in August!
For Jo my first memories would be "You Belong To Me" and "Shrimp Boats".
Jrand, one camera shows were shot in 35mm, as were some three camera film shows, such as Lucy, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley. Don't know what the red light is - there shouldn't be any visible lights on a 35mm camera.
Now, may I just say, eleven o'clock and I'm the only one in the jernt? This will NOT do, oh, no, this will NOT do.Eleven o'clock PDST is two o'clock EDST. I was at work. Using a Polly Holliday reference: kiss mah grits!
DR Joey. I guess you mean the "Billy Jack song". Most common version is by "Coven"but here was an earlier version by "The Original Caste".
In Paris, in the 1850s, Adelina Patti sang for Rossini his aria "Una voce poco fa" from THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. She loaded it up with lots of decorations and new notes. When she finished, he said to her, "Very pretty. Who wrote it?"
As Rodgers & Hart said, I like to recognize the tune.
Thank you DR JRand. Now go get the show on the road. (and break any appropriate legs).
DR George: Mail will be posted tomorrow. Sorry - Can't provide male.
I've never really liked the song myself DR George. I could never understand why my younger brother liked it so much.
Does the Seattle Storm have an Australian player still?
Who'd have thought that DR George and I would exchange notes about sport! Lauren Jackson is well known in Oz - unusual for a female sportsperson unless they swim or play tennis.