Topic: SWEET AND LOWDOWN (Read 23935 times)

bk · « **on:** March 06, 2005, 12:03:25 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you are now craving something sweet and lowdown, as am I, and now it is time for you to post until the sweet and lowdown cows come home.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:09:56 AM »

My computer is doing weird things.

First post huzzah!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:10:06 AM »

And the word of the day is: OLEAGINOUS!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:11:41 AM »

yes the Miss Joanie Sommers 45 of Johnny Get Angry is one of the first I ever purchase - for 88 cents - almost two hours of baby sitting money. The Red Warner Bros label....and the flip side was Theme From a Summer Place, both of which I played until they were nearly worn through. Yes.....I have two of her albums and her 3 CD's....yes she is terrific!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:12:18 AM »

Oh that word again. I don't even know what it means. A Margo Channing reference.

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:14:04 AM »

Did we already have that word? I have another waiting in the wings. I'm senile, you know. And don't forget the fershluganah vibes.

The Haines album will have several uptempo songs - you can't do all ballads.

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:14:20 AM »

We've got a quorum on the forum.

Michael · « **Reply #7 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:14:26 AM »

Since I don't normally post this late (EST) Here is what I wrote in the last few posts

How about one of the songs you recorded with Joanie for her album in 1990? (Your first vocal album)

Song Listings:

1. I Won't Dance
2. The Way You Look Tonight
3. The Folks Who Live on the Hill
4. Make Believe/Why Do I Love You
5. Bill
6. All The Things You Are
7. They Didn't Believe Me
8. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
9. Long Ago and Far Away
10. Yesterdays
11. A Fine Romance

Or how about one of the songs you mention in what you said about her?

I was lucky enough to produce Joanie’s last new album, back in 1990 or so, for Bay Cities. She’s really wonderful, and these Warner Bros. albums from the 60s are great. I fell in love with her voice the second I heard her first big hit song, Johnny Get Angry. I ran out and bought the 45 of it and played it until it would play no more. I still love that song, as politically incorrect as it may be. The gentleman who wrote it, Mr. Sherman Edwards, would go on to write the classic Broadway musical, 1776. If you haven’t heard Joanie, give the Johnny Get Angry album a try – it’s just delightful, and she does many standards on it, too, like A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and Little Girl Blue. She also does a wonderful rendition of One Boy from Bye, Bye Birdie, and a terrific vocal of the theme from A Summer Place.

And the Joannie Sommers

A Fine Romance with Paul Smith on Piano, Jim DeJulio on bass and Frank Kapp on drums is the only Bruce Kimmel CD I do not have in my collection. I have never been able to find it.

The Compliation: The Music of Bruce Kimmel is the other.

Since I posted just discovered that according to Footlights it was recorded in 1992 and they have it as a JAPANESE import!

Michael · « **Reply #8 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:15:44 AM »

Any pictures to share with us from the show at the Beverly Garland?

Tomovoz · « **Reply #9 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:15:58 AM »

Joannie Sommers': "Theme From A Summer Place".
Now there's a song for Guy Haines.

bk · « **Reply #10 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:16:15 AM »

I'm going to slip into something more comfortable.

Then we'll stay all night and we'll sing 'em all. Have I used oleaginous?

Michael · « **Reply #11 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:16:32 AM »

Not to be a Wussburger, but I am going to bed again so I can wake up in five hours or more to post again. Night all!

bk · « **Reply #12 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:17:15 AM »

It wasn't convenient to take photos because there were no people at the show so I couldn't do my usual surreptitious snapping away.

bk · « **Reply #13 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:18:55 AM »

As I said in one of yesterday's posts, I'm toying with a duet idea for Joanie and Guy - something we almost did as a hidden track on the first Guy Haines album. This time, I'd pair two songs together and make a "thing" out of it - if I can figure out how to really make it work and sustain itself, arrangement-wise. I'll be discussing it with Mr. Grant Geissman tomorrow.

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:19:31 AM »

Jrand, did we already have oleaginous? Yes or no?

bk · « **Reply #15 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:23:16 AM »

I don't think we've had OLEAGINOUS before. At least I don't remember typing it multiple times.

Then again, I'm senile.

Welcome six GUESTS.

bk · « **Reply #16 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:24:12 AM »

Why doesn't Jrand answer me?

George · « **Reply #17 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:24:54 AM »

Yesterday, sadly, I had no Mexican food.

I had planned on it, but my day was pretty hectic and I didn't really get a chance to even drive through Taco Bell. I had to go to work so that, for the first time in a long time, I didn't have to use any vacation time! I usually would take an extra hour for lunch every once in a while and not make it up. I'd just take the hour of vacation. Well, a few months ago, I only about four hours of vacation time left! That's not very much at all. As of the end of February, I have about 55 hours! Let's see if I can continue to accrue it instead of nickel and diming it away!

Anyway, after work (I was there until 5:00 p.m.), I went home and took a shower, ate some left-over lasagna and took a bit of a nap so that I would be awake for a high school production of The Sound of Music, that starred the daughter of my friend Margo. Margo is the one who went with me to Portland for The Antiques Roadshow. I have to say that, other than the microphone problems (they only had five mics...and not all the soloists had access to them), the show was very well done. Alexis (Margo's daughter who played Maria) was very good. But it's not surprising. She loves performing. She played Rebecca in a summer children's theater production of Rags last year and was fabulous.

After The Sound of Music, I came home (I now had the time to drive through Taco Bell but no cash) and finished off the lasagna. That was my day, yesterday. Maybe later today I'll be able to get some Mexican food. Better late than never.

bk · « **Reply #18 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:26:32 AM »

Has Ann caught up?

Jrand is just sitting there like so much fish, ignoring my question after HE put the doubt in my mind. Is he trying to give me the Gaslight treatment?

Ann · « **Reply #19 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:28:30 AM »

I'm back home in Tacoma. I'm so tired...I need to sleep.

George · « **Reply #20 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:28:58 AM »

I just searched HHW for the word "OLEAGINOUS" and there are only two references to it before today. They were both from December 16, so we can oleaginize (

) to our hearts' content!

bk · « **Reply #21 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:31:13 AM »

OLEAGINOUS!

bk · « **Reply #22 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:32:08 AM »

We had a quorum on the forum. Let it never be said that we didn't have a quorum on the forum.

bk · « **Reply #23 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:34:26 AM »

We have a qu on the forum.

bk · « **Reply #24 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:35:05 AM »

I find it rather OLEAGINOUS that no one has sent important vibes.

George · « **Reply #25 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:37:17 AM »

Later this afternoon, my housemate's "ladyfriend" (he's never called her his "girlfriend"...but she is) to have a barbecue. This means that I'll have to clean up the living room. It's not too bad, just a bit messy. I put things down and just left them there. That's what I'll have to do either now, before I go to bed, or in the morning, before the "ladyfriend" arrives.

bk · « **Reply #26 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:39:18 AM »

Is this a plot?

George · « **Reply #27 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:42:33 AM »

Quote from: bk on March 06, 2005, 12:35:05 AM

I find it rather OLEAGINOUS that no one has sent important vibes.

No plot! How rude of me!

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Iris* · « **Reply #28 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:43:19 AM »

**Good luck vibes to BK**

Iris* · « **Reply #29 on:** March 06, 2005, 12:43:48 AM »

What was the name of the play that you saw this evening?

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