Topic: SOUTHERN FRIED NOTES (Read 29434 times)

bk · « **on:** March 28, 2005, 11:59:15 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, you've sipped your mint julep, you've sung Mame on your plantation, and now it is time for you to post until the southern fried cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:04:07 AM »

And the word of the day is: DEPILATORY!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #2 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:11:51 AM »

Good Morning!

Jerome Kern songs - So many to choose from - and it always surprises me when I come upon a listing of his songs, and see how prolific he was. But for now:

Long Ago (And Far Away)
Your Dream (Is The Same As My Dream)
All The Things You Are - Which has one of my favorite verses.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #3 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:11:51 AM »

My favourite Jerome Kern song of all time is easy. It is IN THE HEART OF THE DARK. My favourite version of it is the only version of it I've ever actually heard, sung by surperb Ms. Barbara Cook on Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited album (with album cover art by Bk's close personal friend and artist of the Kritzer books, Harvey Schmidt). It is probably one of my top five or ten favourite songs of all time.

Jose, does Memphis still have the Marching Ducks at the Peabody Hotel?

Woody, I found your list of Southern do's and don'ts very funny and true.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #4 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:13:49 AM »

DR Pogue - Yes, I believe The Peabody does still have the Marching Ducks. It's actually on my itinerary for the week. I've been to Memphis a couple of times before, but since I have my days free, and I'm just a few blocks from The Peabody...

-Oh, but I was surprised to see that "Elvis Presley's Memphis" had closed on Beale Street.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #5 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:16:51 AM »

Why do we depilatory? Just to keep things balanced, shouldn't we also depilawhig?

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:17:13 AM »

DEPILATORY!

bk · « **Reply #7 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:18:05 AM »

It is VERY windy here in the City of Studio.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #8 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:20:01 AM »

BK, I've been fortunate to see Mr. Gambon on stage three times...and once on the street, coming home from the theatre along Garrick Street, talking on his cell phone...The Lovely Wife and I saw him in SKYLIGHT, CRESSIDA, and THE CARETAKER. He was brilliant in all three. And in CRESSIDA, he had an acting moment that is still one of the most electrifiying moments I've ever seen on stage and one of the greatest acting lessons I've ever had. In the play, he is an Elizabethan/Jacobean actor training boy actors for the stage. The young actor is declaming a speech using all the standard gestures of the day that are supposed to accompany it. And it is gauche and awkward. Gambon then does the same speech with all the same gestures in all the same places and you see it come alive and becoming rich and moving. An amazing moment!

We've also seen Juliet Stephenson on stage as THE DUCCHESS OF MALFI in London (Greenwich actually) with the brilliant Simon Russell Beale and in a wonderful play with Frank Langella at the Ahmanson, the name of which I don't recall, though she played a female artist during the Renaissance. Both she and Langella were terrific in it! A very interesting play too...wish I could remember the name!

bk · « **Reply #9 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:20:06 AM »

Welcome five GUESTS. We're talkin' about Jerome Kern.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #10 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:20:15 AM »

"The Way You Look Tonight," with Kern's melody matched by Dorothy Fields' lyric. True elegance.

I'm partial to Barbara Cook's rendition, myself.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #11 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:20:49 AM »

Very windy here in the Hills of Holly (or is it the Los of Feliz?)

S. Woody White · « **Reply #12 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:29:16 AM »

We've had rain during the day, and fog during the night. Rain I'm used to around here, but fog is unusual.

Time for me to wussburger.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #13 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:30:25 AM »

Jerome Kern:

"I'm So Busy" . There are just too many to list. "I've Told every Little Star", "I Have The Room Above Her", "The Last time I Saw Paris", "Babes In The Wood" and "You Are Love".

Tomovoz · « **Reply #14 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:33:00 AM »

I really like the "John McGlinn" CD's of Kern's work - Wonderful arrangements and some beautiful voices.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #15 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:39:05 AM »

Well, one clock says it is 2:40... One says it's 3:40... In either case, it's late, and I've had a very long day... -And, yes, I put the Do Not Disturb sign on the door already.

Goodnight.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #16 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:41:16 AM »

The first Kern song I really knew was "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" as sung by The Platters.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 29, 2005, 03:01:14 AM »

Jerome Kern....well ALL OF SWING TIME, but especially "A Fine Romance" and "Pick Yourself Up" and "The Way You Look Tonight."

But if I could only choose ONE - it would be "They Didn't Believe Me" and now I have to think of the singer I heard sing it.....hmmmmmmm

Jrand74 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 29, 2005, 03:01:38 AM »

Oh the things we learned in CHAT last night.....well....well....welll!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 29, 2005, 03:04:50 AM »

OMG - I just remembered who I loved hearing sing "They Didn't Believe Me"! It was Miss Dinah Shore - she sang it one night on her Dinah Shore-Chevy Show and made me cry. I was ten or eleven years old.

"And when I told them....how beautiful you are. They didn't believe me....they didn't believe me....."

Jrand74 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 29, 2005, 03:11:51 AM »

Your Allison Hayes Picture of the Week. Allison appears on MST3K!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #21 on:** March 29, 2005, 03:42:35 AM »

And what a moving finale for "Oh What A Lovely War".
(The song - not Ms Hayes).

elmore3003 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:32:21 AM »

Good morning, all! Chat was indeed sparkling, and this morning I'm all sparkled out. I think Spring may have landed and dumped a few allegies into my nose. Usually I walk around complaining about the headaches and nose and someone says "the pollen count is high today." It seems too early for a high pollen count, but that's where I'm laying the blame.

Another day with those pesky BABES; we're on the Act One Finale, only 25+ numbers to go (16 numbers in Acts Two and Three and 11 numbers in the Appendix)!

I love Jerome Kern! My first memory is my Aunt Dorothy's jewelry box, which played "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." My next is the popular versions of the same song and "I've Told Every Little Star." I was lucky to work on the complete 3-disc SHOW BOAT recording, and I think every note of the score is touched by the hand of God.

Complete Scores:
SHOW BOAT
SITTING PRETTY
HAVE A HEART
SWING TIME
LEAVE IT TO JANE

Songs:
TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (Oh, Boy!)
NOT YET (Oh, Lady! Lady!)
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON (Stepping Stones)
RAGGEDY ANN (Stepping Stones)
"WHERE HAS MY HUBBY GONE" BLUES (The Night Boat)
LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING (Sally)
POOR PIERROT (Cat & The Fiddle)
EVERY LITTLE WHILE (Men of the Sky)
THE FOLKS WHO LIVE ON THE HILL (High Wide, and Handsome)
THE THINGS I WANT (High Wide and Handsome)
LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY (Cover Girl)

And there are more!

Ben · « **Reply #23 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:33:13 AM »

Oh, my this early in the morning they have all been mentioned (Kern songs). I do love All The Things You Are, The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance.

Chat was sparkling and fast. Hope I can make the next one.

Now off to work and Donald's show.

Ben · « **Reply #24 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:34:53 AM »

Oh, yes, I forgot The Folks Who Long Ago and Far Away Lived on the Hill

Michael · « **Reply #25 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:50:16 AM »

There are so many and DR Elmoore listed so many of them.

Just to mention that he also orchestrated a lot of Kern material for studio recordings of Kern scores.

Among them the film songs for the 3cd "Complete" Show Boat recording. I am sure he can talk more about them

Michael · « **Reply #26 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:54:00 AM »

I like many of songs written by lyricists Dorothy Fields and Oscar Hammerstein II. Favorite non-Show Boat songs: A Fine Romance, The Way You Look Tonight and I am sure there are many moore

elmore3003 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 29, 2005, 05:27:58 AM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on March 29, 2005, 04:50:16 AM

There are so many and DR Elmoore listed so many of them.

Just to mention that he also orchestrated a lot of Kern material for studio recordings of Kern scores.

Among them the film songs for the 3cd "Complete" Show Boat recording. I am sure he can talk more about them

Actually, DRMichaelShayne, I've scored very few Kern songs. On the Kern-Herbert project for which I'm currently editing BABES IN TOYLAND, Herbert was my bailiwick and Kern was Russell Warner's. When I was part of the Bruce Kimmel factory during the Varese Sarabande days, along with pushing recordings of an unexpurgated Blitzstein THREEPENNY OPERA and JUBILEE, I pushed a songbook series ncluding Kern and Rodgers & Hart because I loved their songs so much. Our BK had a lot on his plate already, and I'm sure I was lost in the shuffle.

I just listened, for the first time in a long one, to Mr Guy Haines singing "What Can You Lose?," which has a connection to Mr Kern through Mr Hammerstein, and I was struck not just by Mr Haines' performance but by mine! I usually listen to my work and think about what I should/could have fixed, but enjoyed it quite a lot.

Ben · « **Reply #28 on:** March 29, 2005, 05:49:27 AM »

Vixmom/Deb, did you ever see the recommendations I made for possibly hooking up to listen to Donald's show and my show on line even though you don't have speakers at work? I had sent you a pm about the CD but the other suggestions were made as a post. I just can't remember which day I posted them so I can't direct you to where they are if you haven't seen them.

Thanks, by the way, for the kind comments about my CD.

Ben · « **Reply #29 on:** March 29, 2005, 05:49:45 AM »

All alone in my virtual world.

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