Hey, Cissy did a great job with Loretta Lynn, maybe Spacey will be as good.
Well, panz. If he blows it, I'm coming after you. Used to sing Mack the Knife, so I'll be an excellent judge.
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear,
And he shows them pearly white,
Such a jack knife has old Macheath, dear,
But he keeps it outta sight.
Ain't nothing without the beat, though.
I'm popping my fingers a la Darin. What puzzles me is how Kurt Weil could write an American Standard...how does Mack fit into our culture...or is it strictly German pre war stuff?
Panz, Mack the Knife was adapted from the Three Penny Opera. I've forgotten what that thing was about.
Oops, I see that you already knew, you smart thing. Here's a link anyway.
http://www.mtr.org/exhibit/weill/weill2.htm
I'm trying to think of a royal name to bestow on you. Let's see........
Panz the Patriarch? hmmmmm. Maybe Virginia gentleman.
Come on Letty, I'm relying on your erudition. Give it up.
Oh, all right, Panz. It fits into our culture cause it's good music. Let's give it up for Panz and edgar. (sound of clapping in the background)
As my niece used to say when she played nothing on the piano:
Aunt Letty, beat your hands.
As our band leader said last night" Mike done a good job on that Haggard song, c'mon, give him the clap"
Letty! We've never even dated!
Panz, I swear, this is the first really hard laugh that I've had since Frances....thank you, honey. Now I gots to do stuff.
Hey edgar. GREAT THREAD.
I was disturbed that Gary Busey sang Buddy Holly, they used a worn-out old Killer instead of original tracks in Great Balls of Fire, and Los Lobos sang La Bamba in the film about Richie Valens. What next, Jamie Fox doing the singing in place of Ray Charles? Sacrilege.
Yeah...uhmmm...I liked Los Lobos a lot ;especially doing goodnight my love, the old jesse belvin song...one of the best covers of an oldie.
I'm not knocking Los Lobos, just arguing for the artists in their own biographies.
I still have a los lobos album, and arguably Holly was derivitive* as well, but Holly was Holly. And Darin was rather unique.
I hope they at least put out a new cd.
*I am ignorant on how the song happened, forgive me if Holly wrote it.
Back at the old Fox Venice, my favorite movie theater of all time, they used to play music that had something, anything, to do with whatever that night's double play way. It was a revival theater of the first order. I saw fantastic flicks there.
And heard some wonderful music while waiting for the curtains to part.
Me too, re point taken. It's who I expect to hear.
I am also a little diff in that I wish they would bring out some older classic movies in the theaters instead of presenting the new usually much worse sucking versions.
just watched the trailer for RAY and all the songs were original recordings of ray mouthed by Jamie Fox
Phew...I was a bit nervous.
