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relatively weird artists that recorded mainstream albums


Ernest Buckley

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I'd say that "Let's Dance" and "Tonight" qualify since they came on the heels of Scary Monsters and his "Berlin" period.

 

 

He still hasn't come out with a big band standards album.

 

I don't think...

 

 

Though Pinups and Young Americans kind of felt like it... Bowie kind of sets himself up to sort of reinvent himself every 4 to 7 years or so, I think.

 

But still no Bowie Does the Gershwin Songbook.

 

Well... he's still young...

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Bowie's more inclined to record "German Art Songs of the Late 19th Century for the Whole Family"

 

 

He did that BBC version of Brecht's Baal.

 

I haven't seen it -- but I just found it on YouTube -- or at least 3 chunks of it. I'm on my way. I have the EP, I think, which only had about 5 or 6 songs, I think.

 

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I have a new one -- kinda: The Swingle Singers

 

They took two things that were seen as all but unsellable to the mainstream pop audience -- jazz and baroque music and came up with a formula that was both eminently exploitable but all but bottomless in its wealth of material.

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