Members LCK Posted August 6, 2011 Members Share Posted August 6, 2011 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn I wonder, though: can Johnny's words still bring a smile to a first-time hearer in 2011? Or could you update it with a parody of your own? (I know I could!) You had to ask.Hooray for Hollywood Hooray for Hollywood, that sleazy, cheesy, queasy Hollywood,where any studio VP or Prez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 7, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 7, 2011 Let us turn our notebooks to page 23 . . . and let me begin by saying that the parody of Johnny Mercer's HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted August 7, 2011 Members Share Posted August 7, 2011 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn Let us turn our notebooks to page 23 . . . and let me begin by saying that the parody of Johnny Mercer's HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 7, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 7, 2011 Okay "Mr. Smarty Pants" as Dad used to say when I was little, riddle me this, movie maven: Which three movies featured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 8, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 8, 2011 Remember the good old days? Before 'google' and 'wiki'? (No thanks!) Still, not everything can be found in Wikipedia. Not yet. (Give it another few days.) I was just recalling an early SIMPSONS episode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted August 8, 2011 Moderators Share Posted August 8, 2011 Bye Bye Birdie! I love it. My favorite is the silly Honestly Sincere. Conrad Birdie is so thick and full of himself he doesn't even realize he's not really sincere. Shiny gold and tight jumpsuit. Slick back hair. Did I mention the jumsuit is tight? Makes the the girls all tingly. Even the moms. Very suggestive... You gotta be sincere! You gotta be sincere! You gotta feel it here, 'Cause if you feel it here, Well, then you're gonna be honestly sincere! If what you feel is true, You really feel it you Make them feel it too, Write this down now You gotta be sincere, Honestly sincere! Man, you've got to be sincere! If you're really sincere, If you're really sincere, If you feel it in here Then it's gotta be right! Oh, baby! Oh, honey! Hug me! Suffer! In ev'rything I do, My sincerity shows thro' I looked you in the eye, Don't even have to try, It's automatic! I'm sincere! When I sing about a tree, I really feel that tree! When I sing about a girl, I really feel that girl, I mean I really feel sincere! If you're really sincere! If you're really sincere! If you feel it in here, Then it's gotta be right! Oh, baby! Oh, honey! Hug me! Suffer! You gotta be sincere! Oh oh, you gotta feel it here! Oh, my baby, oh, my baby, oh yeah! Oh, my baby, oh yeah! Well, you gotta be sincere! Well, you gotta be sincere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 9, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 When you look up a video on Youtube do you usually notice the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 9, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 Speaking of beautiful, talented Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 Satellite radio just played Toni Tenille Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn Satellite radio just played Toni Tenille Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Thanks so much for that, Lee. Having heard a lot about Ms Winehouse but (I admit) not familiar with all her work, it was a delight to see her singing TEACH ME TONIGHT. Thanks too, Lee, for retaining your tag line, "Where the hell is Larry (Hart)?" -- Dick Rodgers' daily lament about his first great collaborator, whose lifestyle prevented him arriving "on time." When he did, though, Larry gifted my favorite composer with lyrical masterpieces . . . one of which I came here to celebrate. (Stop me if I'm repeating myself from 20 pages ago. I'm old. I forget things, remember?) ---- When Frank Sinatra received a two-page letter around Christmas of '92, from a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 If you google the song title WHAT MATTERS MOST (as I just did, after hearing Jack Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 13, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 13, 2011 A sunny Saturday synchronicity: I awoke this morning recalling the moment in WAL-E when the little robot discovers two songs from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 13, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 13, 2011 I should really post this in the electric guitar section here at the 'world's biggest website for musicians' (or at least in Lee's "Friday Influences" thread) but I have to celebrate my new favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 17, 2011 My Mom died nine years ago. She continues to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted August 18, 2011 Moderators Share Posted August 18, 2011 Fantastic post, Mark. Beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 18, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 18, 2011 Coming from you, good buddy, that means the world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Adonis Vowsen Posted August 18, 2011 Members Share Posted August 18, 2011 Originally Posted by Lee Knight I wonder how the Gershwins did as well. Ira was a god. It's interesting that Elton John and Bernie Taupin did the reverse. Meaning... the lyric before the melody. I've always marveled at how Elton could come up with that stuff given the lyric. I mean, the lyrics are great but... I picture myself being given one of those lyrics, and for a moment let's say I forget how Grey Seal, for instance, goes... and I look at:Whys it never light on my lawnWhy does it rain and never say good-day to the new-bornOn the big screen they showed us the sunBut not as bright in life as the real oneIt`s never quite the same as the real oneI mean... WTF? But Elton made magic out of that verse. Lyrics first in their case. Amazing to me. I do wonder how the Gershwins did it. I suspect George led the charge in their case. WITH ELTON AND BERNIE, THE SONGS ALREADY CAME WITH A MELODY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. ELTON WOULD JUST 'PIMP' THE MELODY OUT INTO A FULL RUNNING PROGRESSION.. SO THE MELODY ACTUALLY CAME FIRST, AND THIS WAS EVERY SINGLE HIT SONG, 'EVERY'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Adonis Vowsen Posted August 18, 2011 Members Share Posted August 18, 2011 OH BUT TALENT TRULY EXIST. DON'T HATE! TALENT IS REAL!!!! VERY REAL BREATHING....... HEARTBEAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 19, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 19, 2011 First a thank-you to the newcomer with 'abs-of-steel' (your 'six-pack' is somewhat better developed than mine!) for the reminder of Lee Knight's opening observation -- back on page one of this thread -- about Elton John & George Gershwin's respective approaches to "Which comes first, music or words? I came here, though to praise my "other 'new' favorite singer," who turns out to be a(nother) Canadian! A google and a wiki search informs that,Deborah Cox (born July 13, 1974) is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart (14 weeks), a record held for nearly eight years. She has achieved ten number-one hits on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. She is often cited as Canada's top R&B artist.[2] I admit I had to look her up! Yet another terrific singer I would never have heard of, if not for satellite radio. On yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 20, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 20, 2011 Satellite radio ('SiriuslySinatra') gives daily airplay to Kenny Colman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted August 20, 2011 Members Share Posted August 20, 2011 It's a beautiful song, one I hadn't heard before. (That's rare, right?) Here's your favorite Canadian chantoosey singing her version. Just beautiful. I have a suspicion, though, that both she and Kenny Colman either aren't singing the original Porter lyric, or else this is a different song with the same title as the one Cole Porter wrote in 1937. Why do I make this assumption? Simple. Cole Porter would never have rhymed "heart" with "dark." The two words do not rhyme. On further reflection, this is not a Cole Porter song. Yes, he wrote a song with that title for the 1937 show Rosalie, but a quick glance at The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter shows a very different lyric. So who really wrote this lovely, non-Porter, song? LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted August 20, 2011 Members Share Posted August 20, 2011 Originally Posted by LCK On further reflection, this is not a Cole Porter song. Yes, he wrote a song with that title for the 1937 show Rosalie, but a quick glance at The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter shows a very different lyric.So who really wrote this lovely, non-Porter, song?LCK Further research shows that the 1937 version of Rosalie was a movie. The original -- produced on Broadway in 1928 -- had songs by the Gershwins, including one of my favorites, "How Long Has This Been Going on?" The only memorable song from the film was Porter's "In the Still of the Night."LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted August 21, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 21, 2011 A thousand thanks, Lee. It took a little 'detective work' (well, an hour of my time!) beginning with a trip to the basement to rummage through boxes of CDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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