Remakes - (wuz - RE: [thechat] Flashthread! - what are you listening to RIGHT NOW!)

spinhead evolt at spinhead.com
Mon Oct 29 11:44:31 CST 2001


spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "Quackamoe" <quackamoe at yahoo.com>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Remakes - (wuz - RE: [thechat] Flashthread! - what are you
listening to RIGHT NOW!)


>
> --- spinhead <evolt at spinhead.com> wrote:
>
> Did MM write any of their own stuff? I just found out
> a few months ago that Bruce Springsteen wrote 'Blinded
> By the Light.' For years I thought he'd done a great
> cover.

<spinhead> Some, but not much and not good.
>
> > Harry Nilsson - Lazy Moon (on 'A Little Touch of
> > Schmilsson in the Night') -
>
> Thought I was the only person in the world who bought
> that LP!! GReat stuff. The orchestrations were by, er,
> um, I forget his name, but before Nilsson he did
> arrangements for Sinatra (Frank). Even my aged uncle
> loved this lp from cover to cover. He was about 80.

<spinhead> Gordon Jenkins. Brilliant.


 >
> I'm also thinking Art Garfunkel doing 'What a
> Wonderful
> World.' Seems he wasn't the first one to do 'I only
> have eyes for you' either.

<spinhead> Dick Powell (later a pretty tough detective type, but this early,
a fresh-faced song-and-dance man) in 'Gold Diggers of 1933' It's a pretty
horrible version. Fast, bouncy, wrong.

> Ah, what a lovely weekend to have time to think about
> this stuff.
>
> Terry
>
>
>





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