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Post by millring on May 21, 2015 17:53:40 GMT -5
Grand to be alive, to be young, to be mad, to be yours alone
Grand to see your face, feel your touch, hear your voice say "I'm all your own"
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Post by godotwaits on May 21, 2015 18:15:13 GMT -5
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The American Songbook. A standard.
Is anyone writing like that anymore?
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Post by millring on May 21, 2015 18:18:08 GMT -5
Is anyone writing like that anymore? sort of: |
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Post by godotwaits on May 21, 2015 18:21:24 GMT -5
Oh yeah! I think you posted this once before. Or someone. I'm gonna play it again. Fabulous romantic torch song. I really liked tha
Is she the one who co-wrote "Bernadette" with Leonard Cohen?
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Post by millring on May 21, 2015 18:26:24 GMT -5
Is she the one who co-wrote "Bernadette" with Leonard Cohen? I don't know if it was co-written, but Jennifer Warnes sure sung the heck out of it. |
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Post by millring on May 21, 2015 18:28:08 GMT -5
(I think Warnes might just be my favorite female singer)
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Post by godotwaits on May 21, 2015 18:44:37 GMT -5
I just did my google homework. Yeah Song for Bernadette was a co-write with Cohen by Jennifer Warnes. This is a song that stands up to acapella. Of course, only if you can really sing. Judy Collins does a really nice version.
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Post by godotwaits on May 21, 2015 18:50:14 GMT -5
I listened to it. And it's nice. But Judy Collins "kills" it.
The lyric: "torn by what we've done and can't undo.." is such eloquent sentiment of regret.
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Post by billhammond on May 21, 2015 19:20:21 GMT -5
(I think Warnes might just be my favorite female singer) Without pondering too much, this would be my list of greatest female singers, based on how much pleasure I get out of hearing them sing almost anything: Eva Cassidy Bonnie Raitt Kate Rusby Aretha Linda Ronstadt Joni Mary Chapin Carpenter Heather Masse Prudence Johnson kd lang |
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Post by millring on May 21, 2015 19:50:23 GMT -5
(I think Warnes might just be my favorite female singer) Without pondering too much, this would be my list of greatest female singers, based on how much pleasure I get out of hearing them sing almost anything: Eva Cassidy Bonnie Raitt Kate Rusby Aretha Linda Ronstadt Joni Mary Chapin Carpenter Heather Masse Prudence Johnson kd lang Hmmm.. trying not to think to hard m'self: Jennifer Warnes Gladys Knight Ella Fitzgerald Doris Day Shirley Jones Linda Ronstadt Susan Tedeschi Sonya Isaacs |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 19:58:03 GMT -5
Thinking hardly at all:
Sandy Denny
Anne Briggs
Norma Waterson
Erm....
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Post by dradtke on May 21, 2015 22:09:06 GMT -5
(I think Warnes might just be my favorite female singer) Without pondering too much, this would be my list of greatest female singers, based on how much pleasure I get out of hearing them sing almost anything: Eva Cassidy Bonnie Raitt Kate Rusby Aretha Linda Ronstadt Joni Mary Chapin Carpenter Heather Masse Prudence Johnson kd lang I'm not going to come up with a list, but I like seeing Prudence on yours. |
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Post by RickW on May 21, 2015 23:29:29 GMT -5
What was that? I think... a chord progression? Gadzooks, a rare bird indeed.
Interesting to see kd on your list, Bill. What a voice. Her version of Hallelujah is still my favorite.
I couldn't come up with a list. Lots of great ones.
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Post by Doug on May 21, 2015 23:36:36 GMT -5
Fond memories of Roy Orbison's Black and White Night with kd lang and Bonnie Raitt as doo wop singers. 
BTW the third doo wop singer was Jennifer Warnes. |
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Post by Marshall on May 21, 2015 23:44:36 GMT -5
Is anyone writing like that anymore? sort of: I sat in a 2 hour 2 day class with Susan and 8 other students last Fall. An enjoyable person (and lovely lady). I'm thinking there's room for a re-interpretation of the American Songbook. The songs are solid. The melodies are rich. But the instrumentation is somewhat stale. Or at least out of the modern music vocabulary. I'm not knocking piano bars and big band horn sections. They are/were quite nice. But they are not the commonly accepted vocabulary they once were. And I think the ASB does not have to be kept in that stylistic straight jacket. I think an acoustic ensemble and/or a modern bluegrass ensemble could strike just as solid (and more fresh) backdrop to many of those tunes. Give them new life. Sue and I (my wife not Susan Warner  ) had a dinner at Ditka's at the racetrack a month ago. We got a coupon. The entertainment in the dining room was a guy singing Sinatra tunes into a Boise L1 with accompaniment (via CD player) of the Guy Lombardo Band (or some reasonable facsimile). His vocal was quite good and fresh. I got tired real quick of the same rousing big band backdrop. |
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Post by millring on May 22, 2015 5:24:57 GMT -5
I think an acoustic ensemble and/or a modern bluegrass ensemble could strike just as solid (and more fresh) backdrop to many of those tunes. Give them new life.   |
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Post by Marshall on May 22, 2015 7:21:43 GMT -5
I could have done without the Ray Stevens version. Special Consensus was great, but I'm a vocal guy. And these songs were meant to be SUNG !
What bothers me about the Ray Stevens version is it's a tongue-in-cheek kind of rendition. "Look at me. I'm surprising you and poking fun at an old standard." These songs are/were seriously cool. I prefer more respect.
And the instrumental ones just seem to me to be an exercise to show the dexterity of the players. The song is just a vehicle to display their virtuosity. I want someone to seriously tackle this material for-the-love-of-the-song.
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Post by godotwaits on May 22, 2015 9:37:47 GMT -5
I agree with Marshall's comments about "re-interpretation." He articulates it better than I can.
oh... and Eva Cassiday... I spent a few nights just reviewing her various Youtubes. I am in awe of her talent. It just breaks my heart that we lost her too soon. Godamn! fucing cancer. She was an angel of song. I had never heard of her until the mentions that this forum made to her many years ago.
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Post by Russell Letson on May 22, 2015 11:00:49 GMT -5
Keely Smith! Mary Flower!
And for Minnesota songbirds, Connie Evenson--
BTW, Marshall, how 'bout this for a non-big-band reading of the song? On the matter of a "freshening up" of classic-song arranging, the arrangements for Dylan's Sinatra debacle are the only things that prevent the album from collapsing into a black hole of complete artistic failure.
BTW-II: Guy Lombardo charts hardly represent anything like a high point. My father always called him "Guy Lumbago."
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Post by Russell Letson on May 22, 2015 11:15:25 GMT -5
Clicking through the videos, it occurs to me that one of the performers who taught me how to hear the standards was Grappelli--he finds the lyricism even without the lyrics and elaborates without obscuring the underlying structure. It's probably an accident of who I listened to at what stage of my life, but when I approach a standard, what I'm hearing in my head is Steph or Keely or Brother Ray or Louis--even before Frank or Tony or Ella. (Then there's Randy and Harry and Fats and Monk and Duke. . . .)
And those bluegrass translations strike me as more stunt work than anything else. "Caravan" is particularly cluttered.
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) had a dinner at Ditka's at the racetrack a month ago. We got a coupon. The entertainment in the dining room was a guy singing Sinatra tunes into a Boise L1 with accompaniment (via CD player) of the Guy Lombardo Band (or some reasonable facsimile). His vocal was quite good and fresh. I got tired real quick of the same rousing big band backdrop. 
