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03-15-2006, 04:11 AM
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Have you heard Johnny Hartman's "Lush Life?" Ed Spiegel |
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03-15-2006, 05:12 AM
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I Remember You - Tony Bennett recorded it last year, Just Stunning
Someone to Watch Over Me - I have to say Frank Sinatra on a technicality because I never recorded it and Nancy really dug it when I warbled it to her at Patsy's.  Moonlight in Vermont - Frank and Ella from The Classic Duets. What a fantastic reading of one of the greatest compositions of the 20th century. The melody is dreamy and the lyrics, without one single rhyme, are infallible. Let There Be Love - My all time favorite Nat Cole recording with George Schearing. The music was layered so beautifully.
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03-15-2006, 07:28 AM
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Ooh! Julie London on Cry me a River...it doesn't get much better than that!
I say Karen Carpenter and Sinatra are neck and neck on Christmas Waltz...I really really like that song, and I love both interpretations. Tony Bennett's version of "Who Can I Turn To" and I really love his version of Stella By Starlight, but I may give Ray Charles the edge there.
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03-15-2006, 07:31 AM
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Ace in the Hole - Lee Wiley
If She Walked Into My Life - Gordon MacRae St. James Infirmary - Lou Rawls The Very Thought of You - FS and Nat King Cole Where Is Love? - Jack Jones Moonlight in Vermont - FS and Sam Cooke Midnight Sun - Nancy Wilson and June Christy
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03-15-2006, 12:15 PM
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Cry me a River = Diana Krall You Belong To Me = Dean Martin I Wanna Be Around =Peggy Lee maybe Tony |
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03-15-2006, 12:17 PM
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Someone To Watch Over Me = Chris Botti |
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03-15-2006, 12:23 PM
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I made a mistake with "Shadow of Your Smile"....as much as I love Astrud Gilberto, and I burned a special bathtub CD with her verison---- ----I've recently discovered Marvin Gaye's two versions of "Shadow of Your Smile".....and I'll never be the same. You must hear Marvin Gaye and listen to both his versions back to back. The first rendition is off his "Love Songs-Bedroom Ballads" . The second rendition is off the "Super Hits" CD. and I can't begin to tell you what he does to that song. It's either magic, or genius, or both. Shadow of Your Smile = Marvin Gaye !!!!! Forever! |
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03-15-2006, 12:34 PM
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Lee Wiley? June Christy? Next thing you'll be invoking Helen Merrill, Margaret Whiting, Eleanor Parker, and Helen O'Connell. We are talking about DEFINITIVE (read: original) voices---- the likes of .... Ella, Billie, and Sarah, maybe Peggy. Not interchangeable lounge/girlsingers. |
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03-15-2006, 01:07 PM
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Love ya lots, Max. If you wish assistance with scanning and posting a pic, you can always PM me and I would gladly assist. Remember - it needn't be all that recent, or all that illuminated. This isn't CA DMV where they tell a girl she has to put her hair behind her ears for the pose.
Besides, you are screen literate going back to the silents, you have a magnificent imagination, and what you could conjure up for an arcade photo booth would dazzle us all I'm sure.  Back to topic: Max you mentioned "More". Steve Lawrence is a bit of a comedian. He did a sappy version of that which ended in four big bad orchestral chords which sounded like doomsday. Last night in a song he asks Eydie "wanna watch some TV" and she replies "I'd prefer my Stevie".
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03-15-2006, 01:58 PM
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Max
Definitive signifies the best, the most authoritative and true version. It has nothing to do with sales of the record or how famous the performer was.
Since you don't like the song "Lush Life," I can see why Marvin Gaye's "Shadow of Your Smile" is definitive. You don't like "Lush Life?" Really? Ed Spiegel |
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03-15-2006, 02:47 PM
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Once upon a time Paul Mauriat's orchestra recorded Love is Blue. It was pretty well done, but its last verse was done with an oboe. Yecch.
There were words to this tune. Anyway, the Dells got ahold of it, and if I'm not mistaken, added a few preface words to it "I can sing a rainbow...", then proceeded to give it amplified percussion and dramatic vocals. Listening to that recording is like going on an odyssey somewhere spectacular.
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03-15-2006, 03:03 PM
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03-15-2006, 05:25 PM
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Billie, because her voice was so distinctive could take any song, and make it instantly definitive. It's about what a singer can bring to the table, either through voice, or twisting the melody, to breakthrough, pioneer new vistas, plumb new depths, reveal new facets (all without changing the essence of the song) . It's the art of interpretation. Bobby Darin doesn't bring anything new to the table with "More". His rendition is rather static, and one-note. Therefore, it's not definitive. Harry Connick's "More" is achingly, heart-renderingly, gripping and compelling. Frank and Basie bring down the house on that one. Even Nat reveals new territory previously unexplored. But, Darin's "More" doesn't do anything new, or open up new vistas/breakthroughs-----which is a requirement to get the "definitive" label. |
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03-15-2006, 05:26 PM
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