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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:30:45 GMT -5
I'm going to take a break for a while. It was fun and I hope to see you both tomorrow. Good night, Linda. This was fun. Love and hugs ~
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:31:46 GMT -5
You may have this dessert for a song, Fair. What do you bid?
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:34:28 GMT -5
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:35:07 GMT -5
I'm sorry I missed this before. You're way too young, but it's a very interesting prospect to think I may have seen this performance live.
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:35:49 GMT -5
I'm going to take a break for a while. It was fun and I hope to see you both tomorrow. Night, Linda. Rest well--love & hugs--
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:36:29 GMT -5
Oh, yes. I remember it well.
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:36:56 GMT -5
I'm sorry I missed this before. You're way too young, but it's a very interesting prospect to think I may have seen this performance live. Really??? When and where? Details, please.
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:38:48 GMT -5
The thing about Sinatra is that he really was a pretty good actor which certain influenced his singing performances.
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:39:41 GMT -5
I'm sorry I missed this before. You're way too young, but it's a very interesting prospect to think I may have seen this performance live. Really??? When and where? Details, please. LoL On TV, I mean. The Andy Williams Show. That's what it looks like.
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:41:40 GMT -5
Oh, yes. I remember it well. I was never really into Sinatra until the early nineties when they showed several of his concerts on PBS, most of them from the mid-eighties, I think--one with Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minnelli--Anyway, this particular song I first heard sometime around 1993, I think--after Dad died. Sinatra performed it just like this, trenchcoat, hat and all, only I think they had a rain machine to make it look rainy outside the bar--and in a lower key, because his upper range was pretty much gone--but still, it was so beautiful I cried. And from then on I've been a Sinatra fan--LOL though remembering Mamaw talk about how girls screamed and fainted over him back in the thirties when she was young--
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:42:40 GMT -5
Really??? When and where? Details, please. LoL On TV, I mean. The Andy Williams Show. That's what it looks like. Ah--yeah, you're right. I am a bit too young.
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:44:59 GMT -5
The thing about Sinatra is that he really was a pretty good actor which certain influenced his singing performances. He was a much better actor than he got credit for. Did you ever see that two hour episode of MAGNUM PI where he played the old NYC cop who was about to retire and came to Hawaii to take care of one last bit of business--to kill the two young men who'd gotten away with murdering his granddaughter? God, that was mesmerizing.
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:45:44 GMT -5
The thing about Sinatra is that he really was a pretty good actor which certain influenced his singing performances. He was a much better actor than he got credit for. Did you ever see that two hour episode of MAGNUM PI where he played the old NYC cop who was about to retire and came to Hawaii to take care of one last bit of business--to kill the two young men who'd gotten away with murdering his granddaughter? God, that was mesmerizing. I dion't remember. I did used to watch that show, though, so maybe.
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:47:01 GMT -5
PS My friend Ty--guy I worked with at the pharmacy--and I finally figured out what made Sinatra unique was that nobody came close to his phrasing. He knew how to wring more out of a combination of words and notes than most singers ever learn.
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:47:37 GMT -5
Oh, yes. I remember it well. I was never really into Sinatra until the early nineties when they showed several of his concerts on PBS, most of them from the mid-eighties, I think--one with Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minnelli--Anyway, this particular song I first heard sometime around 1993, I think--after Dad died. Sinatra performed it just like this, trenchcoat, hat and all, only I think they had a rain machine to make it look rainy outside the bar--and in a lower key, because his upper range was pretty much gone--but still, it was so beautiful I cried. And from then on I've been a Sinatra fan--LOL though remembering Mamaw talk about how girls screamed and fainted over him back in the thirties when she was young-- I think I liked him better than my mother did, but oddly, more for his movies.
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:48:43 GMT -5
PS My friend Ty--guy I worked with at the pharmacy--and I finally figured out what made Sinatra unique was that nobody came close to his phrasing. He knew how to wring more out of a combination of words and notes than most singers ever learn. I was going to say that before. Another great phraser than most people don't think of exactly that way is Rod Stewart.
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:49:00 GMT -5
He was a much better actor than he got credit for. Did you ever see that two hour episode of MAGNUM PI where he played the old NYC cop who was about to retire and came to Hawaii to take care of one last bit of business--to kill the two young men who'd gotten away with murdering his granddaughter? God, that was mesmerizing. I dion't remember. I did used to watch that show, though, so maybe. Tom Selleck is actually a better actor than he gets credit for too, but Sinatra made him look like a rank amateur that night.
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:51:03 GMT -5
PS My friend Ty--guy I worked with at the pharmacy--and I finally figured out what made Sinatra unique was that nobody came close to his phrasing. He knew how to wring more out of a combination of words and notes than most singers ever learn. I was going to say that before. Another great phraser than most people don't think of exactly that way is Rod Stewart. True. I would never have thought Rod Stewart could sing the standards, but he's really good at them.
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:54:44 GMT -5
I dion't remember. I did used to watch that show, though, so maybe. Tom Selleck is actually a better actor than he gets credit for too, but Sinatra made him look like a rank amateur that night. Agreed about Selleck. I loved him in that role. Of course, I was of a certain age ...
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 20:55:01 GMT -5
I meant to see if I could find the last song Mercer actually wrote the lyrics for--one from 1975, I think, called "When October Goes" w/music by Barry Manilow--but got hung up listening to Sinatra--LOL--Manilow actually sings the old tunes like Mercer better than he does the kind of pop he was doing in the seventies.
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 20:58:36 GMT -5
I meant to see if I could find the last song Mercer actually wrote the lyrics for--one from 1975, I think, called "When October Goes" w/music by Barry Manilow--but got hung up listening to Sinatra--LOL--Manilow actually sings the old tunes like Mercer better than he does the kind of pop he was doing in the seventies. Oh, yeah ... his voice is much better suited for that. He also has a good feel for that era. He produced Bette Midler's Rosemary Clooney tribute CD and does a duet with her -- Slow Boat To China. Very nice.
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Post by moonstone on Sept 3, 2009 21:00:53 GMT -5
Good night, Fair. Love and hugs ~
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Post by Fairweather on Sept 3, 2009 21:08:10 GMT -5
Night, Moon. See ya in a few over at Kos. Gotta rub the Sandberg thing in.
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Post by nanalinda on Sept 3, 2009 22:16:22 GMT -5
I never thought I'd say this, but KO's final segment on Beck was the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while. Don't forget to breathe.
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Post by Laura on Sept 4, 2009 14:32:39 GMT -5
I never thought I'd say this, but KO's final segment on Beck was the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while. Don't forget to breathe. The Big Man's segment on Beck was hilarious. I am wondering what Beck's wife thought of him 'pointing out' the drawings and statues to her and what she thought of his interpretation of them? The man is loco. Do these building, statues and drawings talk to him I wonder? LOL! The man has lost his mind..I'm sure of it.
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