How odd you'd bring up "The Odd Couple" as I've been watching Neil Simon movies this week. "Murder by death", "The Cheap Detective", for example. Very very funny !
The electric blanket conversation has more to do with knowing you're alive in the moment and I feel that it would be better if you watched the movie rather than me crowing away and end up burning something on the stove.
Thanks Lizzy I'll go see what NPR has
switz
p.s. m..m..m..? Speaking of crumbs... I wonder how Robert Crumb is doing in France these days ?
Hi Switz,
I meant to reply to this earlier but got distracted by Johnny Cash, assorted wars and by Persian seductresses.
I looked up Jan D' Gaetani on Amazon when you started this thread and couldnt find anything. Now I realize she is listed as Jan DeGaetani. But the Classic Cole album is only availabe "used".
I am a huge fan of soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and she has a series of 5 albums that I'd recommend:
Kiri Sings Berlin
Kiri Sings Porter
Kiri Sings Gershwin
Kiri Sings Legrand
Kiri Sings Kern
In fact the only one I dont have is the Kiri Sings Porter and that anomaly will be rectified in due course.
She also has an album of her native Maori Songs which is superb possibly my favorite recording of hers.
Hi Kush I've seen the Gaetani album for sale on Yahoo music. Type in Jan de gaetani sings cole porter and I believe it will come up. So now I've put Ali on my to get list and also Kiri Te Kanawa. Kari sounds just fantastic and I'll order one of her albums soon. Thanks for telling me both of these women I feel like you've given me a gift. I've been listening to the Cash American V album quite a bit since it came out and I really love it. It did take me a while to adjust to him singing Gordon Lightfoot "If you could read my mind".
Thanks for the tip. Its on my list but I might try the Amazon sellers first ..I've bought stuff from there a couple of times before.
I need to buy a Hank Williams album....both in the Cash album and in Madeline Peyroux album the Hank Williams songs (Weary Blues in the latter) were outstanding in my opinion and another one Cold Cold Heart is a classic.
Hank Williams, eh? Well then. I only have one of his, Essential Hank Williams. But I'm wondering now if you know about the tribute album, "Tmeless". Really good... it has, for example, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Keb Mo, Bryan Adams, Hank Jr., Sheryl Crowe, several others I can't recall off the top of my head right now, EXCEPT for Lucinda doing Cold Cold Heart. Well, since I'm getting the idea you like that wonderful old Hank song... I thought I'd let you know that it's a fantastic cover. :--) I've long wished that Lu and Leonard would do a duet of it... but probably I've mentioned that a million times by now...
I think you have mentioned that album before. I'll look it up for sure but I prefer to hear his own words from his own mouth first.
Well Lu certainly has good taste in song selection....there's hope yet for her in my collection.
p.s. I should add that one of my favorite songwriters Butch Hancock covered one of Lucinda Williams songs 'Sharp Cutting Wings'. Initially I was in shock at this fact and then in denial for a long time but it is time now for reconciliation between Lu and myself.
Hi Kush
Both of Bobbie suggestions are very good. Hank Williams song "House of Gold" sung by Kenny Rankin on Silver Morning is the best version I've ever heard. And Butch Cockran...! Yeah...! The Flatlanders. They started a long time ago..... Jimmy dale Gilmore is my very favorite country singer......well in the same breath I should mention Junior Brown and Dan Hicks.
Hope for Lu.. ? ... in your very own collection... ? Be still, my beating heart! Heheh... Well, let me make a suggestion, then. Have a look (listen) to her most recent release (must be from at least a year ago, by now) "Live At The Fillmore". There's nothing like Lucinda live... those wonderful songs from her studio albums become even more raggedy and raw when they're performed live. I saw her in Portland, Maine a couple years ago - probably the best show I've ever seen. The more she drank (from a little (big) blue plastic cup she kept towards the back of the stage, somewhere nearby to the drummer, the better she got) The songs on "Fillmore" reflect the same energy. She's so incredibly raw and into it, savage at times... and then, all of a sudden, at the end of each song, she comes out with this sweet, mild mannered, little southern accented "thank yuuuu".. it's just such an odd little oxymoron, you have to wonder what she's really up to... :--)
So... my heartfelt suggestion.... treat yourself to "Live At The Fillmore" sometime soon! If you don't like it, you can sell it to me, and I'll find someone to pass it on to.
I've had a difficult time, as well, trying to find the Jan D'Gaetani cd of Cole Porter songs. I really love the soprano voice, too, especially on dark and drizzley Sunday mornings.
On just a slightly different note, do you also like the counter tenor, Yoshikazu Mera?
But anyway... Jimmy Dale Gilmore. Man o' man.. one of the best! Did you know that he was training clasically, then decided he wanted to be a country singer instead?
Thanks for the recos on Hank and Lucinda Williams (are they related? just kidding). I have too many CDs that I havent even listened to properly right now so I'll hold off on them but they are definitely on my list.
I didnt know Jimmy D. was training as classical singer but he is the only practicing Buddhist cowboy I know of. He is not just a vocalist, more a vocal stylist. Someone called his music Country and Eastern, another called it country-noir. His version of Mack the Knife on the One Endless Night CD is chilling. I'd be very interested in him doing a cover album of all Leonard Cohen songs.
Can't you listen to them online, meanwhile.. Napster, or something?
I hadn't heard that before, about JDG's music being Country and Eastern... very cool. Yeah, I love his version of Mack The Knife. and the cd it's on is most always in one of my "listen to regularly" pile.
I can't remember exactly from what source I found out about his earlier classical training... it's been at least a couple years since I first found out that little tid bit, but I'm pretty sure it was in a magazine interview. I think it might have been in Bull Moose music in Portland, Maine, which I used to frequent every Saturday afternoon when I was still living in Portland. I seem to have a faint memory cropping up, of sitting on the couch there, and reading that article. So, quite likely it was a music mag.
It's 100 F here today, with a heat index of 108. Still, people are out running in mid day.. and what's worse.. some are making their dogs run with them. That's just stupid.
t's 100 F here today, with a heat index of 108. Still, people are out running in mid day.. and what's worse.. some are making their dogs run with them. That's just stupid.
I thought it was just "mad dogs and Englishmen" .......who go out in the mid day sun.
I am not quite up to date with all this music download stuff etc etc I like my old fashioned CD collection but yes I'll defintely check out any clips I may find on youtube ...I am sure they have some.
If you dont already have it JDG's Braver Newer World album is superb every bit as good or even better than One Endless Night.
p.s. I lived in Portland too for a year.... the one on the other side though.
I checked out Yoshikaza Mera and he does sound very interesting so thats goona' be one more to immerse myself into...thanks....Bobbie..! (I will give feed back once I soak up all these new artist.) Come to think of it I remember seeing a picture of Jimmy dale meditating in a desert scene. His version of " I was the one" makes Elvis sound flat and boring. I would like to mention too a song Jimmy dale sings "Nothing of the kind" is one of my favorites. I know too that I have to buy his new album (manditory).
Switz~ ...Oregon is just another Province of Canada...
A mad dog neither drinks nor smokes but that does not mean that he is necessarily a safe and pleasant companion.
Oops..! Got kicked out before I could edit. That should read Butch hancock and not Hall of fame song writer Hank Cockran.