"I get no kick from champagne...."
Posted on 12/17/2008 10:32:48 AM PST by weegee
I know she’s a lefty and all that, but damn I had the hots for her back in the day.
I saw them at Mohegan Sun. What a fantastic show.
She is one lefty I make an exception for! And yep, she is one hottie -- even today!
LOL! I think I remember that. I was a big fan from his first album and liked his earliest stuff. The problem is I cannot listen to his stuff that much even though I like it. I do not know why. He also turned out to be a anti-gun lefty and semi-Sting-like ego maniac.
From his era in the same vein I could listen to Joe Jackson more.
Well at least she didn’t get fat like Linda Ronstadt.
And just what's wrong with her being left-handed?
Oh, wait...you meant...never mind.
On the other hand, I have MASSIVE respect for the engineers who can make that sound good!
So who were the guys that actually did the singing for Milli Vanilli and why didn’t they just put them on tour instead? Never have figured that one out. Were they just to ugly to be seen in public or what?
“When you guys were slaves, you sang like birds.”
“swing low.....”
I have no idea how you could do it. One night a month let alone 6 nights a week.
The problem for me talking about Sinatra is he was larger then life, such a big star and kind of a jerk. It is like too easy because he was so popular. Popular today usually means crap and hype. However, technically he was amazing. So smooth. He worked very hard at it early on and there was a smart mind behind the training. dean Martin had a wonderful voice but I think it was all natural with him while Frank trained himself to get exactly what he wanted. Tony Bennett, in my mind, was not in the same league.
There is a youngish guy now in his 40’s who sounds like him circa 1940s and 1950s. Better than Harry Connick by far. Steve Lippia. The story supposedly is he made a demo tape with a cheezy backing orchestra kareoke tape or something. Someone sent the tape to one of Frankie’s old band leader cronies. The guy was driving around, probably a Caddy, and was looking for a tape to listen to. He got the tape and forgot about it. He played it and said - hey that is Frank but that orchestra stinks. He thought is was Frank circa 1940s/1950s.
Lippia was from CT but was working and living near West Palm Beach. He got a band to play a club in Hollywood, FL. Frankie’s old cronies show up. They close their eyes and swear it is Frankie. I am not big on impersonators but this guy can sing plus he sings like Frank when he was in his prime.
An absolutely purely atrocious article that makes me wish I had not already cancelled my LA Times subscription so I could do it again.
I had never seen Kanye West sing. I’d heard the idiocy he spouted at Bush, and the plastic surgeon who stitched up my little son’s boo-boo is the brother of the doctor who killed Kanye’s mom, but that was my only Kevin Bacon connection to him.
I saw him on Saturday Night Live, and was so shocked by his poor singing that I did not even hit fast forward. I thought he was a huge pop star, and the man literally can’t hold a note. I was watching to see any sign of talent, but he didn’t move spectacularly either. The songs were kind of catchy, not bad, really, but his singing! He is like a first day reject from American Idol.
Race has nothing to do with it. Some people cannot sing, and Kanye West is one of them.
"I get no kick from champagne...."
“So who were the guys that actually did the singing for Milli Vanilli and why didn’t they just put them on tour instead? Never have figured that one out. Were they just to ugly to be seen in public or what?”
No, they just weren’t young enough...it’s all about image and youth. I think the real singers were middle-aged.
That’s the pic I was looking for.
LOL! Like Neil young alone. Voice sucks but when you added other lefties like Crosby, Stills and Nash it sounded good.
If I have to listen to Dylan it is through The Byrds and Jim (aka Roger) McGuinn who is now a devout Christian (so I doubt he is a lib).
His 12-string picking style on a Rickenbacker still sounds great today.
The older I get, the more I appreciate just how wonderful and rare Frank Sinatra’s voice was. The work he did in the late 50s and early 60s was stunning, mature, and complex.
I think he even got better with age. More interesting phrasing, etc.
One singer who I never could stomach was Dinah Shore. I swear, she HAD to have been somebody’s relative to get a gig. And in her case, her voice just got worse and worse. Ewwwwwww........
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