Apologies for double posting.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 19 September 2021 01:53 (two years ago) link
There's also this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snlccdZpXmw
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 September 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
I would have voted for Archie Shepp if it stayed instrumental. As it is, I voted for Julie London like it seems most of us have. Was nice to hear all these versions - Neville was a pleasant surprise.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 September 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link
Voted Julie London. Would be interested in a “Willow Weep For Me” poll - Dexter Gordon does it on his album Our Man In Paris, with Bud Powell on piano and Kenny Clarke on drums, and it’s one of the tracks that got me into him.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 September 2021 11:21 (two years ago) link
Seems to me I remember something like that was actually done before? No, not quite, another track on that same album. Standards Scrutiny: A Night In Tunisia
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 September 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
I can't see where to click for Justin Timberlake so I guess I'll choose Julie London
― Nabozo, Sunday, 19 September 2021 11:36 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 20 September 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Wow, that's decisive.
I started this thread for versions of "These Foolish Things" once but didn't poll them. People were mostly interested in talking about Bryan Ferry: ITT: Versions of "These Foolish Things"
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
Wonder who else besides Josefa and myself will remember Julie London and her (second) husband Bobby Troup, composer of “Route 66,” in the cast of the television show Emergency!.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
Well you’ve excluded me but I would like to say, yes I remember, and in fact Emergency! was one of my first favorite TV shows. That and Adam-12. I used to get so excited watching the opening moments of Emergency!, hoping it was gonna be some kind of major disaster the Emergency paramedics would have to deal with, preferably involving a fire.
― Josefa, Monday, 20 September 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
Right, that and Adam-12 came as a pair, did they take place in the same universe? They both had titles with interesting punctuation.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
Both produced by Julie London’s first husband, Jack Webb.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
But I would also like to add a stray thought I had which may or may not be relevant. “Cry Me a River” appeared in 1955, which is pretty late in the game for an American standard (the Great American Songbook more or less ends in the 1940s). I can only think of “Misty,” which appeared in vocal form in 1959, as a later standard of similar ilk. When anyone *but* Julie London is singing it they are singing it with the awareness that they are singing a classic or a standard. Therefore they sing it with some degree of self-consciousness. Julie London sang it without that awareness, as just another song, which is perhaps why her version feels more real and less removed or affected.
― Josefa, Monday, 20 September 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
Good point.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
And yeah, Adam-12, Emergency!, and Dragnet: all Jack Webb productions and all about giving good PR to the LAPD and LAFD
― Josefa, Monday, 20 September 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
I kind of figured but had to double check that Barney Kessel played on the Julie London version of the song. Had long forgotten she sang it in The Girl Can’t Help It.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
Here, following the title song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WURyUKNt9Ac
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
Or just go here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1NDNy61L4
Also forgot about Tom Ewell in one of his Too Pooped to Pop roles. Wonder how many of those he did.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
Was just listening to this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToiHWeGIa88
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 20 September 2021 01:59 (two years ago) link
Tom Ewell did have a habit of winding up home alone with 1950s bombshells, not sure what his deal was
― Josefa, Monday, 20 September 2021 02:07 (two years ago) link
And then home alone with Robert Blake’s parrot on Baretta! How much do you remember about the original in incarnation of that show?Was reminded of the existence of that Richard Thompson album by its being posted on the other thread but never actually listened to it. No time like the present.Guess Barney Kessel was mentioned already upthread and on yet another thread recently. See also his work with Billie Holiday. The band is particularly good on the Body and Soul album.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
Ha, recent versions of that album have some false starts of “Comes Love,” one of which prompts the words “Jesus, Barney!”
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
Wonder if we keep doing this we will get to the standard first song by Jane Birkin’s mother, but maybe it’s not popular enough.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
Re; Baretta I remember the parrot and Robert Blake’s t-shirt. I’m sure I watched the show but it’s buried deep in my subconscious… I don’t think it’s been widely rerun, at least not lately
― Josefa, Monday, 20 September 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
I also brought that other song up here:Lets post about JAZZ STANDARDS
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
One fun thing about reviewing these tunes in this context is to have an excuse to listen to great singers- along with some other singers I guess - and see what they do with them. I know there are two schools of thought for instrumentalists: some say it is important to listen to singers and learn the lyrics or at least a subset of them in order to get the proper phrasing whilst others say “you mean that song has words?!”
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
Yes. I know a certain music teacher who is brilliant as an instrumentalist but whenever I try to talk about the meaning behind the lyric of a song, or the emotional intention of the vocalist, he falls silent or says “I never listen to lyrics”
― Josefa, Monday, 20 September 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
Found a thread about that topic on another borad, don’t know if I should link it.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 02:55 (two years ago) link
Sorry, meant to say “That tune has words!?”
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link
Anyway, would be happy to participate in further iterations and may start some myself if inspired.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Also just relocated this thread which mentions the song in question.Songs That Share A Certain Property With The James Bond Theme
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
I just was reminded that there is something known as the “Cry Me a River” lick but I never remember what it is.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
It's the first six descending notes of the vocal melody ("Now you say you're lone-ly")
― Josefa, Monday, 20 September 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
Someone around here has been learning "Moonlight in Vermont" and it is sounding pretty good.
― Spiral Scratchiti (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
On the piano. She also wants a bigger midi controller than the one she has, maybe that's for another thread.
― Spiral Scratchiti (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
Sam Cooke was never mentioned on this thread.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
Don’t think I’ve ever heard his version.
― Magical Misery Tour Spiel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 10:20 (one year ago) link