From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #698 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, September 1 2008 Volume 16 : Number 698 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Ruling Class ["Jeremy Osner" ] Invoking doo-wop ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Invoking doo-wop ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: Invoking doo-wop ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Invoking doo-wop ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Invoking doo-wop [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Byrds covers ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Byrds covers [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:32:21 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Ruling Class I will brook no disagreement over whether this is the greatest (English-language) rhyme ever commited to tape: "Ease your own shorts off" :: "Elizabeth Schwartzkopf" I'm happy about the number of "Perspex Island" trax on the "Bad Case of History" live recordings disk [well looking at the track list I guess there are only two -- still] -- the treatment of "Child of the Universe" is particularly nice, although the grunting portion goes on a little too long. Deep inside, the womb of life, the silent stars go by. -- For some reason I keep wanting the next lyric after this to be "It don't *feel*, much like a home, without a dog..." J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:06:44 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Invoking doo-wop What do you guys think the chances are, that the lyric "I know who wrote the book of love" from "Freeze" is a conscious reference to The Monotones? Their "Book of Love" is a lovely tune but I have no idea how large a space in Robyn's consciousness doo-wop occupies. If you're not familiar with the tune, well let me advise you to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u39tB5mbccY -- "I wonder, wonder, hey-wop-a-doo-wah, who -- wah! who wrote the book of love" Cheers J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:28:51 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: Invoking doo-wop 2008/9/1 Jeremy Osner : > What do you guys think the chances are, that the lyric "I know who > wrote the book of love" from "Freeze" is a conscious reference to The > Monotones? Unity. The Soft Boys used to cover it as a warm up tune. Stewart (back from BC and Eugene, OR) - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:34:24 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Invoking doo-wop On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > Unity. The Soft Boys used to cover it as a warm up tune. > Excellent! - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:37:05 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Invoking doo-wop A person of a certain age would be aware of the phrase "who wrote the book of love," whether or not they had any idea who or what The Monotones are. There was a terrible age of darkness, roughly between the departure of Elvis and the arrival of the Beatles, when pop radio was saturated with crap (one of the Cars referred to it as when there was nothing on the radio but "the Bobbys*," which says it all) and old doo-wop tunes were about the best thing you were likely to hear aside from the occasional Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry side. At least on this side of the water. I assume something analogous probably went on in the mother country. *Vee, Darren, Rydell, et al. On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > What do you guys think the chances are, that the lyric "I know who > wrote the book of love" from "Freeze" is a conscious reference to The > Monotones? Their "Book of Love" is a lovely tune but I have no idea > how large a space in Robyn's consciousness doo-wop occupies. If you're > not familiar with the tune, well let me advise you to check it out: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u39tB5mbccY -- "I wonder, wonder, > hey-wop-a-doo-wah, who -- wah! who wrote the book of love" > > Cheers > J > > -- > READIN 2.0 > http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:48:40 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Invoking doo-wop it's on the ryko 2cd 76-81 + portland arms cassette/lp with some diff. lyrics :-D my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 9/1/2008 1:41:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, anacreon@gmail.com writes: > Unity. The Soft Boys used to cover it as a warm up tune. > Excellent! **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 18:46:27 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Byrds covers On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:10 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 8/29/08, Bachman, Michael wrote: > This, of course, leads to the curious phenomenon of Bob Dylan covering > Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" - but often, he did. > > Can anyone think of any other cover versions whose arrangements were then > taken over by their songwriters in later years? > This (combined with a truly ass-kicking Doors cover audible at http://play.napster.com/track/21966163 ) inspires me to wonder whether Lotte Lenya ever covered Jim Morrison's "Alabama Song". Prolly not I guess -- my understanding of her chronology is pretty limited but it suggests the two acts did not have much temporal overlap. J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:40:54 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Byrds covers On 9/1/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:10 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > This, of course, leads to the curious phenomenon of Bob Dylan covering > > Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" - but often, he did. > > > > Can anyone think of any other cover versions whose arrangements were then > > taken over by their songwriters in later years? > > > > > This (combined with a truly ass-kicking Doors cover audible at > http://play.napster.com/track/21966163 ) inspires me to wonder whether > Lotte Lenya ever covered Jim Morrison's "Alabama Song". Prolly not I > guess -- my understanding of her chronology is pretty limited but it > suggests the two acts did not have much temporal overlap. Uh...the Doors covered "Alabama Song," which was written by Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht. So it's not a "Jim Morrison song" except in the sense that, quite possibly, the Doors' version popularized it among rock audiences, leading to further covers (Bowie's done a couple of nice versions, and the Psychedelic Furs do a nice take on it as well). That Napster link won't tell me what track it is unless I download some Napster player or other - what song is it? At any rate, the problem I have with Morrison generally is that he's such an overdramatic singer, adn I think songs like this work better sung less emphatically. Too bad Jimbo died - because I think if he'd learned to discipline both his singing and his lyric writing (he needed to edit - like so many '60s dudes, he placed far too much belief in the god of spontaneity and far too little in the demons of editing and focus) he might actually have earned the legend he got on the cheap merely by dying. Either that, or he would've gotten huge and fat and gone to Vegas, only to surface in the late '80s (and this idea isn't mine - can't remember whose it was) rumbling barechested in the woods banging on a drum leading that silly "Men's Movement" thing that was all the rage for a few years there. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #698 ********************************