From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V8 #62 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Thursday, October 26 2006 Volume 08 : Number 062 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Subject: Re: [JP] Re: Songs of the Open Road [JanglePoets@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:32:20 EDT From: JanglePoets@aol.com Subject: Subject: Re: [JP] Re: Songs of the Open Road In a message dated 10/24/2006 3:23:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, JanglePoets@aol.com writes: With regard to your question, Frank, I find it a little disconcerting when singers change the pronouns in songs. I really don't care for Shawn Colvin's cover of the Police song "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" because Shawn changed "she" to he." Maybe it's just because the original was so well known to me. I've been campaigning for a long time for some male vocalist to sing TN's "Best Black Dress" without changing the pronouns in any way. It would put an entirely new perspective on a really great song and give people something to think about. Incidentally, it is no coincidence that it was I who first suggested the Best Black Friday concept for the GFP at FRFF, although Cone Head and Trapper John deserve the credit for following through in such a way that the event is still being talked about, over a year later, since this went down at FRFF '05. Bruce Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V8 #62 *********************************