From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #104 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, March 21 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 104 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- My SXSW report: Day 1 (njc and very long) [JRMCo1@aol.com] Re: what smarm-divas do we like? NJC ["Gerald A. Notaro" ] Re: njc, all of this talk about Wal-Mart now [Paul In MD ] Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta [Brian Gross ] Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta ["Jamie's Box of Paints" ] Re: Which Joni Album/Song are you? [Nuriel Tobias ] The Mitchell Sisters [Nuriel Tobias ] Which Joni Album/Song are you - REALLY? ["Cassy" ] Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester? NJC [Jerry Notaro] Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta [Randy Remote ] Re: what smarm-divas do we like? NJC ["Lori Fye" ] Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester? NJC ["Lori Fye" <] Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta [Catherine McKay ] Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester? NJC [Randy Remote] Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester/guilty pleasures NJC [kjhsf@aol] Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta [Bob Muller Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like? NJC When I first saw Bette, Melissa was one of the Harlettes, as well as Katey Sagal, long before Married With Children. Of course, Barry was her pianist and arranger. Melissa played a small part in For the Boys. I have one of Katy's cd's and is it very good. Librarian's trivia: Katey's dad directed Elvis in Girl Happy! Jerry Mark Scott wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lori Fye" > To: > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:42 PM > Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like? NJC > > >>> who is this Melissa?? >>> Etheridge? Manchester? >>> so curious.. >> >> Manchester. She used to be one of Bette's backup singers, The Harlots. > > That's the Har-LETTES, if you don't mind, Miss FRYE! The Staggering > Harlettes! (stagger girls, stagger) > > 'If you're cracking up from having lack of shacking up....' > > -The Divine Mr. M in that hilly, chilly city that spreads itself like > lumpy > pancake batter along the shores of octopus-ridden Puget Sound....(that's > from 'A View from a Broad' by none other than the Divine Miss M......just > look it up, Girls!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:47:22 +0000 From: "Jamie's Box of Paints" Subject: Re: Spring and Miles of Aisles The only one I can think of is 'Only Joy In Town' On the first day of spring, We'd dance and sing And be the Only Joy In Town' Much Joni Jamie Zoob > Marianne Rizzo > > any Joni references to spring? > > I can't think of any right now .. > > (I mean, I think of crocuses to bring to school. . . ) > - -- I am a lonely Painter I live in a Box of Paints I'm frightened by the devil But I'm drawn to those ones that 'aint afraid... Jamie Zubairi can be found at http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 and http://uk.castingcallpro.com/jamie.zubairi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:55:21 +0000 From: "Jamie's Box of Paints" Subject: Re: Which Joni Album/Song are you? Erm... Well, I'm Blue and A Case Of You... is this the case with EVERYBODY who takes the test? Harrrrumph.... On 21/03/06, Smurf wrote: > --- Muller wrote: > > > Methinks the person(s) who made this up need an > > expansion of their Joni repertoire. > > > Might also help to have some kind of awareness of > Joni's fans . . . what's with the 'luck with the > oposite sex' question, anyway. Not sure how to answer > that one . . . > > --Smurf > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > - -- I am a lonely Painter I live in a Box of Paints I'm frightened by the devil But I'm drawn to those ones that 'aint afraid... Jamie Zubairi can be found at http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 and http://uk.castingcallpro.com/jamie.zubairi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:59:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald A. Notaro" Subject: Re: Joni/Mariah/Gloria njc kbhla@sbcglobal.net wrote: > I admit to a great love of Gloria Estefan and glad to see others here > appreciate her, too. I used to kind of wonder why I did enjoy her. I do > love the rhythms and while her voice doesn't blow you away, I think her > appeal is her naturalness. She's kind of like the Cuban Karen Carpenter > in > her easy, natural singing style. There is a lot of nice, understated, > sincere and heartfelt feeling. I think I have the same album as Catherine > - > it's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" and includes some of my old nostalgic > faves such as "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying," "You've Made Me So > Very > Happy," "How Can I Be Sure," and "Traces." Great cd. I became a fan of hers when I moved to Tampa in 1985. Many of my Cuban friends turned me on to her then. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:18:51 -0800 (PST) From: Paul In MD Subject: Re: njc, all of this talk about Wal-Mart now Hi back atcha, Patti Parlette! I'm WAY behind on my posts but wanted to add my a little background to the Maryland/WalMart discussion. This veto override comes at a time when WalMart is proposing a huge distribution facility in Somerset County on the Delmarva Peninsula thus the "WalMart Bill" was wildly unpopular here on the shore. As with most stories, this one has two sides. Long before WalMart arrived on the scene here, downtowns and "mom and pop" operations were killed off by a combination of shortsighted businessmen, governmental incompetence and The Mall. WalMart arrived fairly recently and they had to duke it out with KMart and Sears and Wards etc. The WalMarts have adjacent strip shopping centers offering additional services. Most are open 24 hours. They offer jobs -- and in an area where jobs are scarce for the unskilled, those WalMart jobs are viewed as good things. Delmarva is in a transitional period from rural/agrarian to metro/suburban. Development is rampant with people moving from the closeby cities (Baltimore/DC/Philly) snatching up what they view as bargain real estate. The beaches are booming, housing prices across the board have more than doubled in the last five years, and sprawl is rampant. Unfortunately, wages (which were never high) have remained stagnant and new industries have been slow to relocate here. The Haves are getting more and more and the Have Nots are left with the dregs -- and if you don't even have a job, you're definitely a Have Not. Somerset is still mostly rural with the main industries being farming and the seafood industry. Unfortunately, the seafood industry is a shadow of its former self. Seafood processing plants have closed and there have been several unrelated manufacturing facilities that have closed in the last few years as well. It's sort of surreal to live here at this time with boomtimes and poverty side by side. Jobs are desperately needed. Delaware lies only 30 miles to the north and the fear is that with the override of the veto, WalMart will locate their distribution facility there. It's also seen as another Us against Them ... politicians on the western side of the Chesapeake dictating what happens to residents on the east with no regard for consequences. The WalMart distribution facility would not solve the problems of the Somerset Countians ... but it would help. I agree with most of what everyone has said here: WalMart should pay their fair share of health costs, they import cheap goods and are contributing to the trade imbalance, they kill off their competition, etc. I'm just trying to offer some insight into why some people don't consider WalMart to necessarily be a bad thing. BTW, personally I think on the Good To Evil scale they fall on the Evil side but yes, I shop there from time to time and yes, I feel bad about it. Paul In MD P.S. Don't even get me started on the "shopping as national pastime" thread. Patti Parlette wrote: After all of this talk about Wal-Mart now, I went to open my regular snailmail and saw this (pasted below) in my union newsletter (from www.aftct.org)...good news from MD. Hello Paul in MD! And Mike Hood, are you from MD, too? (Sorry if I'm wrong about that....this woman is fading in a suburban room.) Just thought I would share this, because of all the discussion here today. I love synchronicity! It makes my heart sing. It makes everything....groovy. Love, Patti P. Maryland First State to Make Corporations Pay Their Fair Share In a significant win for working families, the Maryland Legislature late on Jan. 12 overrode Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlichs veto of a bill that would require large corporations to provide affordable health care for their Maryland employees. - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Travel Find great deals to the top 10 hottest destinations! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:49:39 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: Which Joni Album/Song are you? I was Clouds... and it basically said I was boring but thats ok cuz everybody likes me... not sure this thing is right on the money.. plus I had to pretend to be str8, so maybe that would change things if they *knew*. Em - --- Jamie's Box of Paints wrote: > Erm... > > Well, I'm Blue and A Case Of You... is this the case with EVERYBODY > who takes the test? > > Harrrrumph.... > > On 21/03/06, Smurf wrote: > > --- Muller wrote: > > > > > Methinks the person(s) who made this up need an > > > expansion of their Joni repertoire. > > > > > > Might also help to have some kind of awareness of > > Joni's fans . . . what's with the 'luck with the > > oposite sex' question, anyway. Not sure how to answer > > that one . . . > > > > --Smurf > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > -- > I am a lonely Painter > I live in a Box of Paints > I'm frightened by the devil > But I'm drawn to those ones that 'aint afraid... > > Jamie Zubairi can be found at > > http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 > and > http://uk.castingcallpro.com/jamie.zubairi > http://www.eventsounds.com/wav/imsorry.wav ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:57:25 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Gross Subject: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Columnists/Hicks_Graham/2006/03/21/1497871.html COURT AND SPARK AND DANCE A very nice, and very hip, coup for the Alberta Ballet. Joni Mitchell will collaborate with artistic director Jean Grand-Maitre on a ballet for the 2006-07 season, Dancing Joni. Jean had no connection to Joni, other than a love of her music, when the idea hit him about eight months ago. How about a ballet, he thought to himself, based on Joni's tunes? "Her songs," he says, "have always danced around my head. Besides, she was born in Alberta." So Jean brushed up on Joni's considerable body of recorded work, especially her post-pop jazz. Eight months ago, he wrote her a letter with his proposal. Come on down to Los Angeles, she said. Let's talk. "I met with her about three weeks ago," says Jean. "She got out of her Jeep at the restaurant, with jeans, a leather jacket, a scarf and she lit a cigarette. (Which meant Jean could smoke, too.) "We talked all afternoon." Jean will submit to Joni songs that work, movement-wise, for him. Together they'll make up a set list to which he'll design the dance. After three hours, he worked up the nerve to ask her ... would she consider writing a new song for the ballet? "She said she had retired (Joni is now 62) and wasn't recording anymore. But she had found herself writing again, and had three new songs. "She'll consider recording again, for us." And, asked Jean, would she come to Edmonton and Calgary in February 2007 for the premieres? She's thinking about it. * * * Happy first full day of Spring, everyone north of the equator! Brian in south jersey usa - ----------------------------------------------------------- Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often. And usually for the same reasons. - ----------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:11:29 -0600 From: "Michael Flaherty" Subject: Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta > "She said she had retired (Joni is now 62) and wasn't >recording anymore. But > she had found herself writing again, and had three new >songs. > > "She'll consider recording again, for us." Great news!! Never say never. :-) Michael Flaherty ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:37:03 +0100 (CET) From: Joseph Palis Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester? NJC I like Melissa Manchester too. When I was a kid in the archipelago her songs were on heavy radio airplay such as "Fire in the Morning", "Looking Through The Eyes of Love" and "Dont Cry Out Loud" -- the latter song I didnt know was written by Peter Allen until about 5 years ago. I hear that her past albums are hard to find on CD now -- if they are available at all. I own an album of hers called "Tribute" where she sang standards. Her voice is strong and flexible and can hit high notes without getting thin at the extreme ends. She sings the songs quite straight with little or no improvisation from the original. Even her "Lady Be Good" version which had her scatting with the facility of the woman she is paying tribute to -- Ella Fitz -- follows Ella's own scat routines. But I like that album a lot. Last week I got a used copy of Bette Midler's tribute to Rosemary Clooney and it was also good. She never once attempted to conjure the vocalism of Rosie in her singing even if she sang Rosie's famous numbers. She has this funny duet with Barry Manilow on "Slow Boat to China" and she also reinvented "Hey There" with a Midleresque spin. I wonder if her latest tribute album to Peggy Lee is good. Will wait for it in used record stores. Hope Bette Midler will continue to produce this type of music. Joseph in rainy CH np: Tom Waits "Potter's Field" "Gerald A. Notaro" a icrit : When I first saw Bette, Melissa was one of the Harlettes, as well as Katey Sagal, long before Married With Children. Of course, Barry was her pianist and arranger. Melissa played a small part in For the Boys. I have one of Katy's cd's and is it very good. Librarian's trivia: Katey's dad directed Elvis in Girl Happy! Jerry Mark Scott wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lori Fye" > To: > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:42 PM > Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like? NJC > > >>> who is this Melissa?? >>> Etheridge? Manchester? >>> so curious.. >> >> Manchester. She used to be one of Bette's backup singers, The Harlots. > > That's the Har-LETTES, if you don't mind, Miss FRYE! The Staggering > Harlettes! (stagger girls, stagger) > > 'If you're cracking up from having lack of shacking up....' > > -The Divine Mr. M in that hilly, chilly city that spreads itself like > lumpy > pancake batter along the shores of octopus-ridden Puget Sound....(that's > from 'A View from a Broad' by none other than the Divine Miss M......just > look it up, Girls!) - --------------------------------- Nouveau : tiliphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Dicouvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international.Tilichargez la version beta. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:03:51 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: Joni/Mariah/Gloria njc I also really wondered "why" I like her..... strange, huh? I agree that when she sings in english, she is kind of like Karen Carpenter, for better or for worse.... but when she sings in spanish...its just becomes totally no longer white bread...and I don't mean that in any racial sense at all. It just has more flavor somehow, "sabor"..whatever...is "saftig", even. I haven't discovered any songs that are in any way "naughty", but somehow the good girl thing fades pleasantly away (for me) when she's in spanish. I guess the english bugs me with her, because it reminds me of why she even HAS to sing in English. Sad, sort of. Em - --- kbhla@sbcglobal.net wrote: > I admit to a great love of Gloria Estefan and glad to see others here > > appreciate her, too. I used to kind of wonder why I did enjoy her. > I do > love the rhythms and while her voice doesn't blow you away, I think > her > appeal is her naturalness. She's kind of like the Cuban Karen > Carpenter in > her easy, natural singing style. There is a lot of nice, > understated, > sincere and heartfelt feeling. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:22:30 +0000 From: "Jamie's Box of Paints" Subject: Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta This is such great news that I approch with caution but it sounds like that our Joan has got creative juices flowing again... Ahh, could it be magic now? Much Joni Jamie Zoob On 21/03/06, Michael Flaherty wrote: > > "She said she had retired (Joni is now 62) and wasn't > >recording anymore. But > > she had found herself writing again, and had three new > >songs. > > > > "She'll consider recording again, for us." > > Great news!! > > Never say never. :-) > > Michael Flaherty > - -- I am a lonely Painter I live in a Box of Paints I'm frightened by the devil But I'm drawn to those ones that 'aint afraid... Jamie Zubairi can be found at http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 and http://uk.castingcallpro.com/jamie.zubairi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:59:31 -0600 From: "Donna Binkley" Subject: Re: Which Joni Album/Song are you? Thanks Bob this was fun. My album, Blue - my song, Twisted. I think it was fairly accurate, is that geeky? Why did you pretend to be Str8 Em? db >>> Em 3/21/2006 8:49:39 AM >>> I was Clouds... and it basically said I was boring but thats ok cuz everybody likes me... not sure this thing is right on the money.. plus I had to pretend to be str8, so maybe that would change things if they *knew*. Em - --- Jamie's Box of Paints wrote: > Erm... > > Well, I'm Blue and A Case Of You... is this the case with EVERYBODY > who takes the test? > > Harrrrumph.... > > On 21/03/06, Smurf wrote: > > --- Muller wrote: > > > > > Methinks the person(s) who made this up need an > > > expansion of their Joni repertoire. > > > > > > Might also help to have some kind of awareness of > > Joni's fans . . . what's with the 'luck with the > > oposite sex' question, anyway. Not sure how to answer > > that one . . . > > > > --Smurf > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > -- > I am a lonely Painter > I live in a Box of Paints > I'm frightened by the devil > But I'm drawn to those ones that 'aint afraid... > > Jamie Zubairi can be found at > > http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 > and > http://uk.castingcallpro.com/jamie.zubairi > http://www.eventsounds.com/wav/imsorry.wav ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:36:25 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Le Sacre du Printemps a la Joni avec Jack Jack wrote about Spring and Miles of Aisles: Your email reminded me of my annual spring Joni ritual. Every year, on the first day of spring (actually the first day that really feels like spring - you know that first glorious day when the weather is just so perfect it's almost like a religious experience! - I load Miles of Aisles in my car CD player, head for the country, and drive around with the windows down, the sunroof open, and the music blaring. I've been doing this every year since the late 70s, and its always the perfect start of the spring / summer for me. So full of life. So vibrant - ------ Holy Joni, Jack! What a wonderful ritual! I can picture it in my heart and mind: Up go the flaps of the sunroof, Down goes the CD, (You don't need the heat turned on baby) On your mark red ribbon runner The caressing rev of motors............... And now, it our pleasure to introduce: MISS JONI M I T C H E L L !!!!!!!!! and the crowd roars with unbridled joy and sweet anticipation of what is to come! The wind is in from Africa! Ooh la la! C'est "Le Sacre du Printemps, a la Joni!" ("Rite of Spring, Joni-style").....Joni loves Stravinsky, n'est-ce pas? Oui, oui. Quel synchronicite! Beautiful! I'm going to adopt your ritual, if you don't mind. And the seasons, they go round and round, and I've never owned a car equipped w/ a CD player before in the spring season, so this will be a great christening (speaking of religious experiences) for my Space Buggy. Thanks for sharing this! Love, Patti P. P.S. a squeeze of the hand to my friend of spirit Marianne as we look at life, and love, from both sides now. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:40:15 -0800 (PST) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Re: Which Joni Album/Song are you? Smurf wrote: Might also help to have some kind of awareness of Joni's fans . . . what's with the 'luck with the oposite sex' question, anyway. Not sure how to answer that one . . . Answer that you had the most greatest luck with the oposite sex, Smurf - you don't need it! Or you could answer that you have great luck IN oposite sex! Love, Nuri - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:47:03 -0800 (PST) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Re: Which Joni Album/Song are you? I'm Turbulent Indigo and Lead Ballon. Just Kidding! Love, Nuri Bob Muller wrote: Not sure how accurate it is...and as always, no wagering: http://www.quizilla.com/users/verdane/quizzes/What%20Joni%20Mitchell%20album%20are%20you%3F/ http://www.quizilla.com/users/Flygirln1/quizzes/What%20Joni%20Mitchell%20song%20are%20you%3F Methinks the person(s) who made this up need an expansion of their Joni repertoire. Bob (Blue & A Case Of You...yeah, right) NP: Sally Walker, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:06:38 -0800 (PST) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: The Mitchell Sisters Imagine that it was real...what would Joni's sister be like? I'm sure she would've been a Myrtel girl, wear reading glasses and work hard as a librarian, totaly hate rock though secretly playing the accordion, marry the first Jewish lawyer who screwd her and be allergic to sea food and sunlight...:) Love, Nuri - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Travel Find great deals to the top 10 hottest destinations! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:26:57 -0500 From: "Cassy" Subject: Which Joni Album/Song are you - REALLY? According to the quiz:: You are Court and Spark. When it comes to style you're very modern, and like to know what's going on in the world. You like to try out new things, and you never sit still for a moment. Sometimes all the "fun" wears you out, and you wish you didn't have so much to do, but you're never unhappy for more than two minutes in a row. Most people consider you attractive and fun to be around, and you've left a trail of broken hearts behind you, maybe without being aware of it. Apparently of the 47 people who have taken the quiz there are three other people who fit this category. Those of you who have been around the list for a while know how near and dear "Court and Spark" is to my heart. Not for the original release-timing but for the comfort and encouragement I got from it when I was Rehabbing from my stroke. I naturally gravitate to that album during difficult times in my life and I was surprised to see that was the album chosen for me by the quiz. To be honest, though, I'm not so sure that their reasoning for that choice was so accurate. It got me wondering which song or album I would have chosen for myself had I limitless choice. It's not as if one song always comes to mind when I think of Joni Mitchell. A lot depends on my mood and what's going on in my life. When my own father died as many of our listers have experienced recently, I found myself singing a duo of "Lesson in survival/Let the wind carry me" a lot "Friends and kin, campers in the kitchen" hit me hard as I looked around at those who loved my dad surrounding me with that love after his memorial and "Papa's faith is in people, mama she's always cleaning" because that pretty much explained the dynamic in our household and it brought me endless comfort to think of the support my father gave me when my mother was criticizing my appearance. So many of Joni's songs have fit me in my lifetime, that's why I've had the staying power we all have as fans over the years. I'm hard pressed to name just one song or one album. Dog Eat Dog fit me to a tee during the coke-hazed 1980's. Unable to sleep, "The Three Great Stimulants" Oh and deep in the night Our appetites find us Release us and bind us Deep in the night While madmen sit up building bombs And making laws and bars They'd like to slam free choice behind us And "Tax Free" Front rooms Back rooms Slide into tables Crowd into bathrooms Joke around Cheap talk Deep talk Talk talk talk around the clock Crawl home Lie down Teeth chatter Heart pounds I don't feel so good I don't feel so good Push a button to escape Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!" There's evil in this land Preacher preaching love like vengeance Preaching love like hate Calling for large donations Promising estates Rolling lawns and angel bands Behind the pearly gates You know he will have his in this life But yours will have to wait He's immaculately tax free "Our nation has lost its guts!" Save me "Our nation has lost its strength" Tax free "Our nation has whimpered and cried" Save me "And petted the Castros" Tax free "The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'" Save me "For so long" Tax free "That we don't know how to act like a man" Save me "I think that we should turn the United States Marines loose on that little island south of Florida and stop that problem!" "I am preachin' love, I am!" I remember being pleased at the choice of "The Illustrated Man" Rod Steiger as the "preacher" because I'd always admired him so much. And now I look back on "Tax Free" and picture George Bush in that last verse, how prophetic. As far as where I am in my life now, it changes so from day to day but if I were pressed to find one song that fit me I'd have to select "Shadows and Light". Warmly, Cassy I also feel a real affinity for the line "Happiness is the best facelift" NP: Missing - Beck (What an awesome song!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:43:03 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester? NJC > I like Melissa Manchester too. When I was a kid in the archipelago her songs > were on heavy radio airplay such as "Fire in the Morning", "Looking Through > The Eyes of Love" and "Dont Cry Out Loud" -- the latter song I didnt know was > written by Peter Allen until about 5 years ago. I hear that her past albums > are hard to find on CD now -- if they are available at all. I own an album of > hers called "Tribute" where she sang standards. Her voice is strong and > flexible and can hit high notes without getting thin at the extreme ends. She > sings the songs quite straight with little or no improvisation from the > original. Even her "Lady Be Good" version which had her scatting with the > facility of the woman she is paying tribute to -- Ella Fitz -- follows Ella's > own scat routines. Melissa comes from a very musical family. Her father played the oboe with the NY Philharmonic and her brother is her arranger and conductor. > > But I like that album a lot. > > Last week I got a used copy of Bette Midler's tribute to Rosemary Clooney > and it was also good. She never once attempted to conjure the vocalism of > Rosie in her singing even if she sang Rosie's famous numbers. She has this > funny duet with Barry Manilow on "Slow Boat to China" A place I used to hang at had a DJ who played it all the time. Everyone would always stop and sing along. Just that kind of song. and she also reinvented > "Hey There" with a Midleresque spin. I wonder if her latest tribute album to > Peggy Lee is good. Unfortunately, it is not Will wait for it in used record stores. Hope Bette Midler > will continue to produce this type of music. I do too. Seems she has found her niche. And back with pal Barry was a smart move, especially with his new found fame. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:53:29 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta From: "Brian Gross" > "She said she had retired (Joni is now 62) and wasn't recording anymore. > But > she had found herself writing again, and had three new songs. !!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:57:43 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Rockers on Bio Channel njc It's Rock Icons Week on the Biography Channel. Excellent Eric Clapton one last night, tonight is Jerry Garcia, Wednesday is Hendrix (a good one if you haven't seen it), and Thursday will be Neil Young. RR ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:59:34 -0800 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like? NJC > That's the Har-LETTES, if you don't mind, Miss FRYE! Oops. My bad. : ) Thanks for reminding me, Mark! Lori ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:07:23 -0800 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester? NJC > I like Melissa Manchester too. When I was a kid in the archipelago her songs were on > heavy radio airplay such as "Fire in the Morning", "Looking Through The Eyes of Love" and > "Dont Cry Out Loud" All good stuff, but my favorites remain: Her first album, Home to Myself. I saw her play and sing the title track on some late night tv show when I was about 15, and I was hooked. Melissa co-wrote the song with Carole Bayer Sager (another underrated singer, imo). And her second, third, and fourth albums: Bright Eyes Melissa Better Days and Happy Endings Bright Eyes, in particular, is an amazing album. Discography here: http://www.melissa-manchester.com/discography.html Lori "Home to Myself" I wake up and see The light of the day Shining on me Make my own time It's mine to spend Think to myself My own best friend It's not so bad all alone Comin' home to myself again Now I understand Whatever I feel is whoever I am Watching my life and how its grown Looking on back to friends I've known Its not so bad all alone Coming home to myself again It's not so bad to get lost in my tears And to laugh and to cry for the years gone by Oh my, oh my, Now somehow I know I've come a long way Got a long way to go But something inside Keeps making me strong And in the bad times I'll get along 'Cause it's not so bad all alone Comin' home to myself again I'm comin' home (Carole Bayer Sager/Melissa Manchester) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:09:14 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta - --- Brian Gross wrote: http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Columnists/Hicks_Graham/2006/03/21/1497871.html > > COURT AND SPARK AND DANCE "She said she had retired (Joni is now 62) and wasn't recording anymore. But she had found herself writing again, and had three new songs. "She'll consider recording again, for us." ALL RIGHT!!! P.S. I've always wanted to hear Muller sing, "Dancing Clown." > Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:22:00 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: Re: Michael McDonald and Joni now NJC Hi Joseph, I've never heard "Never Give Up" but would definitely like to. I wish you could hear him do his versions of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You", "After the Dance" and "Distant Lover"...very soulful!!!Very true to form! Very nice! He was paying tribute to Marvin Gaye and to Motown. Some cuts from both Motown CD's I am more found of. These are the some of the best in my opinion. Also, I am a big fan of his last original effort in 2000 "Blue Obsession". There's a lot of good material there. He does a cover of Neil Young's "Down By the River" as well as two beautiful originals, "Where Would I Be Now" and "Meaning of Love". I'm not sure if he wrote this one but it is a heartwrenching song about a South African town plagued by the Ebola virus. It's called, "Kikwit Town". From a vocalist's perspective, I could listen to him and Joni all the live long day!!!! Sherelle Joseph wrote: Hi Sherelle, I agree with you completely about Michael McDonald. In fact I used to think that he is the best backup/harmomy singer ever. Any song that had him in the harmony vocals sounds even better from wife Amy Holland's "Never Give Up" to Patti Austin's "I can't let go". His duet with Joni had the same effect for me even if he was given a more active role rather than just to provide background vocals. And now that I remembered it, he has this beautiful falsetto that he used when he sang with Patti Labelle in "On My Own". Joseph in cloudy Chapel Hill (wondering why I am particularly chatty today -- must be nervousness) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:56:14 -0600 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Melissa Manchester? LJC Joseph wrote: > I like Melissa Manchester too. When I was a kid in the archipelago her songs were on heavy radio airplay such as "Fire in the Morning", "Looking Through The Eyes of Love" and "Dont Cry Out Loud" - --Her hit records were tremendous Joseph although despite my feelings for her I never cared for 'don't cry out loud'-- always thought the lyrics were a little squirrelly and Melissa herself has said she didn't quite find them the way they should be. Great vocal though but she always pulls that off. I don't listen to the song. The reason I write this is that her old albums are indeed hard to find but well worth it if you can pull it off. That is where she really shines and is quite the songwriter herself. She even pays tribute to Joni in one of the tunes. I have most of her work in some form or another but getting very hard to find some of it. Particularly trying to find the tunes I only have on records, can't even find some of them on Limewire--- yet. She has a website and had a bulletin board where I and other fans would post. ( The format is not as good as this and haven't found any other list with this setup. One would think others would emulate this system.) Unfortunately an asshole came on board and was posting disgusting, obscene messages so they closed the forum down. I would dearly love to contact those in control and offer my services as moderator of a new board for her but can't seem to find out how to do it. Any advice on that would be appreciated. We Missy fans are starving for a place to express ourselves. So check her out if you can find her, the older tunes, the not hit tunes, you will not be sorry. She does a killer version of 'walk on by' that beats the heck out of Warwick's. Her version of Randy Newmans' " I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore' is too fine for words. She is, without a doubt, indescribable. mack ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:33:59 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester? NJC - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Notaro" >> I wonder if her latest tribute album to >> Peggy Lee is good. > > Unfortunately, it is not Maria Muldaur has done a nice CD tribute to Peggy Lee called "A Woman Alone with the Blues (Remembering Peggy Lee)" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:45:47 -0500 From: kjhsf@aol.com Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester/guilty pleasures NJC Mack must be in heaven with all this MM discussion! I agree, Lori, about HOME TO MYSELF, and must have seen the same Melissa Concert on HBO back in the 80's. There is a Joni reference in the song FUNNY THAT WAY ; "Now I don't have the soul of Joni/and I cannot picture myself like Miss Laura..." (Mitchell and Nyro, no?) One of my other favorites of hers is a song called "Lights of Dawn" which appears on a much later album--Mack would know which. She was an early musical love, pre-Joni. I also have the guilty pleasure of loving Toni Tennille from when i was a kid. And before that, the wonderful Partridge Family! I recently discovered some Partridge Family downloads that were recorded pre-David Cassidy by the real musicians behind them, a group called "the Love Generation" (they sang the theme to Love American Style, too.) I'm so old! KEN - -----Original Message----- From: Lori Fye To: joni@smoe.org Sent: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:07:23 -0800 Subject: Re: what smarm-divas do we like now Melissa Manchester? NJC > I like Melissa Manchester too. When I was a kid in the archipelago her songs were on > heavy radio airplay such as "Fire in the Morning", "Looking Through The Eyes of Love" and > "Dont Cry Out Loud" All good stuff, but my favorites remain: Her first album, Home to Myself. I saw her play and sing the title track on some late night tv show when I was about 15, and I was hooked. Melissa co-wrote the song with Carole Bayer Sager (another underrated singer, imo). And her second, third, and fourth albums: Bright Eyes Melissa Better Days and Happy Endings Bright Eyes, in particular, is an amazing album. Discography here: http://www.melissa-manchester.com/discography.html Lori "Home to Myself" I wake up and see The light of the day Shining on me Make my own time It's mine to spend Think to myself My own best friend It's not so bad all alone Comin' home to myself again Now I understand Whatever I feel is whoever I am Watching my life and how its grown Looking on back to friends I've known Its not so bad all alone Coming home to myself again It's not so bad to get lost in my tears And to laugh and to cry for the years gone by Oh my, oh my, Now somehow I know I've come a long way Got a long way to go But something inside Keeps making me strong And in the bad times I'll get along 'Cause it's not so bad all alone Comin' home to myself again I'm comin' home (Carole Bayer Sager/Melissa Manchester) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:29:34 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta > she had found herself writing again, and had >three new songs. Thanks for sharing the story, Brian - I read it at lunchtime and about dropped a payday in my pants. Now you have to find out the song titles so I can go find covers of them. LOL Bob NP: U2, "Miracle Drug" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:32:16 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Dancing Clowns to come to life in Alberta NJC I'm pretty much of a slut for a performance, but this one might just be pushing it... Bob NP: Jackson Browne, "Sky Blue & Black" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:35:29 -0500 From: Gary Z Subject: Melissa Manchester/Now Bette Midler NJC Rumor has it that Bette is seriously considering doing a Laura Nyro songbook tribute CD next. We'll see if it pans out. I think she could do Laura justice. Best regards, Gary Jerry Notaro wrote: >>I like Melissa Manchester too. When I was a kid in the archipelago her songs >>were on heavy radio airplay such as "Fire in the Morning", "Looking Through >>The Eyes of Love" and "Dont Cry Out Loud" -- the latter song I didnt know was >>written by Peter Allen until about 5 years ago. I hear that her past albums >>are hard to find on CD now -- if they are available at all. I own an album of >>hers called "Tribute" where she sang standards. Her voice is strong and >>flexible and can hit high notes without getting thin at the extreme ends. She >>sings the songs quite straight with little or no improvisation from the >>original. Even her "Lady Be Good" version which had her scatting with the >>facility of the woman she is paying tribute to -- Ella Fitz -- follows Ella's >>own scat routines. >> >> > >Melissa comes from a very musical family. Her father played the oboe with >the NY Philharmonic and her brother is her arranger and conductor. > > >> >> But I like that album a lot. >> >> Last week I got a used copy of Bette Midler's tribute to Rosemary Clooney >>and it was also good. She never once attempted to conjure the vocalism of >>Rosie in her singing even if she sang Rosie's famous numbers. She has this >>funny duet with Barry Manilow on "Slow Boat to China" >> >> > >A place I used to hang at had a DJ who played it all the time. Everyone >would always stop and sing along. Just that kind of song. > >and she also reinvented > > >>"Hey There" with a Midleresque spin. I wonder if her latest tribute album to >>Peggy Lee is good. >> >> > >Unfortunately, it is not > >Will wait for it in used record stores. Hope Bette Midler > > >>will continue to produce this type of music. >> >> > >I do too. Seems she has found her niche. And back with pal Barry was a smart >move, especially with his new found fame. > >Jerry ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #104 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------