From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #174 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Friday, June 17 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 174 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- My 2c regarding MJ, and some rare recordings now available again... [litt] TIME Joni carricature ["Michael O'Malley" ] Basketball Joan [jrmco1@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:20:40 +0000 From: littlebreen@comcast.net Subject: My 2c regarding MJ, and some rare recordings now available again... Hi, all -- I feel kinda good that the general concensus here agrees with mine, w/r/t Michael Jackson's innocent verdict. Okay, he's weird -- there's a news flash -- but *what* were the prosecutors thinking, with those stinking, awful witnesses? And is anyone going to prosecute that miserable woman (the boy's mother)? At least get the boy away from her custody and maybe there'll be something left to salvage. On a lighter note, I recently snagged a copy of a rare copy (Japanese import) of Carole Bayer Sager's 1981 album, Sometimes Late At Night. It was her first album with her new husband, Burt Bacharach, and although some Bacharach nuts (of whom I am one) look upon there work together as substandard Bacharach, I disagree. It is certainly more subdued, and there's less of the astonishing signature and key changes that were emblematic of BB during the sixties and early seventies. Anyhoo, MJ came to mind because he sings a duet with CBS called "Just Friends". It's interesting to hear Michael's sweet, pre-Thriller voice singing CBS's killer lyrics: "It's funny how when love is gone/There's only one left holding on/And someone's always hurting more/Still lonely for the other/I don't think/That you and me can just be friends..." Back in April (birthday-time) I splurged and got Hip-O Select's fabulous 5-CD set of Bacharachanalia (all of his 7 LPs for A&M records plus lots of other rarities -- I especially love being able to hear again his orchestral suites from the seventies, usually 5-10 minutes long and typically with three movements each, some with vocals and some not -- think of Ludwig's song or Paprika Plains -- gorgeous mergers of late romantic/early modern "classical" with all sorts of jazz and latin elements. Also recently available for the first time ever on CD, for you jmdl Dionne Warwick fans, are her first two Warner Brothers albums (the best of the five she did for them, and yet the only two *not* available until this year). The first one, from 1972, is called just "Dionne", which is unfortunately the same as the name of another later album that sold better. This one was the last one that she made with Burt and Hal David before the latter two had a falling out and legal chaos ensued. It starts with the breathtaking "I Just Have To Breathe" that I shakily warbled at the 2002 Jonifest; needless to say, Dionne sings it better than I ever could. The album is full of other gorgeous rarely-heard Bacharach/David songs. The other Warner Brothers album is a bit of an oddity from 1973 called "Just Being Myself". Odd because it just didn't sound like a Dionne Warwick album. The songs are great -- since Burt and Hal were no longer available, they matched Dionne up with Holland, Dozier and Holland, whose own careers were sort of beginning to fade (I guess they're best known for hits they wrote for Diana Ross and the Supremes). There are a couple of real standout songs on this album -- I love the furious "You're Gonna Need Me" and the gospelish "Don't Burn the Bridge (That Took You Across)" -- but the album only has nine songs. Part of Dionne's contract with Warners stated that if she really hated a song, she had the right to refuse its going on an album (German: Richten haben des Lieder dumpen). The majority of songs on both albums are, of course, mostly about sadness over being dumped (German: Lieders des Gedumpenhabensein). I love having both of them again -- and all those "lost" Bacharach albums of the seventies again, too! Hey, can anyone tell me why, given the relative success of Dionne's 2000-ish release "Dionne Sings Dionne" -- which has a wonderful salsa-ed-out version of Do You Know the Way to San Jose -- why in heavens name the follow-up, DSD II, is available only by import from Japan? I'm having a hell of a time getting it. What gives? One more ramble -- I've ordered the sheet music to Diana Krall's "Girl In The Other Room" album -- I'm looking forward to see if the arrangement of Joni's Black Crow is the same as the original in the sheet music to Hejira (probably, which is too bad -- I like the way DK fiddles with chords in Joni's "Case' and now "Crow"); and I'm really looking forward to tackling I'm Coming Through and Departure Bay, my two favorites on the album. Enough rambling, G'nite all, Walt - -- Let the walls go tumbling down Falling on the ground And all the dogs go running free The wild and gentle dogs Kenneled in me ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:10:12 +0000 From: "Michael O'Malley" Subject: TIME Joni carricature Hi, Anyone seen this? http://i.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020301/154117__joni_l.jpg I thought it was kinda cute. Showing La Joni as the diva some perceive her to be... In any event, I thought it was a fairly reasonable likeness, capturing some of her maturity and wisdom for a change, as opposed to a lot of the other nasty Joni carricatures out there! Michael in Quebec _________________________________________________________________ Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft. SmartScreen Technology. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN. Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:21:17 -0400 From: jrmco1@aol.com Subject: Basketball Joan Here's a scoop for you Detroit Pistons fans: I know Bill Laimbeer. Spoke to him on the phone yesterday. He'll be the new coach of the New York Knicks! You heard it here first. Now this JC from the newswire. I guess there *is* some Joni in NBA basketball after all. - -Julius ________ The Return of the Zen Master With his surprising return to coach the Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson inherits a weak, dispirited team, including one Kobe Bryant. WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY Newsweek Updated: 4:52 p.m. ET June 16, 2005 June 16 - Hollywood sequels seldom rise to the level of the original production, and Phil Jackson?s return to coach the Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant doesn?t figure to be an exception. We sportswriters have had more than our fair share of fun abusing Detroit Pistons Coach Larry Brown for his wandering ways. The man certainly does, as the old Joni Mitchell song goes, ?got the urge for going.? Since he first took the reins of the American Basketball Association?s Carolina Cougars more than three decades ago, Brown has gone on to coach seven different NBA teams and two college squads. And win or lose in this NBA finals against the San Antonio Spurs, Brown seems poised, after just two seasons in Motown, to make another leap, most likely to a front office job with the Cleveland Cavaliers. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #174 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)