DEWEY'S RECORD PARTY!

[benwhowell]

Beverly Sills May 25, 1929-July 2, 2007

"Arditi: Il bacio" From the short "Uncle Sol Solves It"
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"Vilja" From "The Merry Widow"
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"Follie!...Sempre Libera" From "La Traviata"
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Her final performance..."Tell Me Why"
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[benwhowell]

John Kander and Fred Ebb

"Maybe This Time" Liza Minelli From "Cabaret"
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"The Both Reached For The Gun" Richard Gere From "Chicago"
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"Kiss Of The Spider Woman" Chita Rivera
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"Everybody's Girl" Debra Monk From "Steel Pier"
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[benwhowell]

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!

"Star Spangled Banner" Sufjan Stevens


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"America The Beautiful" Barbra Streisand
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"This Land Is Your Land" Bruce Springsteen
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"America" Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas, Nevada
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[mrsl]

I have to add my two cents about the Las Vegas experience. That must be new since I was there, and it's wonderful. I can imagine standing there in person to see it, I'm sure there is a lot of cheering that goes on at the end of that particular exhibition.

The last time I was there, I saw the contemporary music, western music, and the rock and roll, but this is awe inspiring.

Thanks for the show.

Anne

[CharlieT]

Guess I'm more of a traditionalist.

Ladies and gentlemen... our National Anthem

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And The Battle Hymn of the Republic as only the Mormon Tabernacle Choir can do it.

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And not so traditional... Mr. Ray Charles and America the Beautiful.

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And SO traditional... God Bless America by Kate Smith.

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A safe and glorious 4th to you all!

[benwhowell]

STAX RECORDS

Carla Thomas "B-A-B-Y"
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Otis Redding "Try A Little Tenderness"
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Booker T. And The MGs "Time Is Tight"
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The Staple Singers "Respect Yourself"
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Stax Records 50TH Anniversary Trailer
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[benwhowell]

Scopitones! Part music video/part burlesque a go go...

Lesley Gore "Wonder Boy"
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Kay Starr "Wheel Of Fortune"
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Bobby Vee "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes"
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Brook Benton "Mother Nature, Father Time"
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[benwhowell]

Aquascope!

"Barbie Girl" Aqua
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[benwhowell]

"Too Darn Hot" Erasure
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"Hot, Hot, Hot" Buster Poindexter
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"Hot Stuff" Donna Summer
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"Some Like It Hot" The Power Station
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[benwhowell]

Freaky Friday...

"The Hullabaloo" Joey Heatherton
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"Earth Angel" Tiny Tim
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"La Vie En Rose" Grace Jones
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"Cars" Gary Numan

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[benwhowell]

See ya'll monday...

"My Humps" Black Eyed Peas
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"The Drill" The Drill

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"My Humps" VS "The Drill"
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[sandykaypax]

BEN! You have a little dancing clip from "We Know Something!"

I LOVE that video!! Dang, that plushie shark and tiger are so sublime!

I am always trying to send people to YouTube to check it out. We originally found it on the Albino Blacksheep site.

It ALWAYS puts a smile on my face.

Sandy K

[Moraldo Rubini]

Last night I saw Pink Martini perform with the San Francisco Symphony. Pink Martini frontman Thomas Lauderdale told a story about Amado Mio, the song made famous by Rita Hayworth in Gilda. He saw the movie years ago and wanted to put the song on their first album. But he didn't have access to the movie, and at the time didn't have access to the world wide web, so he got ahold of Grace Jones' version of the song. He played it over and over to get the lyrics. Unfortunately, Ms. Jones' diction leaves something to be desired. For example, he thought she sang, "I want you ever", instead of "I won't endeavor". At any rate, the song became a big hit for them (with China Forbes' vocal).

Years later they saw Gilda on the big screen and realized the lyrical errors they'd been making. They recently played in Turkey and Greece, where the enthusastic audiences wanted to sing along. Since they all know the song from the Pink Martini album, they've learned the wrong words. So the band sang it wrong there. But last night they had the words right!

Here's a clip of Gilda singing Amado Mio with the soundtrack provided by Pink Martini:

[benwhowell]

Thank you, Sandy! I found that "clip" on Photobucket...thought it was probably from some theme park...and the dancing seemed in sync with "My Humps." I do enjoy dancing plush animal videos...

"We Know Something" DJ Format with Jurassic 5
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"Human Behaviour" Bjork
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"Swine Lake" From "The Muppet Show" with Rudolph Nureyev!
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"Zoo Animals On Wheels" From "Get A Life"
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[Dewey1960]

Yowza everybody -- Ol' Dewey's back from a sun-drenched week of holiday hijinks up in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, cavorting about in Portland and Seattle. Temps got up into the high 80s and low 90s with permanent abundant sunshine! But I missed Oakland and sure enuf the Record party! Kudos to all the great spin-eroos from the beatific Ben, especially the wonderful tribute to the lamentedly late Beverly Sills and the stirring 4th of July shows of shows! Ditto to CharlieT's magnificent show of passionate patriotism!! And Moraldo--diggity dang, dude--I am a longtime Pink Martini fan and dug your post the most!!

And as my beautiful wife and I roamed around up there we kept hearin' a message that seemed to be coming from more and more Americans right now. It was a message that begs to be heard and seen and it's been percolatin' down along the line for some time now...

Without further ado:

Freda Payne's classic 1971 anthem BRING THE BOYS HOME NOW! is here set to images from the 2007 Peace March in Washington, DC...
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The late great Edwin Starr updates his own 1970 smash Motown classic, WAR! (WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN'!)
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The original goddess of poetry, Laura Nyro and her hauntingly awesome SAVE THE COUNTRY from 1968...
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Grab some music and come on down!
Thanks everybody...
-Dewey