Klarinet Archive - Posting 000465.txt from 2002/07

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Music the makes you Wince
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:46:04 -0400

Bill Daniluk wrote,

>You may have to be of a certain age to appreciate it, but
>Dave Barry's Book of bad songs
>(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0740706004/reade
>r/5/103-2799839-9473430#reader-link)
>Is one of the funniest compilations of bad pop music that I
>have ever read. He has much related to Gary Puckett,
Bobby Goldsboro (the original "Honey" hit encountered)....
[snip]

Bobby Goldsboro! I must've been having a senior moment when I blamed Gary
Puckett and the Union Gap for the extra-smarmy version of "Honey (I Miss
You)." It was Goldsboro's version I heard at the D. C. Big Flea last
Saturday; and the Goldsboro version was also the one the Top 40 stations used
to play every five minutes, that made me dive for the "Off" button.

Re. Kevin Callahan's nomination, George Gershwin is one of my favorite
composers. I love "Summertime," if it's sung by a first-rate musician with a
mature voice. Alas, I've heard "Summertime" sung so many times by very young
amateurs that they've nearly ruined it for me. My high school's untalent
competitons suffered from an infestation of teenaged white girls who tried
way too hard to look sexy, and who attempted, one after the other (sometimes
three or four of them on one program!), to sing "Summertime" in what they
imagined was a black accent. Thus they sounded not only off-pitch but
racist, too. They never would be missed, no, they never would be missed....

Among my many pet hates from the 1960s: Anything by The Chipmunks, but
especially "The Christmas Song." AAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!

Lelia
LeliaLoban@-----.com

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