[Dixielandjazz] Aretha blesses America

[Charlie Hooks]

Have just learned that Miss Franlin is using a pseudonym: not Aretha after
all: read "Urethra"

Charlie



on 7/5/02 6:46 AM, Don Ingle at dingle@baldwin-net.com wrote:

> 400 pounds -- pretty good estimate. Her boobs were at least 100 alone. In
> Michigan we'd have built a ski lift on her and called here Mt. Aretha!
> Your comment on the Beethoven 9th was exactly as you stated - I said the
> same to Jean as we watched...why did they do that? The "Ode to Joy" movement
> is the most uplifting piece of music one can hear -- if played as written,
> not as jerry-rigged to fit a guest who can't give the score its respect. The
> anticipatory note that gives the "bridge" its punch was overblown by the
> "Diva's" lack of timing.
> Completely inappropriate pairing.
> Sorry I didn't hear the Louis/Lenya radio bit. Lotte was the wife of the
> composer, Kurt Weil, but was never a jazz singer, though in her own niche
> was a gifted artist. Some people never learn to swing...or in the first
> case, to match material with talent.
> I have shown Jean your comments and she said..."Was he listening to our
> conversation somehow ?" Your aura must have been cherry red when you heard
> the first notes of the 9th and realized Aretha was still on stage.
> Attuned in Michigan,
> Don and Jean Ingle
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JimDBB@aol.com>
> To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 1:42 AM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Aretha blesses America
> 
> 
>> In a 4th of July extravaganza from the Capitol this, nation once again had
> to
>> endure having its national songs subjected to abysmal renderings by
> american
>> pop singers.  Biggest offender today was the soul Queen, Aretha Franklin.
>> Ms. Franklin arrived onstage, weighing in at about 400lbs and gave us a
>> dreadful 'God Bless America.'  Every 'Soul' vocal distortion that you've
> ever
>> heard was thrown into this.   Worse was yet to come when the Orchestra
> went
>> into a truncated Beethoven Ninth and Aretha  added her vocaleses to the
>> finale.  Mercifully, the orchestra, chorus and the fireworks pretty much
>> overwhelmed her offerings.
>> 
>> On a jazzier and brighter note, earlier in the day and on the way to
>> Milwaukee I turned on the radio and dialed in WEBZ, NPR in chicago.  A
>> marvelous interview with MIchael Cosgrove was underway. Cosgrove is the
>> curator on the Louis Armstrong Archives and he had some interesting things
> to
>> relate.  He played a tape of a record session that was never released.
>> Columbia thought that it would be clever to have Louis record, "Mack the
>> Knife" with Lotte Lenya, who had sung this song in the original show, "the
>> Three Penny Opera". she is mentioned in the song.  She is a square show
>> singer and can't get the ending that Louis is trying to show her.  It is
>> amusing to hear this as Louis is very gracious and patient, and over and
> over
>> tries to show her the ending.
>> 
>> Louis Armstrong's creative genuis will continue to unfold as the years go
> by.
>> 
>> JIm Beebe
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Dixielandjazz mailing list
>> Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com
>> http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Dixielandjazz mailing list
> Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com
> http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz