[Dixielandjazz] Rod Stewart on Good Morning America

[Jim Beebe]

You summed it up in four words.  thank you, Butch.

Jim Beebe


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Thompson" <butcht at sihope.com>
To: "djml" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 8:18 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Rod Stewart on Good Morning America


> Mr. Stewart appeared on national television to promote a second volume of
> his Great American Songbook.  It is hard to find words to describe this
> performance, but here are  four: arrogant, inept, enervated, juvenile.
>
> He was asked how he feels as he sings the classic repertoire in the shadow
> of the many giants who have done so before him, and more specifically how
> this compares with performing his usual material.  "It's easier," he said.
> Well, if you don't try to sing on pitch maybe it is.
>
>
> There were also a few string players on the set, along with a pianist,
bass
> player and maybe one or two others.  The arrangements were bland and
> unimaginative in the extreme, and I was embarrassed for the musicians.
>
> Anybody on the list who starts getting requests for that Rod Stewart song
> "I'm in the Mood for Love" should report this event to the rest of us.
>
> Butch Thompson
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