[Dixielandjazz] Rod Stewart reviews

[Kurt]

Here are a couple of reviews found at the Amazon.com website regarding Rod
Stewart's "The Great American Songbook".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006JL4J/102-9243077-5605746
?v=glance

I'll Be Seeing You, Rod. Don't Call Me, I'll Call You., October 4, 2003 
	Reviewer: Bix Lang from Davenport, Iowa, United States 	
Somebody should locate the person who told Rod Stewart he can sing and have
him or her institutionalized for unleashing this gurgling vegetable on the
entertainment world. Does he gargle with old razor blades? Combined with his
Rooster hair, Toucan nose, and facial wart, Stewart has taken the crooner
mystique back a thousand years. Financially speaking, he's the perfect
attraction for this day and age, when teenage fans wear nose rings and are
sexual afficionados before they're ten years old; and when "entertainers"
spend more time grabbing their crotch and spitting on the audience than they
do singing. If you prefer a truly good singer of American classic popular
song stick with the major leaguers: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone,
Bobby Darin, Jack Jones, Russ Columbo, Matt Monro, Bing Crosby, etc. Even
minor leaguers like flitty Michael Feinstein and overrated Harry Connick
make Stewart sound like Shirley Temple doing a bad rendition of "Good Ship
Lollipop." Come to think of it, Stewart even resembled her a bit....kinda
strange for someone whose sex is supposedly "male." Plain and simple,
Stewart stinks. Because good taste and sophistication today are relative
terms at best and politically incorrect at worst, young people haven't a
clue as to what a genuinely good singer sounds like. Old Rooster Head is
simply cashing in on the ignorance of an uncivilized age. 
 Heaven Help Us!, October 2, 2003 
	Reviewer: A music fan from Ellicott , MD USA 	
One of the reviewers said "It's said that Stewart has been vocalizing many
of these songs in private for years". My response? "Why, oh why did he have
to go public!"
This is as big a load of garbage as I have ever heard. It qualifies for the
"World's Worst Music" website. Yuck!