[Dixielandjazz] when lyrics don't rhymez
pj.ladd
pj.ladd at btinternet.com
Fri Feb 6 09:45:03 PST 2009
"Stepping out, taking air/ stepping out, on a tear". The singer pronounces
"tear" as used in crying, not (as I would assume would be best) as a rip.>>
Hi Epher,
fascinating stuff, but I think you have forgotten yet another meaning for
`tear`. `Tear` as in `rip` doesn`t make sense to my mind. `Out on a tear` it
seems to me would be slang for` out on the razz`, or ` out having a ball`.
This would fit in with the `stepping out` idea of going `on the town`.
Of course just to complicate things using `rip` in the sense of `having a
ripping good time` would work. Aint English ,even the American version,
wonderful?
Just an afterthought. I have just returned from Lanzarote, part of an
island group off the coast of Africa. It is mainly a tourist spot where
youngsters go to have sex, get drunk and sunbathe. Not necessarily in that
order. The entertainment provided by the bars, restaurants, timeshare
complexes etc.,where the older visitors go, usually consist of a keyboard
player plus singer, or one person singing to backing tapes. Some of these
have very good voices and style and singing with great Nelson Riddle
backings sound quite acceptable..
One guy really surprised me He had done one set of `Rat pack` songs, Dean
Martin, Sinatra etc and one set of other singers, Bobby Darin and so forth.
He really sounded good.
When I talked to him during a break I found that his normal speaking voice
was really what, in class ridden England would be described as very low
class Cockney. And a vocabulary to match. He was only late teens and \I
would have expected him to be into all the modern bands and groups.
When I said I was surprised to find such a youngster singing `standards` He
said " Weyall! All de fackin` rubbish they fackin` wroight these dauys ent
got no fackin` tune and the wurds is fackin` crap ent they?`.
I sentiment with which I heartily concurred.
Cheers
Pat
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