[Dixielandjazz] FW: "Black and Blue" lyric

[Ric Giorgi]

The Rainbow Gardens Jazz Orchestra used to do Black and Blue just as
written, sung by a young Englishman who had been through a lot as a child.
He brought that hurt into the performance and it never failed to find the
mark with audiences. With this one, you can trust that Waller, Razaf and
Brooks got it right as long as the performer does.

Ric Giorgi
Toronto 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dixielandjazz [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On
Behalf Of Gary Lawrence Murphy
Sent: October-01-14 11:15 AM
To: Ric Giorgi
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: "Black and Blue" lyric

when May sings it, even the kids cry.  mind you, we prefix this by
explaining where the song came from in the musical, and then what Louis
Armstrong did with it in Ghana, but I think even without that, May (who is
Chinese) brings a great deal of her own hurt into it and that makes all the
difference. (and she sings "white inside", but with an edge ;) )

On 10/1/14, Jim Kashishian <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
>
> Richard wrote:
>>Before I have to write my own lyric, has anyone got words a white guy 
>>can
> sing without getting a visit from the PC cops?
>
> Dunno about PC cops, but I don't see how someone white can pull off 
> singing that song.  You'd have to give it a new title, also!  It's 
> such a beautiful tune, why not leave it as an instrumental?  I don't 
> sing it (for the above reasons), and most of our audiences don't even 
> understand English!  It just wouldn't seem right to me...
>
> Jim
>
>
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