Recorded 50 years ago today

[MARIS61]

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[SlyPokerDog]

I wonder if he ever found it?

 

[jlprk]

I didn't appreciate Tony Bennett till I bought a greatest hits album 10 years ago, and figured out the underlying sad, hopeful, lonely, wistful spirit in his existential music.

 

[ABM]

Kyle Williams' new theme song.

 

[TripTango]

I didn't appreciate Tony Bennett till I bought a greatest hits album 10 years ago, and figured out the underlying sad, hopeful, lonely, wistful spirit in his existential music.

This post has just a little too much American Psycho in it...

 

[jlprk]

Tony Bennett songs have the opposite effect on you from Frank Sinatra songs. Sinatra's more boisterous and full of individual ambition. Bennett sings about how his life hasn't been a success and leaves you a little sad. Try listening to dueling greatest hits albums.

It's amazing that Bennett is still singing on stage without detriment. It's because he never had the greatest voice to begin with, so he didn't have much voice to lose. I remember in the late 50s there was a Coke ad campaign with Tony Bennett contest stuff inside the bottlecaps. He was already as big as Dean Martin or Sinatra and it was a few years before the San Francisco song. From my greatest hits album, I learned that he had huge national hits 12 years before 50 years ago, songs that still sound great to today's ears.

(I never saw American Psycho. Is that one of those crappy new talkies? I'm boycotting till they go back to silent movies.)

 

[TripTango]

Tony Bennett songs have the opposite effect on you from Frank Sinatra songs. Sinatra's more boisterous and full of individual ambition. Bennett sings about how his life hasn't been a success and leaves you a little sad. Try listening to dueling greatest hits albums.

It's amazing that Bennett is still singing on stage without detriment. It's because he never had the greatest voice to begin with, so he didn't have much voice to lose. I remember in the late 50s there was a Coke ad campaign with Tony Bennett contest stuff inside the bottlecaps. He was already as big as Dean Martin or Sinatra and it was a few years before the San Francisco song. From my greatest hits album, I learned that he had huge national hits 12 years before 50 years ago, songs that still sound great to today's ears.

(I never saw American Psycho. Is that one of those crappy new talkies? I'm boycotting till they go back to silent movies.)

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Feel free to turn off your sound, if you'd like -- here's a transcript so you can read along!

Patrick Bateman: You like Huey Lewis and the news?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Patrick Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
[he raises axe above head]