General Chat

Welcome, Footie. When No.2 was living in Canada c1970 and spending time picking and singing with his pals, somebody brought home Bruce Cockburn's first album. Their collective reaction was: anybody wanna buy a guitar?

With Bruce playing it, nobody else needed to bother.

"Sunwheel Dance" is his virtuoso guitar bit -- unfortunately not to be found at youtube. Many others have been brave enough to attempt it and post their efforts there, though. ;)



Diizzi -- there's been another mention of Gerry Rafferty / Baker Street

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1202029

so here ya go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU

janey ty for the links to Bruce he's v good :~} thank ty Alko Michael Buble is v good too I like the version by Morrision but I must say I think Buble has the edge x

edit love Bryan Adams too

Me old?
I still feel like I'm in my 20's. I can still party with the best of them :)

I too don't like that $%& Lion song. Did he ever find them? All that wondering can't be good for you. I think we are talking about the same song.

Deb

*Edit - You forgot another hometown boy, Brian Adams. Now I must say I like his music.

Deb ... I believe that makes you .................. old.

Easier to stick your tongue out if you remove the false teeth? ;)

Bruce Cockburn is a good Central Canadian, so I'll happily lay claim to him!

Except for that &%$# lions song.

Did you listen to Mama just wants to Barrelhouse??

Michael Bublé eat your heart out.

*sticks out tongue*

Well I went to school with Michael's uncle Frank!

They are all Burnaby boys :)

Deb

Annemarree ... my goodness.

Look on this board -- read a couple of threads and before long you will see a post written by GR member WHIRLEY.

Click on her name and send her a message with the details and she will be happy to do the lookup for you.

edit - Annemarree PMed me and I sent her proper directions to Whirley's lookup thread.

We must agree to disagree. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qrjtr_uFac

Bobby Darin sings Mack the Knife ... and Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill (who wrote it) ... and I ... reach for the barf bag. ;)

Seldom has a musical work been so butchered and betrayed!

hi all i am tryin to find my father does any one have the 2007 2008 electorall reg for leeds / west yorshire ?? many thanks annemaree

Michael Buble was over here in the UK in December...he does come across as a really nice guy and a pretty good crooner at that...and yes I have 2 of his albums.

Nobody could sing Mack the Knife like Bobby Darin...swooon....oops showing my age lol.

Nite nite...off up the dancers!

hahahaha.


Maybe it was requested by








Karlheinz.


rofl

However, despite singing at a Mulroney offspring wedding ............... eh does seem to be a genuinely nice person!


Mack the Knife would not be his sort of song though


........ what's the betting it was requested by the Mulroney or offspring???

Good grief.

Back to PM's wives ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bubl%C3%A9

In 2000, Bublé's career breakthrough came from a surprising chain of events. Michael McSweeney saw Bublé's performance at a business party[12] and received a copy of Bublé’s self-financed independent album from Bublé. McSweeney, an aide to former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, showed the album to Mulroney and his wife. Subsequently, Bublé was invited to sing at the wedding of Mulroney's daughter Caroline, where he sang Kurt Weill's "Mack the Knife". At the wedding, Bublé was introduced to David Foster, a multi-Grammy Award winning producer and record executive who had worked previously with artists such as Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Céline Dion, Barbra Streisand, Kenny G., Cher, Josh Groban, and Andrea Bocelli.


He just lost me. Singing at a Brian Mulroney offspring wedding, nope, that's beyond the pale.

The Mulroney wedding was to a Lewis Lapham offspring, and that was a factor in Harpers Magazine losing me too. ;)

And insult to injury, it was a Kurt Weill song he sang. Well, at least it was my very least favourite Kurt Weill song ... unless it's done as it was meant to be done, which isn't as a lounge ditty.

Yup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm9dn5ftX0M

As the commenter says:

"Buble ruined this song singing it...Let him stick to singing schlock" ;)


How it *should* be done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG9GcykPIY

by the great Lotte Lenya.

Ute Lemper is the well-known Weill interpreter I saw perform

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZygpDWk12A

and that's dreadful.

Oh my, I've found Brecht himself doing it! But I know I'm the only one who would appreciate that. ;)

Somewhere, I actually have the 1931 movie of Threepenny Opera on tape, I think. I ordered it and lost it before I ever watched it ...

And he's all Canuck!

Michael Buble is a flashback to Sinatra-style singers


and pretty good at it!

I know nothing of Michael Bublé (I refuse to listen to commercial radio), but happened to see him on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and he 's quite clever!

Here you are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJmKkU5POA

Now I have to finish some work, so go do your own youtubing. ;)

Well, this one is more likely to wake you up than put you to sleep. ;) But Life is a Highway -- and I wanna ride it all night long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo

Michael Bauble,

Just havent met you yet,


Maybe tht the song

And Footie ... ........................





he's a Christian. ;) I don't know him, but I know his sister-in-law.

You must have heard the one song of his I can't abide (partly from total overexposure):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Lpx6JIMmk

... and I'm wondering wehre the &%$# lions are ...

More to my taste:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02J_kPincA

If I had a rocket launcher.

Powerful amazing song about the horrors committed by dictatorships around the world (some of which he has witnessed) and how he feels about them.

I neva saw him b4 but he's pretty fab x

No more requests until we hear some swooning over our Canuck Bruce.

Mama just wants to barrelhouse ... all night long ...