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Post by vikingfan on Aug 22, 2016 15:55:11 GMT -5
In the new issue of Rolling Stone (Paul McCartney on the cover), Aaron Neville is asked to submit his 5 great vocal performances in a sidebar feature called My List. He mentions Linda's performance of "Cry Like a Rainstorm":
"I'll be on an airplane trip and put this song on. It just soothes me. She has one of the greatest voices of all time."
Also on his list are Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa", Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come", Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and Beyoncé's "At Last".
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Post by Richard W on Aug 24, 2016 15:47:16 GMT -5
"Cry Like a Rainstorm" is one of my top Linda tracks. Some think it's an overblown production, but not me. The soaring guitar and wall of chorus add to the theme of the song. Raitt's version is also stellar, but for different reasons. A person can love both, again for different reasons.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 16:51:09 GMT -5
Nice to hear from Aaron, but Beyonce instead of Etta James?
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Post by fabtastique on Aug 25, 2016 0:37:21 GMT -5
Beyoncé, totally over rated ....
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Post by erik on Aug 25, 2016 9:11:01 GMT -5
Perhaps Aaron thinks that Beyoncé is the new Etta James. I don't agree with that, but still that's just my opinion.
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Post by Richard W on Aug 25, 2016 11:20:23 GMT -5
Personally, if I never hear "At Last" — by anyone — I will die happy. There was a time recently when that song was used by absolutely everyone for everything. It got to the point that as soon as I heard those opening strings I felt like fleeing.
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Post by erik on Aug 25, 2016 14:22:17 GMT -5
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I think it has more to do with American Idol, The Voice, The X Factor, and America's Got Talent perpetuating that song than anything else; only "I Will Always Love You" (post-Whitney, of course) tops it in terms of being forced down America's gullet.
I have heard the Bey's version of it; she really doesn't add anything to it that wasn't already there in Etta's original recording (IMHO).
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 25, 2016 14:29:33 GMT -5
I think the big deal about that song now was that Beyoncé sang it for Obama at the inauguration. I don't really care for any of her vocals but I am spoiled. I would like to dedicate this to Richard W 
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Post by PoP80 on Aug 25, 2016 15:49:42 GMT -5
Phoebe Snow has a killer version. If you haven't heard that one you might want to give it a try.
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Post by markv on Aug 25, 2016 16:01:19 GMT -5
Phoebe is fantastic at anything. I have been listening to her quite a bit lately. I really wish she and Linda had recorded together.
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Post by Richard W on Aug 26, 2016 8:38:22 GMT -5
Thanks for thinking of me, ronstadtfanaz!
James's version was used in every other car commercial and what-all for awhile there, at the same time Starbuck's had it on rotation. It seemed as if I could not escape that song. Sure, I've heard countless Linda tracks thousands of times more, so I guess it's, as Erik said, the forcing of it down my throat that really turned me off to a song I did once enjoy.
I do love Phoebe and may, at some point, give her version a listen. (And for the record, I also love Etta James, and stood not five feet away from her several years ago at the Cubby Bear in Chicago where she was performing, close enough that several times she looked me straight in the eye while singing, a memorable, if rather terrifying, experience.)
Another one of those songs that sends me screaming to the hills (and for the same reasons) is Armstrong's "Wonderful World." I simply can't bear it.
And I, too, Mark, wish Linda and Phoebe had recorded together. As it is I have mp3s of their two SNL songs. What they could have done with an album's worth!
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Post by erik on Aug 26, 2016 9:01:09 GMT -5
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Yes, another one of those that is forced down the throat until people can't stand it and start to have the same reaction that Malcolm McDowell does to the Beethoven Ninth after he undergoes aversion therapy in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
But just wait until the holidays, when all of us will have Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" rammed down our throats once again.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 26, 2016 9:59:12 GMT -5
I know Rob and I were at the same concert and saw Linda and Phoebe sing together at the PNC Bank Arts Center (forever the Garden State Arts Center in my mind) in what 2003? eddiejinnj
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Post by MokyWI on Aug 26, 2016 15:17:04 GMT -5
I agree with you Erik on a "Wonderful World", when it comes on the radio it is like nails on a chalkboard for me. No matter who is singing it, I CAN'T STAND THAT SONG.
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Post by erik on Aug 26, 2016 17:48:52 GMT -5
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Again, like the aforementioned examples, the problem is its being overused (to put it mildly) on everything, and being rammed down people's throats. With "What A Wonderful World", the fault, in my opinion, isn't really with Satchmo himself (the song really wasn't a hit in its day [1967-68], but became one because of GOOD MORNING VIETNAM in 1987).
So far as I know, I don't think we ever had that problem with Linda back in the day, even though her singles and albums were selling like gangbusters.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 7:18:57 GMT -5
I know Rob and I were at the same concert and saw Linda and Phoebe sing together at the PNC Bank Arts Center (forever the Garden State Arts Center in my mind) in what 2003? eddiejinnj I think that was the year,and it was great. And the PNC takeover was and is a disaster. |
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