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Monday, February 28, 2022
Monday Night Jazz Standard - Peggy Lee How Long Has This Been Going On
Sorry,schmucko. THIS is what "How Long Has This Been Going On" is supposed to sound like. :-) {link to a video of the tripe he posted)
Posted only so I can prove that Simps beleives he knows how to sing Gershwin songs better than Peggy Lee.
Here's what one of the rare living persons who knew either George (if there are any of those alive, I don't know) or Ira Gershwin had to say about Peggy Lee's singing of Gershwin.
GROSS: So I want to play another song that you've brought with you, and we asked Michael Feinstein to bring some of his favorite Gershwin recordings and some rarities. And this is a song I want to talk with you about. So this is a Peggy Lee recording of "The Man I Love," one of the Gershwins' great songs, with Nelson Riddle's orchestra recorded in 1957.
So before we talk about the song, tell us why you love this version of it.
FEINSTEIN: "The Man I Love" has almost become a cliche in the sense that the song has been heard and performed so many times that it becomes harder and harder as time progresses for a singer to perform the song with great sincerity, one of the reasons being that the song is something that lyrically could be considered maudlin in these days because it's the quintessential torch song - someday he'll come along, that man, he'll come for me. So it takes a really great interpreter to be able to take a lyric that borders now on cliche because it was written in a particular time and to make it absolutely immediate and fresh and make it believable. And Peggy Lee, who recorded this song three decades after it was written, sings the song with such connection, sincerity and simplicity, and of course Nelson Riddle's arrangement is one that is supreme in its majesty.
GROSS: It's really beautiful. Let's hear it. So this is Peggy Lee, 1957, "The Man I Love."
Sorry,schmucko. THIS is what "How Long Has This Been Going On" is supposed to sound like. :-)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_GMMLULXw
steve simelsMarch 1, 2022 at 5:57 AM
ReplyDeleteSorry,schmucko. THIS is what "How Long Has This Been Going On" is supposed to sound like. :-) {link to a video of the tripe he posted)
Posted only so I can prove that Simps beleives he knows how to sing Gershwin songs better than Peggy Lee.
Here's what one of the rare living persons who knew either George (if there are any of those alive, I don't know) or Ira Gershwin had to say about Peggy Lee's singing of Gershwin.
GROSS: So I want to play another song that you've brought with you, and we asked Michael Feinstein to bring some of his favorite Gershwin recordings and some rarities. And this is a song I want to talk with you about. So this is a Peggy Lee recording of "The Man I Love," one of the Gershwins' great songs, with Nelson Riddle's orchestra recorded in 1957.
So before we talk about the song, tell us why you love this version of it.
FEINSTEIN: "The Man I Love" has almost become a cliche in the sense that the song has been heard and performed so many times that it becomes harder and harder as time progresses for a singer to perform the song with great sincerity, one of the reasons being that the song is something that lyrically could be considered maudlin in these days because it's the quintessential torch song - someday he'll come along, that man, he'll come for me. So it takes a really great interpreter to be able to take a lyric that borders now on cliche because it was written in a particular time and to make it absolutely immediate and fresh and make it believable. And Peggy Lee, who recorded this song three decades after it was written, sings the song with such connection, sincerity and simplicity, and of course Nelson Riddle's arrangement is one that is supreme in its majesty.
GROSS: It's really beautiful. Let's hear it. So this is Peggy Lee, 1957, "The Man I Love."