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Why didn't you post the DEFINITIVE version of that song?
Valerie Bertinelli's & Mackenzie Phillips' mom's version:
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I didn't go through this whole thread, but did anybody mention THIS great cover? This is the entire 17:32 side of the album:
or THIS one?
How about THESE:?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjhSc1P5ONQ
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Speaking of classic covers by The Carpenters:
The original was by a group named Klaatu
(Richard Carpenter saw Bette Midler singing this on
The Tonight Show & thought it would be perfect for Karen.)
(BTW, WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN started out as a bank commercial, before Richard saw it & asked the authors to adapt it into a full-length version..)
(Elton was able to improve The Beatles AND The Who!)
THE ORIGINAL:
Olivia's sister, Juice Newton-John, did the cover:
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Of course, anybody who covers a Beatles song is a good bet to improve it:
Urethra Franklin:
Elton John:
The Carpenters (twice):
The Chipmunks:
(this entire album was a classic!)
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Whitney Houston, I Will Always Love You:
how I LOATHE her destruction of that song. One NY radio station talked about the Whitney Houston car alarm...
I-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI... will always love (LOATHE) you, I-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI-eI...
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Speaking of discount albums...
I stumbled upon a classic... a brilliant comedy album... Totie Fields live in Vegas for 79 cents in the discount section of Sam Goody's (a record store... remember those?).
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Siblings???
That said, Carly's actual sister Lucy is a fabulous, though much lesser-known, songwriter/composer (she wrote the beautiful classical and folk-tinged score for the 1991 Broadway production of The Secret Garden, among other things), and Carly's first husband (someone named James Taylor) is certainly one of the greatest singer/songwriters in American popular music.
As for Neil the great comic playwright, I have unfortunately heard that he is in very bad health - something on the level of Alzheimers or some sort of dementia. Very sad.
I remember when he was married to James Mason's sister Marsha.
A favorite childhood memory... I went to the record department (remember those?) in Alexander's department store. At the register they were selling 'The Simon Sisters sing for children' for ten cents. Obviously, it was a big seller. They had a stack, but I stupidly bought only 2... they made great gag gifts. When gift-wrapped, the recipient obviously knew it was an album & got excited... until it was unwrapped!
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Cute tush, too
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As a singer, Paul Simon is a great lyricist.
I think Paul's siblings Neil & Carly are more talented than he is.
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I just like seeing Alaina's eyes cross when she hits the high notes. By the way, with that voice, she's obviously going to college to study NEUROSCIENCE. I'm envisioning a medical version of COP ROCK in her future.
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So perhaps this particular thread is not really for you. Just saying. There are so many others to choose from, with material that may be more to your liking.
Funny, considering I started the thread... about delightful singing (duets).
It's not about choreography that may or may not have been brilliant, but was definitely (at least at times) incredibly boring, or at least set to incredibly boring musical numbers. We just got off on a tangent when I was reminded of that horrible, psyche-scarring (and wallet-draining) evening years ago when I attempted to sit through an evening highlighting the career of a possibly over-hyped 'legend'. That's several hundred hours (or so it seemed) of my life I'll never get back.
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He didn't write. He directed and choreographed. Look him up.
I stand corrected. He directed and choreographed some incredibly boring material.
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I hope to god you're not judging one of the indisputable greats in ballet and Broadway just because of a tribute revue of bits and pieces of his work, recreated?
Robbins, by all accounts, was a very difficult man, but he was also brilliant at what he did.
I'm NOT judging him. I have no idea (or interest in) what he was like as a person. I'm just saying he wrote some incredibly boring material. No wonder that dame who's warbling with Ethel Zimmermann in that clip gave birth to such an evil oil tycoon... he was probably forced to listen to his mother singing showtunes throughout his youth, & the experience obviously warped him!
BTW, I've never understood Ms. Zimmermann's appeal. It's like listening to a Mack truck horn sing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0QhfT-dgFU
1953: Ford 50th Anniversary, one of early TV's highest rated specials. The Medley conceived and directed by Jerome Robbins.
Jerome Robbins' Broadway was one of only 2 Broadway shows I ever walked out of (the other was HurlyBurly). I left at intermission, the two people I was with left after the first number in the second act. They should've called it Jerome Robbins' Boredway.
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I have a JohnDenver Greatest Hits CD & always liked his duet with Placido.
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- She bowled us over in TV spots, but now Diana Hunter, the “Honey Bunches of Oats lady,” is retiring from the company — and its commercials — after 40 years.
The Honey Bunches of Oats cereal company’s employee-turned-commercial-star, Diana Hunter, is retiring from her factory job in production after a 40-year career. Hunter first appeared in a commercial for the Post cereal brand in 2015 from the floor of the Battle Creek, Michigan plant where she worked.
One of Hunter’s co-workers told BuzzFeed that she retired on Friday and that she’s a “good friend that will be missed.”
Hunter won over fans with her approachable charm and endearing storytelling. In an Oats commercial she’s featured in, Hunter called the cereal she was working with “sparkle flakes.”
“When you taste it, you think it’s a sparkle,” she said. “A sparkle in your eye.”
But it was in the first commercial she’s featured in where Hunter spooned her way into households across the country. She talked about how she once had to let someone know the sweet smell in the air around them was actually her.
“I get out of work and I got to the store and somebody smells around, ‘Mmm, I smell cookies,'” she recalled. “I said, ‘Oh no, you just smell me. I just got out of work. That’s Honey Bunches of Oats!'”
Hunter’s ad – complete with a hairnet and red hard hat – ran nationwide, thousands of times, for about a year.
- She bowled us over in TV spots, but now Diana Hunter, the “Honey Bunches of Oats lady,” is retiring from the company — and its commercials — after 40 years.
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Nationality and ethnicity? Teixeira was born in Balneario Camboriu, Santa Catarina- a major beach resort town in the south of Brazil. Despite being born in Brazil, Teixeira is not fully Brazilian. Marlon has stated that he is of Portuguese, Japanese and native Amerindian descent.
His battle with cancer. Marlon was unfortunately diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus at three years old. He spent four years going in and out of hospitals undergoing chemotherapy. Even at a young age, Marlon was a fighter and kept telling his mother not to cry because he was not going to die. He bears a scar on his chest from surgery as a reminder of the battle won.
Growing up in Santa Catarina. Teixeira spent a lot of his teenage years living between his mother, grandmother and aunt’s houses. His mother had remarried and he was uncomfortable with her new spouse. A lot of his time was spent in his aunt’s restaurant hanging out with his cousins.
What does he do off the runway? When he is not on the runway, Marlon enjoys travelling the world. He shares pictures of his travels on his Instagram page where he has over 500,000 followers.
Among his many interesting hobbies are skating and going to the movies. Teixeira is a self-proclaimed “beach-bum” with a love for surfing. Despite his career in the modelling world, Marlon makes it clear that his passion is the sea and if not a model then he probably would have been a surfer.
What are his quirks? Marlon absolutely loves kiwi juice and he likes to listen to music before he goes surfing the high seas. The Phoenix band is his favorite group to listen to.
Family? Marlon lost his father when he was only a year old, he was murdered. He has an unbreakable bond with his mother Claudia and has her name tattooed on his right thigh. He bought her a car when he was just 18 years old and sends her money monthly from his earnings. Marlon also has two younger sisters Natasha and Natielli
Diet and Exercise. Like any other star in the industry, Teixeira has a few “beauty” secrets for maintaining his body. The model has a very healthy diet made up of mostly fruits, vegetables and grains. His love for the beach ensures that he soaks up plenty of sun while surfing, but Marlon says he also tries yoga and pilates because after all, a healthy body works best with a healthy mind.
One of his most memorable moments. Teixeira recalls his first trip to Europe as one of his most memorable. He fondly told the story of receiving his first paycheck of 2000 euros: “It was an incredible feeling. The first thing I bought was an iPod, some glasses Dolce & Gabbana for my mom and a perfume for my girlfriend. For me, some lenses, were outrageous 300 euros. Those 2000 euros were as much, I thought I had reached the top. “
One of his worst moments abroad. Once he travelled to London for a photo shoot and was detained at the airport. At the time he only spoke Portuguese and did not know what was happening. Marlon says he was handcuffed and placed in a cell with a concrete bed, and given only a bottle of water and a sandwich for several hours. Thankfully he was helped by a Portuguese speaking Italian. Marlon still does not know why he was detained as his papers were in order. Because some cop wanted to give him a cavity search.
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A Mexican drug cartel tried to slip $1 million worth of methamphetamine into New York and New Jersey by hiding it in wax candles — including some shaped like male genitalia, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.
A DEA taskforce tricked a group of drug dealers into delivering the drugs to a Patterson, N.J., warehouse Tuesday, then seized more than 1,300 pounds of meth candles, packed away in 27 cardboard boxes, authorities said.
"It's kind of a cross between 'Breaking Bad' and a 'Sex in the City' case," mused one law enforcement source.
DEA agents charged five people — a man and woman from California, and three Mexican men in the country illegally — with conspiring to distribute meth, authorities said.
They’ll face stiff sentences — 10 years to life — if convicted.
The bust came as part of a larger investigation into drug trafficking, and federal authorities believe that Mexican cartels are trying to create a market for meth in the city.
“DEA has seen drugs smuggled in numerous ways: concealed in puppies, lollipops, furniture and produce. But secreting a million dollars’ worth of methamphetamine in wax candles of various shapes is shocking,” said DEA Special Agent in charge James Hunt. “This seizure signifies that drug trafficking organizations are determined to create a stronghold of meth users in the Northeast.”
Investigators learned about a large shipment of meth coming into the area when an undercover agent met with one of the suspects, Agustin Zamora-Vega, 30, in a Manhattan hotel.
The agent showed Zamora-Vega an apartment in Yonkers and suggested it as a place to store methamphetamine, and convert it into crystal meth.
Zamora-Vega didn’t like the Yonkers spot — the ventilation wasn’t to his taste, so the undercover agent showed him a New Jersey warehouse instead.
The narcotics came into Long Island on Tuesday.
When Zamora-Vega and his co-horts loaded the meth candles into the warehouse, the DEA, Homeland Security Investigations and NYPD sprang into action, authorities said.
Zamora-Vega and his accomplices, Orlando Alcantara, 33; Cindy Carrillo, 27; Santos Minjarez, 26, and Jose Luis Gonzalez-Solis, 28, were arraigned in Manhattan federal court. Carrillo couldn’t make her $250,000 bail, and the other four were remanded.
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Why didn't you post the DEFINITIVE version of that song?
Valerie Bertinelli's & Mackenzie Phillips' mom's version: