Allan Sherman with Dean Martin and Vic Damone

[AdamSmith]

[+ sync]

Dean Martin could make anything he wanted to sound good.

[+ azdr0710]

there was true talent and creativity back then, of course.....yeah, I know, every generation laments how times change....not be some sentimental frump, but the low-talent BS today is embarrassing.....for example:

 

[caliguy]

there was true talent and creativity back then, of course.....yeah, I know, every generation laments how times change....not be some sentimental frump, but the low-talent BS today is embarrassing.....for example:

 

What's worse is they always want to share it with you with rolled down windows and speakers pounding.

[AdamSmith]

What's worse is they always want to share it with you with rolled down windows and speakers pounding.

 

A car consisting mainly of a subwoofer went down my street last night and almost rolled me out of bed.

 

Have long fantasized about a directed-energy weapon that would lock onto public-nuisance noise sources like this, set up some kind of feedback loop, and make them self-detonate.

 

[caliguy]

A car consisting mainly of a subwoofer went down my street last night and almost rolled me out of bed.

 

Have long fantasized about a directed-energy weapon that would lock onto public-nuisance noise sources like this, set up some kind of feedback loop, and make them self-detonate.

 

That's NOT music. That's terrorism. Military uses it too.

[+ purplekow]

Wow you guys are really fucking old. Care to complain about how far you had to walk to school?

[SFViking]

Wow you guys are really fucking old. Care to complain about how far you had to walk to school?

It was only a few miles, and it was even shorter in the winter when the lake froze over, cutting the distance in half.

[AdamSmith]

Wow you guys are really fucking old. Care to complain about how far you had to walk to school?

 

Which brand of bass tube do you have in your trunk?

[caliguy]

Wow you guys are really fucking old. Care to complain about how far you had to walk to school?

Twenty miles through twenty feet of snow and uphill both ways. I didn't complain one bit!

[+ sync]

Wow you guys are really fucking old. Care to complain about how far you had to walk to school?

 

I hated school. Just walking out the door of my home was too far.

[+ quoththeraven]

there was true talent and creativity back then, of course.....yeah, I know, every generation laments how times change....not be some sentimental frump, but the low-talent BS today is embarrassing.....for example:

 

 

Lol, not sure the playing around Sherman, Martin and Damone are doing here is an example of their best stuff. Moreover, while Kanye West is an egotistical blowhard, he's not untalented. He brought a fresh approach to hiphop, nearly singlehandedly expanding the boundaries of the genre (for the better, in my opinion) and ending the ascendancy of gangsta rap. I particularly like his song "

," which I heard a lot of back in the day courtesy of my teenage daughter.

 

I'm not a fan of rolling subwoofers masquerading as cars, but there are some tracks that really deserve it. (Just like one of the Rolling Stones' albums told fans to turn the volume all the way up to get the most out of the tracks.) I'd kinda like to hear this track turned all the way up (warning: profanity) even though I'm not much of a fan of rap or hiphop.

 

[+ WilliamM]

Lol, not sure the playing around Sherman, Martin and Damone are doing here is an example of their best stuff.

 

I agree, QTR. But, people liked Dean Martin's informal style. Other TV weekly one-hour shows were more polished and professional. Vic Damone = a wonderful singer, but he is underused here.

[AdamSmith]

Vic Damone = a wonderful singer, but he is underused here.

 

Your understatement is a model of control.

 

Of course the whole charm is their great good humor in lending their talents to Allan's silliness.

 

...But that big hunk of liverwurst

Has been there since October first

And today is the twenty-third of May!

[AdamSmith]

Parlor game -- Match the song to the forum thread...

 

[+ quoththeraven]

I agree, QTR. But, people liked Dean Martin's informal style. Other TV weekly one-hour shows were more polished and professional. Vic Damone = a wonderful singer, but he is underused here.

 

I was referring to the fact that riffing off of tunes like "Pop Goes the Weasel" isn't very sophisticated musically or lyrically and functioned more as matter of comic relief via music parody. That seems like a poor jumping off point for calling out an artist from a later era and an unrelated subgenre of pop music who, whatever one may think of his music, has been hugely influential.

 

Parlor game -- Match the song to the forum thread...

 

 

Would that be a thread in the Politics, War and Religion forum? :)

[AdamSmith]

Would that be a thread in the Politics, War and Religion forum? :)

 

The possibilities are wherever you see them.

 

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Certainly more than one prime candidate in more than one forum in just the past 24 hours, wouldn't you say?

[+ quoththeraven]

Certainly more than one prime candidate in more than one forum in just the past 24 hours, wouldn't you say?

 

Isn't that usually the case, especially during silly season (aka the lead up to another presidential campaign)? :eek:

[+ WilliamM]

I was referring to the fact that riffing off of tunes like "Pop Goes the Weasel" isn't very sophisticated musically or lyrically and functioned more as matter of comic relief via music parody. That seems like a poor jumping off point for calling out an artist from a later era and an unrelated subgenre of pop music who, whatever one may think of his music, has been hugely influential.

 

This thread has jumped all over the place from the beginning with Martin, Sherman et al. to West to how far people walked to school. I listen to Kayne West's music, and attend his concerts. But, I also lived through the old days of weekly variety shows, like Dean Martin's. I did not agree with azdr's post. By the time I came along,

I was trying to focus only on Adam Smith's original post.

[AdamSmith]

Isn't that usually the case, especially during silly season (aka the lead up to another presidential campaign)? :eek:

 

Put it this way. Often I deliberately use the forums as a surrogate for the analyst's couch, laying out my thoughts to see what they look like. Indeed many of us do that. But with, might we say, varying degrees of intentionality.

[+ WilliamM]

Isn't that usually the case, especially during silly season (aka the lead up to another presidential campaign)?

 

QTR: Hallowen! I have so many alerts this morning (all quotes), I hope I answered your question. I wish I have a few drinks last night, so I could blame it on alcohol.

[AdamSmith]

I wish I have a few drinks last night, so I could blame it on alcohol.

(Modest proposal...)

 

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[+ WilliamM]

(Modest proposal...)

 

http://liquor.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/classic-bloody-mary.jpg

 

 

You devil, Adam. :)