Do You Think You Could Get A Job By Thursday? Dept.
The sheer quality of this album - as sheer as a cliff face - is such that you'll wonder why you don't have it as a cornerstone album of your collection. The opening track is a scripted (or extremely cleverly ad-libbed) encounter between a lady "social worker" and a prospective customer. It's cunningly sound-designed for atmosphere, lasts over six minutes, and I could use an entire album of this. A spoken word opening track? Who is this bitch?Marlena Shaw was the first female vocalist to be signed to Blue Note, and '74's Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? her best-selling album for the label. Quality is equalled for sheerness by variety - funk, soul, pop, orchestral interludes, jazz, and that audacious opening track. It's a white-knuckle ride ride. Sweet Beginnings, from '77, made less of an impact - that change in image from in-your-face byatch to sensitive romantic did her no favors - but is still, as we say here, a swell listen. Her monologue intro to the second track is brutal. And funny. Helluva dame.
I'm hoping Babs can chair the Mass Debate ... ?
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DeleteColor me intrigued! Looking forward to hearing these
ReplyDeleteThey are a rush, MrDave. I've only recently caught up with her TO MY SHAME, and look forward to any additions to the discography. She apparently sang with Basie, and I 'd love to hear that. Linkage up a little later.
DeleteMarlena and Count
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Op6PSJLTfs&ab_channel=PascalSavelon
Babs, I've thought long and hard about this and decided that yes, I will bear your love child. Oh - people will laugh - bitter little people with shriveled hearts - but we care naught for them, for our eyes are set on the stars!
DeleteWho can explain it, who can tell you why?
DeleteFools give you reasons, wise men never try.
Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love....
Enough !!! Get a room, as I believe the youngsters say.
DeleteIf your life was a TV show, what would the theme song be?
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What's up with Blogger this evening?
Babs having a Senior Moment here with her laptop - pro tip - get the cat off the keyboard.
DeleteActually, it was the asshats at Firefox
DeleteIf my life was a TV show, my theme song would be -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WShMzwT-nM
Very fitting. (Unlike your pants.)
DeleteMy pants are hip hop pants, with a ten-inch zipper and low crotch to accommodate my donkey meat.
DeleteMy albums o' th' year. What year? Who's counting?
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Thanks! I haven't heard these in years.
DeleteMy theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvUBf5l7Vw
ReplyDeleteThis starts off like Judy In Disguise, so I am excite. But it's okay.
DeleteMy theme song :
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui65cGTekK8
Great song, indifferent production.
DeleteHmm, you're right, this one sounds a bit better, better video too
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Mine would be
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQ8CsuBXDY&ab_channel=SonnyRollins-Topic
Or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0--emrNth8&ab_channel=LouReed-Topic
Oh very good wish I'd thought of that (perfect day)
Deleteit would have been this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWvi0MaIZs
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOnWTBrFIh0
but it is really this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSfa56tjBQo
oops
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Uffington Wassail
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyYGQxcCYVM
That'll do for me.
Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/LCRZZC-DH7M
Is this sacrilegious?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs
This is really, really good. Clever stuff.
DeleteThat's great! Love it!
DeleteClever. But not as clever as Take Five.
DeleteLife should not get any deeper than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMl6HnhFFIA
ReplyDeleteI'm going for this piece of cheese.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nPTZqnIfFM
Jan Hammer really should have been in this show. "with JAN HAMMER as "Jan Hammer""
DeleteFunny how some 80's music sounds so dated now, but that did make me smile.
DeleteMs Shaw looks like she'd eat me alive but what a way to go.
ReplyDeleteAs to my TV show theme -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-txQ6KF1Sis
This piece has had the lowest page hit count for a couple of weeks - if I'd put Kreemé at the top it would have had the highest.
DeleteOh yes UFO, I loved that show as a kid, however I also loved the Persuaders, around that time, and that is an awful show. I might try watching some old UFO shows, but expect it might be a disappointment in 2022.
DeleteI was barely out of nappies when UFO first was broadcast but in recent years it has become my fave TV scifi thing. It still looks and sounds gorgeous although it is something of a period piece with incompetent aliens facing off against not much less daft defenders of Earth.
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