[78-L] Help NPR pick 50 TOP Voices

[Jason Beard]

David,

Do you mean that when you hear a certain McCartney song, that you're NOT "...simply having a WONDERFUL Christmas Time"?




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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 6:07:24 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Help NPR pick 50 TOP Voices

Of course there are still those of us who haven't forgiven him for all the crap 
he recorded in the 70s, including a dreadful Christmas ditty that is as 
irritating as a certain Disney tune, the very thought of which can push me over 
the edge or at least to the nearest copy of an antidote like Preludio a 
Cristobol Colon.

That said, he acquitted himself decently on Letterman a few weeks ago (and 
repeated last week, I think).

Tom Waits? The mind boggles (and the throat gargles with Drano).

dl

Randy Skretvedt wrote:
> Tom Waits is on this list but Paul McCartney isn't?  
> 
> I know, for some of you who disdain all rock 'n' roll, you may think all that Macca did was "Yeah, yeah, yeah," but really his ability to beautifully sing many different kinds of music is remarkable.  In the early days he could shift from "Yesterday" to "Long Tall Sally" and back again.  Maybe that's not so mean a feat for someone who's 22.  However, I saw him in concert when he was 64, and he did a three and a half-hour show, no intermission, going from ballads to full-out rockers, singing them in the same key he'd used 20 or 30 or 40 years before, and his voice had no loss of power or range or purity whatsoever.  Just astonishing.
> 
> Guess I'll have to go vegetarian.  I'd like to be as thin and energetic as he is now at 67, and I'm only 51.
> 
> --Randy Skretvedt
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