[78-L] Help NPR pick 50 TOP Voices

[Royal Pemberton]

Aaaahhhhh....and don't look down!

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Jason Beard <soundssights71 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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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> 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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