[78-L] Olde-timers

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If you're looking at Chevalier in "Gigi", you're doing it wrong. Leslie Caron is lovely.

Though hearing him sing the pervert's national anthem*, "Thank Heaven For Little Girls", is pretty special.

* Other candidates: "Younger Girl", "You're Sixteen", "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon".


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:20:24 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [78-L] Olde-timers

You can actually make it through Can Can? I couldn't! Or anything else with 
Shirley MacLaine, for that matter. Seriously, I was raised on early Chevalier 
records and it was pathetic to see him slog through Gigi and Can Can (playing 
the same part).

Take him out and shoot him, I say.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> dl opined:
> 
> 
>> And he wasn't an embarrassment in his later years, unlike Sophie or 
>> Maurice
>> (suffering through those creaky old crocks on the Ed Sullivan Show is 
>> still
>> enough to cause me to avoid any of their later output). Nobody pointed a 
>> gun at
>> his head and forced him to record Hello Dolly.
> 
> I can remember seeing Sophie Tucker on Ed Sullivan when I was about eight or 
> nine...I was totally amazed and enjoyed it very much...and that first 
> impression later got me interested in her old records when I started 
> collecting at age 12.
> 
> The first I recall of Chevalier was seeing the movie Can-Can when I was 
> about seven or eight...same thing.  I thought he was great and I still 
> collect his stuff along with Sophie's!
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> 
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