[78-L] Olde-timers

[Taylor Bowie]

Uh,  David....my point was that these were my introductions to Sophie and to 
Maurice...not that I think it's their best work.

Can-Can is a total bore  but I do like the musical numbers.

Taylor


----- 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 PM
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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