[78-L] Olde-timers

[David Lennick]

As long as they got you to appreciate their better work, great! In Tucker's 
case, there's a lot more to her than that old fat oversexed lump, and the 
Archeophone CD is an eye opener.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>