[78-L] Bennett and Winehouse
Julian Vein
julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Sep 18 15:41:04 PDT 2011
On 18/09/11 23:15, agp wrote:
> At 21:37 18/09/2011, JV wrote:
>> I heard a brief extract from an album by Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse.
>> They were singing "They Can't Take That Away From Me". I could hear
>> every word Bennett was singing (although he doesn't appeal to me), but
>> Winehouse not a single word even though I knew what they were.
>
> Are you sure that this is correct? The track he does with her off his
> new CD Duets II is Body and Soul. To my ears he was a big yawn and
> sounds all nasal, and she sounded a hell of a lot older than she
> really was at the time of the recording and pretty rough around the
> edges, but intelligible
>
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It may not have been
"They Can't Take That Away From Me",
but I'm sure it wasn't "Body And Soul". She sounded like a parody of Dinah Washington, whom she admired.
Julian Vein
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