[78-L] Danny Boy - a Christmas tune? Really? ^

[David Lennick]

Sorry, but she IS inarticulate. Try suffering through her introductions on TCM. 
And let's assume that those are the ones that make it to air. She's also a bad 
actress and her star quality has never struck me as something that actually 
exists, her pedigree notwithstanding (and her grandfather and grand-uncle made 
78s).

dl

On 12/23/2012 4:10 PM, Tom wrote:
> How incredibly patronizing and chauvinistic.
>
> Whether Drew Barrymore is a bad actress or not is subject to
> discussion, but suggesting that she's "also homely . . . and an
> inarticulate moron" is a reflection on you and nothing else.
>
>
> ________________________________
>   From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Danny Boy - a Christmas tune?  Really?
>
> As someone who's worked in radio broadcasting and programming since 1965 and
> has produced a few thousand reissues (CD and for online libraries) of good
> vintage recordings, I'm appalled at the absolute crap that has come out over
> the years and which probably still sells and which also gets programmed on
> music subscription channels. I'm sure some of it must come from "Stars Sing
> Their Asses Off At Christmas" compilations, which have some vague context and
> significance when you know who the performers are but which are just torture
> when thrown into a music mix. Today I was assaulted by some female singing
> "Sleigh Ride", totally off key. If I had to guess, I'd say it was someone like
> Drew Barrymore (who is also homely, a bad actress and an inarticulate moron and
> will someone please tell me when her contract ends with TCM?).
>
> Danny Boy is just fine as London Derriere when played by Sir Hamilton Harty and
> the Halle Orchestra. Back to 78s.
>
> dl
>
> On 12/23/2012 2:45 PM, Graham Newton wrote:
>> On 12/22/2012 9:05 PM, Philip Carli wrote:
>>
>>> "Danny Boy" is a lyric by Fred Weatherly that he applied to an old Irish
>>> melody his sister alerted him to, sometime in the 1890s, I think.
>>
>> Danny Boy and Greensleeves are two of the songs I would like banished for the
>> rest of time.
>>
>> And while they're at it they can blow up the pipes in Danny!
>>
>>
>>
>> ... Graham Newton  (and a Bah, Humbug to you also!)
>>
>
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