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| From | "Lawrence Dunn" <thedunns@capecod.net> |
| Subject | Re: Anka Grabba |
| Date | Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:43:46 -0400 |
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I will say the take on Oasis's "Wonderwall" I heard on the radio was sort of OK.
I didn't know who that was.
When I hear stuff like this sometimes the song choice for the rat-packy
treatment seems jarring. A case in point being Dwight Yoakam's cover of the
Kinks' "Tired of Waiting for You." I should dig this. I just get get my arms
around it, though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Clay" <sbc@pobox.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:21 PM
Subject: Anka Grabba
> The Anka set is not intended -- as I understand it -- to be some cornball
> Shatner-before-he-met-Ben-Folds type of thing. The arrangements (if not the
> song choices) are uniformly outstanding, and the performances are energetic
> and mostly knowing (the "hey!" after the chorus in "Teen Spirit"
> notwithstanding). Verve is gonna push the heck out it; I think it'll be
> around for a bit.
>
> -steve
>
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