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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Paul Anka's Rock Swings / One of these days ... |
| Date | Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:11:24 -0500 |
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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:10:06 -0400
From: "zoogang" <zoogang@buhdge.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Paul Anka's Rock Swings
Message-ID: <20050608151006.M14249@buhdge.com>
Oy vey.
When I worked for the Electronic Industries Association's Consumer Electronics
Group, Anka gave a private concert during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas. Actually, it was tolerable most of the time...at least until he sang
"You're Having My Baby."
And then, all was wrong with time and space.
I'm better now.
Some people like the song because they have a high camp threshold. Me, I have a high snark threshold, so when the Circle Jerks covered "Having My Baby" they made the song more tolerable for me. Perhaps if the Circle Jerks had included some Eagles numbers in their "Golden Shower Of Hits", it'd make Henley, Frey & Co. more tolerable for me as well.
Until then, however, count me in the same category as the Dude in *The Big Lebowski* and Mojo Nixon on the subject of the Eagles. To be fair, there's two or three Eagles songs that I can actually stomach, notably "Take It To The Limit". But for the most part I consider them to be one of the more irritating memories of my youth, alongside disco, macrame plant hangers, and shag carpeting.
Gregory Sager
P.S. Weird fact of the day: Anka's duet partner on "Having My Baby", the late Odia Coates, used to be in a soul duo called Sister Love with Merry "Gimme Shelter" Clayton.
P.P.S. I do like the Gipsy Kings' cover of "Hotel California" on the soundtrack to the aforementioned film *The Big Lebowski*, in large part because they don't seem to know the words to the song.
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