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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Dead of the Dawn |
| Date | Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:56:43 -0500 |
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> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:35:09 -0700
> From: "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net>
> To: "Audities" <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: pop discussion
> Message-ID: <006201c5d081$0abbde10$6759fea9@unzvm7nqio0rwk>
> David-N.P: "The Yellow Ribbon Collection" by Tony Orlando &
> Dawn, which is a
> newly released box set of six of their albums, plus many
> bonus tracks. I
> really think Tony Orlando & Dawn are cool, but I know selling
> that bill of
> goods even to Audities folks is probably a longshot.
> However, I must point
> out that none other than Nick Lowe thought enough of
> Orlando's hit "Halfway
> To Paradise" that he did a cover of it (ok, I'm waiting for
> someone to say
> "it was tongue in cheek, knucklehead!")
>
Just so that David doesn't get too lonely out on that limb, I'll make a true-confessions admission that I think "Candida" is a fantastic song. But by that I mean that I would love to hear it covered by someone in a less treacly manner than the original, one that doesn't threaten to make me lose my half-digested breakfast whenever I hear it.
Gregory Sager
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