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From | "Mike Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
Subject | Re: musical notes |
Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:58:22 +0100 |
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>Capt Sensible did Happy Talk - who is this artist and on what album does
>this appear?
A bizarre occurrence in UK pop history. Captain Sensible (aka Ray Burns),
bassist and occasional vocalist with The Damned, hit number 1 in 1982 with
his cover of Happy Talk. It was annoying as hell, but not quite as annoying
as the follow-up "What", which had the fantastic lyric:
He Said Captain,
I Said What?
He Said Captain,
I Said What?
He Said Captain,
I Said What d'ya Want?
No wonder he became big in Germany (probably).
I can't imagine too many of the punters who bought "Happy Talk" subsequently
bought Strawberries by The Damned, which is defintely one of their best 3
albums, but only hit the dizzying heights of 15 in the album chart. Shame.
Mike.
>From: "Seaman, Dave" <seamand@upmc.edu>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: musical notes
>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:37:31 -0400
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> > Can anyone think of any other power pop / pop / rock covers from
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>How about Splitsville's "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" from PROMISES,
>PROMISES - what musical is this? I just know this as a Bacharach David
>tune - and I must say, Splitsville did a bang-up job on it!
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>Todd/Utopia: "Something's Coming" from West Side Story (great song too),
>recorded on the live album "Another Live" - right-0...
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>Speaking of Todd, there's his version of Never Never Land -- although
>Willie Wonka & The CF doesn't qualify as a musical, now, does it?
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>Capt Sensible did Happy Talk - who is this artist and on what album does
>this appear?
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>Yes did Something's Coming too... - didn't know that.
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>Didn't the Beatles do something from Sound Of Music or some such early
>on? - forgot about that one! Yes, Macca sang Till There Was You, from
>The Music Man I believe, on one of the early Beatle LPs.
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>I'm thinking, there must be more - with Sondheim, Rogers & Hammerstein,
>Leonard Bernstein, Lerner & Lowe, and so many others to choose from.
>Granted, the idea of doing a show tune is so UN rock and roll that it
>would probably be an unappealing idea to most bands, but I'd bet there
>are some artists whose love of pop melody and sense of adventure are so
>strong that they've tried it... maybe Elvis C, for one?
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