> Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 11:39:37 -0000
> From: "stevedurben2000" <sdurben@msn.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: i heart john cale
> Message-ID: <b9ar9p+966h@eGroups.com>
> 
> Hi Judith.  Have you heard Cale's cover of Leonard 
> Cohen's "halleluiah"?  It's simply beautiful. It is on a tribute disc 
> to Cohen. I sold my copy a while back and then soon remembered the 
> folly of this decision per losing this song. 
> 
	The Cohen tribute album is called *I'm Your Fan*. It came out in
1991. I picked up a used cassette copy of the album at Laurie's Planet of
Sound about five years ago, discovered the Cale version of "Hallelujah" on
it, and I've been dubbing it onto mix tapes ever since. It's magnificent,
both mournful and majestic at the same time. I've gotten into the face of
more than one Jeff Buckley or Rufus Wainwright fan who has insisted that
someone other than Cale has cut the definitive version of that song.

	I never saw *Shrek* in the theaters. Last Christmas, when the DVD of
the movie came out, the local Super K-Mart had it on the TVs in the
electronics section of the store while I was doing my shopping. I decided to
waste a little time by standing there and watching it. I was absolutely
thunderstruck when the Cale version of "Hallelujah" appeared in the movie;
since the audience for Leonard Cohen tribute albums is not a particularly
large one, I had figured that Cale's "Hallelujah" was just a well-kept
secret that I was spreading one mix tape at a time.


	Gregory Sager