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Adele, Ani DiFranco, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Carol Bayer Sager, Carole King, Chaka Khan, Chrissie Hynde, Cindi Lauper, Etta James, Everything But The Girl, Isis, James Taylor, Joan Armatrading, Karen Carpenter, Laura Nyro, Leland Sklar, Lilly Allen, Lisa Stansfield, M People, music, Patti Austin, Peggy Seeger, Warrigal
All Woman by Warrigal Mirryuula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwZlmyJbGUQ
Lisa Stansfield, All Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xuUdI1an0
Chaka Khan, I’m Every Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pibzj6GyoPM
M People, Movin’ On Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0XAI-PFQcA
Aretha Franklin, Respect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEYZ7zqm_rU
Carol Bayer Sager, You’re Moving Out Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWXalOJ1xtQ&feature=fvst
Lilly Allen, Fuck You Very Very Much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyKvTY7zGG8
Isis, Everybody Needs A Forever (Fabulous, underrated album. Well Worth Finding!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjd_GHFWUl0&feature=related
Isis, Rubber Boy (two isn’t too many is it?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh4v1-QcAzE
Etta James, Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCRRe72mwwY
Peggy Seeger, Gonna Be An Engineer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRNfWGxBp8
Joan Armatrading, Me, Myself, I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQ6OESv24A
Chrissie Hynde, I’ll Stand By You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4R9FiKE0Tk
Bette Midler, Beast Of Burden (the clips a little smeared but the opening is priceless.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qskKlS2EFJk
Laura Nyro, Woman’s Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t90jmRIvz2c
Karen Carpenter, This Masquerade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8Mu_rnbLc
Carole King, James Taylor & Leland Sklar, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
(The voice is a little croaky but the heart is indomitable.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw&ob=av3e
Adele, Rolling In The Deep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hu1cYDW1FY
Everything But The Girl, Missing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A&ob=av3e
Cindi Lauper, Gilrs Just Want To Have Fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSxArgJb33Y
Ani DiFranco, Not A Pretty Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAOaDwUupng
Patti Austin, How Do You Keep The Music Playing
Keywords: Lisa Stansfield, Chaka Khan, M People, Aretha Franklin, Carol Bayer Sager, Lilly Allen, Isis, Etta James, Peggy Seeger, Joan Armatrading, Chrissie Hynde, Bette Midler, Laura Nyro, Karen Carpenter, Carole King, James Taylor, Leland Sklar, Adele, Everything But The Girl, Cindi Lauper, Ani DiFranco, Patti Austin
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Dunno why I love Cyndi Lauper, but I do! As I’ve just said over on YouTube, she’s one of the brighter spots in an otherwise musically bleak decade…
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Loved Chrissie HInde, and Bette Middler, and Etta James, and Lily Allen… getting through ’em; have favorited all the above…
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The haunting performance by James and Carole, unique as it is, cannot replace The Shirelles’ version (in my heart), with it’s opening phrase. The chords and later cadence of the main singer blending in with the harmony, seem to be waiting for that string accompaniment that I know follows in. You know what it’s like, if one has a favorit jacket or book, it’s hard to accept anything else.
Having said that, it was great to see THE mistress at work, showing the way that she crafted the number. That was great. Added to that is James Taylor, who, although he didn’t do much here, has presence–and one knows he has this perfect baritone; and guitar work—-if needed.
I can ruin any of his (Jameses) songs at will, since I used to sing them to my sons. In their cots.
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You forgot Lee Sklar who would have been the bass player behind the songs you sang to your children. He is a tower among bass players and in this clip his bass playing is once again the glue that binds the vocal performance to the backing. Not that there’s much backing to bind in this case.
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No, I had noticed him. In fact I was going to make a , what I thought at-the-time, witticism, linked to the fact that we don’t know what you look like. But my zest to do it had evaporated by the time I got to daydreaming, about the days when my family was young.
I also daydreamed about the time I first heard The Shirelles’ version. I got on to Google earth and found a house where I used to stay in my School holidays. It was in a place called Highcliffe, in the south of England: not far from The New Forest. There were two brothers, Robert and Raymond; there parents were friends of my parents. I think that my Dad met their father at Saunders Roe, or De Haviland (they were both aircraft engineers). And of course my parents were still living in Java, so I was parked at a boarding school.
Raymond was slightly older and had pop music that I couldn’t afford to buy, so I always enjoyed my stays there. Ruth, their Mum, took my black jeans in to make drainpipes. Neither Robert or I, could afford to buy the real ones.
We use to walk up through the town, eyeing off all the girls and making sure our hair looked good. It was cool to have a Tony Curtis in those days, but I didn’t like the DA; it was a bit too bikerish for my liking.
Other songs that I liked that year, were “only the Lonely” and The Everly’s, Cathy’s Clown ( they turned down , only the lonely).
Roy Orbison’s voice was unbelievable. He took the world by storm, as did the Everlys. Their influences have been acknowledged by many. Yep it was nice, thinking about it.
Orbison was a baritone, like Taylor. However we all know what else he could do with that fabulous instrument.
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Getting away from those massive thighs. Hope you don’t mind me inserting this amazing violin player. (Some say she is the best and Dutch as well :). Her name Janine Jansen. I think her Benjamin Britten’s interpretation of Opus 15 ,playing her fiddle is just pure magic.
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I love the faces she pulls whilst playing! Really getting into it! what freneticity! Makes Dave Davies look quite mellow really…
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The Dutch do well. I like Andre Rieu. Partly for his music and partly for his show. He has a blonde Aussie songsters with him. Marrica or something. A pleasing lass, with a wonderful warble.
Then there is that other Dutch descendant luminary. He who cannot be name\d on WM’s patch, but writes in a National Gazette.
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And I was worried about whether or not the Crumb illustration might be construed as misogynistic. I think Robert Crumb has a genuine psychological fetish for women with big bottoms.
Check this out, its a background on Crumb and his wife Aline Kominsky. She actually looks like Crumb’s Ideal Woman. They’ve been married forever so I guess whatever they’ve got, it works.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2007/02/21/arts/1194817120579/the-collaboration-of-mr-ms-crumb.html
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I just watched it again. The ending’s a real cack.
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I just watched it, what a wonderful couple, lucky bastards living in Southern France, like them both..can we send Hetty somewhere so some interesting people can slip to OZ…
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To echo Helvi, ‘What a wonderful couple!’
I find Aline’s honesty and pragmatism especially refreshing ’cause I find women who want to mythologize the ‘romance’ thing the moment you meet them psychically draining… it puts so much ‘expectation’ on a bloke… How could anyone ever live up to it?
I can see where Crumb got his ‘ideal woman’ from now… But since she draws herself, I can’t help but wonder now, whether the above ‘diagram’ is a ‘self-portrait’…
The whole interview’s a real cackle, Warrigal… (thought I’d better use the whole word rather than your abbreviated version, ’cause ‘cack’ means something different in English, Warrigal!)
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It means the same here.
One can cack, as in cackle like a chook; or one can cack, as in cack one’s self, which is to say lose momentary bowel control due to excessive laughter.
Either way suits me. How about you?
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I happen to be on the other line, talking to Hung…BTW I think that is KAK. Slang for Merde!
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Well, I suppose it’s okay if you like ambiguity, Warrigal… I prefer the clarity of a total lack of confusion, personally!
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Hehehehehe… Loved R Crumb’s ‘Ideal Woman’ Warrigal (even when I first saw it back in about ’79-ish…) He was heavily into ‘B&D’ I suspect… Will work my way through the music over the weekend, as usual…
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R.Crumb sure knows a good woman. Look at the magnificence of those firm thighs, that agonisingly little bush between, the firmness of those breasts with crunchy perky nipples. That determined chin. Ah, so much like my first teacher M/s Saas at the Rotterdam Montessori School. She used to take me in her lap and tuck me in between her breasts, then I would get up and steal 10 cents to buy a lovely creamy ice cream whereby the wavers came separately.
Thank you Mr Crumbs for the memory.
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“agonising”?
Not the adjective I’d use, but whatever turns you on G.
Your experience with the teacher reminds me of that Fellini scene from Armacord where the boys are trying to bot some fags from the shopkeeper and as recompense for the ciggies she demands a few special favours.
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I changed it to “agonisingly”. There, is that better?
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Watch out Warrigal, you’ll have Hetty on your case before you know.
Love R Crumb’s Ideal Woman, yet us silly women don’t want to look anything like his Amazon.
I still love Carole King too, when I come back I’ll listen to her first…then the rest.
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Not young enough for Hetty.
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Trivia, for T2. Re: our Kinks interest. Chrissie Hynde, had a child with Ray Davies. I noticed when I was nostalgically researching yesterday.
Listen later.
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Crikey! You mean Ray Davies is actually hetero? (or at least ‘AC/DC’)… Well ah’ll go to’t foot ov ower stairs! Who’d’a thunkit?
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http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/farewell-from-brian-at-bestival-40628.aspx
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More trivia folks….sorry.
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Always enjoyed the Beach Boys too Vee-ell… Did you attend the ‘Bestival’ personally? Looks like a fun time was had by all.
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Nooo. I was here, you wally. But I drove past the venue when I was there, in July. There is a children’s’ animal farm next door and we used to visit in the old days.
I posted the ‘bit’, because of the importance, re: Brian Wilson. He has had his demons over the years, but remains a charismatic influence on modern music. Some say genius. Certainly a …landmark…milestone ect ect.
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Well howuzItaknowthat? I’m never sure which hemisphere you’re in Vee-ell… What you say about Brian Wilson’s demons is very true… One of them was named Charlie Manson!
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