For those of you who have yet to figure out what the fuss is all about, here's Amy (with Modfather Paul Weller) doing a splendid job of chanelling Gladys Knight in a recent live version of the Motown classic "Heard It Through the Grapevine. Go ahead, tell me this woman isn't the real deal. Go ahead -- I dare you.
Incidentally, I just received a $15 check from the Village Voice for a Winehouse joke I contributed to this year's Voice Critic's Poll [scroll down]. I couldn't be more proud, frankly.
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Speaking of Gladys Knight, I'd love to hear her do "If I Were Your Woman."
Or better yet, Weller doing "If You Were My Woman" (I've always thought that song was actually written for a man)...
Yep. She's terrific.
Still don't like the hair-do.
While I've always been a fan of a good brain numbing evening out on the town, I do wish for her own sake that she's able to pull out of the rather ugly and tabloided tailspin she's currently in. Don't get me wrong, I really do like her voice and style.
A female Keith perhaps, but his staying power is unmatched.
When he fell out of that coconut tree last year KR was quoted as saying, and I paraphrase, "Nothing can kill me...I'm polytoxic".
Amy has a few miles to go before she's quite in Keef's league.
Just sayin'.
Cleveland Bob:
For fifteen bucks, it's by definition a cheap joke.
:-)
Of the new generation Amy & Sharon Jones are carrying the torch right now.
I think Amy is just like the girls who use to work behind the counter at Tabachnick's on Cedar Lane back in the seventies.
That's a compliment!
I think Amy is just like the girls who use to work behind the counter at Tabachnick's on Cedar Lane back in the seventies.
That's a compliment!
Oy gevalt!
return of the plumber said...
I think Amy is just like the girls who use to work behind the counter at Tabachnick's on Cedar Lane back in the seventies.
That's a compliment!
I don't remember the girls, but the cornedbeef was fantastic.
Memo to Winehouse:
When you've done so much crack that your tits have fallen off, don't wear strapless dresses.
Oh, and while I never got to Tabachnick's (my BIL nearly married the daughter of the family, apparently), a friend from Teaneck took me to a great record store that I think was just across the street.
mbowen:
Teaneck's my home town, but I don't remember a record store on Cedar Lane any time after the 60s. When was this?
Steve could comment better, but I do remember the record store across the street from Tabachnicks and just down the street from the movie theater. I bought The Yardbirds "Live at the Anderson Theater LP there.
Re; Teaneck record shop. I think it was there into the early to mid 70's. not as got as Relix in Hackensack or the Paramus Sam Goody's.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a fan Steve.
Trey
Paramus Sam Goody's.
I bought almost all of my records either there or at the store in Hackensack on Main Street (I grew up in New Milford).
There was a record store (full of bootlegs and other goodys) on Cedar Lane as late as Thanksgiving 1976 - my buddy from Teaneck took me there.
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