Here's Marlene Dietrich, singing in Russia. This is not to be confused with singing about Russia, which I suspect will be a serious choral work in a few weeks.
BTW, apparently, Burt Bacharach was the musical director on this, which is pretty cool.
*[h/t my late Stereo Review colleague Noel Coppage, who coined that phrase to describe Dietrich's inimitable...er...vocal stylings.]
Atonal groaning pretty much nails Ms. Dietrich's attempts at "singing". And get a load of that fur coat. Talk about over the top.
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So that's where Exene got her sound & look!
ReplyDeleteShort performance, I guess she Marlene left them wanting more.
Captain Al
Steve:
ReplyDelete1) She's okay but she's no Lili Von Shtupp...
2) Re Noel Coppage: next time you're talking about entertaining bits of rock criticism, you should post the review that Noel did around 1982 of Robin Trower's BLT album - it's hilarious in both concept and execution.
3) Burt Bacharach's also been working with one of your rock'n'roll heroes - Tonio K. A cd of demos of songs they worked on together just got issued in Spain (see May 22 post at www.theseconddisc.com).
J. Lag
J.Lag -- Tonio and Burt? Hole. E. Shit.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the headsup...