Wednesday, July 24, 2019

A Most Beautiful Bridge 
Spanning
the 
GENERATION GAP
Only 
TONY BENNETT & STING 
Could Do It So Well

11 comments:

  1. Nice tune. A little Tony Matola or Joe Pass type guitar in there too.

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    1. I thought "Tony Mottola" too, Kid, bu the great jazz harmonies in the lush accompaniment really speak to me too, and it's almost a MIRACLE that an aged singer like Tony Bennett who must have recorded this when he was close to 80 years of age, could mesh so well with a much younger, very different KIND of singer like Sting, who happens to be one of the very few so-called "Rock Stars" I respect and admire, because he's brlliant, highly versatle, and greatly appreciates and understands the tremendous importance of classical music.

      If you've never experienced Sting's narration of Prkofieff's Peter and the Wolf with Claudio Abbado and clever Puppetry combined, look it up. I think you'd love it.

      Abbado by the way was my favorite orchestral condutor for many years, until he died too soon after his eightieth birthday just a few years ago.

      Abbado and Sting made a great team just as Sting does in his unliely pairing with Tony Bennett.

      I love it whem performers break the mold, or step puside the box –– however you want to put it –– but only when they do it with the great taste and understanding of musical values we hear in ths version of Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

      Can yu guess why I chose to feature Boulevard of Broken Dreams just after the Mueller Hearings?

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    2. Bennett sounded great. Sting, so much. I'd give it a 7 of 10.

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    3. All right. I like it better than that, but what I'd REALLY like to know is this:

      Can YOU guess why I chose to feature Boulevard of Broken Dreams just after the Mueller Hearings?

      There's (almost) ALWAYS a METHOD in my Madness.

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    1. ...and you're not going to tell us, are you?

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  3. By the time one reaches a certain age everyone will have taken a cruise down the boulevard of broken dreams. Best not to stay there though. Decent song but I'm not a fan of either Sting or Tony Bennett. Sting has sung some creepy songs and Bennett might be better to just hang it up and call it a career instead of trying to be relevant today.

    If A. G. Barr has dusted off the death penalty for certain crimes then maybe there will be something relevant happening on the pedo front and and we will finally see some swamp creatures
    being brought to justice.

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  4. Said the night wind to the little lamb:
    "Do you see what I see?
    Way up in the sky, little lamb
    Do you see what I see?
    A star, a star, dancing in the night
    With a tail as big as a kite
    With a tail as big as a kite"

    Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy:
    "Do you hear what I hear?
    Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy
    Do you hear what I hear?
    A song, a song, high above the trees
    With a voice as big as the sea
    With a voice as big as the sea"

    Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king:
    "Do you know what I know?
    In your palace warm, mighty king
    Do you know what I know?
    A Child, a Child shivers in the cold
    Let us bring Him silver and gold
    Let us bring Him silver and gold"

    Said the king to the people everywhere:
    "Listen to what I say!
    Pray for peace, people everywhere!
    Listen to what I say!
    The Child, the Child, sleeping in the night
    He will bring us goodness and light
    He will bring us goodness and light"


    ~ Traditional Christmas Carol

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  5. Franco, that has to be one of the most noble, inspiring and uplifting music and lyrics that I know.

    One for you:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvyO4enE0Df-9XUTc3FlJPw

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