Comments on: I like to look at singers while they sing https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:57:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700094 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:57:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700094 Aesop

Loved that one.

My ref about “…beautiful girls, walk….” was to make the point that there’s more than one lament in that area.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700073 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 02:24:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700073 @ Richard Aubrey > “the more somebody listened to and talked about “protest”, the less likely he had bestirred himself in that regard in the actual, you know, world.”

I know a cue line when I see one.

https://tomlehrersongs.com/the-folk-song-army/

]]> By: Molly Brown https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700055 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:11:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700055 More song trivia.
Read ‘The Girls In Their Summer Dresses’. Great portrait of a shallow man.

Anyway, it brought to mind a verse from my favorite Bonnie Raitt song.

‘You Got To Be Ready For Love’

‘This woman don’t do no henpeckin’
And I don’t think one look is a felony
But I don’t appreciate no rubberneckin’ no
About a man when he’s with me
Out in the street
You got to be ready for love
If you want to be mine’

Frances could sure use some Bonnie attitude. And a new husband.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700025 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:40:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700025 neo:

I hadn’t heard of the Irwin Shaw story. The NYT draws a link between the two:
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Ever since Irwin Shaw crafted his bittersweet story, “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,” and Bruce Springsteen gave the idea his own spin in “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”…

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/fashion/summer-dress-heat-wave.html
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Clearly the titles are almost identical. Springsteen frequently stole titles from other media, e.g. “Thunder Road” and “All That Heaven Will Allow.” Though I wouldn’t assume Springsteen actually read the story.

The video emphasizes the winter/summer angst. In fact the sections of Springsteen singing were shot on a bleak winter day, while those of the young beauties are shot in summer.

FWIW Springsteen is an emotive, dramatic singer.

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700016 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:18:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700016 Never liked Springsteen either. Really liked his sax player, Clarence Clemmons and his drummer, Max Weinberg.

To Springsteen’s credit, I’ve never heard of anyone being disappointed by one of his shows. He seems to take performing and giving a crowd their money’s worth seriously.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700010 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:55:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700010 Richard Aubrey:

Written by Gordon Jenkins.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700007 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:13:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700007 sinatra, was it. “beautiful girls, walk a little slower when you walk by me”?

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700006 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:49:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700006 huxley:

The lyrics of that Springsteen song are a clear cross between the title of the famous Irwin Shaw story “The Girls in their Summer Dresses” and the lyrics of “The Girl from Ipanema.”

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2700004 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:20:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2700004 I can often overlook an artist’s politics, but there is a line I can’t define and Springsteen crossed it.

Nonetheless, I have noticed he can still write a good song without his rich man working-class politics. Here’s a lovely meditation on age and desire and being passed by.
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Well the street lights shine
Down on Blessing Avenue
Lovers, they walk by
Holding hands two by two
A breeze crosses the porch
Bicycle spokes spin ’round
Jacket’s on, I’m out the door
Tonight I’m going to burn this town down

[Chorus]
And the girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
The girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by

–“Bruce Springsteen – Girls In Their Summer Clothes (Official HD Video)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU1ylbJ-V7U
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The song harkens back to his early, gonna-get-the-girl songs, but 30-40 years later.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/i-like-to-look-at-singers-while-they-sing/#comment-2699999 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:01:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128894#comment-2699999 Never got Dylan. Liked folk for the sound. The more “protest” a piece was, the less I cared for it. Same for performers….Baez for example. Liked PP&M because they were less of that and many of their songs were something else so you could listen to an album and not get 100% protests. Same for the Kingston Trio, Limeliters, various others including other soloists. Judy Collins, for example.
But if it hurt my ears, I wasn’t going to give it a break for being a Sixties version of politically correct.
It isn’t only faking rail-riding Okies to have good harmony, melodies, interesting subjects. KT. Alamo, Reuben James, Limeliters, various. Some were new takes on old hymns.

Probably have something personal in this, but the more somebody listened to and talked about “protest”, the less likely he had bestirred himself in that regard in the actual, you know, world.

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