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What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's"Bewitched..."
#25re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 8:15pmAdd another vote for Patti. I really enjoyed her version of the song. It's one of the reasons I bought the cd.
#26re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 8:28pm
I didn't have a chance to post a link while I was at work but here's the album info for The Musicality of Rodgers and Hart. If you click on "emusic" you can get a short clip.
The Musicality of Rodgers and Hart
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#27re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:15pmElla Fitzgerald. Period.
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#28re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:56pm
Ella. The full version on the R&H songbook. #2 would be the 3 minute "Single edit" that turns up on compilations. Third would be any other.
What a perfect song:
"Lost my heart, but what of it
He is cold I agree
He can laugh, but I love it
Because the laugh's on me"
#29re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/4/09 at 10:55am
Ella in any version.
On stage, I also really enjoyed Samuel Barnett's version in The History Boys.
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#30re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/4/09 at 12:22pm
I don't know who was singing it, but the version that played at my chiropractor's office yesterday completely erased the horrible taste that the current version being foisted upon poor hapless theatre-goers on Broadway left in my mouth. I know it wasn't Patti...I'd recognize that voice. But it was great.
(He has a very weird music mix going on...it will go from stuff like that to Indian music to 80s TV themes...it's bizarre, but oddly I like it.)
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#31re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/4/09 at 12:37pmOh, yes! Samuel Barnett!
#32re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/4/09 at 1:35pm
Reg - I had to watch the movie again last night. I can't put my finger on it, but there is something so warm and genuine about that film that fills me with joy. Despite popular opinion, I find it to be Woody Allen's masterpiece.
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#33re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/4/09 at 2:37pm
Linda Ronstadt's version is really very good. This live version (while not mine) that I came across is fantastic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLS2R8Cdh6A
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#35re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/4/09 at 3:59pmIt's so much fun watching all these different versions. My vote goes to Barbra. If you watch her expressions, she goes through every emotion known to humankind in that one song. Yet, listening to just the vocals, I don't feel it's over the top, just achingly beautiful. Also, really like the simplicity of Ella's. Such a great song that can be interpreted in so many different ways.
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#36re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/5/09 at 12:02am
Why do I have a feeling that if someone started a thread with the question "Who should win this year's Nobel Prize for Physics", Patti LuPone would come away with the clear win?
#37re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/5/09 at 7:52am
Doris Day...
Am I going to get shot for saying this?
It's a really beautiful rendition.
You can check it out on YouTube.
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#38re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/5/09 at 8:09amNot at all. Doris Day was a beautiful song stylist, before her cutesy screen persona emerged.
#39re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/5/09 at 12:09pmI agree. I love Doris' voice.
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#40re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/5/09 at 12:45pmI'd forgotten about Day's cover of the song. I believe I may have it on cassette tape - somewhere.
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We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
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#41re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/5/09 at 9:17pmFrank Sinatra's from the movie is a favorite.
#43re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/6/09 at 7:45am
Marin's okay in my book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbDyADEXMMk
#44re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/6/09 at 7:50am
Barbra singing it on the Judy Garland Show, in case it wasn't posted before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-UQjREbMjw
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