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« on: January 02, 2013, 04:53:48 PM »

RIP Patti Page

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/arts/music/patti-page-singer-dies-at-85.html?_r=0
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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2013, 05:50:17 PM »

Poor Bruce.  Another part of his idealistic little '50s world is gone.
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2013, 07:46:22 PM »

Poor Bruce.  Another part of his idealistic little '50s world is gone.

Bruce was on the ball when he put Patti into DG. She was and always will be hip. Before Mitch Miller saddled her with the doggie song, she worked with Benny Goodman.  And in the 1990s, thanks to a Brit outfit called Groove Armada, she had a UK Top 20 hit and across-the-board dance floor smash, "At The River" - which is essentially, indeed, "Old Cape Cod."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsEZINxH-WU

Also an underrated actress - she had few roles but held her own with Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry.

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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2013, 09:59:42 PM »

Poor Bruce.  Another part of his idealistic little '50s world is gone.

Actually, not just Bruce, but anybody who lived in that time. Odd remark; "idealistic little '50s world".
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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2013, 10:57:49 PM »

Patti was a pioneer of multi-tracking her own vocals. She started doing that because she couldn't afford backing vocalists. So, in a way, she inspired Brian Wilson and other singers down the line who did the same thing.  She was pretty impressive at it, too.
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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2013, 12:03:26 AM »

What's astounding about Patti's early multitracked efforts is that they were done by recording an acetate disc, singing along with the vocal on the disc to make another disc, then singing along with that.  It wasn't until a year later that Les Paul double tracked Mary Ford's vocals (which involved ping ponging a one track tape).
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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2013, 04:29:32 AM »

Bruce is like a character taken out of the setting from The Great Gatsby novel by F.S. Fitzgerald
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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2013, 06:14:08 AM »

Poor Bruce.  Another part of his idealistic little '50s world is gone.

Bruce was on the ball when he put Patti into DG. She was and always will be hip. Before Mitch Miller saddled her with the doggie song, she worked with Benny Goodman.  And in the 1990s, thanks to a Brit outfit called Groove Armada, she had a UK Top 20 hit and across-the-board dance floor smash, "At The River" - which is essentially, indeed, "Old Cape Cod."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsEZINxH-WU

Also an underrated actress - she had few roles but held her own with Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry.
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Old Cape Cod was a 1957 classic. It is so closely associated that the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, in 2010, named the street upon which the facility sits "Patty Page Way." She often performed at the Cape Cod Melody Tent, where the Boys take the stage as well. She came to the dedication, done in February, 2010. Patti's legendary song can be found in funky old diners, at the table jukeboxes on the Cape. It is also credited with bolstering tourism, there, as well.

The Cape Cod Times has an article and what looks like a private Youtube of the event.  Johnston distilled the sentiment captured in DG.  

  
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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2013, 07:27:03 PM »

Thanks for expanding on my original post.
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php?action=post;quote=343329;topic=14990.0;num_replies=22;sesc=4aad0209a67dc2876edc4e82e8a39725
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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2013, 07:57:14 PM »

Bruce is like a character taken out of the setting from The Great Gatsby novel by F.S. Fitzgerald


That would have applied more in the days when he dressed preppy.
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« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2013, 03:21:17 PM »

Interesting and timely article.

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2013/01/02disney-girls-for-patti-page/

Hope it works!  Wink

From irishtimes.com by Donald Clarke.
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« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2013, 03:46:38 PM »

Your link didn't work for me, filledeplage, but this one did:

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2013/01/02/

Very interesting to hear Bruce putting his all into "Disney Girls"--while (as the blogger says first!) it's not on par with the studio version, you can hear why Bruce was a great choice to replace BW in the touring band. This is as dynamic as I've ever heard him. Great shirt, too!!  Drinking Buddies
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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2013, 04:30:26 PM »

Your link didn't work for me, filledeplage, but this one did:

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2013/01/02/

Very interesting to hear Bruce putting his all into "Disney Girls"--while (as the blogger says first!) it's not on par with the studio version, you can hear why Bruce was a great choice to replace BW in the touring band. This is as dynamic as I've ever heard him. Great shirt, too!!  Drinking Buddies

Thanks for that better link!  I love that he referred to Surfs Up as "immortal."

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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2013, 05:34:04 PM »

Too bad he calls him Bruce Johnson. Not impressed with whoever he is.
Also he has bed-head.

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« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2013, 07:02:12 PM »

Your link didn't work for me, filledeplage, but this one did:

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2013/01/02/

Very interesting to hear Bruce putting his all into "Disney Girls"--while (as the blogger says first!) it's not on par with the studio version, you can hear why Bruce was a great choice to replace BW in the touring band. This is as dynamic as I've ever heard him. Great shirt, too!!  Drinking Buddies

Bruce could have been a poor or even a middle-class man's Paul Williams (the songwriter, not the BB author).
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« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2013, 12:35:13 PM »

Poor Bruce.  Another part of his idealistic little '50s world is gone.

Actually, not just Bruce, but anybody who lived in that time. Odd remark; "idealistic little '50s world".
I can explain this comment...

We have such a cynical society today.  To many, the 1950s represent idealism -- unachievable idealism.  So, to be a cynic, attacking the 1950s is an important right of passage.  In reality, the 1950s were a time when people were typically a little more optimistic and they generally cared more.

Patti Page in 1958...


Beginning in the mid/late 1960s people started to flirt with more aggressive left-wing Utopian ideas.  Which meant they needed to harshly reject existing successes to excite people with their solution.  (yikes!)  So they turned on their parents and the optimism of 1950s.  They (not us) saw those things as idealistic... which of course is never achieved.  Apparently... being unable to achieve an ideal "Utopian" state is news to them, which explains their gullibility for further Utopian fantasies.  I think, they just had a hard time with the fact that they and society weren't perfect.  So they looked at their parents and the 1950s as a big dumb lie.  Uh well...

Anyway... they began to focus more on their butts and what came out of them... cuz that was considered more real.   LOL  No, but... people just stopped caring about stuff, as evidenced by their appearance. And when you stop caring... you start complaining... Complaining is easier than caring.  And everyone thinks you care a lot... cuz you're complaining!

The people in this picture want peace, I think.  Wink  


Exactly.  I just know that Patti Page looks delicious in that picture... and that Bruce Johnston's sappy song was just him reminiscing of the past -- which always tends to be idealistic.  So since he was reminiscing about "those" 1950s -- and in a positive light -- and not the late 60s... it's good that Patti Page is gone.  "Poor Bruce."  As was said,  "Another part of his idealistic little '50s world is gone."

Stupid isn't it?  How much time did I just waste on such a shallow river?  Way too much, way too much.  But... there it is: "Idealistic little 50s world" defined in about 5 excruciating minutes.  Hopefully I made it fun!
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« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2013, 06:40:26 PM »

Does anyone know if PP ever reacted to the Groove Armada use of OCC?  I want to believe that she heard it and loved it; she was super cool, despite some implications here that she stood for something staid and Utopian. She was an avant garde artist, which is always cool.
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« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2013, 07:02:54 PM »

She wasn't as cool as Peggy Lee.  I couldn't see her singing "Is That All There Is?" Even in the '50s and '40s, there were people who were anti-establishment. In a beatnik kind of way. I agree that the hippies may have gone a bit overboard. Like that older lady in the school bus picture. I know older ladies have hormone imbalances sometimes, but for gosh sake's, shave off the beard!
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« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2013, 06:15:12 PM »

She also recorded the most successful version of "Tennessee Waltz," later covered by Spring.
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