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« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2014, 09:53:20 PM »

Agreed...the clips I've heard of Bruce doing Wendy the past few years have been terrible. I'd rather drink the anal leakage of a dying water buffalo from a sippy cup than hear him do that again.
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« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2014, 09:57:42 PM »

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« Reply #27 on: August 20, 2014, 10:02:23 PM »

I was exaggerating a bit...I meant a reasonably healthy water buffalo LOL
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« Reply #28 on: August 20, 2014, 11:12:44 PM »

Who was that dude that kinda looked like Mike, sleeping in the background?

Honestly, that clip was too slow and melodramatic...I love the song, but that was overblown.

Whispering Bob Harris - clip is from The Old Grey Whistle Test.
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« Reply #29 on: August 20, 2014, 11:15:34 PM »

Ahh...he must've dyed his hair, or it was the lighting, because his hair looked grayer when he introduced Roxy Music right before they played Ladytron, back in 1972.
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« Reply #30 on: August 20, 2014, 11:22:04 PM »

Who was that dude that kinda looked like Mike, sleeping in the background?

Honestly, that clip was too slow and melodramatic...I love the song, but that was overblown.
At the time when I wasn't really a BBs fan (yet), didn't know who is who, I actually liked that video. That's the 1st time I heard "Disney Girls". As for the guy in the background, one of the comments said it was a host of that show Bob Harris. If I recall, he did the chart of the BBs story on BBC radio.
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« Reply #31 on: August 20, 2014, 11:33:39 PM »

Who was that dude that kinda looked like Mike, sleeping in the background?

Honestly, that clip was too slow and melodramatic...I love the song, but that was overblown.
At the time when I wasn't really a BBs fan (yet), didn't know who is who, I actually liked that video. That's the 1st time I heard "Disney Girls". As for the guy in the background, one of the comments said it was a host of that show Bob Harris. If I recall, he did the chart of the BBs story on BBC radio.
Spot on. He's still a radio presenter, one of the few authentic music experts left on BBC Radio 2. One of those DJs who presents great music, in an intelligent way and is worth listening to. He'd actually close his eyes and listen to the music…
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« Reply #32 on: August 21, 2014, 05:25:16 AM »

Honestly, that clip was too slow and melodramatic...I love the song, but that was overblown.

I 100% agree.  I think Bruce has a great voice and is a very talented dude so I'm not trying to slight him at all, I just think that all of the drawn out phrases and dramatic pauses take the song into an overly cheeseball territory.  Bruce's performance in the original recorded version is damn near perfect.  The arrangement of the song in this video, even though it's evident that Bruce does have a great voice in it, does nothing for me.
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« Reply #33 on: August 21, 2014, 05:36:54 AM »

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« Reply #34 on: August 21, 2014, 08:10:51 AM »

But it got me wondering. Bruce's lead vocal selections are few and far between on the other albums we appeared on, even the ones in the 80s and 90s

I think there's a simple reason why Bruce never did that many lead vocals. For any musician (or any other kind of artist, for that matter) to do anything there's gotta be a personal creative urge and/or public demand. Seems that there never has been much of either for Bruce Johnston leads.

Whatever anyone thinks of Bruce, he does have a few good qualities that seem to be very rare among famous musicians: he's not a bragger, he knows his place, doesn't feel the need to prove himself and he doesn't have to be the centre of attention. People don't go see The Beach Boys for Bruce Johnston or his songs, never have and never will. And it seems that Bruce fully realizes and has always been perfectly comfortable with that.
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