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Skriven 2007-05-11 21:19:14 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: tastes 489
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Hey Michael!

->  HN> Are you thinking of "What a wonderful world"? That was written by 
Bob
->  HN> Thiele  who was a producer for ABC rcords....didn't know he was a
->  HN> German  Communist....
-> 
-> Wonderful World never made it all that big in the States,
-> did it? It was, I note, #1 in some weird place, like
-> Australia, though. I was thinking of Moritaet [the Ballad
-> of Mackie Messer, aka Mack the Knife], but as it turns
-> out that was #20-something when done by Satchmo but went
-> to #1 when covered by (of all people) Bobby Darin.
-> 
Gosh it was pretty much Darin's signature song, I think I've only heard it by 
Armstrong a couple of times in my life!

-> Anyway, both your Wonderful World and Ruth's Hello, Dolly
-> were after my time.
-> 
what are you an old fart? Sheesh Mack the knife was still  before you got out 
of grade school! (grin)

->  -=> Hap Newsom said to Jim Weller <=-
-> 
->  HN> We are hoping but things are not looking as propitious as they were,
->  HN> the  seminar at which I was going to conduct a workshop is now on 
hold
->  HN> due in  large part to the difficulty in getting people back and forth
->  HN> across the border. 
->  HN> And someone may have leaked the info that some americans were 
going to
->  HN> do  some of the teaching and that may break some Canadian work 
laws
->  HN> ....sigh  this international crap is a pain in the border area (grin)
-> 
-> It has been for years. We were contracted to back Natalie Cole
-> once on her Canadian tour, but one of the more obnoxious of the
-> rival outfits who were passed up, as we were better, raised a red
-> flag with the north-of-the-border people, with the result that
-> none of us got to do the gig, and she ended up accompanied by
-> various local bands, some of which, in Toronto and Montreal at
-> least, may have been good, but most of which probably played
-> as well as I might with a finger or two sawed off each hand.
-> She was p.o.'ed, we were p.o.'ed, and probably some of the
-> audiences were also p.o.'ed
-> 
Well PO'd or K0'd, looks like the trip may not happen...at least not with me 
getting any pay for it which increases the likelihood of it not happening !
chat with you soon
hap 
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