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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 15:49:49 GMT -1
Cannae believe it. This last couple of years has been SHITE for this kinna thing. All the good guys are dying... She had a beautiful, unique, rich, satiny voice. Where would disco have been without her. RIP Donna. Toot toot, hey, beep beep
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Post by yonzabam on May 17, 2012 18:56:56 GMT -1
Cannae believe it. This last couple of years has been SHITE for this kinna thing. All the good guys are dying... She had a beautiful, unique, rich, satiny voice. Where would disco have been without her. RIP Donna. Toot toot, hey, beep beep In the summer of 1977, I was working as a tat porter at Butlin's, Clacton. It was my second season. I'd worked there during the record heatwave summer of '76, and liked it enough to go back and do it again. But it wisnae working in a sweaty tat that I liked. It was played all the time at the staff discos and did its bit to inflame passions. It was a totally groundbreaking sound at the time, and I thought it would be sure to catapult her into superstardom. Didnae quite work out that way, though. I don't know if she was a one hit wonder, or not, but she didn't seem to capitalise on it. I don't think any other singer could have sung it better. Very talented lady. I looked on Youtube for a video from the time, but couldnae see any. However, found this 'Hot Gossip' performance from a 1979 Kenny Everett show. Now, I know the whole point of Hot Gossip was that they were very raunchy, but I can't believe this clip. Surely, they weren't this raunchy. I'm far from a prude, but if this is what was on the telly in 1979, Mary Whitehouse had a point. Still, wouldnae mind seeing some repeats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkpt676npmU&feature=fvsr
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 19:31:47 GMT -1
Cannae believe it. This last couple of years has been SHITE for this kinna thing. All the good guys are dying... She had a beautiful, unique, rich, satiny voice. Where would disco have been without her. RIP Donna. Toot toot, hey, beep beep I think she and Georgio Moroder INVENTED disco! ;D Just broke a cab driver's heart tonight on the way home; he was giving it Smooth Radio funk really loud, (totally cheering me up in the process) and I asked him if he'd heard about Donna. He was like what? what? Then said he'd wondered why he'd heard MacArthur Park and I Feel Love back to back earlier.... Anyways, enjoy this clip, great sound on this one, so get yer headphones on (even better!), play loud and ENJOY! Fine girl she was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2q2bis6eLE&feature=relatedps Nile Rogers (hero) was on Twitter earlier, been in tears all day. Quite an accolade....
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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 19:32:26 GMT -1
In the summer of 1977, I was working as a tat porter at Butlin's, Clacton. It was my second season. I'd worked there during the record heatwave summer of '76, and liked it enough to go back and do it again. But it wisnae working in a sweaty tat that I liked. It was played all the time at the staff discos and did its bit to inflame passions. ;D ;D ;D ;D Snap! My boyf had some life-shaping experiences as staff at Butlins in his youth as well.... Donna had a good few hits, and it wasn't just disco she was involved in. There are plenty in NY who see her as a punk princess as well. ;D "Raunchy"? You think this is "raunchy"? OK... no doubt, it certainly was pushing the boundaries at the time, but it is as nothing - Shirley Temple - compared to now. But even at the time, this routine surely wasn't "raunchy". This routine is just dancers havin a laff and showing off their raunchy chops. They're pretty bog standard moves; no worse than anything seen shortly afterwards in Kids from Fame. I seriously don't think there's any serious intent to titillate here. There's nothing nefarious going on... I can't imagine the dancers while rehearsing this, felt remotely uncomfortable. ALL the dancers onstage & on telly these days, are being used very seriously, as tittivating sexual objects. It's not about dancing, or about your dancing chops, or about having fun dancing. It's all explicitly about sex; it seems to me that the mindset of the dancers, how they see the job, is entirely different. It's sinister; unwholesome. It certainly ain't tempered by any British telly standards - as Hot Gossip most certainly was, no matter what Mrs Whitehouse might have felt.
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Post by yonzabam on May 17, 2012 19:47:59 GMT -1
;D "Raunchy"? You think this is "raunchy"? OK... no doubt, it certainly was pushing the boundaries at the time, but it is as nothing - Shirley Temple - compared to now. But even at the time, this routine surely wasn't "raunchy". This routine is just dancers havin a laff and showing off their raunchy chops. They're pretty bog standard moves; no worse than anything seen shortly afterwards in Kids from Fame. I seriously don't think there's any serious intent to titillate here. There's nothing nefarious going on... I can't imagine the dancers while rehearsing this, felt remotely uncomfortable. ALL the dancers onstage & on telly these days, are being used very seriously, as tittivating sexual objects. It's not about dancing, or about your dancing chops, or about having fun dancing. It's all explicitly about sex; it seems to me that the mindset of the dancers, how they see the job, is entirely different. It's sinister; unwholesome. It certainly ain't tempered by any British telly standards - as Hot Gossip most certainly was, no matter what Mrs Whitehouse might have felt. Aw, c'moan!! There's nothing on the telly today that comes anywhere near to that Hot Gossip performance. I'm talking about the telly, no' Internet porn.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 20:30:38 GMT -1
I loved this at the time; sublime Barry Manilow song given the Donna treatment. (sound's not as good on this soz) www.youtube.com/watch?v=12NpRvuToPwTake That's tribute to the Donna version was pretty darned fine too. I'm not posting the vid, it's just TOO well, raunchy, for some. Pass the smelling salts, Mildred... Manilow's own version still does it for me though. Nicked a few chords from Chopin but arranged it into something magnificent that just gets you every time... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xBG_d-_6bc&feature=related<goosebumps>
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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 20:47:15 GMT -1
Aw, c'moan!! There's nothing on the telly today that comes anywhere near to that Hot Gossip performance. I'm talking about the telly, no' Internet porn. Um. EH??? What colour is the sky on your planet? Aguilera www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5tBq6ruFWE"Song" about unpleasant sex that exploits women Britney www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcrZSf03Qf4"Song" about unpleasant sex that exploits women Rihanna www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5MfdK0BrKw"Song" about unpleasant sex that exploits women Prime time Saturday night telly. There's tons more than that. Or check out any music TV channel, 24/7. "Songs" about unpleasant sex that exploits women, accompanied by pornographic dance routines. No watershed. I have to say, I'm really, really astonished that you're astonished by Hot Gossip! Complete vanilla.
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Post by notanimby on May 17, 2012 21:08:05 GMT -1
I loved this at the time; sublime Barry Manilow song given the Donna treatment. (sound's not as good on this soz) www.youtube.com/watch?v=12NpRvuToPwTake That's tribute to the Donna version was pretty darned fine too. I'm not posting the vid, it's just TOO well, raunchy, for some. Pass the smelling salts, Mildred... Manilow's own version still does it for me though. Nicked a few chords from Chopin but arranged it into something magnificent that just gets you every time... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xBG_d-_6bc&feature=related<goosebumps> goosebumps - fekkin hell yoo kin see MsSummer's raspeberry ripples in that first clip - the victorains will be turnin in thur graves aty teh debauchery of it all...........and another thing get those table legs covered up wae a longer table cloth or some wan will be getting corrupted by its shapely turned wood
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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 21:09:00 GMT -1
Isn't that just a splendid exemplar of her voice... that note, and the absolutely typical Donna sound that she gets into that one syllable, "come"... wonderful. Her disco sporran is brilliant as well! De cocaine, along wid de disco, was a marvellous ting Ooooh, a wee bit overwrought for me, this version... but you're right, a tremendous song. Chord sequence and melody that truly does make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Pushes all the appropriate buttons. I'll take Barry over Chopin anytime. Chopin is a snore. Barry is not and never could be. Fact.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 21:17:40 GMT -1
Em HELLO? This here's a thread about the late Donna Summer! It seems to have been hijacked into something else! Why Yonza had to take it into some other realm is beyond me. There are PLENTY of clips of Donna 'from the time'. Can't figure how Y couldn't 'see any' Why, here's another one now www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ArZEFwRsYFancy!
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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 21:23:36 GMT -1
Em HELLO? This here's a thread about the late Donna Summer! It seems to have been hijacked into something else! Why Yonza had to take it into some other realm is beyond me. There are PLENTY of clips of Donna 'from the time'. Can't figure how Y couldn't 'see any' You're right! - I meant to ask him about this!! I looked on Youtube for a video from the time, but couldnae see any.
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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 21:28:30 GMT -1
Oh gawd, the 70s... how FAB is this! Isn't she gorgeous. 1. Rotten miming 2. FAB frock! 3. What on earth is going on, with that herd of gallumphing elephants behind her?? One has to wonder how much Donna actually got to sing in her broadcast performances.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 22:05:50 GMT -1
[ Ooooh, a wee bit overwrought for me, this version... but you're right, a tremendous song. Chord sequence and melody that truly does make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Pushes all the appropriate buttons. I'll take Barry over Chopin anytime. Chopin is a snore. Barry is not and never could be. Fact. Yes, it's overwrought---but in a good way Hell, talking of overwrought, haud me back from posting Donna's version of MacArthur Park. I'll never ever forget hearing that song for the first time back in the 70s. Probably best not post the extremely overwrought actorly version by Richard Harris, close mate of Jimmywebb. Being a daft teen, I was not aware then of Jimmywebb, the songwriter but I've sure caught up in more recent years. He's played Oran Mor a couple of times in the past few years---and grown men wept. His live version of MacArthur Park is well.........greetworthily fecking marvellous. ;D Am I ranting? <sorry>
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 22:09:11 GMT -1
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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 22:49:06 GMT -1
Jimmy Webb is a grade A certifiable loony and nutcase. *nod*
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