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Thread #109965 Message #2302590
Posted By: Jack Campin
31-Mar-08 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: Tech: backing tracks for Marlene Dietrich song
Subject: RE: Tech: backing tracks for Marlene Dietrich song
I heard her "Where have all the flowers gone" on the radio here a few days ago. Dietrich was okay if rather obviously foreign. But the arrangement was by Burt Bacharach (king of the middle of the road) and was possibly the ghastliest, most taste-free abomination I have EVER heard inflicted on a folk song (random shifts of key were the least of it). Maybe some of her other tries at Anglo folk were better, but for this one, just DON'T, please.