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Thread #158996   Message #3765144
Posted By: GUEST,matt milton
13-Jan-16 - 08:20 AM
Thread Name: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
Subject: RE: Obit: David Bowie RIP (1947-2016)
I've often toyed with the idea of singing Bowie's "Please Mr Gravedigger" at a folk club, as it's unaccompanied on Bowie's recording. Would work quite well I reckon, if it's not too spooky, that is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgLy2PAJRiQ

Some of those early Bowie recordings in the 60s, for Deram and the BBC, before he became properly famous, are a quite music-hall-ish and satirical and much more melodically simple than his later stuff. Songs like "Gospel according to Tony Day" or "Join the Gang" could be folked-up I reckon.