BS: Burning Issue

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 05:20 PM

Spaw, you never disappoint me.

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: Chet W.
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 05:11 PM

I remember seeing somewhere that Cab Calloway put out a souvenir-type dictionary of hipster jive, don't remember the exact title. Anybody know where that might be got or at least seen?

Chet

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: GUEST,Frank Hamilton
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 04:10 PM

This song has been recorded by many people, many times. It was written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren and published in 1934. It's probably a movie song because it was published by Warner Brothers.

It's interesting because since it was in the standard jazz repitiore of the 40's and 50's, it is the basis for a peculiar early be-bop jazz expression. To covet something is to "have eyes" for it as in: Man, I really have eyes for that short and dig those threads too.

Short=car, Threads=clothes "Have Eyes

I got eyes for this thread (which doesn't include clothes)

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: Chet W.
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 03:46 PM

Sorry, I was on my computer at school (real good quality setup) and I thought it wasn't submitting at all. I just pulled out my Flamingos album and listened to the song, and I just had to clap.

Chet

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 11:00 AM

Spaw, now you're back to the Summer of Love thread again!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 10:49 AM

From the thread title, I thought somebody had the clap.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 10:02 AM

Chet, Chet, Chet:

You only hit that submit button one time!
You only hit that submit button one time!
You only hit that submit button one time!

AAA

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 09:48 AM

It was the Flamingos. Check out the version from the Flamingos.

Chet

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 09:47 AM

It was the Flamingos. Check out the version from the Flamingos.

Chet

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 09:47 AM

It was the Flamingos. Check out the version from the Flamingos.

Chet

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 03:50 AM

In the same vein: did you hear about the man whose wife called him Nightingale. When asked why she said:"He may be right, he may be wrong, but he's perfectly willing to swear."
WEll, it is nearly Valentine's Day!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 07:15 PM

Excellent! Do you have the chords for it?

All the best

mcmoo

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: Allan C.
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 04:44 PM

And Paul Simon did about the best on it I have ever heard. But, then, I never heard Jo Stafford do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Burning Issue
From: Amos
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 04:38 PM

I dunno who wrote it, but Al Jolsen made it famous (IMHO).

A

Subject: Burning Issue
From: TerriM
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 04:36 PM

This is paraphrased from the Sunday Telegraph but it made me howl!

Dazed by love, Britain's grip on the simplest of meteorological facts-and indeed on a whole roster of other basic physical contingies-is terrifyingly uncertain, according to our latest research.Of the members of a polled group who asked themselves" Are the stars out tonight?" a full 100% admitted they hadn't a clue, furthermore this same group could not ascertain whether it was cloudy or bright. Of more concern, they declared themselves unable to state their own whereabouts and maintained they did not know if they were in a garden or on some crowded avenue ( they were, in fact, neither but the researcher chose not to point this out).Later members of the group were heard to say that " maybe millions of people" were in the vicinity for all the difference it made to the members, for whom any such people dissapeared from view. The researcher was obliged to conclude that the group only had eyes for him.

Isn't it priceless? Who wrote the original BTW?

Terri