Unlikely pairings

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST,John Hernandez
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 01:36 PM

The Bonnie Earl 0f Murray and Lady Mondegreen. They killed 'em both!

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Margret RoadKnight
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 07:54 PM

Somewhere I've got a 45 with a Lily Tomlin/ Barry Manilow duet, with them sending up all those sachharine duet songs......

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST,The Benn Agency
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 10:04 AM

We have always considered pairing Geoff Bright with Danny "Coldbreath"
Strackley but they have never shown any interest in the idea. I believe their duet renditions of our folk songs would be a revelation although, when considered individually, this pairing would appear unlikely due to their quite different approach.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Schantieman
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 09:00 AM

Tony Bliar and Gordon Brown?

S

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: dwditty
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 03:55 PM

Jaze,

Zappa was in concert (at the time the lead singer were Flo and Eddie - formerly of the Turtles (So Happy Together)). At one point, Frank said, "I have a surprise for you boys and girls." and out walked Joni. They did an extended version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

dw

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST,Tinker from Chicago
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 02:42 PM

Has anyone heard that astonishing duet of B. B. King and Mary Travers assaulting "House of the Rising Sun"? Sorry, Mary. You were WAY out of your league on that one.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 02:37 PM

Yehudi Menhuin and Ti-Jean Carignan.

I remember it from YM's old TV series, The Music of Man. It worked.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 09:55 AM

Bryan Adams and pavarotti, Anne Murray and Celine Dion. Quebec and Canada..but it all seems to work..qui?

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 09:06 AM

Yehudi Menhuin and Frankie Gavin, Frankie was great but Sir Yehudi sounded very unnatural playing a hornpipe.
eric

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Splott Man
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 05:17 AM

How about some fantasy pairings?

Lady Eleanor & Little Walter.

Simon & Unkle.

Lester Flatt & Earl Okin.

Waterson/McCartney.

Stop me, quick......

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: khandu
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:13 PM

William Shatner & "Mr Tambourane Man"

k

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Bassic
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 10:16 PM

Yehudi Menuhin + Stephane Grappelli........unlikely pairing yes, still not sure if it worked...........but never forgot it!

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Janice in NJ
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 08:20 PM

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. The folk connection? Well, Marilyn Monroe played ukelele in Some Like it Hot. And I've heard that Arthur Miller used to show up at some New York folkie parties in Greenwich Village in the 1940s. Flimsy, I know, but you have to admit that the Monroe/Miller pairing was pretty unlikely.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 01:16 PM

Just heard a new Christmas song by Alison Krause and Alan Jackson. Quite nice.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 05:49 AM

I didn't think Packie & Bonnie an odd musical pairing at all. It worked fantastically. I heard recently that Packie is now quite well after his recent hospital stay and, of course, Bonnie occasionally contributes here.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 04:57 AM

Quite a few years ago the beautiful harpist and singer Bonnie Shaljean and the traditional singer and whistle player Packie Byrne,
generations and an ocean apart but made wonderful music between them.
eric

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 03:01 PM

Pavarotti and Bryan Adams' duet on "All For Love" or "O Solo Mio" always cracks me up.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Amos
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 02:55 PM

America's most famous blues guitarist, at this particular moment, Dr Howard Dean, and George Bush at a change-of-command ceremony...

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 02:54 PM

Luciano Pavarotti and Sting singing Panis Angelicus as a duet. Really happened. Sounded pretty good, actually. Interesting contrast of voices.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 02:50 PM

Reagan didn't sing with Lyin' Brian. Mulroney just belted out that annoying song with "the wives" while Ronny smiled and waved.

And Pat Boone and Alice Cooper are friends who often play golf together. One of the reasons PB decided to do that album of Rock covers a few years ago.

Personally, though I am a big fan of both Willie Nelson and Daniel Lanois, I didn't think the Teatro CD came off that well. To me, Willie sounded too hemmed-in by all the production.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 02:37 PM

Me and Shania Twain. Or did I dream that one? :-)

Some pretty good stuff by Steve Earle and Sharon Shannon, dunno how unlikely you would deem it. Not as much as Dolly Parton and Altan (Was it Altan or another Irish group? They all sound the same to me...;-) )

I think the oddest pairing I have seen recently (2-3 years ago? Can't remember.) was Cliff Richards and Van Morrison. Odd couple or what! Can you imagine the crack in the dressing room?

"Have a drink, Cliff"

"No thank you. A quiet prayer will do"

"F&*k off then..."

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST,Obie
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 01:34 PM

Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroony singing "When irish Eyes Are Smiling."
Not that they did such a bad job. It's just that I never heard an arsehole duet before.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 11:54 AM

Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan doing "Girl From The North Country"

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: jaze
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 10:51 AM

What did Joni Mitchell and Frank Zappa sing? Can't imagine it.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 10:28 AM

BBC is running an advert starring the diminutive scots comedian Ronnie Corbett and Alice Cooper.
Otherwise The Pope and Osama Bin Laden
eric

Subject: The Not-So-Odd Couple
From: Suffet
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:55 PM

Unlikely pairing? Come find out for yourself!

Appearing at the Peoples' Voice Cafe in New York...

LYDIA ADAMS DAVIS
Singer-Songwriter

and

STEVE SUFFET
Old-Fashioned Folksinger

Saturday • January 17, 2004 • 8:00 PM

Said he: "I received your cassette tape Monday and I have been enjoying it since."

Said she: "Glad you like the tape.... Take away the lush instrumentation, somewhat busy arrangements and country songs on my album and you will see our sensibilities are not that different."

Said he: "Our musical sensibilities may be similar, but you have a much nicer voice."

Said she: "Thanks. I hear a Woody G. quality to your voice which I like very much."

Said he: "For too many years I was a Woody wannabe, musically, that is, and I'm afraid it still shows. Please kick me hard if I start spouting Okie aphorisms!"

Could this be the beginning of a beautiful musical friendship? Or is it just witty banter? Come see how this drama plays out and help Lydia and Steve prove to the house that, yes, they can fill seats on a dark and cold winter night.

Peoples' Voice Cafe at the Workmen's Circle
45 East 33rd Street
Just west of Park Avenue
Midtown Manhattan, NYC

General admission: $10.
Peoples' Voice or Workmen's Circle member: $7.
Seniors, on strike, or up against the machine: $5.
TDF vouchers accepted.

Even at the top admission, it's still a cheap night out in the Big Apple.

Delicious and reasonably healthy snacks will be available at ridiculously low prices.

Take note: Steve will be accompanied by unindicted coconspirators from the MacDougal Street Rent Party and from the Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash. Please feel free to sing along, unless he tells you otherwise, which he will very rarely, if ever, do. Kazoos, spoons, jugs, and Jew's harps are welcome, provided you really know how to play them.

Peoples' Voice Cafe website: http://www.peoplesvoicecafe.org/

Lydia Adams Davis website: http://www.lydiaadamsdavis.com/


Steve Suffet website: http://suffet.home.att.net/


Be there!

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 06:16 PM

I am sure this thread has been done before, I seem to remember then saying that the spectacle of Emmylou Harris and Dick Gaughan singing "Both Sides the Tweed" was the most bizarre thing I had ever witnessed.

Poor Emmylou, she looked like she would rather have been just about anywhere else .......

Murray

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 06:01 PM

Tom Jones performing "Tennesee Waltz" with the Chieftains was kind of surreal. He also did "Long Time Gone" with CSNY (grinning in the background) on his long ago TV show. And yeah, Tracy Chapman doing "Thrill..." with B.B. really worked, she's a helluva blues singer. frankie

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 05:48 PM

Glen Campbell being friends with Alice Cooper.

Subject: RE: Unlikely parings
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 02:27 PM

It's the way I spell 'em. (see above)

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:17 AM

Toe-nails? Oh - I get it... d'oh

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: sledge
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:14 AM

The chieftains have a whole album of collaborations called tears of stone, generally good stuff. Bonnie Rait, Joni Mitchell, Mary Chapin Carpenter, , Sinead O'Conner, Natalie Merchent, even the bloody Corrs are on it.

Sledge

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:02 AM

Well, the local station DJ who's been playing the complimentary pre-release copy, swears that the "Earl Scruggs and Friends" CD (with Elton John, Sting et al) works, but...like science, just because a certain thing can be done, it doesn't follow that it should be done.

Reserve judgement, you bet. The prudent course of action.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: John P
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 08:00 AM

Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson.

Elton John and Eminem.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Peg
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 10:07 PM

Tony Bennett and kd lang...

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 06:22 PM

Add to Mick Jagger and the Chieftains ...........Sting and the Chieftains.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 05:50 PM

How about Yoko Ono?......with anybody..........including herself...................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 05:40 PM

Life is just a bowl of Toes Nails

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: DonMeixner
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 05:39 PM

Does anyone remember about 20 years ago when ABC/NBC/CBS had a music special with Luciano Pavarotti and Loretta Lynn? The spent several seconds telling each other how much they admired each other. If ever there was a ring of truth I didn't hear it.

Don

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: RangerSteve
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 05:13 PM

Earl Scruggs and Elton John? Really? Well, it might work. I'll reserve judgement until I hear it, which I don't think I'll go out of my way to do.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 05:07 PM

Way back when, Leadbelly and Richard Dyer-Bennet appeared together. I've heard that they liked and respect each other a lot. But wow, what a contrast!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: ard mhacha
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 04:52 PM

"President" Bush and Einstein. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 12:06 PM

Earl Scruggs and Elton John on the soon to be released "Earl Scruggs and Friends."

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 06:57 PM

Several comedy routines featuring the unlikely duo of Jack Benny and Andy Devine.

'Course Mick Jagger and The Chieftans got it on. But to me one of the strangest pairings of all was a BBC Comedy, classical and spoken word Producer being assigned to The Beatles! It worked out pretty well though, didn't it?

Apparently Ewan MacColl had dealings with Marylin Monroe AND Albert Einstein.

Rick

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST,emily b
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 06:21 PM

LR Mole, you have me laughing out loud.

I have a recording of Sting and Pavarotti. Well, the CD is called Pavarotti and Friends. Guess he'll sing with just about anyone if the price is right... Suzanne Vega is on it and Aaron Neville. Now Neville and Pavarotti is just plain weird. Sting sings with enough passion that he could actually pull it off.

How about some unlikely pairings of folk song characters? I can't think of any right now but I'll bet there are some good ones out there.

Still LOL!

Emily

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 05:48 PM

England and Australia

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: Suffet
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 05:41 PM

Woody Guthrie, Milton Berle, Cab Calloway, and Billie Holiday shared the same bill at Lewisohn Stadium in New York City on August 16, 1946.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: GUEST,John Lennon
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 05:13 PM

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: dwditty
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 04:11 PM

Tom Waits & William F. Buckley appearing together (not singing together) on the Dinah Shore Show.

Subject: RE: Unlikely pairings
From: dwditty
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 04:10 PM

Frank Zappa & Joni Mitchell at the Filmore East circa 1970.