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BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!

16 Sep 04 - 03:08 PM (#1273325)
Subject: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: John MacKenzie

I just had the pleasure of hearing an all to short excerpt of William Shatner intoning Love of the Common people. A unique experience, and to descibe it adequately is hard, all I can say is, "Wonderful isn't the word to use"
Giok


16 Sep 04 - 03:10 PM (#1273329)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Little Hawk

Oh! Oh! Oh! I must have a link!


16 Sep 04 - 03:24 PM (#1273344)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Peace

Watch out, Little Hawk. It starts with the heart, then it's the liver, then the kidneys, etc. There is no end.


16 Sep 04 - 04:18 PM (#1273402)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Morticia

I heard it too.....indescibable is the only word I can think of....I wonder what Pulp make of it?


16 Sep 04 - 04:19 PM (#1273403)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Cluin

MISTER TAMBOURINE MAAAAAAAAN!!!


16 Sep 04 - 04:23 PM (#1273410)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: GUEST,Blind Boy Grunt

I still can't believe what he did to that song. I've heard bad cover versions of stuff I wrote, but that one is as bad as it gets.


16 Sep 04 - 04:38 PM (#1273427)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Peace

BBG,

Shatner's interpretation of MTM was other-worldly.


16 Sep 04 - 04:43 PM (#1273435)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Cluin

AS is his cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Avoid the brown Acid.


16 Sep 04 - 04:43 PM (#1273436)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Teresa

I want to hear him reciting William McGonagall. ;)

T


16 Sep 04 - 04:51 PM (#1273440)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Cluin

Link in this older thread.


I actually like it a lot!


16 Sep 04 - 05:07 PM (#1273463)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Teresa

I'm rendered speechless. Hey, was that him singing? I'd never heard him actually singing before. HMMm.

T


16 Sep 04 - 05:12 PM (#1273469)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: GUEST,Big Bill

"Hmmm", yourself. Drop by my next Star Trek convention appearance, Teresa, and I'll give you the inside information on that.


16 Sep 04 - 05:32 PM (#1273489)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Teresa

I'm sure it would be ... fascinating.


16 Sep 04 - 06:08 PM (#1273515)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Bill D

Shatner, doing "Lucy in the Sky..." WITH animations! (Sorry Teresa!...it's a hoot!)


16 Sep 04 - 06:12 PM (#1273518)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Bill D

and if that doesn't fulfill your need for classics which "go where no music has gone before", Here is video of Nimoy (Mr. Spock) doing "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins....


16 Sep 04 - 06:13 PM (#1273521)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Little Hawk

Marvelous! I thank you, Bill D. The WSSBA thanks you. The World thanks you. Even the cosmos thanks you.


16 Sep 04 - 06:14 PM (#1273523)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Teresa

No problem, Bill D. The singing is a ... transcendant experience in itself.

T


16 Sep 04 - 06:25 PM (#1273537)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: GUEST,Big Bill

You...have such a way with words, Teresa.


16 Sep 04 - 06:30 PM (#1273544)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Bill D

funny...I got my ear cocked upwards, LH, and I cain't hear nothin' from the cosmos...


16 Sep 04 - 07:36 PM (#1273619)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: mack/misophist

I concede that "Common People" is the closest Shatner has ever come to making music. I guess.


16 Sep 04 - 07:38 PM (#1273623)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Peace

It's in the interpretation. Really.


16 Sep 04 - 11:12 PM (#1273697)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Amos

I listened to the "Common People" file, and I believe I can say with confidence that it is not singing.

I've known singing, and that is no singing.

A


17 Sep 04 - 03:34 PM (#1274345)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Cluin

It's not Overkill Bill singing, by the way. It's Ben Folds. Shat just does the narration as only HE can.


17 Sep 04 - 03:41 PM (#1274349)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Teresa

Ah, didn't think so. :D

T


17 Sep 04 - 10:07 PM (#1274694)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Little Hawk

Bill didn't sing on that one because:

1. He prefers to narrate in the way that only he can.

2. He didn't want to make Ben Folds sound really bad and humiliate him. Bill is very compassionate.


20 Sep 04 - 12:57 PM (#1276511)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Stilly River Sage

Here's a little thread drift:

According to Clear Channel, Shatner won an Emmy. Amazing.

Here's the story. There's not much to it, just a single sentence, followed by a remark the seems to indicate that Shatner is on the "B" list and wasn't at the big event last night:

Shatner and Stone Receive Emmy Awards

Sharon Stone and William Shatner both picked up creative arts Emmy Awards last Sunday for their guest appearances in ABC drama series The Practice.

The awards are for technical and creative achievements such as an imaginative usage of guest characters. Leading actors and actresses will be honored in next week's main Emmy ceremony.


20 Sep 04 - 12:59 PM (#1276516)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Little Hawk

Yeah, I just heard about that too. Isn't it great?


20 Sep 04 - 01:03 PM (#1276521)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Stilly River Sage

Oops--they were at last night's event. Here's a Reuter's photo:

http://photos.reuters.com/pictures/galleries/Stories/632312755926822839/Previews/0409048.jpg


20 Sep 04 - 02:13 PM (#1276580)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: John MacKenzie

One of them's wearing a thong!
Giok


20 Sep 04 - 02:20 PM (#1276589)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: frogprince

"I can only say I love you...in a thong" (sorry 'bout that..)


20 Sep 04 - 02:41 PM (#1276610)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Peace

Sharon Stone is a remarkable person.


20 Sep 04 - 03:08 PM (#1276627)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: frogprince

Depends on what your definition of "remarkable" is...
I'm really not trying to start a flame fight, though; I've just seen her make so many dubious movie choices, I don't have a great impression; I've thought of her mostly as famous for going in for her police interrogation without her knickers. I haven't really seen enough of her "live" to get any fair sense of her as a person.


20 Sep 04 - 03:25 PM (#1276631)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: John MacKenzie

One of them's wearing a corset!
Giok


20 Sep 04 - 04:29 PM (#1276673)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Cluin

One of them's wearing a strap-on,


21 Sep 04 - 04:24 AM (#1277083)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Dave the Gnome

It's singing, Jim, but not as we know it...

:D


21 Sep 04 - 08:12 AM (#1277212)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Mooh

There was a Rolling Stone bio on Stone recently which was not as revealing as that dress in the picture linked above. (Actually I found both rather interesting.) Looked like Shatner was looking down her cleavage...I wonder if that's as much action as he gets nowadays.
(Care to speculate, LH?)

Soon there will be awards for everybody. "And now the Emmy for best slack-jawed bystander at an award show..."

Peace, Mooh.


21 Sep 04 - 08:27 AM (#1277221)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: John MacKenzie

At least Marylin Munro had the decency to use Sellotape! ;~)
Giok


21 Sep 04 - 08:52 PM (#1277827)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Cluin

A guy could get his eye poked out.

Or at least a detached retina...


01 Oct 04 - 02:13 AM (#1285666)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Cluin

Correction:

It is not Ben Folds singing on "Common People" after all. It's Joe Jackson. Ben Folds produced the album.


01 Oct 04 - 02:17 AM (#1285669)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Little Hawk

Ah. I heard "Everyday People" today at the restaurant. Shatner has GOT to do that song. It's perfect for him.


01 Oct 04 - 06:40 PM (#1286466)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Stilly River Sage

What do you think about Shatner performing a few of Randy Newman's songs? Could he manage the sarcastic wit?


01 Oct 04 - 07:01 PM (#1286488)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Little Hawk

I think he could. I also think he could cause Randy Newman to see a whole new dimension in those songs. It might lead to them doing a joint project.


01 Oct 04 - 07:37 PM (#1286519)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Hawk eat your heart out!
From: Bill Hahn//\\

Denny Crain here.!!!!!!!!