I see that M. Bouffant (and probably countless others) has beaten me to the punch, but I just don't care.
Oh well: today we celebrate that our lovely (for now) planet, tilted slightly on its axis, continues to rotate around the sun giving us Northern-hemispherians (suckit upsidedowners!) the delightful summer season, and the longest day of the year.
Alternately, you could think, "This sucks! It's hot! And now the days just get shorter again 'til December! Why doesn't Obama do something about the seasons? He's worse than Cheney McHitler!" But that would merely get you a well paying position at any of a wide variety of journamalistic organs, and we certainly wouldn't want that.
So anyway, yay, summer! Have some obscure versions of the classic "Summertime" -- I say "obscure" but I'm sure The Zombie has seen all these people live, even the ones that have been dead for 50 years. Regardless, I like how the song can be interpreted so many different ways and always be excellent.
Sidney Bechet:
Friends Of Dean Martin(ez):
(Side note: the band was originally "Friends Of Dean Martin" but then Dean Martin's estate sued them and they were forced to change it.)
Actually, this last one is not-obscure-at-all, Billie Holiday:
Now I'm gonna go camping and drink a bunch of beer. Surprise.
"Camping" is hardly a pre-requisite.
ReplyDeleteOld 97s were awesome last night, and as expected I have been hardly productive at all today. And my boss is PISSED.
"Camping" is hardly a pre-requisite.
DeleteYeah, but I find you get scowled at less when you drink all day while camping.
As we say here in the binge-drinkingest state in the union, "You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning".
Deletecoincidentally, a couple of weeks ago we saw "Porgy and Bess" from which the song is covered.
ReplyDeleteI KNEW IT!
DeleteI made sure to blast The Undertones... kinda funny to hear a bunch of guys singing about summer in a climate like this.
ReplyDeleteI like how in the video the keyboardist is clearly just hamming it up and not getting anywhere near the keys because they're so obviously lip-synching and he doesn't even care.
DeleteGeeze, I was going to leave a comment a few days ago that, coincidentally (Are there coincidences on the iNternet?) I've embedded a few of Billy Shitcheese's (the Sidney Bechet uploader) videos myself, but now I see his account's been terminated by whiny a-holes.
ReplyDeleteWhat a world.
Our current copyright system is severely fucked up. What, it's just fuckin' awful if some megacorp lost out on another $0.00003 cents from a 50+ year old song that they paid a pittance for in the first place? Meanwhile people like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber are "stars" and rake in millions from idiots.
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