Mark
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Post by Mark on May 6, 2022 17:06:13 GMT 1
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Post by Earl Purple on May 6, 2022 17:33:52 GMT 1
Unfortunately it is me not loving that song.. Why can't she make old-style Debbie Gibson music anymore?
Frank Sinatra in 1980 when he did the theme from New York New York - yes it was 1980 but he still sounded like Frank Sinatra, not copying what everyone else was doing.
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Post by raliverpool on May 6, 2022 20:10:27 GMT 1
Unfortunately it is me not loving that song.. Why can't she make old-style Debbie Gibson music anymore? Frank Sinatra in 1980 when he did the theme from New York New York - yes it was 1980 but he still sounded like Frank Sinatra, not copying what everyone else was doing.
Coughs: The original, and far superior to Frank Sinatra's poor neo-pub crooner inferior version (when his once sublime vox was as shot as Elton John/Rod Stewart/Paul McCartney's voices are today):
Come to think about it ... New York New York has been covered much better since in the past decade ... by another multi award winning artist/actress who assisted Liza M on to the stage at the 2022 Oscars:
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Post by Earl Purple on May 9, 2022 10:57:03 GMT 1
I know it's a cover, and Liza Minelli's version is from the film, but Frank totally nailed it. However if we should be comparing Debbie Gibson to Frank Sinatra, then when Frank Sinatra was 51 (the age Debbie Gibson is now) that's when "That's Life" was in the chart for him.
The main point is that he never went totally off the sound that made him famous trying to sound cool and modern (maybe trying to sound like the Beatles). (Ok, I'll by-pass the fact that his next single Something Stupid wasn't particularly good, but Robbie included it in his Swing album so may it fits slightly into that category).
On the Electric Youth album, Debbie Gibson made use of a band with guitars and saxophone and piano with occasional strings (on Lost In Your Eyes) and even a flute on Silence Speaks A Thousand Words, and she produced it herself. She stopped being commercially successful when she stopped being herself.
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