over at YouTube, and listening to some of the stuff that M&D listened to when they were courting, including The Platters, whose Zola Taylor and Barbara Randolph set the standard for the black female singers who came after them.  The ingenuity and literacy of the lyrics was equalled only by Dozier-Holland-Dozier Holland-Dozier-Holland (thanks, Rock Guy!) in the American songbook of the period, IM(nvh)O.
 Also discovered, some wonderful Bacharach pieces sung by Dionne Warwick, before became a shill for strange occult telephone services.  As a child, I always felt she was more attractive than Diana Ross, as a person and a singer.  The thing that distinguishes these videos is the loving utilization of period photos.  Here’s “Walk on By,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again“. ÂÂ
I’m dedicating these to happyfeet, because he reminded me of “Tiny Bubbles,” a favorite of M&D.  Love you guys.ÂÂ
This, I think, is the most psychedelic arrangement, ever.  Fittingly.
I used to really like Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s version of the San Jose song but I can see now that maybe that’s not something I should tell people.
Oh and also thanks. I like Dionne Warwick too cause no one else sings like her. I think she’s Whitney’s godmother or aunt or something.
When I want to hear what my mother and father listened to while courting, I just bang on a hollow log with a stick.
At their wedding reception, my dad accidentally invented fire.
Dan – Fine post. Really is… but I was wondering if I might speak to you about something… I have noticed that some of the older posts are being “spammed” by product slingers. from the cases I have observed today, https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=6981#comment-298867 for instance… I believe they’re after backlinks and web references in order to crank page-rank and such. prob time for one of those image passkey prior to post things.
Dionne Warwick was the feature entertainer at my alma mater’s Spring formal in 1966 or ’67, which was held on the steamboat Mark Twain in New Orleans. She became upset that the students were dancing during her performance, and walked off the stage. She was a whacko before she started scamming for fortune-tellers. Still, she made some great vinyl.
That’s the same as stealing, Enoch. For real. Does anyone know if there’s a place to submit the sites they link to so Google can disappear them?
there is no such authority
Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Otherwise, fine post.
and, what’s worse, they’ll likely do damage to the PW web rank by out-bounding links from this most heavily trafficked and content thick site to their shit for crap sites.
Hmmm. Then I guess WordPress needs a way people can mark those things as spam and then after a comment has been up ten days or so it can sweep through and delete the marked ones. Throw in a little more randomness on the timing and that way I think there would be little chance of legitimate comments getting axed.
I alerted Jeff G to the problem shortly after the migration to WP, but the tech employed so far has not done the trick. I’m not sure why, as I know WP sites that have solved it. Probably on JG’s ‘to do” list w/PW 2.0.
BTW, pretty sure Bacharach is a moonbat, but the Bacharach-David combo was quite potent.
Wait. This was PW 2.0 I thought. It was pretty exciting I remember cause it was change and I have to be careful during change cause my Mom says I do better in structured environments.
…and in case Dan doesn’t click through to that last link, those vids are part of a larger YouTube playlist of Bacharach-Warwick work.
yeah, I think you’re right about Burt, Karl.
Moonbat or no, the Bacharach Geico ad still cracks me up. It probably enrages teh Gleen(s), though.
heh, yeah, I love his stuff. Thankfully he’s pretty low-key on the moonbattery. I had to go looking for it. so. there’s that.