Re: [JPL] Shades of Felicano & Hendrix in the 60s. René Marie stirs it up

[Eric Jackson]

EdBride at aol.com wrote:

> This may seem way off-topic, but it is closely connected to the previous  
> thought. I've been thinking a lot about two Cole Porter songs, and how the way  
> they are sung delivers two polar-opposite impressions. The first, "Love For  
> Sale," when sung slowly can be a mournful statement about a woman's situation;  
> when sung way up-tempo, it's more brash and fresh, an eye-wink as opposed to a 
>  tear.
>  
> The other is "It's Bad For Me." Play/sing this slowly, and it can be a  
> painful statement about forbidden (or at least unlikely) love. Sung up-tempo,  it's 
> ironic and playful.


Think how much blues songs can change with a variation in the tempo. You 
can sing something like, "My house is falling down, the roof is caving 
in, My house is falling down, the roof is caving in. Me, I'm sittin' 
sippin on my bottle of gin."

I just made those lyrics up but try singing them as a slow blues and 
then try them as an up tempo blues.

Eric Jackson
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>  
> OK, off my soap box and on to the soap-box derby,
> Ed
>  
> 
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