Today I've been staring at and trying to think of a name for our bull. Mickey!! Mickey Mouse has grown up a bull. Thanks Marie! Glad to hear that there is still life on Pars. (Hello France) And there's always room for more guests at the Fun(ny) Farm. No white coats here!!!
Definitely brilliant. Now did I explain this? "Sailors fighting in the dance hall" is a reference to the bar room fight with Frank Sinatra in the movie "From Here to Eternity." That's the movie the girl is watching. "Writ again" - the song went through 9 or ten different versions. So you have a lot going on.
Wow, the history of this song is amazing. Wik says it was originally written as a PARODY. Bowie wrote the lyrics for the song that would become "My Way" and a big hit for Frank Sinatra. Bowie lost out on that. So That's why the Frank Sinatra references and maybe the concept of a Broadway song where the lyrics deconstruct at the end.
So David Bowie wrote My Way! I didn't know. Wiki also says that the original My Way, a french song, was written by Claude Francois and that DB re-worked those french lyrics. I always thought Claude Francois covered My Way long after its release, but he was actually the author. Cloclo is (was) a national icon in a style very different from Bowie. The 70's again!
Right, right - DB (more like) contributed to the lyrics than wrote them. Is that more the sense you gathered? It was a little unclear. Is your sense that he translated existing lyrics? Whatever, he seems to have been peeved about it.
Bowie did not write the music. Well, I think The Chairman of the Board (Bored?) (FS) stole the glory and the cash on "My Way." I thought "My Way" was from a Broadway musical.
The most amazing cover of "My Way" I think you'll ever find is the version by Sid Viscious done weeks or months before he killed himself (and his girlfriend).
It is a bit confusing indeed. Maybe it was more Paul Anka than DB? What is sure is that the original song, 'Comme d'Habitude' ('as usual') was french and written by Cloclo. Here he is without his legendary Claudettes.
From the Wik posts, it is clear there was some problem concerning the authorship and recording of "My Way." Bowie was not happy about it & the reference to Frank Sinatra and "From Here to Eternity" in "Life on Mars" can be construed as negative: "Look at those cavemen go." Sources are in agreement that the girl is watching "From Here to Eternity."
I would have said "My Way" came from the popular musical "Man of La Mancha." But I guess it's more complicated.
Bowie's stardom was not overnight. At first, he had a number of failed albums and I think was dropped from a record company. It looked like it was over before it started. He began, if you look at Wik, singing soft ballads. A song like "My Way" could have changed his career.
He saw Iggy Pop perform and decided to take a different direction with a harder edge. As far as I can see, Ziggy Stardust was more the concept of Bowie's guitar player - Mick Ronson - than Bowie's and it was a hell of an idea - a rock band performing an opera about an imaginary rock band.
Well, song lyrics that have more resonance than most poetry.
He also seems to be a decent human being, which makes him very likeable. Oh, I just read that his son Zowie Bowie is now known as Duncan Jones. Is that you WB??? :-o I posted this before, but it still makes me laugh so here it is again Bowie Poetry Prize.
Put on your red shoes, Duncan Doughnut. I hadn't seen that Fry and Laurie, marvellous! Tonight I'll be watching a Bowie doco, last week was Warhol. Winter is so good for catching up on recorded tv, hey, it ain't winter no more, it's spring!! Oh, and Mickey is Pete Sampras' lover!!
Surely proof that there is life on Pars.
ReplyDeleteThen again, it is surely proof that the people with the white coats from the funny farm should come and get Marie.
Signed,
It's not me, so don't go beating up the wrong guy!
If only, Anonymous, if only. I could well do with a long-stay patientship at Fun Farm.
ReplyDeleteToday I've been staring at and trying to think of a name for our bull. Mickey!!
ReplyDeleteMickey Mouse has grown up a bull. Thanks Marie!
Glad to hear that there is still life on Pars. (Hello France)
And there's always room for more guests at the Fun(ny) Farm. No white coats here!!!
Oh, I forgot to say that I really, really love this, Pee!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sweatie!! Very nice of you. Is Mickey the son of Pete Sampras?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely brilliant. Now did I explain this? "Sailors fighting in the dance hall" is a reference to the bar room fight with Frank Sinatra in the movie "From Here to Eternity." That's the movie the girl is watching. "Writ again" - the song went through 9 or ten different versions. So you have a lot going on.
ReplyDeleteWow, the history of this song is amazing. Wik says it was originally written as a PARODY. Bowie wrote the lyrics for the song that would become "My Way" and a big hit for Frank Sinatra. Bowie lost out on that. So That's why the Frank Sinatra references and maybe the concept of a Broadway song where the lyrics deconstruct at the end.
ReplyDeleteSo David Bowie wrote My Way! I didn't know. Wiki also says that the original My Way, a french song, was written by Claude Francois and that DB re-worked those french lyrics. I always thought Claude Francois covered My Way long after its release, but he was actually the author. Cloclo is (was) a national icon in a style very different from Bowie. The 70's again!
ReplyDeleteRight, right - DB (more like) contributed to the lyrics than wrote them. Is that more the sense you gathered? It was a little unclear. Is your sense that he translated existing lyrics? Whatever, he seems to have been peeved about it.
ReplyDeleteBowie did not write the music. Well, I think The Chairman of the Board (Bored?) (FS) stole the glory and the cash on "My Way." I thought "My Way" was from a Broadway musical.
ReplyDeleteThe most amazing cover of "My Way" I think you'll ever find is the version by Sid Viscious done weeks or months before he killed himself (and his girlfriend).
It is a bit confusing indeed. Maybe it was more Paul Anka than DB? What is sure is that the original song, 'Comme d'Habitude' ('as usual') was french and written by Cloclo. Here he is without his legendary Claudettes.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Wik posts, it is clear there was some problem concerning the authorship and recording of "My Way." Bowie was not happy about it & the reference to Frank Sinatra and "From Here to Eternity" in "Life on Mars" can be construed as negative: "Look at those cavemen go." Sources are in agreement that the girl is watching "From Here to Eternity."
ReplyDeleteI would have said "My Way" came from the popular musical "Man of La Mancha." But I guess it's more complicated.
Bowie's stardom was not overnight. At first, he had a number of failed albums and I think was dropped from a record company. It looked like it was over before it started. He began, if you look at Wik, singing soft ballads. A song like "My Way" could have changed his career.
He saw Iggy Pop perform and decided to take a different direction with a harder edge. As far as I can see, Ziggy Stardust was more the concept of Bowie's guitar player - Mick Ronson - than Bowie's and it was a hell of an idea - a rock band performing an opera about an imaginary rock band.
Well, song lyrics that have more resonance than most poetry.
He also seems to be a decent human being, which makes him very likeable. Oh, I just read that his son Zowie Bowie is now known as Duncan Jones. Is that you WB??? :-o
ReplyDeleteI posted this before, but it still makes me laugh so here it is again Bowie Poetry Prize.
Put on your red shoes, Duncan Doughnut. I hadn't seen that Fry and Laurie, marvellous! Tonight I'll be watching a Bowie doco, last week was Warhol. Winter is so good for catching up on recorded tv, hey, it ain't winter no more, it's spring!!
ReplyDeleteOh, and Mickey is Pete Sampras' lover!!
Lucky you! (and lucky Mickey. .. naaah) :-)
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