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Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Mar 26: Pop Jazz @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. 'Jazzified' tunes by the likes of Sylvester, Bowie, the Monkees etc., feat. Alan Law, David Gray, Richard Herdman & Jude Murphy.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).
Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).
Wed 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 29: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 29: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 29: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 30: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. Back to 1:00pm stomp off. Free.
Thu 30: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 30: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm.
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Fri 31: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm. CANCELLED! Back next week (April 7).
Fri 31: Jasmine Myra + Waclaw Zimpel @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
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Fri 31: Andrew McCormack @ Maltings, Berwick. 8:00pm. £20.00.
April
Sat 01: The Big Easy @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 01: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Steve Glendinning - In a Minor Key. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 01: Hot Club du Nord @ Pleased to Meet You, Bridge St., Morpeth. 8:00pm. £79.00. A charity fundraising event.
Sat 01: Boys of Brass @ Stack, Seaburn. 7:00-9:00pm.
Sat 01: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00. RESCHEDULED to next week (Sat 08).
Monday, August 26, 2019
Comparing the Lyrics of 2 Songs: You Took Advantage Of Me And How Insensitive
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2 comments :
How Insensitive is indeed a doomy song - from the opening line you realise there will be no happy ending. In fact the mood is almost suicidal. You Took Advantage of me - from the 1928 musical Present Arms is, as you point out, a fun song.
In the show, I gather, the couple 'on the verge' were once married to each other but since divorced and now, maybe, rekindling their passion. The title, I suggest, refers to when they had their first premarital encounter, the rest of the song to the nervousness she feels remembering the highs and lows.
I'm sure many of us can recall the awkwardness, the feeling of being tongue tied when meeting up with an old flame whom you never quite got over. Like you're glad when they are gone but can't wait to see them again! Does this make sense?
As regards 'my elbow from my ear' if Hart had substituted ear, with arse or ass, as he would have used, it would have thrown the lyric off course and may, in those unenlightened times, to quote your phrase Ann, have had the theatre shut down - this was long before Godspell!
Re his homosexuality, at the recent Ann Hampton Callaway show at Pizza Express the singer described how 'My Funny Valentine' was actually written by Lorenz Hart looking into a mirror and, in fact, describing himself as he reflected upon his loveless existence.
Check out versions by Lee Wiley and Ella.
Lance, Thank you for these brilliant, useful observations. You're right about the rhyme with
'ass' of course. And the fact about 'My Funny Valentine' gives a whole new dimension to the song. If I ever sing it I'll tell that tale and sing it very sadly. That song says he's not very smart, but he certainly was! Ann
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