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- From: sherouse@roentgen.RadOnc.Duke.EDU (George W. Sherouse)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
- Subject: Re: I Will Always (Sell Records)....
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 13:10:10 GMT
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- In article <78769@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0179a@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Chu) writes:
- >
- >Whitney Houston... Lady Soul? I think not.
- >
- >Transfixing? Gorgeous? Effortless? Try, Screaming. Shrieking. Irritating.
- >Thin. Over embellished. Uneuphonic.
- >
- >Overexposure to Houston's fluffy music would surely make me ill.
-
- I tend to agree with Mike. But to give her *some* credit she is party
- to one of the most, well.., Transfixing, Gorgeous, Effortless pieces
- in my collection. It is the Soft Machine song "Memories" performed by
- Material as a tastefully-backed duet between guests Whitney and Archie
- Shepp. (Yes, I understand that Material w/ guests is a tautology...)
- I have always loved this song anyway, but had never considered that
- Robert Wyatt's rendition(s), particularly the one on Daevid Allen's
- "Good Morning", might be anything less than definitive. I was wrong.
-
- This is reportedly Whitney's first recording. She could have quit a
- star right then and there as far as I am concerned. Check it out.
-
- - George
-