Guy who? That's my response too, but he did some great stuff that seems, at least to me and, I suspect, to other folks, to be associated with other, more well know, singers. Well, even if you don't know the name, you know the songs.
Background: The Sainted Bride and I went to see Daughter Number Two yesterday. She has been working with her local community theater and is trying out for a role in "Pirates of Penzance" soon. In the meantime, the community theater had a fund raiser presentation of "Tommy". I've never seen it; I've heard some, not all, of the music from it and really had no idea of the plot, if any. Now I do. Poor little bastard. I actually thought I had heard all the music from it but apparently not.
This was a concert version of the Broadway adaptation. It was okay but not spectacular, but the people in it seemed to have fun and that's what counts. Gotta say, though, it's really hard to figure out what's going on. I suppose I should rent the movie to figure it out sometime.
The drummer actually got injured during the first act. I really hope it was toward the end of the first act. During the intermission, DNT introduced us to him, but there was no ritual shaking of hands because he had cut his right hand on the cowbell. He said the obligatory "More cowbell!" before going backstage again. Later, I asked DNT the derivation of the expression. I really don't feel too bad about that. I've heard and bantered several references to it, but in reality, SNL pretty much sucked after the second cast and I've never liked Will Farrell anyway. So it's all good. I guess.
Anyway, we stayed overnight with DNT. This morning we went to Costco and picked her up some stuff. Picked up some stuff for me too. Also picked up a new 50s CD set. I had been thinking about doing another 50s R'n'R trivia set, but (a) I realized that I haven't done any C/W for a while, and (b) Guy Mitchell ROCKS. So to speak. And there were a couple on this collection.
Anyhoo, here we go with some Guy Mitchell. Getting back to that tried and true formula of two gimmes and and a toughie:
1) I never felt more like crying all night, so what am I doing?
2) Number one was when you left, number two was when you came back. What do I have?
And the toughie:
3) My skies have all turned to gray now and I just walk the soles off of my shoes. Where am I?
Posted by Ken S at July 14, 2007 08:22 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Country/Western Trivia1. You're singing the blues.
And that is all the Guy Mitchell songs I know.
Posted by: Mumblix Grumph at July 15, 2007 05:03 AMIMHO, SNL sucked after about 1983, and then got better again around 1990-94 (the height of the Phil Hartman/Dana Carvey/Chris Farley era). And then it sucked again and has ever since.
I don't strongly dislike Will Farrell, I just don't think he's particularly funny.
Posted by: Dave J at July 15, 2007 05:53 AM2 is heartaches by the number.
Posted by: Joel at July 15, 2007 08:16 AMThe more cowbell line is a Chris Walken line. And honestly, the only time it's worth watching now is when Walken, Steve Martin, or Alec Baldwin host.
Posted by: KG at July 15, 2007 08:49 AMI broke down and googled number 3. I KNEW I had heard it somewhere.
Posted by: Joel at July 15, 2007 12:37 PMJoel, if it makes you feel any better, I actually cheated for that one. I had heard it before but didn't actually remember any of the lyrics.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 15, 2007 01:44 PMKen - is that the Pirates revival with the Baby Got Back number in it?
Posted by: nightfly at July 16, 2007 10:03 AMOh, I wish.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 16, 2007 11:05 AM