Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anyone who has seen "My Fair Lady" should know Stanley Holloway... Cheers jayanand Govindaraj Chennai, India Douglas Sharp wrote: > Well Steve, > we can't all know George Formby, Ruby Murray and Stanley Holloway. But > I really think the likes of Sinatra and the great jazz singers are > worthy enough to be remembered, after all we still remember Bach, > Beethoven and Mozart (Happy Birthday Amadeus), and it was in the paper > yesterday that Barry Manilow is back (aaaaargh!!!) > For those poor souls out there who don't know Stanley: > http://www.monologues.co.uk/Visitors_Submissions/Diggin_In_Garden.htm > A follow on poem by Len Stedall > and the original (with some lovely other stuff too) > Douglas > BTW, for the last umpteen years the most watched show on German TV is > a short sketch with May Warden and Freddy Frinton (Dinner for One) > shown on virtually all channels on New Year's Eve > and not dubbed into German or sub-titled either. > > Steve Unsworth wrote: > >> Oh come on it's just a generational thing. How many popular singers >> from the >> end of the 19th century do you think people in the 1950s could name? ;-) >> >> We almost all grow up thinking that the musicians of our generation >> were the >> best of all time, as we get older we might be prepared to go back a >> generation or so :-) >> >> >> Steve >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On >> Behalf Of >> feli >> Sent: 11 February 2006 17:19 >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: world press winners 2006 >> >> How about this. A few weeks ago I was chatting with a waitress, at >> this little >> deli, where I frequently eat lunch. She wants to be an actor and had >> just started >> to take some singing classes. For her first assignment she had to >> choose a song, >> which she was going to sing. Something simple to start out with. >> When I suggested >> that she pick one of "the standards", I got a blank stare. Names >> like Ella Fitzgerald, >> Peggy Lee didn't register either. Sinatra finally light a dim bulb. >> >> feli >> >> >> ________________________________________________________ >> feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 >> www.elanphotos.com >> >> >> NO ARCHIVE >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >