Nino Tempo and April Stevens

[dachshundonstilts]

Hey, that's probably about the way the actual conversation went. And if they wanted to do Beatles, did they have to pick that one? (Although come to think of it, I don't know what an option would have been.)

I guess he could have done a decent job with "And I Love Her" or another of the ballads. Not Hey Jude.

Bet his duet with David Bowie (on his posthumously-aired Christmas special) was part of the same thinking, perhaps by the same person.

[donnie]

Yes, "And I Love Her" might not have been too bad, at that, if he'd styled it his way.

That was really some wrong-minded thinking, trying to make Bing something he wasn't, when what he was was so good. But I think there was a lot of that going on in that era, what with the massive cultural shift, the "generation gap," etc.

[BettyLouSpence]

The Mae West...oh my goodness... I'm afraid that one's going to come to me in my dreams tonight.

The mere existence of this song is already bizaare, but the ending... gah!

Imagine if Mae had lived into the 80s, would she have covered songs like Highway to Hell??

And "checks hip-tionary"—that's a good one.

Thanks! I try

[donnie]

Imagine if Mae had lived into the 80s, would she have covered songs like Highway to Hell??

Stop! I'm already having nightmares as it is.

[BettyLouSpence]

I guess these are the early stilted talkies of music

[donnie]

No, no stilted talkies could be that bad. Well, wait...

[dachshundonstilts]

No, no stilted talkies could be that bad. Well, wait...

Think Edison Kinetophones.

[donnie]

No, no stilted talkies could be that bad. Well, wait...

Think Edison Kinetophones.

Ah, yes!

[dachshundonstilts]

To steer this back on topic, and just to show that April Stevens was no slouch in her youth, here's her recording of "I'm in Love Again" that went to #6 in 1951.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIrAq5m5wvY

[donnie]

Wow! She was quite an effective song stylist, wasn't she?