BAD COVER VERSION #67: WHO CAN TURN THE WORLD ON WITH HER SMILE?
As you all know, Mary Tyler Moore is gone.
I don’t have much to say that hasn’t already been said - she was a TV staple of my childhood, and I do remember that final episode and what a big deal it was.
And with everyone talking about how revolutionary the show was in terms of featuring a female lead who wasn’t a housewife, I suppose it had some kind of background effect on me in terms of learning that women can be independent and have careers like anyone else. Which sounds obvious today, of course, but in 1970 this was still a new concept for many people. (So was the idea of putting a divorced female character on prime time TV, which was apparently the original premise, which CBS rejected.)
Anyway, among the tributes pouring in to MTM, some people have been posting covers of the show’s theme song.
The one I’ve known for years is, of course, the Husker Du version.
Then there’s the Joan Jett version.
You've probably heard both of those in the past week.
But odds are you haven’t heard the Sammy Davis Jr disco version.
Or the Nashville Country version by Sonny Curtis (who. Incidentally, sang the original TV version).
Now that I’ve heard both, I still prefer the Husker Du/Joan Jett versions.
Yr gonna make it after all,
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I don’t have much to say that hasn’t already been said - she was a TV staple of my childhood, and I do remember that final episode and what a big deal it was.
And with everyone talking about how revolutionary the show was in terms of featuring a female lead who wasn’t a housewife, I suppose it had some kind of background effect on me in terms of learning that women can be independent and have careers like anyone else. Which sounds obvious today, of course, but in 1970 this was still a new concept for many people. (So was the idea of putting a divorced female character on prime time TV, which was apparently the original premise, which CBS rejected.)
Anyway, among the tributes pouring in to MTM, some people have been posting covers of the show’s theme song.
Click to viewThe one I’ve known for years is, of course, the Husker Du version.
Then there’s the Joan Jett version.
You've probably heard both of those in the past week.
But odds are you haven’t heard the Sammy Davis Jr disco version.
Or the Nashville Country version by Sonny Curtis (who. Incidentally, sang the original TV version).
Now that I’ve heard both, I still prefer the Husker Du/Joan Jett versions.
Yr gonna make it after all,
This is dF This entry was originally posted at http://defrog.dreamwidth.org/1596924.html. Please comment there using OpenID.