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snuh

swingin' sunday seven

Oct 25, 2009 02:27

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rebl1969 October 25 2009, 12:43:38 UTC

I remember another version of "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" done in the early 80s, probably around '84, by a female singer. They played it on Friday Night Videos, which was what I watched because we didn't have cable/MTV. The video had a King Kong theme. For the life of me I can NOT remember who the artist was!

rebl1969 October 25 2009, 12:45:12 UTC

Nevermind, I hadn't seen the video player embedded when I commented. It's showing up now...I LOVED that video! Better than Palmer's version I think.

snuh October 25 2009, 13:02:29 UTC

Blame me, or rather, LJ. For some reason, it changed all my dailymotion videos into the same one. You might have been looking at Otis Redding for a second.

I posted both versions for a reason. The Cherrelle version is produced through a Prince machine, it has all the ingredients of a song off of Purple Rain - the drum & synth sounds, the time signature, I consider it a plagiarism of sorts. Having said that, it has its own charm and a whole different feel than the Palmer version - I like both for different reasons. By having Palmer sing from a male POV that he was sorry, he couldn't sleep with his date, fit in rather well into that somewhat arrogant, suave, dapper ladies man image he had crafted.

snuh October 25 2009, 12:53:14 UTC

Mariah Carey also did a version.

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tangengot October 25 2009, 14:08:47 UTC

gotta love the 80's

snuh October 25 2009, 20:11:50 UTC

Yeah, it was purposeful. The big discussion the last few weeks is how 2009 has to be one of the worst years for new music. It's not so much there's not much worthwhile new music, there always is, the problem - what's been getting to the marketplace hasn't been very good of late.

tangengot October 26 2009, 04:21:12 UTC

True. Too much nonsense going on in the music world and too much drama! the artists were more like selling themselves rather than their music.

snuh October 27 2009, 05:32:52 UTC

The business of music is going through a mass transformation. Record companies are basically distributors and now, most people get their music from the Net. There's a lot of average bands that know how to get heard and a lot of great bands that have no idea, and now the chances of some A&R guy looking for new bands has shrunken to near nothing. It'll all shake out soon enough, I'm sure.

carless_sam October 25 2009, 19:40:37 UTC

I am regaling the lab with these right now, thank you.

snuh October 25 2009, 20:13:51 UTC

Sealab 2021, by any chance?

carless_sam October 25 2009, 21:37:38 UTC

Computer Lab 1998, sadly. I'm waiting for some Godzilla to finish downloading to try and perk up the day.

anonymous October 25 2009, 20:21:07 UTC

Glad to see you back the last week or so..
Thanks for the tunes,as usual.. :)

Michael/MMRules..

snuh October 25 2009, 20:29:49 UTC

Thanks! Hopefully, I can keep this roll going. Glad to see you stop by.

subliculous October 25 2009, 22:15:23 UTC

living on the ceiling is probably in my top 20 all time favorite songs. i even found the blancmange "sony single" videotape for about $2 in a cut-out bin once. in MISSISSIPPI of all places.

snuh October 25 2009, 22:17:57 UTC

You lucky ducky - I wonder if that has worth as a collectible. I've always loved this song, I'm surprised it's not heard more often.

subliculous October 25 2009, 22:20:47 UTC

i'm not! the middle eastern tinged sound appeals to me, but certainly not the masses, i'm sure.

snuh October 25 2009, 22:24:50 UTC

How about musical ducky?

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