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which is better? I couldn't say I like them both and am content listening to either. then again I never thought there was a "bad" song on any album irrespective of airplay.
First of all, Keely Smith is a great singer, but the arrangement in the Sinatra cut is much better. Sinatra "talked" a lyric, he thought about what they were saying to him when he was singing it. When he sings, "You go to my head, and you linger.. like a haunting refrain. And i find you spinning a-rou-ound.. in my brain..." you feel it. He sits on the lyric, you feel it spinning around in your own brain. But then he was known for this. Even known prodigies like Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald, blessed with voices from God, didn't pay attention to what the lyric meant to them. And as great as they were, as instruments, there was something missing.
Now Judy Garland was an interpreter, but that arrangement has nothing to do with somebody inhabiting your brain, intoxicating your brain. But how 'bout this one from Judy?
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sinatra "owned" whatever he sang. he had a way to make it seem as though he had written it. I never could actually place a finger on it but you have just given me the answer. still that is a great tune and I enjoy all of the interpretations therein. which is better? they all are!
as a ballad? hmmm that tune would not work well as a ballad I don't think.
Right, now you're link of Billie's, "You go to my Head," is an interesting case in point though, right? Because, if anybody paid attention to what the lyrics indicated to them, it was Billie Holiday. Her take works for me, better than the Judy Garland take does, and I hear the sound of the cabaret, the niteclub, speak easy environment in it. Hey, we embark on a journey to try to understand if there is definitive good and bad, or good, better and best in music we have to be prepared to acknowledge degrees and textures. It is not, of course, clear cut, but there are rungs of excellence that most of us will be able to agree with .... I think ... Is there no emoticon here for scratching one's muddled head?
Right, that was their schtick. I love it, all men probably know what it feels like to be on the other side of that look ... that says, "What an intolerable jerk! What am I going to do with this buffoon?"
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