Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Music's faint echo

I read that Simon Cowell (not Cowbell, as Word’s spellchecker suggests) believes that music peaked in 1959 with Mack the Knife by Bobby Darin.

That took me back.

Actually I think the 1956 rendering by Louis Armstrong was superior.

But what really gave me pause was a vague memory of dancing the quickstep to Victor Silvester’s strict tempo version in the school gym during lessons* – surely far too advanced thinking on the part of the teacher?

But no – you can still get hold of it, & today’s celebrity dancing stars are dancing the quickstep to it once again.

*Wearing our cerulean, Grecian style, cotton gym tunics, whose hem must land precisely 2” above the knee (as measured when kneeling upright on the floor).


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