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 Alexa
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| posted: 5/13/2008 at 5:12:58 PM ET
I found this on YouTube, LOL very cute, from American Bandstand 1980.
Chico's Girl
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 5/14/2008 at 11:20:53 AM ET
Thanks so much for the link, that's a great video clip for my iPodVid.
But it begs the question .... with Bernadette's great Sondheim'ish "connection" with the true meaning of lyrics", and Andrew Lloyd Webber's lyrics being so artistically and spiritually under-achieving for her ................ Chico's Girl???? Gee Whiz????
"There’s a lot in the world for us to turn our attention to — helping people, helping animals, and helping animals help people." ... Bernadette Peters, August, 2007
|  BwayStarToBe
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| posted: 5/14/2008 at 11:37:04 AM ET
yeah i saw that a few days ago...she really has flawless skin. not even one flaw on her face! but yeah, that's such a cute video.
x Sarah x
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|  Bernadette-Fanatic
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You see, since I'm completely inappropriate and have no boundaries, I would have taken it one step further and said "Can I just feel your face? Totally not into you, just want to touch your skin".
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 5/14/2008 at 12:03:31 PM ET
Yeah, forgot to say, really great skin judging by that clip back in 1981.
But, anyone have any thoughts on the great depth and meaning she must have gotten out of the lyrics of "Chico's Girl"?
Anyone?
No-one?
"There’s a lot in the world for us to turn our attention to — helping people, helping animals, and helping animals help people." ... Bernadette Peters, August, 2007
| Karen
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Well, Bernadette would have been 15 when the song was written. It's one of those late 50s/early 60s Brill Building teen pop songs about kids in New York and other big cities with their neighborhood gangs and romances and so forth. I'm sure Bernadette grew up listening to songs just like this on the AM radio and the jukeboxes of the time. They probably reflected her teenage years in that era to some degree. She even aspired to record her own 45s of that type during those years, although without any huge success. So when she became a singing star as an adult she seemed inclined to indulge her nostalgic fondness for that kind of material and include a fair sampling of it on her first two albums. She obviously had great affection for that sound. Lightweight as it is, it must have had a special emotional resonance for her.
| Scottie
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I suppose you may possibly be right, being a mere 15 years old and hearing the song for the first time might possibly explain why she relates to the lyrics of "Chico's Girl" --- even though it's all those years later.
But, what baffles me is, why "Unexpected Song" with it's great lyrics and music (a whole artistic world away from "Gee Whiz or Chico's Girl"), should never really get the same respect from the lady. But then I suppose interviewers never ask her to compare her American composed back catalogue "pop" songs with her recorded Sondheim tunes. Their main target is Lloyd Webber after all.
"There’s a lot in the world for us to turn our attention to — helping people, helping animals, and helping animals help people." ... Bernadette Peters, August, 2007
| Alexa
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| posted: 5/14/2008 at 2:19:35 PM ET
I dunno maybe she really needed the money back then, or the record company insisted she do "pop" thinking it would sell or something. She can be more selective now, although personally I don't really understand her Andrew Lloyd Webber comment (and he doesn't even write lyrics, does he? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought of him as a composer only.)
I do know her song "Gee Whiz" was somewhat of a hit though, and it's the ONLY song of hers I remember ever hearing on the radio (unless you count grocery store "Muzak", I heard "Unexpected Song" on that a few times.)
I will say though "Chico's Girl" was my least favorite song from her first album, and it wasn't included when they re-released that album (well most of it) along with selections from her 2nd LP on CD years later. Not sure if she had any choice on what songs were included on that CD though.
| Scottie
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I dunno maybe she really needed the money back then, or the record company insisted she do "pop" thinking it would sell or something. She can be more selective now, although personally I don't really understand her Andrew Lloyd Webber comment (and he doesn't even write lyrics, does he? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought of him as a composer only.)
But that's my point exactly. I was referring to an interview BP gave a few months back where she said (with regard to her "connection" with the lryics of Sondheim) "It's all about finding the truth in the song," she says of her process. "You just have to look a little harder in an Andrew Lloyd Webber song." sondheim
I found that odd because ALW uses so many different lyricists for his musical works
here and I wondered if they were all inept?
Poor old Andy, so talented and successful in musical theatre, but born on the wrong side of the theatrical pond perhaps.
"There’s a lot in the world for us to turn our attention to — helping people, helping animals, and helping animals help people." ... Bernadette Peters, August, 2007
| Alexa
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| posted: 5/14/2008 at 4:35:08 PM ET
Oh OK I see. ::giggle::
Maybe Bernadette should record something from Webber's Requiem (I'd forgotten about that one!)
| Scottie
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I like his Requiem, some really stunning music in there, and it would be quite something to hear Bernadette perform from that particular work. But, most of all, I'd really love to hear her sing Dame Kiri te Kanawa's beautifully lyrical song which was performed at ALW's 50th birthday bash at the Royal Albert Hall, "The Heart Is Slow To Learn". It's a big sing, could she do it? ALW song
"There’s a lot in the world for us to turn our attention to — helping people, helping animals, and helping animals help people." ... Bernadette Peters, August, 2007
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