Aug 122010
Mr. Ladymisskiroyale passed along the following NPR story for us to check out, on odd musical pairings.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129082648&sc=emaf
He’s certain we can come up with entries those latte-sipping NPR listeners would never have thought of. See if you can prove him right! Thanks.
I’ve got a CD single featuring Allen Ginsberg and Paul McCartney.
TB
I’ve got a go-go 12″ from the 80s featuring a range of DC go-go artists of the day *and*… DC mayor-for-life Marion Barry.
hrrundivbakshi, that’s impressive!
Thomas Dolby had Eddie Van Halen play a solo on his song “Close But No Cigar.”
NPR’s list is pretty lame, have to say.
I’m right there with you, Cher. But I couldn’t think of many more duos to add. Going in your Eddie Van Halen vein, I guess his solo on Michael Jackson’s Beat It was pretty weird when you get right down to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aWZZonr1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zkr6kb8L58
Didn’t Bob Dylan write a song with Michael Bolton?
One of my favorite record store moments (I may have shared this here before, but for the newbies, please allow me to indulge):
Customer (Imagine an uppity, snooty middle aged Southern lady): “Do you have Michael DALTON?”
Me: “No, ma’am, I am not familiar with him…Do you mean Micahel BOLTON?”
Customer (Indignant, and slightly hurt at my questioning her possible mistake): “NO! I mean Michael DALTON. He WROTE ‘Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay’!”
Me: “No, ma’am. I do not have that…”
TB
TB, I think what you’re thinking of is that Bob Dylan co-wrote a song with Carole Bayer Sager:
http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/under-your-spell
I regret to say that Dylan did write a song with Michael Bolton. See http://www.edlis.org/twice/threads/michael_bolton.html
Dylan also wrote a song with Gene Simmons.
Tough decade for Bob.
Crap, I forgot about the Dylan/Simmons collaboration. Ouch, Bob. To be a fly on the wall for that session…
The Sager connection did make me think of another:
Michael Nesmith with Goffin/King. “Sweet Young Thing” was written at the behest of little Donnie Kirshner. Funny enough, the tune sounds like it could have been a solo Nez tune.
I’m sure Barry Gibb has been teamed up with some unlikely folks, but I’m too lazy to look them up…
TB
TB
And speaking of the Diamond one, does his appearance in The Last Waltz seem odd? He just seems out of place in that line up.
TB