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	[Feb. 19th, 2008\|09:46 am]
Another sign that i'm getting older (as if my graying chin-hairs weren't enough) - I was listening to Carly Simon recently, and thinking that You Belong To Me deserves a great cover version - someone who could really capture the fury of this song, and not just the self-mocking insecurity that CS digs into. I thought, well, maybe someone like Erykah Badu, with her range and passion, could do a number on this song - not that she would be drawn to such a blatantly 'pop' pop song, mind you. So who comes out with a cover of it at the end of 2007? The baby boomer version of Erykah Badu, the divine Chaka Khan. But not just Chaka Khan - she recorded it as a duet with with the wax dummy of 'blue-eyed soul,' Michael McDonald (whose voice hasn't changed in thirty years, while presumably the rest of him rots away). And I didn't even mind. Sigh.
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qweerdo
2008-02-19 05:53 pm (UTC)

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Didn't Michael McDonald also do that song way back when?

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heddalee
2008-02-19 05:57 pm (UTC)

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Wow. According to google, yes. He did it with the Doobie Brothers, and he co-wrote it with Carly. I had no idea. I bet he really *does* sound exactly the same on both recordings. (I think you're older than me :D - I don't remember most of that 1978 music at all, from your post over the weekend...)

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qweerdo
2008-02-19 05:58 pm (UTC)

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Ha. I remember LOVING Andy Gibb that year.

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heddalee
2008-02-19 06:04 pm (UTC)

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My first musical memory is 1977/78 when Fleetwood Mac (still my favorite band of all time, although I didn't start actually liking them until the end of high school) had Dreams on the radio, and the line "thunder only happens when it's raining" fascinated me. I used to sit in my parents' car when that song came on the radio, which was often, and try to puzzle if it was *really* true that thunder only happens when it's raining.

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qweerdo
2008-02-19 06:06 pm (UTC)

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That song is so good.

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heddalee
2008-02-19 06:08 pm (UTC)

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Yes. She was so good when she had something in particular to sing about, and she had good people to play with. Alot of her solo stuff embarrasses me to listen to (I do it anyway, but don't tell anyone).

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