Music To My Ears

Well, I didn't know that I was "waiting in the wings", nor that I was swooping! I thought it was something more like "staring into the refrigerator" ... although I've been trying to do less of that, lately!

Goodness! Burt Bacharach? How interesting to hear that this is Jason's most recent "obsession"! Serendipity! I myself have been recently listening to a great deal of Mr. Bacharach's work, pursuant to purchasing a couple of box sets -- he truly was and is a genius, and suffers unfairly, I think, from the moniker "easy listening" and from those who consider him "dated". He really deconstructed the traditional pop song form, in terms of his changing time signatures and his orchestrations. I would really love to hear some of those mixes Jason has been putting together.

One wonders, with all these various musical "obsessions", why he himself did not become a singer and/or songwriter -- his website mentions he has done cabaret work. Did he inherit his musicality from his mother or his father? I don't remember ever hearing the elder Mr. Culp sing -- did he?

Anyway, Mr. Soft Talk sounds very interesting -- I wonder if there is a spot for him on satellite radio? Maybe the little logo on the website indicates he might make them available at some point...?

Getting back to I Spy, I am still intending to do an overall review of Season 2, but I have slacked off in my viewing of late, as I myself have been directing a show and editing a theater book. I did see "Bridge of Sighs" the other night -- what wonderful locations (Venice), and what an incomprehensible mess of a show! That Barbara Steele was a little frightening to me -- I kept thinking she looked like a fly. Anyway, I will try to be more diligent in my I Spy watching, and will report back soon.

Thanks, Mr. BF, for the rundown on Jason's musical interests. I'm going to try to locate a copy of that Newley film ... sounds just too Sixties to miss!

regards,

Dotterer