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Wednesday, May 03, 2006
What's He Talking About?Thanks to the miracle of the Interweb, I can stream Bob Dylan's debut as a DJ right into my old-fashioned(-looking) radio here in Berlin. Bob's organized each show around a theme; he introduces each song from "his own record collection" with a story or a few cryptic words. Today's theme is The Weather. "You Are My Sunshine" was up right after Muddy Waters' "Blow Wind Blow," and now Dean Martin is giving us, "I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine."
"We forget how much Elvis wanted to be like Dean," Dylan says.
And: "Sometimes the wind whispers Mary, sometimes it cries Mary ... They hear it cry 'Mariah' south of the border."
And: "Not sure what kinda clouds they mean, could be alto-cirrus or alto-stratus, I don't know. Alto-cumulus might be in there too."
And: "Come on in, Frank [Sinatra] ... 'The Summer Wind' was originally a Danish song."
And: "'Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.' St. Basil, def poet."
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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