Advantages: Wonderful artwork, fun recitations, opportunity for Burl Ives impressions! Disadvantages: Takes a couple of weeks to arrive, not a cheap picture book.
Please tell me you've heard of BurlIves. Please! Just in case you haven't (and if you haven't then you must heap shame on yourself), he was a folk singer, mostly known for his renditions of traditional childrens songs. Super, they are. However he was also a Broadway star and perhaps most famously a film star. He was Daddy Rufus in The Big Country, for example, you know - super speech at the party, shoots his own son, Chuck and Gregory Peckory have a big fight. He was also a great friend of John Steinbeck, travelling chronicler of dust bowl America. BurlIves, that's him. Anyway, I digress, sorry, we're on childrens folk songs and more specifically a particular childrens folk song, writer unknown as usual, made famous by BurlIves in his musical guise: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly.
I may not sing it as well as Burl ...
Advantages: A decent mixture of tunes Disadvantages: They only made 2 albums
Sing-Sing were formed in 1997 after Emma Anderson left Lush & was joined by singer Lisa O'Neill (who appears to have had no life prior to the formation of this group at all), the group existed as 2 members but with other musicians who joined them for live performances. Anderson wrote the songs, played guitars (all of them) but O'Neill mostly sang but did write 5 songs on this album and co-wrote one too.
Sing-Sing started out releasing EPs much in the same way as Lush but had a much smaller fanbase, they struggled with record companies working their way through Bella Union, Sanctuary Records and Poptones before creating Aerial which was their own label and it took fan power to keep the band financially stable enough to record this which was their 2nd and final album which had taken 4 years to come to fruition. The band decided to break ...
Advantages: Different and very entertaining. Disadvantages: None.
I came across this movie while searching through my brother's DVD collection and was quite interested as I had watched the T.V. series ' The singing Detective ' by Dennis Potter (which I thought was brilliant )
I did'nt know it had been made into a movie and on seeing that Robert Downey Jr was playing the lead role among some other good actors I thought it was worth borrowing.
Although based on the TV series of the same name and the same storyline there are a few differences..................
The TV series is set in 1940's London with a big band music theme whereas the Movie is set in 1950's America with a Rock 'n' Roll musical theme !
Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a successful writer, who writes fictional detective stories, but his life and his writing has come to a bit of a standstill when he is admitted to hospital ...
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