Quotations: The Bowie/Rodgers, Jackson/Satie, Davis/Stravinsky Edition
It took me years of listening to catch the quote from "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" in Bowie's "Future Legend" (starts at about :30):
But it only took me a few spins to hear Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 embedded in the chorus of Janet Jackson's catchy "Someone To Call My Lover," starting at :52:
And here's a really weird one that took me a few head-scratching spins to get: In Sammy Davis Jr.'s version of "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone," the opening and closing vocalise seems to be lifted from, of all places, Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring":
But it only took me a few spins to hear Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 embedded in the chorus of Janet Jackson's catchy "Someone To Call My Lover," starting at :52:
And here's a really weird one that took me a few head-scratching spins to get: In Sammy Davis Jr.'s version of "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone," the opening and closing vocalise seems to be lifted from, of all places, Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring":
for the suggestion box: compare and contrast "Like a Rolling Stone" with "All the Young Dudes."
ReplyDeleteIan Hunter has always been a Dylanophile. But of course Bowie wrote "Dudes" and is responsible for the similarity in the verses: One ascends harmonically as evenly as the other descends... to similar effect.