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 Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:16 pm
Okay, so I've heard Lullaby of Birdland on the radio a few times. Before that, I didn't know that it had lyrics.
And those lyrics kinda suck.
I mean, "Hey there's a weeping willow / He really knows how to cry..."
That sucks, I'm sorry. It's such a great song, but i think these lyrics suck.
I know that a lot of times there'll be a melody a singer likes enough to write lyrics for.
I noticed several different lyrics for Willow Weep for Me for example.
That and a whole bunch more lyrics for Confirmation ( how they can come up with words to fit bebop songs is beyond me )
What do you guys think of people adding kinda crappy lyrics to some great songs.
Hornfreak, you know how much I like Spain. You ever hear the Al Jeaureau (spelling?) recording? It's kinda smooth jazz-ish.
Such crappy lyrics too.
It's essentially something like:
I can remember the rain
In spain in december...
Some things are brown
that's the ground...
Or something. Maybe that was an exaggeration, but it makes my point.
(Btw, Chick didn't write those lyrics, did he? Some of his song lyrics are kinda bad too.)
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:37 pm
Writing lyrics is a terrible thing to do. So few people really can.
I know it's not jazz related at all, but do any of you know Loreena Mckinnett? (I think that's it. Everything past the Mc is iffy). She takes classic poems and puts them to music...And you can't go wrong when you get lyrics from Keats and Lord Tennyson. Her Lady of Shalott is beautiful, ditto the Highway Man.
As for Confirmation, I agree- do inform me how you write bebop lyrics...
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:46 pm
That's the whole reason scat got so popular with bebop. Singers could keep up without needing real words.
What's ironic is that Louie Armstrong, one of the biggest inovators of scat, hated bebop > <
Ever hear "Bye Bye Bebop" ? He'd wear a beret with a little puff at the top, to make fun of dizzy I'm told.
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:05 pm
These were Manhattan Transfer's lyrics to a song they played called (The Word of) Confirmation. I'm actually pretty fond of it.
It's right here:
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/songs/0,,462782-1,00.html
I'm here to just confirm what i've been
Really always sayin'
About modern jazz
It's the savior of the nation
And i'll believe it if you do too
The rhythm & blues
Like bird
What he thought of this melody
The message he played on his horn
Was the steady confirmation
That he discovered
The sound that makes the music be free
This may sound unstable
But i know i'm able to concentrate in song to you
My lyrics may go fast
Sometimes a word may get past folks
But so i keep it swingin'
I know i've got to stay true
So like the bird i'm gonna say that jazz is always
A happiness groove
So come on and i'll confirm it
'cause certainly the bird that i heard
Made the word of confirmation
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Fashionable Conversationalist
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:38 am
Well you either like it or hate it. I like some lyrics and i hate others most of the time i just laugh when i listen to the words.
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:46 am
That Word of Confirmation thing is ridiculous, but I like it. It's quirky.
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