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Pegatha

Can you top these?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-sto...ts-of-all-time/
graham4anything
paul mccartney michael jackson that girl is mine

nothing was worse than that

except maybe Paul McCartney and that shoe polish on his head

or maybe Paul McCartney and Heather Mills

tomhye
Captain and Tanille.
Pegatha
QUOTE(tomhye @ Mar 16 2009, 08:37 PM) *
Captain and Tanille.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBYV_7a0FQs

just for you, Tom.
canjcat
Some consider this a classic. I've always found it atrocious. Call me un-American, but Der Bingle and Bowie together just never clicked with me, even when I watched it live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KpNznVLlY
Pegatha
QUOTE(canjcat @ Mar 16 2009, 09:22 PM) *
Some consider this a classic. I've always found it atrocious. Call me un-American, but Der Bingle and Bowie together just never clicked with me, even when I watched it live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KpNznVLlY


You're un-American!
Beamer
QUOTE(canjcat @ Mar 16 2009, 08:22 PM) *
Some consider this a classic. I've always found it atrocious. Call me un-American, but Der Bingle and Bowie together just never clicked with me, even when I watched it live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KpNznVLlY


I like this! I almost feel like I know David Bowie, for some reason.
graham4anything
Bing and David are one of the greatest Christmas treasures ever.

Bing is of course, THE greatest singer in history. Nobody had more hits, more #1s than he did.
Without Bing, there would not have been Elvis, the Beatles, Elton, U2, anything at all.

Bing made popular music

That his dumb ass kiss ruined his legacy after he died shows how stupid kids can be. Instead of tell all books, they should have been nurtering his
inventory, and could have made billions.

Also one of the nicest people and he died doing the thing he liked the best
Finished a round of golf in Spain, said to his buddies, nice round fellows, wanna get a coke, and that was it.

I for one miss his Christmas tv shows. Life was better when Bing was in it. (of course, after Bing, all we got was actually THE
worst duet of all time

Bush-Clinton.
canjcat
Just to clarify........

--I absolutely LOVE Bing Crosby. I especially treasure his Christmas album which I have on vinyl....the one where he's wearing a Santa hat on the cover. My father hauntingly looked like Der Bingle, and, bless his dear departed heart, he tried to sing like him around the house. White Christmas is also one of my favorite movies, too. Bing's voice was one of a kind never to be duplicated.

--I absolutely LOVE David Bowie. I believe his earlier works rank among the classics of classics. My all time favorite tune he recorded was the highly underrated Suffragette City. I also applaud his androgynous look during the 70's.....a truly brave move for that time period.

........I just don't care for Bing and Bowie together......merely my opinion.


Now that I think about it, another bad duet IMHO was Elton John and Kiki Dee Don't Go Breaking My Heart, mostly because I just don't like the song. I find this recording a low point in Elton's career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyJsP1_fKSc
graham4anything
QUOTE(canjcat @ Mar 17 2009, 08:37 AM) *
Just to clarify........

--I absolutely LOVE Bing Crosby. I especially treasure his Christmas album which I have on vinyl....the one where he's wearing a Santa hat on the cover. My father hauntingly looked like Der Bingle, and, bless his dear departed heart, he tried to sing like him around the house. White Christmas is also one of my favorite movies, too. Bing's voice was one of a kind never to be duplicated.

--I absolutely LOVE David Bowie. I believe his earlier works rank among the classics of classics. My all time favorite tune he recorded was the highly underrated Suffragette City. I also applaud his androgynous look during the 70's.....a truly brave move for that time period.

........I just don't care for Bing and Bowie together......merely my opinion.


Now that I think about it, another bad duet IMHO was Elton John and Kiki Dee Don't Go Breaking My Heart, mostly because I just don't like the song. I find this recording a low point in Elton's career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyJsP1_fKSc



I happen to love that song

Is it sweet as sugar?
Sure is.

But, for one thing, it got Kiki Dee known in the USA (she had one other hit, but was much bigger overseas.)

And two- it was an actual duet, not one person with another just featured.
It was give and take back and forth

And it was also sort of PhillySoul the Philly sound Elton loved in the 70s (Gamble-Huff).

but this is America- you are entitled to your opinion.

As for Bing/David-you know, it took 20 years for that to be a repeated Christmas classic.
Alot of people thought it odd.

But its not that easy to sing two songs at same time.

Bing reminds me of my late grandfather in someways.

If you never heard it-listen to Bing's 1929 I think it was original version of Dancing in the Dark- (not the same song as Bruce's).
This was also used in the SHINING at the bar scene.
That they had songs so complex like that all the way back, never really needed to improve on the style either.
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