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_fKScI 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.