Was I the only one that thought the opening song of the results show was, well...lame? I'm watching rockers like David Cook, Carly, Amanda and Micheal Johns singing the lyrics, "Twiddle Dee Dee, Twiddle Dee Dum", (which they pulled off with as much sincerity as possible, I guess.) But I couldn't help thinking, don't they think this is a little "twiddle dee dumb", too? I mean, I'm trying to imagine their faces when they were handed the lyrics for their Big Opening Number. After belting out some of the greatest music ever written all season long, I wonder if they were just as thrilled (as Amanda looked) with that song.
Anyway, we'll be seeing the show in Greensboro this summer. But, kinda hoping that tune has dropped off the list of "must haves"
(By the way DC..I'll be the one in the front row with my 5 year old. Wave at her if you can! Or I might come with my 6 foot tall/newly divorced friend...DON'T wave at her...she's gettin' around a lot lately!)
God bless y'all.
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You said, "Was I the only one that thought the opening song of the results show was, well...lame? I'm watching rockers like David Cook, Carly, Amanda and Micheal Johns singing the lyrics, "Twiddle Dee Dee, Twiddle Dee Dum", (which they pulled off with as much sincerity as possible, I guess..."
I thought: Self inflicted ignorance is a dire disease among our young any more. The song you are refering to was a very famous piece of JAZZ, originally sung by LaVern Baker, a very famous jazz singer of the 1940s through the 1960s, who then became entertainment director for the Marine Corps night club in Subic Bay, Phillipines, and was there for 22 years.
The piece was later sung by Elvis Presley, who had no thoughts of it being a lame tune, as you call it.
The words were a way to support a catchy tune, like Louis Armstrong's Hep Cats' Ball, which you probably wouldn't underatand either. Both songs being adult "play" tunes; they were fun to sing and listen to; put people in a playful, perhaps frisky mood.
That kind of singing, together with 'scat' singing defined an era in American music from which almost everything you hear today sprung or was influenced in one way or another. Think Rock and Roll, for instance.
You have no idea how ignorant your comment (all of it) sounds. You should be very embarrased to have said that in public. The pissant contestants in American Idol should wish for their careers to be so boosted by a silly, insignificant, jazz piece like the Tweedledee song.
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