Three-minute wonderment
OK, so it’s 5am and I really should be asleep, BUT bear with me for some music geekery (the act of behaving like a geek, as opposed to geekiness, which is the state of being a geek).
At the end of the gig tonight, J the DJ put on this record.
Not at all jazzy, but when it’s that song, who cares?
I immediately rushed into the sound booth and cried: “I love that song!”
I haven’t heard it for years.. and for the life of me had no idea who it was by. Possibly Paul Carrack? Who knew…
And so J - who had immediately cried back: “Me too!” - looked it up, and we saw that it was by Andrew Gold.
Didn’t mean anything.
So I looked him up on Wikipedia, and whaddya know…
Andrew Gold is the son of Marni Nixon - the woman who I often bang on to people about, because she is one of the music world’s most unappreciated stars.
Marni Nixon supplied Natalie Wood’s singing voice in West Side Story… and Deborah Kerr’s singing voice in The King And I… and Audrey Hepburn’s singing voice in My Fair Lady.
And she was one of the nuns in The Sound Of Music.
But as if that revelation about Andrew Gold wasn’t enough…
He was also the man behind this hit:
- along with Graham Gouldman from 10CC. I had no idea (back then, when I was 16…). Gotta love that ’80s miming.
And while we’re at it:
Andrew Gold sang/wrote the theme tune to The Golden Girls (”Thank you for being a friend…”).
And this terrific song was his other big pop hit. Make sure you watch it through to the very last beat :-).
Mr Gold - I don’t say this lightly, but: thank you for the music.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12.40am
Which nun?
March 2nd, 2008 at 1.15am
I’ve got that Andrew Gold 45. I’m quite old you know.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3.28am
Rachel - the one with glasses, I think. she didn’t have classic leading lady looks. hence the obscurity.
Tracy - which one? you had great taste for a three-year-old…
March 2nd, 2008 at 5.10am
OK, so now I have to look up Marnie Nixon…I got Dianne Reves’s Good Night and Good Luck finally the other day - and both Irene and I LOVE it!
I never bought anything by Andrew Gold, but then I am probably too old!
March 2nd, 2008 at 5.15am
ahh so glad you like it, Andrew! she does sing so, so beautifully on it. I sang ‘How High The Moon’ as a slow number for the first time in the bar tonight, and thought of her version… I wonder whether you can buy any Marni Nixon? I guess she made albums.. I’ve just never investigated her work. and you’re never too old for Andrew Gold! he did the theme tune to ‘Golden Girls’ remember…?
March 2nd, 2008 at 5.21am
ANd I am definitely in the Golden category these days!
Hey this is almost like having a conversation!
March 2nd, 2008 at 6.31am
And the answer to the Marni Nixon question - at least in Canad- is that there are a couple of CDs - Marni Nixon sings Kern and Gershwin available on Amazon in Canada
May 6th, 2011 at 12.08am
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June 7th, 2011 at 4.24am
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