Brilliant stuff. This is so obviously a parody of Mitch Miller's production style and arrangements that it's doubly hilarious for someone who's a student of American pop music.
My high school choir teacher used to bring in the original LP every year and try to convince the students that it was a 'great singer' that he just discovered. Then he would wait for someone to start cracking up. Not everything J&D recorded is now on CD, but there were two fairly decent compilations. Great fun.
Don't you wonder how that marvelous male chorus - ala Mitch Miller - ever got through that rendidtion without cracking up. And of course, Paul's "creative" mastery of piano ornamentation is to be greatly admired!!! I think it must take a real musician to properly appreciate the talents of these two!! It's tough to be that bad!
@bhoekje After a while the performer just "gets in a zone" where the emotion is something that's part of the character he or she is playing, and they're removed from it enough to get through the performance without either breaking up — if it's funny — or breaking down if it's sad. It's very strange while you're in it; you're watching everything, including audience reaction, detached from the emotion in reality, but still able to convince the audience that you're truly feeling it.
Joe Stafford as Darlene Edwards does something very difficult. Instead of singing flat, she actually sings sharp.
halvickery 3 weeks ago
Brilliant stuff. This is so obviously a parody of Mitch Miller's production style and arrangements that it's doubly hilarious for someone who's a student of American pop music.
kynoceph 2 months ago
My high school choir teacher used to bring in the original LP every year and try to convince the students that it was a 'great singer' that he just discovered. Then he would wait for someone to start cracking up. Not everything J&D recorded is now on CD, but there were two fairly decent compilations. Great fun.
LShackley 4 months ago
It's genius. Pure genius.
SingerOfSwing 1 year ago
@bullfrog11758
Are you sure that they *could* talk after being exposed to J&D for extended periods? :)
hcrun 1 year ago
Don't you wonder how that marvelous male chorus - ala Mitch Miller - ever got through that rendidtion without cracking up. And of course, Paul's "creative" mastery of piano ornamentation is to be greatly admired!!! I think it must take a real musician to properly appreciate the talents of these two!! It's tough to be that bad!
bhoekje 1 year ago
@bhoekje
It was a very difficult job for them both - more so for Jo - to actually "appear that bad".
Apparently she found it hard to not automatically sing in tune and really had to work at each song!
A brilliant send-up........I love what they did.
hcrun 1 year ago
@bhoekje After a while the performer just "gets in a zone" where the emotion is something that's part of the character he or she is playing, and they're removed from it enough to get through the performance without either breaking up — if it's funny — or breaking down if it's sad. It's very strange while you're in it; you're watching everything, including audience reaction, detached from the emotion in reality, but still able to convince the audience that you're truly feeling it.
GuinnBerger 6 months ago
Either you "get" this or you don't. It still reduces me to a helpless heap of uncontrollable laughter whenever I hear it.
marked54 1 year ago
@marked54
Very true.....many people think it is the real deal.
Like yourself, I have a laugh every time I listen to any of their massacres! :)
hcrun 1 year ago