From another thread.
DLers, was this for real?? Did it catch on at all and did you buy a copy?
My ears!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 22, 2020 3:16 AM |
It was a misguided attempt. Most people at the time saw it as a novelty, but didn't take it seriously. By the time that it came out, the younger generation knew Ethel as the loud woman on tv shows: The Lucy Show, That Girl, and from the yearly broadcast of "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 22, 2020 3:55 AM |
You bet your ass I bought it!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 22, 2020 4:04 AM |
Every night in Frisco At every kind of disco
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 22, 2020 4:49 AM |
My best friend bought it, and brought it everywhere with him the first few weeks he owned it. He thought it was amusingly camp but (sorry, AND) he loved it.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 22, 2020 5:26 AM |
It was the final straw that broke the camel's back. Disco was dead soon after this came out.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 22, 2020 5:36 AM |
I did buy it. I thought it was a scream.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 22, 2020 6:42 AM |
Rock and rap deserved to die more, R6.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 22, 2020 7:58 AM |
I think that was a discdont album.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 22, 2020 11:19 AM |
It was camp, but not in a good way like the Village People were.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 22, 2020 3:27 PM |
Village People
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 22, 2020 4:01 PM |
She was disco, when disco wasn't cool.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 22, 2020 4:09 PM |
How coincidental. First learned about this earlier this week. Her voice is too broadway for disco but it's interesting that she gave it a try
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 22, 2020 4:15 PM |
I bought the album cause I love Merman. Still have it although I haven’t played it in years. Also not having a turntable means I’ll probably never get to play it again. In reality, it’s kind of sad she recorded it. She starts out rough and it gets somewhat better later on. I read that she did it in one take and it shows. Too bad that some of these greats didn’t know when to quit.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 22, 2020 6:10 PM |
Honestly, this is less embarrassing than William Shatner covering Bob Dylan.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 23, 2020 12:09 AM |
I bought a copy in almost mint condition in a Thrift Store. Ethel did all of her old standards disco style. Very entertaining! And I played it a lot.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 23, 2020 12:16 AM |
I LOVE her caftan and Want one just like it !
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 23, 2020 1:46 AM |
One real problem with it was that many of Ethel's best hits had a kind of syncopated rhythm to them and the disco arrangements were dependent on absolutely regular, consistent 2/4 rhythms. Her vocal quality was less of a problem. It would be like Ella singing Sigmund Romberg.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 23, 2020 1:51 AM |
Guys got AIDS for this?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 23, 2020 2:04 AM |
I was convinced Merman would have done a punk album had she lived longer.
A friend of mine used to sing Clash songs while imitating Merman.
Oh, what could have been!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 23, 2020 2:26 AM |
She would have been great covering Guns N' Roses or the Scorpions.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 23, 2020 2:42 AM |
I never got around to buying a copy.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | February 23, 2020 11:17 PM |
F&F the Redundant Thread Copycat
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 24, 2020 1:00 AM |
Well, I never got around to seeing that [italic]Black Hole[/italic] picture of yours either, R24, so we're even!
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | February 24, 2020 3:05 AM |