VL-IV: Chap7- Italian fake book
Joe Allonby
joeallonby at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 12:01:47 CST 2009
Just curious to make sure that people are getting this.
A Fake Book is a book of bare bones arrangements or sketches of almost
any popular song of a given period or genre that GB (general business)
musicians use. When the father of the bride who is paying the tab
insists on singing some goddawful ditty with the band, everybody whips
out their fake book.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:49 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> Ventunesimo: 21st testa puntita: pointed head
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> Porcelain fate: great phrase! deuteragonist: second most important character (in this case, Mario).
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> Italian Fake book by D & G. In the same vein as the various jokey misassociations sprinkled through the story:
> Woody Allen in the Henry Kissenger Story, etc. How about this one from real life:
> in Brooklyn, there's a Paul Robeson High School for Business and Technology.
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> There was an episode of the so-so show Quantum Leap where the protagonist leapt into the body of an
> Italian wedding singer and had to fake a rendition of Volare.
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> How hard could it be to fake Volare?
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> Some modest examples:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeI0NeOjhI
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odpCdNS4NiA&feature=related
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz6RwoESOn4
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