Girl Talk (I did not know that..

[JSngry]

it was from a movie. I thought it just showed up one day on the doorstep of MOR radio and that they took it in and fed it until it became the outsized healthy baby that we all know and love today.)

Every day we learn something new!

 

[Brad]

You hear a song like that and you just know it’s Neal Hefti. 

[mikeweil]

I've loved this song ever since I heard it for the first time, on a Ray Bryant LP.

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, Brad said:

You hear a song like that and you just know it’s Neal Hefti. 

You're right on target there. A whole lot of women don't like that song's lyrics, though. 

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, mikeweil said:

I've loved this song ever since I heard it for the first time, on a Ray Bryant LP.

LOVE that version!  

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

A whole lot of women don't like that song's lyrics, though. 

 

[Larry Kart]

26 minutes ago, JSngry said:

 

Nice band, nice chart, and I think I might take the singer home with me.

[Brad]

2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

You're right on target there. A whole lot of women don't like that song's lyrics, though. 

They’re not great and although I never saw the movie, Baker wasn’t a great actress. 

13 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

Nice band, nice chart, and I think I might take the singer home with me.

I thought her version was a little better than Julie London’s. 

[T.D.]

13 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

Nice band, nice chart, and I think I might take the singer home with me.

Agreed. I'd never heard of Devyn Rush, but apparently she became well-known via American Idol (!? - I haven't watched TV for years.) Deservedly so IMO.

[Bill Nelson]

I thought it was comedienne Sarah Silverman playing it straight.

[JSngry]

For years I thought it was a Bobby Troup song. Now I learn it's from a movie I've never seen. When do the surprises end?

[JSngry]

Ah, ok, those are Bobby Troup's lyrics. Now I get it.

[Larry Kart]

14 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Ah, ok, those are Bobby Troup's lyrics. Now I get it.

They are clever, though.

[JSngry]

So, how's the movie, Harlow? I seem to recall childhood memories of it being "controversial" or something?

[Brad]

The reviews were not kind. Carroll Baker was not a good actress.  Interestingly, there was another Harlow movie issued in the same year (1965) starting Carol Lynley. 

[Ted O'Reilly]

I really like the under-recognized Joanie Sommers' singing.  She was quite the thing in the 1960s -- a pop-jazz vocalist who always worked with fine jazz players.  Her version of Girl Talk was a good one.  I wonder who did the arrangements?

 

 

[riddlemay]

If you'll forgive the tangent...Hefti wrote another tune for Harlow that is just as marvelous as Girl Talk, and sounds just as much like it could be a song (it's clearly structured as one), but which has never had a lyric. It's a shame that Mercer or someone like him never got to it. (For some reason I hear Mercer more than Troup here.)

 

[medjuck]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

For years I thought it was a Bobby Troup song. Now I learn it's from a movie I've never seen. When do the surprises end?

With death. It's also the last surprise. 

[JSngry]

yeah, but you won't be around to enjoy it!

[JSngry]

My favorite version of the tune is by Stan Kenton. Seriously. It's like a deep sea version of Ahmad Jamal as an obsessively precise Swiss watchmaker.

And not just anybody could make that work, right?

And also as well, ask yourself how many times and in how many ways your life has been bettered by reverb. More than you know, I'll bet.