Sorry you misread my mention of “Don’t Cry Out Loud”.

I honestly never listened to the song.

And certainly not in some dorm room.

Someone referenced that tune—a music executive with Alfa Records which was a subsidiary of what was A&M—back in the ’80s when I was living in Tokyo for a few years.

He said that the Boz Scaggs tune should be the anthem for the Japanese people because they never want to show their true feelings, always “save face”, and just basically hold things inside.

This guy was frustrated that Japanese artists were copying too much of what we do.

That’s all the song means to me.

And yes, I like Sondheim.

I can do a mean “Send in the Clowns”, but I’m into lots of different styles of music.

:>)

You seen your parakeet, Snickers, today? No? You wanna guess why? You wanna take a stab at Snicker’s current whereabouts? That’s right, he (or she, I can’t freaking tell - although the name Snickers is sorta fruity for a male bird) is perched right here next to me as I type this note.

What do you feed this critter? I’ve never seen so much guano in my life -and I’m pretty much of an expert on guano - kinda like Brunette and roadkill - I flatter myself.

And the point of mentioning your parakeet or cockateil or whatever is to imply some kind of ill fate befalling it if you don’t grease the skids on my moderation process.

It’s a weepy and self-pitying piece of fluff that made the future contributions of nancy boys like Air Supply sound like Bachman Turner Overdrive by comparison.

Melissa Manchester wrote commercial jingles for feminine hygiene products - turns out that was her best work.

How about some love for a real artiste: Loudon Wainwright, III? Now there’s a songwriter/performer.

DISCLAIMER: I, Music Lover, have no idea what Melissa Manchester did before she wrote DON’T CRY OUT LOUD. In fact, I’m not even sure she wrote the song. But if she didn’t, that begs the question WHY IN THE HECK WOULD SHE AGREE TO RECORD A POS LIKE THAT?

Extortion perhaps. Yeah, suppose the guy with actual rights to the song had something embarrassing on Melissa? Y’know, like maybe she faked her transcript to get into Juliard. Yeah. That could be it.

If so, then it makes more sense to me, Music Lover, that she perpetrated the song herself.

Scott Baio is the antichrist! Who stole my meds?

SUGGESTION TO THE BLOGMASTER: How about a link to a dictionary and thesauras?

Maybe I do project onto others my own lack of discrimination about matters esoteric. Forgive me Debrah, for I have sinned. In pennance, I’ll scratch myself in places unmentionable in mixed company then vigorously break wind - whooo! That’s a bad one.

And in the spirit of constructive criticism. I can’t believe you mentioned a Melissa-freaking-Manchester song in one of your previous posts to a previous, G. Dan blog. “Don’t Cry Out Loud”. Talk about schmaltz.

I figgered you more for a Sondheim kinda gal - maybe with a little Twisted Sister tossed in just to keep everybody guessing.

DONT’ CRY OUT LOUD!
JUST KEEP IT INSIDE
AND LEARN HOW TO HIDE YOUR FEELINGS.
FLY HIGH AND PROUD.
AND IF YOU SHOULD FALL.
REMEMBER, YOU ALMOST HAD IT ALL.

Let’s hold this treacle up to the same scrutiny as the “5 reasons” article. Are there any music lovers in the house?

You’re so condescending.

Although the average person walking down the street has very little taste at all, I don’t think you give him/her enough credit for picking up on shoddy reporting.

Hmmm…….when contemplating the strange, I often think I should have gone over and applied for a position at the N&O long ago.

Rapier wit and artistically designed eye-grabbing headlines might have stopped some of the current bleeding.

“We can’t bring back the hour of splendor in the grass…..”

Seemed a reasonably informative article. If the headline was off point and the if the content reflects a pedestrian grasp of Journalism 101, well, then, I’ll just be damned.

Who do you guys think reads the daily, hometown rag anyway? Do I need to rant about the common man again? I’ll do it. You know I will.

Can you see Joe The Plumber choking on his Post Toasties in reaction to “5 reasons for the housing crash”? I can’t. I’m with Joe.

“This journalistic train wreck made it through the editing gauntlet at AP, then was deemed sufficiently thorough and thought-provoking for editors at the News & Observer to OK its publication.”