When I first heard the Beatles sing, then heard them talk, I wondered why they spoke English English but sang American English.
I finally found out why.
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When I first heard the Beatles sing, then heard them talk, I wondered why they spoke English English but sang American English.
I finally found out why.
What’s on your mind? Got something to share? It’s Monday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
Well I watched Blazing Saddles on Turner Classic Movies tonight and was pleasantly surprised to see that the movie was left intact and was not censored or changed in any way. So…I figure the liberal whine-a-thon won’t be long in coming.
Charlie Parker, the alto saxophonist, who, together with Dizzy Gillespie, invented bebop, was born August 29, 1920.
Can the government force you to learn and use a language different from the one you normally use?
The Supreme Court’s interpretation of the commerce clause of the US Constitution since 1937 (West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish) says that they can, because the language you use could affect “commerce . . . among the several states”. In 1942, the Supreme Court ruled (Wickard v. Filburn) that the commerce clause allowed the federal government to enforce crop production limits for wheat on a farmer in Ohio who was growing more wheat per acre than the limit established by the federal government and using the amount above the limit to feed animals on his own arm. Cases like that were among the reasons that I quit law school.
In my days as a poor musician (in every sense), I had a bandmate who suddenly turned into Nigel Tufnel when he stepped in front of the mike. So I guess it could work both ways.
A little help—Nigel who?
{One internet search later} Oh. “up to eleven.”
I was shocked when I heard Keith Urban speaking the first time.
Then again, you think about the opera singers who phonetically learn Italian operas, but can’t speak a word of Italian themselves.
I just want to know why I have a British accent when I sing and I’m born & bred in Texas.
Long John Baldry seemed to keep his accent when singing. He may be a special case as his speaking accent wasn’t one he was born into. He was raised in a working class London household. Like Cary Grant, he adopted a more upper class accent.
Some Brit lingo still comes through. The Beatles sang “‘Til there was you,” with the very British pronunciation, “But I never sawr them winging.” I always get a kick out of that.
That usage is apparently still around, and universal. Chef Gordon Ramsay yells at one restaurant owner about “putting rawr onions in an onion soup.”