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1.3 ALL MY LITTLE WORDS con 12 votos.
"Stephin Merritt relates, in the 69 Love Songs booklet, how he was contemplating his tea in his favourite East Village café â where he does much of his writing â when the line 'All the tea in China' occurred to him, and the rest of the song developed from there.
Although he later draws back from saying which songs are "true", Stephin says in the booklet that All My Little Words is one of his "true" songs, and that the word 'unboyfriendable' was used by one of his boyfriends in circumstances comparable to those in the song.
LD Beghtol, who sings the song, describes it as a 'neo-Glen Campbell country ballad'.
LD writes further:
I sang this in one take. Stephin was covertly taping what I thought was a rehearsal take at my first afternoon in his old studio/apartment on East 5th Street. We finished what I though wa just a run-thorugh and I was all ready to do a real take, but he said: "No, that's it, I think. Listen back.â He did a play back and fiddled with the EQ a bit, but what you hear is what we did.
I was astounded it had come out so well, because Stephin had just given me the rehearsal tape (the basic guitar and piano tracks) to learn it from the night before. And I was so nervous! But I think the note of desperation helped, ultimately. All the other instruments were recorded after my vocal. Claudia always teases me about this song being the only country song ever recorded with crisp, classical diction. "
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2.17 PAPA WAS A RODEO con 3 votos:
"Stephin Merritt is reported as saying that, in his mind, Papa Was a Rodeo is sung by a man to a woman called Mike. Hence the vocal from Shirley Simms at the end of the song â though the choice of name allows for some ambiguity up to this point. Merritt also stated that this is his personal tribute to Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra. Mike is the name of the character Nancy Sinatra plays in the movie The Wild Angels.
'What are we doing in this dive bar / How can you live in a place like this?'
According to legend, part of the song was written in the Rainbow Cattle Co bar in Austin, Texas. It has more than one mirrorball. However, in the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin reports that he wrote the chorus several years before the rest of the song, at the time of The Charm of the Highway Strip.
Papa Was a Rodeo has been covered by Kelly Hogan and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts on their album Beneath The Country Underdog. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KeO-LalG7k
