Hi Doug,
No, I don't recall hearing the Simone version back then that much either. I was probably listening to other things. But I think Jill said that she had the Animals version and Arni said he had heard the Alan Price, the lead singer of the Animals, version, so perhaps that was the psychedelic version, which seems more likely than CCR, and which may have well had that same screaming quality of Screamin' Jack Hawkins, since that was a characteristic of the Animals, though I can't seem to bring to mind their rendition of "I put a spell on you," not this morning anyway. Though, of course, as Jill and Arni noted there have been many other versions.
Well, I wonder if there is some significance in this. Several failed attempts to start a thread on poetry among the many dark threads of war, and we end up going on and on about music like the sixties. How funny. Perhaps all this requires some sense of poetry that is much closer to lyric, to music, and singing. I guess one consideration would be how these events will alter poetry. I would think probably toward compression and music. Though I imagine there would be counter pressures, a perhaps different sort of polarity. For instance, perhaps a more populist or didactic poetry? like the Dario poem that Kent posted or lamentably, the way in which the most popular poet of the sixties was Rod McKuen, though there are . And on the other hand, perhaps a more obdurate verse. More lyric. But then that seems like a plea and an admonition, at the same time.
More lyric,
Rebecca
Rebecca Seiferle
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From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 04/01/03 07:49 AM
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Subject: Re: hex renditions
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> Hi Rebecca
I see so many further notes on this I may never get to read them all, but:
yes, the psychedelic version may bb the CCR one, but I also had in my mind
the Hawkins one with that scream, so I don't know. I agree about the NIna
one being more seductive, but cool. I didn't hear it that much back then
though, as I recall (which I probably don't).
Doug
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