Comments on: How "Try a Little Tenderness" went from forgettable love-song to soulful classic

By: Spookyland

Spookyland — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:17:00 +0000

You may be more familar with Ray Noble and his orchestra than you think – their recording of “Midnight, the Moon, and You” has become forever associated with Stanley Kubric’s film The Shining….

By: Michael Newton

Michael Newton — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:09:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjkokZtjxl0&feature=fvst

By: knoxblox

knoxblox — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:10:00 +0000

Agreed.
In addition, IHMO the writer of the article almost sounds like they believe white people weren’t capable of anything but uptight, upright sex in 1932.

By: Jes Wells

Jes Wells — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:51:00 +0000

I’m astonished that there is no mention of the Little Miss Cornshucks version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaf4DnzTSVM

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:55:00 +0000

Isn’t it a little disingenuous to call it “forgettable” if it was sung by so many people?

Yes, perhaps the original recording was forgettable (the video won’t play for me so I don’t know what it sounds like), but the lyrics clearly had something that grabbed the attention of Crosby (or whoever was next). It surely was Crosby’s recording that influenced others to sing it, not the original recording, but still it had to have some merit originally for Crosby to want to sing it in the first place.

By: Evan G.

Evan G. — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:39:00 +0000

I don’t know, but this piece was written because of the recent Jay-Z/Kanye collaboration, “Otis.”

By: woid

woid — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:53:00 +0000

How can anybody write about Otis’ version of Try A Little Tenderness without quoting him correctly?

“She may get weary, women do get weary, wearing that same shaggy dress…”

The piece also neglects to mention Sinatra — but the lack of shaggy is unforgiveable.

By: Chris De Castro

Chris De Castro — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:00:00 +0000

hasn’t this been covered by Rob Bowman?
http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TVO.woa?bi?1131213600000i've been trying to find a video of his lecture for ages…

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:42:00 +0000

Also pretty fond of that song as sung by Solomon Burke, Three Dog Night, Aretha Franklin, Chris Brown, and Michael Bolton

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:33:00 +0000

But I really like that version sung by Andrew Strong, and I’m going to Ireland next week on a musical tour.

By: muteboy

muteboy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:28:00 +0000

oh and please christ noone mention the fecking commitments

By: muteboy

muteboy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:22:00 +0000

Women they do get woolly.

By: dayna

dayna — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:22:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNGIg8f-0Wc

By: mcarlson

mcarlson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:16:00 +0000

By the way, give the link above about 1:45 to get into the body of the song. It’s a live recording and has some blah blah at the beginning.

By: mcarlson

mcarlson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:14:00 +0000

I like the inimitable Mr. Al Jarreau