One person who was made aware it was time to quit was Matt Munro. Billy Connolly was told by Matt himself that the crooner got off the train in Swansea and asked a taxi driver to take him to the venue he was booked to play that night. The taxi driver said to him, 'You don't want to go there tonight mate, that useless pile of Shiite Matt Monro's playing'!
Old crooners who ought to retire.
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PenttitheFinn
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Robert Plant, saw him in ~1983 it was so bad there was many people in the bar as was watching him. And how about the UK's most self opinionated musician Donovan, who said about his latest tour "it was for his fans, and for others to become his fans"
ayceejay
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No but, if one has a career one can refer to it in a nostalgic sense and this is fine if you are into that kind of thing.
Sunday night PBS over here even had that bloke who did "Me and Mrs Jones" on although it may have been a recording,
and these are the one hit wonders who must get really tired of doing it. And this brings me to my nominee - Paul Rogers. alright now - fortunately before Barrymore
Sunday night PBS over here even had that bloke who did "Me and Mrs Jones" on although it may have been a recording,
and these are the one hit wonders who must get really tired of doing it. And this brings me to my nominee - Paul Rogers. alright now - fortunately before Barrymore
swee'pea99
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Far as I'm concerned no-one 'ought to retire' unless they want to. It's not like anyone's forced to go and see them. I suspect many carry on past their sell by because after all, if it's your vocation - and for many it is - it's your life. Of course you'll keep doing it as long as people are willing to come and watch. What else are you going to do - die, I guess.
slowmotion
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A good friend is a lawyer in the music industry. His bread and butter is drawing up contracts for recording artists, and getting them a better deal than they had before. Typically, in the 60's and 70's a new young star or band would be showered by their manager with a lavish lifestyle and lots of eager sexual partners. The stars had no real interest in the contracts that they were signing or the terms of any royalty payments. They were young and naïve and thought they were in heaven.
Fast forward a few decades and they realise that all they can actually do to earn a living is "keep on rocking". The terms of their original contracts didn't build them a nest egg, spivs took the vast part of the earnings that should have come to them, and so they carry on. It's really rather sad. A lot of them effectively had their pensions stolen from them by people they though were their friends when they were much younger.
Fast forward a few decades and they realise that all they can actually do to earn a living is "keep on rocking". The terms of their original contracts didn't build them a nest egg, spivs took the vast part of the earnings that should have come to them, and so they carry on. It's really rather sad. A lot of them effectively had their pensions stolen from them by people they though were their friends when they were much younger.
swee'pea99
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I've never heard them called that before.
HertzvanRental
Veteran
I,too am a great Leonard fan.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
are any actual crooners going to get named, as opposed to rock singers, and what the noise Cohen makes is called?
OK. Scott Walker.. he hasn't made a decent album since 'Till The Band Comes In' in 1970.
Everything since is just not very good or too far up his own arse to actually enjoy, A great shame. Either get back crooning Scott or give it up.
Sorry Scott I really am but that's the way I feel.
slowmotion
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One reviewer of a relatively recent Leonard Cohen album said that "he seems to have progressed from the mere bronchial to the positively emphysemic...".
I love his stuff.
GrumpyGregry
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not a crooner. Think Sinatra, think Bennett, think Williams, think Connick Jr, and that Buble chappie. Think bow ties and dinner suits and an emotional rendition of "I left my heart in San Francisco."
I used to pay my mortgage, when the kids were little, by crooning. Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and a residency in Swansea. We even did a wake once.
slowmotion
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I'd say that Jim Morrison was a crooner. Obviously, he didn't hang around until his voice had gone off.
