Pay Me - Bad As Me [419]

With a brief digression into Beyoncé’s oeuvre, Kerry-Jo, Martin and Sam discuss some of the oddities in the writing of Pay Me, and what story Waits is trying to tell. We consider stories of theatrical life, where to find the end of the world, and specificities in the writing of Stephen Sondheim.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Pay Me, Bad As Me, Tom Waits (2011)

Jack Langrishe arrives in Deadwood, clip from Deadwood s3e3, w. Regina Corrado & Ted Mann, dir. Gregg Feinberg (2006)

Send In The Clowns, Good Bad but Beautiful, Shirley Bassey / Stephen Sondheim (1975)

Send In The Clowns, The Broadway Album, Barbara Streisand / Stephen Sondheim (1985)

Send In The Clowns, A Little Night Music (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Glynis John / Stephen Sondheim (1973)

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Somewhere (from West Side Story) - Blue Valentine [056]

We're back! Sam and Martin return for another album from the Tom Waits back-catalogue, this season listening to and discussing his sixth release Blue Valentine. Joining us for the first tracks are Elizabeth Sankey and Caspar Salmon from the Highbrow Lowbrow podcast, discussing the many different levels of the song Somewhere (from West Side Story), the performance styles of both Waits and the original productions, and... potatoes. Another classic metaphor for music, only available from Song by Song.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Somewhere (from West Side Story), Blue Valentine, Tom Waits (1978)

Somewhere, West Side Story Motion Picture Soundtrack, Jim Bryant & Marni Nixon [w. Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim] (1961)

Somewhere (Ballet), West Side Story (Original Broadway Production), Max Goberman & West Side Story Ensemble [w. Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim] (1957)

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