tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069240801305189913.post2706000696702025938..comments2024-03-10T04:30:42.998-07:00Comments on Dave's Movie Site: The Films of Martin Scorsese Part XVII: Robbie Robertson's Somewhere Down the Crazy RiverDave Van Houwelingenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675792024957939574noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069240801305189913.post-70078750260436458422023-08-14T07:30:36.221-07:002023-08-14T07:30:36.221-07:00The author is correct. It might be seen as in poor...<br />The author is correct. It might be seen as in poor taste to trash a Robbie Robertson song just a few days after he died, but he was an octogenarian that lived a longer and happier life than most.<br /><br />I heard this bizarre song before I saw the video because it was used as the intro for some stupid news talk radio show I used to listen to because I was driving an old car that only had three AM talk stations on it.<br /><br />I had no idea it was Robertson; I just imagined some cheesy middle aged lounge singer trying to sound sexy, and to the uninitiated, if you haven't seen the video, when you do and the backup singer who echoes the main line of the chorus ("Somewhere Down The Crazy River") is revealed, it's a real shocker because f you've only heard it, it sounds like it's sung by an older black woman but it's actually a young Latin American guy with a mullet.<br /><br />Or is it?<br /><br />I'm not sure he wasn't just lip synching because the voice doesn't match the person in the video at all. He plays a guitar as well as I recall and looks like a younger, taller, paler, better looking of mulleted version of Hervé Villechaise (aka Tattoo from the old Fantasy Island TV show) but the voice coming out of him or that he is perhaps lip synching to is a throaty mumbled repeat of the chorus that sounds like an elderly black female New Orleans jazz singer, which is the vibe that they were going for, since although the lyrics are an incoherent cheesy mess, to the extent it is comprehensible at all Robertson is making New Orleans-esque references as he channels a mashup of Barry White and Tom Jones.<br /><br />The worst part of it, other than the freaky backup singer/guitarist, is probably when Robertson stops and stares into the camera at one point and says something along the lines of "What?! Did you hear that? This is sho' gettin' really freaky fo' me!" it's godawful.<br /><br />For some inexplicable reason, in the aftermath of his death this week at the age of 80, it's this godawful song that is being cited the most, with high praise, which I found really strange.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069240801305189913.post-22611568993472940702018-01-18T11:24:13.267-08:002018-01-18T11:24:13.267-08:00Not horrible just of its time.Not horrible just of its time.James Sinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07364413001930562076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069240801305189913.post-67364540022055421242017-05-06T23:07:20.740-07:002017-05-06T23:07:20.740-07:00Horrible "song". Probably the worst in t...Horrible "song". Probably the worst in the history of recorded music. It's just rambling talking over a dreadful arrangement.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15332671824780545758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069240801305189913.post-51072576819217972142013-08-23T12:37:19.889-07:002013-08-23T12:37:19.889-07:00Leaving a comment here to see it will post before ...Leaving a comment here to see it will post before I leave a long comment myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com