Wednesday 2 July 2014

Dolly


The Glastonbury casualties are slowly drifting back into town, and - statistically - one or two will stay for a few years longer than they originally intended.

There was some disappointing news yesterday, and I am not talking about Rolf Harris, the erstwhile Glastonbury headliner.

The ugly rumour (no, not Tony Blair either) is that Dolly Parton was miming all her vocals, except for the worst one - the song about the mud. I think it was called 'Mud', and I have to say that it was the only one which actually sounded live.

Of course, we all knew that she wasn't actually playing those instruments slung round her neck for the briefest of solos, but - apparently - people at the very front were able to detect the difference between the sound from the monitors and the sound from the speakers.

All that running up and down the huge stage left Dolly pretty breathless (not breastless) when she talked between numbers, and I was highly impressed at how she could hit and sustain all the long notes as she sang.

Every one knew that Madonna was not actually singing when she threw herself about the stage like the trained athlete she was - she would have had to be superhuman to do that, plus everything else at the same time.

Maybe it is ungentlemanly of me to even mention it, especially since Dolly is now 68 years old, but if Debby Harry could do it at 70, then I think that Dolly might have been able to at least give it a try - mud or no mud.

Let's see what she has to say about it.  I'm waiting, Dolly.

13 comments:

  1. As I am a Debby Harry fan anyway, I think she is much better - often wonder how far DP would have gone without those big breasts - but you have to admit that she has a certain charisma and it gets more the older she gets. Wish that happened to all of us (most of us become pretty invisible as we get older) - charisma I mean not the top heavy chest!

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  2. If memory serves me correctly, then The Monkeys used mime when on stage and they were a lot younger than Dolly.

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  3. C & W music leaves me cold, as does Dolly.

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  4. Debby Harry couldn't do it without wearing a truss .

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    1. Dolly (above) seems to be wearing a codpiece.

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    2. I think it's a combination cod/truss.

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  5. It's entertainment. That's entertainment. You'll never find the high rollers ($$$) in a small venue. The fair goers paid to see them at Glastonbury, and saw the performance they paid for.

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  6. You mean like these folk who played in G'bury over the years David Bowie, Traffic, Fairport Convention, Quintessence, Hawkwind, Skin Alley, Rod Stewart, Oasis,
    Franz Ferdinand , Sir Paul McCartney, Dame Shirley Bassey, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Jones, Steel Pulse, Doves, Lady Gaga, Jason Mraz, Nick Cave, Pete Doherty, Hugh Cornwell, Status Quo, U2,
    Coldplay, Beyonce,T Rex, Van Morrison, Boomtown Rats & The Rolling Stones to name but a few.

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    1. Yes, exactly. The audience saw what was on stage at the fair. That's what it's all about. If there appeared to be a disconnect between the audio and the video from the front row, apparently the front row went to watch the big screens, not the performer on stage. It's a show, people went to enjoy themselves and I'm sure every performer put on the best show he or she could.

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  7. She has already said it- her boobs and hair are fake but her singing isn't.

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    1. About twenty years ago, she spent most of her time telling people her boobs were real - I don't know who to believe any more.

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  8. Does it really matter she is the show not the singing.
    Merle............

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