{"id":874,"date":"2008-03-30T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T15:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2014-03-06T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:07:17","slug":"sunday-cabaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Sunday cabaret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s too much to hope that YouTube would have footage of Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986) singing any of her <i>Songs for a Shuttered Parlour<\/i> or <i>Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room<\/i> (both longtime favorites of mine in vinyl), but this one is aaaaalmost as good, since it has Elsa&#8217;s voice, lipsunked by Princess PoodlePoo (who may, for all I know, <a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.Channel&#038;ChannelID=186971058\">already<\/a> <i>be<\/i> a Household Word&#8230;):<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5pJ0NhhO4-s&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5pJ0NhhO4-s&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and that put me in mind of another favorite of mine, Agnes Bernelle (1923-1999), whose <i>Father&#8217;s Lying Dead on the Ironing Board<\/i> is staple fare out our way (some lyrics <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/xliberty\/bernelle.html\">transcribed here<\/a>, and a CD version seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fathers-Lying-Dead-Ironing-Board\/dp\/B000003BT7\">available via Amazon<\/a>). Here&#8217;s a tribute, with a not-untypical song:<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R5IGefz4P74&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R5IGefz4P74&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If that appeals, this may also:<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7osudu2VeVM&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7osudu2VeVM&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s too much to hope that YouTube would have footage of Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986) singing any of her Songs for a Shuttered Parlour or Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room (both longtime favorites of mine in vinyl), but this one is aaaaalmost as good, since it has Elsa&#8217;s voice, lipsunked by Princess PoodlePoo (who may, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}