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May 22, 2007
Is that all there is?
Sometime, maybe in 1980, back when the Rock of Boston still played more rock than shock jock, I caught a cover of a song first make famous by Peggy Lee 20 years earlier. The song was Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller's "Is That All There Is?". The artist was Christina (Monet) taking a No Wave turn on a song that already started with a bleak existential point of view. It caught my attention on that first playing and then a few days later the idea of the song was fixed in my memory when I read that Leiber and Stoller had objected to Christina's brutal reworking of their lyrics. The lawyers came out and forced the Ze Records recording to be withdrawn from sale.
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is
The memory of that single hearing rattled around my head and surfaced a few months ago when I was doing some surfing on ebay. Hmm, maybe someone has a import recording listed? Christina was one of those one-name artists, and it is next to impossible to find anything musical in the midst of the Christina Aguilera results. But somehow I got clued in to some reissued recordings available simply on amazon.
Well, it was supposed to be simple. An order put in in January has been postponed three times and is now slated for July (ha! we'll see). I guess I can wait a little bit longer. Or is this an irony waiting to happen?
Posted by MikeMulligan at May 22, 2007 10:30 PM
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Amazon put me off a couple more times, and I kept up , creating and updating a new virtual credit card number as the old ones expired. Now with the September promise starting to smell gamy, they finally faced up and sent an email canceling my order. Oh, I could go to one of their third party vendors and pay $90 for a "collectible". Geez!
Hey, why not go to the source, Ze Records? They offer online purchase through Pay Pal. That trivializes the currency conversion from €22,20, and besides, the Pay Pal money is "play money", its ears unmarked for serious purpose.
So now the question is, can Ze deliver? Stay tuned.
Posted by: Mike Mulligan 
at September 3, 2007 8:17 PM
Ze CD arrived a week ago, and I haven't had the wherewithal to spin the track as yet. Have I put too much pressure on the event? What am I waiting for?
Posted by: Mike Mulligan at September 24, 2007 10:54 PM