After a brief detour, we return to close out our fest with singer Jo Stafford and her husband, pianist-composer Paul Weston who put out a series of "alter ego" comedy albums as the woefully off-key Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. As I mentioned before, Stafford and Weston's career had its peak in the 40s and 50s, with her even having success into the 1960s with a couple of TV series. However, their careers went much father, even with "Jonathan and Darlene." And that's what we have here today as a sort of bonus finale -- two of their songs released as a single in 1977. (In fact, they even had a subsequent album in 1982!) Most of the Jonathan and Darlene albums were mangling classic standards. But here we have them doing the Bee Gee's "Stayin' Alive" and the anthem made famous by Helen Reddy, "I Am Woman." By the way, it's also worth noting that when the ZAZ team of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker (who would soon go on to make Airplane! and The Naked Gun, among others) made their first film, Kentucky Fried Movie in that same 1977, they used the Jonathan and Darlene Edwards' recording of "Carioca" in the opening and closing credits. Here, though, is "Stayin' Alive." And released on the flip side, this their mangling of "I Am Woman." Listen closely near the beginning at the 20-second mark when "Darlene" has some trouble with the lyrics, though quickly recovers.
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