Hooray for Hollywood
A couple weeks before the 90th birthday special for Carol Burnett, I heard an interview with her on the Sirius/XM Broadway Channel. During it, they mentioned a Hollywood medley she'd done on her TV show with Eydie Gormé, and played a couple minutes of it. I was so impressed that I wanted to see if I could track it down online, and of course I could. It's 10 minutes, and really wonderful. A good collection of songs, cleverly arranged together, and terrifically performed.
One of the things that impressed me in the short clip was how good the harmonies were -- and I was impressed more when Carol Burnett explained that she didn't read music. Instead, she had a personal marking system where she made notations telling here what to sing. It certainly worked for her.
Fun, too, is the smart ending someone came up with.
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