Word: tramp
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...melody eerily similar to "If You Had My Love" (wait! Two complaints: 1) "If You Had My Love" suggested a possibility that you might not get Jen's love while "My Love Don't Cost a Thing" gives up even that token pretense of resistance. What a tramp!... and 2) I think Puff Daddy would disagree. Jennifer's love costs a whole lotta dough. No "Ifs", ands, or butts about it.) Hit "seek" again and you'll also inevitably hear more of Ricky Martin's bastardized Latin pop. Like the BSB, the only interesting thing about Ricky's new album...
...tunes are particularly well known. For the seeker of hidden Jones gems, of course, this is catnip. And there are several, including this treasure. Recorded in 1961, it was written by Dallas Frazier, the Bakersfield cotton picker turned songwriter ("There Goes My Everything," "The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp") who is one of Jones' favorites. (Later in the '60s he would record an album of Frazier tunes...
...familiar with only the third-person Sinatra version of The Lady Is a Tramp, so I am surprised to learn that Lorenz Hart's original lyrics are in the first person. So when this lady learns to play it, it will have an autobiographical ring of truth. After all, I too eschew crap games with barons and earls...
...Lucky for him, it's my friend Geoff's birthday. "Have I got a present for you!" I say, putting the phone by the keyboard and eking out The Lady Is a Tramp. My first public performance: only 14 mistakes, tops! "That was - good," Geoff tells me, "but maybe it's just a little - I don't know - slow...
...Sarah Vowell, a contributor to public radio's This American Life, writes a monthly column about her continuing education. She played The Lady Is a Tramp without error for TIME.com...