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RETROKIMMER: ROBERT KNIGHT EVERLASTING LOVE.... Posted: 01 Aug 2011 12:10 AM PDT Robert Knight "Everlasting Love" This is one of my favorites of all time: Robert Knight Everlasting Love The original version of "Everlasting Love" was recorded in Nashville by Robert Knight, whose producers Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden aimed to record him in a Motown style with especial reference to the Four Tops and the Temptations. Cason would recall how he and Gayden wrote "Everlasting Love" to serve as B-side for a song entitled "The Weeper", which they were to record with Knight. The night before the recording session for "The Weeper", Gayden stopped by Cason's home and, according to Cason, "as usual brought several melodies, riffs and grooves to work on", two of whose hit potential particularly struck Cason, who had Gayden combine these ideas into one melody. The writing session was abbreviated as Gayden had to go home for supper; Cason assured his partner: "I'll put some kind of lyric to it...Neither of us was too concerned as just knew that 'The Weeper' would be the hit of the session." Cason believes he may have drawn the phrase "everlasting love" from the biblical verse Jeremiah 31.3 which begins: "Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love". Ultimately "Everlasting Love" was released as an A-side for Knight and reached No. 13 in 1967. Subsequently the song has reached the U.S. Top 40 three times, most successfully by Carl Carlton, who peaked at No. 6 in 1974, with more moderate success for remakes by Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet (No. 32, 1981) and Gloria Estefan (No. 27, 1995). Thus, "Everlasting Love" is one of two songs (the other being "The Way You Do the Things You Do") to become a Top 40 hit in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s.

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[New post] Doctor Who Big Finish- The Maltese Penguin

Doctor Who Big Finish- The Maltese Penguin dailypop | August 1, 2011 at 7:29 pm | Tags: colin baker big finish, doctor who big finish audio adventures | Categories: Big Finish | URL: http://wp.me/p4kUt-2Vi

The Maltese Penguin

"This was no ordinary dame. This was a dame with a capital 'D.' Perfect like cut glass and just as cold. If she'd been a stick of candy rock, you could have snapped her in two and seen the word 'classy' running through her center."
Story 33.5
Written by Robert Shearman
Released on November, 2002

The Doctor's companion, the shape-shifter Frobisher, has left the TARDIS to find himself. Operating as a private detective, Frobisher is failing to make a living on his own and spends most of his time answering wrong numbers. When the Doctor arrives with wild tales of time-tossed adventure, it takes every bit of conviction to turn his good friend down. Determined to live his own life, out from under the Doctor's shadow, Frobisher is soon visited by a beautiful and mysterious femme fatale, entangling him in a web of intrigue straight out of a dime pulp novel.

I quite enjoy these short audio adventures from Big Finish. Running at just over an hour, The Maltese Penguin is the ideal length, allowing for the right amount of humor, drama and references. Robert Shearman is a terribly talented author with a gift for comedy and bizarre plots. Written in a style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, The Maltese Penguin is littered with so many gems of narrative dialog that it is almost entirely quotable.

Voice actor Robert Jezek trades places with Colin Baker in an ingenious flourish of artistic license when Frobisher takes on the form of the Doctor in order to track down his prey. Baker takes on Jezek's NY-style affectations with hilarious results, yet maintaining enough dignity that it never goes over the top. For many Doctor Who fans, Baker is only known for his egocentric and bombastic Sixth Doctor, so it's nice to hear the actor branch off into a new kind of character.

The vocal cast is top notch and only slightly put off by the incessant public domain 'film noir' sound track playing behind every second of ever scene.  The plot is a bargain store pulp style with enough flourishes such as the elusive mcguffin that drives the story onward as the danger thickens around our hero like a noose. The Doctor's occasionally re-appears to help Frobisher at the right moment, but is driven off as the shape-shifting gumshoe must prove that he can live his own life.

The Maltese Penguin is an amusing little story that serves as a stop gap between the more epic and grand audio adventures that Big Finish is known for, but it also addresses the question of what happens to one of the Doctor's companions after they part company, something that rarely comes up in print or on the TV program.

Doctor Who Big Finish- The Maltese Penguin can be purchased directly from Big Finish Productions.

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[New post] Batman fights Bane amid Gotham City turmoil

Batman fights Bane amid Gotham City turmoil dailypop | August 1, 2011 at 3:18 pm | Tags: batman dark knight rises bane catwoman nolan | Categories: Batman | URL: http://wp.me/p4kUt-2V6

The ramp up continues for next Summer's Batman film, the final chapter in director Chris Nolan's trilogy. Finally we get to see Bane in full light, glimpse a riot on the steps of city hall and more.

Thoughts?

 

Spoilers after the jump...

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