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Her sister Pam Hall is also a decent covers artist, as can be heard on this 1993 Penthouse Studios version of Dolly Parton's pension plan, produced by Bobby "Digital" Dixon

Incidentally, in the late Victorian era, the great composer W. S. Gilbert was approached after a concert and asked

"Is Mr Bach still composing?"

to which he replied

"No madam, he is decomposing"

You don't strike me as an immoderate man, Ivy. But I quite understand how you've lost all temperance from listening to this "Lover's Concerto."

Excellent

@Baudolino: Excellent quote. I heard an apocryphal citation with Beethoven in French. "Beethoven ne compose guère plus, il se décompose."

Everything in immoderation. I too am taken by this track.

Melody there, a charming and subversive take. I am awed by the creativity and flexibility of the Jamaican musicians in adopting material. BerkeleyBob

ahhh i sat in the sun reading A Catcher In The Rye today...and could have used this in the background. this made my sunday. i love love love it. on repeat mog player :)

o my word, what a discovery. i love this... immodestly. (;

what segues, too, Mr. Ivy. most movies could use your gift of plot-thickening.

ivy..Nice one. Smartly the Audrey version doesn't try to get all orchestral like this Delfonics filler. They did love those French Horns in Philly..must be the cheez whiz talking.

@Baudolino- "Dolly Parton's pension plan"..You almost topped Mr.Gilbert yourself with that one..but knowing the Jamaican use of "adapted" I doubt Dolly got any pay out from this version.

deedee - Now that I've been coming into Manhattan for work more often than I used to, I've had chances to revisit some old haunts from my days as a resident. On a recent pilgrimage to J&R (not quite what it once was, sadly), I came upon a rack that contained what looked like just about all of the Trojan boxed sets ever to be released. "Lover's Concerto" was on the Chill-Out set, along with lots of other treats.

Baudolino - If anyone ever told me I would be able to listen to a version - any version - of "I Will Always Love You" all the way through, I would have written them off as mad. But Pam Hall's is actually kind of....great....

Bartleby, DM, BB, pixie, poe - the pleasure was all mine.

Cody - Maybe it's the Pennsylvanian in me, but that Delfonics cut is sounding awfully good. What's wrong with French horns, man? This sounds a little more Thom Bell than Gamble-Huff to me. Which is fine.....

It's Thom Bell alright..it's just funny to me how a rough and tumble town like Philly, with an equally competitive and almost viscious music biz scene would gravitate to the lush orchestral side of R&B. But don't get me wrong, The Delfonics are wimp-gods (stolen from Christigau) in my (and his) book.

wow ... now i'd like to hear some mozart sung by....?

If we could disinter Bach and play Audrey Hall's (or Audrey Halls', since I hear two of her) remake for him, he, like I, would yell "wunderbar!

ivylander, you inspired me to do intensive research, i.e., clicking wikipedia, which says: "Linzer and Randell based the melody on the familiar "Minuet in G major" (BWV Anh. 114) from J.S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. One key difference is that the "Minuet in G major" is written in 3/4 time, whereas "A Lover's Concerto" is arranged in 4/4 time. (Although often attributed to Bach himself, the "Minuet in G major" is now believed to have been written by Christian Petzold. The Notebook, a gift from Bach to his second wife Anna, begins with works by Bach but also included many blank pages, onto which members of the family copied works that they liked to play; the famous minuets in G major and G minor are not in Bach's handwriting.)"

wonderful, Ivy. And Jamaican doesn't automatically make it for me . This does.

Cody, that's Philadelphia - tough but sweet.

Charley, I think Mozart is one of the few major figures in classical music who hasn't been ripped off by a pop producer - yet.

Spike, it's funny - this melody doesn't seem to have as many layers as the majority of Bach's output. It would be disappointed but not altogether surprising to learn that it wasn't his.

DMK, if I have won you over a little, that alone makes this post worthwhile.

meh, not me cup o' tea. There are some masters who should not be messed with in such a way. I know, I know, shoot me now.

BANG! NyukNyuk.