Sunday at Iridium

Bob Dorough - Sunday at Iridium

Sunday at Iridium
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Artist: Bob Dorough
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Music Label: Arbors Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Welcome from Bob Dorough
  2. You're the Dangerous Type
  3. But for Now
  4. Introducing the Band
  5. You're Looking at Me
  6. Introducing Joe Wilder
  7. Sunday
  8. Introducing the Bobettes
  9. Comin' Home Baby
  10. Introducing Schoolhouse Rock
  11. Three Is a Magic Number
  12. Baby Used to Be
  13. How Could a Man Take Such a Fall
  14. Introducing Daryl Sherman
  15. Without Rhyme or Reason
  16. Down St. Thomas Way
  17. Ain't No Spoofin'
  18. Introducing Electricity, Electricity and the Bobettes
  19. Electricity Electricity
  20. Farewell from Bob
  21. We'll Be Together Again

Music reviews of Sunday at Iridium

Music Review: It's the Songwriting, Man
Rating: 5 Stars

I wish it were possible to give split ratings sometimes. As a singer, Bob Dorough sounds like sandpaper in his lower range, like a seal in pain in his upper. He is an anti-singer, and becomes more and more of one, the older he gets.

But as a songwriter, he is without superior--and that has been true for the past 50 years. He has written such classics as "Devil May Care", "Nothin Like You" and "Comin' Home Baby" (for Ray Charles, which he sings here with two singers named Laura Amico and Roslyn Hart, aka "The Bobettes.") And as an entertainer, he is so affable and generally hip that you may miss that his songs, from the '50's "You're the Dangerous Type" to the current "Baby Used to Be" are quite sensitive, heartfelt, even introspective.

He is also well known as the composer for "Schoolhouse Rock" (although, as Dorough points out in this live album, recorded at the Iridium in New York City, his "Schoolhouse Rock" fans are now 30 years old). Here, he performs two of his most famous numbers from that show, "Three Is a Magic Number" and "Electricity, Electricity", and shows himself as a showman who really should be heard live to be appreciated. He gets the audience going as well on more sophisticated fare, such as "Down St. Thomas Way." This is the best version of this song since Sonny Rollins on "Saxophone Collosus", and is made so by the drummer, Ed Ornowski.

So, what rating to give? Hint: what more famous singer do you know of who sounds like a combination of sandpaper and an injured seal, but is without peer as a songwriter, has had his songs covered by others but does the definitive version of his own songs, and was recently voted by "Rolling Stone" as the second most influential musician in the entire history of rock and roll?

Like Dylan, Dorough gets 5 stars. Every time. It's the songwriting, man. RC

Description of Sunday at Iridium

Best known as one of the principal voices of Schoolhouse Rock (and less known as one of the series' principal composers), Bob Dorough has also had a career as a jazz pianist-singer. Sunday at Iridium captures a 2004 date wearing that particular hat, as Dorough and the rest of his quartet, plus guest stars Joe Wilder and Daryl Sherman, barrel through a number of originals plus some standards ("Down St. Thomas Way," "We'll Be Together Again"). Dorough's songs tend to examine the theme of love and lack the wit of, say, a Dave Frishberg, and his piano-playing is rather on the wild and sloppy side, but his folksy charm easily wins over his live audience, especially when he leads them on a sing-along version of "Three Is a Magic Number." --David Horiuchi

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