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Bob Dorough - Sunday at Iridium

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Artist: Bob Dorough
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Music Label: Arbors Records
Soundtracks:

Welcome From Bob Dorough
You're The Dangerous Type
But For Now
Introducing The Band
You're Looking At Me
Introducing Joe Wilder
Sunday
Introducing The Bobettes
Comin' Home Baby
Introducing Schoolhouse Rock
Three Is A Magic Number
Baby Used To Be
How Could A Man Take Such A Fall
Introducing Daryl Sherman
Without Rhyme Or Reason
Down St. Thomas Way
Ain't No Spoofin'
Introducing Electricity, Electricity And The Bobettes
Electricity, Electricity
Farewell From Bob
We'll Be Together Again

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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

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