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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 347342" data-attributes="member: 23">I&#039;ve been caught in a bit of an Irene wormhole today, which has been both nostalgic and informative. I had no idea she&#039;d appeared in a significant role as Alex Haley&#039;s mother in Roots: The Next Generations (primarily because I shamefully haven&#039;t yet got round to watching Roots at all).A couple of live Oscars performances...
Some familiar tunes sung in a new way:
[MEDIA=youtube]aWrNvOadJW8[/MEDIA]


And a new tune written for Irene to accompany some very familiar films:
[MEDIA=youtube]Pp2nAxYiUb4[/MEDIA]
What a voice!!Were Fame and Flashdance (What A Feeling) both examples of title songs that were even bigger than hugely successful films, I wonder?Certainly in my case, I was over-playing the Fame single many years before I was even permitted to watch the film. And I&#039;d put it out there the popularity of the song was the main inspiration for the TV series (which feels more like a PG interpretation of the film&#039;s bubbly title track, rather than the film itself). And I still haven&#039;t watched Flashdance, while the title track is unforgettable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 347342, member: 23"] I've been caught in a bit of an Irene wormhole today, which has been both nostalgic and informative. I had no idea she'd appeared in a significant role as Alex Haley's mother in [I]Roots: The Next Generations [/I](primarily because I shamefully haven't yet got round to watching [I]Roots[/I] at all). A couple of live Oscars performances... [CENTER] Some familiar tunes sung in a new way: [MEDIA=youtube]aWrNvOadJW8[/MEDIA] And a new tune written for Irene to accompany some very familiar films: [MEDIA=youtube]Pp2nAxYiUb4[/MEDIA] What a voice!![/CENTER] Were [I]Fame [/I]and[I] Flashdance (What A Feeling) [/I]both examples of title songs that were even bigger than hugely successful films, I wonder? Certainly in my case, I was over-playing the [I]Fame[/I] single many years before I was even permitted to watch the film. And I'd put it out there the popularity of the [U]song[/U] was the main inspiration for the TV series (which feels more like a PG interpretation of the film's bubbly title track, rather than the film itself). And I [U][I]still[/I][/U] haven't watched [I]Flashdance[/I], while the title track is unforgettable. [/QUOTE]

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