On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:53:06 -0600, Wes Struebing
 wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:00:32 GMT, Amy Guskin 
>wrote:
>
>>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:35:17 -0400, Rob Perkins wrote
>>(in article=20
>>):
>>
>>> On Mar 27, 8:39=A0pm, "John W. Kennedy"
 wrote=
:
>>>=20
>>>>> (Besides, I can't imagine the difficulty of
translating Sweet Home
>>>>> Alabama into Russian decently. I know that
translations of operas a=
re
>>>>> often extremely bad.)
>>>=20
>>> "Gem=FCtliches Alabama"?
>>>=20
>>>> Abba performed in English only, even though all four
members were Sw=
edish.
>>>=20
>>> Yeah, but that's Swedish...
>>>=20
>>>> Moreover, except for Peter Noone, nearly every British or
Commonweal=
th
>>>> pop singer since Cliff Richards has sung in an imitation American
>>>> accent,
>>>=20
>>> Dido sings in her British accent. Arguably, also Enya in hers (is
>>> Ireland part of the Commonwealth?). The Spice Girls certainly as well
>>> (how could they not?). From Australia, I'm sure Natalie Imbruglia
>>> didn't put on American airs. And Midnight Oil or Men at Work,
>>> absolutely not. <<
>>
>>It's not as ubiquitous now, but John is absolutely correct for the bulk=
 of=20
>>the history of British pop music.  Bands tried to sound American until =
fairly=20
>>recently.
>>
>Yup.  Gerry and the Pacemakers were kind of "surprising" in that they
>apparently didn't try to sound 'Murrikan..."
>
>(Even the "Moody Blues" - one of my favorite groups - who,
>incidentally are either still performing of just recently stopped wind
>up "sounding like" American English...)
>-- =20
>
>Wes Struebing
>
>Jan. 20, 2009 - the end of an error


I don't know about other singers, but I have accents that go with
certain songs!  I do a lot of church stuff, such as hymns.  Many songs
get my full Irish tenor, brough (sp?) and all, others have to have
county western southern accents, and last week, I actually had one
that insisted it be sung with an italian accent.  It seems to be
inherent in the interpretation of the song...

Charlie
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