Re: [Harp-L] Orbison's Candy Man - Black & White video

[martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

The sad truth here, I believe, is that the general standard and thus expectations of harmonica playing is so pitifully low that this passed as acceptable, possibly even "good".
  Generally when it comes to Elvis C. I count it as a good day if I haven´t heard a thing from him singing, nor seen him -- and to that I now add harmonica playing. The guy is energetic, no doubt, and not wholly devoid of talent, that´s fair to say, but it can´t be helped: he´s a wanker.
Cheers,
Martin


<ElvisC
 is a great song writer IMO, especially his earlier stuff ( My Aim is 
True, etc ) however, I totally agree with you on his harp playing... D 
or maybe <a C- grade at best . I would guess he might have talked a big 
game beforehand about playing harp on that song and Roy didn't want to 
hurt his feelings.
*** Mike
On Sep 17, 2013, at 1:18 PM, wrote:
>
 I am mystified as to why Costello was picked to be the harp player on 
this tune. He was obviously trying way too hard to play in a style in 
which he was not competent. There had to be several better harp players 
in the room, both on and off the stage. He may be a decent song writer, 
but as Robert Hale has noted, he was way out of his league on that tune.
 Just MHO.
> 
> Pete Sheridan