Random Observations

Had the David Bowie track 'Move On' in my head for half the day yesterday.

It occurred to me -- and not for not the first time -- that David's singing style during the verses of this Lodger track could possibly be the origins of The Cars' Ric Ocasek's singing style.

Granted, I think it's a given that Ric was influenced, singing-wise, by DB.

Granted, even though I had those first three albums of theirs, I don't really know The Cars very well today outside of those big hits, like 'Candy-O' ... but in my mind, the "ear memory" of my mind, the way DB sings "sleeping on the matted ground" in 'Move On' is just so much like Ric Ocasek's voice. It is in fact the essence of the Ocasek's singing style.

Another example of David using this singing style is in the track called 'Look Back in Anger' also from Lodger.

Ric-does-Bowie : Maybe what I'm hearing in that style of vox is actually both Ric and David having been inspired by Lou Reed's singing style?

Eh ...

Hmm ...

...

As Stanley Holloway would say, "... and yet I don't know ... and yet I don't know" ...

Lodger was released in 1979 and 'Candy-O' was also released in 1979. Upon listening to 'Candy-O' now, only a few minutes ago, maybe it's more how my mind's ears remember it sounding than how it actually sounds to physical ears now, vocal-wise, in March of 2019.

The Cars eponymous release was 1978, which includes 'My Best Friend's Girl' and, in my mind, that singing style is very much like David's crooner style exemplified in those Lodger tracks.

What's an example before 'Move On' where DB sings in that style, the first time DB employed that slightly Scott Walker, slightly operatic, crooner style, was it on 'Fame' (1975)?

Up to that point if I hear influences at all in David's singing styles, I hear some John Lennon, Ray Davies, Syd Barrett, Anthony Newley ... but there has to be an example of him singing that way prior to 'Fame' ...

Has there ever been a collection of B sides released called ‘Besides’ ... ?

If someone wants a remake of the very entertaining Charles Bronson-starring action movie 'Mr. Majestyk' (1974), I'd recommend, without question, actresses Krysten Ritter as Wiley and Laura Fraser as Nancy Chavez.

Happy that the entire ‘UFO‘ television programme from 1970-1973 is now available on Amazon Prime. 😊

Wonder if a favourite song dating back to childhood, 'That Lady, Pts. 1 & 2' - The Isley Brothers was at all an influence on a favourite song dating back to teenage years, 'My Ever-Changing Moods' - The Style Council?