danny's song

for whatever ungodly reason, for like a week i've had danny's song in my head (the loggins & messina version, not anne murray's). it's a great song, definitely, but i'm at that crazy point now where i can't stop singing it and it also is making me teary. [for christ's sake, what is wrong with me??]

anyhoo, i tried to find a nice version at youtube, and to my dismay there are NO nice versions, but certainly some hysterical ones.

there are the concert versions, which i don't really like because the audience singing annoys me.

then there are the crazy versions, where as-of-yet-only-discovered-at-youtube musicians play their own rendition. my favorite here is this asian dude in sunglasses and headphones (because he's a PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN, duh. they all wear headphones when they sing, everyone knows that) who plays it in front of a black screen/anne murray/kenny loggins photo montage. [this home-video version isn't too bad despite the recording echo and the arm hair that probably frightens children.]

and there's a wacky early cher version that is an excellent example of why '70s fashion (and aesthetics in general) is best left underneath the rock it was dragged out from under (what was with the neck ruffles??). something about cher's voice exacerbates my desire to put my head in a vice, i can't really explain.

however, the best youtube version, hands down (both in quality AND hilariousness) is this version, recorded in a kitchen by a group of four filipino guys. they have very pretty voices! (one or two do, anyway). you get to watch one swallow pills with a sip of water at the beginning! they slur through the english at points where they don't know the words! some random little kid runs in the background and then puts his face in the camera! the tall one (i think) has this super high michael-jackson-esque voice that giggles in self-consciousness when he messes up!

someone needs to sign those guys to a record label, asap. (it's telling that their homemade quartet is prettier than cher's and much, much better than this lame/weird harvard choir version.)