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You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week we're talking with Chris Connolly about his

ambitious new tribute to Nico. I'm Jim Deorgatus and I'm Greg Connolly. We'll talk about why

Connolly is such a Nico fan and hear recent listener feedback. But first we've lost another great artist,

Bert Backwreck.

That is the Chorales of course with Baby It's You, a song that's been covered countless times.

It was written by Bert Backwreck who died on February 8th at age 94. Some people may know

Bert Backwreck only from his cameo appearances in two Austin Powers movies. He was the epitome of cool

right, 60s cool swinging the swinging era of music in the 60s. He sort of epitomized that glamorous

end of the pop spectrum back then. It got written off by a lot of folks as an easy listening

sub-aunt. He was a brilliant melodist and a ranger working primarily with hell David as a

lyricist. Backwreck were most of the music. But I think you know some can claim that is true because

of the environment at the time, the 60s political music, the rise of rock and roll. Backwreck

was didn't necessarily fit in with that template but at the same time those songs endure you

know in the same way that great American song book songs by Cole Porter endure. And I think

part of the reason for that is look at the artist that have sung his songs or have performed his

look at the jazz world people like Sonny Rollins or Son Roll on Kirk Bill Evans look at the white

stripes covering him look at Bjork covering him in addition to artist like Dusty Springfield and

Dion Warwick and Cilla Black who were contemporaries of him in the 60s singing those songs. He attracted

the best musicians the best singers because of the complexity and the artistry in his

melodies I think you know the point being that he was writing stuff that was a cut above pop routine

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