I need an extra coffee "hit" to wake up on such a dark and gloomy morning - and WTF happened to another weekend?!
Hey ho. Sharing this day with a miscellany of "names" including Agnes Moorehead, Dave Brubeck, Osbert Sitwell, Jonathan King, Henryk Górecki, King Henry VI, Lynn Fontanne, Will Hay, Nick Park, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Ira Gershwin, it would have been the 90th birthday today of an old fave - the first "exhibit" in the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp, no less - "Turkey's answer to Liberace", Zeki Müren!
On this Tacky Music Monday, in this clip he appears to be inviting the viewer into his wardrobe [closet?] - maybe this is a "ululating version" of I Am What I Am..?
Much more fun is this clever mash-up, between the "coiffeured one" and the theme from Pulp Fiction (Miserlou)!
That should help with the waking-up process...
Have a good week, dear reader.
Zeki Müren (6th December 1931 – 24th September 1996)
Agnes Moorhead. A marvelous actress. Whether the real deal in The Magnificent Ambersons, or chewing up the scenery in Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteNever saw her and Mr Müren in the same room together... Jx
DeleteAnd what pearly whites and well coiffured wigs he has....
ReplyDeleteSadly, I fear that is his own hair. Shades of Debbie Harry as Velma von Tussle, methinks. Jx
DeleteGreat mash-up, and what a fabulous back group he has - The Beatles, and Elvis!
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Although he was apparently the first Turkish artiste to appear at the Royal Albert Hall in 1976, I don't think he toured extensively outside Turkey, although it would have been nice to think that either The Beatles or Elvis had at least heard of him, if not met him. I am just going to have to take a trip to the Zeki Müren Museum in Bodrum to find out... Jx
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ReplyDeleteI was overjoyed to find it! Jx
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