Trying to get back to sleep last night after the garbage trucks, started imagining a new alphabet list based on the KGB reading last week and the post I did about it titled WINCH & LALLY.
Made me think of other dynamic duos whose work has sometimes, if not always, impressed me or entertained me or inspired me or educated me or just engaged me in unexpected ways.
Here’s the ones I could think of, unfortunately left more than the usual amount of letters blank, maybe you can think of some:
ASTAIRE & ROGERS (and ABBOT & COSTELLO)
BURNS & ALLEN (and BOGART & BACALL)
CUNNINGHAM, MERCE & JOHN CAGE (and THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS and THE COEN BROTHERS)
D? [DYLAN & BAEZ c. 1963, thanks to Toby Thompson's prodding]
EURYTHMICS (and THE EVERLY BROTHERS)
FLIGHT OF THE CONDORS (and THE FARRELLY BROTHERS)
GORME, STEVE & EDIE
HADEN, CHARLIE & HANK JONES (the album STEAL AWAY, just Haden’s bass and Jones’ piano on spiritual tunes, is one of my all time favorites by a duo or anyone else)
IAN & SYLVIA (and THE INDIGO GIRLS)
JAN & DEAN (and ANGELINA JOLIE & BRAD PITT)
KELLER, HELEN & ANN SULLIVAN (can watch THE MIRACLE WORKER any time)
LEWIS & CLARK (and LAUREL & HARDY and VERONICA LAKE & ALAN LADD and LIEBER & STOLLER and LENNON & MCCARTNEY)
MICKEY & SYLVIA (and DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS)
NICHOLAS BROTHERS, THE (and MIKE NICHOLS & ELAINE MAY and PAUL NEWMAN & ROBERT REDFORD)
O?
PENN & TELLER (and LES PAUL & MARY FORD and THE PROCLAIMERS)
Q?
ROGERS & HART (and ROGERS & HAMMERSTIEN and THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS)
SMOTHERS BROTHERS, THE (and SIMON & GARFUNKEL and SAM & DAVE)
TRACY & HEPBURN (and IKE & TINA TURNER and SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MAGEE)
U?
V?
WRIGHT BROTHERS, THE (and THE WHITE STRIPES)
X?
Y?
Z?
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Blue Sky Boys. Les Paul and Mary Ford. Dick Powell and Myrna Loy. The Louvin Brothers. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Otis Redding and Carla Thomas. The Coen Brothers (oh, you got them). Shiva and Parvati.
OK, that was 60 seconds' worth. Maybe I'll continue later. (But if I mention the Krays, throw a net around me.)
See ya 'round, Lal - hope you're well. R
Les Paul and Mary Ford are in there bro, and the Coen brothers, but the rest are great suggestions. Especially Willaim (not Dick) Powell and Myrna Loy.
"D" equals Dylan & Baez.
That is, pre-"Don't Look Back," another "D" when doubled with "Masked & Anonymous."
Toby, You're right. I thought of them, but always had a slight prejudice against Baez's vibrato. I loved her look and her activism and her whole presence and style and the revolutionary changes she brought about in our culture, not just pop culture but political culture, for which she doesn't get enough credit and Dylan maybe gets too much, though of course he overtook her influence and is more of a creative genuis when it comes to songwriting etc. But his influence was never as widespread as hers at her peak, which came early. So she deserves any and all accolades for her reversing the 1950s female ideal with a new one that has endured, as well as a new role for women politically, as well as a new direction for young people of those times in general, etc.
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