Mary Wilson How Lucky Can You Get

**luke** · 10-26-2012, 11:35 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koIKZ...feature=relmfu Kills it.

**marv2** · 10-26-2012, 11:41 AM

She knows how to sell a song!

**marybrewster** · 10-26-2012, 01:02 PM

I don't get it?

**zani57** · 10-26-2012, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by marybrewster

I don't get it?

I don't get it either. I like how this performance shows off Mary's voice, but I do not understand why she felt the need to change the lyrics to the song that was written for "Funny Lady," the sequel to "Funny Girl." The song is a sardonic lament. The lines are "Someone I am crazy for is crazy for me," NOT "Someone I am not crazy for..." She changed the meaning throughout the song.

**marv2** · 10-26-2012, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by zani57

I don't get it either. I like how this performance shows off Mary's voice, but I do not understand why she felt the need to change the lyrics to the song that was written for "Funny Lady," the sequel to "Funny Girl." The song is a sardonic lament. The lines are "Someone I am crazy for is crazy for me," NOT "Someone I am not crazy for..." She changed the meaning throughout the song.

I understand why some people don't get it because they know very little about Mary Wilson or her life's story. If you understood some of the things she has gone through, the lyric change would make perfect sense. Very witty indeed.

**skooldem1** · 10-26-2012, 09:57 PM

I am not sure what the controversy is. She personalized the lyrics. This just may be IMO Mary's best TV appearance.

**marv2** · 10-26-2012, 10:25 PM

I like the performance of the song also. She shows more..........feeling here! LOL!!!

**zani57** · 10-27-2012, 01:22 AM

Originally Posted by marv2

I understand why some people don't get it because they know very little about Mary Wilson or her life's story. If you understood some of the things she has gone through, the lyric change would make perfect sense. Very witty indeed.

Marv, I know Mary's life story. I just don't care for changing the lyrics. Call me a purist. Leave the lyrics alone. Call Fred Ebb and ask him if you can change his words.

**marv2** · 10-27-2012, 04:29 AM

Originally Posted by zani57

Marv, I know Mary's life story. I just don't care for changing the lyrics. Call me a purist. Leave the lyrics alone. Call Fred Ebb and ask him if you can change his words.

Then you understand why she merged Leon Russell's , "A Song For You" with "How Lucky Can You Get". You saw the audience's reaction also? Brilliant!

**ivyfield** · 10-27-2012, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by marybrewster

I don't get it?

I saw Mary sing this song many times in the UK after The Supremes disbanded. When she got to the line 'I Don't Sing In That Key' - frankly, many times she didn't, and the audience laughed because they thought she was joking. Sorry if this upsets Mary's fans but it it the truth.

**marv2** · 10-27-2012, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by ivyfield

I saw Mary sing this song many times in the UK after The Supremes disbanded. When she got to the line 'I Don't Sing In That Key' - frankly, many times she didn't, and the audience laughed because they thought she was joking. Sorry if this upsets Mary's fans but it it the truth.

She was joking. Didn't you view the clip I posted above? It was tongue in cheek and the audience laughed then too. She was brilliant with this song/performance.

**detmotownguy** · 10-28-2012, 01:13 AM

Originally Posted by marv2

She was joking. Didn't you view the clip I posted above? It was tongue in cheek and the audience laughed then too. She was brilliant with this song/performance.

Thanks for posting Marv....and they said she couldn't sing lol!

**westgrandboulevard** · 10-28-2012, 06:08 AM

As great as these two clips are,I will never forget Mary performing this medley of "A Song For You/How Lucky Can You Get" at The Supremes' final performance, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane,in London 1977.

Inspired by the occasion, tears rolling down her face and, at times, howling from the bottom of her soul, Mary seemed not to need a microphone for much of the song.

She beat the band, and stopped the show right there, right then. The cheers and standing ovation nearly brought that roof down.

Although I enjoyed the 'Red Hot' album, I just wished it had included more material like that....

**marv2** · 10-28-2012, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by detmotownguy

Thanks for posting Marv....and they said she couldn't sing lol!

Right? LOL!!!! She sangs!

**marv2** · 10-28-2012, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by westgrandboulevard

As great as these two clips are,I will never forget Mary performing this medley of "A Song For You/How Lucky Can You Get" at The Supremes' final performance, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane,in London 1977.

Inspired by the occasion, tears rolling down her face and, at times, howling from the bottom of her soul, Mary seemed not to need a microphone for much of the song.

She beat the band, and stopped the show right there, right then. The cheers and standing ovation nearly brought that roof down.

Although I enjoyed the 'Red Hot' album, I just wished it had included more material like that....

I have read accounts of that night and always wished I could have been there. I witness a scene very similar to that one in the Fall of 1991 when Mary was in concert at Wayne State University in Detroit for the American Cancer Society. She at one point raised the mic high over her head, brought it out to her side and then lowered it below her waist and her voice was so powerful that you could here her all the way out to the lobby. She held a note for the longest time! Whew! The audience jumped to their feets.

**westgrandboulevard** · 10-28-2012, 10:14 AM

After the 'Story of the Supremes' finished its run at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the performance costumes were then shown at exhibitions around the UK.

When it opened in Bath, Somerset, at the Assembly Rooms, in July/August 2009, Mary was - as I believe was usual - there for the opening, attended by the Mayor and local dignitaries.

I expect it was part of her own script for her to do so but, to illustrate a point, she stopped her line of conversation and sang a line or two from 'I am Changing' , then chuckled, and went to continue speaking.

As applause began, she paused, and sang some more lines from that song.

Even with a fairly basic mike clipped to the lapel of her jacket, when she raised her voice in crescendo, it carried all the force of being hurled back against the wall behind.

Another quite extraordinary moment.....

**detmotownguy** · 10-28-2012, 11:01 PM

Westgrand thanks for sharing !

**imnokid** · 10-29-2012, 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by zani57

Marv, I know Mary's life story. I just don't care for changing the lyrics. Call me a purist. Leave the lyrics alone. Call Fred Ebb and ask him if you can change his words.

If you don't like a singer changing lyrics, you must HATE Bettye! haha