manchurian apprentice

The song originally called In Other Words was sung by Kay Ballard and it’s a stunner. Just an A B A B A B but a fantastic instrumental 3rd verse with pizz strings against woodwinds and near the outro strings swell in unisons moving quickly like drum fills. It became famous by its other lyric Fly Me To The Moon.
 
In Sinatra’s cover it swings hard and the drum beat is very 60s and prevalent like Happy Together by the Turtles. As arrangements go it is very Pink Panther. Remake’s are interesting or embarrassing. The former turns it on its head whereas the latter is boring.
 
Was thinking about all of this while pondering which was the best version of the Manchurian Candidate, Angela Lansbury or Denzel Washington, then realized Trump’s VR version blows them both out of the water.

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