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In addition to Davis, the cast included David Burns, Nora Kaye, George S. Irving, Maria Karnilova, Tina Louise, Ellen Hanley, Stanley Prager, and Hiram Sherman, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Additionally, Florence Baum (later Florence Brooks, Dunay, then Weisgal) danced in the show.
During the jam, he kept yelling 'Burn down the house!' which was a P-Funk audience chant, and David [Byrne] dug the line, changing it to the finished version, 'Burning down the house'." [4] [a] The initial lyrics were considerably different, however.
David Byrne (/ b ɜːr n /; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads .
Lyrics on "Psychedelic Afternoon" 1995 Selena: Dreaming of You: Vocals, co-writing, and production on "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)" 1996 Café Tacuba: Avalanche de Exitos: Vocals on "No Controles" 2000 Peret and Carol C Tributo a Peret: Vocals on "Si Fulano" 2001 Vinicius Cantuária: Vinicius: Lyrics and vocals on "Rio" 2002 X-Press 2: Muzikizum
"Strange Overtones" is a song recorded by David Byrne and Brian Eno, written by the duo with Leo Abrahams. It was released on August 4, 2008 by means of free download as the lead single from Byrne's and Eno's second collaborative studio album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008).
The lyrics were written by frontman David Byrne, and the music was written by Byrne and the other members of the band, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Byrne intended the song to be a love song without the clichés of the genre.
The cast featured George Gaynes as Jupiter, Charlotte Greenwood as Juno, Priscilla Gillette as Helen, David Burns as Nikki, William Eythe as Art O'Malley, and William Redfield as Mercury. [1] The Encores! New York City Center Series concert production ran from March 30 – April 1, 1995, directed by Mark Brokaw with choreography by John Carrafa.
David Byrne initially approached X-Press 2 to ask them to be his backing band, but they turned the offer down. They confessed, "We had to tell him we're just a bunch of studio gits." [ 4 ] As Byrne told Drowned in Sound , "I love the idea of a throbbing beat, and a dancefloor filled with energised bodies, and the singer proclaiming the merits ...