Joey Ramone sings John Cage
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Here’s the late, great Joey Ramone doing a smashing job of singing the beautiful early John Cage piece The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs which is itself based on text by James Joyce. This comes from an Italian Cage tribute LP
Just for fun and comparison, here’s the redoubtable Robert Wyatt having at the same piece:
And here is recent DM blog post subject Cathy Berberian doing same.
Thanks Shannon Fields !
