Comments on: freak show

By: WindyCityOperaman

WindyCityOperaman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:41:50 +0000

‘Cmon, who COULDN’T help but laugh. Sorry, but I’ve always thought Yma Sumac was a joke.

Brick: I was born with this voice!
Googie: So was Yma Sumac!

By: Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:52:27 +0000

I can kind of understand the laughing. Pretending to hold a baby and then a bit of mewling – it would probably have set me off too.

By: gryphone

gryphone — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:44:48 +0000

Believe it or don’t, I saw Yma in Follies as Heidi in Long Beach, CA in about 1990 and she was terrific. And believe it or don’t, Dorothy Lamour was Hattie (singing “Broadway Baby”). Juliet Prowse, Susan Johnson (“Who’s That Woman?”), and Karen Morrow (“I’m Still Here”) were also in the cast. It was quite an event.

By: arepo

arepo — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:26:54 +0000

Actually, in her day, she was quite unique.
“Sounds of the Xtabay” was a hit album way back when…

By: manou

manou — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:20:44 +0000

I also made another mistake as “spell check” should really be two words, as you correctly typed.

I am duly chastened and contrite.

Veuillez m’excuser de vous avoir dÃ©plu…

By: loge lizard

loge lizard — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:09:26 +0000

What is odd to me is that while she walks out on a titter from the audience, La Sumac doesn’t seem the least bit flustered by her host’s ridiculous getup, which would appear to make a parody of the whole event.

By: il_guarany

il_guarany — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:48:27 +0000

If you really must post a tedious spelling flame, don’t forget to run a spell check on your glass house first: “Anglo-Saxon” takes upper casing.

By: manou

manou — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:16:28 +0000

From the resident pedantic spellcheck :

“Sono vecchia, sono brutta, sono grassa, ma sono ancora la Sumac”

My excuse is that I was brought up in the French system where every mistake has to be corrected on pain of death.

My apologies to the more relaxed anglo-saxon contingent

By: Melot's Younger Brother

Melot's Younger Brother — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:04:43 +0000

Is it true that Carlos Kleiber once walked out of a VPO rehearsal because he thought the musicians were making fun of him?

By: Famous Quickly

Famous Quickly — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:56:10 +0000

I could sing “Five Bottles of Mambo” *tomorrow*- it’s a question of color and tessitura.

By: Lindoro

Lindoro — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:45:01 +0000

Is it me, or does our beloved Cieca resembles the Peruvian diva in her youth?

By: Lindoro

Lindoro — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:27:46 +0000

As another diva would say:

“Sonno vecchia, sonno bruta, sonno grassa, ma sonno anchora la Sumac.”

You laugh, I no sing.

By: Lindoro

Lindoro — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:24:41 +0000

I say you go bitch! Walked off the stage like a true diva. Loved it!

By: PushedUpMezzo

PushedUpMezzo — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:03:26 +0000

And it’s her birthday on September 13th
Imagine a 5 octave Happy Birthday

By: turandot

turandot — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:31:41 +0000

What a bitch.

By: oldddansker

oldddansker — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:58:54 +0000

Hey, never mind the original cast album. How many posters here can legitimately claim, as can I, to have actually seen Flahooly? True, I was a mere tyke, but damn it I was there. Also true, I remember not a bit of it, but I know my folks took my brother and me, and we heard her sing Wimoweh (spelling?).

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:37:53 +0000

At least Yma Sumac could have given some of the famous ‘pretty things of today’ a lession in positioning, pitch and vocal control.

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:32:20 +0000

The first photo of good old Yma, if I am not mistaken , was originally used on her Capitol record cover for ‘Land of the Jivaro’. God, those exotic sounds excited my school kid’s pants at the time. Promising me and others with those wicked pagan sounds of things, that awaited still further curiosity and fulfillment, that we had not yet tried or we had just started fully investigating.
To some here, it may not be known ,she can also be heard on the original Broadway cast album of Flahooly.

By: Melot's Younger Brother

Melot's Younger Brother — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:43:04 +0000

Off topic, but as I watched the “Necessary Luxuries” column roll down, I was taken by the eerie resemblance between Erwin Schrott and Alain Delon. They could be sisters!

By: PushedUpMezzo

PushedUpMezzo — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:35:38 +0000

Ladies really shouldn’t admit to having “a really wide inside” as the diva does in the 1991 interview.

By: High C's @ 4:20

High C's @ 4:20 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:05:42 +0000

szhee ist moore high-stunk than most ov dee posterz here are.

THANK YOU.

By: Lydia Language

Lydia Language — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:01:47 +0000

Amy Camus gets a whole FACH all to herself? Who does she think she is, Falcon?

C’est a rossir de rage.