On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Jon Weisberger wrote:
> > ...among my favorite
> > scenes is a wild-eyed Jimmy Martin singing the difference between his
> > version of 20/20 Vision and that of the pop-country crooners of the time.
>
> Well.... Martin's illustrating the difference between bluegrass and country
> by showing how he altered his source for the song, i.e., Gene Autry's
> version; you might think of it as his Gene Autry imitation, just as "Yours
> Forever Blue" is Steve Earle's Jimmy Martin imitation.
That's what I thought I said! <G> In any case it's a mute point because
the wonderful part about that scene is that (IMO) Jimmy Martin can only
sing it like Jimmy Martin. And his attempt to show the difference between
himself and Gene Autry is kinda in vain because they both sound the same.
anyway . . .
-jim
ps -- I really think that Jimmy thinks he sang it a lot better than Gene
in the movie too!!
