You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. Photo supplied. It has been a while since I looked into the career of the extraordinary singer Wing. Which is strange, given that for five years, this woman and her multi-keyed tempo-less voice dominated my life like a giant ever-clanging cathedral bell dominates silence.
Pretty much every second phone call at Records Records was from Wing, as shrill as the shrillest thing what ever shrilled, forever wanting advice, running startling new marketing plans past my astounded ears, or revealing news of yet more overseas interest in a career she felt quite sure was heading for the very top.
It was, and is, a remarkable tale, one that defied belief in , but in the Kardashian world we now live in, the world of appalling American Idol auditions rating higher than the closing stages of the contest, it does perhaps makes sense. Whoever thought there would be another Florence Foster-Jenkins?
Wing came to Auckland from Hong Kong, and, boosted by an incomprehensible council grant, was soon making CDs and singing for blind folk and at old folks' homes. The show tunes CDs were so out of time and tune, but Wing being Wing, she sent them to every music store in the country's Yellow Pages. I loved these CDs to death and played them to everyone. I also ordered a dozen for the shop, and they sold out like cakes that were hotter than hot.
The rest is, ow you say, history. Wing was so amazed Records Records wanted her CDs she flew down to meet me. I smelt a story here like no other story I had ever smelt before and, in May , the Listener ran my effusive Listen To This feature. Our son built her a website with samples of her music and, almost within hours, the link had been sent around every office building in the world as workers suspended important travail to spread the word.
Radio stations in Australia and San Francisco demanded interviews, she turned up on Graham Norton's television show, started playing gigs all over New Zealand and, before you ask the question - Is She Real?
Things got even crazier. Air New Zealand used her in a TV advertising campaign. Back when I was giving her advice, which included telling her not to try and put Wing vending machines in music stores because the owners would not like being cut out of the profits, she would religiously record my every suggestion. This included albums of the Carpenters still her best , the Beatles and Abba, all howling gems. It won't work, I told her. Did they work? The pressure of the relentless phone calls and the feeling that my work was done ended the Wing experience.
Besides, I was getting a kidney transplant, and if she rang during that, I was finished. The boys decide to get out of the talent agent business, and conversely, the Chinese Mafia leader vows to stop enslaving people. Wing performs at Stallone's son's wedding, to the delight of the assembled crowd -- which includes the Chinese Mafia, the boys, and Wing's husband, Tuong Lu Kim.
In the middle of her performance, Token appears -- only now he's working as a waiter to try to earn enough cash to return to South Park. Apparently the folks at CAA didn't help him at all. Cartman tells him to fetch more bread and olive oil. The songs in this episode are actually her work. She even signed off on her image being used in the episode, with the only stipulation being the approval of her cartoon "self. We also meet the Chinese Mafia. Even though many of them are killed off, they eventually become forces for good.
A large number of Chinese Mafia henchmen bite the bullet. As does Kenny, who's gunned down in the shootout. This is the third time he's been killed since being resurrected in "Red Sleigh Down". At first, they questioned whether or not Wing was real. Turns out she was! Matt and Trey used Rawls' original recording. After Stallone hires her to sing at his son's wedding, the boys break out into an exciting rendition of Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out?
The two shows that Wing participates in -- American Idol and The Contender -- are obviously based on the real, long-running reality TV shows of the same name. The set-up for Stallone's son's wedding is an homage to the famous wedding scene from The Godfather. If you look closely, there are a number of famous people from previous episodes in attendence, most notably: George Lucas, Gene Hackman, and Ben Affleck.
Also, the climactic shootout with the Chinese Mafia owes quite a bit to the finale of Scarface, including Cartman's use of the signature phrase, "You wanna play rough? Sylvester Stallone.
His speech is so garbled and incomprensible he needs an interpreter to make himself understood. In order to impress Token, Cartman pretends to have a chummy phone conversation with Abraham Lincoln -- unaware that Lincoln has been dead for more than a century.
Later he pretends to chat with Colonel Sanders, who died in Kyle will actually have a conversation with the ghost of Abraham Lincoln in "The List. The boys' Super Awesome Talent Agency "office" and their obsession with fountains is an homage to the real thing. In addition to the movie posters for I.
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