Tattle: Lynda Carter lassoes a new CD, & no Wonder
BEFORE LYNDA CARTER picked up her golden lasso to fight crime as Wonder Woman, she was a singer. And now that her children are grown she's become a singer again.
BEFORE LYNDA CARTER picked up her golden lasso to fight crime as Wonder Woman, she was a singer.
And now that her children are grown she's become a singer again.
Carter, whose new CD, "Crazy Little Things," is an album of classic pop with country, jazz and rock influences, will be signing the new disc tomorrow night at 7 at Barnes & Noble on Rittenhouse Square.
It's a rare Philadelphia appearance for Carter.
"I'm kind of doing what I want to do," she said last night on the phone from New York. "I'm not trying to establish myself, but to re-establish myself as a singer."
Her eclectic collection of songs features material by Al Green, Queen, Chuck Berry, John Denver, Holland/Dozier/Holland, the Eagles, standards from her parents' era, and more. There's even an original, "Jessie's Song," which Carter wrote for her daughter.
"The album is not just covers," she said. "I'm taking a new look at the material."
" 'Leaving on a Jet Plane,' for instance, was originally a folk song. I'm doing it in a more haunting way.
" 'Desperado' is one of my favorites on the album. It was such a raw moment because I sang it about a person I love dearly who's just messed up his life."
Carter, 59, said that she was hoping that her take on the song would allow people to hear new meaning in the lyrics.
She also adds her own twist to the Little Eva chestnut, "The Locomotion." Here the song is not so much about a vertical dance, but a horizontal one.
Carter said that rediscovering her voice six years ago has been a lifeline.
"When I got back into singing it was like I could breathe again," she said. "I missed it so much. I find so much joy on stage."
With the loyalty one might expect from comic-book fans, Carter said that many of her fanboys have stuck with her since her "Wonder Woman" days, but she still shudders at the thought of them salivating over her poster on their bedroom walls.
"She was beautiful," she said of her Amazonian heroine, "But she wasn't predatory. She wasn't sexy. At least I didn't play her as sexy.
"But people love the character, and there's a lot of interest in my album in part because 'Wonder Woman' was trying to be remade again. I was hoping it would get picked up."
But NBC chose to pass on further adventures of Diana Prince, so Lynda Carter remains the personification of the iconic character 32 years after the show went off the air.
Not bad for a singer.
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