A fan blog about Bradford Anderson and his character on General Hospital Damian Spinelli .
Now is not the time to allow ourselves to get complacent. Contract players are being shed like dog hair. We need to show support of Spinelli and Bradford. Not only to keep him on the show but to get that storyline we all have been dreaming of. We keep getting the unfulfilled promise of a storyline. Little hints that if we keep watching we will get to see 'more' Spinelli. They need to know that he is popluar enough to risk a storyline on him. They need to hear our voice.
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When “General Hospital’s” Bradford Anderson approached jazz standard “My Funny Valentine,” he knew he had his work cut out for him.
“The thing is, it is one of the most depressing songs in the world,” he said in a recent telephone interview from the soap’s Los Angeles studio. “This person is miserable because they’re pining for the person they’re singing to.”
Not only that, but the actor follows a long line of more than 600 singers to perform “My Funny Valentine” since Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart penned it in 1937.
“Everyone’s sung it,” said Anderson, who plays Damian Spinelli on “General Hospital.”
Everyone from Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand to Van Morrison and Carly Simon.
But Anderson found conquering the song, itself, to be the most formidable task.
“Vocally, it’s pretty challenging,” he said.
But when the New York University Tisch School of the Arts graduate recorded the tune, he had a little inspiration from someone special, who sat in on the session.
“I sang it to my girlfriend,” Anderson said
