https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpu60jJ6bPk
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A Rossini break at the University of Florence...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW2wiR76SCg
Italian pianist and singer Stefano Bollani is very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeklmdKrjtA
Summer on a solitary beach
Battiato / Alice
https://youtu.be/ScFf0uBnTWE
Little Richard
.... Predator :cool-v:
https://youtu.be/dd3hWMPUBrM
Elvis Presley has sold over 1 BILLION records. I didn't get it when I was young, because he was an "older generation's" music. I was clearly a fool.
It isn't just his more than two octave range, or the power of his voice, or his technical control; it's the "quality" of his voice: warm, smooth, sincere. He could also sing in any style: raucous blues and rock, soulful gospel, and opera like smoothness in the ballads.
All this, and completely untaught. He couldn't read or write music, but he could duplicate anything he heard. No voice coaches to explain what he should do, just perfect pitch and a natural, inborn ability to learn from the masters. Only recently did I learn that the personal record collection of the younger Elvis included:
Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, gospel and black music. There was rhythm and blues artist Joe Turner, Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry, the Righteous Brothers … and even Duke Ellington and Glen Miller.
There was also a lot of Mario Lanza, the very popular "bel canto" classical tenor.
"Opera star Kiri Te Kanawa told Michael Parkinson that the young Elvis had the greatest voice she had ever heard. The tenor Placido Domingo similarly enthused in an interview in Spanish magazine Hola in 1994: “His was the one voice I wish to have had.”"
http://theconversation.com/elviss-vo...he-blues-82425
Peace in the Valley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nodeNzrQ_Y
When he's singing blues you can see him literally having to restrain himself from jumping up and moving around.
Trying to Get to You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ64T6gEdC4
Impromptu jam session: Baby, What you want me to do. He could steam up your glasses, that young man. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_t20f4PiRM
It's Now or Never (O Sole Mio):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwelrtb8Oho
"Pecca fortiter"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjrY5mFT6xE
"Every Breath You Take"-Sting and the Police
Another song I didn't really appreciate until I was older
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs&list=RDbpNw7jYkbVc&ind ex=2
Poet Laureate of Genova: Fabrizio de Andre-
Creuza de ma, composed and sung in the dialect of Genova. This seems to me the best translation:
"
Shadows of faces, faces of sailors,
where do you come from, where is it you’re going?
From a place where the moon shows itself naked
and the night has pointed a knife at our throat,
and God remains to mount the donkey
and the Devil is in heaven and makes his nest there,
we come in from the sea to dry out at Andrea's place,
at the fountain of the doves in the stone house.
And in the stone house, whoever will be there
in the house of Andrea, who isn’t a sailor -
people of Lugano, faces like pickpockets,
those who prefer the wing of the sea bass,
family girls, smelling good,
whom you can watch without condoms.
And to these empty stomachs, what will he give them?
Things to drink, things to eat,
fried fish, a white Portofino,
lamb brains in the same wine,
four-sauce lasagna to cut,
sweet and sour hare-of-the-tiles pie.
And in a boat of wine we’ll navigate the perils,
emigrants of laughter with nails in our eyes,
until the morning grows able to gather him up,
brother of the cloves and of the girls,
master of the rope, rotten from water and salt
that binds and carries us on a cobbled sea path"
http://deandretranslated.blogspot.co...-sea-path.html
Performed live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78YNQ7zzxvQ
One of my favorites:Ballad of Lost Love, with embedded subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpwZGVRutVA
Lol what?....Quote:
Originally Posted by Salento
Not one song but rather a ''compilation'' of several. Interesting facts included. VVVV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxRZ...&start_radio=1
... with George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lenab
watch it again :)
imho Tarantino until his 30s looked like Caligula.
I agree about Tarantino.Quote:
Originally Posted by Salento
The "star" of your clip was Salma Hayek, however. :)
I wonder if that's where her husband, one of the richest men in the world, first saw her.
I think she looks like Astarte.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x_sahO9Ya...1600/Inana.jpg
Desperado-Once Upon a Time in Mexico-So realistic :) Tremendous amount of hotness for one couple, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib4OTWUbY7Q
Sorry Al Pacino is better, at acting anyway. I don't know about the quality of Salma and her acting skills. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Salento
Probably lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela
Il Divo-Notte di Luce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3mYDCQEs9E
Diana Ankudinova, 14, Togliatti. "River"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Dwo4QVLqs&feature=player_embedded
Edelweiss
https://youtu.be/aVAbPf2Ge8g
So beautiful. I love every song in that musical, but especially this one. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Regio X
Does anyone still sing such tight, beautiful harmonies any more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYe9eDqxe8
Heart: Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw1ng75KP0
Alison Krause...When You Say Nothing At All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTlz8INNmA
... Lonely Road
Boulevard of broken dreams - Green Day/Wolv... :)
https://youtu.be/-G0qpW08j7Q
Donald Trump, Barak Obama, Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin and others global leaders singing the song “Imagine”, by John Lennon.
https://youtu.be/Lfa5WvqBSq4
Aremu, rindìneddha - Elisa
in Griko (Grecìa-Salentina, Puglia, Italy)
... I wonder, rondinella
Where did you come from,
What ocean did you cross ...
https://youtu.be/51WAPp51ZAc