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Making Believe-Emmy Lou Harris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpyai-X3BgA
One of many songs she did with Dolly Parton and one of my favorites, Linda Rondstadt.
The Greatest Gift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWEQDyrbphE
Save the Last Dance For Me:
I think I like her country version even better than the original Drifters version. There are pictures of her from years later. I think she became even more beautiful with age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-8I...Fn960&index=14
Very nice Angela, nice combination. Tuscany has the ideal setting for that. Have not been so far, maybe one day in my bucket list with Florence :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela
Linda Ronstadt-I think her music is timeless. (The hairstyles of the men in this video are a different story! :)) She had such a wonderful voice, and could sing anything, and did. She has a Nelson Riddle CD, a Mexican Mariachi type CD, has sung some Gilbert and Sullivan, and has done numerous covers of country classics.
You're No Good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bj_32QeAaU
When she was still with the Stone Poneys: Different Drum.
This is an iconic song for her for many reasons, including the fact that she always went her own way, never "played the game".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M
Long, Long Time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qm8nq8RcA
Blue Bayou: (a bayou is a slow moving stream in a marsh-here in Louisiana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceYjg1dy-h0
This is her amazing cover of "Crazy".It was through her that I first started to listen to Patsy Cline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Odd-yT9Qkw
In honor of my favorite season, L'Autunno-Vivaldi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA8EJQOqbdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA8EJQOqbdo
Later on I might listen to Feuilles Mortes as sung by Yves Montand (born Ivo Livi in Toscana):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo1C6E7jbPw
English translation:
Fallen leaves
Oh I would like you so much to remember
The joyful days when we were friends.
At that time, life was more beautiful
And the sun burned more than it does today.
Fallen leaves can be picked up by the shovelful.
You see, I have not forgotten...
Fallen leaves can be picked up by the shovelful,
So can memories and regrets.
And the north wind takes them
Into the cold night of oblivion.
You see, I have not forgotten
The song you used to sing me.
(chorus)
This song is like us.
You used to love me and I used to love you
And we used to live together,
You loving me, me loving you.
But life separates lovers,
Pretty slowly, noiselessly,
And the sea erases on the sand
The separated lovers' footprints.
To Autumn-John Keats
1. SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
2.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
3.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
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Neil Young singing "Helpless".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7rQvJgTQ9U
"One Moment of Grace" by Night Sun (the Canadian group, not the seventies German prog rock group).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJa4wJ9Fi00
ENYA..Pilgrim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRWYrEnmXfI
So the Junior Eurovision is brought to Malta for the first time thanks to Gaia Cauchi who won the festival with 'The start' last year. This year representing Malta is the talented Frederica Falzon and winner of Ti lascio un Canzone with Vincenzo Carni, presented by the Italian National TV RAI 1. Her song is 'Diamonds'. It gives me the impression that it is a little more then Junior!. Simply love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kz4VRp3Xmc
Dead can dance- Saltarello. (medieval sounds; and beutifull artistic intervention)
http://youtu.be/AcmpBCXOgVI
Dead can dance- The carnival is over. ( @ Maleth this is not theraupeutic at all, it is sick!!! )
http://youtu.be/mPDLJ1UU2Uk
Dead can dance- How fortunate the man with none.
http://youtu.be/E2IVCyFt2Os
( carefull use, please! )
Still kick back and a glass of wine music :)...its awesome thanks for introducing. Somehow reminds me of Bowie....and the graphics. Now that gets me to listen London Grammer....Quote:
Originally Posted by ΠΑΝΑΞ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drfp_3823I
Wow! Great taste Maleth!Quote:
Originally Posted by Maleth
May i have some cheese with my wine please!
Gruyere, Reggiano, Rocal, Stichelton, Feta? :thinking: Chose your pick :grin:Quote:
Originally Posted by ΠΑΝΑΞ
Ms. Norah Jones:
Don’t Know Why:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk
Help Me Make It Through The Night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocReUIHoI4s
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlVpVIeY74U
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hXH5gKIWEA
@Maleth
Will you pretty please stop torturing me with lists of delicious cheeses? I have only been able to tolerate a nibble here and there for about ten years! In the immortal words of Jennifer Lawrence aka Tiffany in The Silver Linings Playbook, "You're Killing Me!" :laughing:
Last night, all anybody wanted to listen to was “Soul Music”. It never gets old
Percy Sledge: When A Man Loves a Woman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8raabzZNqw
Bill Withers: Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo
Otis Reading: These Arms of Mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqVrNK4uiB4
Otis Reading: I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6OrrkeVFo
Otis Reading: Try A Little Tenderness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPMoAb4y8U
Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j3okb3kuts
Marvin Gaye: Heard It Through The Grapevine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7dGdrP3pms
Marvin Gaye: Mercy, Mercy Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BA6fFGMjI
:thinking:Angela you will not believe this. I was just about going to write in your Tuscan food delights that "you're Killing me"....Im on a diet and food porn does not help!. Then I stumble into this. Hmm I only eat cheese on VERY special occasions as much as l love it, + recently I have discovered I am more and more lactose intolerant :sad-2: although I was told very hard cheeses have very little lactose :innocent:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela
Not music, but a funny little sketch called Angry Yoga.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH0l4FlZT-A
That was too funny! I just loved it, Aberdeen. :laughing:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aberdeen
In the interests of full disclosure, I absolutely loathe yoga...I suppose because it just doesn't work for me.. So, like the lady in the video, I either start thinking about everybody and everything that has ****** me off lately, or I start making lists of everything I have to do, or I start worrying about my children, or I start gnawing at some intellectual problem like the dratted Indo-Europeans or something. :grin: Not what you're supposed to be doing...and the more they tell me to relax the madder I get!
Yes, that one seems to strike a chord with a lot of people. It's a clip from a Canadian comedy show called "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". If you look for "22 Minutes" on Youtube, there's lots of their stuff there. Not all of it makes me laugh, but some of it is really funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela
Let It Go-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cEqnsg0eI
(For the record, I really don't like the Demi Lovato version, and neither does my daughter, through whom I was introduced to this song.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhrF7mEsI4
So this years winner of the Junior eurovison is the very talented Vincenzo Cantiello, a very nice typical Italian tune, reminds me of the style from Mia Martini. Bulgaria placed second, Armenia third and Malta forth. Cyprus song was very good and surely deserved a better place. But all these young singers are so amazing for their age.
I'm not normally a fan of young kids singing adult tunes with adult mannerisms, but you're right, he's an amazing performer for someone his age, and he does have a Mia Martini sort of vibe...he's even the same type physically.Quote:
Maleth:
So this years winner of the Junior eurovison is the very talented Vincenzo Cantiello, a very nice typical Italian tune, reminds me of the style from Mia Martini. Bulgaria placed second, Armenia third and Malta forth. Cyprus song was very good and surely deserved a better place. But all these young singers are so amazing for their age.
I saw this on youtube a while ago and saved it. It's a Mia Martini medley from before she ruined her voice. Minuetto starts about 8:30.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqtFa4MY3PM
I should have posted this song on the "Why Do You Love Someone" Thread. :)
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_UYLPSn6U
Killing Me Softly With His Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ2t5e7stVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyDv1DsTps
Edit: To add title
Olenka and the Autumn Lovers singing "Hard Times"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGzh4oo5ssA
Bjork singing "Moon".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgm1zi0135E
[QUOTE=Aberdeen;444329]Olenka and the Autumn Lovers singing "Hard Times"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGzh4oo5ssA
/QUOTE]
Very nice, Aberdeen. I like finding new groups. :)
Shania Twain....Sassy and Sweet, Naughty and Nice. Not great art, but great for certain times and places...
In her sassy mode she's sometimes my exercise buddy. :)
UP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHBOQXy9dRo
That Don't Impress Me Much:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQZTK6xJ1Bw&spfreload=10
I'm Gonna Getcha Good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Pb3EJY5Qg
I call this the "Get A Grip" song but it's actually "Come On Over"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czu6uqhJCds
She can be sweet too: Forever and For Always
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT-FW_G8-A
Continuing in exercise mode...(I believe in being proactive, and starting to up my game before the holidays!)
Debbie Harry-
Heart of Glass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU
Call Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH3Q_CZy968
One Way Or Another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFuHj9_Tgw
How could I have forgotten this one from Shania Twain-Man You Make Me Feel Like A Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJL4UGSbeFg
Doug McArthur singing "Dreams and Visions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyXtXFOIA1Q
Thanks, Aberdeen. Another new one for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aberdeen
From the AMA music awards:
Sam Smith: I'm Not The Only One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_-U6dcTEOg
They should never him sing in public again. He was so much worse in person at the AMA awards. I may decide not to like him anymore.:smile:
Speaking of the AMA Awards, I'm not sure what to make of Lorde...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PdILZ_1P74
The rest...meh
Are those of us who don't get the whole Taylor Swift thing really a minority?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg
Even Mary J. Blige was disappointing. It sounded like an Adela song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfXDVp7K12c
As for the rest....I don't get it at all, even on the level of mindless music. Selena Gomez? Angel wings? Really? Ariana Grande? IGGY??? How do you spell GROSS.
Simon and Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIm-YTrs4tM
Sounds of Silence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkCKaAgu8h4
I Am A Rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKY-smJ6aBQ
For Emily Wherever I May Find Her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7aUNZQVpQ
That's some classic stuff, for sure - a trip down nostalgia lane.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela
Here's the kind of stuff I listen to when I'm feeling nostalgic.
Roger Daltrey - After The Fire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tg4jQAZ_cw
Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0
I don't let go of things I love easily. :smile: I play them quite often, especially when I need soothing, and given the news, I needed soothing. There's a lot of wisdom as well as poetry in their songs, but people don't really listen. I also love Art's vocals...that sort of choir boy sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aberdeen
Anyway, I love Sarah MacLachan, and especially that song. I like Roger Daltry too, although I haven't played him for a long time.
I play Springsteen a lot...still going to his concerts too, and probably will continue to go even if he comes out with a walker.http://cdn.eupedia.com/forum/images/...n/laughing.gif
He sings about fire too, of course:
I'm On Fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpXArn3hII
The ones that I actually was playing last night were these however...they seemed apropos.
My Hometown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77gKSp8WoRg
Glory Days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQpW9XRiyM
No Retreat, No Surrender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-wI4ZkjKs
Human Touch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cNRQo1m3A
This Land Is Our Land:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc4BI5NWU
Although it's on a totally different level, I guess I should include Dancing In The Dark.:smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129ku...Qo1m3A&index=4
Jon Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles:
Who Says You Can't Go Home Again-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CeX5VEo10c
Which leads me to some more great exercise music from Bon Jovi:
It's My LIfe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2u5uUu3DE
Livin' On A Prayer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk
You Give Love A Bad Name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZHPOeOxQQ
Kathleen Edwards singing "Six O'Clock News.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVtAblO50Fc
Vespri Siciliani-a Verdi opera which could be subtitled, “Beware of ****ing Off Sicilians." I listened to it last night (it's available on youtube). What can I say...I love Verdi...plus, an obsession with Sicilians is an internet disease which I seem lately to have caught. I thought I was safe here, a sort of refuge zone, but apparently not.:grin: Not that I bear any animus against them, I hasten to add, rather the opposite, as I married one of their cousins (well, part cousin) from across the Strait of Messina. :smile:
I think this opera would have been a better choice as a backdrop to The Godfather III than Cavaliere Rusticana. (I would be even more leery of antagonizing anyone in this subgroup! They have very long memories. The only people who have a bit of immunity are honest prosecutors and FBI people. After all, even they don’t have a death wish, and slaughtering “clean” law enforcement people would bring down the whirlwind.)
The opera celebrates the revolt of the Sicilians against French rule in 1282, which began at Vespers or sunset prayer time on the night before Easter Monday. There are a number of versions of how it started but all of them involve the insolence of dastardly Frenchmen toward Sicilian women. (Messing with their women is also not a good idea, even today, and trust me on this, the Calabresi aren’t much better. :petrified:)
From Wiki:
“the Sicilians at the church were engaged in holiday festivities and a group of French officials came by to join in and began to drink. A sergeant named Drouet dragged a young married woman from the crowd, pestering her with his advances. Her husband then attacked Drouet with a knife, killing him. When the other Frenchmen tried to avenge their comrade, the Sicilian crowd fell upon them, killing them all. At that moment all the church bells in Palermo began to ring for Vespers.”
This is another version:
“In the version according to Leonardo Bruni (1416), the Palermitans were holding a festival outside the city when the French came up to check for weapons, and on that pretext began to fondle the breasts of their women. This then began a riot, the French were attacked first with rocks, then weapons, killing them all. The news spread to other cities leading to revolt throughout Sicily. "By the time the furious anger at their insolence had drunk its fill of blood, the French had given up to the Sicilians not only their ill-gotten riches but their lives as well."
I've linked to three nice pieces to hopefully whet some appetite to hear more...if not of this opera, of Verdi in general.
Here is the overture, brilliantly conducted by Riccardo Muti. (I adore him and have done for decades. He’s a conductor of passion and style who seems to have channeled Verdi. A rock star of a conductor!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iOk-i6fGE
“ O Patria…O Mu Palermo. “ For once, the tenor didin’t get all the glory. (Has anyone ever noticed the basses and baritones are usually better looking than the tenors? Would it have just been too much to give them good looks too? Or is it just me? Wait…there’s Placido Domingo…he was always easy on the eye, so maybe I take it back…And what about Franco Corelli? Ok just forget I said anything. :smile:) This is my favorite version of it. The singer is Ferruccio Furlanetto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3TS8RglWHE
O patria, o cara patria, alfin ti veggo!
Oh fatherland, Oh dear fatherland, at last I see you!
L’esule ti saluta dopo sì lunga assenza.
The exile greets you after too long an absence.
Il fiorente tuo suolo ripien d’amore io bacio.
I kiss your flowering soil with kisses of love.
Reco il mio voto a te, col braccio e il core!
With my arms and my heart I'll keep my vow to you!
O tu, Palermo, terra adorata,
Oh Palermo, beloved land,
a me sì caro riso d’amor,
Laugh of love so dear to me,
alza la fronte tanto oltraggiata,
Raise youe outraged brow,
il tuo ripiglia primier splendor!
Reclaim your former splendor!
Chiesi aita a straniere nazioni,
I sought help from foreign nations,
ramingai per castella e città.
I wandered through castles and cities.
Ma, insensibil al fervido sprone,
But, insensible of my fervid urging,
dicea ciascun:
Every one of them said:
Siciliani, ov’è il prisco valor?
Sicilians, where is your former valor?
Su, sorgete a vittoria, all’onor!
Go on, rise up to victory, to honor!
You get the drift I’m sure….
This is also a nice piece: Maria Callas singing Arrigo…A parli a un core
It means you speak to a heart already prepared to forgive you. It’s a very difficult piece to sing and she does a superlative job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=529zk5-32qM
I don't listen much to music, but when I do it is usually classical. For instance:
http://youtu.be/dAyEmyqq_hw
Dramatic enough to think about Indo-European migrations. ;-)
Very beautiful indeed! and Maria Callas never fails.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela
The Angevins (French) were ousted from Malta (Part of Sicily then) a few months later as a continuation of the Vespers uprising with a dramatic battle in Grand harbour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Malta