Cecile McLorin Salvant-Grammy jazz vocalist winner
Listen to this amazing performance of Poor Butterfly, a song written one hundred years ago and still as touching as it always has been.
In addition to her impeccable timing and pitch-perfect performance, it is doubly remarkable since she songs alone, without any accompaniment and yet it is so compelling.
https://youtu.be/zyU7QP2oWQ4
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Saturday, 23 January 2016
REBECCA LUKER TELLS THE WHOLE WIDE WORDL OF HER LOVE REBECCA LUKER TELLS THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD OF HER LOVE
Rebecca Luker Tells The Whole Wide World Of Her Love
Rodgers & Hart wrote "I'll Tell The Man On The Street: for the 1938 show I Married Angel. The introductory verse rejects the traditional privacy of a passionate love by " Not telling of her love to the red, red rose Or to the babbling brook, where the sweet magnolia grows Or the Whipporwill on the hill above."- All the usual poetic and private imagery often found in love songs.
Instead the main chorus asserts that she''ll " Tell the man on the street and everyone I meet, That you and I are sweethearts."
Accompanied by the Boston Pops, Rebecca Luker delivers this poignant message with great sincerity and sweetness letting the whole ,wide world know of her now very public love.
On a personal note, I sang and played this song at my son's wedding and when I came to sing the lines " And when you're old and grey, You''ll never get away from me" the married woman in the audience over the age of 50 did show some tears. Not because of my performance but of the memory of their own lifelong marriages when they too, began to grow older and accumulate grey hair.
https://youtu.be/KOqUN37VOQ4
Rodgers & Hart wrote "I'll Tell The Man On The Street: for the 1938 show I Married Angel. The introductory verse rejects the traditional privacy of a passionate love by " Not telling of her love to the red, red rose Or to the babbling brook, where the sweet magnolia grows Or the Whipporwill on the hill above."- All the usual poetic and private imagery often found in love songs.
Instead the main chorus asserts that she''ll " Tell the man on the street and everyone I meet, That you and I are sweethearts."
Accompanied by the Boston Pops, Rebecca Luker delivers this poignant message with great sincerity and sweetness letting the whole ,wide world know of her now very public love.
On a personal note, I sang and played this song at my son's wedding and when I came to sing the lines " And when you're old and grey, You''ll never get away from me" the married woman in the audience over the age of 50 did show some tears. Not because of my performance but of the memory of their own lifelong marriages when they too, began to grow older and accumulate grey hair.
https://youtu.be/KOqUN37VOQ4
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
EASY LIVING- BEAUTIFUL BILLIE hOLIDAY TRIBUTE FROM MORGANA KING
Easy Living- Beautiful Billie Holiday tribute from Morgana King
In 1937, Ralph Ranger ( Composer ) and Leo Robin ( Lyricist) wrote this lovely ballad for a movie with the same title.
In 1979, 17,000 fans gathered at the Hollywood Bowl to hear 5 major female vocalists pay tribute to Billie Holiday.
Morgana King, a much admired but lesser known singer, provided a heart-breaking interpretation of Easy Living accompanied by a wonderful orchestral arrangement.
Incidentally, Morgana King also played the role of Marlon Brando's wife in The Godfather, in which she sang a risque Italian song during that iconic wedding ceremony.
https://youtu.be/MCMmiFgOgpQ
In 1937, Ralph Ranger ( Composer ) and Leo Robin ( Lyricist) wrote this lovely ballad for a movie with the same title.
In 1979, 17,000 fans gathered at the Hollywood Bowl to hear 5 major female vocalists pay tribute to Billie Holiday.
Morgana King, a much admired but lesser known singer, provided a heart-breaking interpretation of Easy Living accompanied by a wonderful orchestral arrangement.
Incidentally, Morgana King also played the role of Marlon Brando's wife in The Godfather, in which she sang a risque Italian song during that iconic wedding ceremony.
https://youtu.be/MCMmiFgOgpQ
Monday, 11 January 2016
WE'LL BE TOGETHER AGAIN AN EMOTIONAL SONG OF LONGING SUNG BOTH BY BARBARA COOK AND FRANK SINATRA
We'll Be Together Again-An Emotional Song Of Longing Sung By Both By Barbara Cook And Frank Sinatra.
In 1945, composer Carl Fischer& singer Frankie Laine wrote this tender wish for a re uniting with a loved one. Barbara Cook, a consummate singing actress is accompanied only by her pianist Wally Harper. Sinatra performs with a poignant Nelson Riddle orchestral arrangement which was included in their iconic album Songs For Swinging Lovers.
Both these singers have the happy faculty of living inside a song and making you believe that the words being sung reflect their own feelings and experiences.
https://youtu.be/FLYiOkKC-Lg
https://youtu.be/Cht_8zpSSfA
In 1945, composer Carl Fischer& singer Frankie Laine wrote this tender wish for a re uniting with a loved one. Barbara Cook, a consummate singing actress is accompanied only by her pianist Wally Harper. Sinatra performs with a poignant Nelson Riddle orchestral arrangement which was included in their iconic album Songs For Swinging Lovers.
Both these singers have the happy faculty of living inside a song and making you believe that the words being sung reflect their own feelings and experiences.
https://youtu.be/FLYiOkKC-Lg
https://youtu.be/Cht_8zpSSfA
Saturday, 19 December 2015
GREAT SINGING & dANCING TO COLE PORTER'S " FROM THIS MOMENT ON"
Great Singing & Dancing to Cole Porter's " From This Moment On."
KISS ME KATE was Cole Porter's greatest Broadway musical and was transferred into a wonderful MGM film. The story is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew. In this number, Ann Miller playing the hard-to-handle Bianca is pursued by 3 men, including Bob Fosse, the future choreographer/director ( he's wearing the yellow hat.)
Listen also to the wonderful arrangement by Conrad Salinger, the king of arrangers for musical films whose strings literally swing the dancers into frenzied dance routines.
This number will keep your own toes and fingers happily tapping in time.
https://youtu.be/YTBrVuEvZbg
KISS ME KATE was Cole Porter's greatest Broadway musical and was transferred into a wonderful MGM film. The story is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew. In this number, Ann Miller playing the hard-to-handle Bianca is pursued by 3 men, including Bob Fosse, the future choreographer/director ( he's wearing the yellow hat.)
Listen also to the wonderful arrangement by Conrad Salinger, the king of arrangers for musical films whose strings literally swing the dancers into frenzied dance routines.
This number will keep your own toes and fingers happily tapping in time.
https://youtu.be/YTBrVuEvZbg
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
SINATRA SINGS ARLEN'S PURE MELODY " MY SHINING HOUR"
Sinatra sings Arlen's pure melody " My Shining Hour."
Harold Arlen is justly renowned as the most blues and jazz influenced of the major creators of The Great American Songbook. But he was also capable of writing a pure, singing melody without the need for clever harmonic support.
As proof of his versatility to plumb the depths of both the ethereal and the down to earth lament, Arlen wrote two songs for the 1942 film, The Sky's The Limit." Starring Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie, My Shining Hour was first sung by Leslie in a nightclub and later as a burgeoning romantic duet as he walks the lady home.
However, as the wartime romance flounders, Astaire gets drunk, smashes the mirror in a bar and leaves in a sad and lonely state. Sinatra has an iconic rendition of One For My Baby as he pours out his troubles to Joe, the silent bartender.
As a contrast, his version of the tender ballad My Shining Hour showcases Frank Sinatra's uncanny ability to put him in the character portrayed in the song . You can hear his desire and hope with the lyric stating " In my dreams, your face will flower, Through the darkness of the night" thus making that moment his own Shining Hour, a sentiment especially poignant during WW2.
https://youtu.be/BEr6Kvi4wZs
Harold Arlen is justly renowned as the most blues and jazz influenced of the major creators of The Great American Songbook. But he was also capable of writing a pure, singing melody without the need for clever harmonic support.
As proof of his versatility to plumb the depths of both the ethereal and the down to earth lament, Arlen wrote two songs for the 1942 film, The Sky's The Limit." Starring Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie, My Shining Hour was first sung by Leslie in a nightclub and later as a burgeoning romantic duet as he walks the lady home.
However, as the wartime romance flounders, Astaire gets drunk, smashes the mirror in a bar and leaves in a sad and lonely state. Sinatra has an iconic rendition of One For My Baby as he pours out his troubles to Joe, the silent bartender.
As a contrast, his version of the tender ballad My Shining Hour showcases Frank Sinatra's uncanny ability to put him in the character portrayed in the song . You can hear his desire and hope with the lyric stating " In my dreams, your face will flower, Through the darkness of the night" thus making that moment his own Shining Hour, a sentiment especially poignant during WW2.
https://youtu.be/BEr6Kvi4wZs
Saturday, 12 December 2015
SINATRA ADVISES THE LOVELORN WITH " I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU SO"
Sinatra advises the lovelorn with " I could have told you so."
FraNk Sinatra's tempestuous romantic adventures have been well documents and a number of his saloon or torch songs have been among his most remarkable recorded and live performances. Angel Eyes and One For My Baby are two outstanding examples of hte lament for love gone wrong.
In this song, Frank plays the role of romantic advisor who tells the male listener that " She'd love you awhile and desert you ." Both in the song and in his life, Frank speaks and sings with hard won experience in affairs of the heart.
The melody is by Jimmy Van Heusen, a favourite Sinatra composer and personal friend. The advice to the lovelorn lyrics are by Carl Sigman.
For those males who have been led astray by a woman, this song may have mournful resonance . Women, on the other hand, may conclude, from their own experiences, that the dude deserved it. C'est La Vie !
https://youtu.be/ppfVAOzKJxs
FraNk Sinatra's tempestuous romantic adventures have been well documents and a number of his saloon or torch songs have been among his most remarkable recorded and live performances. Angel Eyes and One For My Baby are two outstanding examples of hte lament for love gone wrong.
In this song, Frank plays the role of romantic advisor who tells the male listener that " She'd love you awhile and desert you ." Both in the song and in his life, Frank speaks and sings with hard won experience in affairs of the heart.
The melody is by Jimmy Van Heusen, a favourite Sinatra composer and personal friend. The advice to the lovelorn lyrics are by Carl Sigman.
For those males who have been led astray by a woman, this song may have mournful resonance . Women, on the other hand, may conclude, from their own experiences, that the dude deserved it. C'est La Vie !
https://youtu.be/ppfVAOzKJxs
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