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    Songs from the heart

    Stardust
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    Post by Stardust Thu 02 Mar 2017, 15:28

    Elvis Presley: Can't help falling in love


    Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers: Goodness gracious me
    Kitkat
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    Post by Kitkat Thu 02 Mar 2017, 16:25

    There's millions of 'em! Where to start .........

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    Post by Kitkat Fri 03 Mar 2017, 18:57






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    Post by bimbow Fri 03 Mar 2017, 20:39

    An all-time favourite for me is Roberta Flack's version of Carole King's "Will You Still love me tomorrow", from her 1971 album "Quiet Fire". We uploaded that one song to Youtube several years ago but it hasn't been available for ages.  But I found it a few minutes ago, on a Russian site.

    Just click on the link and enjoy. (Left button.)

    http://audiotut.ru/mp3-album-quiet-fire-download-4936323.html
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    Post by Stardust Fri 03 Mar 2017, 20:49

    The Russians are very good, they upload a lot of great videos on YouTube, especially cute ones with animals.

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    Post by Stardust Fri 03 Mar 2017, 20:58


    One for Liverpool.
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    Post by Stardust Fri 03 Mar 2017, 21:01



    Great voice, great lyrics.
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    Post by Stardust Fri 03 Mar 2017, 21:06



    This makes me sad... but it's beautiful.
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    Post by Stardust Fri 03 Mar 2017, 21:12



    You've got it or you haven't, the words and the harmony.
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    Post by Stardust Fri 03 Mar 2017, 21:18

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    Post by Kitkat Fri 03 Mar 2017, 22:06

    Anything and everything that this guy has ever sung has always been straight from the heart ... and soul

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    Post by Whiskers Sat 04 Mar 2017, 13:54

    Great thread. purr 


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    Post by Kitkat Sat 04 Mar 2017, 14:43

    I actually heard (and saw) Gladys Knight sing this song at Bailey's Nightclub in Watford.  There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
    Don't watch the video - just play it, close your eyes and listen .....



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    Post by Kitkat Sat 04 Mar 2017, 14:49

    and my most favourites of all time, both with very special meaning to me:


    In memory of my Dad





    No-one could sing this beautiful but sad song like my mother did, but this is one of the best from the heart renditions I have heard

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    Post by Stardust Sat 04 Mar 2017, 17:50

    Beautiful photos on that last video.

    The first one had me weeping in my coffee. I guess we all get caught out when time creeps up and without warning snatches away those we love, leaving so much we never got around to saying and the sudden awful realization that now it's too late.

    Kitkat, thank you for posting those two and for sharing the boundless love that shines out.

    happyheart
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    Post by Stardust Sun 05 Mar 2017, 08:40

    Don't put the hankies away yet, cos this one will choke you up again, but the message is clear and from the heart - and very important.





    This one will bring the smiles back. happyheart

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    Post by bimbow Sun 05 Mar 2017, 17:16

    Blowing In The Wind (1963) - Bee Gees

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    Post by Kitkat Sun 05 Mar 2017, 18:17

    Blowing In The Wind (1963) - Bee Gees
    Gosh!  A very young Bee Gees there.  I hadn't realised they'd been going so long.
    I like all their earlier stuff (like Don't Forget To Remember posted above) - before Saturday Night Fever etc ...
    but wow!  they were just kids when they started off.


    This one, I couldn't find a visual of Al Green singing the song (though I have seen one somewhere before), but anyway you don't have to see it - you just know every note comes right from the heart - you can feel it ...




    Same with this one:
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    Post by Stardust Sun 05 Mar 2017, 19:45

    Everly Brothers (Don and Phil) in 1960.



    Below, Everly Brothers with Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins, 1986. Why Worry.

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    Phil died 3rd January 2014 aged 74.

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    Post by Stardust Mon 06 Mar 2017, 08:49



    Walk of Life, Dire Straits. I love it. cheesy
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    Barbra Streisand again: A piece of sky.

    I love all her songs.
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    Post by Whiskers Sun 12 Mar 2017, 20:55

    The whole world cried listening to this one. 

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    Post by bimbow Sun 12 Mar 2017, 22:30

    Oh, that voice. (No, not great sound, but it is 45 years old.)

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    Post by Whiskers Wed 15 Mar 2017, 20:14

    Even better than the original

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    Post by Stardust Fri 17 Mar 2017, 16:47

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    Bruce Springsteen: Streets of Philadelphia
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    Post by bimbow Wed 22 Mar 2017, 23:37

    A song from Eva Cassidy I've only recently come across.

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    Post by Kitkat Wed 29 Mar 2017, 14:35

    Straight from the heart and into all our hearts.  happyheart 

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    Post by bimbow Wed 29 Mar 2017, 22:30

    A voice new to me - and a beautiful one, exploiting the exotic sounds of the Portuguese language. How good the English translation is, I have no idea, but the sound is one I want to hear more of.

    Info on Gisela.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisela_Jo%C3%A3o

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    Post by Kitkat Thu 30 Mar 2017, 10:04

    bimbow wrote:A voice new to me - and a beautiful one, exploiting the exotic sounds of the Portuguese language. How good the English translation is, I have no idea, but the sound is one I want to hear more of.

    Reminds me of a beautiful song I heard years ago when I was in Morocco.  Such a voice and such a sad air.  I loved it so much I bought the record (yeah, that'll tell you how long ago it was - a 45 vinyl!).  No idea what he was singing about but it almost brought me to tears every time I heard it.
    I later was told the story that, far from being an impassioned deliverance from a sad, heartbroken individual, the singer was actually a guy who had been in prison in Morocco (don't know what his crime was) and during his incarceration he wrote this sychophantic song praising the then king of Morocco.  The king was so enamoured to hear all these wonderful things being said about him, that he personally arranged for the guy's release from prison. The song got put on record (yep, that's the one!).  He then became one of the Arab world's most famous and celebrated singers (Abdeladi Belkhayat).
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    Post by Whiskers Thu 30 Mar 2017, 21:07

    Beautiful sound.  I think she's singing about a potato.  Its the only word I can make out.   nuts
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    Post by bimbow Thu 06 Apr 2017, 00:40

    Gisela João.

    Nothing about potatoes.  This is the translation from the Youtube video.

    (Shipwreck) I put my dream on a ship and the ship on the sea then I opened the sea with my hands so my dream could go down

    My hands are still wet with the blue, with the blue of the opened waves and the colour running from my fingers turns the deserted sands blue

    The wind comes from far away the night curves with the cold underwater my dream is dying inside a ship

    I will cry as much as I need to make, to make the sea rise higher so my ship can reach the bottom and my dream can disappear

    I will cry as much as I need to make, to make the sea rise higher so my ship can reach the bottom and my dream can disappear.

    Doesn't make much sense to me. But what do I know?

    But still, I love the voice.  Here, she sings, with Portuguese text. It's sort of melancholic, but hypnotic, like Fado generally, so you can get the drift.

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    Post by Stardust Wed 20 Sep 2017, 20:55

    Here's the lovely lady once again - love that voice.



    Barbra Streisand: Somewhere
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    Post by Kitkat Mon 25 Feb 2019, 14:36

    More from Gisela João.

    She's gone all electronic now.  I don't know what others think(?) ... The beautiful voice is still there, but I do feel that some of the magic has been lost now with all this digital stuff.
    (Compare this with the first video on this page, posted by bimbow.)

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    Post by Kitkat Sun 16 Jun 2019, 14:39

    With special loving memories on this day, Father's Day ..... Sad




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    Post by Kitkat Fri 14 Feb 2020, 13:10

    One of the loveliest renditions of this beautiful (but sad) song that I have ever heard:

    (not so sure about those dresses though obgob  )

    I doubt there is a single person alive can listen to this without welling up ...


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