Share Some Music "Finds" On YouTube

[Dave Grubb]

Another great, The Phantom of The Opera.

My first Broadway show was in thee early 70's when my wife and I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar. It was a different day and time---some of the audience (not us) was freely smoking pot during the performance!

Latter, I worked for Knoll International (for 20 years) whose headquarters were in Manhattan and we would have quarterly staff meetings there which would last for two or three days. During those meetings they would make arrangements to go to a Broadway Play on one evening. That was were I first saw Phantom of the Opera. When my wife found out it wasn't long until I saw if for the second time

The link above is from the stage performance. Joe rightly pointed out the difference between vocal artistry of on stage and film, the same applies here.

[wacojoe]

My #1 movie and musical remains My Fair Lady.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wefP_aEl6_I

[Dave Grubb]

Here is another change of pace.

This is Andreas Vollenweider. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. I have two or three of his albums and when I tell people what the featured instrument is they are always a bit astounded---as was I when I first heard him.

And a second selection, this another of my favorites.

[Dave Grubb]

This was just playing and always manages to pull me away from my work.

When I was only 18 and going to Army school at Ft. Devens MA (near Boston) I met a young lady who was in her early 20's---and I had a fake ID that made me the same age. It was a wonderful time---I was making about $70/month but managed to supplement my income through various entrepreneurial endeavors which allowed me to entertain my lady in reasonable style. Weekends would find us at our favorite intimate cabaret---dark, smokey, and filled with the music of 1962/63---and of cabarets. Moon River, I left My Heart in San Francisco, Stranger on the Shore, Morgan, Autumn Leaves. We would dance into the early morning hours almost not moving on the floor. It was a wonderful time for the Mennonite farm boy playing in a different world---and one I immediately fell in love with. Eva Cassidy can take me back to that place in a moment. Sadly she is no longer with us.

[Truckman]

AAhhh! Ft. Devens. Just outside the gate on the right was a little place that made Wonderful pizzas (Least I thought so).
Bob

Hmmm...Dave remembers the chicks, and Bob remembers the pizza...There may be a pattern here......Ben

[Wannabe]

Hmmm...Dave remembers the chicks, and Bob remembers the pizza...There may be a pattern here......Ben

I remember nothing.
Bob

[Sandman]

I can accurately say that I have never had a bad meal in Italy.

I got food poisoning in Italy (as my Grandmother would say, that wasn't Italy, that was Sicily) But the meal was good..

Wowzers.. what a miserable week that was,,

[wacojoe]

Aahhh, Eva Cassidy! She touches me. Gone far too soon. We hardly knew her.

Autumn Leaves is one of my most favorite tunes. Cassidy changed it up, but she could get away with it.
Mark Steyn is one of my favorite political commentators, but he also has written extensively on music talents and music. Here is one explaining a lot of history of the tune, Autumn Leaves, which I found quite instructive.

http://www.steynonline.com/7187/autumn-leaves

Curiously, he made no mention of the song with the prelude you seldom hear, but which I find is the best part of the song when it is sung, which is exceedingly rare, unfortunately.

Here, Nana Mouskouri sings it exquisitely —
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHpklu4F92A

[Dave Grubb]

Thank you Joe, I always appreciate your comments and insights in this thread. The essay was very interesting--plus you have introduced me to another wonderful voice in Nana Mouskouri, who as I type is singing a song in French--I think her voice a perfect match for the French language. To me, music is like enjoying an endless Italian meal for which my appetite never is fully quenched.

Added in edit: I just looked on Amazon and find much of Nana Mouskouri's recordings are free on Prime--I now have an extensive library of her music---very Again I thank you

[Dave Grubb]

Another that left us far too early. I think the strongest aspect of this is the image it so clearly and sincerely creates in my mind as I listen.

Thank you Mr Vandross for sharing this

[Dave Grubb]

I got food poisoning in Italy (as my Grandmother would say, that wasn't Italy, that was Sicily) But the meal was good..

Wowzers.. what a miserable week that was,,

I can luckily say that I have only had food poisoning twice in my life, once as a child and the other in Macau---I remember both with far too much clarity

And Joe---I have to offer this as thanks for introducing me to Ms. Mouskouri.

Plaisir d'amour---The Pleasure of Love

[wacojoe]

At one time not so long ago (haven't checked lately), Nana Mouskouri was the overall highest selling female recording artist in history. She was much better known in Europe than here. Her early work is wonderful, but in her long career she lost that something as her voice aged. Sad how that happens, right? Streisand's last album indicates some few can defy those odds that other exquisit voices like Biaz and Joni Mitchell succumbed to long ago.

With your interest in French language singers and of the Mouskouri vein, I would recommend again the singer I think picked up Nana's reins best, Lara Fabian, one of the great true divas in the best sense of word. She is another enormously popular in Europe, yet hardly known here at all. She is of French/Canadian/Italian heritage and sings in many languages wonderfully.

Here's another by Fabian (she writes many, like this one, of her songs btw!) —

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ON0iKXVUPw

[Dave Grubb]

The literal translation of the title for the Lara Fabian link: Je suis Malade is "I am sick"--a statement that is repeated throughout the song---OK if you allow the French to simply roll by, a little less soothing if you translate.

Here is one with a more enjoyable theme.

BTW, there is a lot of Ms Fabian's music also available free on Prime.

At one time not so long ago (haven't checked lately), Nana Mouskouri was the overall highest selling female recording artist in history. She was much better known in Europe than here. Her early work is wonderful, but in her long career she lost that something as her voice aged. Sad how that happens, right? Streisand's last album indicates some few can defy those odds that other exquisite voices like Biaz and Joni Mitchell succumbed to long ago.

She went unnoticed to me---but I will try to remedy that now! I have at times done myself and artists a disservice by listening to concerts when their voice has passed its peak. One of the most unfortunate was a Peter Paul and Mary concert only a year or two before Mary passed. She had bloomed up on steroids (I believe) and her voice had lost all the clarity she once had, I went away sad. Joan Biaz recently had a 75th birthday concert on PBS---I wish she had not

It seems, in general, male singers fair better with age than the ladies do.

[wacojoe]

Odd that you would post her Caruso, as I was continuing to listen to some of her selections after I posted above and I always listen to that one when I'm on a Fabian kick - I love that rendition! I can't listen and watch too many of her's in a row because her emotion is just so intense though.

[Dave Grubb]

Speaking of Barbara Streisand, I hope you can see this article in the NYT about her performance this week at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn.