It's a great thread! And there simply aren't enough music threads on A2K - can't afford to let such a good one die.
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Setanta
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Tue 10 Mar, 2015 05:14 am
I am grateful for your contribution . . . this one's for you. Emma Franklin first recorded this song in 1967, but it was Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company who had a hit with it. Emma recorded this in the last year of her life, 35 years after she first recorded it.
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vonny
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Tue 10 Mar, 2015 02:55 pm
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vonny
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Tue 10 Mar, 2015 02:58 pm
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Setanta
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Wed 11 Mar, 2015 02:01 am
Here's a blast from the past (Vonny won't remember her, she's too young). Astrud Gilberto had a hit in 1963 with the saxaphone player Stan Getz, singing "The Girl from Ipanema." Here, she teams up with Mr. Getz again.
Deanna Durbin - the name is familiar but not her work.
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Setanta
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Thu 12 Mar, 2015 03:02 am
Yes, although the films weren't old when she acted and sang in them. She just died a year or two ago, past the age of 90. She worked on film in the 1930s and -40s, and retired from that before 1950, before the age of 30. By then, she certainly no longer needed the money.
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Setanta
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Thu 12 Mar, 2015 03:22 am
I have resisted the temptation to fill this thread with operatic arias and art songs, so i feel entitled to throw one into the mix every once or twice in a while. Patricia Rozario was born in Bombay (now usually called Mumbai), and has one of the sweetest soprano voices you'll ever hear. This song, "Bailero," is from Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne, Songs from the Auvergne, which he collected in the 1920s and scored for soprano and chamber orchestra, or soprano and piano.
Opera is glorious! Here's Lucia Popp - great coloratura soprano
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Setanta
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Thu 12 Mar, 2015 04:06 am
The most beautiful song from that opera. Here's one of my favorites, the duet of the Countess and Susanna from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (The Girl bought me the DVD of this exact performance of the opera one year for my b-day):
