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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: BillyF on Monday 19 October 20 18:27 BST (UK)
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What a lovely voice Raul Malo (The Mavericks) has.
I only discovered he was doing this a few days ago.
This is quaratune 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO2Q4DGvJpQ
I`ve not heard of number 24,is it apt ?!!!!
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Billy -- thank you SO very much for that link. Way back - that used to be mine and my hubbie's 'song'. I have no idea why - neither of us were Spanish - but we both loved it -- at that time it was the Al Martino version.
I haven't heard it for years - so that was such a lovely reminder of those days.
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Glad you enjoyed it (them)
If you get chance listen to his version of Let it be me - fantastic`s not a good enough word !!!
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Have you ever thought of applying to be this chap's agent!!
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I can`t say I have ! I wouldn`t have minded being Billy Fury`s agent !!!
:)
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This a lovely one, number 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7j3BbEpEU4
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I've just found my CD for The Mavericks - Trampoline - 1998 - brilliant!
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That was lovely - a window to past days of romance
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I can`t say I have ! I wouldn`t have minded being Billy Fury`s agent !!!
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Oh BillyF --- I loved Billy Fury!
I take it you did also --I wonder if that is why you are called BillyF!
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I`m just having a little listen to number 29 My Sweet Lord. I`ve got out of the running order !!
I`ll probably bore everyone going on about it ! We`re back in lockdown from Friday evening so I`ll need something to cheer me up !!
Pennines, next to Billy, Raul Malo has become my favourite. It`s a pity we don`t see him here in the UK.
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He's certainly a lovely singer - and with some great songs - I have to confess though, I have never heard of him before you introduced him on here, Billy.
Neil Diamond is now my favourite and has been for years -- saw him in Birmingham ages ago - and then at Manchester (MEN) in 2010. I was a bit worried as he was getting on a bit by then -- but he was fantastic.
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I think some of the older singers get better with age, unfortunately some should have given up years ago!! This from someone who can`t sing a note !!
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Just had an hour listening to them and then (as you do) going off to listen to one or two others. He is great - we loved his singing, his attitude and his neckwear :)
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Paul McCartney ought to have retired long ago.
So too Engelbert Humperdink .
Tom Jones was not bad at all the last time I heard him.
It is not as if they need the money!
You wonder how others would have fared .
Like Kelly the totally unaffected singer with The Dubliners ,wonder how he
would have aged.?
Only in his forties when he died from a brain tumour .
Some people you cannot imagine ageing .
Viktoria
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I liked the fact that you loved his neckwear, Heywood! That made me laugh.
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It’s my husband- he loved the scarves and cravats. :D
I sent it to my family and got a message that my 11 yr old grandson was very embarrassed at his mother’s singing, dancing and arm waving To ‘Sweet Caroline’. They were the only two in the room ;D
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Oh my goodness -- this thread is causing me to remember some of my favourite songs from times gone by.
Don McLean - American Pie and others
Roy Orbison - most of his - fantastic voice
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
and lots, lots more! I expect YouTube has become really busy this year --- and how wonderful that you can just go onto that site and bring back memories.
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"Unchained Melody" has to be Jimmy Young :)
Pat Boone, Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, and how about Bill Haley & The Comets. ;D
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BumbleB -- you've got me going again!!
Yes - Everly Brothers
Simon and Garfunkel
Scott McKenzie -San Francisco
Roberta Flack - First time ever I saw your face
Oh dear I'm going to be like this all day now. It's BillyF's fault for starting this.
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I can`t say I have ! I wouldn`t have minded being Billy Fury`s agent !!!
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Oh BillyF --- I loved Billy Fury!
I take it you did also --I wonder if that is why you are called BillyF!
Yes, you`re right ! Loved him from age 13, now 75!!!
Thanks Pennines!! It passes the time when it`s so wet !!
Also liked the Everly brothers and Roy Oribson, who I saw live in the mid 60s.
Tom Jones was the one I was thinking of who`s got better.
"The first time ever I saw your face."
Try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fE4_8b0490
In the last few minutes I`ve found myself listening Paul Anka, he`s 79 now, wonder what he sounds like today ?
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Billy -- I have just listened to that version all the way through and it literally brought tears to my eyes. His expression, demeanor - voice -- it was beautiful. Thank you so much for the link.
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Its hard to say what is my favorite song from way back when but I do like this. I was 19 when it came out and was a huge hit in Canada.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY
My wife is related to this singer. My wifes great grandmother and her great grandfather were brother and sister. She had one major hit in Canada but I know she was on British TV for years. This was her hit over her
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttTZL8YPXls
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I think I was 18 when it came out.
We usually associate Gene Vincent with Be Bop A Lula, bu I was amazed to find this !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec2SWiClSzE
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Jim -- I take it you are from Canada?
In the UK - your wife's relative was VERY famous indeed! Had loads of hits - and then presented TV shows! A wow of a relative.
Billy -- I agree I never knew Gene Vincent sang that particular song either.
(It's been a tuneful day).
EDIT -- I've just remembered the name of one of the groups I used to love -- my aging brain could not bring it to mind --- Smokie --- I just loved all their songs.
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Jim -- I take it you are from Canada?
In the UK - your wife's relative was VERY famous indeed! Had loads of hits - and then presented TV shows! A wow of a relative.
Billy -- I agree I never knew Gene Vincent sang that particular song either.
(It's been a tuneful day).
Yes we are in Winnipeg where we had our first snowfall last night that looks like its here to stay.
I knew Cila Black was a British Icon and I think the reason she did not have a huge number of hits in Canada/US was Dionne Warwick was singing many of the same songs and she was getting the hit in North America. An example was Anyone who had a heart.
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Cilla Black was underestimated in my opinion. As for Dionne warwick - not my cup of tea at all.
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Here in Wales we`re halfway through or firebreak. Last week was so miserable, it never seemed to stop raining!
Looking for something different to cheer myself up I came across this , another of my favourite sings.
I don`t know who Sarah Collins is, I just wish I could sing!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO-rfZInxlI
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Thank you Billy -- I had forgotten about that song. I don't know that singer either - unusual voice.
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My way-back favourite was Noel Harrison (Rex Harrison's son?) "singing" the theme from the "Thomas Crown Affair"
("Round, like a circle in a spiral,
like a wheel within a wheel etc.")
Absolutely no idea, but I can detect it being played at the softest volume, in a tiny fragment, anywhere.
Oddly, same with "Eye Level", was it? The original "Van der Valk" signature tune?
TY
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Strange how a tune can get you!!!
Mine is Halfway to Paradise. A few years ago, I`d just managed to put it as a ringtone on my phone. The day after I was queueing in the bank when I heard the first few notes; my first thought was the bank had a radio playing!! Then I remembered !!! ::)
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BillyF --- I would have been shocked if your special tune was anything BUT 'Halfway to Paradise' -- in view of your allegiance since youth with Billy Fury. I loved that also -- and him.
Funnily enough I must have recorded 'Sounds of the 60s' sometime and I started watching it last night;
Sandie Shaw (never liked her)
Dusty Springfield
Long John Baldry (whom I had completely forgotten about)
Lulu
Tom Jones
I still have the rest to watch. Those were the days when music had a melody - and often a beat.
In all honesty though, I am a Country and Western fan -- also a fan of Irish Music. I just love Danny Boy - although it always brings tears to my eyes. A Scottish Pipe Band has the same effect!
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Pennines, I hadn`t read your last post until now. How strange that you mention Long John Baldry, my husband and I were only talking about him yesterday !!
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Yes -- it's so odd that coincidental things like that happen. A person you haven't seen for ages will pop into your head -- and then you will suddenly see them!
(Whether you recognise them these days with a mask on is a different matter!!)