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YouTube Favorites to share.

As some of you already know, I'm a big fan of YouTube. Just the other night, I went there while on the phone with a new girl friend, sharing some favorite music of mine. She was pretty stunned at some of the beautiful music that she'd never heard before--that got me to thinking.
I'm going to list a couple of really great YouTube experiences for you guys and gals to peruse...maybe we can all find new music together. BTW, YouTube is a great place to 'check out' new performers that I read about here, so I can gauge if in general, their particular 'sound' is something I might like.
Here are just a couple to start with--it would be great for everyone to throw in the exact names so we can all share.
Please note--there may be multiple 'versions' so also include the video 'clue' of what picture shows up on the one you're reccommending so we'll all be on the same page.

Nancy Wilson 'Guess Who I Saw Today'
It's the one that shows a black and white of a glass or martini glass on a table...starts in a '50's scene of a husband coming home...Wonderful video and music, with a 'twist'.

Nancy Wilson Cannonball Adderley 'The Masquerede is Over'
The Album cover shows, Nancy in a yellow dress standing next to Cannonball, holding his Alto Sax. No video, but maybe some of the most lyrical piano work I've ever heard by Joe Zawinul.

I'll bow with just this these and wait to hear from others. This should be loads of fun and a great way to help us all share our love of music and performances.

Good listening,

Larry
lrsky
soundbit
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Can you say Freddie? Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omuoO_hIbQ&feature=related
tesseract86
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aASQOjej0
lrsky OP
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Thanks Iso,
Leave it to you to actually take heed.
When I owned my audio store throughout the '80's and to the mid '90's, I introduced great music to thousands of customers, who'd make lists of my play lists...then purchase...sharing music...what a pleasure.
Just came from youtube, watched Janis' "At Seventeen".
She spoke of (recent recording) how audiences from Ireland, some 30K strong, sang every word along with her, and in Tokyo, the majority of people who were not English speaking, sang it word for word...the song, the message, the voice--a moment of magic.
Music and I suppose YouTube are the ulitimate time machine, allowing us to go back to whatever time or era we chose to live in at that moment, for however briefly.

Good listening,

Larry
tesseract86
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCceeGQWsbI&feature=relmfu
lrsky OP
1,118 posts
 
Least we forget the beautiful ballads...this is the inimitable Jerry Vale singing the main theme from "Roman Holiday" from the early '60's, Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette.

Beautiful...voice, words, melody, what more can we ask?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRDVaKGOi4&feature=related

But then, there's a great story about why this song means as much as it does to me personally.
My ex wife an I used to vaction in St. Augustine, FL.
It's a little town, (claimed to be the oldest in North America)--has an historic fort, little shops, a walking area down town, locally owned restaurants...just beautiful.
A restaurant there named Raintree offers remarkable food, and back in those days, the mid late '80's a young, talented guy named Gary, played 4/5 different guitars, classical, jazz, and sang ballads--and, was teaching at Jacksonville College--And he was married, yet one night...

We'd have a wonderful dinner then go to the bar area and listen to him do his work.
One night we were in the bar when a group of 5 came in, men and women paired, except for one girl, the 'odd man out'.
Seeing them come in, Gary left his place up front and came back and sat with the group, but right next to the odd man out young girl.
He began singing Al Di La...looking at her, she at him...and it was captivating. They were obviously so in love...and he couldn't take his eyes off her. After a few measures of singing to her, the bar became completely silent, errily so--you could hear his breathing between words...her eyes started to swell with tears, his also, as well as virtually everyone in the bar area...what was happening was the kind of magic that one might see once in a lifetime.
He sang in perfect (what do I know) Italian...switching to English as the song is bi lingual.
I'll never forget that night--or the song, or the look on their faces. Al Di La, beautiful.

Good listening,

Larry
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