Chinese TV Commercial "Automatic Doctor"

If this is typical of Chinese television then it must be a 24-7 scream...

Dame Kiri Te-Kanawa: Gesu Bambino by Pietro A. Yon

From Granny's blog yet again. She said she pointed this one out and said she didn't mind my nicking things as she'd nicked 'em from Youtube to begin with.

Dame Kiri Te-Kanawa is New Zealand's most famous soprano (though Hayley Westonra is the young rising star) who hit fame after singing in the church at Prince Charles and (the then) Lady Diana Spencer's wedding in 1982. She is widely credited to have one of the finest soprano voices in the world ...

For Unto Us a Child Is Given: Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Purloined from Granny's blog (again):

Handel's Messiah: Mormon Tabernacle Choir 2007

Quite openly purloined from Granny's blog:

Morrisey: Suedehead Video

This purloined from Butterfly's blog:

The Kylie Show: The One

This purloined from Mark's Planet (blog):

Visually it's amazing... just a shame it has to feature Kylie's averager-than-average vocals... Madonna is hardly the planet's strongest singer but her voice is ten times creamier and a hundred times more distinctive.

In her earliest days the nasty Stock-Aitken-&-Waterman put Kylie through a Kylie-multiplication machine so never less than three Kylies were warbling at any one time on any of her records. Even when she did a part on a multi-singer charity record at the time (I really cannot remember which one). Someone once said she sounded like a thin-voiced budgie: to me she is more like a singing wasp captured in a jamjar. Nasty business!

Madonna: Santa Baby (Duplex & Scrubbs mix!)

... aye! Or summut like...!

Great stuff!

Purloined from M-filer's blog!

U2: With or Without You (Rattle & Hum)

Purloined from http://tchaney.blogspot.com:~~

Jethro Tull: Rare promo for Solstice Bells - 1976

This video was STOLEN from Bimbibie's site quite shamelessly. I'm not sure about the tune (it's very Mull of Kintyrish, if you know what I mean...) but the video is quite wonderful

Paul McCartney & "Wings" (why on earth did he name a band after a famous sanitary towel feature?) Mull of Kintyre

Leona Lewis: Homeless

Leona Lewis: Footprints in the Sand

Zucchero: Senza Una Donna

In the UK this was released as a duette with Paul Young; this version is senza Paul Young, senza jarring English lyrics and much better!

Sonique: New World

Not sure about the tune; but the opening of this vid is tremendous!

Madonna: Oh Father

Madonna makes excellent videos and this is one of her best. Today's choice was inspired by photos on Jim's blog...

Sonique: I Put A Spell On You

This is her most famous song, a cover version of the 1957 track by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, also covered memorably by Nina Simone...

Sonique: Feels So Good

"Sonique" was a pretty good athelete on the British Olympic Team... Then a club DJ... This is her best tune (I think)... let it go through the first few bars to the hook, to "and that's what takes me higher!" then it's really catchy.

Engelbert Humperdinck: Release Me

This (seemingly the original promotional video from 1967) is absolutely hilarious!

Tina Turner: Simply the Best

This is one of those classic records that peaked at #2 in this country (actually Wikipedia says #5 but whatever; point is):-... what was at #1 nobody remembers!

Gareth (Gates) and the Kumars: Spirit in the Sky

Even the guy who wrote the tune said he reckoned this was the best popped-up version:

Jeanette: Soy Rebelde

This was Jeanette's first hit - way back in 1971 when Spanish TV was still broadcasting in black and white ... but this is a more recent broadcast...

Jeanette (Cria Cuervos): Porque Te Vas

Jeanette is Spain's easy listening star of the 1970s and 1980s. Porque te vas ("because you're gone") was a big Euro-hit in the mid-1970s when it featured in the Spanish film about "the lost innocence of childhood" Cria Cuervos ("Cry of the Crows") dir. Carlos Saura, 1976... Click here if you'd rather hear it in French:

Jeanette: Porque Te Vas (French Language Version)

Garland - Merman - Streisand: No Business Like Showbusiness (Judy Garland Show)

No it's not all a bit tu-ette (whatever you call a 3-person duette)... this is actually a fascinating clip of weekend-night American television from the 1960s...

Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand: You'll Never Know

Barbra Streisand - Moonfall

This is a top vocal:

Boney M: Rivers of Babylon

This 1970s pop song is a reworking of a Biblical Psalm (number 137) stemming back to the Jewish exile in Babylon around 2500 years ago!

Maria Callas: Tosca. Covent Garden 1964...

Florence Foster Jenkins: Queen of the Night Aria

A tribute performance including her original ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haargh high F bit!

"Amazing Pipes": Queen of the Night Aria

This is the famous aria with the high F (over top C). Sung by a little boy (it was always intended for a grown woman; but this shows how the "treble" voice has... well, more treble than any grown soprano's...

Elena Mosuc: Queen of the Night Aria

from Mozart's Magic Flute opera...

I'd say this is the best version (of about 7 or 8 I personally "auditioned")...

Queen of the Night Aria: Met's Noh Drama Version

From Mozart's Magic Flute.