Frank Sinatra - Autumn Leaves

To photomontage ....

Autumn Leaves JAPT Montreux 1975... Ella Fitzgerald & Co...

This ain't the version I'm familiar with ... but hey ...

I of II



II of II

Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald - You're the Tops

Wow! This was a find...

Nat and Natalie Cole - Unforgettable

Edith Piaf - Autumn Leaves

Wow doesn't she bring her unique vocal "turn" to this disc??

I got this one at home (not on 78, on CD)

Nat King Cole - Autumn Leaves

NAT KING COLE - AUTUMN LEAVES This I think is perhaps the best melody he ever sung...

Pete Doherty - Dream a Little Dream of Me

As performed kind of on spec at Filthy Mc Nasty's in London

Barbra Streisand - Somewhere

This is that famous West Side Story (?) song ... reinterpreted and put in outer space ...

Also probably the only thing approaching a proper pop video (ie not just film of her performing live or recording in the studio) she's ever made...

Mado Robin Sings "B6"

That's the B over (six notes higher than) top C... I post this here because I stumbled across some tripe online about Mariah Carey being the greatest singer ever... Which as readers of my regular blog will have seen rather wound me up... Mariah Carey, world's greatest vocalist??! I'm afraid that is simply not true. Though Mariah Carey can reach D7 (ie 2 notes higher than B6) her top notes are nowhere near as radiant as this lady's voice, which considering the pitches she's hitting, is fresh and clear as a mountain stream

The Autumn Moon On A Placid Lake

I have a traditional Cantonese music CD of that name... and this is the closest I could find to it on youtube

Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa

in full wondrous technicolour!

Is this shot on true film? Looks that way. Surely video from that age wouldn't have given anything nearly as lovely a picture...

Bryan Adams with Celine Dion (live) Everything I Do...

(I do it for you)

Sorry but I have to say this... what on earth is she wearing on her bottom half?? In Britain in the 1970s we had porn magazines that didn't show that much..!

Louis Armstrong (Satchmo) Wonderful World Illustrated

This is a homemade stills vid but it illustrates the song perfectly

Louis Armstrong ("Satchmo") Wonderful World Live on TV

Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand - Tell Him

Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid

Reprising Frank Sinatra's classic... hasn't Nicole Kidman got a nice voice? Far nicer than Beyonce/that woman from Newleyweds who played Daisy Duke/the other melange of American nothingness that diarrhoeas our charts

Barbra Streisand - A Piece of Sky

In this clip from Yentl, she plays a Polish Jew en route emigrating to America

Bryan Adams Barbra Streisand - I Finally Found Someone

Hamster Dance

Don't know the artist's name but that is the name of this track

Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade

SURELY, MORE THAN ANYTHING else this tune is World War II? (To me it is, far more than anything by Dame Vera Lynn.) I've been wondering what this tune is called for ages ....

... and now I know...

Free Hugs Berlin 10/2/7 by Sigur Ros

I've found lots of Sigur Ros on the Blogosphere

found this one at Bluez0628's blog

Leftfield - Release the Pressure

Leftfield's Leftism is one of the supreme albums of the 1990s... it's as inherent to the decade as Pink Floyd were to the 1970s and this track opens that classic album

Enya - Watermark

Watermark was the first Enya album I ever got...

Enya - Exile

Although this music reminds me of being extremely depressed alone in a Norwich flat, living off toast and marmelade sandwiches and warming myself by a potato-waffles-style gas fire, I still think this is a top floaty, spacey tune

Enya - Angels

Enya - The Celts

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black vid

Original promo vid

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive

That hen-night classic! And here it is in full "original promo vid" 1979 glory!

Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer For You

Live from the Cliff Richard Show, (UK) 1970

Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer "rare live version"

Barbra Streisand - Left in the Dark

I've never heard of this song b4 ... and don't you think she ought to have had the director shot for that shot of her nose in silhouette? I honestly thought it was a Spitting Image production until a closer look and it was indeed actually her ... hmmm... well, here goes:

This isn't very good. In so many ways. You have been warned::~

Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand - You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Live duet:

Amy Winehouse & Paul Weller - Heard It Thru The Grapevine

As performed live on Jules Holland's BBC show

Amy Winehouse - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

Photomontage

Amy Winehouse - Take the Box

Original promo vid ...

Amy Winehouse With Jules Holland

Jules Holland is a BBC musical staple of "worthy" rocksy bluesy folksy music with "cred"

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black - Joes Pub NYC

LIVE!!

Amy Winehouse - Rehab - Live on Letterman

She carries on the way she's currently going she's gonna have to say yes to rehab or she'll join the rock-'n'-roll early grave hall of fame ... which is no great achievement. It is sad. Clean up, Amy!

Amy Winehouse - In My Bed Live

Courtesy the AOL Sessions

Amy Winehouse - Me And Mr Jones

This is live concert footage. Sorry the quality of sound and picture isn't too hot... I included this as it evokes that "authentic" life performance feel...

And isn't she a professional. Wow!

Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good

Original promo vid (not live)

This is the second single from her second album Back to Black

Heineken Technophonic Dance Party

Amy Winehouse - Stronger Than Me

Original promo vid

Amy Winehouse - In My Bed

This is the original official promo video...

Amy Winehouse - Amy Amy Amy

This isn't actually a "video"... just her very best track set to a still photograph!

Don McLean - Crying

Madonna - American Pie

Don McLean - American Pie

Don McLean - Vincent (Starry Starry Night)

Don McLean - The Grave (ii)

Both this version and that below are home-made video montages of this, one of Don Maclean's best songs ...

Don McLean - The Grave

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence (in Central Park)

In this clip they're a bit older ...

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence II

1970s (colour) TV (live) performance ...

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

Black-&-white 60s TV (live) performance ...

Dolly Parton ~ Jolene

The song is an autobiographical pleading to a real Jolene not to take away Dolly's man... who has stayed with her for decades by now... recently, according to the National Enquirer, she declared onstage that she sometimes wishes Jolene had actually run off with the old fart!!

Barbra Streisand - Places That Belong To You

This is a sung version of the theme tune from the 1991 movie Prince of Tides

Barbra Streisand ~ Hatikvah

This happened in the 80s: why else the comedy haircut..?!?

Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were

Doesn't she look like Amy Winehouse's lost sister..?

What is it about Jewish girls and singing..?

This one's got one hell of a voice on her ::~

Amy Winehouse - F- Me Pumps

There really is a whole generation of young girls whose only ambition is to be footballers' wives ..!

Amy Winehouse & Charlotte Church ~ Beat It

This was extracted from Charlotte Church's show on Channel 4...

Notice how bemused she appears to be by Amy's rather bizarre rendition::~

Say Say Say (Justin Timberlake & Usher)

This is a fan video. Original soundtrack sung by Paul MacCartney and Michael Jackson but video spliced into a performance by Justin and Usher...

Eddie Murphy with Michael Jackson ~ What's Up With You?

Eddie Murphy seems to think he is Prince. But ho-hummmmm...

Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson - Say Say Say

Paul McArtney wrote this. It's so much better than Michael Jackson's attempt at a riposte: the dreadful "Girl is Mine" Ukk!

Rockwell (feat. Michael Jackson) - Somebody's Watching Me

Yes! Michael Jackson himself provides guest vocals!

But only (strangely) because "Rockwell" happened to be the son of Michael Jackson's old record company boss ...

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

Brian Adams - Everthing I Do

Featured in the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood Prince of Theives, this is one of those songs that got plain annoying here in Britain. Because it hit number one and stayed there for over ten weeks. Which was very annoying.

Brian Adams - Heaven - Live in Lisbon

This is a live performing of the original which "DJ Sammy" (below) covered ...

DJ Sammy - We're in Heaven

For a long time on hearing this frequently as it rose and fell through the charts I thought I'd heard it somewhere before ... I was right. This is actually a cover of a BRIAN ADAMS track!! (See above!)

Cafe del Mar - Open Your Mind

Rob Thomas - Little Wonders

This came from a Disney film originally

but I came across it at a blog called True To My Thoughts.

I like this tune ...

Eamon - (F*** It) I Don't Want You Back / Frankee FURB (F*** U Right Back)

Eamon - (F*** It) I Don't Want You Back

This was dedicated to Eamon's ex-girlf Frankee, who reponded in kind by releasing the very same tune at the very same time! His got to number one, her's sadly peaked at number three. His is the better vocal.



Frankee - FURB (F*** U Right Back)

Frankee's one came out at the same time as Eamon's song (above). Maybe the video's better, but I think he put in a much better performance.

Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?

Isn't this Lily Allen? Or is it a joke? Or something? I never know this stuff ...

Sting - English Man In New York

Borrowed from http://bitacoradelamujermaravilla.blogspot.com/

Culture Club - Church of the Poison Mind

This was before Boy George poisoned his own mind with all those drugs!

Obie Trice - Got Some Teeth

I'm not that much into "hiphop" but this is my favourite "rap" video of all time:

Music Video:GOT SOME TEETH (by Obie Trice)

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Obie Trice - Got Some Teeth
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Candyflip - Strawberry Fields For Ever

This is a 1990s Generation-E take on the famous 1960s song...

("Candyflip" means a drug coctail of LSD taken on top of MDMA ("ecstasy"))

Beatles - Strawberry Fields For Ever

Look at this home-made video. It looks so 1970s! (I know it was shot in the late 60s, but you know how fashions grow from a 60s seed into an early 70s hippie explosion!)

Sia - Breathe Me

Nicked from Deb's blog ... thanks Deb

Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror Live - Grammys 1988

What am I saying?? That singin' ain't live at all!!

Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows ...

Purloined from Whitenoise's blog ...

Tina Turner - Simply The Best

This is her best as well ...

Foreigner - I Wanna Know What Love Is

The "humming" introduction (what is that? a synthesized human voice? I haven't a clue) ... well that intro really got me ... couldn't for the life of me all morning figure what the tune was ... certainly not who it was by.

Finally I found it. Here goes. Powerballadtastic it is too!!

T'pau - China in Your Hand

This one went to number one in 1987 and sold more than any other single that year in the UK.

It featured heavily in last weekend's Power Ballad Sunday and has been circling round my brains ever since. I don't know why I'm posting up so much stuff that I find "annoying" ... but like most of it, I kinda like this one also ...

One radio DJ of the time said that T'pau were "like Margaret Thatcher; because everyone votes them in but no-one will admit to liking them..." Pretty good comparison, actually!

Michael Jackson - Liberian Girl

I think Liberian Girl is one of Michael Jackson's prettiest songs. Pretty being the operative word. Because it's musical candyfloss, as I'm sure the more puritanical musicologists among you will agree. Not worthy of the epithet beautiful; it is, nonetheless ... exceedingly pretty ...

Note how this "dedicated to Elizabeth Taylor" video contains all the great and the so-called "good" of the era ... circa 1989 ... including a particularly shrill Debbie Gibson ... Hollywood vulgarians the lot of them!

In fact so much attention is paid to the all-star cast of this video, the song's pracically drowned out behind their jabberings

have a look and see what you think

Madonna - Hanky Panky - Blonde Ambition Tour

Madonna - True Blue

This is a rare "treat" if you like Madonna. Because she dedicated this song to Sean Penn and because it reminds her so much of him, she has refused to perform it since the late 80s. Or to have it included in any video compilations or greatest hitses

Madonna - Deeper and Deeper

Madonna - Deeper and Deeper - Love Bizarre Mix

I've no idea whether this is an "official" video of her's or something a fan made (so hard to tell the difference these days!) ... but here we go:

Madonna - Like a Prayer (Original Promo Vid)

Along with Hung Up and Vogue, this is one of her all time best songs.

Madonna - Like a Prayer - Re-Invention

Madonna - Like a Prayer - Live 8

Madonna - Live Earth - Hey You

Madonna - Live Earth - Ray of Light

Madonna - La Isla Bonita (Better Sound Quality)

from Live Earth

This one has better sound than that above

Madonna - Live Earth - Hung Up

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

This is frequently given the honour of Most Annoying Record of All Time

To be honest I don't mind it (Whitney Houston's take on I Will Always Love You is far more irritating to me ...)

Of course the hit song (12 weeks at number one here in the UK) came from the hit movie Titanic who's stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio feature in the clips in this acompanying video...

Mariah Carey - Without You

(Personally I prefer the Celine Dion version (but I cannot find it to post that too))

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

This massive hit (which hit number one in Britain & reminaed there for about 12 weeks) often tops polls of Best Loved and Most Hated records of all time simultaneously. I don't mind it but it's not my favourite.

Came from the hit movie The Bodyguard, starring Kevin Costner

Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

Starship ~ Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. Original video edit.

This massive 1980s number one hit single was taken from the film Mannequin ~ which, from the video looks like one hell of a movie ~ but to this day (even at Christmas time) I've never known it to be shown on British TV.

Notice who the "mannequin" is played by: Sex and the City's Kim Cattrel

She is starring opposite a guy whose face I know from a zillion films but never knew (before I just googled it) that he was called Andrew McCarthy ...

Starship - Mannequin Remixed - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

Mannequin Remixed ~ Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now