Off Topic The Arts Thread (Paintings, Music etc)

Brilliant stuff Swanny. I don't have a religious bone in my body, but good gospel music really fires up the old neurons. Thanks mate.

 

Cyc, maybe the pastor/preacher in the film can influence you on religion? Move red ball to 1.40 for his words of wisdom. Erm, should warn you, takes a bit of understanding. He stretches the English language a bit...

 

Holy **** ... I've been smote.

 

Continuing on the theme, I came across a group called the Sensational Nightingales who first made it big in the 1950s. The singer is a bloke called Julius Cheeks.

 

G'day Swanny. Here a group I do know, the Blind Boys of Alabama. I could be wrong, but I think they cut to Rosetta Tharpe on guitar.

 

Good day, Cyc. Wow, very good! Years ago went and saw a gospel group who were performing just outside of Munich somewhere, never forgot the evening. The whole place really buzzed!

............as the Pastor said in above clip, "and now.............let us pray".

 

Once ya' start looking, this stuff pops up everywhere. The Jubalaires with just a single, soft guitar backing.

 

Swanny was good enough to post a clip, which I greatly enjoyed, of a small jet that was backed by Edith Piaf singing Non Je ne Regrette Rien. That led me in search of a live performance. In 1962, Edith performed to a very appreciative audience. A year later, the lady would be gone, aged just 47.

 

Another version, this time from 1960. With subtitles. An amazing lady.

 

Cheers Cyc; one of the songs I hum while carousing about the boulevards and narrow alleys of Paris. Off to Auteuil for the Grand Steeplechase de Paris in less than two weeks now!

 

Thanks, Cyc, gosh that's very sad too. A voice in a million, and gone from us at 47.

 

Jim Reeves in Oslo, April 1964. 4 months later and aged 40, he's die at the controls of his light plane while battling a storm.

 

Zimm with a classic from a 1964 CBC TV Quest performance.

 

Another Dylan classic, this time featuring the sublime voice of Mary Travers.

 

Don Williams from 1982.

 

Bobby Bare circa 1964.

 

Lazy Lester in 2011, aged 78. An amazing man. And the way that young lady smiles at him at the end is something else. I'm now a jealous bastard.

 

A man considered one of the all time great "shouters," Big Joe Turner was born on this day in 1911. The 6'2" and 20 stone colossus had quite a number monster hits, one of which was Flip, Flop, Fly, a song he made famous in 1955, but filmed here in 1966 in Germany.

 

Love this song.

 

Kirsty Bertarelli (née Roper, born in Staffordshire UK, former Miss UK), not the greatest singer by any means, but a songwriter of some repute, together with her husband Ernesto a philanthropist, and, erm, I almost forgot, worth over 9-billion quid and therefore one of the world's richest women! Still a looker today at 45, with three kids too. Here she is in 2010 singing her own 'Black Coffee':

I really wouldn't care too much if her singing was not quite up to scratch.