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Post by Martin on Sept 29, 2015 13:21:11 GMT
Let's try not to be pedantic in this thread (or indeed any thread) when replying to members' posts!
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Post by Dave on Sept 29, 2015 16:41:57 GMT
...the video I'd like to share is this one
SONGBIRD - BBC TV for Children in need. Again a really heartfelt and vocally precise performance. It's really a tie between the underrated Million Miles away and Songbird, but if you're going for one with a video, you have your answer  I am quoting this video because of a new comment about it on our Youtube, short and sweet: Says it all really. Cheers, Dave |
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Post by Simba on Sept 30, 2015 16:18:30 GMT
While it's a sweet comment, I don't see why it's a big deal that it was as good as Eva Cassidy's (I feel it's better), because it seems to be irrelevant when the original song is by Christine McVie. Sadly this is one of those songs like Whitney Houston's I will always love you, where people disregard the original by Dolly, and comments saying "Whitney houston wrote the song, it can't be better than that" is cringeworthy. Ofcourse Dave I don't assume you are not aware of the original version, just that I don't really see that as much of a compliment, as much as it sure is |
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Post by martindn on Sept 30, 2015 22:22:41 GMT
I suppose Eva Cassidy's version is seen by many people as the definitive one, quite surprising really when you remember how well Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours sold, it must have outsold Eva's version. Personally I prefer Hayley's version too, I think that is the best.
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Post by Libby on Oct 1, 2015 2:35:25 GMT
I never knew the song River wasn't originally by Sarah McLachlan until Hayley sang it. Actually, until Hayley sang BSN, I had never even heard of Joni Mitchell. I just don't think she's very well-known in the US.
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Post by cloudbusting.heights on Oct 1, 2015 3:37:32 GMT
I never knew the song River wasn't an original by Sarah McLachlan until Hayley sang it. Actually, until Hayley sang BSN, I had never even heard of Joni Mitchell. I just don't think she's very well-known in the US. Who's not well known in the US? Joni Mitchell? You're kidding, right? She wrote and sang BSN, River, Woodstock, Urge for Going, Big Yellow Taxi...to name a few popular hits that so many people have sung after her. She's recorded so many albums! My grandma liked her music when she was in college LOL I first discovered JM in high school and learned to play BSN on the piano. Still play it to this day  |
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Post by Libby on Oct 1, 2015 4:36:16 GMT
Again, I've heard of Big Yellow Taxi, but it probably still wasn't until I heard of Joni Mitchell from Hayley that I discovered she was the original singer. You're going to be shocked again, but when my parents first heard Hayley's BSN, they recognized the song, but they thought the original singer was Judy Collins! But I've heard a few versions of Yellow Taxi in the past, the first one being by Amy Grant, who I used to listen to a lot when I was younger (however I never paid attention to who wrote the songs, etc.). Out of the versions I've heard, I still honestly don't know which one is Joni Mitchell, or if I've even heard her version. More recently I've heard a mildly annoying version on the radio at work, but I don't think it's her. Honestly I'm not even interested in the song enough to even find out, though I do appreciate its message. I can't say that I recognize the other songs, though. LOL I never learn. I should know better than to reveal that I've never heard of certain artists here, everyone always thinks I'm crazy. I've heard all kinds of music, but in the past, I never was told or asked who any singer was, because I wasn't really that into music when I was young. I was never really exposed to a wide variety of music. Oldies from my mom; I was told who the Beatles and Elvis were, and I heard a few different band names like the Monkeys, Righteous Brothers, but otherwise I still don't know very many of those artists, because nobody told me and I wasn't really interested. I attended dance class, I went to church and listened to the Christian radio station at home, my brother played some heavy metal that everyone else in my family hated, watched figure skating, etc. My favorite singer was Amy Grant, but I don't care for her anymore. That's pretty much it. So the only songs on the radio I really heard were Oldies and Christian music, and occasionally pop stations. When I was in high school, I started listening to Christian rock. It wasn't until the first time I heard Time to Say Goodbye in figure skating that I was truly introduced to the CC genre. Then, it wasn't until Josh Groban and Charlotte Church that I actually started listening to the musics. I acquired a taste for indie rock/folk because of one artist in particular who has a unique voice. I guess my tastes in music are governed more by voice than genre. I never listen to the radio on my own now; what for, they never play anything I like! There are very few local stations that would play music like Joni's, anyway, so again, it's not my fault.  So, anyway, that's my music story. Please, everyone, no more shock and horror. Martin and Comet at least ought to know that I've hardly heard of anybody they know. I just have to remember never to say what singers I haven't heard of ever again. Well, I knew I was in danger when I said that, so I did remember, but never, ever again. And if you think I'm making a big deal, I am, because I've been through this explanation one too many times, and the shock and horror just gets a little old. |
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Post by John H on Oct 1, 2015 10:17:14 GMT
You are not alone, Libby. The whole pop and contemporary music scene passed me by pretty much unnoticed for about 30 years. Anything since ABBA is a blank space to me.  It was only after my wife died that I started to take an active interest in music, starting with Katherine and Hayley, and spreading (quite rapidly  ) from there to other classical crossover artists. Many songs which I later discovered to be covers were new to me the first time I heard them from CC artists. Names like Eva Cassidy and Joni Mitchell have only come to my attention in the past six years. For example, in my mind... Songbird = All Angels River = Hayley Earth Song = Sisca I still take no interest in pop music or TV talent shows.  Big Yellow Taxi??  Okay, to get back on topic, Hayley's best live performance for me has to be her opening number from her Paradiso tour at Bournemouth (2012?). 'Thousand Winds' had me curled up in my seat sobbing uncontrollably  As far as I know, it has never appeared on YouTube (maybe just as well). |
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Post by martindn on Oct 1, 2015 10:56:45 GMT
Well, John, you experience is a lot like mine. Every morning on the radio in the week, Ken Bruce does a phone-in quiz called Popmaster, asking questions about pop music. I find I can answer just about anything from the fifties, sixties and seventies, after that I am hopeless. I have no interest in modern chart music or TV talent shows. To me, all the new stuff seems derivative, whereas in the fifties, sixties and seventies innovation and new musical ideas and technologies were everywhere.
As for Hayley, I'm sure you have noticed John that she sings a lot of songs about bereavement, which perhaps only have their full effect if you have lost someone close as you and I both have. Apart from 1000 Winds, just off the top of my head
Nada Sousou
Time,
Tsubomi
A Crescent Moon
Many times always
I know you by heart
Listen to the wind
Heaven
perhaps even Love Love Love
Pretty much all of them putting a positive slant on it. Pretty much any of those can reduce me to tears. I think after lullabies, she has sung more songs about that than any other subject.
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Post by Dave on Oct 1, 2015 15:53:25 GMT
Dido's Lament But I don't think Hayley has ever sung *that* one live. Cheers (I think!) Dave |
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Post by cloudbusting.heights on Oct 1, 2015 23:51:10 GMT
Dido's Lament But I don't think Hayley has ever sung *that* one live. Cheers (I think!) Dave It is such a shame that she hasn't recorded Dido's Lament It's one of my top favorites. |
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Post by Libby on Oct 2, 2015 4:17:27 GMT
Dido's Lament But I don't think Hayley has ever sung *that* one live. Cheers (I think!) Dave It is such a shame that she hasn't recorded Dido's Lament It's one of my top favorites. She has recorded it, on the original UK edition of Odyssey. You must mean, she hasn't performed it live? |
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Post by Libby on Oct 2, 2015 4:23:42 GMT
You are not alone, Libby. The whole pop and contemporary music scene passed me by pretty much unnoticed for about 30 years. Anything since ABBA is a blank space to me. It was only after my wife died that I started to take an active interest in music, starting with Katherine and Hayley, and spreading (quite rapidly ) from there to other classical crossover artists. Many songs which I later discovered to be covers were new to me the first time I heard them from CC artists. Names like Eva Cassidy and Joni Mitchell have only come to my attention in the past six years. For example, in my mind... Songbird = All Angels River = Hayley Earth Song = Sisca I still take no interest in pop music or TV talent shows. Big Yellow Taxi?? Okay, to get back on topic, Hayley's best live performance for me has to be her opening number from her Paradiso tour at Bournemouth (2012?). 'Thousand Winds' had me curled up in my seat sobbing uncontrollably As far as I know, it has never appeared on YouTube (maybe just as well). Haha, glad I'm not the only one. Don't worry, you're not missing anything by not knowing Big Yellow Taxi. Even though I used to be a fan of Amy Grant, that was never one of my favorites, though I did listen to it sometimes. I admit I, too, didn't know Earth Song till I saw you post Sisca's video on FB! And, before Hayley's I Know You By Heart (actually, I heard Sophie sing that first) and Songbird, all I'd ever heard of Eva Cassidy is her version of Over the Rainbow, which American Idol contestants used to try to sing. LOL I think Katherine McPhee did a nice version of it, but since I only enjoy Hayley's version of the song, I barely paid attention to it. I'd definitely heard of Fleetwood Mac, but not a lot of songs, and definitely not Songbird. I'm still longing for a recording of I Know You By Heart. |
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Post by Richard on Oct 2, 2015 7:52:50 GMT
Okay, to get back on topic, Hayley's best live performance for me has to be her opening number from her Paradiso tour at Bournemouth (2012?). 'Thousand Winds' had me curled up in my seat sobbing uncontrollably As far as I know, it has never appeared on YouTube (maybe just as well). Here's Drew's video of Hayley singing "I Am A Thousand Winds" at King's Lynn Corn Exchange, 24 July 2011: Richard  |
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Post by martindn on Oct 2, 2015 10:32:36 GMT
Yes, I remember it well, I was there. Fabulous! I do miss Hayley's live performances though, perhaps more than her new album.
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) from there to other classical crossover artists. Many songs which I later discovered to be covers were new to me the first time I heard them from CC artists. Names like Eva Cassidy and Joni Mitchell have only come to my attention in the past six years.
As far as I know, it has never appeared on YouTube (maybe just as well).
