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Post by jcas on Oct 25, 2020 5:59:21 GMT -5
While listening and driving to 50s hits on Sirius yesterday and one of pop music's most prolific and well known singer/song writer from that era, Neil Sedaka, narrate performances and tell stories about those he knew during rock's formative years, I was shocked into awe, when he suddenly and with little fan fair played this:
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Post by jcas on Oct 25, 2020 7:36:27 GMT -5
BTW, it's from his album, Classically Sedaka, that he made in 1995. Here's the link to it. For those who like or love all music from Rock to Rachmaninov this may epitomize who we might classify as a "classical crossover" artist. Jackie is in good, if not great company. neilsedaka.com/classically-sedaka/
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Post by ursus on Oct 25, 2020 8:08:22 GMT -5
While listening and driving to 50s hits on Sirius yesterday and one of pop music's most prolific and well known singer/song writer from that era, Neil Sedaka, narrate performances and tell stories about those he knew during rock's formative years, I was shocked into awe, when he suddenly and with little fan fair played this: I don't recall ever hearing this played at the time. Then again, it probably wouldn't have been played on the pop stations were most of his music was played. It is certainly impressive, but I do like Jackie's renditions more. Edit: I just realized that this was sung in the 1990's. I assumed it was from the 1950's because it was on a 50's station.
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Post by jcas on Oct 25, 2020 13:33:25 GMT -5
Both Sedaka, who is now 81 and Pat Boone an unbelievable 86 years young, have been disk-jockeying on Sirius/XM radio recently. Both were music legends in my teen years. When I was in high school, you were either a fan of Pat Boone, or Elvis; never both. It was a rivalry between those who wore their jeans very low on the hip and sported a duck tailed hair cut and long side burns; or those of us who preferred a Princeton style hair cut, chinos and white bucks or chuckka boots. The point of my posting what I did was not to claim Sedaka's rendition better or preferable to Jackie's rendition which is inimitably beautiful, but my utter surprise at the depth of Sedaka's musical ability and interest to sing it at all and in fact write lyrics in English for it. He was known primarily for writing and singing what we knew in the 50s and 60s as "bubble gum" rock, kind of at the bottom of 50s/60s rock's barrel, in stark contrast to something by the likes of Chuck Berry. T
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Post by lawrence on Jun 8, 2022 22:31:12 GMT -5
not to claim Sedaka's rendition better or preferable to Jackie's rendition which is inimitably beautiful, but my utter surprise at the depth of Sedaka's musical ability and interest to sing it at all and in fact write lyrics in English for it. I really appreciate your offering of this Neil Sedaka surprise. Here's another unlikely artist playing Nessum Dorma for his encore performance at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2010. There are no boundaries to the greatness of this Puccini aria revered even in the Rock genre. A comment on the video: "Only the genius of Jeff beck can give a guitar a VOICE like this !
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2022 2:36:30 GMT -5
Klaus Meine (Scorpions) and Uli Jon Roth Nessum Dorma with own lyrics.
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Nessum Dorma is one of the most interpreted pieces of music ever.
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