Just a little something to make you smile

I can't see it.....but I know deep in my heart this is a link to Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers singing Islands in the Stream. Just has to be.

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As I said in a previous post on this same subject, if you listen to KD Lang's cover of "Crying" that she did as a tribute to Roy at the Songwriters Hall of Fame in May 1989, you can hear in her voice the raw emotion that this song carries. Roy was the best, I've always loved his songs and his style, but I have to give props where they are due, and KD's cover is certainly well worth listening to. :clap:
 
I have always liked Orbison for his voice AND emotion.

I remember 30 years ago hearing the story of how he wrote Crying sitting in an abandoned car in his parents back yard...as a teen at the time I really identified with what he was going through in that old car.
 
willy said:
But then the "Voice" sung it live for me in concert at Club Bene and I realized
Holy crap, someone with almost Roy's range

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIdE5G9yhSQ&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL07BBA02591B19ECB
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Yep, gotta admit it, Jay's got a voice for sure.. but (to me at least) that cover lacked the bitter emotions that song carrys. The music arraingement and the background singers detracted from the intensity of the song. It was good, for sure, but it just sounded like someone singing the song, not someone living the song. KD and Roy both "lived" that song in their presentations of it. (imho)
 
Agreed on the emotion part Destroyer, but I see Jay as having that and then some having seen him live four times.
There is a big difference in sound and all the other things from great performers as they mature.
If you listen to Roy in his original recordings, and you listen to him in A Black and White Evening, the quality, tone, the emotion difference is astounding.
It was the same for Jay compared to his original commercial tracks.
 
Also something else you guys may know but I did not become aware of till earlier this year, from my daughter who is a huge fan of hers.
This young girl is a song writing fool, and a quality Lady to boot.
She performed this live in front of the best in the world at the CMA's this year. Sometimes my daughter is pretty smart.
Oh and if you get a chance to see the video she made of this song, notice at the end the politically incorrect in Hollywood person she is singing it about.
An Iraq/Afghanistan Vet coming home in uniform.
Miss Taylor Swift

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcVnSo8i610
 
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