You Are Too Beautiful
Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:04 | Written by bluesever | 
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You Are Too Beautiful
It's hard for most of today's audience to imagine why Al Jolson was once considered the world's greatest entertainer. Having taken a successful gamble by experimenting with sound in The Jazz Singer ( Warner Bros. 1927), he took another chance six years later with Hallelujah I'm a Bum (GB: Hallelujah I'm a Tramp) and flopped.
You Are Too Beautiful
Jolson plays a genial hobo who wanders happily around Central Park, neither seeking nor accepting honest employment. He...
It's hard for most of today's audience to imagine why Al Jolson was once considered the world's greatest entertainer. Having taken a successful gamble by experimenting with sound in The Jazz Singer ( Warner Bros. 1927), he took another chance six years later with Hallelujah I'm a Bum (GB: Hallelujah I'm a Tramp) and flopped.
You Are Too Beautiful
Jolson plays a genial hobo who wanders happily around Central Park, neither seeking nor accepting honest employment. He...
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Frederic Chopin – Fantaisie Impromptu
Tuesday, 04 June 2013 20:41 | Written by bluesever |
Frederic Chopin – Fantaisie Impromptu
Chopin's Impromptus have something of a reputation as "salon music," largely because the form itself seems to imply something improvised, transient, or insignificant. But when you play them like the greatest music in the world, it's hard not to believe that the music actually is the greatest in the world, or in any event so fine as to make no difference. Chopin - Fantaisie Impromptu in C sharp minor Op.66 Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu is a... Tu, Solo Tu (You, Only You)
Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:19 | Written by bluelover |
Tu, Solo Tu (You, Only You)
Tú Sólo Tú is a song composed by Felipe Valdés Leal (1899 – 1988) for Pedro Infante in 1949. Pedro Infante (1917 – 1957), is one of the most famous actors and singers of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and is an idol of the Latinamerican people. He died on 15 April 1957, in Mérida, Yucatán, in a plane crash during a flight en route to Mexico City. Tu Solo Tu "Tú sólo tú" was recorded by American artist Selena for her fifth studio album Dreaming... |
Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground
Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:58 | Written by bluesever |
Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground
In 1977 Carl Sagan and a team of researchers were tasked with collecting a representation of Earth and the human experience for sending on the Voyager probe to other life forms in the universe. They collected sounds of frogs, crickets, volcanoes, a human heartbeat, laughter, greetings in 55 languages, and 27 pieces of music on the Voyager Golden Record. "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" was included, according to Sagan, because "Johnson's song... Nothing Compares 2 U
Tuesday, 07 May 2013 11:38 | Written by bluelover |
Nothing Compares 2 U
Through the summer of 1990 Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinéad O'Connor was not only pervasive but quite inescapable. It was a huge international hit. You could hear it in taxis, shops, friends' houses in London, New York, Berlin, Sydney and O'Connor's home city of Dublin. It was No 1 in them all, and was the biggest selling single of the year in the US. Nothing Compares 2 U "Nothing Compares 2 U" is a song originally written and composed by Prince for one of his side... |
