Pickled Egg Jukebox-Your Selections

[myglaren]

Nice try Neil, a bit to far in the past, this would have been 2012-2014 and the song "Bring Him Home"
That clip has been withdrawn so even the last few lines are gone.

[NewcastleFalcon]

I knew she wasn't your contralto Steve! As you say, it was 1939 but a fascinating story though. At the time she was regarded as one of the worlds leading opera singers, but still faced the predudice of the ignorant. She performed on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial, after being refused the largest indoor stage in Washington. She performed to 75,000 people outside the Lincoln Memorial, and many more on the radio broadcast which you can listen to on the link.

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

I'll have a listen to that at some point Neil, going offline for a while now.

[mickthemaverick]

What do you think of this version Steve?:

[mickthemaverick]

Or this version Steve?:

[myglaren]

Colm Wilson is pretty much the default Jean Valjean - I posted Alfie Boe as he had previously been mentioned.
Rachel Berry sounds strained and uncomfortable.
This is better but too high and too operatic:



Kristin Chenoweth does remarkably well considering her speaking voice:



Susan Boyle is also very good, but too high:



As is this anonymous one:


Close but not quite.

I did have an English amateur who was closest but can't find her - I don't seem to have saved her videos.
This may be her.



None match the one at the Memorial Service, her voice was much lower and smoother, like a rich port or velvety chocolate (shades of Jilly Goolden there), I've listened to hundreds and none quite do it.

It was this show:



It was just before this, the missing clip started slightly earlier.

[NewcastleFalcon]

From POTD, Walk between the Raindrops



REgards Neil

[bobins]

...and from the next POTD after that - a Ring Of Fire

[NewcastleFalcon]

and from Classics under 10K with the Wolseley Hornet and The Alfa Romeo Spider we need a Spider and a Hornet song not necessarily the same song. Surprise me!

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

That gives me the opportunity to link back to Neil's poetry in "On Your Bike":

[bobins]

and from Classics under 10K with the Wolseley Hornet and The Alfa Romeo Spider we need a Spider and a Hornet song not necessarily the same song. Surprise me!

REgards Neil

Can I get away with a song by Sting for the 'hornet' song ?




And as for spiders.....

"On candy stripe legs the Spiderman comes"

[NewcastleFalcon]

Of course Sting's from up here always pleased to see him at the Pickled Egg. Almost time again to dig out his winter album again!

So thats almost nailed the spider and the hornet, but what about the Wolseley and the Alfa? Off to paddle around song lyrics to see if there is anything appropriate. Could of course have Mrs Robinson from the Graduate seeing as Dustin Hoffman drove round in an Alfa in the movie Would have been more memorable if he had done it in a Wolseley Hornet though!

Did I ever tell anyone it wasn't Anne Bancroft's legs in the famous movie poster, but most likely Linda Gray (Sue Ellen Ewing from Dallas)

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

Must watch Butch Cassidy & The Midnight Kid one day.

Reminded me of this:

[bobins]

So thats almost nailed the spider and the hornet, but what about the Wolseley and the Alfa?
Regards Neil

You could always have an Alfa Romeo and Juliet ...sung by another one of your locals

[bobins]

So thats almost nailed the spider and the hornet, but what about the Wolseley..........

Regards Neil

Half a point for getting the link.....