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Like a Violin without strings
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Dusty Springfield ‘s real big hit (Her only # 1 ) was ” You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me ” which was originally an Italian ballad she heard at The San Remo Music Festival in early 1960s in Italy, which she was at along with Petula Clark, etc, and had English lyrics written to the tune, by Vicki Wickenham/ Simon Napier thus making it her only # 1 hit in her career, here’s a YouTube link of the guy who originally sang it in Italian whom she had heard it from :
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Now here’s a live version of Dusty singing her version from the concert she did at the NME Poll Awards 1964/65 Awards …
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Hi Jacki, a beautiful song and a great voice. And thanks for the information about the history of the song. Very interesting. It’s funny what twisted paths some songs take before they become a hit.
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The Sugababes girl group, did an awesome live performance where a hologram type or however they did it in tech dept, of duetting with Dusty to make it as thiugh Dusty was actually there singing alongside them ( this idea of mixing someone that has passed on into a video with their son/daughter is a cool concept and has already been kinda of done by Hank Williams Jr and Hank W the 3rd with Hank Williams and Nat King /Natalie Cole )
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Great performance Jacki. It’s amazing how real Dusty Springfield looks in that video. She did some great music indeed.
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Dusty Springfield is one of a very small number of artists who won me over independently on several different occasions, simply because for a long time I had no idea that all those great songs I was hearing on the radio were all by the same person.
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Sadly, Ronnie Spector passed away today. She was mentioned a couple of times on this thread.
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Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes. It’s sad when people have to go David. What remains are the beautiful memories of her music.
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Italy and Spain
Alice
The singer Alice celebrated her greatest successes in the 80s.
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Ella baila sola
Ella baila sola is a Spanish musical duet formed by Marta BotÃa Alonso and Marilia Andrés Casares:
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Ana Torroja
(Vocalist of the band Mecano, one of the most successful spanish pop bands of all time. The band is still the best-selling Spanish band, with over 25 million records worldwide).
A charming/melancholic song that has been with me all my life.
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Las Ketchup
The group consisted of the four sisters Lola, LucÃa, Pilar and RocÃo Muñoz from Córdoba in Andalusia. They produced also a „pure“ Spanish version of the song, but it sounds exactly the same. It was once a party hit and a catchy tune with us. With every Sangria the song got better (and then this crazy dance to it) 🙂
PS: for their album “Hijas del Tomate” (“The daughters of the tomato”) they received the Golden Record award in France and Sweden in 2002.
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And now something completely exotic: Song Zuying is an ethnic Miao Chinese singer and enjoys great popularity in her home country. The joint duet with Celine Dion has something remarkable.
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I almost forgot a Canadian: Béatrice Martin, better known by her stage name „Cœur de pirate“:
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Hi Jurgen, what a rich and diverse series of artists and their music. You don’t have to understand the lyrics when the music is good. Ana Torroja is very beautiful and melancholic, sometimes the sadder songs are the best, because the emotions are so rich and moving. I liked the piano runs in CÅ“ur de pirate, and Las Ketchup is a lot of fun. I can see it get even better with some more Sangria for sure! ???? Thanks for this great post, really enjoyed all the music by the great lady artists from all over the world.
Here is another melancholic one by Enya. She is a New Age artist, and I liked some of her music. This song was featured in the movie “Sweet November” which is a really sad movie about how precious our time is when it’s very limited, but this song really added to the movie’s impact I think.
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Thanks for the feedback Jung. Most of the songs from CÅ“ur de pirate sound like French chanson at first and are influenced by this piano playing. The song by Enya is great and the video is artistically made very appealing. It’s just always enchanting when music and images merge. An art form that I no longer want to miss.
I thank you very much for the many great contributions to this topic and also to all others who have supported this topic excellently! I would like to say goodbye at this point with a song by Gabriele Susanne Kerner (artist name Nena) with which I personally associate very beautiful memories:
Im Sturz durch Raum und Zeit
Richtung Unendlichkeit
Fliegen Motten in das Licht
Genau wie du und ichIrgendwie fängt irgendwann
Irgendwo die Zukunft an
Ich warte nicht mehr lang
Liebe wird aus Mut gemacht
Denk nicht lange nach
Wir fahr’n auf Feuerrädern
Richtung Zukunft durch die NachtFalling through space and time
Towards infinity
Moths fly into the light
Just like you and me
Somehow, sometime
Somewhere the future begins
I won’t wait long
Love is made of courage
Don’t think twice
We’ll ride on firewheels
Towards the future through the night -
I love Shirley Manson (Garbage). Here is a softer song off their Beautiful Garbage album. I think it shows great versatility.
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Wow Diana, 3 posts on this topic at once. Cool. That’s fun.
A beautiful song by Shirley Manson, which I did not know before. I have somewhere and somehow already heard of the band Garbage. I like the music very much. Is the whole album in this style?
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Hello my friend. This album is very eclectic. Some of the videos may be too risque to post. This is one of the more mellow songs on the album. Garbage is hard to put into a category. They’ve been called Alternative Rock, Trip Hop, Post-Grunge, and Industrial Rock. I’m sure several people in the club may not like them (however they are one of my all time favorite bands). Below, I posted “I Think I’m Paranoid” (from a different album) to give you an idea of how versatile they are. Fun fact: The drummer ( Butch Vig) produced Nirvana’s Nevermind
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Wow again, Diana. I like “I think I’m paranoid” a lot. „Crunchy“ guitar riffs, a catchy melody and a certain spice that accompanies the song. I like such songs that are diversified. The mixture of harshness and a beautiful melody results in a nice tension. After hearing this song, I can well imagine that the band cannot be clearly assigned to a genre. Sometimes it’s nice when music doesn’t fit into a single drawer. I also often think about whether I should post certain genres of music or certain music videos here in the forum or not. I know what genre of music is desired here and I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings either. With garbage you have made me curious in any case and I’ll google about the band. Thanks. Which is your favorite album of this band or is there a “best of”?
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Hi Jurgen,
I’m soo glad you like Garbage. I would say my favorite albums are “Garbage”, “Garbage 2.0” and “Beautiful Garbage”. Actually, I love most of their music. I agree that you have to be careful what you post. Here is a song off of “Absolute Garbage” which is a greatest hits album that I absolutely love (but I’m not posting the video). It’s called “Tell Me Where It Hurts”
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Thanks Diana,
I also like this song very much. Then I’m busy the next few days and will listen to Garbage. I’m always happy when I find new music ideas here in the forum.
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I also love Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders).
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And again my musical horizon has expanded 🙂 This is another song I have not heard before. Very nice selection.
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Did I miss any posts on Karen Carpenter. This is the last song she sang. Richard had to finish it after she left us way too soon.
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The opening rosebud at the beginning of the video fits wonderfully with the song, which also opens like a blossom in the first warming sunbeams of the beginning morning.
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I also enjoy the fiddling music of a local area fiddler , originally from my hometown area ,who now lives in the USA, toured worldwide and also sings/stepdances/tap dances …Her name is April Verch ????
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Like a violin with fairy hair
Hi Jacki. Did you mean this April Verche? Great choice. I love Irish folk and accordingly the fiddle. What kind of music does April play exactly? It sounds like a mixture of Irish folk and country music. What do you think?
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HHi Jurgen, it’s now almostv4 AM, my time, I had a bit of insomnia but now tired and need andcready to sleep but wanted to quickly reply back regarding April Verch’s music style of Fiddle playing… Yes, it is a mixture of Irish Folk/Appalachian /Country but stemming from up the way in my area where she’s from, called Pembroke ( part of the Ottawa Valley) , it’s quite Celtic rooted up there with population mostly of Irish/Scottish origins thus fiddling and stepdancing and country music is common place up there in that area but as I said, she now lives in the USA . Pembroke is about an hour away from me . She is considered more Folk as a genre …Love her stuff, I met her when she was 12/13 at a local rural fair in my late Mom’s hometown yrs ago….April is in her late 30s- early 40s now … and now I bud you a Goodnight, hoping that helped answer your April music type question !
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Wonderful Jacki. I didn’t expect so much background information. Thank you for the very detailed description. It all sounds very exciting. If I understood you correctly, the Ottawa area has predominantly English-speaking founding fathers. Is this also true for the entire east coast? Quebec is French speaking as far as I know. Are there regional differences in music there as well? So traditionally different music is heard and played in Quebec than in the English-speaking regions of Canada?
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Of course, we have to include Helen Reddy’s “I Am Women”. She co-wrote this song and it became the anthem for the Equal Rights Amendment
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