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15-10-2014, 23:05
(This post was last modified: 16-10-2014, 03:47 by jazzboCR.)
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I came across these 2 versions of the same song. One is by one of the more successful, acclaimed sopranos of our era and New Zealand's gift to the world,
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. At 70, she is slowing down but leaves a rich history of operatic and operatic-inflected pop to revel in.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS5Pdw4difk
One of the better jazz singers since the '60's (and not my call--it's from jazz Elder Statesman, pianist Hank Jones) and Italy's gift to us,
Roberta Gambarini. I'll be covering her further soon. Right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovCk1vBVLz0
It's clearly understood that these aren't quality comparos, merely illustrating approaches/styles. I love them both dearly.
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16-10-2014, 09:35
(This post was last modified: 16-10-2014, 11:27 by jlvo.)
Honestly many versions of the same song is not a rare phenomenon.
With "tainted love" as text search in the Melodycatcher
http://www.melodycatcher.com/ I found
over 20 versions of that song, apart from their relevancy.
I am convinced that many famous songs even have more versions....
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Jlvo has done us a serious solid. That site comes complete with a 1-minute YT vid of how to use it. Shows the value of this Board. Again, thanks for a book-markable reference. Do you know of a site equally well-done for lyrics?
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The answer is yes: there are sites for lyrics but no: I have never found one equally well-done lyrics search engine. On-line lyric search is rather spread.
A sample of a general lyrics search engine is LyricsWorld
http://www.lyricsworld.com/
There are many more, but usually the more complete ones are limited to specified music, like English, Irish, Scottish folk etc. To find them you can Google with "lyrics" in combination with the wanted (folk) music.
Some collections have lyrics for each song. A good international example is ingeb.org
http://ingeb.org/home.html 20.000 tunes with lyrics
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jlvo Wrote:Honestly many versions of the same song is not a rare phenomenon.
With "tainted love" as text search in the Melodycatcher http://www.melodycatcher.com/ I found over 20 versions of that song, apart from their relevancy.
I am convinced that many famous songs even have more versions....
He/she is right about that. Here's that song "Tainted Love" done as a dirge--most appropriate given the subject matter and the vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9z9uSEYqY
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According to the sleeve notes, Traffic's 'John Barleycorn Must Die' has 1400 versions!!
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