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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9hR-pPSOq0 loves been good to me, sinatra (rod mckuen's song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSlp6LgJ-u0 my way
Whilst I enjoy these renditions ... I love the next one ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENofkGLo5ks&mode=related&search= bassey, my way
Mafioso vs true artist ;)
I suspect that when bassey says “my way” and says “she’s loved, laughed, cried etc”, you appreciate the fact that (a) she didn’t have the Mafioso concubines, and (b) she really did have some tough times (and really did laugh and/or cry maybe ?)

read the story of marilyn monroe's last years to see what sinatra was really like ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmQfVYi51A johnny cash - i suspect about 2 weeks before he kicked the bucket .- but nonetheless "genuine"
 
2020hindsight said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCOBAnrJp4w boxer, first audition - listen for the blooper " i have squandered" lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zac-E3k-PIs&mode=related&search= ditto after some practice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7LKAcGaDxA&mode=related&search= ditto paul simon only ;) - i suspect he's better by himself than with garfunkel (at least you listen to the lyrics !) you wonder is it's harder to concentrate on the lyrics when there are two singing (?)
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One of my fav's... good stuff
 
One of my all time faves is Live's "Dance with You"

"The stillness in your eyes
convinces me that I... I don't know a thing.

And I been around the world
and tasted all the wines
a half a billion times.

Came sick into your shores.
You showed me what this life is for."
 
2020hindsight said:
Wayne, yep gr8, irony is those kids wil probably grow up to have voices like Joe Cocker ;) I mean YOU probably sang like that once!
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I was kicked out of the school choir :(

These days I fancy myself as a bit like Bryn Terfel.... but Mrs assures me it just ain't so lol
 
CAROUSEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlzaoNUyXU soliloquy – carousel, Gordon MacRae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66MvvkXg8JI&mode=related&search= if I loved you - as a ghost - top song imho (after this he goes back to spit polishing the stars lol)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAn6BU4LhF0 choir - you'll never walk alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_eBOpLP_g&mode=related&search= liverpool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8cffEaZGh0&mode=related&search= celtic glasgow

OKLAHOMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwiFqjyBJ2o&mode=related&search= oh what a beautiful morning (the corn suddenly appears on que lol – you almost expect to see an elephant as well lol.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8ffo3zFMw&mode=related&search= oklahoma

SOUTH PACIFIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amZVqu0XOQM&mode=related&search= wonderful guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Bv10YwXSw&mode=related&search= nothin like a dame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zRUxTEtY0&mode=related&search= honey bun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXWXe57fuBo&mode=related&search= happy talk
 
Janis- con'td just because it's good

"Worked hard all my lifetime, No help from my friends, Oh Lord won't you you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Oh Lord won't you buy me a colour TV, darling four dollars is trying to find me, I wait for delivery each day until 3, oh Lord won't you buy me a colour TV.
Oh Lord won't you buy me a night on the town. I'm counting on you Lord please don't let me down. PROOVE that you love me and buy the next round. Oh Lord won't you buy me a night on the town. EVERYBODY" - Chorus

I loved it.

Because I thought it was clever:

By Mental as Anything, but a take off of someone I don't know - "If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me".

They're old, and there's some great new stuff, but I don't know if I can say it here, but I guess I'll learn, here goes.

Hilltop Hoods

"John Howard knows the taste of George's dick". My apologies to those who my be offended, but I thought it apt. There's some great new lyrics out there.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBPtbexLYqg&mode=related&search= billy joel, goodnight my angel, with czar (not sure why , but at least the song is complete with this version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O2s9ExNPbc ditto billy joel singing
I once heard him interviewed over this - the child (then only 5 or so) was concerned that the parents had just divorced - so he had to reassure her.
"i promised I would never leave you"

She also wanted to know about death. He then put to the child that he would not die whilever she remembered this song for instance , hence

"Someday your child may cry
And if you sing this lullabye
Then in your heart
There will always be a part of me

Someday we'll all be gone
But lullabyes go on and on...
They never die
That's how you
And I Will be"

Personally I love the concept. ;)

GOODNIGHT MY ANGEL
Billy Joel

Goodnight, my angel
Time to close your eyes
And save these questions for another day
I think I know what you've been asking me
I think you know what I've been trying to say
I promised I would never leave you
And you should always know
Wherever you may go
No matter where you are
I never will be far away

Goodnight, my angel
Now it's time to sleep
And still so many things I want to say
Remember all the songs you sang for me
When we went sailing on an emerald bay
And like a boat out on the ocean
I'm rocking you to sleep
The water's dark and deep
Inside this ancient heart
You'll always be a part of me

Lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu
lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu

Goodnight, my angel
Now it's time to dream
And dream how wonderful your life will be
Someday your child may cry
And if you sing this lullabye
Then in your heart
There will always be a part of me

Someday we'll all be gone
But lullabyes go on and on...
They never die
That's how you
And I Will be
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA6UispM7u4 billy joel, honesty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ACgdlyPJg ballad of billy the kid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_v_DvpqBkE&mode=related&search= we didn’t start the fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd66VH3AQSo&mode=related&search= for the longest time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rEWKeUA4r0&mode=related&search= an innocent man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweP3bn6y70 my life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edWOYy5Ld3U piano man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wjXhVHqTVo&mode=related&search= a matter of trust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpI5xGmf5II&mode=related&search= leave a tender moment alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGqgZgdkzoc&mode=related&search= Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (bottle of red)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDm0ZJY8mZY&mode=related&search= don’t ask me why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDn3fW0jBIw&mode=related&search= pressure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcvxYmXk58&mode=related&search= you may be right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOkxnk1hxRo&mode=related&search= Allentown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXoaAJ0fECI&mode=related&search= still rock n roll to me
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VsLeK_uNKU
LENINGRAD (Billy Joel)

Viktor was born in the spring of '44
And never saw his father anymore
A child of sacrifice, a child of war
Another son who never had A father after Leningrad

Went off to school and learned to serve the state
Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight
The only way to live was drown the hate
A Russian life was very sad And such was life in Leningrad

I was born in '49 A cold war kid in McCarthy time
Stop 'em at the 38th Parallel Blast those yellow reds to hell
And cold war kids were hard to kill Under their desk in an air raid drill
Haven't they heard we won the war What do they keep on fighting for?

Viktor was sent to some Red Army town
Served out his time, became a circus clown
The greatest happiness he'd ever found
Was making Russian children glad And children lived in Leningrad

But children lived in Levittown And hid in the shelters underground
Until the Soviets turned their ships around And tore the Cuban missiles down
And in that bright October sun We knew our childhood days were done
And I watched my friends go off to war What do they keep on fighting for?

And so my child and I came to this place
To meet him eye to eye and face to face
He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced
We never knew what friends we had Until we came to Leningrad

posts on youtube include :-
"-...does more for understanding each other than a thousand speeches. Here in Germany, we know these two worlds. Thank Billy"

"possibly the best song ever done that puts the cold war in perspective; I love the parallel lives that intersect at the end: by the time the song ends you will know "Viktor" better than your own brother, I wish I could write lyrics like that ("another son who never had - a father after Leningrad" is GENIUS LEVEL), what a story, and what a melody! "
 
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