Who's heard Little Richard sing "Shake a Hand"?

If you close your eyes until the singing starts... I have always been enamored of talent that proceeds from folks to appear to be supremely untalented. The incongruity, the unexpected have always trilled me.

This isn't so much a butcher's wife singing opera as it is...well unexpectedly splendorous!



Amazing! The first performer wow... a spinto soprano and then you open your eyes! The last guy was very impressive as well. Thanks for posting this Dan!
 
This one is just plain scary. You know the scene in "Fear" where just as you get to the top of the ladder your Zoomed by a flying long dark haired little girl, that knocks you back off the ladder and you have to collect your wits before you can climb back up the ladder? That kind of scary! LOL

it's in Gaelic...I think , which has it's charms, but the music starts at 2:30.
"There are but two kinds of prodigy. Both be without and beyond our limits and so are prodigy,"
(Math & Music)

OH! In case you cut straight to the music, you'll be wondering. This won't dispel the wonder I'm afraid, She"s 9 years old. I watch her face and I swear she has a deep understanding of what she is singing about. About which I have no idea.Or perhaps she is moved so deeply my the music itself and has no need to relate it to earthy things.
Then she turns back into a child. Both seem wondrous to me.

Never saw "Fear." The little Dutch girl... holy, holy frijoles y'all! Many, many grown sopranos would do awful things to be able to sing so well!
 
Ok this one is buried 3:01 into the clip.
These two women sound like an entire choir.
Music to charm an angel.
Someone tell me how they do that!?
They really remind me of two impassioned birds inflamed with praise for the rising sun. It may be just that they stand with their feet together. but I think it's the way their mouths enunciate like hungry birds in the nest.
If I could make a "Joyous sound unto the Lord" this would be it,
In any case wow just wow.


I really enjoy the first singer as well. "Highway to Hell" and a great performance from the 68 year old woman! The ladies found at 3:01 are nonpareil! I don't know if this song was written for a duo or not, but they sing the (censored) out of it.

Thank you for posting all of these, Daniel. Great finds!
 
It's a pretty good song.

New one to me. Jamaica is a politically "bad" place for white's to holiday. Such poverty surrounds the few acres of honkey lands where the rich cavort.

Bad cloasters--as if you didn't already know this.
music is perhaps a bad place for politics?
No upon refection music just might be the cradle of politics.
 
Just a bit off the beaten path, perhaps not what's closest to your hearts.

But as my mother could still speak just a little Gaelic and I myself was involved in a physical art..
So here is a dance form a thousand years in the making, taking a shape hard left turn into the next thousand years.

What I think gives this dance form it's legs (OH! pardon me!) is that is existed for centuries not as a performance dance so much as a participants dance, EVERYBODY join in. Here they incorporate tap and elements of ballet

As I was leaving the Martial Arts I was trying to perfect my foot checking.
Basically every time my opponent tried to throw a kick my foot would just touch his as he raised it. I would connect inches off the ground where they had no momentum. Foot checking screws with their balance and timing.

While I watched these dancers I just keep thinking
"Try and foot check that hot shot!" LOL
 
Never saw "Fear." The little Dutch girl... holy, holy frijoles y'all! Many, many grown sopranos would do awful things to be able to sing so well!
Ah they they were speaking Dutch,I just couldn't place it. Thanks.

Fear was a game of yesteryear The first game to scare the pants off me.":O}
 
I love the woman. These may be her best songs, another one from later in her career really pleases me is called "Shine."
I can't find the version done live 14 years ago, I have the DVD. It's named "At Last."

What makes this version of "Shine" so special is that a crucial background part of the song is sung by three singers, and not done on a keyboard/synth plus a string section.
The woman playing guitar and the bass player ARE singing some of the part in this version. Hmm. The same two are also in the "At Last" video. I guess it needed the addition a third voice and erasure of the string section and keyboard to make the nonpareil version?

Here's a nice version from PBS:

"She is but little, but she be fierce":O}
 
when troubles come
in and push out
of your bushy mind
solutions that clip your
branching,
drawing you down into root.

and in darkness you can only sip
the waters of your life.
can only inhale on the exhale
and wait for the light.
.

in root,
there,
begins
in root we meet our ends.
from a twisting of the wines
root to a
flower
in answer to the loss
that darkened your mind

You see that flower open
even in your joy
see still
that light to root
Will never bind.

In root
awaits the darkest
learning to see

A Divine
climb
from
twisting
root
to become
a flower
that knows
everything
is made
to
shine.

DKE
 
Never saw "Fear." The little Dutch girl... holy, holy frijoles y'all! Many, many grown sopranos would do awful things to be able to sing so well!
I harbor doubts that anyone could by ear alone peg her for any sort of child, talented or not. whatever the training. She is in my experience simply unprecedented.

I just keep coming back to her, around 20 times now.":O}
 
Just a bit off the beaten path, perhaps not what's closest to your hearts.

But as my mother could still speak just a little Gaelic and I myself was involved in a physical art..
So here is a dance form a thousand years in the making, taking a shape hard left turn into the next thousand years.

What I think gives this dance form it's legs (OH! pardon me!) is that is existed for centuries not as a performance dance so much as a participants dance, EVERYBODY join in. Here they incorporate tap and elements of ballet

As I was leaving the Martial Arts I was trying to perfect my foot checking.
Basically every time my opponent tried to throw a kick my foot would just touch his as he raised it. I would connect inches off the ground where they had no momentum. Foot checking screws with their balance and timing.

While I watched these dancers I just keep thinking
"Try and foot check that hot shot!" LOL

Your mother spoke some Gaelic? That's amazing!

I was lucky and caught this remarkable dance ensemble way back in 1994, on tv of course. The stage in Eire ( pronounced "Ire," that's Ireland to us Amuricans) was just the right size. They played New York not too much later but the Radio City Music Hall's stage was too big--it swallowed up all the dancers. Please forgive me if you already know the following.

Irish Step Dancing was created because the English forbade the dancers from moving their hands. Why? Because then they'd send secret messages to those Irish Revolutionaries that the ruling English loved only too well.

They put wireless mics in all of the dancer's shoes. Made for one spectacular sound, I'd say.

Michael Flatley does move his hands in his solo performances, but no one else does. In case you didn't know, Jean Butler is an American. Doesn't she dance like a fawn, she is truly amazing. Gravity doesn't hold her down one bit.

This performance was and is breathtaking, it was something new to most of us.
 
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I harbor doubts that anyone could by ear alone peg her for any sort of child, talented or not. whatever the training. She is in my experience simply unprecedented.

I just keep coming back to her, around 20 times now.":O}


I'm kinda afraid to watch and listen to her again. She is simply too much to handle!
 
Your mother spoke some Gaelic? That's amazing!
.........

This performance was and is breathtaking, it was something new to most of us.
I'm kinda afraid to watch and listen to her again. She is simply too much to handle!



i think I have over stated it. She knew around a dozen sayings from the Gaelic

"If God the gift to give us
Let us see ourselves
as others see us."

In Gaelic sounds very fine indeed.
Just watch her face, Her love for this music will see you though.
 
Gaelic is very mysterious. Most importantly, the Angles and the Saxons did their very best to murder Gaelic. It does sound amazingly furrin' to our ears.

Aw durn, there you go, dissing the Dutch. JK! It is a far from mellifluous language, why one simple word illustrates this clearly:
"Scheveningen." It's a city in the Netherlands.

"Schev" sounds like yer hawking up a loogie, the rest isn't so bad.

Me so bad. English isn't a real beauty of a tongue. Things can be said in English that are impossible in Spanish, but is that a saving grace?
 
Is it an easier to lie in a tongue not your own?
Just one of the questions we will be addressing in our spring beginners English class!
 
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