Rudy
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I miss the old music. There was no autotune to make a mediocre singer sound great.
The audience didn’t throw things at the performers, instead they sat quietly and enjoyed the show.
This song originally came out in 1955, in the movie "Unchained". It has been covered by over
670 singers and recorded over 1000 times. Harry Belafonte, Todd Duncan (the first African American
opera singer), Elvis Presley, Barry Manilow, the Platters, Perry Como, Roy Orbison, U2, Cyndi Lauper,
LeAnn Rimes, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Hall and Oates and Elvis Presley, have all sang this song.
But, nobody has ever done it better than Bobby Hatfield (Aug 10, 1940 – Nov 5, 2003) of
the Smothers Brothers.
LIVE on stage in a 1965 Andy Williams show, one take, no autotune, a young Bobby, suffering from a head
cold and nervous as hell because his Mom was in the audience to hear him sing live for her first time,
proceeded to humbly demonstrate his four octave range countertenor singing prowess.
Even kids today are in awe when they hear his version of this song.
If you didn’t hear this song in the ‘60s, you might have heard it in 1990, when it was featured in the Patrick
Swayze/Demi Moore film “Ghost.”
I am old enough to have heard it in 1965, as I liked to view the Andy Williams show and I still get goosebumps
when I hear it.
The audience didn’t throw things at the performers, instead they sat quietly and enjoyed the show.
This song originally came out in 1955, in the movie "Unchained". It has been covered by over
670 singers and recorded over 1000 times. Harry Belafonte, Todd Duncan (the first African American
opera singer), Elvis Presley, Barry Manilow, the Platters, Perry Como, Roy Orbison, U2, Cyndi Lauper,
LeAnn Rimes, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Hall and Oates and Elvis Presley, have all sang this song.
But, nobody has ever done it better than Bobby Hatfield (Aug 10, 1940 – Nov 5, 2003) of
the Smothers Brothers.
LIVE on stage in a 1965 Andy Williams show, one take, no autotune, a young Bobby, suffering from a head
cold and nervous as hell because his Mom was in the audience to hear him sing live for her first time,
proceeded to humbly demonstrate his four octave range countertenor singing prowess.
Even kids today are in awe when they hear his version of this song.
If you didn’t hear this song in the ‘60s, you might have heard it in 1990, when it was featured in the Patrick
Swayze/Demi Moore film “Ghost.”
I am old enough to have heard it in 1965, as I liked to view the Andy Williams show and I still get goosebumps
when I hear it.
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