YouTube Favorites to share.

Thanks Iso,
When Liz was so excited and effusive about hearing all the 'new music' I was introducing her to, I too became reenergized, realizing almost from a 3rd party kind of thing, what she was experiencing...and wondered, 'What if' some of my friends on Audiogon had a library of artists or songs that I've not seen, remembering how great, discovering Renee Olstead this year has been, and late last year finding Melody Gardot. Those girls have provided hours and hours of listening enjoyment.
Finding new, great music is such a treat, we should all share those incalculably great moments with one another.
Thanks Iso, as usual you bring one of the best 'bottles' to the party.
Care to share any artists? Or particular cuts that we might find on youtube from an artist?

Good listening,
Larry

Another performer that I've grown to love is,
Melody Gardot. Great singer and songwriter.
Several videos of her on YouTube.

Really, great music and writing.

Good listening,
Larry

Martykl,
Thanks, me like.
What an incredible 'invention'--is that his design, or did that already exist? I remember when Andreas Vollenweider(spelling?)did his first album with the Electro Acoustic Harp...it was so different I immediately loved it.
Does anyone know if Andy MacKee did invent this?

Good listening,

Larry

The other evening I Netflix'd a movie...'Get It On', a lightweight Kirsten Dunst effort from 2001...yeah, slow night.
Anyway, its a play within a movie...High School kids doing a musical version of Shakespear's Mid Summer Night's Dream.
The song at the end of the movie is just beautiful, IMHO.
Kirsten does an excellent job and the lyrics and melody are so surprisingly good, I'd like to share it.
Actually, I posted that, "If Shakespear wrote music, this is the melody and lyrics he'd have written." OR, words to that effect. Very, very beautiful.
Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Eu0IxEV8M

Good listening,
Larry

Iso,
Yeah...that's why I posted it, I had a cameo in the movie.

Good listening,

Larry

Thanks Iso,
Leave it to you to actually take heed.
When I owned my audio store throughout the '80's and to the mid '90's, I introduced great music to thousands of customers, who'd make lists of my play lists...then purchase...sharing music...what a pleasure.
Just came from youtube, watched Janis' "At Seventeen".
She spoke of (recent recording) how audiences from Ireland, some 30K strong, sang every word along with her, and in Tokyo, the majority of people who were not English speaking, sang it word for word...the song, the message, the voice--a moment of magic.
Music and I suppose YouTube are the ulitimate time machine, allowing us to go back to whatever time or era we chose to live in at that moment, for however briefly.

Good listening,

Larry

Least we forget the beautiful ballads...this is the inimitable Jerry Vale singing the main theme from "Roman Holiday" from the early '60's, Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette.

Beautiful...voice, words, melody, what more can we ask?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRDVaKGOi4&feature=related

But then, there's a great story about why this song means as much as it does to me personally.
My ex wife an I used to vaction in St. Augustine, FL.
It's a little town, (claimed to be the oldest in North America)--has an historic fort, little shops, a walking area down town, locally owned restaurants...just beautiful.
A restaurant there named Raintree offers remarkable food, and back in those days, the mid late '80's a young, talented guy named Gary, played 4/5 different guitars, classical, jazz, and sang ballads--and, was teaching at Jacksonville College--And he was married, yet one night...

We'd have a wonderful dinner then go to the bar area and listen to him do his work.
One night we were in the bar when a group of 5 came in, men and women paired, except for one girl, the 'odd man out'.
Seeing them come in, Gary left his place up front and came back and sat with the group, but right next to the odd man out young girl.
He began singing Al Di La...looking at her, she at him...and it was captivating. They were obviously so in love...and he couldn't take his eyes off her. After a few measures of singing to her, the bar became completely silent, errily so--you could hear his breathing between words...her eyes started to swell with tears, his also, as well as virtually everyone in the bar area...what was happening was the kind of magic that one might see once in a lifetime.
He sang in perfect (what do I know) Italian...switching to English as the song is bi lingual.
I'll never forget that night--or the song, or the look on their faces. Al Di La, beautiful.

Good listening,

Larry