Comments on: A child singer with a difference https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Little Norwegian girl sings the blues | BlazingCatFur https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-830843 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:51:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-830843 […] though her English diction is somewhat sketchy). In her case, the listeners’ amazement comes from who it is she’s chosen to channel and what type of song she’s chosen to sing.“ (Neo also provides some interesting history on the […]

]]> By: Joe Y https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774891 Wed, 14 May 2014 16:04:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774891 What M of H says: “Gloomy Sunday” is a terrific movie, not least because it shows the descent of the German character from shyness to brutality. Great film.

]]> By: Tom https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774562 Tue, 13 May 2014 17:14:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774562 “An alternate theory has the lyric as having been written during or immediately after WWII. Whichever it is, these were not the lyrics that became part of the song when it was released in 1933.”

I’m pretty sure the alternate theory has the lyric being written around WW I, The Great War.

But yes, Gloomy lyrics, great Billie … and fine mimic, who missed a bit on the English sometimes. (I listened to Billie first).

I can imagine her folks listening to this, among other blues songs, and a little girl hearing in Billie’s voice more of an echo of her own than in any other singer’s voices. Plus, it’s the meaning of lyrics that are so very gloomy, the music and the tones of the voice are more … matter of fact? just another day? missing that certain je ne sais quoi of most more gloomy songs?

]]> By: SCOTTtheBADGER https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774353 Tue, 13 May 2014 05:59:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774353 More than anything else, this child seems a gifted mimic. I suspect that she is brighter than average, and quite observant.

]]> By: SCOTTtheBADGER https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774350 Tue, 13 May 2014 05:50:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774350 Well speaking as an Olson, and therefore a fellow Norskie, Ive to tell you chaps that she is really not that gloomed out, she is merely pining for the fjords.

]]> By: Gringo https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774321 Tue, 13 May 2014 04:12:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774321 Because I got rid of Adobe Flash, I needed to go to YouTube to listen to Angelina. I wouldn’t have bothered, but mention of Gloomy Sunday got my attention. I was amazed how much Angelina Jordon sounds like Billy Holiday,

Maybe waitforit has it right:

Didn’t hurt the precious girl’s chances that Hollliday’s voice sounded like a little girl.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774239 Mon, 12 May 2014 23:15:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774239 Artfldgr:

Nabors would have come under the title, “People Whose Appearance and Demeanor Makes Their Singing Voice a Surprise”

But the genre title I’m talking about here is, “People Who Got Their Start on Singing Reality Shows Whose Appearance and Demeanor Makes Their Singing Voice a Surprise.”

A sub-genre of the first, if you will.

]]> By: charles o'brien https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774225 Mon, 12 May 2014 22:48:03 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774225 There’s a scene in Schindler’s List (the book) that has two camp inmates brought in to play music for one of Amon Goeth’s dinners. They play Gloomy Sunday for one seriously depressed SS officer–over and over, until he excuses himself, goes outside, and shoots himself

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774208 Mon, 12 May 2014 22:04:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774208 Holiday recorded the song in 1941, and it is overtly about suicide..,

so is lead belly’s Goodnight Irene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn50JSI0W-E

and for led zepplin fans you can hear him sing gallows pole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye2N_2ce3QE

i am more a fan of blind willie mctell
‘Lord, Send Me An Angel’ BLIND WILLIE McTELL (1933)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qux0DTr_28

Blind Willie McTell – Statesboro Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWxZtI3ONY

i wonder where they lie in the whole of it given their songs became hits, but they are mostly unknown, barely alive in obscurity.

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” Banksy

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/12/a-child-singer-with-a-difference/#comment-774197 Mon, 12 May 2014 21:46:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=37088#comment-774197 “Susan Boyle was probably the most famous of the genre”

how would you entitle the genre?

Wouldn’t Jim Nabors be more famous?
Jim Nabors sang opera.

but that would depend on how you titled it. no?

Tomorrow Never Comes By Jim Nabors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGsy6Ynu-pw

Gomer Pyle(Jim Nabors) Impossible Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqJ2jYumJJo

note that on the left bar of you tube with this above excerpt from film was a recording by Susan Boyle.

i will say its a lot better than the albums each of the star trek cast put out, ranging from “old green eyes is back” (spinner/data), to twinkle twinkle (Nemoy/Spock), to several albums by William Shatner that could almost stand up for Vogon poetry the third worst poetry in the Universe.

The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, in the destruction of the planet Earth.

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