Posted on 11/06/2010 9:21:42 PM PDT by Sparky21555
I got into a big argument with one of my co-workers way back when, after I pointed out to him that the solo on “Everybody’s Everything” was played by Schon and not Carlos. :)
There are a lot of singers who don’t have “great” voices in terms of range or tonal quality, who still manage to sound good. Van is definitely one of them.
Nevermind, he does use falsetto.
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ0tcQ74MlA
“You forgot the KING!”
...and the King wannabe, Chilean miner Edison Peña.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CMkbLIb2Us&feature=related
I made a mistake myself!
Saw him in Ocean City, Maryland .. Not Virginia Beach.
Music has a way of connecting us all to each other and on a higher plane.
When Jimmy Buffett is on the headset, you can't help but sing.
Agreed. Van Morrison's sense of time and phrasing is phenomenal. He can swing, or lay down a down home blues, with the very best of them.
I still say his voice is not "objectively" as finely honed an instrument as that of many a "pure" professional singer. But I prefer listening to Van Morrison (and other great singer-song writers) over a thousand, say, Andy Williams types. They have a stronger connection to the song.
Take just about any Van Morrison song. I've heard many excellent and compelling interpretations thereof by other singers. But they're all compelling because they take the song somewhere else. No one can offer a more essential, natural and fundamental interpretation than Van The Man himself. "When that fog horn blows you know" he "will be coming home," like you know it with no one else. And while someone else might sing about being on that "hard road," "searching for the philosopher's stone;" only Van can make you believe that he's really been there (Daddy-O).
BTW, cool version of John Lee Hooker performing "Gloria" with Van Morrison:
Yup - to bad he is a flaming lib.
I think we’d all agree that Van Morrison channels the muse, while others just tend to sing.
The older I get, the more I believe that he’s never uttered an insincere lyric in song. Among them:
“As the beams from the cars on the overpass shine, just like diamonds in the night”
“A morning in May like this, we see the heather on the hill. There’s a place up on the mountainside, where the world is standing still”
“On a golden autumn day, you came my way, in Orangefield”
“She’s as sweet as Tupelo Honey, she’s an angel in the first degree; she’s as sweet as Tupelo Honey, just like honey baby, from the bee”
“Will the blush still remain on your cheeks my love, and the light always seen in your head; Gold and sliver they placed at your feet my dear, But I know you chose me instead”
Masterclass.
Thanks for that.
I didn’t recognize the name, but certainly recognized the song, and probably his version of it, when I listened to this on the “Saturday Early SHow”. There are a number more of him doing the song (one in a concert venue with a red suit and ponytail.) and one I listened to , for comparison, from Phat Hat. Phat Hat’s was good, heh,heh, but there’s no way a black vocalist can pull off “blue-eyed soul”, if you get my meaning. Caldwell’s great.For more current blue-eyed soul listen to someone who seemed to be carrying on the tradition with his first and biggest hit Never Saw a Miracle, Curtis Stigers, who I would put on that list of mine even if that was all he ever recorded. He has gone on to do many deeply jazz-inflected albums, and has his niche there. I’ve seen him live (at Foxwoods in CT.) and you can be sure people always request “Miracle”. Peabo Bryson recorded a good but somewhat bombastic version of Miracle, also, but once again, black singers can’t handle “blue-eyed soul”. I’m so proud of that observation I had to do it twice.
David Coverdale
George Strait
John Starnes
Luther Vandross
Al Green
et al.....
8 Jim Reeves
voice like velvet
As Michael Coreleone said in GodFather III “I’m going to listen to some Tony Bennett records.”
More partial to “Werewolves of London”. He’ll rip your lungs out Jim.
Let’s not forget Leon Russell. I’m singing this song for you.
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