Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah- <Music Video 7min>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q ^ | Leonard Cohen

[virgil283]

"This is an evocative, lovely and spiritual song. His deep velvet and whiskey voice is the only one that does it justice . No matter how many times I listen to this, I still feel a little chill.

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[virgil283]

"You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well, really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah....

[dagogo redux]

I turned my neighbor/best friend and his family, on to Leonard Cohen recently when I loaned him my copy of Perla Batalla’s “Bird on a Wire” album.

They like country music most, and had admired the Jeff Buckley cover of “Hallelujah,” but had no real idea who L. Cohen was. They quickly stumbled upon Cohen’s concert video you feature here, and they haven’t been able to talk about anything else with me since! No one does Cohen’s songs as well as he does - his video version of the often-covered “Dance Me to the End of Love” is also the only one that really gets the song. I did think that Anthony’s version of “If It Be Your Will,” though, was on par with his own.

He’s having a real revival these days, but I’m glad to say I was a fan all along, and always appreciated the brilliance shining through even his most uneven moments.

Thanks for the post.

[Veto!]

Lovely. ;Thanks for posting. Among other amazing things, Leonard Cohen is proof that seventy is sexy.
I like his Dance Me to the End of Love a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zjLBWnZGTU

Hallelujah

[virgil283]

"Dance Me to the End"...Thanks

[doug from upland]

SUZANNE -— one of the great songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcBIMoGmyj0

[Yardstick]

Jeff Buckley did a nice version.

[moovova]

Excellent. Thank you.

[dagogo redux]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGorjBVag0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDlMdu2gjw&feature=kp

[Vermont Lt]

I like the Buckley version better. But, it’s a good song.

[dorothy]

This is my favorite, a very intimate version by Jeff Buckley. Got actual goosebumps at the ending first time I heard it.

Hallelujah

[deks]

Leonard Cohen with Sonny Rollins - Who By Fire

Video of live performance [YouTube]

[Jeff Chandler]

Cohen's First We Take Manhattan sung by Jennifer Warnes and played by Stevie Ray Vaughn. It doesn't get much better than that.

[Jeff Chandler]

Unless it's Cohen's I'm Your Man sung by Michael Buble.

[A_perfect_lady]

It’s a very beautiful song, but if you listen, I don’t think it’s particularly spiritual. Most of it seems to be about sex and passion, and how they are just as illuminating as a religious experience.

[Yardstick]

I do too.

[Fiji Hill]

Hallelujah--Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra

[deks]

Cohen's First We Take Manhattan sung by Jennifer Warnes and played by Stevie Ray Vaughn. It doesn't get much better than that.

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Thank you!

[deks]

Leonard Cohen on Hallelujah

"certain ironic and amusing sidebars..."

Leonard Cohen interview about his song Hallelujah [5:18]

[deks]

Once I searched for all of the available videos of him doing the song, and I really liked this version for the expressive and strong vocal...love the sound of the backup singers, and the guitar solo...

"Leonard Cohen singing Hallelujah in concert. Taken from the documentry Songs From The Life Of Leonard Cohen. Unfortunately the last verse is cut out."

Live...Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

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Then I found this complete version from that era... "An impassioned performance of Hallelujah live at San Sebastian", with much improvisation on the vocal.

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen live 1988

[deks]

This version is pretty good - click on gear at lower right for 480p. . .

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Alternate lyric / live performance) singing live in Austin on October 31, 1988

Hallelujah