What are you listening to?

[LadyStardust]

I find myself singing this when I'm alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTuEBwX8dQk&feature=PlayList&p=286876A8DDE02B5D&index=18

My, that's QUITE the vocal workout you're getting! I am pleased to note other FLers listening to opera though. I don't how much interest you do have in it, but if you haven't already, give Corelli & Bastianini a try. They're vintage and (some of) the best!

As for me, I'm enchanted by Vishtay Bunyan as of late. Me, liking hippie music! Never in a million years would I have thought it possible, but there it is!

 

[cufflinkmaniac]

Yes, it is quite the workout. If by Corelli you mean Franco Corelli, he is amongst my favorite tenors. Bastianini I have not heard of, but I will give him a try!

My, that's QUITE the vocal workout you're getting! I am pleased to note other FLers listening to opera though. I don't how much interest you do have in it, but if you haven't already, give Corelli & Bastianini a try. They're vintage and (some of) the best!

As for me, I'm enchanted by Vishtay Bunyan as of late. Me, liking hippie music! Never in a million years would I have thought it possible, but there it is!

 

[LadyStardust]

Yes, it is quite the workout. If by Corelli you mean Franco Corelli, he is amongst my favorite tenors. Bastianini I have not heard of, but I will give him a try!

The very same! He is my personal favorite tenor, followed by Domingo. Bastianini was Corelli's contemporary, only Baritone with a capital B!
There are several clips of their duets on youtube, here's one that is particularly tremendous, from La Forza del Destino (another personal favorite!).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfN7LMQfua8

 

[Lillemor]

Ricky Nelson. Haven't listened to him in a long time. When I'm in a Ricky Nelson phase I can listen to him on repeat endlessly and then I'll go through a period of finding his music bland.

I listen to Bobby Rydell daily. I absolutely love his voice. I have to listen to 'So Rare' whenever I can get access to this computer. I don't have it on CD so I listen to it on youtube. Maybe it's because I'm hearing impared but the "little old ladies" doing the back-up vocals on his old recordings don't bother me though I've heard that others think they detract from the sound. Well, it was probably in the time.....I don't really notice them. However, I find the male backing vocals on 'Up On The Roof' more pleasant to listen to. I listen to Dion Dimucci nearly as often.

 

[Shangas]

Fatsy Watsy Waller, playin' "Valentine Stomp" (Rec. 1929).

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Going Where the Lonely Go - Merle Haggard.

 

[Diamondback]

My, that's QUITE the vocal workout you're getting! I am pleased to note other FLers listening to opera though.

Thought about it sometimes--can you suggest one that's sparing with the Soprano? (I'm very sensitive to high-frequency noises.)

 

[MisterCairo]

Today was my birthday, and so chose the dinner music - Bryan Ferry's "As Time Goes By" cd, standards from the 1930s and 40s.

 

["Skeet" McD]

Today was my birthday, and so chose the dinner music - Bryan Ferry's "As Time Goes By" cd, standards from the 1930s and 40s.

And many more, MC! Congratulations.

"Skeet"

 

[LadyStardust]

Thought about it sometimes--can you suggest one that's sparing with the Soprano? (I'm very sensitive to high-frequency noises.)

Well, it's a matter of a opinion, but here are some more pleasant sopranos:
(vintage) Grace Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXxtA8w4su0

Kathleen Battle (still singing, but no longer in her prime. still wonderful, though. )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RanztlVnUi8

Dolora Zajick (a good mezzo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RanztlVnUi8

All three still go pretty high frequency, but at least not to the level of Erna Sack or Mado Robin. While those two do have tremendous voices, they are not for the faint of heart or sensitive of hearing.

 

[JennyLou]

The great bassist and composer Carles Mingus's album Mingus Ah Um.

 

[Shangas]

Fats Waller and His Rhythm, playing one of their most famous recordings:

"Christopher Columbus".

Waller is easily my favourite recording artist of the "Golden Era". He's just so funny

 

[Fletch]

Frank Trumbauer and his Orchestra, with Bix & the gang in 1928, playing Willard Robison's Jubilee.
Not their usual solo-plus-dixieland thing, but a mini-Paul Whiteman treatment of an interestingly multi-themed tune.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

16 Candles - Johnny Maestro.

 

[John in Covina]

From Reference Recordings - Dick Hyman Plays Ellington a 24 bit tour de force piano work out on HDCD.

 

[SayCici]

The Andrews Sisters - Bei Mir Bist du Schoen

 

[anon`]

Lumsk - Nøkken

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Moondance- Van Morrison

 

[John Boyer]

The Unreleased Recordings of Hank Williams Sr. part of 143 recordings Hank did for the Mother's Best Flour Company in 1951.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Once in a Blue Moon - Earl Thomas Conley