Posts Tagged: free music online
Music and the Inauguration
CNN has an interesting piece about music and the inauguration, which is set for Monday. The show should be pretty good:
This year’s festivities include a Kids’ Inaugural Concert on Saturday and two official balls on Monday night. Performers for those events include Katy Perry, Brad Paisley, Alicia Keys, Marc Anthony, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson — a mix of pop, country, R & B, Latin, rock and old-school hitmakers. (Continue Reading…)
Above Aretha Franklin and her hat sing My Country Tis of Thee. Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger also appeared, I believe the day before.
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Burl Ives: Great Singer, Great Actor
Burl Ives, who had one of the great voices of the twentieth century, was identified with old ballads and other forms of Americana. He was a folk singer, but not in the mode of the protest music that arose during the 1960s.
Above he sings A Little Bitty Tear alone and is joined by Johnny Cash for a medley on the latter’s show.
Ives also was an accomplished actor. Since there isn’t too much video of him singing, I’m embedding a scene featuring Ives and Paul Newman from the film version of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It’s evident that Ives was a talented guy.
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Happy Birthday, Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt would have been 86 years old today. Above, she sings I Want to Be Evil, in a video that has one odd camera angle after another. Here is more on the sultry singer.
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Mohammad Rafi: Jaan Pehchan
If this was the only video on YouTube, it still would be a great site. Well, of course not. But it’s a great clip, which features a surf theme in an Indian musical. It goes on a bit too long, however.
The song is being used currently in a Heineken commercial. According to the comments, the song is Jaan Pehchan, the singer is Mohammad Rafi and the movie is Gumnaam. It was released in 1965. I bet that Quentin Tarantino has seen this movie.
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