Here is a great song from 1967 (already sung, among others, by Shirley Bassey) performed b
Here is a great song from 1967 (already sung, among others, by Shirley Bassey) performed by legendary singer Dionne Warwick.
Dionne Warwick (born Marie Dionne Warrick in 1940) is an acclaimed five-time Grammy Award-winning singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian. She is best known for her partnership with songwriters and producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David. According to Billboard magazine, Dionne Warwick is second only to Aretha Franklin as the female vocalist with the most Billboard Hot 100 chart hits during the rock era (1955-1999). Dionne began singing gospel as a child at the New Hope Methodist Church in East Orange. Her first televised performances were in the mid-and late 1950's with the Drinkard Singers and were carried on local television stations in New Jersey and New York City. Warwick graduated from East Orange High School in 1959 and was awarded a Scholarship in Music Education to the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut (a school from which she earned her Doctorate of Music Education in the 1980's). While performing background on The Drifters' recording of "Mexican Divorce", Warwick's voice and star presence were noticed by the song's composer Burt Bacharach, who was writing songs with many other songwriters including Hal David. Her first solo single was released in November, 1962. The song was entitled "Don't Make Me Over". This was followed by "Walk on By" in April 1964, a major international hit and million seller that solidified her career. The mid 1960's to early 1970's became an even more successful time period for Warwick, who saw a string of Gold selling albums and Top 20 and Top 10 hit singles. "Message to Michael", a Bacharach-David composition, became a top 10 hit for Warwick in May 1966. In 1967, Warwick earned her first RIAA Gold Single for US sales of over one million units for the single "I Say a Little Prayer". The single "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" was an international million seller and a Top 10 hit in several countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Japan and Mexico. By the end of 1971, Dionne Warwick had sold an estimated thirty-five million singles and albums internationally in less than nine years and more than 16 million singles in the USA alone. The song "Heartbreaker" was one of Dionne's biggest international hits, peaking on Billboard's Hot 100 at #10 in January 1983 and #1 AC in the USA and #2 in the UK. Internationally, the tune was also a smash in continential Europe, Australia, Japan, South Africa, Canada, and Asia. In 1983, Dionne released another notable album titled "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye" which was produced by Luther Vandross. Their collaboration had been a lifelong dream of Vandross, who had maintained that he wanted to work with Warwick, Aretha Franklin, and Diana Ross. In 2005, Dionne Warwick was honored by Oprah Winfrey at her Legends Ball. Warwick appeared on the May 24, 2006 fifth-season finale of American Idol. Millions of U.S. viewers watched Warwick sing a medley of "Walk on By" and "That's What Friends Are For", with longtime collaborator Burt Bacharach accompanying her on the piano. Dionne Warwick's new gospel album, "Why We Sing", was released in 2008. Warwick's sister Dee Dee Warwick also had a successful singing career. Warwick's aunt is gospel singer Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston's mother, making Whitney Dionne's first cousin.
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Here is a wonderful song performed by the fabulous Jim Bailey. Not only is Jim Bailey the
Here is a wonderful song performed by the fabulous Jim Bailey. Not only is Jim Bailey the world's greatest impersonator, but he is also a fantastic singer, gifted with a beautiful and powerful voice.
Enjoy this performance from 1972, and watch also my other tributes to the great Jim Bailey and, of course, his own fantastic clips on YouTube!
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Here is a wonderful song by the great Italian singer Edda Dell'Orso, chosen to illustrate
Here is a wonderful song by the great Italian singer Edda Dell'Orso, chosen to illustrate the beauty of legendary actress Claudia Cardinale.
Claudia Cardinale (born in 1938) was born in Tunis, Tunisia. One of Europe's iconic movie stars and among the most versatile, Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale, her mother was French, father was Italian (Sicilian). She had her break in films after winning a Tunisian beauty contest in 1957. She made her film debut in Goha (1958) and later that year had a role in the major international success "I soliti ignoti". Her early career was largely managed by producer Franco Cristaldi. Throughout the 1960's she appeared in some of the best Italian and European films including Luchino Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" ("The Leopard", 1963), "Rocco e i suoi fratelli" (1963), Philippe de Broca's "Cartouche" (1963), Federico Fellini's "8½" (1963) and Sergio Leone's epic "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968). Cardinale never made a real attempt to break into the American market since she was not interested in leaving Europe for extended periods of time. But her many Hollywood films include "The Pink Panther" (1963), "Circus World" (1964), "Blindfold" (1965) and opposite Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster in "The Professionals" (1966). Her performance in Visconti's "Sandra/Of A Thousand Delights" is regarded as mesmerizing, playing a Holocaust survivor with an incestuous relationship with her brother. In Comencini's "La storia" (from Elsa Morante's novel), Cardinale plays a widow raising a son during World War II and gave another well-received performance. Other memorable performances include Valerio Zurlini's "Girl With a Suitcase" and Mauro Bolognini's "Libera". Cardinale remains active in European cinema, her later films including "Qui comincia l'avventura" (1975), "Fitzcarraldo" (1982), "Un homme amoureux" (1987), "Mayrig" (1991), and "And now... Ladies and Gentlemen" (2002). The actress has been UNESCO good will ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since 1999. In 2006 (World Water Year) she symbolically extended such a role for the Defense of the Rights of the Absolute Woman: Mother Earth while declaring her support for Powerstock, a sustainable electronic music festival that proposes a "water-consciousness" for youth culture and seeks to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream culture. She is involved in many humanitarian causes and currently lives in Paris.
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Here is a song by the great French singer Colette Magny.
Colette Magny (1926 - 1997) was
Here is a song by the great French singer Colette Magny.
Colette Magny (1926 - 1997) was a French song writer, composer and singer. Overlooked by the media because of her political engagement, she had success in the 1960's with her blues-oriented repertoire and a big hit with her song "Melocoton (and gum balls)" (1963).
Gifted with a strong and melodious voice, she was one of the few French singers at ease with blues and jazz. She sang the poems of great French poets (Rimbaud, Artaud, Aragon, Villon) as well as the repertoire of great blues and jazz singers (Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday) or her own, very creative, songs.
Discover or rediscover the rich voice and soul of the great Colette Magny!
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Here is a great song by legendary singer Sara Montiel.
Sara Montiel (also Sarita Montiel
Here is a great song by legendary singer Sara Montiel.
Sara Montiel (also Sarita Montiel or Saritísima) (born in 1928) is a Spanish singer, and actress. She is still a much-loved and internationally known name in the Spanish-speaking movie and music industries. She was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of New Castile in 1928 as María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández. After her unprecedented international hit in Juan de Orduña's "El Último Cuplé" in 1957, Montiel achieved the status of mega-star in Europe and Latin America. She was the first woman to distill sex openly in Spanish cinema at a time when even a low cut dress was not acceptable. Montiel was the most commercially successful Spanish actress during the mid twentieth century in much of the world. Miss Montiel's film "Varietes" was banned in Beijing in 1973. Her films "El Último Cuple" and "La Violetera" netted the highest gross revenues ever recorded for films made in the Spanish speaking movie industry during the 50's and 60's. She also played the role of Antonia, the niece of Don Quixote, in the 1947 Spanish film version of Cervantes's great novel. In 1974 Montiel announced her retirement from movies but continued performing live, recording and starring on her own variety television shows in Spain. She kept on at that pace well into the 1990's. In 2000 her autobiography "Memories: To Live Is A Pleasure" became a huge best seller, followed by a second part "Sara and Sex", which highlighted her love life.
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Here is a rare song from 1969 performed by 2 of RCA's greatest artists, the fabulous Ed Am
Here is a rare song from 1969 performed by 2 of RCA's greatest artists, the fabulous Ed Ames and Marilyn Maye together.
Enjoy this pop song in Ed & Marilyn's special style!
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Here is a great song performed by the one and unique Dorothy Squires.
Dorothy Squires (19
Here is a great song performed by the one and unique Dorothy Squires.
Dorothy Squires (1915 - 1998) was a Welsh vocalist. She was born Edna May Squires in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire, in South Wales. She began to perform professionally as a singer at the age of 16. She did most of her work with the orchestra of Billy Reid who was her partner for many years. After she joined his orchestra, he began to write songs for her to perform. In the immediate post-war years she recorded the original version of Reid's composition, "A Tree in the Meadow", best known in the United States in its recording by Margaret Whiting, which reached n° 1 on the US charts. Similarly, her version of Reid's composition, "I'm Walking Behind You", was covered by Eddie Fisher which became a n° 1 hit in the US and her recording of "The Gypsy" became a n° 1 hit there after being waxed by The Ink Spots - their biggest hit. (It was also a major hit for Dinah Shore.)
After her relationship with Reid ended she married British actor Roger Moore in 1953 in New Jersey. Moore was twelve years her junior. The marriage lasted until 1961, when Moore left her and moved in with Luisa Mattioli, whom he was unable to marry legally until Squires granted him a divorce in 1969. She performed until the 1990's. Squires retired to Wales and died of lung cancer in 1998.
Considered as one of Great Britain's greatest singers, a charismatic and electrifying stage performer, her powerful voice, looks and style are very close to Vikki Carr and Shirley Bassey's, but she was their senior by far, so one cannot say that she was influenced by them. On contrary, it has been said that she was one of Bassey's main influences, along with Judy Garland.
Enjoy the power and emotion of Dorothy Squires' voice!
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Here is the title song ("Femina Ridens") from a famous Italian film ("The Laughing Woman")
Here is the title song ("Femina Ridens") from a famous Italian film ("The Laughing Woman") from 1969, sung by Olympia, and chosen to illustrate the beauty of Luciana Paluzzi.
Luciana Paluzzi (born in 1937 in Rome, Italy), is a redheaded Italian actress. She is best known for playing SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe in the fourth James Bond film "Thunderball". Paluzzi's very first film was an uncredited walk-on part in "Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954). She went on to appear in many movies, most of which were made in her native Italy. In her early films, she is credited as Luciana Paoluzzi. Even though Paluzzi had an extensive resume before and after her brush with James Bond, audiences worldwide still remember her best as the sexy and deadly Thunderball villainess Fiona Volpe. Paluzzi originally auditioned for the part of the lead Bond girl, Dominetta "Domino" Palazzi. The producers eventually cast former Miss France Claudine Auger, changing the Domino character from an Italian to a French woman. Paluzzi was crestfallen when she found out she didn't get the part of Domino, but rejoiced when she found out her consolatory prize was the part of the "bad girl", Fiona Volpe, which she said was "more fun to play". Years later, Paluzzi admitted that being a Bond girl is a double edged sword. She was amazed at the level of fame, publicity and recognition she got from "Thunderball", but as a result of being in such an outlandish film, she was taken less seriously as an actress by her peers. Paluzzi currently resides in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California.
Enjoy Luciana's flamboyant femininity!
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Here is the adaptation of a famous French song ("La Javanaise" by Serge Gainsbourg) perfor
Here is the adaptation of a famous French song ("La Javanaise" by Serge Gainsbourg) performed by the beautiful Honor Blackman.
Honor Blackman was not only one of the most stylish and gorgious British actresses, famous for her characters in the Bond movie "Goldfinger" or in the serial "The Avengers" (1st season), but she was also a fine singer who made one, pretty rare, LP in 1964, entitled "Everything I've got". She made also a funny single with her partner from "The Avengers", Patrick McNee, "Kinky Boots". Her world-weary style recalls Marlene or Eartha Kitt.
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