Song of the year

[HONDO74]

The 9th is great, as are the 5th, 6th, and 7th, but My favorite Beethoven bit is the Coriolan Overture. The angst found there can bring you to tears.

My favorite Beethoven was done back in 1956 by Chuck Berry.
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLD5H4uQ1xs

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

This has turned out to be an interesting music thread. Keep going.......

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Well, then, there is Andrea Bocelli singing Nessun Dorma if you like a good commotion and fuss, esp. one focused on the results of a superbich's super-egotistical shenanigans of visiting pain upon others .

[HONDO74]

Well, then, there is Andrea Bocelli singing Nessum Dorma if you like a good commotion and fuss, esp. one focused on the results of a superbich's super-egotistical shenanigans of visiting pain upon others .

Andrea Bocelli - Nessun Dorma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SZsxTBCzoA

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Precisely the performance I was referring to (published 2012) and have had saved on my computer. Thank you for the link, though, Hondo.
His voice captures the pain and regret and of being such a victim perfectly. It sweeps one away into the pain.
IMHO.

P.S. I've seen both spellings. I'll go by the one you so tactfully provided. Thanks, again, sir.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Try this on for size - Pavarotti and Skin from Skunk Anansie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxngWOmTYE0

[healey36]

Opera? One of the genre I can't abide. Other than a few overtures and orchestral bits, I just can't handle the singing, lol.

Now, ELO's Rockaria with Melanie Lewis-McDonald, Amy and Rosie Langley is more my speed:

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

Not exactly a raucous crowd, but a decent performance some 40 years after it hit the charts.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Opera? One of the genre I can't abide. Other than a few overtures and orchestral bits, I just can't handle the singing, lol.

Next time you see Sarge, get him to sing you a bit of Pinafore,

[HONDO74]

Opera? One of the genre I can't abide. Other than a few overtures and orchestral bits, I just can't handle the singing, lol.

Now, ELO's Rockaria with Melanie Lewis-McDonald, Amy and Rosie Langley is more my speed:

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

Not exactly a raucous crowd, but a decent performance some 40 years after it hit the charts.

Healey

There you go ELO. They really know how to ROCK IT.

This is the version of Rollover Beethoven that I like the best, even better than Chuck Berry. Love that piano player in it.

ELO, rollover beethoven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgcKhqlFz4Q

[healey36]

I'm sure he can belt it out. He'd make a fine Ralph Rackstraw...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm sure he can belt it out. He'd make a fine Ralph Rackstraw...

Probably a better model of a modern Major-General,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

At the present moment, I am listening to Joan Baez singing, "Blowin' in the Wind, " circa 1978.

Was anybody here (please excuse me for asking again) present at the Woodstock event? Rufus?
Is that America totally gone? Or is it inside each of us who lived and loved thru that era?

Or is it simply blowin in the wind?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Or is it simply blowin in the wind?

It blew away in the 70's.......and got buried in the 90's.