That’s cool Jung, I’m waiting to see how she develops as time passes since the others there are four and five years older, which is a lot more singing and development. Hey I have something completely unrelated, which I send to everyone who will hold still. This is short, about a minute and it’s <pretty>, nothing more. We have here…

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Not disagreeing with you, Jung, I think what I appreciated more was her effort to distinguish the song by having the second half in the higher register and then adding volume on top of that. She has/can have an immense voice, seen mostly in her Blues offerings. Doesn’t need a mic. And in her youthful effort–only seventeen after all–she…

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I heard a very fine cover of this song which was released three weeks ago. More than the music I was interested in what a couple of commenters had to say. The artist has been here before, as I have previously mentioned seventeen year-old Sofy from Romania’s ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’. She dared–is almost the word I would use–to cover this…

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Bud, Marie opened her mouth once and everyone thought she was going to speak or sing or something, but decided it was a false alarm, a small yawn.

I’ve been writing a huge fanfiction for many years now based upon a webcomic since ended. The characters are fighter pilots located at a NATO base in northern Italy near the Dolomites. Naming…

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Bud–Marie the bass player is something of a mystery. A quiet beauty, she never speaks, just smiles now and then. Some people wonder if she can speak any English or any language at all. Her bass work is great especially when heard on headphones which a lot of people do not do. Before getting her double bass she was dynamite on an…

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Bud, at the risk of overstaying my welcome I have one more video here, triggered by your comment about the guitar playing. Andrei is always on the left, Robert on the right. Andrei is sort of burly and had a tremendous amount of hair at that time. Robert does too but it;s long like the girls’.Andrei is the Big Boss and an absolute master at…

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Bud I think our messages are starting to cross up and getting confusing. I had sent a link to a Wikipedia article on Barbra. i started reading it but gave up at present because, as is the case with major celebrities, Wiki is very thorough and just goes on and on. I am in Birmingham, but….it’s Michigan and not <Alabama>, HA! try telling…

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Wordsmith.org puts out a word-a-day on a regular basis. Today’s is special!! https://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

Well, I looked her up here and I give up. Dunno where the Detroit Club story came from after all. I capitulate!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand#Early_life

Bud, I am frequently not correct. That was just something I heard a while ago from one of my parents–and they were both dead by 1970 –so time is a factor. Trying to figure what language is in your lookup of that question. Seems Asian. As far as the “da”sound, they all do it, some more than others and all more so farther back in time. …

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And I remember finding this several years ago and thinking it’s like she wrote, she owns, this song! i dunno why the subtitles are for nor how to get rid of them. This is rather more recent and you can see it in her face, but still great. Interesting audience shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fewRSNwR5BM&list=RDfewRSNwR5BM&start_radio=1

Bud, I had to laugh. Not just Sofy but all the ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me Singers’. They all have a problem with the ‘th’ sound found in so many English words, My guess is the Romanian language has no such sound and so these guys have to push and remember to say it. You can hear it here with “the Nort, Sout, East and West”. No ‘th’ in the last…

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I remember that song! In Middle School we had ‘sock hops’ Fridays after school for an hour. A teacher had a 45 rpm phonograph and girls would bring in a collection of 45s. The girls would all be in the middle of the gym, dancing, and the boys would be plastered against the walls hoping it would all end. It’s a wonder anybody ever went on…

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Roger and Jung, I think it is interesting to consider what musicians would make of a work by another. This revenge scenario written in 2008 by R and B singer Jasmine Sullivan is a fun listen when covered by ‘Shut Up’s Giulia Sirbu. I picture that Mona and Lisa could make a doubles treatment of this. I don’t know how they are on revenge…

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On a lighter note, here we have Sofy working some blues, live, with her big sixteen year old voice. She’s Gone. Bill Withers = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKXZLeTB5eY&list=RDjKXZLeTB5eY&start_radio=1

I guess the original must have resonated with her because they all pick their own songs, As Roger Howard pointed out, Billy Joel and John Fogerty voiced the exact same concerns. On a lighter note I’ve got her doing some Blues, her fav genre, from a pub concert live last year. Huge voice. My guess is she has to go out in the countryside…

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