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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I think it’s great because it shows the pitfalls of the industry, how you get trapped and used. And it’s good that these young people–she’s the youngest now, at 17. The oldest is 23–are made aware of the situation and how it can take them over if they’re naive. She will hopefully get some tips on dealing with situations while in Boston…

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In line with your comments about the evil movie industry I am reminded of a cover about the evils of the music industry. How it gets a hold of you, works you over, ruins your mental health and then says it’s sorry. And is the reason why so many people do it themselves via YouTube and just feel their way along. This is not exactly a…

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I actually know rather little about them because i found them by accident. I know mostly that their names begin with ‘D’ hence the group title and that they live in a Phoenix suburb–although on a map it all looks like one big thing–which may be Tempe or Mesa AZ and that’s it. They are Daylon, Devon and Daura. We are missing Daylon’s low…

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Glad you like it. Sofy is so surprisingly young that almost every new song she posts more or less every week is better than the previous one. It’s worth looking up to hear the job she does on her saxophone, as well.

Amazing how they just poke around in their kitchen and then boom, they are good and going places.

Never hear Alyssa before. Beautiful almost delicate voice. i don’t know her specific background but I feel sorry for people who work hard and present themselves to the world on You Tube and…nothing happens. Why? Too much competition out there, everyone doing the same thing. Hard to get paid attention to. Alyssa seems to have gotten…

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Ed, the YouTube sidebars showcase a surprising number of young talented people all reaching for a foothold with various degrees of success. Sofy as a member of ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’ and one about to spend a five week workshop at Berklee College of Music in a land she’s never been in, the U.S., is part of a reaction to your question “where are…

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Yes, I suspect most of us are jealous. Of Mona and Lisa’s huge talents, augmented by work done by Papa Rudy and Michaela. Talents born of innate abilities and sheer hard work, they are most impressive. But I speak of another ‘Jealous’. This one is a song title I wanted to introduce you to. it’s a song written by ‘Labrinth’. If you have…

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Yes, she is their youngest. Age 24 or so. I was surprised because sometimes the children of famous singers can’t necessarily sing very well. I distant;y recall being age 24 but was never that skinny, nossir. Those two have a great stage presence together!

Came across this while researching my entries a little further down here. A name caught my eye: ‘Brandi Carlile’. Touring Europe with Audrey McGraw. One has the enviable talent of being able to sing to her feet while while bending over. I can’t even <see> my feet. We have here a classic now performed by two women instead of the original…

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Daryl you are most welcome. Always happy to spread the word about beautiful things.

Brandi Carlile covers a tune familiar to us. “Hmm, where have we heard this before, can’t quite place it but…” And I have never heard anyone else cover this, it’s always been the original for me. Please enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OodNAJCOaos

Came across this again for the umpteenth time the other day and wanted to present it for the sheer pleasure of the harmonies. I listened to these two sisters sing and couldn’t help thinking “now who do they remind me of, heehee?” I read somewhere that Leonard couldn’t help falling in love with a woman who became his manager and she rewarded…

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Yer welcome, Jung. It’s such a simple and sweet tune. She is still so friggin young that it seems almost every song she releases is better than the previous one; progress can be seen in real time. And by the way, Sofy announced last week that she has received a five-week scholarship to Berklee College of Music People <not> in the know…

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Well, who wouldn’t? You’ve heard me mention ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’ hereabouts a few times. I looked and could not find that Mona and Lisa have ever covered this short song but they really should. The harmonies if they did would be just amazing. Here we have Sofy of SUKM with a release three weeks ago beautifully covering a Beatles…

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Ah yes, Jackie, that in fact is what I was speaking of. Good to hear that the Twins saw it.

I don’t know if this has previously been a topic of discussion and I’m not going to check all zillion articles here to find out. In a YouTube sidebar I found mention of a movie I have heard of which snuck in relatively unnoticed a few years ago. Called ‘Yesterday’. Simple premise = musician guy wakes up and finds he’s the only person in…

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