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In honor of the holiday two days hence:

 

The Three Tenors version (their English rife with Spanish & Italian accents! :D):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGuEkN62M0

 

Michael Bublé - Mis Deseos/Feliz Navidad with Thalia ("The Queen of Latin Pop!"):

 

A bit of an over-produced audio recording by Chicago:

 

My personal (comedic!) favorite with Walk Off The Earth

(5 peeps, 1 guitar!, from their Christmas movie.):

 

The original audio from 1970 by José Feliciano, who wrote the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwRIBpw7EwU

 

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

TruHart1 :cool:

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These boys are all so cute! They're so young, though, I feel like an old pervert when I watch them and enjoy the cuteness!!? :eek::eek:

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS Ms. QTR!!!

 

TruHart1 :cool:

Merry Christmas to you too! They were all over the age of 18 by the time of this performance, though in one case only by a few days. The oldest was 21.

 

There's a bigger age gap with the group that covered La Bamba. The eldest was born in 1994 and the youngest in 2000.

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Pictures At An Exhibition by Mussorgsky

 

Original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOEZhogGzI

Ravel orchestral arrangement (generally prefer to piano version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VeiELD3RIA

Emerson, Lake and Palmer version (my preference for Great Gate at Kiev)

A particularly good ELP performance of Great Gate

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Watching this live from the BBC version of Karen Carpenter's performance seems extra poignant to me.

 

 

I assume you know Richard saw Bette Midler singing Superstar on THE TONIGHT SHOW and thought it would be a good song for his sibling to sing. Much like he saw a bank commercial and thought We've Only Just Begun would also work well for sis.

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I assume you know Richard saw Bette Midler singing Superstar on THE TONIGHT SHOW and thought it would be a good song for his sibling to sing. Much like he saw a bank commercial and thought We've Only Just Begun would also work well for sis.

Paul Williams wrote the lyrics for We've Only Just Begun and other hits the Carpenter sang.

 

I love his You and Me Against the Word.

 

Helen Reddy had the bigger hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxd-7dTsUfQ

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Helen Reddy had the bigger hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxd-7dTsUfQ

 

I'm the only person in the world who admits to owning her greatest hits CD. I AM WOMAN actually had great lyrics.

 

he saw a bank commercial and thought We've Only Just Begun would also work well for sis.

 

The song was originally recorded by Smokey Roberds, singing under the name of "Freddie Allen". It debuted within a wedding-themed television commercial for Crocker National Bank in California in the winter of 1970, with Williams on vocals. Hal Riney of the San Francisco-based advertising agency Hal Riney & Partners had commissioned the song to help Crocker appeal to young people. The song played over footage of a couple getting married and just starting out. In the song, direct reference to the bank was left out, in part to make the song more marketable. The commercial turned out to be very popular, but it attracted customers the bank was not interested in, young adult customers without any collateral for loans, so the campaign was eventually suspended, after which the concept was franchised by Crocker to other banks.

 

Richard Carpenter saw the TV commercial and guessed correctly that Williams was the vocalist (both of them were under contract to A&M Records). Carpenter ran into Williams on the record company's lot and asked if a full-length version was available. Although the TV commercial had only two verses and no bridge, Williams stated that there was a bridge and an additional verse, forming a complete song; he and Nichols went on to write them.

 

For Williams, the song was a personal victory; it was his first collaboration with Nichols that resulted in a hit single, and it opened the door to many more thereafter. In 1998, the recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for recordings "of lasting quality or historical significance".

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