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The most beautiful songs

#83
Turn Around (Where Are You Going) - Kingston Trio

Other Streets and Other Towns - Mary Chapin Carpenter

This Day - Point of Grace

I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time - The Andrews Sisters

Unbreakable Heart - Carlene Carter, also Jessica Andrews

I'll Never Find Another You - The Seekers

Clair de Lune - Debussy

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#84
This performance of Elvis with the SNL band of So Like Candy is, to me, the ultimate version of the song.....Co-written with Paul MacCartney.

Sound isn't the best here,but it's the only one I can find........R.I.P. T-Bone.

 
#90
Ella Fitzgerald's "Someone To Watch Over Me"...
Willie Nelson's "Moonlight In Vermont"
Joni Mitchell's "Dreamland"
Eric Clapton's "Opposites"
Ray Charles' "Georgia"
The Beatles' "I Will"
George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" (No, Wait! That's supposed to go first!)
 
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the harp unstrung said:
... and not a hint...not a whiff... of cynicism in any song he ever wrote. He is a vastly underrated singer/songwriter. A sweet reflection of his times.
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And that's probably why he is underrated. He came on the scene in an age where cynicism, irony and sarcasm were becoming what was hip. So his music fell out of fashion in the 1980s. Some day he will be rediscovered and his music appreciated for what it is.

I saw him perform in the round in a large hall in Providence, RI in 1982. Just him, his guitar, and maybe a couple of musicians providing discrete accompaniment, I can't really remember. He owned that stage. He died too soon.
 
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static0verdrive said:
What songs do you consider to be among the most beautiful? Here's a quick list of my own off the top of my head:

  • Ebony Queen/Pam's Pad by Lenny Breau
  • Norwegian Wood, Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles
  • You Know, You Know by Mahavishnu Orchestra
  • Shevil by the Melvins
  • She Hangs Brightly, & All Your Sisters by Mazzy Star
  • Thru the Eyes of Ruby by Smashing Pumpkins
  • Romeo & Juliet by Tchaikovsky
  • Inca Roads by Frank Zappa (minus the parts with vocals at beginning & end), particularly the version on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2
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Definitely Maybe, Orange Album, Jeff Beck.





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Golden Slumbers
In My Life
Over The Rainbow (original AND Iz's version)
Advance Guards (Seals & Crofts)
You Could Break My Heart (Loggins & Messina, though it's a Loggins solo)
America (Simon & Garfunkel, although I'd describe this one as "hauntingly" beautiful)
If Not For You (George Harrison's version)
 
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the harp unstrung said:
... and not a hint...not a whiff... of cynicism in any song he ever wrote. He is a vastly underrated singer/songwriter. A sweet reflection of his times.
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I got curious about who Annie Denver was, and went to look her up. The Wikipedia entry about this song says this:

"Annie's Song" was written as an ode to Denver's wife at the time, Annie Martell Denver. Denver "wrote this song in July 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife."

That's pretty incredible talent and expression right there.
 

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