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This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. Huw Priday was born in the small market town of Brecon, Mid Wales. He won the Tenor solo prize at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod and was also awarded the 'Princeps Cantorum' (singer of the year). He studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at the Royal College of Music. Wales is known throughout the world as the Land of Song. Huw is proud of his Welsh heritage. In 1904, Wales was the epicentre of a spiritual revival that brought hope, peace and repentance to the Welsh nation. From there it reached out to the world with this message of God's love. For more information see www.1904revival.com Huw has appeared with all the major British Opera Companies since leaving college in 1986. His operatic career has also taken him to mainland Europe singing in Germany France Sweden Denmark and Spain. Huw also has an extensive oratorio and concert repertoire. His career has taken him all over the world, including Australia, America, Europe, Grand Canaries, the Middle East and the Far East. He has given performances for Royalty and Heads of States, including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles Princess Diana and the young Princes, The Sultan of Oman, The Kings and Queens of Denmark and Sweden. Venues have included The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Royal Albert Hall London. Sydney Concert Hall, The Royal Opera House Stockholm. Huw has also shown his versatility by singing the role of 'Piangi' in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End. Huws Priday In October 1999 Huw sang in the World Premier of Alun Hoddinott's "Tower" singing the roles of 'David' and 'Senior Civil Servant' in Swansea, for which Huw received high critical acclaim in the National press. Huw recently made his concert and television debut in the U.S.A. with future engagements being planned for 2004/5 in USA, Canada and main land Europe. In November 2003 Huw sang the tenor solo part in the World Premier of "Oratorio Terezin" by Ruth Fazal at the George Weston Hall, Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts in Canada. There will be further performances of the oratorio in Israel and the USA in 2005. Concerts this year have included a number of appearances in various churches and concert halls in America whilst nearer to home Huw has most recently appeared in concert at St David's Hall, Cardiff and the Royal Albert Hall, London. He has made several appearances on UK television on both the BBC and ITV channels including "Song's of Praise" and "My Favourite Hymn's". This biography is taken from Huw Priday's website @ http://www.priday.com/

On Friday 20th June, 2014, I was proclaimed a citizen of the United States of America at 12H10 at the Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse in Saint Louis, Missouri. The ceremony was overseen by the Honourable Kathy A. Surratt-States. "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God." After I was sworn in, having pledged my allegiance to the United States of America alone, and foreswearing all allegiance to my own country of birth, Judge Suratt-States told us that our citizenship was irrevocable -- and that nobody could take it from us. This means that President Barrack Hussein Obama is, to all intents and purposes, now my federal head, as I have made a solemn covenant with the United States of America, it's Constitution and its people. However, I can be nothing to this, my new country and its people, if I did not acknowledge who I am and what I stand for in God my Saviour. The Lord Jesus Christ made a covenant with me before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:3-6). By His sovereign decree, He set His love on me, and by His foreknowledge, He predestined me to be called into His kingdom at a moment in time, which He alone determined. This day came on 7th March, 1987. Because of His sovereign covenant, made with me in eternity, my true Federal Head is the Lord Jesus Christ, who purchased my citizenship in His kingdom with his blood when he was crucified and slain on a cross, according to the scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). He was buried and was raised again for my justification, which is a forensic or legal declaration by Himself that my citizenship in His kingdom and my salvation in Him is irrevocable. He has said so in His word, the Bible, proclaiming: "It is finished" - John 19:30, and: "For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable" - Romans 11:29. The Bible speaks of my King like this: "...our Lord Jesus Christ:... who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;..." - 1 Timothy 6:15. Because of these truths, I become the friend of those who are my brothers and sisters in Christ, but to those who hate Him who is the author, perfector and the finisher of our faith, I become the deadliest of enemies. - Galatians 4:16. When I pledge my allegiance to this country, its people and its flag, I proclaim: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Because I am a citizen who stands under the true God of the Bible, who knows and understands the meaning of true citizenship, I am able to be what I need to be to the people of his country. To those who love her, I am their friend, and to those who hate her, I am the deadliest of enemies. God bless America! Soli Deo Gloria! "So Moving this music, this message, this spirit of freedom!! I wish everyone could read your message, and I wish everyone could understand the absolute commitment our forefathers made when founding this Great Country! Against impossible odds, they prevailed!! Too bad we're not all required to take that oath, so we'd understand the gift that we were handed ... just by being born here! I'm proud of you Liz.... And welcome HOME!" From my friend, Len Audsley in the comment section of this video on YouTube. I am sick, so I wanted to put this video up here for all to see, so that you can know that I became a citizen of this country, America, of my own free will. And even though I think back to the country of my birth with great fondness, it is here in America where I belong. This is my favourite rendition of our National Anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner". It is sung by Dan Vasc. Here is the link to that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5i4KrghDw

This video was made using Magix Movie Edit Pro 17 HD. Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (1 March 1904[citation needed]; disappeared 15 December 1944; declared dead 16 December 1945) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. His civilian band, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra were one of the most popular and successful bands of the 20th century and the big band era. His military group, the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra, was also popular and successful. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was the best-selling recording band from 1939 to 1942. Miller's civilian band did not have a string section as his military unit did, but it did have a slap bass in the rhythm section. It was also a touring band that played multiple radio broadcasts nearly every day. Their best-selling records include Miller's theme song – "Moonlight Serenade" – and the first gold record ever made, "Chattanooga Choo Choo". The following tunes are also on that best-seller list: "In the Mood", "Pennsylvania 6-5000" (printed as "Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand" on record labels), "A String of Pearls", "Moonlight Cocktail", "At Last", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "American Patrol", "Tuxedo Junction", "Elmer's Tune", "Little Brown Jug", and "Anvil Chorus". Including "Chattanooga Choo Choo", five songs played by Miller and His Orchestra were number one hits for most of 1942 and can be found on the List of Billboard number-one singles of 1942. In four years, Miller scored 16 number one records and 69 top 10 hits, more than Elvis Presley and the Beatles in their careers. His musical legacy includes multiple recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame. His work has been performed by swing bands, jazz bands, and big bands worldwide for over 75 years. Miller is considered to be the father of the modern US military bands. In 1942, he volunteered to join the US military to entertain troops during World War II and ended up in the US Army Air Forces. Their workload was just as heavy as the civilian band's had been. With a full string section added to a big band, the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra was the forerunner of many US military big bands. Miller went missing in action (MIA) on December 15, 1944, on a flight over the English Channel. In keeping with standard operating procedure for the US military services, Miller was officially declared dead a year and a day later. An Army investigation led to an official finding of death (FOD) for Miller, Norman Baessell, and John Morgan, all of whom died on the same flight. All three officers are listed on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridge, England. Since his body was not recoverable, Miller was allowed to have a memorial headstone placed at the US Army-operated Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. In February 1945, he was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal. Early life and career The son of Mattie Lou (née Cavender) Miller and Lewis Elmer Miller, Alton Glen Miller was born in Clarinda, Iowa. He added the second n to "Glenn" during high school. Like his father (Lewis Elmer) and his siblings (Elmer Deane, John Herbert and Emma Irene), Miller went by his middle name, Glenn. As Dennis Spragg of the Glenn Miller Archives confirms, "Miller's use of his first name, Alton, was necessary for legal and military purposes, which is logically why it shows up in formal documents such as his military documents, driver’s licenses, tax returns, etc." He is listed as Alton G. Miller in the Army Air Forces section of the Tablets of the Missing in Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridge, England. His name is engraved as Major Alton Glenn Miller, US Army (Air Corps) on his Government-issued (G.I.) memorial headstone in Memorial Section H at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. His last military unit has a memorial tree in section 13 on Wilson Drive. The American Holly was dedicated on December 15, 1994, the 50th anniversary of Miller's death, for the veterans of the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra. He attended grade school in North Platte in western Nebraska. In 1915, his family moved to Grant City, Missouri. Around this time, he had made enough money from milking cows to buy his first trombone and played in the town orchestra. He played cornet and mandolin, but he switched to trombone by 1916. In 1918, Miller and his family moved to Fort Morgan, Colorado, where he went to Fort Morgan High School. In the fall of 1919, he joined the F.M.H.S. Maroons, the high school football team that won the Northern Colorado American Football Conference in 1920. He was named Best Left End in Colorado in 1921. For two years, Miller was one of the editors of his own high school yearbook, "Memories". In each of the yearbooks he edited, his name was spelled both Glen with one n, and Glenn with a double n. During his senior year, he became so interested in dance band music that he formed a band with some classmates. The high school orchestra was an after school activity, but he played there too. For a time, classes in harmony, piano, violin, and music appreciation were full, but classes were discontinued. However, by the time he graduated from high school in 1921, he had decided to become a professional musician. He missed his own graduation because he was performing out of town. His mother gladly received his diploma for him. In 1923, Miller entered the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he joined Sigma Nu fraternity. He spent most of his time away from school, attending auditions and playing any gigs he could get, including with Boyd Senter's band in Denver. After failing three out of five classes, he dropped out of school to pursue a career in music. He failed Harmony. In New York City, he studied the Schillinger system with Joseph Schillinger, under whose tutelage he composed "Miller's Tune". Miller arranged that tune for big band and renamed it. It became his signature theme, "Moonlight Serenade". In 1926, Miller toured with several groups, landing a good spot in Ben Pollack's group in Los Angeles. He also played for Victor Young, which allowed him to be mentored by other professional musicians. In the beginning, he was the main trombone soloist of the band, but when Jack Teagarden joined Pollack's band in 1928, Miller found that his solos were cut drastically. He realized that his future was in arranging and composing. He had a songbook published in Chicago in 1928 entitled 125 Jazz Breaks for Trombone by the Melrose Brothers. During his time with Pollack, he wrote several arrangements. He wrote his first composition, "Room 1411", with Benny Goodman, and Brunswick Records released it as a 78 rpm record under the name "Benny Goodman's Boys". In 1928, when the band arrived in New York City, he sent for and married his college sweetheart, Helen Burger. He was a member of Red Nichols' orchestra (Red Nichols and his Five Pennies) in 1930, and because of Nichols, he played in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy. That band included Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Miller worked as a freelance trombonist in several bands. On a March 21, 1928, Victor Records session, he played alongside Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Joe Venuti in the All-Star Orchestra directed by Nat Shilkret. He arranged and played trombone on several significant Dorsey brothers sessions for OKeh Records, including "The Spell of the Blues", "Let's Do It", and "My Kinda Love", all with Bing Crosby on vocals. On November 14, 1929, vocalist Red McKenzie hired Miller to play on two records: "Hello, Lola" and "If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight". Beside Miller were saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, guitarist Eddie Condon, and drummer Gene Krupa. In the early to mid-1930s, Miller worked as a trombonist, arranger, and composer for the Dorsey Brothers, first, when they were a Brunswick studio group and later, when they formed an ill-fated orchestra. Miller composed the songs "Annie's Cousin Fanny", "Dese Dem Dose", "Harlem Chapel Chimes", and "Tomorrow's Another Day" for the Dorsey Brothers Band in 1934 and 1935. In 1935, he assembled an American orchestra for British bandleader Ray Noble, developing the arrangement of lead clarinet over four saxophones that became a characteristic of his big band. Members of the Noble band included Claude Thornhill, Bud Freeman, and Charlie Spivak. Miller made his first movie appearance in The Big Broadcast of 1936 as a member of the Ray Noble Orchestra performing "Why Stars Come Out at Night". The film included performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942. In 1937, Miller compiled several arrangements and formed his first band. After failing to distinguish itself from the many bands of the time, it broke up after its last show at the Ritz Ballroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 2, 1938. Benny Goodman said in 1976: In late 1937, before his band became popular, we were both playing in Dallas. Glenn was pretty dejected and came to see me. He asked, "What do you do? How do you make it?" I said, "I don't know, Glenn. You just stay with it." Success from 1938 to 1942 Main article: Glenn Miller Orchestra The Glenn Miller Orchestra Discouraged, Miller returned to New York. He realized that he needed to develop a unique sound and decided to make the clarinet play a melodic line with a tenor saxophone holding the same note, while three other saxophones harmonized within a single octave. George T. Simon discovered a saxophonist named Wilbur Schwartz. Miller hired Schwartz but had him play lead clarinet instead of the saxophone. According to Simon, "Willie's tone and way of playing provided a fullness and richness so distinctive that none of the later Miller imitators could ever accurately reproduce the Miller sound." With this new sound combination, Miller found a way to differentiate his band's style from that of many bands that existed in the late 1930s. Miller talked about his style in the May 1939 issue of Metronome magazine. "You'll notice today some bands use the same trick on every introduction; others repeat the same musical phrase as a modulation into a vocal ... We're fortunate in that our style doesn't limit us to stereotyped intros, modulations, first choruses, endings, or even trick rhythms. The fifth sax, playing the clarinet most of the time, lets you know whose band you're listening to. And that's about all there is to it. For more information on Glenn Miller, please go to his Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller

"Who other than Billy Joel could wrap a 50's style Doo Wop song around a Ludwig Van Beethoven movement and make a hit with it? The chorus: styled from the L.V.B. second movement of Pathetique Sonata, and given proper credit on Billy's album "An Innocent Man". The song is said to have been written about his brief relationship with model Elle Macpherson. A subscriber and friend, recommended I listen to this and possibly do a cover. Thanks Liz, Great Choice!....... I hope you ALL enjoy, AND REMEMBER, if you subscribe, you just might get your request honored!!!" ~~~Len Audsley from the description area of his YouTube Channel. I have known Len Audsley ever since he started his channel on YouTube in about 2011. He is blessed with an incrediby versatile voice and he has tackled everything you can imagine, from Billy Joel's songs to Led Zeppelin's Black Dog. Considering that Robert Plant was 23 years old when Led Zeppelin did Black Dog, nobody was more shocked than I was when Len tackled "BLack Dog" in his late 60s fairly recently, and nailed it! Robert Plant could not possibly have tackled "Black Dog" in his later years. His voice was too damaged by then. In the same way, I am of the humble opinion that Billy Joel had to bow to Len when it came to "This Night" as well. Here is a link to Len doing Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7h_1mXTxOw Len Audsley: Life long musician and singer.. Got started in High School.. Always loved the songs of the 60’s and learned at an early age how to sing along! After joining in several local bands throughout the years, he decided to go solo on YouTube covering all those great songs he loved so much! Around 2016 he took his solo show out to the public venues and still has great success.. but mostly loves performing on YouTube and has thousands of followers.. You can check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/justsingit72 The song Len is doing on this video, is called "This Night" and it is a cover of Billy Joel's song of the same name from his 1983 album, "An Innocent Man". Billy Joel based his song on Ludwig van Beethhoven's three piece Piano Sonata Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years old, and was published in 1799. It has remained one of his most celebrated compositions. Beethoven dedicated the work to his friend Prince Karl von Lichnowsky. Although commonly thought to be one of the few works to be named by the composer himself, it was actually named Grande sonate pathétique (to Beethoven's liking) by the publisher, who was impressed by the sonata's tragic sonorities. Prominent musicologists debate whether or not the Pathétique may have been inspired by Mozart's piano sonata K. 457, since both compositions are in C minor and have three very similar movements. The second movement, "Adagio cantabile", especially, makes use of a theme remarkably similar to one in the spacious second movement of Mozart's sonata. Close similarities have also been noted with Bach's Partita no. 2 in C minor. Both works open with a declamatory fanfare marked Grave, sharing a distinct combination of dotted rhythms, melodic contour, and texture. Furthermore, the first four notes of the Partita's Andante (G–C–D–E♭, prominently repeated throughout the work) are found in the Pathétique as the first notes of important themes – first in the hand-crossing second subject of its first movement (initially transposed), then in the main theme of the Rondo. It is known that Beethoven was familiar with the works of Bach, studying The Well-Tempered Clavier as a youth and returning to his predecessor's compositional styles later in life. The sonata consists of three movements: Grave: (Slowly, with solemnity) – Allegro di molto e con brio (Very quickly, with vigour) Adagio cantabile: (Slowly, in a singing style) Rondo: Allegro (Quickly) The chorus in Billy Joels song, "This Night" is based on the 2nd Movement, namely the Adagio Cantabile. For more information on this Sonata, please go to the Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._8_(Beethoven)

Lebohang Morake (born 11 July 1964), known as Lebo M, is a South African producer and composer, known for his songwriting and vocal work on the soundtracks to films such as The Lion King, The Power of One and Outbreak and numerous stage productions. He was recommended to Disney by Hans Zimmer, the composer of both adaptations of The Lion King, and formed and conducted the African choir that sang for the films. Early life Lebohang Morake was born on 11 July 1964 in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. With no formal training in music, he left school at the age of nine to perform music in night clubs. Morake recorded his first single, "Celebration", when he was 13 years old, receiving only $20 for recording the record. When he was 13 years old, Morake became the youngest performer to sing at the nightclub Club Pelican, when he filled in for a backup singer who could not attend. Career Early career In 1979, Morake sought to broaden his horizons, so he left by bus for Maseru, Lesotho after hearing that a new club was going to be opening there. In Maseru, due to the apartheid system, he was under exile. At 15, he was working as a singer in the Victoria Hotel in Lesotho when Lesotho's Ambassador to the United States Tim Thahane noticed him and appreciated his musical abilities. Thahane helped Morake apply to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, coordinating with the TransAfrica organization to send the singer to the United States. Morake lived at first in New York, again playing in restaurants and bars, and was supported by Black churches to attend music school. Morake moved to Los Angeles when he was 18 to pursue a music career. Start in Hollywood In Los Angeles, he struggled to make ends meet, working odd jobs to survive while studying at Los Angeles City College. He performed sometimes at Memory Lane, a nightclub owned by Marla Gibbs. Morake was asked to help find a choir for the Oscars, so that they could perform music from 1987's Cry Freedom, a film about South Africa that was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Song. He made further strides in his music career when by chance, he ran into childhood friend Solly Letwaba, who was the bassist for Johnny Clegg. Letwaba introduced Morake to Clegg's producer, Hilton Rosenthal, who employed Morake as an intern and gofer for his production studio. Rosenthal was the music supervisor on the film The Power of One, and through him, Morake met the film's composer, Hans Zimmer. After being asked about some ideas for the film's soundtrack, Morake ended up co-writing and co-producing the music for The Power of One with Zimmer, helping to arrange the choruses. Morake used his knowledge of African rhythms to compose the soundtracks to other films, such as Congo (1995), Outbreak (1995), and Born to be Wild (1995). He decided to return to South Africa in the early 1990s, after the end of apartheid. The Lion King Morake wrote and sang the opening Zulu chant at the beginning of Disney's The Lion King, for which he was sought by Zimmer. He also contributed to the sequel to the film's soundtrack, Rhythm of the Pride Lands, and the film's direct-to-video sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. The duo composed so much music that Disney approved of an additional soundtrack album, Rhythm of the Pride Lands, containing extra compositions. The Lion King's original soundtrack, with the compositions that had made the cut for the theatrical release, earned the two composers a Grammy Award, and Zimmer won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. Morake also helped score The Lion King's stage musical, creating new music and adding pieces from Rhythm of the Pride Lands.The musical was nominated for Best Original Score at the 52nd Tony Awards in 1998. He founded the Lebo M Foundation and Till Dawn Entertainment. On 23 July 2019, Morake performed 'Circle of Life' and 'He Lives in You' at the opening ceremony of the 24th World Scout Jamboree. Personal life Morake was married to Viveca Gipson for 5 years. He divorced her and married Nandi Ndlovu and they were together for 11 years. He then divorced Ndlovu and married Angela Ngani-Casara for five years, from 2008 to 2013. Morake became engaged to Zoe Mthiyane but their relationship ended in 2016. He remarried his third wife, Angela, but they divorced again in 2017. He lives with his family in Johannesburg and Los Angeles. His daughter Refi is also a singer who often performs by his side. In April 2021, Morake got engaged to partner Pretty Samuels, in 2023 he had presumably filed for divorce. Lebo Morake has composed, arranged, performed and produced music for the following films: The Lion King (soundtrack) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride The Lion King 1½ The Lion King (musical) - singer at One by One The Power of One Dinosaur Disney's Animal Kingdom: The First Adventure Tears of the Sun Back on the Block Atlantis: The Lost Empire Listen Up: The Life of Quincy Jones Outbreak Congo Born to Be Wild Long Night's Journey Into Day The Lion King (2019 remake) The Woman King (2022) Discography How Wonderful We Are (1995) Rhythm of the Pride Lands (1995) Lebo M: Deeper Meaning (1997) Return to Pride Rock (1998) Lebo M Presents: Open Summahhh Open Happiness (2009)

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. When it's all been said and done. "You Are So Beautiful" is a song credited to Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher that was first released in 1974 on Preston's ninth studio album, The Kids & Me. It was also the B-side of his single "Struttin'". Later that same year, English singer Joe Cocker released a slower version of the song on his album I Can Stand a Little Rain. Cocker's version was produced by Jim Price, and released as a single in November 1974. It became Cocker's highest-charting solo hit in the United States, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 (Cocker's biggest hit on the US pop chart was "Up Where We Belong", a duet with Jennifer Warnes from the 1982 film An Officer And A Gentleman, which reached number 1 and at number four on Canada's Top Singles chart. Although he remains uncredited by the publisher as of 2023, several sources assert that Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys assisted Preston in completing the song by co-writing the lyrics and modifying part of the melody at a contemporaneous party. Wilson performed the song live with the Beach Boys (often as an encore with minimal accompaniment) from 1975 until his final performances with the group in 1983. Kenny Rankin, Ray Stevens, Kenny Rogers, Bonnie Tyler and Brian Kennedy are also among the artists who have covered "You Are So Beautiful". The song has also been featured in numerous movies, television shows, and ads. Background Billy Preston wrote "You Are So Beautiful" with one of his regular collaborators, Bruce Fisher. Preston's inspiration was his mother, who worked as a stage actress. According to his friend Sam Moore (who had assumed it was a standard love song), Preston was appalled to learn that Moore was using the song as a means to attract young women each time he sang it in concert. In Moore's description, Preston told him: "That song's about my mother!" The composition interpolates part of Preston's 1969 song "Let Us All Get Together (Right Now)", which he wrote with soul singer Doris Troy. According to Beach Boys biographer Jon Stebbins, although Dennis Wilson is not credited as a writer, he helped Preston finish writing "You Are So Beautiful". Preston and Wilson are said to have collaborated on the song while attending a party where they discussed the concept of beauty. In the opinion of Craig Hlavaty, writing for Houston Press, while Wilson never sought to claim a share of the song's authorship, "if you check out Wilson's solo work, you can hear where Wilson's mind took over 'Beautiful.'" Billy Hinsche, a close friend and longtime touring member of the Beach Boys, stated that he witnessed Preston and Wilson working on the song "out of the corner of my ear and the corner of my eye" at the party. He said that he was unaware of how much of the song Preston had already written prior to Wilson's involvement. "Maybe it was just [Wilson's] interpretation of the song. Later Dennis said to me, 'Well, you know, I helped write that song.'" In a 2004 interview, brother Brian Wilson denied whether Dennis was "one of the uncredited writers". Dennis sang "You Are So Beautiful" (usually as an encore) at Beach Boys shows intermittently from 1975 until his final performances in 1983. A live rendition, circa 1978, and an edited 1983 live rendition both appear in the film The Beach Boys: An American Band (1985). A live version was released on the group's album Good Timin': Live at Knebworth England 1980 in 2002. Composition "You Are So Beautiful" was originally published in the key of A♭ major in common time with a tempo of 70 beats per minute. Cocker's vocals span from B♭2 to E♭4. The song is unusual in that the chord progression does not include the "V" chord. Critical reception Marc Lee of The Daily Telegraph noted the song's contemplative beginning, accompanied only by piano, followed by "lush strings" which "sweep in and carry [Cocker] off into passionate ecstasies". Lee commented that the song, one of Cocker's best-known works, was a good example of Cocker's ability to be both gentle and "gloriously stirring". Live performances Cocker performed the song along with Ray Charles in a 1983 television tribute to Charles, A Man and his Soul. Ray Stevens recorded it for his album Just for the Record (1976). Stevens' version reached number 16 on the Hot Country Songs charts. Bob James covered this song on his album Heads (1977). Tanya Tucker recorded it for her compilation album You Are So Beautiful (album) released in June, 1977 where it rose to #40 on the Country and Western chart. Kenny Rankin recorded it on The Kenny Rankin Album (1977). Perry Como included the song on his album So It Goes (1983). Kenny Rogers recorded the song as the closing track on his best-selling album We've Got Tonight (1983). It was also used as the B-side to the single release of the title track. Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler recorded the song on her album Silhouette In Red (1993).[29] Al Green recorded the song on his album Everything's OK (2005). Italian bluesman Zucchero Fornaciari included the cover of the song in his greatest hits album All the Best (2007). Irish singer Brian Kennedy covered the song on his album Interpretations (2008). Hong Kong singer Susan Wong included a cover of the song on her smooth jazz / bossa nova album 511 (2009). In 2016 former Isley Brother Chris Jasper covered the song on his album Share With Me. Self Esteem recorded and released an acoustic version as a standalone single in 2023. German singer Marc Marshall recorded the song on his Album "THE1TAKES, Vol. 1" in 2021 In other media Television programs have used commercial recordings of the song. Seventies-themed sitcom The Wonder Years used a recorded version of the song in Season 6, Episode 16, "Nose", where it played at the end of the episode at a school dance where Kevin's friend Ricky loses a girl with a large nose just as Ricky had come to appreciate her. Joe Cocker's version was used on Episode 24, Season 11 (Only Just Began) of Knots Landing in a montage in which a drunk Danny Waleska ends up hitting Pat Williams with his car. The song was heard in Two and a Half Men Season 4, Episode 23, ("Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-Lookin'"), sung by guest Enrique Iglesias. An episode of Home Improvement ("Jill's Birthday") accompanied the song with a montage of photos of Jill Taylor (Patricia Richardson) in her early age. The song played in Season 5, Episode 9 of Full House. The film Modern Romance (1981) includes an instrumental version of the song in its opening and closing titles, and also uses Joe Cocker's version to underscore its final scene. Joe Cocker's version was also used in the film Carlito's Way (1993) and plays during Gail's apartment scene and over the film's end credits. In the American comedy movie The Little Rascals (1994), the song is sung by Alfalfa to Darla on a boat. The song was comically sung by Seann William Scott in the 2001 film Evolution. His character, Wayne, did so in a mall to get the attention of an alien terrorizing the customers, much to the dismay of his two acquaintances, Ira Kane (David Duchovny) and Harry Block (Orlando Jones). In Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Dave and Mike sing the song in Jeanie and Eric's Wedding. In 2016, the song appears in the season one finale of Quantico entitled "Yes", first sung by a drunk Caleb Haas (Graham Rogers) and Brandon Fletcher (Jacob Artist) celebrating their graduation, then leading into the Joe Cocker version for the remainder of the scene. The song appears in a 2018 TV commercial for Toyota. In The Simpsons season 2 episode "Simpson and Delilah," a singing telegram employee serenades Marge with the song when Homer forgets their anniversary. At the end, when Homer loses all the hair he grew with no way of growing it back, Marge tenderly sings it to him in bed. In The Boys, as The Deep hallucinates that his gills are speaking (with Patton Oswalt's voice), they start singing the song, and he eventually goes along. In The Walking Dead season 10 episode "Here's Negan", Negan plays the song throughout the special, talking about how it was his wife Lucille's favorite.

This video was made with MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. I really struggled with my choice of artist to do this particular song. I suppose that many would say that it, rightly, belongs to Etta James. And seeing that I usually post the older renditions of songs on my channel, some might question my choice to use Beyoncé to present this song to you. Well, it's very simple, I was beguiled by Beyoncé's rendition of this song. Her beautiful voice is crystal clear and without a single flaw. Also, her presentation is so passionate that I could not continue on to use Etta James' rendition of this song. Having said that, Beyoncé plays the part of Etta James in this movie, Cadillac Records, so I thought it would be a fitting trbute to the Grand Dame herself. I hope you enjoy this song as sung by Beyoncé Knowles, as much as I enjoyed presenting it to you. CADILLAC RECORDS is a 2008 American biographical drama film written and directed by Darnell Martin. The film explores the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records. The film stars Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, Columbus Short as Little Walter, Cedric the Entertainer as Willie Dixon, Eamonn Walker as Howlin' Wolf, Mos Def as Chuck Berry, and Beyoncé Knowles as Etta James. The film was released in North America on December 5, 2008, by TriStar Pictures. The soundtrack was released on Music World/Columbia and Sony Music. Plot In 1947 in Chicago, a Jewish immigrant from Poland and bar owner Leonard Chess hires a blues combo, including guitarist Muddy Waters and harmonica player Little Walter. Waters' and Walter's success leads to Chess opening the doors for black musicians and beginning a new record label in 1950 – Chess Records. This attracts stars like Etta James, Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry. Inevitably, business and personal lines blur as the sometimes-turbulent lives of the musicians play out. Leonard Chess was the co-founder of the 1950s American record label Chess Records, located in Chicago, Illinois. He ran the legendary company with his brother, Phil, through the 1950s and '60s. The label started selling records from the back of Chess' Cadillac, and launched the careers of legendary musical personalities such as blues singers and harmonica and guitar players Little Walter and Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, soul legend Etta James and guitarist singer-songwriters Chuck Berry and Willie Dixon. Production Beyoncé at the premiere party for the release of the film The screenplay was written by director Darnell Martin. The filming of Cadillac Records started in February 2008. Filming locations included Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Jersey. Martin directed the film, financed by Sony BMG Film. Cadillac Records was produced by Andrew Lack and Sofia Sondervan, and co-executive produced by Beyoncé. Casting Originally, Matt Dillon was slated to play the role of Chess, but the role was ultimately given to Adrien Brody due to scheduling conflicts with Dillon.[9] Early announcements of the cast also included Columbus Short as Little Walter, Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, and multi-Grammy Award winner Beyoncé as Etta James. According to director Martin, the role of James was written with Beyoncé in mind. As production increased, the roster grew to include Canadian actress Emmanuelle Chriqui as Revetta Chess, Tammy Blanchard as Isabelle Allen, English actor Eamonn Walker as Howlin' Wolf, and comedian Cedric the Entertainer as Willie Dixon.[3][6][8] Final line ups of the cast also grew to include rapper Yasiin Bey as Chuck Berry, and Gabrielle Union in the role of Geneva Wade, Muddy Waters' common law wife. Music Main article: Cadillac Records: Music from the Motion Picture The American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer Steve Jordan produced the soundtrack to the film. He also picked a group of blues musicians, including Billy Flynn (guitar), Larry Taylor (bass), Eddie Taylor Jr. (guitar), Barrelhouse Chuck (piano), Kim Wilson (harmonica), Danny Kortchmar (guitar), Hubert Sumlin (guitar), and Bill Sims (guitar) who, along with Jordan on drums, recorded all of the blues songs used in the film. Beyoncé recorded five songs for the soundtrack, including a cover version of Etta James' "At Last" which was released on December 2, 2008 as its lead single. Mos Def, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, and Eamonn Walker recorded songs for the soundtrack, and Raphael Saadiq, Beyoncé's sister Solange, Mary Mary, Nas, Buddy Guy, and Elvis Presley also appear on the album. The soundtrack was released in single and double-disc editions. The month after the film was released, Beyoncé performed "At Last" at the inauguration ball of Barack Obama, as he and wife Michelle danced together for the first time as President and First Lady. The soundtrack spent 48 weeks at number one of the Top Blues Albums. The soundtrack was nominated for three 2010 Grammy Awards in the following categories: Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, Beyoncé's "Once in a Lifetime" for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media and Beyoncé's "At Last" for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. Cast Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess Beyoncé Knowles as Etta James Jeffrey Wright as McKinley Morganfield/Muddy Waters Cedric the Entertainer as Willie Dixon Gabrielle Union as Geneva Wade Columbus Short as Walter Jacobs/Little Walter Emmanuelle Chriqui as Revetta Chess Eamonn Walker as Chester Burnett/Howlin' Wolf Yasiin Bey as Chuck Berry Shiloh Fernandez as Phil Chess Jay O. Sanders as Mr. Feder Eric Bogosian as Alan Freed Kevin Mambo as Jimmy Rogers Marc Bonan as Keith Richards Tammy Blanchard as Isabelle Allen Q-Tip as hip hop artist Norman Reedus as Chess record engineer Vincent D'Onofrio as Mississippi DJ (uncredited) Elvis Presley as himself (archive footage; uncredited) For more information on this movie, Cadillac Records, please fo to the Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Records

This is my friend, THMPSNMusic. I am trying to use all the wiles given to me to tempt him to bring his videos to Rumble. He has not yet said "Yes", but neither has he said "No". BUT, he HAS given me permission to upload the two videos I am going to load here today. I hope you enjoy this one.

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. This song has a theme that is a bit more dark than the music might reveal. Bono explains in the Irish Times how the song is about how priests were sexually abusing young children: "Then I went a bit further and remembered all the violence meted out to women by their husbands, the beatings children experienced from their fathers and how, at that time particularly, priests were sexually abusing young children." The song has some clear references to the hypocrisy of the Catholic church, in particular in Ireland in the 1970s: "Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair". The line "tomorrow dawns like someone else's suicide" may be interpreted as the total apathy of this hypothetical priest towards his grey, as the damage he's causing to children and families are not part of his life. I was raised in Catholic convents during the most tender times of my life. Catholic indoctrination was brutal, to say the least. The things that we were put through in those ghastly confessionals every Friday afternoon, were beyond what I would even talk about at this time in my life. Their whole agenda was fear, fear and more fear. The fear of God was nothing compared to what those priests put us through.

Alan Garrity is a musician who had a number of hits in South Africa and Rhodesia. He had his first hit with Put Your Hand in the Hand which was No 1 on the Springbok Top 20 chart for four weeks in 1971. This was followed up by I Need Someone which reached No 2 on Springbok Top 20 and spent 33 weeks on the charts and won the 1972 South African Recording Industry (SARI) Award for Best Song of the Year. In 1973, he won SARI awards for Best Album of the Year and Best Male Vocalist. His next single, a cover of Home Isn't Home Anymore, reached no 5 on the charts. In 1975 he won a second SARI Award for Best Male Vocalist and his third in 1981 along with a SARI for Top Twenty Artist of the Year. Alan Garrity is a singer, guitarist and pianist who was born on 14 October 1947 in Manchester, England. Musical Career The son of a British army officer, Alan moved to Rhodesia with his parents shortly before his fourteenth birthday. As a child he performed in various school musical activities but harboured no pretensions of being anything more than ordinary. He learnt to play guitar at fifteen and, after completing his schooling at Milton High in Bulawayo, trained and worked as a radiographer. As a hobby he sang in local pubs and hotels. It was during this period that Alan realised that he had a three-octave range in his voice. He formed a band in Bulawayo (see TABBRON TRIO) and penned his first seven single, a song called "Coloured Rain". He scored an immediate success with this tune as it raced up the Rhodesian record charts, peaking at Number 2. With gathering confidence in his musical prospects, Alan gave up his occupation as a radiographer and landed a job as the resident vocalist at the Swaziland Holiday Inn in 1972. The well known Peter Lotis of Gallo records heard Alan perform at this venue and offered him a recording contract. At Peter's suggestion, Alan recorded "Put Your Hand In The Hand" and the song achieved instant success, quickly dominating the local charts. It also made Alan a household name. The song topped the Springbok Top 20 for four weeks and the Rhodesian charts for five. This run at No 1 started on 5 June, 1971. In 1971 he was presented the Springbok Award as South Africa's 'Most Promising Male Vocalist'. In September, 1971, his first album predictably entitled "Put Your Hand In The Hand" was released. His next chart success, "I Need Someone", held the record for over ten years as the song with the longest chart run on Springbok Radio's Top 20 hit parade. It spent 33 weeks on the charts between June 1972 and January 1973. This song - which peaked at No 2 on Springbok's Top 20 - earned him two Gold Discs, as well as the 1972 SARI Award as 'Best Song Of The Year'. In 1973, he won that year's award for 'Best LP Of The Year', as well as the SARI Award for 'Best Male Vocalist'. "Home Isn't Home Anymore" was Alan's next chart entry, spending 16 weeks on Springbok's Top 20, peaking at No 5 in 1973. In December, 1973, he released his third album, "Goodbye Mama", which peaked at No 15 in January, 1974, spending 7 weeks on the Top 20. The single, "Give Me Back My Woman", from this album reached No 9 in the Top 20 in April, 1974, and was present on the charts for 10 weeks. In November, 1974, he released the album "Words and Music" having composed all the songs and lyrics himself. In 1975 he won his second SARI Award as 'Best Male Vocalist' and succeeded in getting yet another song onto the charts - "She's My Woman". This release reached No 15. In 1976, Alan's acting skills came to the fore when he took the lead role of Joseph in PACT's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat", performing alongside well known artists such as Richard Loring, Jody Wayne and Wayne and Alvin Collison. This production toured extensively throughout South Africa and Rhodesia. Hit singles continued to accumulate with "Santa Maria" reaching No 4 on the Springbok Top 20 in 1981, spending 11 weeks on the charts. Once again, in 1981, he garnered the SARI Awards for 'Best Male Vocalist', as well as 'Best Top Twenty Artist'. In April, 1982, he swan-songed the charts with "You Stood By Me" which reached No 18. Since then Alan and his family have spent much of their time touring the world from their home in Manchester, England, although he maintained a home in Kleinmond as well. He continues to sing and is involved in cruise director's duties aboard luxury ocean liners. Singles Put Your Hand In The Hand (1971) The Dream Waltz (1971) Somehow, Somewhere (1971) I Need Someone (1971) Till The Rivers All Run Dry (1972) Home Isn't Home Anymore (1972) I'll Have To Dream (1973) Goodbye Mama (1973) Give Me Back My Woman (1974) Look What You've Done (1974) She's My Woman (1975) Sunshine In My World (1976) You're Losing Me (1980) Santa Maria (1981) You Stood By Me (1982) Oh Louisa (1982) Albums Put Your Hand In The Hand (1971) I Need Someone (1972) Goodbye Mama (1973) Alan Garrity & Pat Matthews (1973) Words & Music (1974) Feelings (1976) Santa Maria (1981) A Song For You (1982) Christmas With Alan Garrity (1985) Licensed To Sing (1989) A Portrait Of Alan Garrity (1997) Alan has had his music published and recorded overseas and his records have been released in Holland, Germany, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Argentina. SARIE Awards 1972 - Song Of The Year (I Need Someone) 1973 - Album Of The Year (I Need Someone) 1973 & 1975 - Best Male Vocalist 1981 - Top 20 Artist Of The Year (Santa Maria)

Hans Florian Zimmer; (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Oscars and four Grammys, and has been nominated for three Emmys and a Tony. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph in 2007. His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since the 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Lion King (1994), and for Dune (2021). His works include Gladiator, The Last Samurai, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Man of Steel, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and No Time to Die. Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation studios and works with other composers through the company that he founded, Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures. His studio in Santa Monica, California, has an extensive range of computer equipment and keyboards, allowing demo versions of film scores to be created quickly. Zimmer has collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay, Guy Ritchie, and Denis Villeneuve. Early life Zimmer was born on 12 September 1957 in Frankfurt, West Germany. As a young child, he lived in Königstein-Falkenstein, where he played the piano at home but had piano lessons only briefly, as he disliked the discipline of formal lessons. In one of his Reddit AMAs, he said: "My formal training was two weeks of piano lessons. I was thrown out of eight schools. But I joined a band. I am self-taught. But I've always heard music in my head. And I'm a child of the 20th century; computers came in very handy." Zimmer attended the Ecole d'Humanité, an international boarding school in Canton Bern, Switzerland. He moved to London as a teenager and attended Hurtwood House school. During his childhood, he was strongly influenced by the film scores of Ennio Morricone and has cited Once Upon a Time in the West as the score that inspired him to become a film composer. In a speech at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival, Zimmer stated that he is Jewish, and talked about his mother surviving World War II thanks to her escape from Germany to England in 1939. In an interview in May 2014, Zimmer revealed that it was difficult growing up in post-War Germany being Jewish and said, "I think my parents were always wary of me telling the neighbors" that they were Jewish. In an interview with Mashable in February 2013, he said of his parents: "My mother was very musical, basically a musician and my father was an engineer and an inventor. So I grew up modifying the piano, shall we say, which made my mother gasp in horror, and my father would think it was fantastic when I would attach chainsaws and stuff like that to the piano because he thought it was an evolution in technology." In an interview with the German television station ZDF in 2006, he said: "My father died when I was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend." Career Main article: Hans Zimmer discography 1977–1988 Zimmer began his career playing keyboards and synthesizers in the 1970s, with the band Krakatoa. He worked with the Buggles, a new wave band formed in London in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley. Zimmer can be seen briefly in the Buggles' music video for the 1979 song "Video Killed the Radio Star". After working with the Buggles, he started to work for the Italian group Krisma, a new wave band formed in 1976 with Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser. He was a featured synthesist for Krisma's third album, Cathode Mamma. He has also worked with the band Helden (with Warren Cann from Ultravox). Both Zimmer (on keyboards) and Cann (on drums), were invited to be part of the Spanish group Mecano for a live performance in Segovia (Spain) in 1984. Two songs from this concert were included in the Mecano: En Concierto album released in 1985 only in Spain. In 1985, he contributed to the Shriekback album Oil and Gold. In 1980, Zimmer co-produced a single, "History of the World, Part 1", with, and for, UK punk band The Damned, which was also included on their 1980 LP release, The Black Album, and carried the description of his efforts as "Over-Produced by Hans Zimmer." While living in London, Zimmer wrote advertising jingles for Air-Edel Associates. In the 1980s, Zimmer partnered with Stanley Myers, a prolific film composer who wrote the scores for over sixty films. Zimmer and Myers co–founded the London–based Lillie Yard recording studio. Together, Myers and Zimmer worked on fusing the traditional orchestral sound with electronic instruments. Some of the films on which Zimmer and Myers worked are Moonlighting (1982), Success Is the Best Revenge (1984), Insignificance (1985), and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). Zimmer's first solo score was Terminal Exposure for director Nico Mastorakis in 1987, for which he also wrote the songs. Zimmer acted as score producer for the 1987 film The Last Emperor, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. One of Zimmer's most durable works from his time in the United Kingdom was the theme song for the television game show Going for Gold, which he composed with Sandy McClelland in 1987. In an interview with the BBC, Zimmer said: "Going for Gold was a lot of fun. It's the sort of stuff you do when you don't have a career yet. God, I just felt so lucky because this thing paid my rent for the longest time." 1988–2000 A turning point in Zimmer's career occurred with the 1988 film Rain Man. Hollywood director Barry Levinson was looking for someone to score Rain Man, and his wife heard the soundtrack CD of the anti-apartheid drama A World Apart, for which Zimmer had composed the music. Levinson was impressed by Zimmer's work and hired him to score Rain Man. In the score, Zimmer uses synthesizers (mostly a Fairlight CMI) mixed with steel drums. Zimmer explained that "It was a road movie, and road movies usually have jangly guitars or a bunch of strings. I kept thinking don't be bigger than the characters. Try to keep it contained. The Raymond character doesn't actually know where he is. The world is so different to him. He might as well be on Mars. So, why don't we just invent our own world music for a world that doesn't really exist?" Zimmer's score for Rain Man was nominated for an Academy Award in 1989, and the film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. A year after Rain Man, Zimmer was asked to compose the score for Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy which, like Rain Man, won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Driving Miss Daisy's instrumentation consisted entirely of synthesizers and samplers, played by Zimmer. According to an interview with Sound on Sound magazine in 2002, the piano sounds heard within the score come from the Roland MKS–20, a rackmount synthesizer. Zimmer joked: "It didn't sound anything like a piano, but it behaved like a piano." "I listen to [Zimmer's] music and I don't even have to shut my eyes. I can see the pictures. And that's why, in many respects, I know I can talk pictures with Hans. He responds to pictures." —Ridley Scott, director and producer and frequent collaborator with Zimmer. The soundtrack to Ridley Scott's 1991 film Thelma & Louise by Zimmer featured the trademark slide guitar performance by Pete Haycock on the "Thunderbird" theme in the film. As a teenager, Zimmer was a fan of Haycock, and their collaboration on film scores includes K2 and Drop Zone. Zimmer wrote the theme for Tony Scott's 1993 film True Romance, which he based on Carl Orff's Gassenhauer. Gassenhauer had previously been used in the 1973 film Badlands, which had a similar story of a young man and a girl on the run following a violent crime. The catchy theme, played on nine marimbas, contrasts starkly with the violence of the film. For the 1992 film The Power of One, Zimmer travelled to Africa in order to use African choirs and drums in the recording of the score. On the strength of this work, Walt Disney Feature Animation approached Zimmer to compose the score for the 1994 film The Lion King. This was to be his first score for an animated film. Zimmer said that he had wanted to go to South Africa to record parts of the soundtrack, but was unable to visit the country as he had a police record there "for doing 'subversive' movies" after his work on The Power of One. Disney studio bosses expressed fears that Zimmer would be killed if he went to South Africa, so the recording of the choirs was organised during a visit by Lebo M. Zimmer won numerous awards for his work on The Lion King, including an Academy Award for Best Original Score, a Golden Globe, and two Grammys. In 1997, the score was adapted into a Broadway musical version which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1998. As of April 2012, the musical version of The Lion King is the highest grossing Broadway show of all time, having grossed $853.8 million. Zimmer's score for Tony Scott's 1995 film Crimson Tide won a Grammy Award for the main theme, which makes heavy use of synthesizers in place of traditional orchestral instruments. For The Thin Red Line (1998), Zimmer said that the director Terrence Malick wanted the music before he started filming, so he recorded six and a half hours of music. Zimmer's next project was The Prince of Egypt (1998), which was produced by DreamWorks Animation. He introduced Ofra Haza, an Israeli Yemenite singer, to the directors, and they thought she was so beautiful that they designed one of the characters in the film to look like her. Zimmer's score for the 1998 film The Thin Red Line is regarded as one of his most important works. The nine-minute cue at the climax of the film, "The Journey to the Line", uses a recurring theme based on four chords, combined with a "ticking clock" motif that has been featured in a range of subsequent scores composed by Zimmer. The piece has been used in numerous trailers and video games, and has earned the nickname "the forbidden cue" due to the tendency of film makers to use it as a temp track for dramatic scenes. For more information on Hans Zimmer, please go to his Wikipedia page at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer

I changed this video from 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 aspect ratio using Magix Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. Happy Resurrection Day to all my friends here on Rumble. The following is the story of Christ's resurrection as told in the scriptures I have used the New American Standard Bible. Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it *was still dark, and *saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. 2 So she *ran and *came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and *said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” 3 So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb. 4 The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first; 5 and stooping and looking in, he *saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. 6 And so Simon Peter also *came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he *saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7 and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself. 8 So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. 9 For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes. 11 But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; 12 and she *saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying. 13 And they *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She *said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” 14 When she had said this, she turned around and *saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing Him to be the gardener, she *said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” 16 Jesus *said to her, “Mary!” She turned and *said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means, Teacher). 17 Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene *came, announcing to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and that He had said these things to her. Jesus among His Disciples 19 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.” 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” 26 After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus *came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” 27 Then He *said to Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.” 28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.” Why This Gospel Was Written 30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

Being a South African, you will soon find out I have a sick sense of humour. No doubt, you will soon find out that Rumble is starting to get my GOAT! Aaaaah, here's a lovely video that is only 10 seconds long. Now this video might appeal to 90% of the number of followers showing on my channel. Let's see how many of you can get your minds into gear just long enough to watch it and maybe the corners of your mouths will turn from a grimace into a smile. To the 9 followers I really care about (yes, I counted them) I hope this video has you doubled over with laughter. Laughter is a scarce commodity on this site. Very sad. Yes, I know! *sigh*

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" is a song written by Canadian musician Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and recorded by Adams for the 1995 film Don Juan DeMarco, starring Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway. The melody is used as a musical motif through the film, and the song is featured three times in the movie, twice performed by other artists in Spanish, and finally performed by Adams himself during the closing credits. The Adams version of the song, which features flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia, is featured on the soundtrack album and also on the album 18 til I Die, which was released over a year later. The song stayed at number one for five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, making it the third number-one song for the songwriting team. It also went to number one in Canada, Australia, Austria, and Switzerland while reaching the top five in 10 additional countries, including France and the United Kingdom, and the top ten in a further four countries. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 68th Academy Awards but lost to "Colors of the Wind" from the Disney animated film Pocahontas. Critical reception Paul Verna from Billboard described the song as "sultry". Steve Baltin from Cash Box noted that here, "the king of soundtrack ballads attempts to reclaim his throne". He added further, "The flamenco introduction lends the false hope this may be something different, but it's the same old Adams. Be careful not to operate any heavy machinery while under the influence of this one." Fell and Rufer from the Gavin Report viewed it as an "unusual waltz with #1 written all over it." Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "Everything is there to make it work: a film, Don Juan De Marco, a ballad, a long song title but nothing between brackets, guitarist Paco De Lucia and Adams' hoarse voice." Christine Coulter, librarian/programmer at Downtown Radio/Belfast stated, "It's absolutely different from his previous film ballads. The film, which will be issued here in May I believe, is not the reason we play it. For us it's a track that stands fully on its own." A reviewer from Music Week gave it three out of five, writing that "Bryan comes over all Hispanic for this strong ballad which arrives replete with Spanish guitar flourishes and castanets." The magazine's Alan Jones described it as "a simple, singalong song in waltztime, with acoustic Spanish style guitar picking." Barbara Ellen from NME felt it finds Adams "at his most plaintive". Music video The accompanying music video for "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" was shot in Spain at Casa los Pavos Reales, Málaga starring Cecilie Thomsen and Amira Casar. It was directed by the music video director Anton Corbijn and was released in May 1995. Bryan Adams (born November 5, 1959, Kingston, Ontario, Canada) Canadian rock singer-songwriter, photographer, and social activist whose hit albums Cuts Like a Knife (1983) and Reckless (1984) made him one of the most popular and successful recording artists of the 1980s. Adams was musically talented at an early age and taught himself how to play guitar. His father served in the Canadian army, was a UN peacekeeping observer, and served as a diplomat, necessitating many relocations for the family. When his parents divorced, he lived with his mother just north of Vancouver, British Columbia. At age 16, he dropped out of high school, ready to pursue a full-time career as a musician, having already performed as lead vocalist for Canadian glam-rock band Sweeney Todd. He spent time working in a recording studio, performing on tours, and recording music for Sweeney Todd’s album If Wishes Were Horses (1977). Shortly after the recording’s release, Adams was introduced to Jim Vallance, a Canadian musician, songwriter, and producer. Vallance recognized Adams’s ability but also saw the need for further vocal training. With Vallance’s help, it was not long before Adams established a powerful, distinct sound, one compared to that of Rod Stewart, Paul Rodgers, and Steve Marriott. For more information on Bryan Adams, please go to his Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Adams

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. The same version of this song was originally released on David's vinyl album, "7" in 1985. It has always been my contention that this song is based on the story in the Bible that is told in Luke Chapter 24 verses 13 to 34. These things happened on the day of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. I will post the narration from the New American Standard Bible here for you to read. It is my story.... The Road to Emmaus. 13 And behold, on that very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. 14 And they were talking with each other about all these things which had taken place. 15 While they were talking and discussing, Jesus Himself approached and began traveling with them. 16 BUT THEIR EYES WERE KEPT FROM RECOGNIZING HIM. 17 And He said to them, “What are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you are walking?” And they came to a stop, looking sad. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You possibly the only one living near Jerusalem who does not know about the things that happened here in these days?” 19 And He said to them, “What sort of things?” And they said to Him, “Those about Jesus the Nazarene, who proved to be a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people, 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers handed Him over to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him. 21 But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 22 But also some women among us left us bewildered. When they were at the tomb early in the morning, 23 and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive. 24 And so some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just exactly as the women also had said; but Him they did not see.” 25 And then He said to them, “You foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to come into His glory?” 27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the Prophets, He explained to them the things written about Himself in all the Scriptures. 28 And they approached the village where they were going, and He gave the impression that He was going farther. 29 And so they strongly urged Him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over.” So He went in to stay with them. 30 And it came about, when He had reclined at the table with them, that He took the bread and blessed it, and He broke it and began giving it to them. 31 AND THEN THEIR EYES WERE OPENED AND THEY RECOGNISED HIM; and He vanished from their sight. 32 THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, "WERE OUR HEARTS NOT BURNING WITHIN US WHEN HE WAS SPEAKING TO US ON THE ROAD, WHILE HE WAS EXPLAINING THE SCRIPTURES TO US? ” 33 And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them, 34 saying, “The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon!” 35 They began to relate their experiences on the road, and how He was recognized by them at the breaking of the bread. (Emphasis mine) Sola Scriptura! -- The Bible ALONE is the word of God! David Meece (born May 26, 1952) is an American contemporary Christian musician who enjoyed success in the mid-1980s, and into the early 2010s. Much of David Meece’s musical success can be credited to his widespread appeal. His fans still range from pre-teens to retirees, with musical tastes that vary from classical to pop. His ability to connect with a broad public is rooted in his childhood: Growing up in the small town of Humble, Texas, David distinguished himself as a child prodigy and began touring as a concert pianist at the age of ten. By fourteen, he performed the Mozart Piano Concerto in F Major with the Houston Chamber Orchestra. He won a nationwide talent show at the age of fifteen and toured England, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Holland. When he was sixteen, he was the featured soloist with the Houston Symphony, performing the difficult Khachaturian Piano Concerto, 45 minutes in length under the direction of renowned conductor, Andre Previn. David received a full scholarship to study at the famous Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. It was there that he fully surrendered his life to Christ. He found his goals changing from his intended career as a classical pianist as he began to pen songs of his relationship with the Lord and sing them. Immediately upon graduating from the Peabody Conservatory, he became a worship/youth pastor. In 1976, he married his college sweetheart, Debbie Pearce, a viola major. That same year, he was discovered by the executives of Word Records, and his first album, self-titled, “David” was released on the Myrrh label. He went on to record a dozen more of his own collections of original songs and contributed his gifted works of inspiration to many other projects. Over 30 of his compositions have reached the top of the charts, some titles sharing the #1 place simultaneously in more than one genre. Favorites such as his signature song, “We Are the Reason” have been recorded by well over 200 other artists and sung in several languages. His songs caught on internationally and so did his travels as he became a favorite in Australia, Canada, throughout Asia, Europe, and South Africa. He was called upon to guest in Billy Graham Crusades among other outreaches and television broadcasts. He has participated in festivals that introduced Contemporary Christian Music to the masses. Though memories of many are of his packed out stadium concerts with his band, he has truly enjoyed the opportunity to endear himself with just a piano to the smaller congregations tucked away here and there. Life has not always been easy for the gifted artist. David grew up in a house dominated by an abusive, alcoholic father, crippling his self-worth and confidence. In 1986, at the height of his career, his father passed away, bringing deep unresolved hurts to the surface. He was in the middle of a 70 City Tour entitled, “Seventy Times Seven,” when he received a phone call from his brother telling him of his father’s death. After the funeral, he resumed his tour. While standing up in front of thousands each night, singing about forgiveness, he found himself in desperate need of forgiving his own dad. Because of David’s courage to transparently share his powerful testimony of this process, countless individuals have been brought to a place of healing in their own lives! David received a Dove Award Nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year & Song of the Year (“We Are the Reason”) in 1982 and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and received the 2009 Visionary Award for the Inspirational Male Soloist division. In November 2012, he was presented with the AMG Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award. His life continues to impact millions worldwide and his passion for excellence in the field of Contemporary Christian Music will leave a powerful legacy for generations to come. For more information on David Meece please go to his Wikipedia page at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Meece

I did not want to destroy this video by putting lyrics in the pictures. So, I am putting the lyrics here in the description area. I hope that helps. However, I took these lyrics from an online site and they are not very accurate when it comes to this live show and the lyrics that Robert Plant is singing, bear little resemblance to these lyrics. They do give an idea of what he is singing about. I think these lyrics were probaby taken from the Studio Album featuring this song. But, having said all of that, this is par for the course when finding lyrics online. They are usually not correct and as I do lyric videos, I find that I have to correct almost all of the lyrics that I find online. It takes up a lot of time. I apologise that I didn't look at these lyrics earlier and try to correct them for this live version, but dear old Robert puts in so much of his own "stuff" that it would have taken me a few days to finish this one. "Since I've Been Loving you" Lyrics: I'm Working from seven to eleven every night, It really makes life a drag, I don't think that's right. I've really, really been the best of fools, I did what I could. 'Cause I love you, baby, How I love you, darling, How I love you, baby, How I love you, girl, little girl. But baby, Since I've Been Loving You. I'm about to lose my worried mind, oh, yeah. Everybody trying to tell me that you didn't mean me no good. I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you, Let me tell you I really did the best I could. I've been working from seven to eleven every night, I said It kinda makes my life a drag. Lord, that ain't right... Since I've Been Loving You, I'm about to lose my worried mind. Said I've been crying, my tears they fell like rain, Don't you hear, Don't you hear them falling, Don't you hear, Don't you hear them falling. Do you remember mama, when I knocked upon your door? I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more, yeah I open my front door, hear my back door slam, You must have one of them new fangled back door man. I've been working from seven, seven, seven, to eleven every night, It kinda makes my life a drag... Baby, Since I've Been Loving You, I'm about to lose, I'm about lose to my worried mind. Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group comprised vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. With a heavy, guitar-driven sound, they are cited as one of the progenitors of hard rock and heavy metal, although their style drew from a variety of influences, including blues and folk music. Led Zeppelin have been credited as significantly impacting the nature of the music industry, particularly in the development of album-oriented rock (AOR) and stadium rock. Originally named the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that gave them considerable artistic freedom. Initially unpopular with critics, they achieved significant commercial success with eight studio albums over ten years. Their 1969 debut, Led Zeppelin, was a top-ten album in several countries and featured such tracks as "Good Times Bad Times", "Dazed and Confused" and "Communication Breakdown". Led Zeppelin II (1969) was their first number-one album, and yielded "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ramble On". In 1970, they released Led Zeppelin III which featured "Immigrant Song". Their untitled fourth album, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV (1971), is one of the best-selling albums in history with 37 million copies sold. The album includes "Black Dog", "Rock and Roll" and "Stairway to Heaven", with the latter being among the most popular and influential works in rock history. Houses of the Holy (1973) yielded "The Song Remains the Same" and "Over the Hills and Far Away". Physical Graffiti (1975), a double album, featured "The Rover" and "Kashmir". Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin's music, particularly early in their career, while Plant wrote most of the lyrics. Jones's keyboard-based compositions later became central to their music, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess and debauchery. Although they remained commercially and critically successful, their touring and output, which included Presence (1976) and In Through the Out Door (1979), grew limited, and the group disbanded following Bonham's death in 1980, feeling that they would not be "Led Zeppelin" without him. Since then, the surviving former members have sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off concerts. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, with Bonham's son Jason Bonham on drums. Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music artists of all time; their total record sales are estimated to be between 200 and 300 million units worldwide. They achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums and six number-one albums on the US Billboard 200, with five of their albums certified Diamond in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Rolling Stone magazine described them as "the heaviest band of all time", "the biggest band of the Seventies", and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history". They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995; the museum's biography of the band states that they were "as influential" during the 1970s as the Beatles were during the 1960s. For more information on Led Zeppelin, please go to their Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin

This video was made using Magix Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. Gene Rockwell (1944–1998) was a South African singer. His 1965 rendition of "Heart" went directly to the top of the LM Radio Top 20. (Lourenço Marques radio) History Gene was born Gert Smit in 1944 in the town of Krugersdorp in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. He died at the age of 53 years, on July 3, 1998, of cancer. He won his first talent competition at the age of 15, in Durban's "Little Top". Still in his teens, Gene formed The Blue Angels, later to become The Falcons, in 1963, with whom he played guitar and sang his famous gritty-blues-style songs. The original line up of the Falcons were George Usher (lead guitar), Jannie Heynes (bass guitar), Clive Swegman (rhythm guitar), Frank Rickson (drums). They played many packed out shows, becoming a staple of the dance scene in South Africa, particularly Durban.

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 HD For James. I thought I would cut in to my present uploads of the South African singer, Gene Rockwell, because I have noticed some broken hearted people here on Rumble. Now, sometimes, brokenheatedness is the result of our own doings - I certainly know that my own brokenheartedness from 2011 - 2015 was a result of my own doings. However none of us are perfect, and all of us prefer to get up to mischief in our lives, rather than being good. Being good can be so very boring, I'm afraid to say. However, we do end up paying a hefty price for our peccadilloes, and recovery is sometimes so very long and painful. I know it certainly was for me. However, I did eventually recover and went on to more miseries and pain as my life went on. It never ends, does it. Well, after the worst of the worst events of my life in the early 2010s, I made this video - that was after my recovery. And I would like to share it with all who care to watch it. May it bring you back to yourself and, hopefully to the God of our salvation, who is the ONLY one who can heal our grieving hearts. Huw Priday was born in the small market town of Brecon, Mid Wales. He won the Tenor solo prize at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod and was also awarded the 'Princeps Cantorum' (singer of the year). He studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at the Royal College of Music. Wales is known throughout the world as the Land of Song. Huw is proud of his Welsh heritage. In 1904, Wales was the epicentre of a spiritual revival that brought hope, peace and repentance to the Welsh nation. From there it reached out to the world with this message of God's love. For more information see www.1904revival.com Huw has appeared with all the major British Opera Companies since leaving college in 1986. His operatic career has also taken him to mainland Europe singing in Germany France Sweden Denmark and Spain. Huw also has an extensive oratorio and concert repertoire. His career has taken him all over the world, including Australia, America, Europe, Grand Canaries, the Middle East and the Far East. He has given performances for Royalty and Heads of States, including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles Princess Diana and the young Princes, The Sultan of Oman, The Kings and Queens of Denmark and Sweden. Venues have included The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Royal Albert Hall London. Sydney Concert Hall, The Royal Opera House Stockholm. Huw has also shown his versatility by singing the role of 'Piangi' in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End. Huws Priday In October 1999 Huw sang in the World Premier of Alun Hoddinott's "Tower" singing the roles of 'David' and 'Senior Civil Servant' in Swansea, for which Huw received high critical acclaim in the National press. Huw recently made his concert and television debut in the U.S.A. with future engagements being planned for 2004/5 in USA, Canada and main land Europe. In November 2003 Huw sang the tenor solo part in the World Premier of "Oratorio Terezin" by Ruth Fazal at the George Weston Hall, Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts in Canada. There will be further performances of the oratorio in Israel and the USA in 2005. Concerts this year have included a number of appearances in various churches and concert halls in America whilst nearer to home Huw has most recently appeared in concert at St David's Hall, Cardiff and the Royal Albert Hall, London. He has made several appearances on UK television on both the BBC and ITV channels including "Song's of Praise" and "My Favourite Hymn's". This biography is taken from Huw Priday's website @ http://www.priday.com/ To my Beloved -- my one and only love. ~ Ephesians 1:6 "My Beloved is mine, and I am his.." ~ Song of Solomon 2:16 I can no longer fight him or his memory, my Lord. Neither have I the desire anymore. I have lost the battle! Nevertheless, my Lord, remember Thou Thy servant, Elizabeth, And Thy promises to her, that my prayers are effectual for all those for whom I intercede with you. Whether those prayers are effectual for this temporal world we live in, or whether they are effectual for those for whom eternal life has been predestined, according to Thy word. Amen.

Here's something that I hope will put a smile on your dial when you listen to it. Whackhead Simpson is South Africa's top radio comedian. He makes random calls to various businesses, families and friends, diguises his voice and sells them a basket of horse pucky. This trick of his has caused all sorts of hilarious trouble. In this video, at the 2.55 minute mark, you will hear Whackhead speak of a car that was made in South Africa called an Opal Kadett. Opal being the manufacturer and Kadett being the model. Drivers of this car were always being picked on because it is a small, cheeky little car that thinks it is a porche - or at least their divers think this. He is saying that while in his BMW 320, a small Opal Kadett wants to "dice" him. This simply means that the little car wants to race him. If you are a South African, you will know how funny this comparison is. Enjoy the skit and I hope you laugh your socks off.

The video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. Gene Rockwell (1944–1998) was a South African singer. His 1965 rendition of "Heart" went directly to the top of the LM Radio Top 20. (Lourenço Marques radio) This song, " I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" from the LP, "Heart and Soul", was written by HAL DAVID and BURT BACHARACH. History Gene was born Gert Smit in 1944 in the town of Krugersdorp in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. He died at the age of 53 years, on July 3, 1998, of cancer. He won his first talent competition at the age of 15, in Durban's "Little Top". Still in his teens, Gene formed The Blue Angels, later to become The Falcons, in 1963, with whom he played guitar and sang his famous gritty-blues-style songs. The original line up of the Falcons were George Usher (lead guitar), Jannie Heynes (bass guitar), Clive Swegman (rhythm guitar), Frank Rickson (drums). They played many packed out shows, becoming a staple of the dance scene in South Africa, particularly Durban.

Gene Rockwell (1944–1998) was a South African singer. His 1965 rendition of "Heart" went directly to the top of the LM Radio Top 20. (Lourenço Marques radio) History Gene was born Gert Smit in 1944 in the town of Krugersdorp in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. He died at the age of 53 years, on July 3, 1998, of cancer. He won his first talent competition at the age of 15, in Durban's "Little Top". Still in his teens, Gene formed The Blue Angels, later to become The Falcons, in 1963, with whom he played guitar and sang his famous gritty-blues-style songs. The original line up of the Falcons were George Usher (lead guitar), Jannie Heynes (bass guitar), Clive Swegman (rhythm guitar), Frank Rickson (drums). They played many packed out shows, becoming a staple of the dance scene in South Africa, particularly Durban.

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. Mammy Blue is a very beautiful, yet extremely sad song. It tells the story of a wayward son, who left home at the age of 21. He comes home some time later after his mother had passed away. The song is mournful and the son expresses his grief at the loss of his mother, with the sharing of his memories. The song draws the listener in and affects their mood like a classical piece of music that has been written in a minor chord. The bass guitar draws them in like a magnet and drags the song along like a horse pulling a cart. I experienced this phenomenon back when it was on the South African charts in 1971, and again while I was making this video. As an aside, the lyrics proper in the first stanza of the song, are written like this: I may be your forgotten son (Oh, mammy) That wander'd off at twenty one (Oh, mammy, mammy) It's sad to find myself at home (Oh, mammy) And you, you′re not around However, that is not quite how Paddy Powell sang them. Here are the lyrics in that stanza as he is singing them, and they are posted in the video as such. Perhaps Paddy just had a memory ping at the time: I may be your forgotten son (Oh, mammy) The one that's over twenty one (Oh, mammy, mammy) It's sad to find myself at home (Oh, mammy) And you, you′re not around Charimsa was not really a band, but rather a group of session musicians under the leadership of Graeme Beggs, one of the leading producers in the country. He has been responsible for producing Clout’s Substitute, The Soweto String Quartet, Una Valli, The Dream Merchants, The Flames and Gene Rockwell to name a few. He also played with the Apaches, Dickie Loader and the Shangaans. It is not surprising then, that he was involved in the song that spent the most number of weeks by a South African band at the top of the Springbok charts (12 weeks in total, 1 week less than the all time record by Johnny Nash’s ‘I Can See Clearly Now’). ‘Mammy Blue’ was originally a French song written by Hubert Giraud and was a minor hit in the US for the Pop Tops in 1971 (peaking at number 57) and later in 1973 The Stories took it to number 50. It has also recorded by Roger Whittaker, Dennis East, Ken Boothe and in more recent times, Steve Hofmeyr and Kurt Darren. The song hinges around the chorus of ‘Oh mammy, oh mammy…’ and is a relaxed, almost mystic song. The chorus featuring the female vocals of Stevie van Kerken sort of swirls around in the clouds with Paddy Powell’s vocals floating over the top of them. It was a worthy number 1 and also worthy of the lengthy stay at the top. Charisma features Paddy Powell on lead vocals and guitar, Stevie van Kerken on backing vocals, *Morris Fresco on drums, Grahame Beggs on piano and Nippy Cripwell on bass. It entered the South African Top 20 on 17 October 1971 in position #7, reached #1 the next week, remained at #1 until 7 January 1972 (12 weeks in total), and charted for 20 weeks. *According to a conversation online between Linda Powell, Paddy's wife, and others in the thread, it was Ivan Beck who played drums for Charisma. (Written by Phil Trim & Hubert Giraud)

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. The Marbles were an English rock duo that consisted of Graham Bonnet and Trevor Gordon, who operated between 1968 and 1969. Their only well-known singles were "Only One Woman" and "The Walls Fell Down". They also became associated with the Bee Gees members Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb at that time. "Only One Woman" reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1968. The duo disbanded in 1969. Shortly after their split, in 1970, they released their only self-titled album. History Bonnet and Gordon are cousins. They were born in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, although his webpage, In Memory Of, states Gordon was born 18 May 1948, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. While Bonnet stayed in England, Gordon grew up in Australia where he met the Bee Gees for the first time in 1964, on which Gordon recorded "House Without Windows" and "And I'll Be Happy"; both songs were written by Barry Gibb. In 1965, Gordon recorded two other Barry Gibb compositions: "Little Miss Rhythm and Blues" and "Here I Am". Gordon returned to England in 1966 and recorded one single as 'Trev Gordon' then returned to Australia, and returned to England again in 1967 to join Graham's band the Graham Bonnet Set. In 1968, they became the Marbles, and signed a recording contract with the Australian record label impresario, Robert Stigwood. Although Stigwood signed only Bonnet and Gordon, drummer Steve Hardy from the Blue Sect/the Graham Bonnet Set, continued to work with them. Hardy's vocal work was on the song "By the Light of the Burning Candle" (with vocals by Gordon originally, later, the song was reworked in July 1968 with Bonnet on vocals). They were befriended by the Gibb brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees who wrote six songs for them, and provided some backing vocals. "Only One Woman" was released in the UK and the U.S. in August 1968; the single reached the top 5 in the UK and was their biggest hit. Following the release of the group's debut single, Bonnet made a remark to a reporter as to "Only One Woman" being a bit boring, angering Barry. Their second single, "The Walls Fell Down" only reached number 28 on the same chart. But in the Netherlands it was more successful, where it reached number 3 in their top 40 in April 1969. Their third single, "I Can't See Nobody", a cover of the 1967 Bee Gees song which was arranged by Jimmy Horowitz, was only released in Europe, except in the UK. By 1969, the Marbles had split. Their fourth and last single, "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (third in Britain) did not chart internationally. "I Can't See Nobody" was chosen as the B-side in the UK, "Daytime" in Europe and "Little Laughing Girl" in America. In August 1970, Cotillion Records released their only self-titled album in the United States. After the split, Bonnet started a lengthy solo career. From 1979 to 1980, he was the lead singer with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. While Gordon released one solo album Alphabet, he later became a music teacher and died in 2013 in London.

Driving on the roads of my country, South Africa. My family owned a Mercedes 200S for many years. It took us from Windhoek, Namibia to Cape Town, South Africa at least twice a year, sometimes more often. The distance between the two cities is 1500 kilometers. We would leave Windhoek at about 06H00 and depending on our mood, we could make it in anything, from between 11 hours and 15 hours, depending on how many stops we made. 11 hours was the fastest time we clocked that trip. From Windhoek to the border at Vioolsdrift (+- 8 hours), it was a mind-numbingly monotonous trip. Hypnosis was a serious problem on that road. But it was straight down through desert, with a one second respite when arriving at Keetmanshoop to change direction slightly, to the border at Vioolsdrift, where, more often than not, snotty indigenous border officials on the Namibian side, liked to make our lives as difficult as possible. Passing through Vioolsdrift and crossing the bridge over the Orange River, was like walking onto another planet. The countryside and the vegetation changed within yards of the border post. From there on down to Cape Town, the road was more winding instead of monotonously straight Memories of going into Angola one time, when I travelled up north to see one Pastor Peter Kalangula, come to mind. Crossing that old border (Oshikango) from Namibia into Angola brought the same kind of sights. Old buildings shot to pieces -- the sights of a war torn country all over the place -- thicker vegetation that had not been chewed down by goat farming as it was on the Namibian side. Driving on the right side of the road with cars built to drive on the left. Quaint little shops where you could buy old Angolan money. I remember giving the woman behind the counter two South African Rands (R2.00), and having her come out with a wad of bank notes known as Kwanzas, which she proudly counted out to me ... in their MILLIIONS. And ALWAYS the danger of hitting an old landmine... Life in Africa -- never a dull moment! Africa -- it's in my blood -- if I cut my finger, Africa bleeds out. I can't get rid of it.

This video was made using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus. To my way of thinking, this is BY FAR THE BEST version of "Georgia on my Mind" that has ever been recorded. The great Neville Whitmill is doing the singing and Nol Klikhamer is the magician on the Hammond Organ. The South Africans had a way of making these songs their own, so the lyrics in this version of the song might not be true to the writer's lyrics. The Square Set was a 1960s rock band from Cape Town South Africa, known for their songs Silence is Golden (SA number 1 Hit (1967)) "Carol Corina" (SA number 10 hit (1968)), and "That's What I Want" (international number 1 hit in Brazil, Argentina, and Portugal (1971-1972)). The band formed in March 1966 and was called Neville Whitmill and the Humans. Founder members Nol, Neville, Derek and Keith rehearsed daily for 6 months composing new songs and covers before contracting their first professional gig at the Clifton Hotel. Nol Klinkhamer hailed from the Conservetoire of Music in Holland having a degree in Jazz played piano, organ and the vibraphone. Neville Whitmill a Soul singer from Cape Town had influences from Buddy Holly, Ray Charles, Ottis Redding, Marvin Gaye. Derek Marks from Cape Town enjoyed rock bass playing with influences from bands like The Beatles, Small faces, Dave Clark 5 and Keith Moffat from Cape Town also enjoy playing Rock music. During the rehearsal stage they landed a gig at the "Stables nite Club" in Church Street Cape Town which gave them a venue to hone and perfect their craft. The venue was usually packed to capacity to hear the band. At this time the band decided to record their music and in August 1966 met Ian Martin (recording engineer) and Lindsay du Plessis (owner) of A.V.S studios Bree Street CT. It was at this time that a name change was much needed. During a studio break the four got together to thrash out names and it was Nol Klinhamer who suggested "The Square Set". The band combined soul vocals and jazz organ (with the Hammond organ growing in popularity at the time) with rock bass and drums. The Hammond sound can be heard on most of The Square Set songs. The previously unreleased 'Silence Is Golden' had a makeover with Graham Beggs at the helm and was released on Gallos Continental label in or about March 1967. It reached number 4 on the Springbok radio charts in August 1967. This led to the release of the band's first full album, 'Silence Is Golden'. 'That's What I Want', a song first recorded by UK group The Marauders in 1963, was also recorded by The Ronnie Singer Sound, a Cape Town band Marks had previously worked with. The latter version was given to The Square Set to record. The song was changed to accommodate the lineup and added to the 'Silence Is Golden' album. This song was later released in South America on the Decca label and rose to number 1 in Brazil, Argentina 1971 and number 1 in Portugal in 1972. The band went on to record a follow-up album, Loving You is Sweeter than Ever, with the original members, but then the band took a break. Nol Klinkhamer went to study jazz at Berklee college of music in California, after which Nol Klinkhamer and Neville Whitmill were joined by Johnny Boshoff and Tony Moore on Bass and drums to record Those Many Feelings in 1972, an album influenced by contemporary jazz rock musicians like Michael Colombier. Derek has released a memoir called 'That's What I Want' on Amazon. The book encompasses the lives and times in personal detail of exactly what transpired during his time with The Square Set. The story continues from 1958 to 2018 5 decades of live and recorded performance during the SA apartheid era as well as The Mandela era. Derek on recommendation from drummer and friend Dave Evans also on the insistence of Gordon Mackay in 2013 to reform the band. A difficult decision without the original founder member each deceased. The reformed band went on to show success as the music never died. A resurgence in the band's popularity can be seen on YouTube with numerous videos uploaded by their worldwide fan base. The Best of The Square Set cd was remastered and released on Apple music, Spotify, Amazon. With the advent of Derek's book, The Square Set will live on forever. Derek Members Nol Klinkhamer, Dutch born Jazz piano/organ, left October 1968, rejoined 1972 Neville Whitmill, Cape Town born lead vocals, left October 1968, rejoined 1972 Keith Moffat, Born Port Elizabeth drums on first album Derek Marks, bass on first two albums, Carol Carina. Left October 1968 Mercia Love, vocals, joined November 1967 Don Robertson, drums, left September 1967, ex Gene Rockwell and the Falcons Malcolm Postlethwaite, drums, joined September 1967 Mike Faure, sax, 1968 Johnny Boshoff, bass, 1972 Tony Moore, drums, 1972 Discography Albums Silence Is Golden, Continental ZB 8167, 1967 Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever, Gallotone GALP 1573, 1968 That's What I Want, Continental/Sony SZB 8221, 1969 Those Many Feelings, Gallotone SGALP 1657, 1972 Singles The Square Set "Silence Is Golden"/"It's A Man's World", Continental PD 9222, 1967; SA no. 3 "Carol Corina"/"U", Continental PD 9284, 1967 "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever"/"Georgia (On My Mind)", Continental PD 9348, 1968 "That's What I Want"/"Come On", Jazzville SL.5, 1968 Neville Whitmill "Have Mercy On Me"/"Get Me Some Help", Continental PD 9773, 1971; SA no. 2 "That's Why"/"Gone Those Days", Continental PD 9796, 1971 "Silence Is Golden"/"One More Tear, One More Heartache", Continental 9982, 1974 Nol Klinkhamer "The In Crowd / Critics Choice", Smanje Manje SJM 12, 1967