What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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The discussion revolves around sharing links to various songs and artists, highlighting personal favorites and recommendations. Participants mention iconic tracks like "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty and "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses, emphasizing their appreciation for guitar riffs and vocals. Dream Theater is frequently praised for its musicianship, particularly the drumming and progressive compositions. Other notable mentions include artists like Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Emmanuel, and Mary Black, showcasing a wide range of musical styles. The thread encourages exploration of new music and sharing of lesser-known talents.
  • #51
Evo said:
Thanks Turbo!
Just buy Mary Black's "No Frontiers" CD and play it a few times. If you don't love it, send it to me and I will pay you for it. This woman reaches into your soul with 'most every song.
 
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  • #52
Gelsamel Epsilon said:
[MEDIA=youtube]A70riIDQ_r4[/MEDIA][/URL]

Honor thy Father by Dream Theater - I swear Portnoy is the best drummer ever.

[/QUOTE]

Sorry. I admire your passion, but in the realm of progressive hard rock, Neil Peart will always be the best drummer.
 
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  • #53
BSMSMSTMSPHD said:
Sorry. I admire your passion, but in the realm of progressive hard rock, Neil Peart will always be the best drummer.

Neil Peart is good and he has won many awards but none dealing with Progressive drumming.

"Mike Portnoy has won the following Modern Drummer magazine Reader's Poll awards;

* Best Up & Coming Talent (1994)
* Best Progressive Rock Drummer (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
* Best Recorded Performance (1995 for Awake, 1996 for A Change of Seasons, 1998 for Falling Into Infinity, 2000 for Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory, 2002 for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence)
* Best Clinician (2000, 2002)
* Best Educational Video/DVD (2000, 2002)
* Hall of Fame Inductee (2004)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater#Awards_and_certificates
 
  • #54
BSMSMSTMSPHD said:
Sorry. I admire your passion, but in the realm of progressive hard rock, Neil Peart will always be the best drummer.
How about the best drummer ever? The most powerful and definitive member of Led Zep was Bonham. I am a guitarist and lead vocalist who played rock and blues for many years, and Bonham was the key to that band!
 
  • #55
Okay, you've got me on the progressive thing. But awards, especially reader's choice awards are basically popularity contests. Popularity does not necessarily ensure goodness (just listen to any pop station for 3 minutes).

But then, everyone's experience is subjective, so who's to say either of us is wrong.

By the way - I'm a total metalhead too. Going to see Godsmack/Rob Zombie next week and Gigantour at the end of the month.

And I'm a 30 year-old married father-of-two PhD candidate in mathematics. I'm listening to Iron Maiden right now as I work on my Abstract Algebra HW.
 
  • #56
Awesome - I'm 18 and I love physics - hopefully going into a decent uni course next year (if I get the required ENTER - I don't do any homework at all but I still top the class - which just promts me to not do any homework even more :( ). I love metal and somewhat like classical and I wish more metal bands toured in Australia (especially Dream Theater).
 
  • #57
Ever heard of Opeth? They are my new favorite band.

And I think Gigantour is coming to Australia later this year - yep Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney at the end of October.

18 huh? I teach kids your age... Man, I'm getting old!
 
  • #58
Gelsamel Epsilon said:
Sounds pretty awesome. I'm going offtopic here but in the quiz section I got a question wrong (omg). It was "If something has a constant net force acting on it what does it do?" does it "move with constant Acceleration" "move with constant velocity" "something else really stupid" or "None of the Above" I said none of the above beause constant net force could = 0 so it wouldn't nessisarily move at all (let alone with aceeleration). In fact if It was already moving it could move with constant velocity if net force was 0.

(Also why is there a massive difference between novice and intermediate? novice is so easy I can do in my head but intermediate stuff I havn't even learned yet).

but the acceleration may be different than 0, therfor your answer- wrong.
the right answer is - a constant accelration, and it may accelerate in 0.
 
  • #59
BSMSMSTMSPHD said:
Ever heard of Opeth? They are my new favorite band.

And I think Gigantour is coming to Australia later this year - yep Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney at the end of October.

18 huh? I teach kids your age... Man, I'm getting old!

Yeh I heard a bit of Opeth, and I've definitely heard of them. But I don't have any of their Albums - actually I don't have many albums of many bands because really I'm content with what I have at the moment.

APC
Arch Enemy
Chimaira
Dark Tranquility
Deicide
Devil Driver
Dimmu Borgir
Dream Theater
Emperor
Ensiferum
In Flames
Judas Priest
Meshuggah
Metallica
Nightwish
Nile
Norther
Rammstein
Rick Wakeman (Odd one out =p)
Strapping young lad
Susperia
Testament
Yngwie Malmsteen

Thats about all I have - and some of those bands while I listen to them frequently I only have singles of (lol, only some of them though, most I have whole albums).

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TuviaDaCat said:
but the acceleration may be different than 0, therfor your answer- wrong.
the right answer is - a constant accelration, and it may accelerate in 0.

The question was "How does an object acted on by a constant net force move?" but my gripe was that a object with a constant net force wouldn't always be moving (this is Novice questions here so don't bring relativaty into this - the other questions were so easy that you could do them in your head so the question can't use relativity as an excuse). I was going to put down "Moves with Constant acceleration" despite the fact it could be 0 - but then I realized that would be wrong since it wouldn't "move" - and if it already WAS moving then "Moves with constant Velocity" is correct for F = 0. So there would be no definate answer.
 
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  • #60
BSMSMSTMSPHD said:
Ever heard of Opeth? They are my new favorite band.

And I think Gigantour is coming to Australia later this year - yep Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney at the end of October.

18 huh? I teach kids your age... Man, I'm getting old!
gramps, opeth is great, i loved "harvest", and the whole album damnation, but i just can't listen to their heacy stuff...
btw it odd to hear about someone old who knows new bands... ussually old people don't try new things in music...
 
  • #61
Nice list - a lot of good bands there (and many that I've seen live).

Get some Opeth. Please. Try Blackwater Park or their new one Ghost Reveries for starters. Their two best albums are Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse, imo.

Also, you might want to check out this set of forums: www.ultimatemetal.com

A couple of your bands have forums there.
 
  • #62
Gelsamel Epsilon said:
Yeh I heard a bit of Opeth, and I've definitely heard of them. But I don't have any of their Albums - actually I don't have many albums of many bands because really I'm content with what I have at the moment.

APC
Arch Enemy
Chimaira
Dark Tranquility
Deicide
Devil Driver
Dimmu Borgir
Dream Theater
Emperor
Ensiferum
In Flames
Judas Priest
Meshuggah
Metallica
Nightwish
Nile
Norther
Rammstein
Rick Wakeman (Odd one out =p)
Strapping young lad
Susperia
Testament
Yngwie Malmsteen

Thats about all I have - and some of those bands while I listen to them frequently I only have singles of (lol, only some of them though, most I have whole albums).

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The question was "How does an object acted on by a constant net force move?" but my gripe was that a object with a constant net force wouldn't always be moving (this is Novice questions here so don't bring relativaty into this - the other questions were so easy that you could do them in your head so the question can't use relativity as an excuse). I was going to put down "Moves with Constant acceleration" despite the fact it could be 0 - but then I realized that would be wrong since it wouldn't "move" - and if it already WAS moving then "Moves with constant Velocity" is correct for F = 0. So there would be no definate answer.

well, moving is after all a word with no solid defenition, like all words which does not concern math or sciense... so i won't discuss the difference between not moving, and having starting velocity of zero and accelerating in 0.
 
  • #63
TuviaDaCat said:
gramps, opeth is great, i loved "harvest", and the whole album damnation, but i just can't listen to their heacy stuff...
btw it odd to hear about someone old who knows new bands... ussually old people don't try new things in music...

Okay, FIRST of all... I'm not THAT old. It's what I grew up on. I was listening to Metallica, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Sepultura, etc. back in the late 80's when I was a teenager. I still am (though Metallica has gone south in a big way).

When I picked up Blackwater Park (the one with Harvest) I too thought that I would hate the death metal vocals. For a month or so, I wouldn't listen to it. Then, slowly, I started to like it. Then, I loved it.

Now, I listen to them pretty much every day. I've seen them three times live in the past 3 years and they're in Gigantour this year.
 
  • #64
BSMSMSTMSPHD said:
Nice list - a lot of good bands there (and many that I've seen live).

Get some Opeth. Please. Try Blackwater Park or their new one Ghost Reveries for starters. Their two best albums are Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse, imo.

Also, you might want to check out this set of forums: www.ultimatemetal.com

A couple of your bands have forums there.

Will do. I also need to get some Illdisposed (which I recommend to you, especially the 1-800 Vindication CD).

Also if you didn't know already; www.metal-archives.com is good for information on metal bands etc.
 
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  • #65
favorite:

metallica
megadeth
pain of salvation
evergrey
ayreon(try "the human equation")
arcturus
angra
agalloch
apocalyptica
dead soul tribe
led zeppelin
pink floyd
jethro tull
dream theater
haggard
iron maiden
the old dead tree
orphand land(it funny, its the only israeli cand i actully care about, yet they sing in english, like all metalists..)
porcupine tree
shadow gallery
sonata arctica
symphony x
tool
winds
 
  • #66
I've always been a fan of James Taylor, and here he is, featuring Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks on his signature tune:

[MEDIA=youtube]UwoZBIKgKA4[/MEDIA][/URL]

and:
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]0cq0lo_TN1k[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #67
Dimmu Borgir sings in Norwegian sometimes, it's freakin' awesome =p.
[MEDIA=youtube]bonWoVAS9kQ[/MEDIA][/URL] <---- Damnit how cool is that sweet ass statue thing in the background.
\m/ Vredesbyrd \m/

Reis deg opp
La oss bestride
Den tanke fra vår lend

xDEdit:

Back to the topic (lets not overun this topic with general Metal discussion considering that not everyone listens to it)Dream Theater - These Walls
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]SG5F-Th4UEw[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #69
[MEDIA=youtube]kkF91RLxg6c[/MEDIA]&mode=related&search=[/URL]

Dimmu Borgit - Progenies of the Great Apocalypse (They have a few bits of the song cut out here but it's still cool.)

How awesome is the clean vocalist's singing!?

Edit: Omg and the keyboarding.
 
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  • #70
Ever seen this Peart drum solo?

[MEDIA=youtube]mjhylyA_OR8[/MEDIA][/URL]

Just watched your DB video - pretty sweet.
 
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  • #71
BSMSMSTMSPHD said:
Ever seen this Peart drum solo?

[MEDIA=youtube]mjhylyA_OR8[/MEDIA][/URL]

Just watched your DB video - pretty sweet.[/QUOTE]

That was awesome - I liked the 2nd part heaps heaps better then the first. I think in the first part he had a fever where the only precription was snare drum xD.
 
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  • #72
Peart is the best, hands down

and Rush is awesome
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  • #73
While we're posting youtube videos I think I'll post something funny I saw today.

Watch this one FIRST [MEDIA=youtube]lFf-kW1E0Tc[/MEDIA][/URL]

Then this one [PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]vgQ9kvLGXS8[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #74
Here is hand's down the greatest song ever written. [MEDIA=youtube]DT1qoaZP3m0[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #75
I don't mean to sound rude and disrespectful guys, but ease up on the personal conversations. Not only are we now discussing physics problems in this thread, but you guys are discussing who's the best drummer, where to get information on metal bands and how you are doing science AND listening to metal. I mean congratulations on your enthusiasm and the fact that you seem to be doing so well in your respective courses/fields though, but try and keep the thread on track.

The best song ever has to go to the song that starts halfway through this clip: [MEDIA=youtube]gNTpORt_fEw[/MEDIA][/URL]

Seriously though I have a couple of more songs that I've thought of that really had an impact on me.

Tony MacAlpine is just an inspiration from beginning to end. He was originally a clasically trained violinist and pianist and then he took up guitar.

A guitar piece:
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]sHANPpj5vqY[/MEDIA][/URL]

A piano piece:
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]-Xc0KDbbYfY[/MEDIA][/URL]

One more guitarist which I think Astronuc might also like and anyone else who likes instrumental music:
[url]http://www.myspace.com/mikemartinband[/url]

Mike Martin is the guitarist for a band called Fozzy (most might know of it because Chris Jericho the wrestler is the vocalist), but he has also released his solo album and some songs can be heard at his myspace page.

[USER=5155]@Evo[/USER]
I know they sure do have a trashy look about them, but they're soo cool haha. I had never heard of Heart, but that's just plain hilarious! 80s cheesyness just can't be rivalled! Gotta love it!

[USER=15685]@Astronuc[/USER]
He sure does have a similar sound to Michael Hedges. Thanks for posting that by the way.
 
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  • #76
Ok, sorry - we did get a bit off track there. Here's my pick for best song ever (popular). I don't know if it has already been posted yet...

[MEDIA=youtube]jEOkxRLzBf0[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #77
big man said:
One more guitarist which I think Astronuc might also like and anyone else who likes instrumental music:
http://www.myspace.com/mikemartinband

Mike Martin is the guitarist for a band called Fozzy (most might know of it because Chris Jericho the wrestler is the vocalist), but he has also released his solo album and some songs can be heard at his myspace page.
Thanks for the link big man. :cool: I'm always looking for new or different sounds. :-p

Mike has been performing around the Southeastern United States for the past 15 years as an origional artist as well as a mercenary guitar player.
Mercenary guitar player? :smile: Freelance or merchant guitar player perhaps, but mercenary?

Maybe we need a new term - Guitarslinger . . . :biggrin:
 
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  • #78
BSMSMSTMSPHD said:
Ok, sorry - we did get a bit off track there. Here's my pick for best song ever (popular). I don't know if it has already been posted yet...

[MEDIA=youtube]jEOkxRLzBf0[/MEDIA][/URL][/QUOTE]

That is an Awesome song =p.
 
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  • #79
BSMSMSTMSPHD said:
Ok, sorry - we did get a bit off track there. Here's my pick for best song ever (popular). I don't know if it has already been posted yet...

[MEDIA=youtube]jEOkxRLzBf0[/MEDIA][/URL][/QUOTE]

I would have to go with this as my favorite Lennon song:

[PLAIN]"[MEDIA=youtube[/URL]

And this a close second (though only when done by Fiona Apple):

[PLAIN]"[MEDIA=youtube[/URL]
 
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  • #80
turbo-1 said:
I've always been a fan of James Taylor, and here he is, featuring Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks on his signature tune:

[MEDIA=youtube]UwoZBIKgKA4[/MEDIA][/URL]

and:
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]0cq0lo_TN1k[/MEDIA][/URL][/QUOTE]
The Sweet Baby James rendition is awesome. You listen to that and wonder why they haven't always played together. Well, aside from having to ask if the Dixie Chicks were even born yet when that song was written.
 
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  • #81
Herbie Hancock! this is a really good jam of Oleo
[MEDIA=youtube]y1v3Tf_kybE[/MEDIA][/URL]

There is an amazing trumpet solo in Herbie's Maiden Voyage, and this also has a very complimentary video sequence of scences in asia, very serene.
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]x2FyoxLEVmk[/MEDIA][/URL]

Inca Roads is a good song, but this version has a bunch of sound effects from a really trippy claymation sequence edited over top.
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]uFHSk_lEeHk[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #82
  • #83
Here is Allison Krause and Union Station doing "Let Me Touch You for a While". Judging from the arrangement, I think this video was edited together using the track from the 2-CD live release, with Jerry Douglas on dobro. It's one of the best-engineered live CDs ever.

[MEDIA=youtube]YiyKwigIvkI[/MEDIA][/URL]

Here is one of Jerry's numbers from that live session.

[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]95OMQrPPsco[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #84
  • #85
Well I'm shocked and appauled that Jimi hasn't been flung in here yet (unless my quick parsing of the thread has missed him).

Heres Voodoo child live at Berkely 1970 (Way before I was born but I'm sure lots of you were there)
[MEDIA=youtube]4k6oPR8TM88[/MEDIA][/URL]

And his appearance on Lulu's show in the Uk
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]53asrNBElEo[/MEDIA][/URL]

This guys been all over the net and rightly so for he is quite superb.
[url]http://jerryc.tw/[/url]

ooh and this one :smile:
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]YXrzF3vmeLw[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #87
Kurdt said:
Well I'm shocked and appauled that Jimi hasn't been flung in here yet (unless my quick parsing of the thread has missed him).

Heres Voodoo child live at Berkely 1970 (Way before I was born but I'm sure lots of you were there)
[MEDIA=youtube]4k6oPR8TM88[/MEDIA][/URL] [/QUOTE] Yeah! I have the Berkeley concert on DVD. Too bad the camera man didn't get in front much. :rolleyes: But the music is great. It's decent considering that it was recorded in 1970. :rolleyes:

Jimi does "Hey Babe" off is album "New Rising Sun". I was disappointed the camera man didn't get Hendrix's fingers on this one.

Yes! - Way to go, Yomamma!

How about -
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube[/URL] LIVE - when he had hair.

I'd like to see a video of Jon Butcher playing "Holy War". He did some unique sounds on his guitar.
 
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  • #88
Astronuc said:
Yeah! I have the Berkeley concert on DVD. Too bad the camera man didn't get in front much. :rolleyes: But the music is great. It's decent considering that it was recorded in 1970. :rolleyes:

Jimi does "Hey Babe" off is album "New Rising Sun". I was disappointed the camera man didn't get Hendrix's fingers on this one.
I know what you mean. Thats the only way I learn guitar. Plus Hendrix seems to have an unusually natural way around the fret board which is what makes him great I suppose. Lovely to watch :biggrin:
 
  • #89
I think Youtube is temporarily down, or they don't like me. :biggrin:

Anyway, I was trying to find a video of Stevie Ray Vaughn, another great guitarist who probably came closest to Hendrix. SRV did an excellent rendtion of Voodoo Chile. Cold Shot is another great tune.
 
  • #90
Astronuc said:
I think Youtube is temporarily down, or they don't like me. :biggrin:

Anyway, I was trying to find a video of Stevie Ray Vaughn, another great guitarist who probably came closest to Hendrix. SRV did an excellent rendtion of Voodoo Chile. Cold Shot is another great tune.

I know the one you mean I have seen it on youtube. And here it is:

[MEDIA=youtube]2zJpAGQdjB4[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #91
Kurdt said:
I know the one you mean I have seen it on youtube. And here it is:

[MEDIA=youtube]2zJpAGQdjB4[/MEDIA][/URL][/QUOTE]Ooh, very nice! :approve:
 
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  • #92
And then there are masters like [MEDIA=youtube[/URL], who make their guitars cry or sing with apparently as much concentrated effort as it takes to scratch your head.

Here's a priceless, [PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube[/URL] of the same.
 
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  • #93
"Money for nothing" (original video) - [MEDIA=youtube]5qqXOFWPGKA[/MEDIA][/URL]

Live - Two greats - Clapton and Knopfler - [PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]3UX8tuI1JE8[/MEDIA]&mode=related&search=[/URL]

Another version - [PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]sr2SEtIwpWo[/MEDIA]&mode=related&search=[/URL]
 
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  • #94
Astronuc said:
Live - Two greats - Clapton and Knopfler - [MEDIA=youtube]3UX8tuI1JE8[/MEDIA]&mode=related&search=[/URL]

[/QUOTE]

Excellent.
 
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  • #95
Okay, it IS sentimental, and Maggie Reilly haven't done much else since, but her vocal on Mike Oldfield's "Moonlight Shadow" remains brilliant:
[MEDIA=youtube]32BI-fCWf0A[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #96
One of my favorite Dire Straits songs, in a live version that kills: "You and Your Friend".

[MEDIA=youtube]zHVaA5VUajE[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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  • #97
turbo-1 said:
One of my favorite Dire Straits songs, in a live version that kills: "You and Your Friend".

[MEDIA=youtube]zHVaA5VUajE[/MEDIA][/URL][/QUOTE]
Excellent! Was that Franklin playing slide?

There's also a neat Telegraph Road reprise posted by that same user.
 
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  • #98
Gokul43201 said:
Excellent! Was that Franklin playing slide?
I don't know who was in that line-up, but yeah, the steel guitar/lap steel parts were great.
 
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  • #99
Okay, a bit of French culture from the "sparrow":
[MEDIA=youtube]F1E4eGaCRto[/MEDIA][/URL]

Here's an original clip with Piaf herself. Pure genius!
[PLAIN][MEDIA=youtube]2-sUzR71wpQ[/MEDIA][/URL]
 
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