The Vocalists

Favourite Vocal Performances

1. Perry Como..."And I Love You So"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8QiDYcbQds

2. Matt Munro..."My Kind of Girl"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_qGt48pUrk

She walks like an angel walks,
she talks like an angel talks,
And her hair has a kind of curl,
to my mind, she's my kind of girl.
She's wise like an angel's wise,
with eyes like an angel's eyes,
And a smile like a kind of pearl,
to my mind, she's my kind of girl.
A pretty little face,
that face just knocks me off my feet,
A pretty little feet,
she's really sweet enough to eat.
She looks like an angel looks,
she cooks like an angel cooks,
And my mind in a kind of whirl,
to my mind, she's my kind of girl.
(full instrumental interlude)
Hmmm, pretty little face,
that face just knocks me off my feet,
Pretty little feet,
she's really sweet enough to eat.
She looks like an angel looks,
and she cooks like an angel cooks,
And my mind in a kind of whirl,
to my mind, she's my kind of girl.
And my hearts Kind-a full of joy
Because she's told me
I'm her kind of boy

3. Julie London..."Girl Talk"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL2c67gP0FM

They like to chat about the dresses they will wear tonight

They chew the fat about their tresses and the neighbours' fight

Inconsequential things that men don't really care to know

Become essential things that women find so apropos

But that's a dame

They're all the same

It's just a game

They call it girl talk, girl talk

They all me-ouw about the ups and downs of all their friends

The who, the how, the why, they dish the dirt, it never ends

The weaker sex, the speaker sex, we mortal males behold

But though we joke, we wouldn't trade you for a ton of gold

So baby stay, and gab away

But hear me say

That after girl talk

Talk to me

(Orchestral Break)

But that's a dame

They're all the same

It's just a game

They call it girl talk, girl talk

(Orchestral Break)

So baby stay,

and gab away

But hear me say That after girl talk

Talk to me

4. Gordon Lightfoot..."Beautiful"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhEvjyk_dc&playnext=1&list=PLEA790D61D4367557

At times I just don't know
How you could be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you
And you were made for me

And I know that I won't ever change
We've been friends through rain or shine
For such a long, long time

Laughing eyes and smiling face
It seems so lucky just to have the right
Of telling you with all my might
You're beautiful tonight

And I know that you won't ever stray
Cause you've been that way from day to day
For such a long, long time

And when you hold me tight
How could life be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you
And you were made for me

And I know that I won't ever change
We've been friends through rain or shine
For such a long, long time

Well, I must say it means so much to me
To be the one who's telling you
I'm telling you, that you're beautiful.

10. Joni Mitchell... "Chelsea Morning"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5DYLYHlKvk

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning,
And the first thing that I heard,
Was a song outside my window,
And the traffic wrote the words,
It came ringing up like christmas bells,
And rapping up like pipes and drums.

Oh, won't you stay we'll put on the day,
And we'll wear it 'till the night comes.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning,
And the first thing that I saw,
Was the sun through yellow curtains,
And a rainbow on the wall,
Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you,
Crimson crystal beads to beckon

Oh, won't you stay we'll put on the day,
There's a sun show every second. 
Now the curtain opens on a portrait of today.
And the streets are paved with passersby,
And pigeons fly, and papers lie,
Waiting to blow away.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning,
And the first thing that I knew,
There was milk and toast and honey,
And a bowl of orange juice too, 
And the sun poured in like butterscotch,
And stuck to all my senses.
Oh, wont you stay we'll put on the day,
And we'll talk in present tenses.

When the curtain closes, 
And the rainbow runs away,
I will bring you incense owls by night,
By candlelight, by two jewel-light 
If only you will stay.
Pretty baby won't you.
Wake up, it is a Chelsea morning.

[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/e/emiliana_torrini/chelsea_morning.html ]

11. Barbra Streisand... "People" and "My Man"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyB5aMdv0Q0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iyjRpP46E4

PEOPLE:

People
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world.
There's children needing other children
And yet letting our grown up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children, than children.

Lovers are very special people
They're the luckiest people in the world
With one person, one very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
That said you were half and now you're whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people
People who need people
Are the luckiest people
In the world

MY MAN:

Oh, my man, I love him so, he'll never know
All my life is just despair, but I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright, all right...
What's the difference if I say I'll go away
When I know I'll come back on my knee someday
For whatever my man is, I am his forever more
It cost me a lot,
But there's one thing that I've got, it's my man
Cold and wet tired, you bet,
But all that I soon forget with my man
He's not much for looks
And no hero out of books is my man
Two or three girls has he
That he likes as well as me, but I love him...
Oh, my man, I love him so, he'll never know
All my life is just despair, but I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright, all right...
What's the difference if I say I'll go away
When I know I'll come back on my knee someday
For whatever my man is, I am his forever more..

12. Billy Joel..."Scenes From an Italian Restaurant"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUz48xw_OiM

A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I,face to face

A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant.

Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight I did not know
You could ever look so good after
So much time.

I remember those days hanging out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights

Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular steadys
And the king and the queen
Of the prom
Riding around with the car top
Down and the radio on.
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the
Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more
Than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
Always know how to survive.

Brenda and Eddy were still going
Steady in the summer of '75
when they decided the marriage would
Be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy
"Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that
Kind of life."
But there we were wavin' Brenda and
Eddie goodbye.

They got an apartment with deep
Pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought
With the bread
They had saved for a couple
Of years
They started to fight when the
Money got tight
And they just didn't count on
The tears.

They lived for a while in a
Very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But you can never go back
There again.

Brenda and Eddie had had it
Already by the summer of '75
From the high to the low to
The end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to
The greasers
The best they could do was
Pick up the pieces
We always knew they would both
Find a way to get by
That's all I heard about
Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I
Told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda
And Eddie goodbye.

A bottle of red, a bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant.

15. Melissa Manchester... "Better Days"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj8eHE4WXDs

Lyrics Provided By ZoneLyrics.net

Well, another day has come
After all is said and done
You are here as you were before
'Cause it feels as if we've been
Through it all and back again
Now I know there'll be something more 

No more tears left to hide
We have made it through a long and lonely night
Better days on our side
Oh, it looks as though we're doing something right

And in perfect time we'll flow
Sometimes up and down we'll go
Like the ring in a carousel

No more tears left to hide
We have made it through a long and lonely night
Better days on our side
Say, it looks as though we're doing something right

Oh, it looks as though we're doing something right

No more tears left to hide
We have made it through a long and lonely night
Better days on our side
Oh, it looks as though we're doing something right
No more tears left to hide . . .

16.   Michael Feinstein..."My Favourite Year"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xj0q9ck8ZU

You 

For you, there'll be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining,
And I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right

To you, I'll give the world
to you, I'll never be cold
'Cause I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right.

And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score,
[From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/f/fleetwood-mac-lyrics/songbird-lyrics.html ]
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before.

And I wish you all the love in the world,
But most of all, I wish it from myself.

And the songbirds keep singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before, like never before.