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Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - pinkoos - 06-18-2013
What's yours? So far, I like these:
Judy Collins
Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
and pretty much any bagpipe version out there.
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - mrbigstuff - 06-18-2013
Mahalia Jackson.
If you don't get goose pimples or tear up after hearing her version, you had better check for a pulse.
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - August West - 06-18-2013
The one they ain't singing for me, brother!
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - cbelt3 - 06-18-2013
ANYthing with Bagpipes. Sung or just piped. My eyes tear up, my hair stands on end, my face takes a bluish cast from the battle paint, my slacks turn into a kilt, I can feel the hilt of my ancestral claymore in my hands, taste the smoke of the fire and cannon , and and smell the stench of battle in the Highlands.
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - SKYLANE - 06-18-2013
Amazing Grace...
My favorite arrangement of this song was in the movie soundtrack for "Maverick".
In Star Trek 2, there was a few bars of the song played via bagpipes when they shot Spock out through the missle tube, that was kind of cool sounding. (Been a long time since I saw the movie, hope I am not confusing that with a different tune.
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Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - pinkoos - 06-18-2013
cbelt3 wrote:
ANYthing with Bagpipes. Sung or just piped. My eyes tear up, my hair stands on end, my face takes a bluish cast from the battle paint, my slacks turn into a kilt, I can feel the hilt of my ancestral claymore in my hands, taste the smoke of the fire and cannon , and and smell the stench of battle in the Highlands.
So basically you turn into him:
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - ztirffritz - 06-18-2013
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - msglee - 06-18-2013
Nana Mouskouri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPPR7bDRv6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFLyQrTB0i0
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - Ombligo - 06-18-2013
I have never heard a bad version of Amazing Grace.. even a tone-deaf mute can perform a moving version of the song. It is perhaps the greatest piece of music ever recorded.
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - cbelt3 - 06-18-2013
That and "Danny Boy". My cousin sang that for our grandfather's funeral. She has a beautiful soprano voice (and a PhD). When she finished the church was transcendently still for minutes. I have NO idea how she did it. We sang Amazing Grace over my father's grave... I completely lost the ability to sing at the start of the second verse.
I've made it clear that Amazing Grace WILL be played at my funeral. I should probably make it clear that Led Zeppelin should be played at the party afterwards, where they drink up all my leftover whiskey.