Registered: 01/15/05
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Loc: Brazil - South America
Hi Rico, great singing voice. Well done. Best regards, Telmo.
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Registered: 12/01/99
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Loc: San Francisco Bay Area, CA, US...
Hi Rico, as a fan of Dutch singer Caro Emerald's hit "A Night Like This", I initially quite honestly wasn't sure how it would sound sung by a guy, but your performance convinced me otherwise. Rico, I think you 'pulled it off' impressively. Bravo!
Until now, I've been doing this song strictly as an instrumental (utilizing a song specific style in auto accomp mode), but now, after hearing your rendition, I may consider including vocals now. American audiences I play for aren't initially familiar with this tune (strangely enough it didn't make the US charts), but once they hear it, I get repeated requests to play it again. Even my Mom has become a big fan of Caro Emerald's music.
For those not familiar with Caro Emerald's music, here's her 2009 hit chart version followed by her live acoustic version:
Hi Rico, as a fan of Dutch singer Caro Emerald's hit "A Night Like This", I initially quite honestly wasn't sure how it would sound sung by a guy, but your performance convinced me otherwise. Rico, I think you 'pulled it off' impressively. Bravo!
Until now, I've been doing this song strictly as an instrumental (utilizing a song specific style in auto accomp mode), but now, after hearing your rendition, I may consider including vocals now. American audiences I play for aren't initially familiar with this tune (strangely enough it didn't make the US charts), but once they hear it, I get repeated requests to play it again. Even my Mom has become a big fan of Caro Emerald's music.
Actually its not that strange... there is a big difference between american charts and european charts, reccord companies often time dont sell anything but their biggest stars oversees, this goes for both europe and US.
Even worse, in europe a lot of music never gets over the countries borders. We have some very impressive dutch singers that all sing in English that have a hard time selling anything abroad.
Caro is just one of them, some others are just as brilliant.
Seems the music market is still a strange beast.
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Registered: 02/24/12
Posts: 486
Loc: The Netherlands
Hi Scott, Thank you verry much for youre nice comment my friend I just did what i fell i like the song verry much Its realy 1 of my favorites Because this is a piece of music thats a real number 1 song so people like that verry much she is realy amazing You sure should take that song in youre performances because you always get attention with songs like this when you perform them live Speak to you soon my friend Regards Rico
Tony and Larry feel a bit of Elvis about this, but you know who came to mind when I listened to it - now, don't laugh, but Englebert Humperdinck. It just struck me as the sort of smoochy latin thing he'd do. And, hey, I see ol' Hump is the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.:-)
Registered: 02/24/12
Posts: 486
Loc: The Netherlands
HI, 124
Thank you verry much for youre compliment its nice that people think of dif artist its nice to hear and i am happy with my voice because its just the voice i have, great to hear they see simlarity's Thank you verry much m8 and everyone of you who responded Greetings Rico
Ps i am verry curious what humpy wil do on eurovision that must give a lot of views on the tv i guess verry special
Registered: 07/21/05
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Loc: English Riviera, UK
Hi Ric
As you are aware David Dunlap liked this song and mentioned so on your YouTube post, he also said he would probably a version of it on his Scala, well here it is.
Enjoy
Bill
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Registered: 02/24/12
Posts: 486
Loc: The Netherlands
Hey thnx m8 for pointing out to the song yeah i just looked at it thats a verry nice guy and he played it verry nice i would love to have an organ like that awsome Greetings Rico Happy Easter And have a great weekend