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Video: Beautiful piano cover of “My Heart Will Go On” from “Titanic”

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It’s no secret that I love music. I always have.

While acoustic guitar is my personal favorite, I actually enjoy all kinds of acoustic music, including piano covers of iconic tunes.

Well, in my humble opinion no song is more iconic that “My Heart Will Go On” from the movie “Titanic”. My guess is no one who has ever watched that movie can hear this song and not have images from the movie instantly pop into their head.  [Read more…]

The real story behind Dolly Parton’s monster hit ‘I will always love you’

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A while back I wrote this post about how the hit song “I will always love you” went to #1 on the charts on three different occasions.

In a nutshell, that post explained how Dolly wrote that song about her mentor and duet partner Porter Wagoner to let him know how much she cared about him after she made the decision to leave Porter’s TV show.

In the short video below, Dolly gives a more detailed description of how all of that played out at the time, in her own words. After she finishes speaking she sings the song again for our listening pleasure.   [Read more…]

Another beautiful instrumental guitar performance: “You’re Still The One”

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It’s no secret that I love music. It’s also no secret that I love guitar instrumentals after hearing my dad play them numerous times as I was growing up.

A while back I featured a young man named Guus Dielissen playing “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing”, and that post was incredibly well received.

The short video below features Guus yet again. This time he’s playing the Shania Twain classic “You’re Still The One”, which many consider to be one of the greatest love songs ever.  [Read more…]

A slice of history: Jana Jae’s “Listen to the Mockingbird” played on an Edison Cylinder Phonograph

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Over 100 years ago Thomas Edison invented his ground-breaking Edison Cylinder Phonograph, the first commercially available machine for recording and reproducing sound.

For the first time ever the folks who owned these machines could listen to their favorite music at any time, and as often as they wished.

In the early 1900s Edison’s Cylinder Phonograph was more or less replaced in the marketplace by the phonograph record players that many of us grew up listening to. [Read more…]

Video: Could this singer have the most amazing vocal range ever?

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It’s no secret that I love music. After all, I have shared a bunch of it here in the past.

And it isn’t just one genre of music either. I really enjoy listening to several varieties of it.

Today I’m going to share something a little different from what I usually share.

This video features Loren Allred, a very talented young lady who just might have the most amazing vocal range I have ever witnessed.  [Read more…]