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Music Appreciation

lastlib

(26,498 posts) Sun Feb 16, 2025, 10:17 PM Feb 2025

Can You Understand -- Renaissance

(Insert sound of jaw hitting floor here.) Prog rock brilliance at its best! The magnificent voice of the incomparable Annie Haslam is dazzling!

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Can You Understand -- Renaissance (Original Post) lastlib Feb 2025 OP

I'll have to listen to this one. I don't know it. But anytime my kids think someone is a great vocalist, I hit them LT Barclay Feb 2025 #1

Let 'em see the live version of "Ashes Are Burning" (BBC).... lastlib Feb 2025 #2

I saw the Scheherazade performance at Carnegie in 75 Fichefinder Feb 2025 #3

They were EXTREMELY underrated, in my book. lastlib Feb 2025 #4

LT Barclay

(3,092 posts)

1. I'll have to listen to this one. I don't know it. But anytime my kids think someone is a great vocalist, I hit them

Reply to lastlib (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2025, 11:53 PM

Feb 2025

with "Can You Hear Me".
They walk away without comment.

lastlib

(26,498 posts)

2. Let 'em see the live version of "Ashes Are Burning" (BBC)....

Reply to LT Barclay (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 17, 2025, 12:04 AM

Feb 2025

That one is the definition of "great vocalist"!

On youtube.

Fichefinder

(347 posts)

3. I saw the Scheherazade performance at Carnegie in 75

Reply to lastlib (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2025, 12:27 AM

Feb 2025

It was magical

lastlib

(26,498 posts)

4. They were EXTREMELY underrated, in my book.

Reply to Fichefinder (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 17, 2025, 11:03 AM

Feb 2025

No disespect intended for the other great female vocalists of the time, but Annie topped them all.

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