Miscellaneous Special Tunes/Performances

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Reading Mick Fleetwood's bio, didn't realise that Songbird was written by Christine McVie, always associated it with Eva Cassidy, watched Christine's performance and well!...

It's now on the list of performances that have an effect on me that I can't quite explain.

Pavarotti - Nessum Dorma
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

What gets you?
 
Reading Mick Fleetwood's bio, didn't realise that Songbird was written by Christine McVie, always associated it with Eva Cassidy, watched Christine's performance and well!...

It's now on the list of performances that have an effect on me that I can't quite explain.

Pavarotti - Nessum Dorma
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

What gets you?

If I recall correctly "Songbird" was the last track on the "Rumours" album. Personally I am a bigger fan of the Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac. I think Eva Cassidy with every song she sang she made the song her own - great voice, very tragic story...

What gets me? I am always seeking out new music...songs I go back to...

Wichita Lineman - Jim Gordon on drums, Glen Campbell and Al Casey on acoustic guitars, Carole Kaye on bass - what more could you want?

Summer Breeze - Seals and Croft - produced by the great Louie Shelton

Come To Me Nina - David Sanborn from the "Another Hand" album

Recently came across a track from a duo called "Over the Rhine", intro to the tune was a bluesy, gospel wind instrument section which made the hairs on the back my neck stand up - deep dive into the internet came up with guy called Jim Hoke who is a Nashville based multi-instrumentalist credited with playing the saxes and brass, string arrangements...

Greg S.
 
Title says tunes/performances
True......OP's initial post reads "watched Christine's performance as well"....and then "it's now on a list of performances"...so I was going with that.

Makes for a more focused convo, IMHO...as opposed to a topic which really, literally just ends up asking "what songs do you consider Special ?" Or moved you....whether live or recorded...

Going with the latter ...here's my answer

Love with Affection - Joan Armatrading
Many Rivers -Jimmy Cliff
Mysterious Traveler -WR
Think -Aretha Franklin
Kiss -Prince
Speedball -Lee Morgan
Crazy -Gnarls Barkley
Fried Bananas -Dexter Gordon
Toad's Place -Jeff Lorber Fusion
Slippery People - Staple Singers
Alfonsina y el Mar - Cecilia Duarte
Procession -Weather Report
Feelin' Alright -Joe Cocker
Povo - Hubbard/Turrentine
La Puerta -Iraida Noriega
Girl U Want -Devo
By the Grace of God Go I - Kid Creole & the Coconuts
This I Dig of You -Hank
Drive - The Cars
Limbo -Brian Ferry
If I Were a Bell -Miles
I Second that Emotion -Manhattan Transfer
Hot Water -Level 42
Up the Junction - Squeeze
La Vida Es Un Carnaval -Celia Cruz
Monaxia Mou Ola -Pix Lax
You Don't Know What Love Is -Dinah Washington
19 Forever -Joe Jackson
To Be Real -Cheryl Lynn
Up Jumped Spring -Freddie Hubbard
Dixie Chicken -Little Feat
Cuban Pete - Lucy and Ricky Ricardo
Zydeco Gris-Gris (Cajun version, not English) -Beausoleil
Closer -Corinne Bailey Rae (live version)
Flame -Ronnie Laws
Groove is in the Heart -Deelite
Makin' Whoopie -Ol' Banjo Eyes
La Flaca -Jarabe de Palo
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans ? - Dianne Reeves, but Lady Day also
Groove Me -King Floyd
The Thumb -Kevin Eubanks
The Eyes of Julie -Van Gogh's Daughter
Dinata -Eleftheria Arvanitaki
3 Views of a Secret -Jaco Pastorius and Word of Mouth Big Band
Cumbia Raza -Los Lobos
Cantaloop -US 3
Reloj -Trish Hinajosa
Rapture -Blondie
La Vie en Rose -Satchmo
Blue Bayou -Linda Ronstadt
Small Day Tomorrow - either Janice Seigal or Irene Krall
Iko, Iko -Dr. John
Fuego -Donald Byrd
The Weakness in Me -Joan Armatrading
Travelin' Light -Diane Schuur with the Basie Band
Standin' on the Top -Rick James
The Jody Grind -Horace Silver
Take Me to the River (live) - Talking Heads
Jean Pierre -Miles
Sweet Jane - Lou Reed
Tequila Mockingbird -Ramsey Lewis
Fue tan Bueno -La Franela
Fenja -Dexter Gordon
I Fight Authority -John Cougar
Under the Moon, Over the Sky - Angela Bofill
Hey Pocky-A-Way - The Meters
Damn Your Eyes -Etta James
Into the Night -Joe Henderson
Clavado en un Bar -Mana
Late Last Night -Robert Cray
Como Fue ? - Beny More
Message to Prez - Bennie Maupin & Buster Williams
Catching the Sun -Spyro Gyra
Long Walk -Jill Scott
Wahoo -Duke Pearson
Down to London -Joe Jackson
Treats Your Daughter Mean -Ruth Brown
Jerkin' Back & Forth -Devo
Never Will I Marry -Nancy Wilson w/Cannonball
The Bottle -Gil Scott-Heron
Always on My Mind -Willie Nelson
Piel Canela - Eydie Gormet
The Chicken -Jaco versions
If You Close the Door -Velvet Underground w/Eydie Sedgwick
Hocus Pocus -Lee Morgan
Moon Over Bourbon St. -Sting
Corazon Espinado -Mana with Santana
Daahoud -Clifford
A Message to Rudy -Specials
Una Aventura -Grupo Niche
Senor Blues -Horace Silver (also Taj Mahal version)
Stool Pigeon -Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Full House -Wes Montgomery
Andar Conmigo - Julieta Venegas
and....
Paradise -Sade
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Yes, I would have thought so. I think of recording as performance. Not the same as live obviously but there is an audience in mind none the less.
Completely valid...I think that most contemporary recording has conventionally been overdubs for quite a while now, a couple generations at least....so to me...it is a different dynamic, studio recording.

It never really shows, IMHO, what the artists got 'under the hood' so to speak...although I do understand that it does provide greater "control" of the finished product...so there is a trade off there. I consider it "product creation" as opposed to "performance" really....although I understand why others would differ...

I never record my groups overdub/cumulative track, it is always live take...but that is another subject for another thread perhaps....
 
A lot of great music cited here.
I took the OP as music, live or recorded, that has a special something to it.
No matter how many times one hears it, that feeling is the same, it moves one, reaches deep inside and sends shivers up the spine sort of exhilaration, maybe a tear of pure joy.
Three that come to mind for me:
Adagio for Strings - Barber.
Wurm - Pink Floyd.
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson.
 
Here are a few that really get to me

The Cocteau Twins/This mortal Coil- Song of the Siren
Leonard Cohen -Dance me to the End of Love
John Coltrane- After the Rain
Nick Drake- River Man
Charles Lloyd- Defiant
Portishead- Roads
Richard Thompson- Vincent Black Lightning 1952
Kate Bush- Running up that Hill
Lhasa de Sela- Los peces
Massive Attack- Paradise Circus
Mazzy Star- Fade into You
Roland Kirk- Black and Crazy Blues
Morphine- The Night
Nick Cave- The Ship Song
 

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