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A little more Kalman.

Nicolai Schukoff and Dagmar Schellenberger (who was playing Hannah in the "Merry Widow" with Rod Gilfry) in "Gräfin Mariza" staged at Mörbisch am See in 2004.


From the same show.


And to prove that Kalman wasn't given the title of "Der Csardaskönig" ("The Csardas King") for nothing.



PS. In my strictly personal and terribly biased opinion, "Gräfin Mariza" (Countess Maritza or Marissa) is the greatest non-greatest hit (a la "Mamma Mia" or "42nd Street")) musical ever written with a dozen "hit" songs that are widely performed in various concerts.
 
A video mashup of "I Say a Little Prayer" attempting to get close to the intentions of Hal David, the songwriter had with this song.

 
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Al Martino was a distant relative of a friend of mine. A greatly underrated singer, IMO.




And with a little schmaltz.



A few clips from the "Roman Holiday" (studio recording)


And this sounds like a tune from some film.

 
In the 1970's, Sweet was a hugely popular English band, mainly because it was produced by the top team of the era Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, who - according to Wikipedia - had 19 Top 10 hits on the UK charts, including five #1's, in the 1973-74 span alone.

To begin with the song that wasn't written by Chinn & Chapman (meaning, it's from a later period).


And here, glamming it up.





And the end of their run.

 
My first 4th of July weekend, I spent listening to the WLS Top 500 Rock-n-Roll songs countdown. And I felt guilty when I went to sleep, missing on that Americana.






 
Thomas Hampson and Karita Mattila in another version of "Lippen schweigen". Tom's a world respected singer but Mattila is a superstar.


Here's a younger Tom, rolling his "r's" like a true Austrian. (He's an American from Indiana)



IMO, he does better with the American standards and old-timers.


And here's from "La Traviata".

 
Uriah Heep -

July Morning (this was a big Euro/Asia hit, not as big in the US)


Others were the AOR staples in the US.


 
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With Richard Rodgers being the great American songwriter of the 20th century, here's a few more. All were written with Larenz Hart.
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I particularly like this one, simple but unique.
Here is Sinatra in Technicolor:


Here is another great song also by a great composer and also in Technicolor:

 
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