A thread having nothing to do with politics or the Olympics

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 8:01am

I don't know about you, but I am suffering from (self-imposed) fatigue from politics and the Olympics.  So, maybe we could use a thread devoted to nothing but sharing our favorites videos.  I'll start with one of mine, a medley of Simon & Garfunkel songs sung by Cass Elliot and Julie Andrews.  Please enjoy, and feel free to add favorites of your own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vnhTPllrJ4

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 8:37am

Not to be rude but you constantly post about politics ad nauseam on this Board. You only have yourself to blame for that. Try taking a day or two without reading articles or watching shows about politics, and you probably won't suffer. 

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 9:43am

Liza's Headband said: "Not to be rude but you constantly post about politics ad nauseam on this Board. You only have yourself to blame for that. Try taking a day or two without reading articles or watching shows about politics, and you probably won't suffer."

Indeed.  Hence my description of my fatigue as self-imposed.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 10:00am

I am with you. Should you care to add a MUSICAL to the thread you will have done the hat trick. I am with you by the way wholeheartedly. 

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 12:08pm

I checked out of watching politics to enjoy the Olympics

[kdogg36]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 12:21pm

Here's a video of my favorite opera singer, soprano Ana Maria Martínez, singing the "Song to the Moon" from Dvorak's Rusalka.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXxfp6o3hKQ

Updated On: 8/19/16 at 12:21 PM

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 12:40pm

Difficult for me to chose one Eva Cassidy rendition, but I'm going with Time After Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWvPOJOYqGA

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 4:44pm

Barbara Cook singing "Errol Flynn"...gets me very time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85IxNVwpKrs

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 7:03pm

For your viewing pleasure, Renée Fleming and Alfie Boe singing "Somewhere" from West Side Story on a balcony at Buckingham Palace...

 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 7:39pm

...for something completely different, I offer up Ukrainian diva Svetlana Loboda performing her 12th place finisher at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Pyrotechnics. Dry ice. Half-naked Roman centurions writhing around pulling our heroine across the stage as she bashes the bejeezus out of a drum-kit. What's not to love?

Well, you did ask. Go on, hit play. You know you want to.

 

 

 

Updated On: 8/19/16 at 07:39 PM

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/19/16 at 9:32pm

Dorothy Loudon's incomparable Sondheim medley. 

https://youtu.be/LQcUdSwHD_w

[sabrelady]

Posted: 8/20/16 at 11:55pm

Only cos we haven't had her back in a while The Inimitable   WING!!!!

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/21/16 at 7:11am

He Had Refinement, by Elaine Stritch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1jVs0aStw

[Steve C.]

Posted: 8/21/16 at 7:32am

Oh My God! Wing! Dancing Queen!!!! She's a dericate rittre frowrer!!

 

She covers everything from AC/DC to Michael Jackson. But she does have a certain flair for ABBA. This is her "Mamma Mia"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ZdTnJ9X9Y

Oh Wing! S.O.S.! I wish I could QUIT you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyd9UdOmoGM&index=6&list=PLD4iaFRViScBOdP9eoMgnZc3qvgXR-Op9
 

Updated On: 8/21/16 at 07:32 AM

[Petralicious]

Posted: 8/22/16 at 11:19am

Only one Dancing Queen in my world! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL2kVT4RM7c

 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/22/16 at 12:19pm

Now back to regular programming. Thank God 

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 8/22/16 at 1:05pm

I am obsessed with limestone. Was in Kansas and now want the limestone posts for garden beds. 

[javero]

Posted: 8/24/16 at 6:17pm

I turned down an early retirement offer from my employer earlier today.  Just not quite ready to make that move.