If you are one of my many devoted readers, you already know that I like a lot of different music, and that my taste sometimes can seem a little widespread….

In this post I will just show some video clips of singers that I like – doing their thing!

 

Siw Malmkvist: The all round queen of Swedish entertainment! This clip from 1995 shows a 58 year old Siw in concert, doing an acoustic, beautiful ballad with a title that translates as “Memories of my life” Siw Malmkvist made her first record in 1955, she was the very first Swedish singer to have a chart placing on the US charts. She was Sweden’s first musical export to Germany – where her career is still blooming. Musically, Siw has done it all – from duetting with Lee Hazelwood to covering the Scorpions classic rock ballad “Still Loving You”…. Enjoy some Siw:

Click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1C0fDZLB8

 

Chris Farlowe: This guy is perhaps the most soulful guy ever to hail from the UK. Chris was born 1940 and is 66 years old in this clip, from a concert in 2006. He sings an ultra soulful, extended version of his old hit from 1967, “Handbags & Gladrags”. You all set for some goose pimple inducing singing??

Click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPnYJRUbgo

 

Mona Grytöyr: A TV-performance from my teens. Mona was a few days short of her 12th birthday, when she did this song on Norwegian television in the spring of 1982. You have never heard an eleven year old girl sing anything like this! Mona, despite all the talent she displays here, never turned into a big star although she has released music independently. She instead went into politics and has been a profiled candidate for the Norwegian Labour party in her home district Ullensaker. But the clip will show you why she was considered sensational back then!

Click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2qn7RkuXs4

 

Betty Wright: An all time favourite of mine – here on stage, a 40-year-old Betty does her hit song “No pain, no gain” live. And what awesome singing! Pay attention from the 2:30 mark – I am not sure anyone else can reach notes such as these, totally incredible!!

Click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryM4ZK1OyYo

 

There! – some of my guilty pleasures and favourites…. Hope you like them too! More clips and golden nuggets to follow on this site later on.