Where's Cyndi Lauper?

Question

http://www.cyndilauperfanclub.com/cyndi-lauper-1493/

Answer 1

Cyndi Lauper Sing Along

Answer 2

Cyndi Lauper – Can't Breathe

Answer 3

As usual, I'm having difficulty figuring out the words to Sex is the Heel. The style suggests Cyndi is returning to dance music, and Mr. Fierstein's comments on twitter suggest that the whole score is dance-able. The best dance song Cyndi did, I think, is Disco Inferno, which Cyndi has refused to do because of 9/11. Anyway, cyndi has said she has embraced drag, too, but she's a girl, so that's pretty conventional.  Sister Elen didn't like dresses at all. Cyndi says she followed everything Elen did, but certainly this was not true in her style of clothing. Well, here's an interview from the late 1990s in which Cyndi talks about heels and jewelry and girl things and how she likes 'em. Cyndi doesn't talk about dressing as a man; the talk here suggests that Cyndi is more excited about women's wear.

Answer 4

Cyndi Lauper – Wild Women don't Have the Blues Music Video

Answer 5

You can make this official on this, the official Cyndi Lauper forum. Cyndi is hot, and I don't mean she's running a high temperature. On the contrary, at 57 she appears to be very healthy. Yeah, Cyn's even hotter than Ms. Lazzara, who really sizzles, even at 59, below.  Cyndi could sing Fever, if she wanted. Maybe she don't wanna. Anyway, here is Bernadette doing a good job with the song. Turn up the volume, and imagine Cyndi doing it even better, drawin' ya in. Age-ists take note. "Some people" quit singing at 50. That's OK for some people.

Answer 6

I dearly love Bing, but the Happy Feet he sang in King of Jazz couldn't hold a candle to Cab's arrangemnet below. You could have had composer Cole Porter at the shoulder of Frank Sinatra every day, but without the brilliant Nelson Riddle arrangement, I Got you Under My Skin would have gone nowhere. An arrangement can make or break a performance, and the success of Cyndi's first album came from brilliant arrangements which it appears she had a great deal of influence in forming. I would have like to have seen more about the evolution of her arrangements in her autobio. Imagine Jules Shears' jaunty rendition of All Through the Night instead of the version Cyndi sang. And Ms. Lauper, working nice with others, did wonders with Prince's When You Were Mine and with Robert Hazard's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. If Cyn had simply sang the songs straight, as they had been performed by the composers, she would have driven the vehicle of her career off the cliff, and I don't care how good her voice was or is. An arrangement exciting and suited to the singer's strengths makes the performance, and Cyndi's voice is forever wedded to some gorgeous arrangements.

Answer 7

Hey, Sara, glad to see ya here. Wow, am I glad she did this CD! Eve had three faces, but Cyndi has more faces, vocally at least, than three, certainly. The Narm award rendition of Shattered Dreams is great. Just when I'm getting over her wonderful E6 at 2:29 she raises the bar and hits F#6 E6 at 3:08 and 3:09.  Had enough? But there's even greater mountains to cllimb. The same pitch combo is used 3:23-3:29, and this time Cyndi really wails it. Go visit Cyndi Lauper Shattered Dreams @ amfar youtube yourself.

Answer 8

Someone posted Melanie Safka's cover of Time After Time on youtube. Melanie's done some great covers, but with Cyndi's song, she doesn't come anywhere close to the impact of the original. Are there many good covers of Cyndi's work? Are there really any?  A handful perhaps that provide one with a similar feeling to what  Cyndi's voice provides.

Answer 9

This vid and song is endlessly fascinating for me. The song was written in 1974 and one can see that with its theme that women are better off staying home rather than venturing into the big city. That's an old school theme, like Cat Stevens "Wild World." The song suggests the difficulties Cyndi had in the 1970s being accepted in the world of rock n roll. But now look at the vid, with its punk girls, and one can see the tone has changed and the world has changed in 1982, when the vid was produced and the song released. The girls and the little girl are united and defiant in the big city. They are in London, and they ain't goin' home nohow. The stage is set for Cyndi's success. The world is ready for her. Within a year and a half of Strange Little Girl's release Cyndi races from nowhere to stardom.

Answer 10

Well, to beat a dead horse my fave in the genre of dance is this one. It blows all the other stuff away. This is one of her greatest performances ever, in my opinion. I've tried it out on people who say they really don't like Cyndi, and they agree it's great. The other reaction is, "That's Cyndi?!" and they mean it in a good way. It's a wonderful arrangement of a song others did before her. As I've mentioned here before, she no longer performs it, not since 09/11/01. Cyndi is at her best when she combines voice and movement. She uses the whole stage, even lying on the floor and singing. It is sweaty, and very sexy. A great great treat for eye and ear!

Answer 11

A companion piece to Heading West, Unhook the Stars from the Sisters of Avalon album is a breakup song that contains some of the best Cyndi lyrics. The chorus is good, but the verse is better. And there's that wonderful bridge (starting at 1:48 below). Cyndi doesn't prettify her voice, and that's a plus here. When Cyndi sings rough, she sings for all of us ordinary people. There is in Cyndi's work this idea of the ordinary person becoming extraordinary, or transcendent. Every breakup brings with it the possibillity of something better. This was certainly the case with Cyndi, trading one David for another more suitable. "Letting go" can really be "a passport to anywhere." Our stars are man and woman made, the stars of the heart, anyway. We can make them and unhook them, according to our need, the primary need of which is to act in a living, equal partnership with another.

Answer 12

Just watched The Hustler again last night, a screenplay built upon the premise of a woman who never really got over her Dad leaving her at 5. That was about what happened to Cyndi, but unlike the victim in the Hustler, Cyndi came through all right. A different time, though, when girl's dreams were built around pleasing men. Cyndi spoofs that idea in Yeah, Yeah, somewhere in the middle of the link below. The proper use of talent and character. The themes of the Hustler, and the knowledge, you can't always get what you want, but can get what you need, as long as you keep your soul.

Answer 13

Good to hear Cyn give her hommage to Marlene. Depending on what you read from Cyn Blue Angel band name came out of the von Sternberg film or the Roy Orbison song. In the autobio she gives the nod to the Dietrich film. Marlene's rendition is defiant, her tone echoing the original German words, which translate, "From head to foot I am made for Love.". She tells the audience she will not hide her light under a bushel, and you can see Marlene's influence when Cyndi says, " A woman should use the power she has. So many people try to neuter women." Lola Lola would have laughed at this and agreed. Dietrich started in an orchestra, playing violin, but was promptly fired because she was too distracting to the other band members.. Cyndi's rendition of the Lola Lola song seems sad, and like a lot of Cyndi has touches of Rousseau's natural man. Only with Cyn it's the natural woman.

Answer 14

With all the talk about vocal range I have done in Cyndi's voice I am faced with the fact that some of Cyndi's most compelling songs are remarkable not because of their remarkable range. Look what Siouxsie does with little more than half an octave! Singing, such that is memorable, is acting  through music in a way that is intense and unique. Personality rules the stage, and the audience. It also helps to have a great band behind you. But you can do it with a spare and quiet background if you connect with the fire within you. True Colors, Time After Time, they are about this kind of connection.

Answer 15

What gets me about Cyndi is the resonance of her performances with some of the great stars of the past. I first realized this when I saw her on Uncle Floyd all those years ago when she talked about Helen Kane. At Budokan September 1986 (above, Change of Heart, Good Enough) I see her waving her skirt and I think how Cyndi and that cursing perfectionist firecracker of the roaring 20s Marilyn Miller would have gotten on had their years joined. Miller once cursed the great Ziegfeld out in front of his niece because she had been forced to go out on the stage with a costume too weighty for her energetic dancing. That's Cyndi all over. Here's Miller in action. There's another clip of her singing on youtube, but her singing is really indifferent, and the accent terrible. So, here she is, sans singing, and in a light enough dress for quick action. That's Jerry Kern's music.

Answer 16

Alex Korner's Blues Inc started things up in London with Baldry and Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker occasionally being joined by Brian Jones, Mick, Keith Richards, John Mayall and Jimmy Page. The Animals arrived later on the London scene from Newcastle. Cyndi's style can be quite aggressive, and I'm guessing that aggression in part came from listening to the early male Brit blues artists, who were so influenced by people such as Korner and Baldry and beyond these the great African American blues men… But Cyndi's style is soft, too, so here is the flip side of British influence on young Cyndi: Merseyside (Liverpool). Through the influence of McCartney, initially Cyndi's fave of the Fab Four, the Beatles music could get very sentimental. I'm guessing that young Cyndi was touched by Mersey, Tyne (Newcastle), and Thames, and that these influences prepared the way for her wide spectrum of visual and aural styles from the innocence of Heading for the Moon and True Colors to the less innocent Money Changes Everything and She Bop.Cyndi crossed and recrossed gender lines in her style, taking tips from the styles of both male and female rock, blues, and pop vocal artists of the 1960s and using them during a time when gender lines in music performance were being blurred and broken. By doing this, using male and female models both, she helped widen the range of what a female singer could do on the stage.

Answer 17

This is a great song from between the Dave's era, released the same year she did the Wall concert, in Berlin. In 1990. She met her present Dave on the set of Off and Running, which was released in 1991. Around 1989 or 1990 Cyndi decided to go to Russia, stating in one interview that Siberia seemed a better option than what her record company was offering her in the way of songs. I'm not sure when the business relationship with David Wolff was severed; he was music director on Off and Running. Hat Full of Stars is about him, Cyndi said in a 1993 interview, so the chances are this is about him too, or at least draws from the experience with him.

Answer 18

I'll listen tonight, Zi, and tell ya which is my fave. When his book came out in the mid 60s someone asked John what he'd have done if he wasn't a Beatle. "I'd probably crawl along the street," he replied. Another parallel with Cyndi is that John had an interest, and some talent as well, in the visual arts. His fave subject was comic caricature. And here's another connection. John's dad didn't get along with mom, and he left. Cyndi's father left, too.

Answer 19

For sheer raw power it's hard to beat the 1984 Cyndi. Yeah, it's rough, but oh man, it's what rock n roll is supposed to be, an anthem to wildness in life, to raw emotion. And maybe the most expressionistic of Cyndi's stuff then is When You Were Mine, at about 7 minutes in. It's not pretty, it's not polished, but neither is a hurricane.

Answer 20

Midnight Radio. Wow! Nice harmonies, then Cyndi goes into orbit. Sustained C6 at 2:46-2:50. Sustained E6 beginning at 1:55. Sustained E6 3:05-3:07. Sustained E6 at 3:38 sliding up to F#6 at 3:40. Highest note G6. At 3:30-3:32 and 3:33-3:35 it's  C6 G6 Eb6 C6.

Answer 21

nice harmony and contrasting vocal texture in Mad World. But what about a really mad idea, Cyndi singing rock n roll again. A little workout with Hunter Valentine at the Beacon. Love this song, Hunter gurls, and Cyndi singing the verse whets my appetite for more rockin' Cyndi–although the background wails didn't really send me. Does Ms. Lauper's comment on twitter that she was looking forward to singing this song mean she misses rockin' and there is some rock n roll in Cyndi's future? What say you, Avalon?

Answer 22

Yeah Yeah is satirical, and even I'm Gonna Be Strong is triumphant in its soaring ending. Cyndi is just not out there to make you feel bad, or to encourage you to feel sorry for herself. No Send in the Clowns or The Man Who Got Away for Cyndi. Let others sing those kind of songs. Cyndi sings stuff that gives you a reason to live, and the will to love yoursellf despite any outside circumstance. Love is connection. When it comes it is powerful. And there is no use or sense of brooding if the connection is not there. That's not Cyndi!

Answer 23

Speaking of Cyndi's voice I loved the chef guy's response on Celebrity Apprentice when Holly and the other gals wanted to sing a jingle themselves without Cyndi: "I mean come on it's Cyndi Lauper. How do you not use that voice?"

Answer 24

In the last 5 years, I have noticed a decline in Cyndi's voice. She can no longer sustain high, full notes and her voice has become consistently raspy. During the release of Memphis Blues, her live singing suffered some minor vocal weakening (although at some instances you could argue it was by choice). Her headtones are no longer as crisp as before as evidenced by these two videos of I Drove All Night. On the first video, notice how at 3:16, Cyndi transitions her voice from natural to smooth, flawless falsetto. This was some nine years ago.

Answer 25

In case ya didn't get it, here is the "some people" reference, with Bernadette giving another performance I can imagine Cyndi doing well with, if she did a lot of show tunes, which she don't. Cyndi's worked on the some people theme in Product of Misery, which will follow this, since I am having trouble editing these posts. When I press edit, the screen goes completely blank. What's with that? Anyway, like I say, Product of Misery live will follow in a message just after this one. Cyn,

Answer 26

Here is the scene that Cyndi mentions in detail in her memoir, from The  Red Shoes 1948. Scroll to 3:00. As she watches Cyndi's thoughts echo those of the dancer Vicky. But it is singing that Cyndi must do. Why does she eat, breathe, sing. Because she "must," as Lermontov puts it (see p. 101 Cyndi Lauper, A Memoir).

Answer 27

thank you, Flavio. The thread originated a few years ago on another forum. The participator asked if Cyndi's voice was getting a little worse with age. I began to look at that question semi quantitatively, matching tones from today and yesterdays. From there the thread moved to an exploration of Cyndi's range live and on recording, and from there all interpretations of the word "voice" in regard to Cyndi, including a comparison of the styles of other artists, keeping in mind that a definition is never complete until comparisons are made.

Answer 28

I need to go out right now, and I'll listen to the clips laterr, Vince, but for the moment let me say something. I think we are dealing with an almost irrepressible force, a person who demands perfection in all things. I think of Al Jolson as someone like Cyn. He was behind the glass making all kinds of momvements at Larry Parks, showing him how Jolson moves, until they had to throw him out of the studio. This is according to his old pal William Demarest, who Cyndi would know as the crotchety older guy in some great Preston Sturges films. Another Jolson story. They told Jolson that his voice had changed, and that he could no longer attack F5. "Nonsense, I've always hit that note fine," he replied. "Well, they said, "Bing has made some adjustments, concentrating on those great tones of his lower on the scale." That convinced Al, and he too made the adjustment. What we saw in one episode of the reality show is a Cyndi so anxious about her voice that she became almost certain she could not perform. Then she went out and did fine. I'm sure that Katie and Cyn are going over strategy for the forthcoming tour, and that Katie will give Cyn the benefit of her expertise to prepare Cyndi for this tour. And let's hope that Dave, that great anchor in the family, will be close at hand to allay Cyndi's performance anxiety. In the end, it's up to Cyn, after all. She is the captain of her ship; let's hope in faith that she doesn't follow in the style of Ahab.

Answer 29

Good pick, Tuanny. That song Romance in the Dark is single city, as far as I'm concerned. She really rings that Bb5, extending it twice in the song, at 2:46-2:50, and then at the end at 5:21-5:27. She reaches a high of C6 in this song at around 1:38 and 1:58, thereabouts. But it is that Bb5, two semitones down, that impresses. Times are from barcero's youtube post of Cyndi's recording on the CD

Answer 30

I love Cyndi's version of If You Go Away. But I guess my overall opinion is that everyone has a redeeming value when they do a cover song. And "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is a great cover song Cyndi did, but I like The Animals version, too.

Answer 31

This song was always a consciousness-raising affair. It was when the vid was made in 1983 in the early years of a conservative presidency, and it is now, as Cyndi holds the mic to the faces of individual girls in the audience. Daddy was absent, and Cyndi left home, in real life. Step dad was a nut, and Mom was abused. Home was truly the work she did, where her heart was. And her heart was always in her singing. And always will be. That's an extended C#6, 2:47 to 2:55 live. C6 is soprano C, so Cyndi's still a soprano!

Answer 32

The voice is quite good, but it's without Cyndi's tragic romantic edge. Cyndi knows that singing is acting. Take a liisten to Emily, by Simon and Garfunkel. A better job, i think. No doubt, it is hard to do Cyndi's songs, if you're not Cyndi

Answer 33

kinky 1958. The great Berliner Billy Wilder directing. A lot of Cyndi's sexiness and fun is reminiscent of this icon of her childhood. Cyndi added something that Marilyn could have used, an independent spirit. But it was another time. The woman's movement was being born in the research of Betty Friedan of her Smith College grads in 1957, and Marilyn was an indication, a stirring of a new energy in women.

Answer 34

The wacky world of Cyndi Lauper, March? 1984, Johnny Carson Show. The same guy who said 90 % of humor is irony, also said that the other 10 % is recognition. That recognition can come from art or reality or a combination of the two. Cyndi Lauper 1984 vintage comes out of an comic tradition, updated to the 1980s (see post above)

Answer 35

Lisa, "down" is voiced three times, each time it's higher than the last,  A5 at 1:03, C6 at 2:11-2:12, and finally at Eb 6, 3:20-3:24. The highest note occurs at 3:02, and is an F6 (and is not down). It's a great soulful song. As the song progresses the tessatura  or average note is elevated. For example, take lo-o-ow at 2:13-2:14. It's F5 Eb5 C5. At 3:25 to 3:26 lo-o-owbecomes Ab5, F#5, Eb5

Answer 36

If you listen to early Sinatra, you can't recognize him. He is just so smooth. After years of vocal abuse he becomes for all his roughness, his inability to hit notes, his reluctance to do another take to get it just right, his refusal to go to sleep at a decent hour, or to stop smoking the singer who you might someone say was the voice of the century. I know a teacher well respected here in New York who said Frank's voice became worse with every passing decade. Yet it was the personality of Frank and the ability to join that personality to a style of singing that made Sinatra a great singer. If Cyndi hates to stand still, if she is purposely rough with her voice, or reaches for a note and doesn't make it cleanly, if she stomps up and down on the stage as she sings, well, that's Cyndi. If she is nuts and we search DSM for what kind of nuts she is, well, that's Cyndi, too. Cyndi is like Frank was in this way; right or wrong it's her way or the highway.

Answer 37

Here is another great rendition of True Colors. This one I've posted a couple of times. But what I want to say about it now may be a little different than what I said about it before. I've been watching and listening to Frank Sinatra on television, a concert he gave in 1980. I'm sure he's drunk, and it may be because he knows he cannot sing anymore like he did when he was great. He's missing notes left and right. Then something cues me in, he's gonna get serious now and really try with this next song. Alll of a sudden there is this wonderful connection with the material. He makes mistakes, but somehow it doesn't matter because the essential sustains him. He is connected deeply with what he is singing about. I think he might be back with Ava, Ava Gardner. Whatever is happening it works. I'm reminded of Tony Bennett, who said once, "You don't need a great voice to be a great singer. Look at Marlene Dietrich!" Ha, ha, poor Marlene!

Answer 38

The promotional plan of the late 1980s was to give Cyndi a sexier look, and you see that plan in evidence here. Her outfits and manner in the outset are a lot different than that of the beloved nut look of the early mid 1980s. But as the song continues one begins to feel the person coming out, ripping through the promotional plan. Real frustration is seen in her body language, and heard in her voice. It could well be Cyndi acted this song so well because she faced her own personal and artistic frustrations then. It rain pennies from heaven when it does. We get a good performance as Cyndi struggles with her life. This teaches a lesson. You can put your own story in a song, and no matter how bad you are feeling there is some worth and relief in that.

Answer 39

What I like about Cyndi's blues stuff became obvious watching Madonna strut at the Super Bowl. I really am a simple guy who likes a simple song. Down to earth, with down to earth emotion--that's for me. To overdo production is to distort emotion beyond all recognition to anything human. What's good about the blues singing, too, is that it keeps her voice within a healthy range. It's not Beethoven's Ninth behind Cyndi, just a simple band. Bob and Doris, Cyndi and B B. Love is something that folks who are just folks do. We need less of songs that say Look at me and more songs that say look at us, songs that establish the connection between audience and artists and are unconcerned with creating on stage superheroes. So, bravo the blues! And Cyndi!

Answer 40

I'm reading the autobio of Sammy Fuller, a reporter turned writer turned film director. Fuller is not one of the names most mentioned as great, but like Cyndi, his fllms have influenced people within the profession, like Scorcese and Tarentino. Sam was, again like Cyndi since the the 1980s, concerned with the integrity of work, rather than profits made, or fame gathered. As a reporter he sneaked into a funeral parlor, opened a coffin and saw the corpse of a great star of the day, Jeanne Eagels. Eagels was the one who first did Rain on the stage, and the Letter too. When Rain was made into a film it catupulted Joan Crawford to stardom, and The Letter, a play by Somerset Maughm about racism and murder in a British colony was one of Bette Davis' greatest performances. Sam insists that Eagels did these roles far better.

Answer 41

Swimming against a flood of bass heavy instrumentation, Cyndi shows her soprano power. That's an A6 live and loud at 1:19. Love that slide down she does, for example at 2:39-2:40, E6 C#6 B5

Answer 42

Sex is in the Heel is the latest installment of Cyndi's interest in shoes. Take a look at her shoe sculptcha from 1985. scroll to 1:47. Yeah, she built that herself. Shoes were on the cover of her dance CD as well. So, why does she so often sing barefoot, as she does in the clip below?. "I feel better grounded that way," she explains. Go figure! Anyway, there might be a touch of irony in Cyndi's latest song title, even if she likes to dress up and look femme. It's all so complicated, 'cause she is!

Answer 43

kinky 1958. The great Berliner Billy Wilder directing. A lot of Cyndi's sexiness and fun is reminiscent of this icon of her childhood. Cyndi added something that Marilyn could have used, an independent spirit. But it was another time. The woman's movement was being born in the research of Betty Friedan of her Smith College grads in 1957, and Marilyn was an indication, a stirring of a new energy in women.

Answer 44

There is a great mystery in these early songs, and I'm not sure the mystery lies in the lyrics. It might be in the style, the way she delivers the song. Those extended notes are really tasty. Probably if anyone tried this song it wouldn't work. It is Cyndi and her magic, that's the explanation. How does she do it? Maybe she couldn't tell you.  Maybe the voice and the heart just feels their way. It must be an enormous high to create this, and then to listen to it.

Answer 45

Vocally, this might be my fave live performance of True Colors by Cyndi. Pitch and dynamics are right on. At 2:07 she climbs to a high volume G6. This is 2008 and the original question asked in this thread was whether Cyndi's voice is deteriorating. Well, this song makes a good argument that for this song at least, one of her great ones, one of her standards, she is better than ever

Answer 46

Cyndi has said that life is a tribulation, and it hard to think of a song Cyndi has sung about being happy in love. This one is an exception, and there is At Last. It used to be before recordings made a big impact there was just someone singin' at a piano, or being accompanied by a piano player. There is something wonderfully beautiful in that.

Answer 47

Just the Other Day was the B side of the biggest single record Blue Angel ever had. Hear it on youtube Cyndi Lauper Just the Other Day. If you look for it under Blue Angel, you might not find it. The song starts out pretty ordinary. Then comes along a transcendentally beautiful passage from 1:01 to 1:18, which reveals the underlying personal connection of the singer/narrator with events that are seemingly none of her business.

Answer 48

Well, Ms. Monroe's Running Wild didn't take upstairs, so let's try this one. Marilyn could sing! It didn't happen for Cyndi in films, singing comedian, and the time is probably past for that. She is more serious and less dizzy today than she was in the 80s. Still, Cyndi is a natural comedian, maybe as much she is a natural singer. As joel mccrae said (speaking the words of the great Preston Sturges), we need to laugh, in this crazy mixed up world!

Answer 49

Mr. Musselwhite gave a rather neutral view of Cyndi in a recent interview. We found out from him that Cyndi sings the blues, and little else. Maybe that is high praise from him. Anyway, Cyndi and the guys, including Charlie, have it together in another old song from the 1920s. The highest note here is Bb5, well within Cyndi's range. In their ensemble, all in all,  as nice as I've heard of this song.

Answer 50

The International Woman's Day site has taken as its theme for 2012 "Connecting Girls. Inspiring Future." This is something Cyndi has been doing for the last 28 years. She has, in her songs and her interviews, invited women to join her not only in song but on a journey of self discovery and social integration. In early 1984 an interviewer who had Ms. Lauper before her questioned the social and cultural importance of a song like "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."

Answer 51

The forthcoming John Lennon tribute brings to mind the parallels between John's career and Cyndi's. Both had been imperfectly hidden behind a wild and wacky persona they embraced, then grew tired of. Help and a Hard Day's Night might be seen as Cyndi's Vibes, as Richard Lester put the boys through their lovable and comic paces. The wackiness in Cyndi seemed to be murdered by the failure of Vibes, and the promoters looked for something different. After the record company tried to push Ms. Lauper toward producers she hated, she bolted, and it was David who helped bring her back to the music business with the semi autobiographical album Hat Full of Stars. John had had his autobiographical album, too, quite different from the Beatles stuff, a product of his own explorations during deep therapy.

Answer 52

You hear a lot about the sophistication of Cole Porter, but another great songwriter of the 20 c. was Mr. Berlin. The simple direct words of this song encased in a hauntingly lovely introduction and chorus are breathtakingly beautiful. Yet the new style is not to wait, but to act, overcoming fear and convention. All Alone is a song Cyndi would probably never sing. "I tell my husband, initiate," she says, and that is something Cyndi has always tried to do, in her music and in her personal life. When Dave kissed her for the first time in an elevator, she didn't sit alone by the telephone wondering, she took her courage and her strength, and rang him up. "Well, would you like to finish what you started?" she asked, into the speaker. Ah, the new woman. Goodbye, 1924. Just as well. Life is too short for sad songs, and untried dreams. 

Answer 53

yes, I'm sure that Cyndi would accept the designation of performance artist. Some artists just stand there and expect the audience to come to them. Not Cyndi. She'll  reach out. The running around, the climbing, the lying on her back, all that stuff she did in the mid 1980s. I miss that so much. Still, I'm grateful for the dynamism that remains, which is not insubstantial.

Answer 54

Five short years ago in Melbourne, the energy, focus and concetration were still there. Cyndi rules this song, takes no prisoners. The essential Cyndi is not the notes she hits, but the energy and intensity in which she hits them. With Cyndi at her best you felt like someone had thrown a bomb on the stage and you should get out of the way, but you wanna watch that explosion as it happens. Lock the doors of the venue, don't tread on her song, and listen. They used to say in the melodramas, "All I got is my good right arm." Substitute ear for arm, and that's me. This song below represents a singer of conviction. I still don't quite what this song is about, but I'm convinced of its absolute authenticity. It's no, "I refer you to the record." It's all there and more in a venue down under, a Melbourne earthquake. Pop will live as long as the audience and the performer have a true and youthful heart

Answer 55

Ok i am no musician just a fan, I dont have mikes brilliant knowledge but what i do know is that each album shows growth and change, Originally at CLN, someone was saying that Cyndi was losing her voice, (i think) which is not the case, If you watch an old video of yourself 10 years ago you will notice that your voice is different so its in my opinion (naive i know) that this is why it has changed if you compair I'm Gonna be Strong Blue Angel & Twelve Deadly this can be heard as just an older voice,

Answer 56

I hope when Cyn does her autobio there is something about her formative years, at least what she thoughtfully sees as important to the performer she was and is today. Cyndi's childhood was not exactly Chaplinesque, but after some happy early years, suddenly Dad was gone and the bottom dropped out. I've wanted ask her what is the most autobiographical of her songs, and have always wondered about Lies, whether it was a hint of her own psychic pressures as a child. Then there is the riddle of someone who was afraid to audition becoming by 1984 a dynamic, apparently fearless, performer. What exactly led her to view herself differently than the other kids on the block? What convinced her to go on to do her own stuff after being a cover artist? And how did she come to the decision of going out on her own? Was it inevitable that Blue Angel broke up? You and I can make some general guess about these questions, but it would be interesting to hear her answer to them. It would then be interesting for her to examine how those early years shaped her career and her issues with producers as a solo artist, and her flight from fame in the late 1980s. Of course, some mention should be made of the social and economic situation of the music business and its personalities and culture, but to what extent did her formative experience shape her reply to this social and economic context?

Answer 57

Speaking of liberation such as it was in the 1920s. Actually, a lot of gurls walked in the sun for the first time in the '20s, including Helen Kane, the baby doll voice that Cyndi used in her early solo career. Today we have crossdressing, and you'll notice that there's cross singing here, a common occurrence in the 20s and early 30s. Jack Hylton was a British guy with a very hott band. Enjoy the heat, Lauperians!

Answer 58

Another of Cyndi's precursors as a singing comedian. I've read Lady Gaga recently covered her Orange Colored Sky. Like Cyndi, Betty's voice was multi-textured. Here is the proto feminist post war "Love is the Darndest Thing." The social context is that women were being moved from the "sun" and pushed back indoors. Thousands of women had to abandon the adventurous life of wartime.

Answer 59

Oh, yeah I'm sorry I've kinda generalize it. But I'm saying that with a Blues set you can be way more creative live than with a dance, because u may heve to respect to much the eletronic beat sometimes, but of course Cyndi can ALSO do something with those tracks to, for exemple, this is one of my faves vids, Cyndi singing Same Old ******* Story acapella, just amazing!

Answer 60

So many renditions Billie did of this song of the real achin' blues, but this is the one where she and the band are really locked in--connected. It's wonderful that the singer can sing in a myriad of ways, but just as "cool" when a recording gets them at a moment of time when the song just seems perfect. Cyndi can change em if she likes, but I'm glad those original recordings of True Colors, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and I Drove All Night, among others, still exist

Answer 61

Cyndi doesn't do many show tunes, and her vocal texture is nothing like Ms. Kappelhoff's, but what Cyndi and Doris have in common is the great ability to make someone else's song their own. It must be something to do with personality. It takes a strong one, I think, to make a great singer, as it does with any great actor.

Answer 62

Cyndi has not just been a follower of tradition, but a pioneer. Coming out of the tradition of performance rock, out of Jim Morrison and David Bowie, is this knock down drag out performance of Boy Blue which was getting heavy play just a quarter century ago. She goes G5 to A6, a more than octave leap to 2:20-2:21, from full voice to falsetto. That extended A6 falsetto is repeated a few times, for example 2:53-2:55. You have the rhythm breaking C6 C6 D6 (Where are you?!) at 4:16-4:20, which knocks you out (the editor follows it with a great cut). Altogether a brilliant and intense dramatic performance.

Answer 63

Not as perfect as Paris 1987, but as sensual (read sexy) as Cyndi has ever been. Rio, on the South American tour, 1989. 18:39 begins the hottest, sweatiest, right there in the bed, rendition of All Through the Night. Those ooohs at the end! Wow, powerful stuff. Scroll over to 18:39. This is light years away from the childlike quality of Heading to the Moon. Cyndi, mistress of many moods; that voice of hers makes it easier to pull them all off.

Answer 64

Tuanny, my initial reaction is that is what you meant, but then I thought twice and thought wrong. Anyway, whatever the reason, she looks so much better than she did at Thanksgiving when I saw her in the Parade. What a difference at Town Hall, looking up from the first row, the stage being about 4 feet high. Her skin glowed. I thought it was a mirage, but I guess not. When she came toward my seat, I could feel a powerful presence. The people began to move toward the stage, but the security broke it up. As the concert progressed, though, the people came back and stood looking up at the stage and calling to her. Some critic said that Cyndi's blues numbers were not favorably received, but they were. And it seemed that these songs meant a lot to her. I notice as she is progressing in her tour she is gathering even more confidence. I am very happy she did this CD. Her voice is stunning live.

Answer 65

I have an imagination, but I can't imagine anyone turning a cold shoulder to this. So perfect in voice in movement, you hold it in your mind, very cautiously, taking care it does not break. A song that is perhaps Cyndi's most precious objet d'art. Anyway, if someone asked me what of Cyndi's they should listen to, this is a very good beginning. I know I beat this to death, but it is a song that makes me fall in love with her over again, every time I play it..So beautiful…

Answer 66

Ah, Panlai, welcome. The excitement of the new song in the mid 80s. You could breathe in good music with every breath, and at the center of all that talent was Cyndi and her new album. Cyndi introducing new music, nothing like it. Scroll down to the version of Time After Time below, it's my fave of the song, as is When You Were Mine, an old Prince song, but one that Cyndi made new. I know you guys in Hong Kong are pretty hip. You were following Gaga months before anyone knew who she was in the States. But you might have missed this clip. It's too amazing to miss.

Answer 67

The charm of early Cyndi was that she was the perpetual motion being. Sitting down on the stage and playing an instrument, the idea that Cyndi would do such a thing, would have made a fan laugh. "I don't dance, I move," Cyndi said then, and yeah you could argue that no singer ever has ever exploited to greater effect the force of movement in her songs. In this way, among others, she will be marked as unique and as a gift

Answer 68

Cyn in absolutely fantastic voice at Town Hall Wednesday. There is Cyndi on recording and Cyndi live. Lots of singers are really recording artists. They trip or fall when asked to sing live. Cyn is better live. Yes, she is!  And it's nothing to do with the visual aspect. Just close your eyes and listen to greatness. Ya don't have to look.

Answer 69

Live 2011, same F6, held for 3 1/2 seconds. Cyndi has a chance to take a breath as she goes up the scale for the final notes. Be that as it may, she hits the notes dead on. If you listen to the 1980 vid, you'll hear her holding an F#6 for 4 1/2 seconds. Anyway, here is March 2011

Answer 70

Poor kid! No dancing? Just looking for some fun. World War II brought an explosion of youth culture. Class barriers were breaking down and nobility of spirit was less prized than sheer exuberance. Frankie was originally just a bobby sox-er hero. More apropos Cyndi than Ms. Dunne, a creature of the pre-war, is Bob Fosse's first wife Joan McCracken, who is exuberance personified in this scene from the first filim of director/choreographer Charles Walters. Don't know what happened to Chuck after this. This was his finest hour, well four minutes. Joan never made it in film, and so returned to Broadway, opening doors for Mr. Fosse until he left her for another woman. If anyone danced liked Cyndi sings, it was Joan. Scroll past the song, and marvel. Now that's dancin'!

Answer 71

A little bit of an issue with that high note in the end, but other than that, you'd think it was 1980 again. Cyndi sure is "strong" here. Hmm, we are coming up on the fifth anniversary of this great Melbourne concert. Somebody ought to hang out a flag when we reach that day in February she wowed the southern Aussies!

Answer 72

Usually, we look at the finished product here, but here is an opportunity to hear how a  final  vocal product is born. This is so fascinating to me. They work so hard to get it right, and when they do everyone knows it. Cyndi tries this and that, and finally hits on perfection. "Can I go up?" she asks. Ha, ha, priceless.That "Yeah, yeah, yeah" is her own idea, no one else's, and it's brilliant, just brilliant. Right after that, you'll remember the entire ensemble, the group of 50 or so singers, come in with the song's chorus. The "bridge people" were on Cyndi's side that day!

Answer 73

2008. A brilliant year for Cyndi when spirit, energy, and voice combine for some great moments. Radio City Music Hall and the performance of Midnight Radio with the author Mr. Mitchell is one of those moments that give the lie to Cyndi, icon of the 80s. You couldn't send up anyone to sing this song.

Answer 74

In trying to figure out why Cyndi is not in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame I thought, "Well, she has been singing songs with genres all over the map. She's not like the Stones, or the Who; these guys basically did the same thing again and again (well, there were a couple of ballads in there, i admit). If she had gone the way of say Joan Jett say, she would be in there, in the Hall of Fame." So, I checked to make sure Joan was in the hallowed halls of Rock n Roll, and shock of shocks, there is Joan Jett and the Blackhearts among the 2013 nominees. the nominees! In the late 70s and early 80s Joan waved the rock banner high. What kind of so called Rock n Roll  place has Madonna in and Joan out?!

Answer 75

true colors, time after time, girls just wanna have fun, i drove all night, sally's pigeon, fearless, you don't know… Nobody could match Cyndi singing these songs. Once she sings a song it stays sung. Like Jane Powell's Too Late Now. Garland would try it later, and sorry, it's not the same. For me, it's Jane every time, a perfect heart and voice match to a beautiful song. To think June Allyson and Judy Garland were first choices to sing this, just as Anne Murray was first choice to sing True Colors. History is sometimes kind.

Answer 76

Roll with Johnny Otis Cyndi

Answer 77

Putting aside Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Cyndi is known for two great ballads, True Colors and Time After Time.  Maybe there is one great ballad left in her. She knows how to tap the emotion of a song, something essential to a balladeer, and Dino could tell ya ballads were not too hard on the voice. Ballads pack a wallop, Cyndi. I hope you have one more up your sleeve.

Answer 78

If you listen to Therese, you get an idea of how Cyndi felt in the late 1980s. Therese says, "Where is Therese?" and Cyndi was saying, "I was disappearing." Are our personalities made by ourselves, or by others? What can we put up with and continue to live with ourselves? Is the power of Cyndi's voice there because she has always been honest with us, and with herself? It's no matter where we would like to hear her sing, or how much. This is her decision to make, and in the past she has always been right, for herself. And if we love her, that is all that counts, or should count.

Answer 79

Cyndi has said she has wanted to go back to the old country with her mother, which I guess is Sicily. It's Thanksgiving here, which serves to remind us of our European roots. Actually, Cyndi's grandparents on her father's side are German, which explains maybe that I often think of Hanna Schygulla when I  look at Cyndi. See below for Hanna. Anyway, the scene depicted, Antoinette's lady in waiting kneeling before the outfit of France's last absolutist king, serves to remind us of the temptations of suboordination.We can be thankful that abroad in the world is a principle of freedom and equality, that is the gift of America to the world, and its gift to France. I'm not saying we have it here. But the principle exists. And Cyndi is just one personification of that principle.

Answer 80

Cyndi didn't have the still intensity of a Gracie Slick, and she wasn't about to crucify herself crying about some guy as Janis did. So I wouldn't be surprised if she thought consciously of some male models and borrowed something from some of these. Perhaps she remembered something of the early British invasion.and the guys who fronted the bands then . There is something of the straightforward fierceness of Jagger and the sinister mystery of Burdon evident at her entrance at the MTV's New Year's Party. Take a look!

Answer 81

The movement on this below is quite different than Disco Inferno, but brilliant none the less. Cyndi I think could never do choreographed movements very well, although one does see a bit of choreographed movement in the Three Penny Opera. She is at her best being natural, I think. Maybe the movements below were rehearsed, but i doubt it. She started as a singer and dancer,  she says. The guy in charge of the venue said, meaning Cyndi, "I'll take the act if you bring the girl singing background who tripped up front, and give her the lead vocal."

Answer 82

You couldn't just hold the camera steady and shoot Cyndi singing. Debbie sang in back of a Mic stand, while Cyndi traveled a great deal more. Ms. Lauper was moving back, forth, down, and up the stage, and sometimes over it, cllmbing stairs, ladders, or taking trips in sturdy baskets! Still singing! 

Answer 83

In 1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau was born and Cyndi's philosophy owes a lot to him, but one thing Cyndi could have done without was his male chauvinism, which rivaled Capt Lou Albano on the Piper show all those years back. Can you imagine Cyndi hitting the venerated Rousseau over the head. I can. Happy tricentennial J-J. Bang, bang, bang!

Answer 84

In the early 1960s Mr. Dylan told a scoffing newspaperman that Time magazine didn't tell the truth, didn't talk about the guy on the street, trying to live day by day. Some months later there emerged his "Like A Rolling Stone." Dylan, somehow, might have picked up that Cyndi had paid her street dues, and had survived. He might have caught her mental toughness.

Answer 85

cyndi in one venue couldn't take the spotlight shining on her, and got frustrated trying to alert the lightiing technician before she melted into a puddle of  Lauper. Finally, she shouted to him, "Who do I have to b— to get that spotlight off me!" In an early interview she told Rolling Stone, "Anyone who thinks i'm a clown is talking out of his a--. One of her fave expressions is "No balls, no glory." We remember Cyndi is excitable and is so because she cares. I would therefore like to see her in venues in which she can exercise more control, behind the camera directing a film, for example. Cyndi can say "Action" and use her lovely artist's eye, like the great Raoul Walsh did, below. More recordings, more vids, say I…the same Cyndi fury, but more control.

Answer 86

cyndi in one venue couldn't take the spotlight shining on her, and got frustrated trying to alert the lightiing technician before she melted into a puddle of  Lauper. Finally, she shouted to him, "Who do I have to b— to get that spotlight off me!" In an early interview she told Rolling Stone, "Anyone who thinks i'm a clown is talking out of his a--. One of her fave expressions is "No balls, no glory." We remember Cyndi is excitable and is so because she cares. I would therefore like to see her in venues in which she can exercise more control, behind the camera directing a film, for example. Cyndi can say "Action" and use her lovely artist's eye, like the great Raoul Walsh did, below. More recordings, more vids, say I…the same Cyndi fury, but more control.

Answer 87

Good comparison Mike. Like Cyndi, Linda could both croon wail, and like Cyndi she could convey emotion, almost make a song cry. She didn't need a gimicky stage presence either; here her look is plain and simple, but when she starts singing she's suddenly beautiful.

Answer 88

Karen, one of the great low, smooth voices. Here is probably the song with the lowest tessitura that Cyndi sang and maybe the closest in texture to Karen's voice. The beginning of I Drove All Night is low too, but I Drove has Cyndi's characteristically rough quality. In most cases the texture of Cyndi's voice and Karen's was quite different, but you might be right, Lisa, if something interesting could have been done with that contrast

Answer 89

This might have appeared in the inspirations thread, but I'll put it here because it is a voice topic in so many ways. Tallulah was the mistress of the sophisticated superior voice, the voice of a person far above us all, working on our inner sense of trepidation and awe upon meeting a star. Fanny was mistress of the folksy, girl in the street voice. Ms. Lauper probably got a feeler for the film Working Girl because the woman in the script is from Staten Island and sounds like it. Once upon a time on the stage you were told you had to speak Standard American English. Fanny was an ironic twist to that dictum. Her voice was so outrageous, and wrong, she was able to use it to floor the audiences with laughter, many of whom had ethnic accents, these theatre goers. Cyndi in the beginning was a joy to us, too, to us New Yawkers who were often laughed at (in a good natured way) by the rest of the country. But there were people, and still are, that find Cyndi's ethnic Queens Italian accent maddening. When she speaks, they might be heard to say, "Oh, that's terrible. Why doesn't she learn to speak?" In the beginning of her solo career Cyndi would be in your face with the Queens accent, like Fanny often was in her day. It was part of Cyndi's idea, "Hey, if I find out someone is annoyed by me, I make sure they are good and annoyed." That was the inspiration behind her singing "He's So Unusual" to the Kinks fans. Like Dostoyevsky wrote, "Spite is a matter of will." You want to say by speaking up in defiance of others that you exist, that you matter.

Answer 90

I've been listening to a lot of Simon and Garfunkel again. Like Cyndi, it's like getting together with an old friend: it doesn't matter if you haven't seen them in three days or three years. You always know what you're coming home to.

Answer 91

now that I've heard the whole song, I like it more than I did when we just had a clip. But The Sex Is In The Heel won't be topping my list of fave songs any time soon.  It's unmistakably Cyndi, though!

Answer 92

Funny how things of great beauty of accomplishment can make you cry. Here may be one of those moments for you. harmony, call and response, Cyn and Patti doing a beautiful job with a song Cyndi helped write, all the elements to bring on the tears are here. This is my pick for best Cyndi duet ever. And you believe they love each other, that they are singin' to each other, I mean singin' and really meanin' it! you shouldn't sing a song just to show you can, but because the words and melody and joy is in your heart.

Answer 93

What a treat it would be if the years could be bridged and Jimmy could sing with Cyndi. As Cyndi does and has done, Jimmy targeted the common person in us all, and stuck with the human essentials. The appeal of Jimmy and Cyndi will never grow old because they hold up to us something very basic to our humanity. It is the performer's essential task to find and expose that basic core that makes us what we are.

Answer 94

Cyndi is not a perfect singer, but what she has beyond most singers is a sincerity and passion that is always on the mark. She breaks through the act and gets to the raw emotion. Case in point in this performance before a French audience. She comes out sweet and does this little domestic scene, which is very reserved a dignified, but there is that part where she roars and when she gets there and sings out, however imperfectly, I imagine that she has the attention of everyone in that hall. Passion and authenticity is the essential part to greatness, and imperfection in voice plays a role in achieving that height. It is in fact better than perfect, for perfect is never real.

Answer 95

With all the jumping around Cyndi does she knows too how to stand still and let the words and music work their magic. One of the best performances ever of this song. I was close to tears when I heard this last night in a rerun on TV. It's so beautiful

Answer 96

F#6 2:57-2:59, a cappella. I'm Gonna Be Strong ending the Yokohama concert 1991

Answer 97

Here's Cyndi singing Blue Moon. Her wail reaches a high of Bb6 at 0:35 and lowers one semitone to an extended A6.

Answer 98

Cyndi writes she will tell the truth in her autobiography, that sometimes she will come out good, other times bad. Again, as in Sally Pigeons, I'm reminded of Rousseau. The theme of Pigeons is how we are held in society's chains. The pigeons are us. I'm interested to see if this theme is continued, for a Cyndi discussion on how we can do well for ourselves in a society that often constricts us. The beginning of Rousseau's Confessions:

Answer 99

Cyndi lives in the great tradition of those who have made tragedy sublime. Here are the great Vera Ellen and Gene Kelly, night people dancing to the music of Richard Rogers. This is a masterpiece of love and passion, with some Cyndi like over the top emotion.

Answer 100

Growin' up the way I did helped create who I am. If it had been easy for me, I wouldn't have met the great people I've met. And I tell you, I've had fun. I get to create all the time, and I've got my freedom. Imagination is so important. I tried hard not to believe people when they told me I couldn't do something. In the end, it turned out I was right. I could do it. It's really corny, but if you picture what you want, you can attain it. Kids who feel alone thinks there's no tomorrow. But there is a tomorrow.

Answer 101

A friend of mine said to me recently, "That Cyndi Lauper still going strong, and she's what, nearly 60?!" Dreams and ambitions don't end with youth. Youth, as a psychic concept, is possible as long as one continues to think, to feel, and act in an evolution, for with each phase of life comes a renewal, a renovation, and a chance to glimpse the truth from yet another angle. To act, to sing, is to be aware. Take care physically and keep growing. Sing, sing, sing.

Answer 102

Hey, wanna little unabbreviated love from Cyndi. Love the falsetto beginning Ab A B Ab E at 0:17-21. Love this song, and let's dance, Cyn! Gimme better sound, but great to hear it anyway.

Answer 103

The original hit Mambo Italiano was sung by an Irish/English singer by the name of Clooney (Rosemary) when Cyndi was one year old. Then Dino took it for a spin, among others. Cyndi is most probably remembering her mom's record collection. When I take my mom to the dentist (who is Italian) it's like going back in a time machine to c. 1960. Frank, Dean, Jerry (Vale), and other Italian-American singers live again! And it's Dean who sings Mambo Italiano.

Answer 104

The integrated musical, with Cyndi in the middle. There are many faces to Cyndi Lauper, a whole variance of experiences to draw from and provide variations for,  guided by character. She knew her character well here. Singing well means understanding and expressing.

Answer 105

Listening to Mr. Orbison's rendition of I Drove All Night I'm struck with how sweet, soothing, and comfortable it is. When he says I drove all night, I can't help but thinking, "Oh, what a nice guy." And I get something of the sense of security one might have holding a loved one in arms. When he asks, Is that all right?, it has a certain aspect of someone civilized and polite. There is that one section at 2:54-2:56, in which his voice really soars, that suggests that one can even feel powerful when loving another.

Answer 106

Words and music by Irving Berlin. It is hard to imagine Cyndi's voice without Mr. Berlin coming first. He introduced white people across America to jazz and besides made a supreme contribution to the heartfelt ballad, such as this timeless song below. With her sense of cultural history Cyndi's voice captures echoes of the great Berlin of Tin Pan Alley at the beginning of modern pop musical history.

Answer 107

Here begins the thirteenth long installment of Cyndi-isms in which is examined Cyn's spirituality, eating habits, feminine and masculine sides, songwriting process, business acumen, drive to create, and makeup artistry as the expression of her psychology. Cyndi's honesty allows a profound look at the inner life of the artist and person that she is. Plus we learn something about her cats. Cyn,

Answer 108

Cyndi wais feisty, full of spirit, courageous. then she sang Time After Time and she displayed her deep empathy for people. She was funny and tough, yeah, but here was a girl who could move you to tears. It was like when the great music hall comedian George Robey sang "If You Were the Only Girl in the World" to war torn London, and sang it straight. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. When Cyndi sang Time After Time it was as if she were saying to us, "I got a heart, yeah, and I ain't kiddin'." Feisty, with a heart. That's a combination hard to beat. The song shot to Number 1.

Answer 109

perfection of Cyndi Lauper

Answer 110

I loved how Nina-heavy At Last was -- DLMBM; If You Go Away; My Baby Just Cares for Me.  The Verve Jazz Masters 17 release from about 1994 or so is a good one, but is missing Feeling Good.  I remember reading somewhere that Nina was very bitter about the Animals having a hit with DLMBM, so it was funny to hear her say that the Animals had a hit . . . in England.  She must have known well that it was not just a hit in England.  She is reported to have said to Eric Burdon when she met him:  "So you're the honky that had a hit with my song" or something like that.  Don't know whether true.  Anyway, I so regret missing my last opportunity to hear Nina sing, in Newark, must have been about 1996 or so; can't remember exactly.

Answer 111

Thanks, Mike. The song was written by a guy, Mike Nesmith, who some of you may remember from the Monkees, the pop group that got the hit TV show in the 1960s. This song may be compared to Cyndi's I Drove All Night and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun in that Ms. Ronstadt took a song whose original narrator was a guy, and sang it from a girl's viewpoint. As in I Drove All Night there is a minimal change in lyrics, even preserving the line, "I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty." And instead of the guy talking about resenting being reined in, it is Linda who speaks the resentment of having her freedom curtailed. Cyndi  was attracted to changing the gender in I Drove All Night because then she could "show the woman in charge." So, this song that Linda sings anticipates Cyndi by a lot of years.

Answer 112

Yeah Mike, some people have voices that are just plain pleasant to listen to. Cyndi's is for sure, and so was John Lennon's. Cyn can grab your attention a cappella, she doesn't need accompaniment to sound good, and John was the same IMO.

Answer 113

Zi, I posted this a few times on the fans forum, and I'll do it again, just to prove, to myself, anyway, that Cyn could do a song from the Bring You to the Brink CD live better than what she did with it on CD. At Town Hall Cyn hinted to her band, and the audience, that they had better be ready with variation with her. She follows what Gracie Slick used to say about her live performances, "If you want to hear the recording, stay home and listen to it." Live adds another dimension to Cyndi's stuff, because she is as she says she is not first a recording but a performance artist.

Answer 114

In 1931 Mack Sennett decided that Bing would be good in the movies, and put him in some comic shorts. Then in 1933 Marion Davies convinced a major studio to hire Crosby for her Going Hollywood. Bing made the top ten box office, and lo and behold he had a second career. I think it was Irving Berlin who told Ethel Merman that she should never have a singing teacher go near her. The blonde is Carole Lombard, Gable's wife. The bear? Well, I don't know if he ever sang again in the movies.

Answer 115

Roll with Etta Cyndi

Answer 116

There is a story that hints at the power of rock n roll that once was. It goes like this. This guy Joey was out of his territory in Forest Hills, seeing a girl in College Point. Joey had rather an unconventional look to him, so one of the Point toughs made a comment about the "creep." He was promptly told by the regulars at the club that Joey was part of an up and coming rock n roll band. So, the tough guy laid off. Joey died in 2001 and his group was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame the following year. It was commented at the induction that Joey probably would have gotten a big kick out of getting the award. Whether he would have or not we'll never really know. Meanwhile, this Hall of Fame for Rock still exists, and if it does i know a girl who belongs in it. It's not a necessity, just simple justice. Like Joey being there is justice.

Answer 117

Great Wall of China concert was 2008. What a giant stage! You wonder whether the idea was to make the stage dominate both the performers and the spectators. Well, if that was the idea, they didn't count on Cyndi. She forced the spectator's eyes to follow her as she moved all over that stage, and finally, as she so often does, she came off that stage entirely and sang and held on to individuals. Young people. Hope for the future? Shine! It's about you and me, all over the world.

Answer 118

Edge of the Earth a good one. It's interesting too because although Cyndi is a soprano, the song is within the range of a high baritone. The chorus is C5 Eb5 Ab5 F35 Eb5 F5 C#5 Eb5 C#5 C5

Answer 119

one of the great rock songs Cyndi has ever done. this should be on the classic rock stations, but i never hear Cyndi played on the one in NY. Not yet. Ya can't keep a good song down. Not forevah! Anyway, love that alternative bridge she uses here. I think i prefer it to the one on the recording.

Answer 120

Out of curiosity, what note is the "down" part in Down So Low's chorus? I feel like if I know what it is on a scale, I'll be able to hit it more than once. I wanted to record it, but I'm having a hard time with that part. The rest of the song isn't as demanding.

Answer 121

Mike, interesting points, and my thoughts (fears) exactly! When I heard she's going to sing all SSU songs "note for note" I was wondering how would she do that – it would be too taxing! GJWTHF alone is as difficult as calculus. But, only Cyndi knows the present status and potentials of her voice, and I know it is still intact and powerful with some negligible hitches of age (a subject Cyn detests).

Answer 122

DO songs come true? Sometimes they do. The original vid of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun was reminiscent of California street theatre from the 1960s, organizations like the Diggers using street performance to shake society. Hence, Girls Just Wanna video tied up the streets of lower Manhattan in 1983. The song was more than a feminist anthem, but an expression of life and hope and the power of positive thinking. The troubadour lifts the listener out of the world that is and shows him or her the world that could be. We can be…Cyndi showed us again in a Buenos Aires airport that things difficult are possible if there is love and energy in your heart. Carole is applauding, wherever she is, I bet.

Answer 123

Jim's high note in Light My Fire is Cyndi's high note in Edge of the Earth, and Mr. Morrison was definitely a baritone.

Answer 124

Al was the first singer to be given a solo spot on the BBC and the first to have his name appear on recordings as the singer in a time when the band leader was king. Time After Time and True Colors, Cyndi's successful ballads, stand on the success on Al's recordings, and of course Bing's in the USA. He was England's first great pop singer and a heart throb to millions of female radio fans. He came to America and opened the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center, in 1934, I believe, with this guy's band (see below).

Answer 125

Well, it's something to ask Cyndi when I get to know her wink. Cyndi hasn't made a comprehensive study of Briitish Georgian history, but she does know her old movies, and it could be she came upon Emma watching Ms. Leigh and Sir Larry live the historic romance of the Admiral and the Lady on the silver screen.

Answer 126

What gives a person the drive and will to be an artist on the stage? Certainly it takes a good deal of imagination to place yourself in a song, for a song, after all, is not a practical thing, is it, it's not real. The answer might lie in the depths of the past, in the hopes and dreams of childhood. Each Xmas is a chance to reconnect with our childhood imagination. It might be that Victor Herbert was wrong and we never really sever our links with the child we were, that time when fantasy and reality were so intimately intertwined.

Answer 127

Lies, Ms. Lauper said in 1993, is a Cyndi lyric about a child in an abusive situation, and the discovery in the child of her own power. It is an attempt to go inside the mind of the child, and more, an attempt to capture "the child in all of us." Is there anything autobiographical about this song? Perhaps, because Cyndi has suggested she was in an abusive situation as a child. She left her home in her teens, and wandered about, searching for an answer to who she was. We know the happy ending. She built a life around singing, became an artist of music. Of her step father she has said,

Answer 128

Yeah I remember Cyndi was like touring non-stop in 1984 (like 109 concerts) so I think that's why

Answer 129

Oh, drat, I thought we had a controversy. Here is John's high strong baritone set against Paul's tenor. What struck English audiences who first heard these guys was the wonderful harmony their voices would create. John wasn't crazy about his voice, but George Martin loved it. And Cyndi and sis, they did Beatle harmonies when they washed and dried the dishes. "When I found out I couldn't sing like the Beatles," Cyndi said, "I was so disappointed I quit singing altogether for a while."

Answer 130

Re, nice, an interesting reply. Close listening to How Blue Can You Get, so let's look closer still. 2:40 to 2:41 renders a weak C6, an octave leap from C5 to C6, The C6 is weak either because she didn't take a proper breath, or because it was intentional. G5 to C6 at 2:28-2:29 the C6 is again pretty weak. Same octave leap as before at 2:42-2:43 goes better, the C6 is better.

Answer 131

Let's hear how's she's doin' this tour. This is great stuff. Listen for the extended D6 at 1:59-2:04. And the lovely Bb 5 at 2:17-2:19

Answer 132

This recent one has plenty of energy. I love to see Cyndi moving. Back in the '80s her singing was an aerobic exercise. If she's up to it still, 30 years later, and she can rest the next day, she should get crazy once in a while. That's a sustained F#6 near the end

Answer 133

uh, oh Kenzo's clip has been raided by space aliens from the 1950s. What happened to the sound? Anyway, Dora, my fave Cyndi moves of all time here, Japan, 1986. Scroll particularly to 3:10 and continue to end

Answer 134

We talk about range here, but there is something about a singer that is really difficult, if not impossible, to set in quantitative measure. Lots of people admit that Cyndi has a wonderful range, but will tell me nevertheless, "I just don't like the sound of her voice." When Cyndi was young people would tell her she couldn't sing. Well, maybe it was this hard to pin down thing we might call voice quality that they were talking about. You just have to like how the singer's voice sounds to like the singer. Here's Hendrix, who no one ranks as a great singer, but for me, I just loved to hear his voice, half singing, half speaking on his recordings.

Answer 135

With voice almost gone Frank shows us what is most essential to a GREAT  singer--an understanding heart. Come inside the song, as you so often do with Cyndi's work.

Answer 136

Loin to oin* Hit that jumpin' jive, man. Wow, this is as close as Ms. Kane gets to Cyndi's voice circa 1984. Feminist messages aside, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun storms the fortress of sadness and regret, and levels it. It is the one song everyone knows, even if they can't name Cyndi as the performer, because it is life affirming and energy enhancing. We're not here forever, folks. Make the most of livin'. Roight? Roight!**

Answer 137

Jimmy didn't have what you'd call a beautiful voice, but he could sing and make the whole audience smile. He wasn't pretty, but he was pretty good. Jimmy had played the piano professionally in the early days of jazz. What Cyndi does is what Jimmy tells Frank you should do in "It Happened in Brooklyn."

Answer 138

A great song by a great voice reaches a height of perfection then fades, unless revived again by a new voice. It is well that height is captured, as, in my opinion, it was here for Time After Time, March 1987. Others may have their dates and their voices, not necessarily Cyndi's, but this is it for me, perfection.

Answer 139

Cyndi has always symbolized for me unlimited (nearly so) energy. The songs of 1983 and the ones that came during that whole fantastic decade are connected with that energy. Here we can see her keeping up with the tempo of the band, indeed leading it. like the vocal and dance baton twirler at the head of the parade. Change of Heart is a darned difficult song to sing. How many people could keep up this pace and still be note perfect? And that Ab5 that begins at 4:18 and extends into the infinite (in my head anyway). You could build a whole new religion around that note.

Answer 140

Well, here's an important bit of information from the book. I always wondered why Cyn, having worked with Rob Hyman on Time after Time, never worked with him again. And why did Cyndi lose that great band she had at the beginning of her solo career?

Answer 141

When Cyndi emerged in 1984 as a giant singing star her image was quite different than it is today. Then she was a zany. A lot of us thought her zaniness, nutiness, oddball wacko image might even be real. She was putting us all on with that voice of hers and the oddball manner. Underneath was this irony of intelligence that went along with the wacko image. You could just see she was no dummy. Very reminiscent of this manner was Judy Holliday, who became a major star in the 1950s by acting stupid/smart in Born Yesterday, and yeah, she had an endearing accent, too. When Cyn came on Uncle Floyd, a kids show for adults, she acknowledged her debt to Helen Kane. The trick to Cyndi in the 1980s was that she knew her cultural history, and used it. A lot of people were still scared of strong, intelligent, active women, and Cyndi drew on the line of female zanies who were intelligent. There was a little bit of Mary Pickford (the tough little girl image), Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Judy Holliday, Gracie Allen, Shirley MacClaine in her. When she went on Carson, Johnny, who was zany in his conservative way, must have immediately recognized it. Cyndi had a wide range of fans in the 1980s perhaps, not only because of her super voice and intensity, which she had with Blue Angel, but also because she widened the retro image of Blue Angel and extended it through a cultural landscape that was decades long. She could do Ethel Merman, she could do Julie Andrews with her voice. And now that I come to think of it there was a bit of Eliza Doolittle in her, the flower girl in My Fair Lady, a fifties musical spinout of Bernard Shaw's decades old British play Pygmalion. One  photo of the period shows her scuffed up, grime on her, a girl of the streets, she wais.

Answer 142

The harmonic issue of the bridge is resolved. She does "go up," but she separates herself from the other two singers in a dynamite response to their call. It's call and response with the Lauper trademark on it. She plays on tradition and creates something new at that very instant and at the same time. The audience of great artists is blown away, and so are we. The power of her part has not diminished all these years later.

Answer 143

Going back to the most recent performance the impressive note is the C#6 held for 6 or 7 seconds, beginning at 2:20. The quality of her voice is fuller than when she goes higher, smoother, the pitch steadier, and the stamina more impressive. The notes from Ab5 to C#6 Cyndi still owns. These are, and always were, her money notes.

Answer 144

Energy enough to light a major city. This is live, folks. There's a G6. Was there ever a singer like her? Young Cyndi, wow!

Answer 145

At 3:02 Cyndi is so good she cracks herself up! This performance of Change of Heart to my ear beats the heck out of Town Hall 2010 and even outdoes the mid decade Town Hall performance (I forget, was it 2004). Look em up on youtube and tell me your fave. Cyndi's seems to be in wonderful physical shape here. The voice is just one part of the body. Lots of aerobics then, swimming underwater? Whatever the reason, this is outstanding

Answer 146

Cyndi's other anthem to independence. A brave and wonderful song.

Answer 147

Yeah, we're in male falsetto heaven. Christie's highest note in Two Faces Have I is D6, which is also the highest note on the recorded version of What Time is It?, the great doo wop classic with Eugene Pitt in the vocal lead. In the Jive 5 record of What Time is It, from the early 1960s, Mr. Pitt had a range of two octaves D4 to D6. Then Gene, coming back years later, displayed an E6 on My True Story at 2:42 below, while he matched the two octave range of the recorded version of What Time is It, all of this on stage (see 3:27 and 3:40). Barn, the average pitch, or tessatura, of Lou Christie in Two Faces Have I, which you just posted, is uniquely high for the male voice, even for Lou, since he remarkably stays in high falsetto through the great majority of the song.

Answer 148

I just found on Cyndi Lauper Daily this post (Facebook)

Answer 149

One of the great harmony groups of the 1960s was the Jive 5, and the lead singer, although a baritone, could reach reach some nice heights. The other four added to the harmonic texture. Listen for the lows and highs in this one. Sweet! Pitt and Jackie Wilson met when Eugene and the guys were going down to let the record exec hear them. "I'm goin', too," Jackie said, and the rest is a part of music history.

Answer 150

I like being surprised. I was never the biggest fan of Gaga or this song. But here it took Gaga to teach me a lesson--in singing and in what's good. Gaga is the real deal. Cyndi knows it, and now I do

Answer 151

In the midst of this golden age of harmony with the male voice reaching new heights came the more raucous harmonic sound of the Beatles. It was John and Paul that usually partnered, but here George weighs in with Paul, with interesting results. Cyndi was 12. "I was so sad I couldn't sing like the Beatles that I didn't sing for months," she said. It was while her sister washed and she dried the dishes that Cyndi made her first attempts at harmonic singing, and it was the Beatles she sang. The high baritone (John and George) and tenor (Paul)  provided the texture in this live version of I Feel Fine (1965).

Answer 152

some acknowledgement to Cyndi's first Dave. See the copy below. Wow, 18 years as her manager!

Answer 153

Sinatra could make a song work, even when he was ragged and rough. A not so sensational Eb5 at 2:25. Funny how Sinatra's rough stuff is what is remembered, while the smooth young Frankie's works are played much less than the older man's.

Answer 154

The 60s saw a shift upward in the tessitura of the male voice, with some sweet outcomes, and the 60s was also a golden age of harmony. Marty and Grace didn't get along personally, but on stage their partnership could be mesmerizing. This is from 1967

Answer 155

Another essential difference between Cyndi and a lot of singers is that she would never sing a song she didn't believe in. The song is her.

Answer 156

Hey, Adam it's great just to grab a keyboard and match what Cyndi is doing, just to see where she is. I put the notes up she sings, so that you guys and gals can check them with your own ear. It is just using your ears to match notes on a keyboard, and note texture, dynamics, and voice quality. It's good practice. Sometimes I'll sing the notes she sings, if I can, to help me match pitch. A Yamaha keyboard costs about $100, and it sounds like a piano. The ability to sing is a great gift, but the keyboard will give you the exact note the piano sings.

Answer 157

True Colors, below, may be taken as Cyndi's guide to authentic voice for the singer. Lack of shyness, willingness to reveal deep emotion on the stage is a hallmark of Cyndi's style. We are trained to hide emotion. She calls on the singer to reveal it. This miracle of spacing and phrasing linked below comes from authentic feeling expressed in public to a quiet, listening, feeling audience. Intrapersonal skill, the skill to get in contact with yourself, this is the singer's forte. Cyndi's got that, oh yeah, really! Also interpersonal skill, the ability to relate to people, to communicate with them, so as to begin a dialogue of silent thought with the audience.

Answer 158

A singer shows you the joy of life. "I've asked more than a few people," someone said to me today, "and they all agree that it's pretty weird you like Cyndi Lauper. Now, if you said Frank Sinatra…"

Answer 159

As long as I brought her up, here is Ms. Morgan singing something from the 1920s, several years after she did it first. This is Jerry Kern's music. The lyrics are maybe a bit corny, but Helen makes you forget that, and holds you. This is not a great voice, maybe, but she is a great singer. Like True Colors, if you sing anything with sincerity, it might stick. So, after you listen to this, listen to True Colors, just above, again, and you may hear the similarity. We so want things to work out right, we really do. And we love to hear and see a great singer perform. I do, anyway. Remember, if you can sing on pitch,

Answer 160

Well, anyway, for sheer drama, little or nothing beats Roy's Runnin' Scared. How to tell a story in about two minutes flat. Mr. Orbison's performance comes after the Dylan reading.

Answer 161

Cyndi's closest approach to Marilyn was this Rio concert. Too bad that kiss blown to the crowd is not in this clip. That kiss got an unbelievable reaction.

Answer 162

Her best voice is her own, how she wants to sound. By 1980 she was telling a producer she didn't want to sound like Debbie Harry. And that is right. The singer must find her own voice. Janis and Cyndi each found a unique voice and a spirit that supported it.

Answer 163

Alive and kickin' (nice legs), another suicide blonde and singer Ms. Jane Powell. Here last year at 82. Judging from Jane, Cyndi still has a lot of years ahead of her looking good and sounding it too. Jane's voice is substantially the same as it was in "Royal Wedding!"

Answer 164

Something that Cyndi's known from the start. Jimmy played the pie-ana (piano) from the 1910s, at the dawn of jazz age. A fellow Eye-talian. From It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

Answer 165

If Cyndi is any kind of a hip mom she'll see to it that Declyn is made painfully aware of this great song and the story behind it.

Answer 166

Despite the blues songs the overwhelming voice in Cyndi's interviews and songs is one of confidence and optimism. While others find a way to tear down, or to prove they are better than you, she finds a way to build confidence in the individuals in her audience. In True Colors she tells us we are good, effective people, and if we remain true to and develop our own talents and strengths, be can win in this life, on this earth, as an individual and as a society. Our diverse society can work.

Answer 167

Really? No, I didn't! You've posted some fantastic stuff, Adam. A friend of mine once said that she couldn't go to an art museum with me because she didn't understand the paintings, had never taken a course in art. "Well," I told her, "All you have to do is look, and enjoy."  Art has that immediacy, and it's not really intellectual, but emotional and spatial. Same with music. What you have picked for your posts shows a great eye and ear, I think. Great job!

Answer 168

Checking the range. Here is Cyndi in 1995, live. The F6 is held for 5 1/2 seconds

Answer 169

The voice comes and works a change you cannot understand in words, but there is a muscle response and a sense of well being that moves from the spirit to deepest recesses of the body. A song lives beyond its lyrics, and this performance proves it. The performance I am most grateful for. Thank you, Cyndi, and the band.

Answer 170

Singing is very much an athletic activity, especially the high volume high range singing that Cyndi did early in her career. The clip Scott just posted above is an example of that. Cyndi does her full body exercises then her vocal exercises before she steps on the stage.

Answer 171

Two masterworks of physical passion. Doris' is all anticipatory, whereas Cyndi's desire is fulfilled. Cyndi goes for energy and power, and Doris for subtle revelation. Anyway, in both it's all about love, passion, the sum of romance, including that element of physical desire that challenges our reason and control when we are fortunate enough to feel it.

Answer 172

I'm guessing the interview from Details magazine might be the long , lost one where Cyndi's gets into specifics

Answer 173

Hal David, a memorable lyricist. Which song did Cyndi sing with words by that guy? My fave presentation of Hal's lyrics

Answer 174

Watts had to apologize when one of the groups who performed on Independence Day, the Beach Boys, were defended by two important fans, both George Bush, Sr. and the President, Mr. Reagan. Even with the threat of a lot of empty beer cans, the Beach Boys made a triumphant return as early as the following year. Hmm, I don't think anyone said sorry to the Grass Roots, though. Anyway…

Answer 175

More perpetual motion being, Obrigado, Brasil. No one could do it this way. No one can. I didn't think even Cyndi could. But that night she did. Must have been the climate, or the people. one of my faves, posted at least three times. It's good to revisit these events as she revisits South America.

Answer 176

Don't mess with them. They're from Ozone Park (Queens) and Italian. Yeah, that's right. Coincidence?  Good job, Ms. "Peters." This song is Cyndi, too, through and through.

Answer 177

Hat Full of Stars like you've never heard it before. Raw, emotion-driven. This is what separates Cyndi from the rest of them. Cyndi's gift of interpretation is so well defined in this one. How lucky the Atlanta fans could get? Thanks to Mark Brickman for the video.

Answer 178

Blue Angel was a great look, and produced some great songs.  We all agree here, I'm sure. A lot of the music and possibly a lot of the look of that first great Cyndi we owe to John. All the best to him!

Answer 179

Time is short , and man I'd love to hear Cyndi and her sister record an album. Bet her Ma would too !

Answer 180

Wow, yes. I have told this before on one forum or many, bout  the guy who ridiculed Cyndi's voice, saying it was terrible. I replied, "She can sing and speak any way she wants." And it's true,  from Mayfair to the East River, and beyond. She is the woman with a thousand voices.

Answer 181

Yeah well the Duet Cyndi did with Sinatra on Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Answer 182

Like Harry, Cyndi lays it out there--the emotion. Harry's trumpet was a hot voice.

Answer 183

Well, that one brings to mind other dark songs by Cyndi. Boy Blue, Money Changes Everything…

Answer 184

Lovely moments of Lead Me On, Birmingham, 2011, late June, that slide from C6 to Eb6 2:25-2:27. Wonderful.

Answer 185

Well, here goes the first installment of Cyndi's voice here, where we look at something pretty central to Cyndi, Cyndi's voice.

Answer 186

Yes,  it's a shame that is down now, along with the other songs in the set at Privates. I beiieve the song we were discussing was Everybody's Got an Angel. Is that right, Barney?

Answer 187

Check cyndi-isms for nice surprise. Hey, I remember…It's my sense of history…Those were the days, my friend, and all that…Cyndi,  a voice in a million

Answer 188

…and along came Cyndi. Some strange Lena-like sounds she emits here at 3:15 F#5 G#5 A5 G#5 A5 B5 A5

Answer 189

To be a great singer, it helps to be a great actor. And Cyndi has ranged from vulnerability to strength in the course of her career. The future was written in her very first song that broke the charts in the Netherlands in 1980. Are the gestures right? Maybe. But there is no doubt that the voice is right.

Answer 190

Here is a wiki history of the facility Girls Just Wanna Have Fun was recorded at in June 1983. The NYC studio closed in 1987. I wonder if Cyndi asked about the "Walk this way" graffiti when she entered?  Ghosts of Jimi and John may have greeted her!

Answer 191

Emma in headgear similar to that which Cyndi wears in the vid Change of Heart. See vid above 2:22-2:26

Answer 192

Since she comes out of a C5 at 1:15 when she hits the Eb6 at 2:17 it seems wonderfully high in pitch. The highest note is an extended F6 at 3:01-3:03. What a beautiful live performance!

Answer 193

Before a singer sings to others, she sings to herself, and in a sense she never stops. What and how much personal heartache allows Cyndi to sing True Colors as she does. The coming autobiography will not tell us. But it's there somewhere in her song. An arm on your shoulder, little girl. Thanks for sharing with us a little bit of the rain, as well as the rainbow.

Answer 194

Cyndi has always been independent. In the days of Blue Angel Cyndi had a chance to work with Giorgio Moroder. Cyndi began to talk to Moroder of old rock n rollers, like singing songwriter Buddy Holly. Moroder was unimpressed. "Who are these people?" he replied. Cyndi was incensed, "Wait, you don't know who these people are, and you want to produce our album?!" she said.  Furthermore, she told Moroder that if he wanted her to sing like Debbie Harry he should go get Debbie Harry. That was the end of Giorgio.

Answer 195

That's what I thought, Zi. Just curious to know if you knew the poster. Stay on recording is barely there at 0:17 (A 5), but in live version it is extended 0:22-0:23 (again A5) to stayyyyy

Answer 196

And viewing it from Cyndi's perspective. How would it be for a singer to appear on the stage singing with a video camera stuck to her head?. hmmm….

Answer 197

Adam alerted us on twitter. Cyndi's voice "note perfect" he said. Checked it out. Eb6 to Ab6 at the end. Hey, it's 1984 again.

Answer 198

Cyndi tryin' to deal with the visual stuff--illusion and how she looks in her mind's eye on stage singin'

Answer 199

Howard Hawks would have loved Cyndi. She can be sweet and feminine, but she is as smart, tough, and creative as any guy, and would belt you one if you played with her. I remember when one guy tore at her newspaper dress in a concert, and she threatened him with the microphone stand. Cyndi often mentions Bette Davis, but it is really Rosiland who comes to my mind as Cyndi's precursor on the siliver screen. I mean in particular Roz as Hawks could make her, tough and smart.

Answer 200

Focus and concentration, essential to the great singer, crowding out all thought about last weekend, what will happen in the next hour, living for the song, pouring themselves into it, living it, and wrapping that experience around us. Janis and Cyndi, started as folk singers, but soon learned to plough furrows deep with songs of personal desire and love, expressed with an intensity few could, or will ever match.

Answer 201

heart full of soul, a Yardbirds title and very descriptive of Cyndi's voice in I Drove All Night. And the movements she makes, showing first strength, then vulnerability. She is the woman in the song. It can only be her. Unforgettable performance

Answer 202

never enough of Cyndi Lauper

Answer 203

Here is Roy, Zi, late in his career. Listen to 2:12-2:16 and you'll hear an extended full voiced B5, just one semitone below the C6 falsetto you heard in the song In Dreams. What a dramatic ending to a suspenseful song!

Answer 204

The theme of the first episode of the WE series is Cyndi's lost her voice. Now what? She goes to see Katy to get her advice . I know that warmup where you see her lips vibrate, You emit sounds through the vibrating lips. You start at a relatively low note, let's say middle C. Then with lips still vibrating you emit a sound one octave higher, then you go back to the original note (C4 C5 C4). Next you start one semitone higher and jump another octave, then back down again (C#4 C#5 C#4). You continue in this progression for as long as you can comfortably do it. This is one of many exercises that really should be done every day to warm up the voice before you sing anything. Well, anyway, next she goes to see her friend, whose name she doesn't know, calling her Cathy Griffiths, instead of Griffin. Still she has problems. The family hasn't a clue what to do. "Should you really be washing dishes now?" Dave asks. With 3 minutes before she has to go over to the stage, she throws everybody out of the trailer and communes with herself. What the hell she did or said to herself we have no idea, except she gives what has to be the quote of that episode. "I had to pull it out of my a-- if I needed to,"

Answer 205

Something that you can't quite put your finger on, the quality of Cyndi's voice, that which makes it recognizable and remarkable to us. Hanshaw, Ronnie, Cher all had that remarkable quality. And so does Cyndi

Answer 206

sorry, in 3 minutes 40 seconds. A long 45 for its time. Bob was wrong; you could say something on a 45 if you tried, which he himself proved. Still, it was people like Bob and Roy who expanded the boundaries of pop and set the stage for Cyndi later. Once upon a time the singer was a puppet that the producer and songwriter pulled the strings of. Bob and Roy helped change that.

Answer 207

2008, just 5 short years ago. The All Through the Night in Paris, March 1987 will always be my fave, but how about this one, which reaches a high of Ab6, 9:19-9:20? As in the above Midnight Radio, she misses never a note.

Answer 208

Well, we're still waiting to hear the actual songs Cyndi composed, other than Sex is in the Heel, for her critically acclaimed heading for Broadway thing called Kinky Boots. One critic said the best songs in the musical are those she could sing herself, so she might try just that later on.

Answer 209

Governor Perry is seriously displeased wth Wendy because she doesn't value all life. Such ignoble condescencion haa not been witnessed since Edna May Oliver's playing of Lady Catherine four score minus seven years ago.

Answer 210

It must be rough trying to write an autobio when you have so much going on, and when you, as Cyndi does, the natural inclination to look forward to the next project. I guess her life can be seen as having three parts. There are the years up to 1984 when she was trying to be a success, and those first months of basking in the light of the new fame. Then there was the part in which she worked to maintain her success, and, toward the end seemed to be losing herself. Then finally there came a third part in which she sought to carve out for herself a niche in music under the radar of fame.

Answer 211

I opened my mouth many a time.- Cyndi Lauper said !!!

Answer 212

if everything was light there would be no comfort in love and no songs to listen to. Rain is an image that Cyndi has used more than once, from Blue Angel on

Answer 213

Beamed into the Lauper household in 1964, a new kind of harmony. Paul adds what John called a "granny song." But what the kids wanted to hear was She Loves You and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. Commonly, the adults in the television audience were outraged by the Beatles sound and appearance. As they droned on, "Look at those fags," the girls across America went wild.

Answer 214

I decided that I'll never sing a song sung by Cyndi again. That's… sad. =P

Answer 215

Her power notes range from A5 to C#6. The end features an 8 second soprano C starting at 3:28. The highest note is C#6, but these vocals are heavy duty. Out of this world good!

Answer 216

no embedding. OH, well, hit the link, or just go to youtube, Never Gonna Dance Fred Astaire. Like Cyndi in the 1980s, Dorothy stood out as the rare female in a male dominated profession. Both girls have helped give a lyrical richness to American pop music.

Answer 217

Light is not always outside and that is life, but i see you see very well one technical thing about Cyndi and i learned a lots trough forum about her voice from you, i didn't know much about. Thank you for that.

Answer 218

Sometimes the dream is staring you in the face and you can't see it. Cyndi went up into the Canadian woods to draw trees. But it was not in drawing she would make her mark in the world. When she came back to New York it was in pursuit of a new dream. This one succeeded in time.

Answer 219

Lisa, my pleasure. Iit's a tough passage you speak of  "And a woman can't be a woman moves from Eb 5 to over an octave, reaching F6 on the syllables o wom--an,d then dropping a bit to Eb6, then precipitously to an Ab5

Answer 220

Two trips up and down C#6 D#6 F#6 at 2:14-2:16. Sweet enough to water the eyes. Sigh! Every note strong and right on. Just over 30 years ago! live, babyee!

Answer 221

Here's Cyndi laying it all out. Choose your mood or mode, people. Hooray for the physical, anyway! Cyndi and Doris, each in her own way, take us there.

Answer 222

Meanwhile, in another part of the Caribbean, music wise,  once again, Cyndi's hommage to Celia and the Afro Cuban sound. OHH, she and the band are hott!! Sssss! Beats the original rendition of this song over the head til senseless!

Answer 223

Thanks for the posts, Zi. Really nice. You know, however good she sounds on these recording of live performances, multiply the feeling ya get when you listen by at least 5, and that's the feelin' ya get when she sings to you live, and you are there. Oh, yeah, there's lightning in the air! And I ain't talkin' 1982, I'm talking now, baby!

Answer 224

A good characteristic of a singer is that he or she often inspire others to  sing. Sing well enough and others will sing along, and discover perhaps for the first time that they can sing. That might have happened to a lot of little girls-- and big girls-- from the 1980s to the present who heard Cyndi give out with her inspiring vocals.

Answer 225

Gracie's vibrato is very pronounced in these early recordings. Cyndi's vibrato? I'll look for examples. You guys can help, if you wanna

Answer 226

Ab 6 at 12:19

Answer 227

When I suddenly became famous I couldn't handle the pressure. I felt like a turtle that was lying on its back. I was there wobbling helplessly, and there was so much coming at me. I had to guide the people who worked for me, but I never studied for that. I started to use more and more war colors as makeup and suddenly I realized what that meant–I was on the warpath. I wanted nothing more than to be a good person, but instead I was at war with everyone who crossed my path. And if I thought about it good, I had to admit that I always had done that

Answer 228

Hi, i just made a compilation of Cyndi's vocals on youtube. Hope you like it.

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Hi, i just made a compilation of Cyndi's vocals on youtube. Hope you like it.

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Wow, I'm glad they threw Cyndi out of all those places they did, including the School of Musical Forgery. When Al Kooper went to school they told him the same thing, "First learn it our way, then if you want to change it…" Al didn't buy it. Now she can throw them out. She's good enough.

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Irene Dunne came to New York to audition for the Metropolitan Opera. She wasn't good enough. My mom would remark to me that her voice wasn't perfect, because I loved to listen to her, starring as she did in those movie musicals in the the 1930s. "Her voice is fine, Ma, it's the sound system of the time,." I'd say, trying to justify my love for her. For years Ms. Dunne was free lance, standing above the studio contract system that held and diminished so many actors of her time. In 1936 she made $400, 000. I wonder how many millions that would translate to today. Anyway, mom, you are right, Dunne's voice wasn't perfect, but her voice had that touch of reality and folksiness to it that made people love her. This is true of Cyndi, as well. Our girl is imperfect, but great.

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And also to say in a few examples "I drove all night" by Celine Dion i didn't like it, not because i am fan of Cyndi, just to me is static even she has great voice and music is dimanic and good her singing was to me static, she didn't use much of it.

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Cyndi's version. My fave. The Animals? Way, way behind in my estimation. Singing is feeling, sincere action on the stage.

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As I said, Tuanny, when it is quiet Cyndi has equal communication with every member of the audience, as there is equality in any group who would sit quietly and allow the story teller to tell her story. As well, Cyndi speaks again to someone she knew once and weaves a tapestry of fact and fiction from the threads of knowledge and experience

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This is an update of Cyndi's video re: whistle register. Includes Lies -Live performance from somewhere. absolutely amazing!

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Good ear, Barney. She climbs to a height of F#6 at 3:05 and 3:14, one semitone higher than Down So Low, but Down So Low is aptly named because she goes down to Eb4 in that song. In Shattered Dreams,  "You were my dream," at 1:14 to 1:17 is Eb5 F#4 F#4 Ab4. The range of Cyn vocals in Shattered Dreams is thus F#4 to F#6, a mere 2 octaves (wink) instead of the two octave 2 semitone range of Down So Low. The 3/4 octave drop from Eb5 to F#4 in Shattered Dreams underlines the depths that song reaches. But Down So Low goes lower.

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Of course artists are often no better than any ordinary person in coming to terms with themselves. And there were the artisits who played ball with murderers, because it was expedient. Richard Strauss was one of those; he served Hitler and flattered Goebbels to save his Jewish grandchildren. Hitler fancied himself an artist, and you can go on line and see his work, if you are curious. As for Ted, his infamous quote, "Whack 'em, stack 'em, and pack 'em" does not manifest a great deal of self-knowledge. More revealing of people perhaps is a quote of Mr. Shaw,

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Recipient of the worst impressions is Katharine Hepburn. So, here ya go, Cyndi, if you're listenin' (wink)

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Most of the time you meet people in the street and you feel that they have somethin' to say, but they're not saying it. You feel Cyndi would be different. Anyway, when she is singing, you feel nothing is hidden. The emotion is raw, naked, and she is telling you all she is thinking, all she understands herself

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I posted this clip before, but the point was different. Cyndi says here she loves the Japanese people, and she has proved that in the recent earthquake and fallout crisis, which by the way is still going on in Japan, despite government denials. Guys in Tokyo are finding high cesium levels in their backyard. "People don't eat dirt," one government official replied to reports of citizens groups that the Tokyo soil was significantly affected by the fallout from the reactor leak. Nice guy!

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I thank Cyndi for every off pitch vocal, which are few and far between. Perfect is not human. Autotune should be on the bill with some performers.

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oh, that duet with the sax! It creates a very hot space. Quirky and exciting. Yeah, Cyndi's voice is different. She is not the standard issue voice. She is individual. While others may complain, we love her. Hooray for different, hooray for Cyndi, sexy because she is unuuuusual…!

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Hi, I am from Hong Kong. I love Cyndi. Today, there are two pop stars in Hong Kong sing "Time after the time" in their concert. I love this song. I hope Cyndi can come to Hong Kong to hear these two pop stars how to perform her great great song.

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Cyndi giving a rock n roll twist to the great lyrics of Ms. Dorothy Fields, one of the most inventive of the lyricists from the thirties to the sixties. Cyndi makes the past present. Quirky lyrics provide the reason for being of this, one of the greatest dance numbers of the iconic duo shown below.

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As intense as it got in Boy Blue, Zlatt, nothing or no one could match Janis for intensity, and it's sure that a good deal of Janis at Monterrey resonance was in the Boy Blue performance. So, listen to the woman that made the Boy Blue performance possible. Even giants stand on the shoulders of giants.

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Cyndi is a niche artist, but one who move effortlessly from one niche to another. We have her doing Broadway music dance numbers, rock n roll, pop folk, techno, club dance songs. And Kinky Boots is a niche play in a sense, in its concentration on a certain demographic. Yet Kinky Boots is yet another example of Cyndi explaining sub cultures to one another and drawing people together. She speaks often of the GLBT community, so here is the T in that acronym set against society and economics.

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Maybe more, I heard 50 Million once, but I think what happens is the record labels short change some artists like Cyndi

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Cyndi says in her book that she was looking for a stripped down feel in the production of this song. There is little more than her voice here, leading us through a world primitive, keyed into by the drums heard in the beginning. A song to herself, a song to us. It has a Joni feel to it. See above.

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The high energy quick tempo songs like Change of Heart, a challenge for any singer, are the more difficult songs for her now. Here is an excellent live version from a decade ago that would be difficult to match today, unless she went through some sort of vocal basic training. 

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The pin drops somewhere in here (wink). This is the Ab 6 that ended her performance of All Through the Night 20 years ago, the note she duplicated last week in Recife. She did not go that high in Vienna in 2008 singing the same song. Sounds like her voice is in good shape. Notice that there are actually a couple of seconds of silence after the end of the song in the Yokohama performance; then the audience makes itself known.

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Find me a better Sisters of Avalon live, baby. Starts at 38:00 hhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey! Yeah! Forget Rock n Roll HS, this is Rock n Roll Grad School, post grad!

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Tackle Brian Wilson………you haven't done that yet CYNDI

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It was not just Frank who could do the torch song well. With Blue Angel Cyn did  trochers What a Thrill, Lorraine, the greatest I'm Gonna Be Strong, and this one

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Back in 80's when i asked english teacher to translate me a song Time After Time,and he did.

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Great interview, Cyndi really got serious and talked about a lot of important stuff in it.

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Somebody just uploaded the Tom Jones VH1 show that Cyndi was on 1993.:

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I love this song, and Cyndi's version is my favorite, too!

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Of course it would have to be something new. Cyndi would not want to go back to the swingin' sixties

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Anyway, Roll over Mozart and Mahler. Here comes Cyndi to one of the best acoustic halls in Europe. Whoa! Bring something like this space over here.

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I'm so glad she's taking part in another Lennons tribute. My vote goes to Come Togeter as I've already said.

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F#6 at 30:00, Eureka! Eb 6 at 37:34.

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What makes Cyndi unusual among artists is her concern not just for finding new ways for her fans to worship her, but a strong concern for what we her fans are doing for ourselves. The idea of True Colors is that we should recognize our strengths and develop them. We all shine on.

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It's hard to put Tony in one or another category. I guess you can say he is cool in a very warm way.  That is part of his mystery. The guy is a gentleman, but he's no pushover either. He's sharp. He outdid Mel Brooks on the Carson show, I remember. Mel was bragging about what a great student drummer the great Buddy Rich thought he was. "Too bad you are such a popular comedian, Mel," Buddy said, according to Mr. Brooks, "you could have been a great drummer!" Later, Mel teased Tony, "I remember when you used to spit. 'Because of you…!' Sppittoo!" Tony replied, "I didn't like the drummer." Well, when Mel heard that he doubled over in laughter, sat up and put his arm around him. He loved it that Mr. Bennett got him. He did the same to Gaga, who said to him, "I really am a tramp," to which Tony replied, "No, you're a lady playing a tramp, and there's the difference." Well, Gaga loved it. "You got me, Tony," she laughed, delighted.

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Here the vibrato is a little too much, i think. It's everywhere in the song. I like that Cyndi saves it for the dramatic moments.

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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Maureen O'Grady…..I'll bet Gordon wore her like a hood ornament.

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Henry David Thoreau

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In the end it doesn't matter if Cyndi is adored by millions. What is important is that she does what she wants, and that what she does is something that makes US, her fans, "fall in love" with her over and over again

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Barney, that was the 1964 Grammy Award winner for best rock n roll song! What! That was as rock n roll as Alexander's Ragtime Band was ragtime. Nice harmonies though, and the guy is way up there.

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Oh, I love this performance. 3:45-3:59 especially. Budokan wins the dance award, but this the vocals, in mine book, anyway. Love it, hate it, Cyndi, it's pop as good as it gets!

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Here's the F#6. Scroll to the song's end. Blue Angel, 1980

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Stay (above, I think) is Cyndi's take on the very energetic Afro-Cuban sound of Celia Cruz

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Cyndi said they've recorded many versions of those 12 tracks. I wish we could acess all of them!

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Yo Cyndi……Joanie's back

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What date would you guess the Cyndi interview appeared, Barney? I might be able to check through Details during the period of the late 80s thru early 90s

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In America everyone was off the Cyndi fame and love wagon, but somebody forgot to tell the Japanese.  Aww, all the crazy running around, it's all here. No wonder she loves the Japanese. When somebody loves you, you wanna love them back. Thank you, Japan!

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Maybe He'll Know highest note again Eb6, at 1:07

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Cyndi's whistle register live.

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love the energy here. compare 2011, Birmingham. Voice is a very physical activity, and here Cyndi turns Shine into an aerobics activity. Shine all over the world! May you…

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When Cyndi is on the stage it might be she is back in nature again, where there is plenty of elbow room and she can clearly hear the sound of her very own voice, singing as true as bird song on Walden Pond.

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The 18th century costume that i speak of appears for just a few seconds, at 2:22 to 2:26, directly after the shot of the sculpted Nelson on top of the Nelson Monument. See Change of Heart vid above.

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I read when Cyndi lost her voice she gave Katie Agresta (the women who helped Cyndi get her voice back)

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David says he loves Cyndi's voice, meaning not her vocal abilities, but the lyrics and persona of her. I admit I am often puzzled by what she means in her lyrics, but get off on the energy and the feeling of her expression.

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While Cyndi has challenged straight artists to support choice for the GLBT community, Reba McIntire has come through on her own, defying a goodly part of her fan base and putting a portion of her income in jeopardy. 

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It's the browser. Funny, it worked this morning on Explorer, but not anymore. I installed Firefox and watched the clips you and Zlatt sent, but then I was unable to shift from page to page. I'm back on Explorer and Firefox is uninstalled. Oh, well, keep posting the clips. I'll figure out how to see them, I can post myself with no difficulty.

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My First Night Without You is an underrated song, underrated even by Cyndi. Perhaps also it is too painful for her to sing, or is a relic of the smashup of her relationship with Dave Wolff. But the song, putting aside its origins, is a wonder. It starts almost as an undervoice and gradually moves to very loud in the chorus. The notes begin short and gradually stretch themselves out into the tiltle passage, "My first night without you." The final movement of the song is in pitch. It starts at a low pitch and gradually works its way to a high pitch. "The sun is in my eyes" follows a D5 Eb5 F5 G5 progression. "But when it sets down behind the mountain it's gonna be" moves upward further G5 A5 Bb5 C6 Bb5 A5 Bb5. When Cyndi gets to the emotionally climactic part of the song, "My first night without you," she flies 5 semitones up to Eb6, her highest note in the song, from whence she descends in a mournful wail D6 C6 Bb5. Here at last she is in soprano range. The power of the song thus comes in its threefold movement, dynamics (volume), length of notes, and pitch. The irony of the song is that it is among her most mournful in lyric, but among her most triumphant musically.

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OK Mike, I await your critique of this 2008 live performance of Midnight Radio. It's a good thing she mostly held the mic away from her face, the amplifier circuits would have been begging for mercy! BTW she's reading the lyrics, love it!

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Many years before, Del's recording. Hang on for Bb 6. You gotta be kidding!

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Well, I tried some things. I'll figure it out eventually. In the meantime, if you could ,just jot down song artist and person who posted. I don't mind looking it up. At least I can post my own vids.

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Got my wish for a little harmony. Still one of the great rock n roll songs ever, as long as Cyndi does it.

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Cyndi you got a long way to go………Sandie Shaw nearing 65……..during second song she sits down by Cyn and Jessie J

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There is more darkness in Simon and Garfunkel than Cyndi

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This is the one I show first when people scoff at Cyndi. I would like to sit her down and show her and ask her about the whole performance, the whole set up, the staging of it, the gestures. There is mystery to it, and love. Maybe that is what Ms. Callas means by soul

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Thanks, Dora. And anybody who thinks she's just a clown or someone just selling light music or moon, spoon, June, just doesn't know her. This one ought to be the other bookend to Jimi's "Hey, Joe." This time the singer was not an acquaintance of a killer, but the killer herself. Cyn pleads self defense. Listen! What a superlative live performer she is. This song lives when she does it. Naked life, and too hot for most to handle.

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I always wondered why Lennie didn't help her much in that period with SONY when she was struggling. He had broken his leg, and his replacement was the producer from heck. Anyway, I copied the interview from Cyndi Lauper Daily, so thanks.

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Thanks, Dora. Brave Cyndi, too. And fortunate Cyndi. She found and used her strength. And believe it or not she took so long being a singer because, she said, a lot of people told her she couldn't sing

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Hat Full of Stars, I'm Gonna Be Strong, Who Let in the Rain, the blues as a genre, sad songs of love lost. Lots of happy songs, sad songs,  well sung through the years, beautiful, and according to the style of their time.

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Ooops, Melbourne Grab a Hold was 2008. So, 2009 remains open. Time flies. Anyway, i think this is the fourth time I've posted this one. If you missed the other three time, take a listen

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Thank God they haven't got to Cyndi yet.

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And here is Cyndi's sketching the heights and depths of passion, ecstasy, despair

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More like the woman of today, courageous, confident, changing the old adage that women wait. Wait for what? Cyndi asked. She gets in her car and drives all night to shape the future

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1:56-2:00 F5 Ab5 C6 Bb5 Ab5 Bb5 Wow!

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Below is the story of a struggle to go beyond doing a poor job of playing a singer on the stage. If you can let the audience see you in the character, they might see themselves in you. To sing is to come to grips with your emotional landscape and its possibilities, The novice singer, with Cyndi's help, comes to terms with his inner stalker.

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Shirley was really a dancer, you see. Here she gives out in song again, stealing the scene from Jerry Lewis in Artists and Models. Hmm, would there have been a Sylvia Pickel if there hadn't been a Shirley? Maybe, maybe not!

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Beth Hart with Joe Bonnamassa and Imelda May now in Blues Top Ten

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Hollywood would often use stand in singers for their female stars, but the guys were often left to flounder around. Still, it's really Jimmy, and the guy could talk real good, after all, so " it's OK by me," as they used to say in 1937.

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Re, which are some of your faves of recent times? Link us to the particular performances you like, or that serve as an example of your general point. Did she do a song later in her career better than she had earlier?  I'll listen.

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Along with Clarence Gaskill and Leo Robin………..sadly I know of no clean version by Cyndi from the movie.

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more scenes from Cyndi's early life. Yeah, boots are a good idea in a lunchroom. Danger of broken glass. In 1989 Cyndi said she wouldn't appear nude in front of her mirror. Guess she felt different in her "shy" days.

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The great highlight for me of I Had a Love is the section beginning at 1:27. She hits a strong extended Eb6, drops down to a very powerful and even more extended C#6, then slides down the scale, decreasing her volume as she does. She holds back the voice in the beginning of the song, allowing us to get into the narrative easily, then as the song progresses, lets the voice rip to show us the passion she felt. Brilliant!

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At the climactic moment at the end of the song a member of the audience intervenes and  the space collapses, but Cyndi raises it right back up again, and finishes strong.

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Finally, a good clip of this. Jerry Kern would have loved Cyndi

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The Ziggy reference in "Vibes"? Who knows. Anyway about a year later than the Lena concert interesting baritone named Peter Murphy releases single "Ziggy Stardust," cover of Mr. Bowie's song with group Bauhaus

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Re, It's interesting in Cyn's case to speak of vocal texture, for, like Elvis, she can be smooth, and can also rough up the sound. The rough quality in her voice, when she demonstrates it, gives an air of reality to whatever she sings. This rough/smooth texture gives her the versatlility to sing ballads and rock n roll. Another singer who could be rough/smooth was John Lennon. Elvis and John, two guys who Cyn grew up with, and who served as inspiration to her.

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Dietrich sang this song over Armed Forces radio and then she began to speak in German, haranguing the mic. "What are you doing?" the radio people asked. She was telling the youth of Germany not to throw their lives away in the cause of a maniac. No one listened. Thousands of German teens died in the defense of Berlin. These were Hitler's last soldiers. Lili Marleen was sung by both sides.

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Jeanette MacDonald, the great singer of the 1930s, told a fan once, who was a very good baritone, "It's OK you have all these clippings, and songs, from my past, but you should concentrate too on your own work, and not pay so much attention to me."

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Glad you enjoy this thread, Vince, and glad that, like Barney, you participate and teach me. It's a conversation in which we all learn, by remembering what we have heard and listening through each other's ears.

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Music can calm us or reference disaster, excite us or relax us. I guess one of its main attributes is to comfort us through hardships, disappointments, and frustrations. Cyndi is calming that way. Q Magazine three or four years ago picked the 100 greatest singers of all time. Unfortunately, Bing was forgotten, but he was really the grandaddy of the comforting and calming element in 20th century song.

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Read that Deni was fiddlling for Cyn for awhile. Should've sang a duet with her. Listen to her harmonizing here. Lovely.

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The Blue Angel sound was often soaring and dramatic. Flyer is the great example. What dreams can be taken from childhood into adulthood? In Flyer Cyndi stretches the realm of the possible. She permits us to dream, to keep something of the childlike connection we had with our first worlds of of imagination. She teaches that in the vocal space of dreams and emotion the world is practically endless. She sprinkles faerie dust on us, a rocker Tinkerbell, and we soar with her. "You could make it last a long time," she cries out to Flyer, "You could make it last forever." We want to believe this is possible in the bright light of day.

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From the yuku forum thread Cyndi-isms, about 5 years ago:

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Thanks for the words of appreciation. Can't see what you are posting Zlatt. Funny, I can see all the old youtube selections before the board changed, but not the ones posted here after the change. If this continues, and I guess it will. if you would take the trouble to put down the artist the song and the post person for any youtube selection you put up, I would appreciate it. I myself will continue to post,here, but it will not be the same unless we have a continuing dialogue. I want to see and hear what you guys are looking at. Thanks.

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(referring to Paul Simon's album). Lauper wanted to write her own

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Cyndi and Kate know you need a good man on harpomonicrom.

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From the earlier Cyndi Voice on the old forum, now gone, April 10, 2009:

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I'm thinkin Cyn was a Lou Christie fan too.

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OUR beginning with Cyndi journey

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Cyndi had a great voice, and it only changed for better. It got mature and soft, even for the high notes.

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Mr. Wolff's faith in Beth entirely justified. She deserves to be heard beyond Denmark and Holland. Strong, though maybe a bit too self consciously sexy. Love the voice, yeah

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“Singers and Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. Every day, they face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fear that they'll never work again.

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Looks like I were there lol, I wish, but I'm only talking about of what I heard/saw on that youtube video.

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Yeah Cyndi went to the canadian woods with her dog sparkle for a few months I think,

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she started singing in the clubs, as a teen. Her early hero was Ella Fitzgerald. Les' boys called her "jutt butt," but treated her more gentlemanly than most bands of the time would have. Good news with Mr. Brown, before all the films.

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I will never be able to make the call between Paris , New Years Eve or the legendary Rock of the 80's.

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I love the AVO-Basel concert although the beginning saw Cyndi struggling vocally because of the smoking in the venue. Her voice recovered all along and she finished the set with aplomb and without a hitch.

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The greatest performance of that song was this, with Cyndi providing all the power and stamina by herself. Legendary.

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Brassy, blue eyed soul from the Grass Roots. Bob Grill, singin'

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OK, so far sounds like highest note at least E6, at 8:27, 11:35, 12:15. Wow, love the warbling. Great stuff! Let me go back and listen to the rest

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Ahead of its time retro Cyndi. Beats the heck out of Stray Cats, say I

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at 0:15 and elsewhere repeated on the clip, that's an extended B6. There is no instrument playing right next to her, so this I clearly hear.

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Here's an idea: flash the words on a monitor and everybody can sing (wink). I know, everybody wants to sing along with Cyn. Enjoy, guys!

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Hooter's CD Out of Body. Lauper also returned to acting, playing Michael J. Fox's ditzy secretary in 1993's Life with Mikey, which also starred Nathan Lane.<<….

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Ya got listen again to remember how good she really was. The stamina is amazing. All the singin' and runnin' around. Great stuff!

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Al in a rather restrained mood. He was the first to use big gestures, first to move from a stock still position, first to draw a runway out in the middle of the stage into the audience, first to address an audience member in conversation while in his act. The audience loved it, and many decades later Cyndi was to trod a similar path, with similar electric results. thanks, Al!

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thinking of Xmas CDs Cyndi and Amy…

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Youtube don't link on this forum, Zi. Wish it did. Could you give me what I have to type in to find it on the youtube search triangle? I'd like to listen and talk about it here.

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she stayed all right! C#6 at 3:31 lasting 4 seconds. She did a great job with this song

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Here's hoping we may all communicate what is important in each of us, and that we wake up to a world where even the artist can be authentic to the world, and true to herself (himself) beyond commercial and social design. Good enough!

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The last act of this Texas drama will not happen in July, but after some chilly November day, when both sexes and all ethnicities, poor as well as middle class, will speak

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"A new tree had grown from the stump and its trunk had grown along the ground until it reached a place where there were no wash lines above it. Then it had started to grow towards the sky again. Annie, the fir tree, that the Nolans had cherished with waterings and manurings, had long since sickened and died. But this tree in the yard--this tree that men chopped down…this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up its stump--this tree had lived!"

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Bridge over Troubled Waters? Here is a little harmony in a song with a similar theme

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Lennon's version the most juju, I think. Then Michael's, Zi! What do you think? In Come Together John plays with us, those who try to interpret his lyric messages. "Interpret this, why don't ya?" I think he is saying.

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I'm not crazy about this song, but she does sing it with power and energy, and every note is, as in Yeah Yeah above, an audible (it rings out) bullseye

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He stood 6'7" (or two Ian Dury's) , And is lovingly remembered by folks younger than me as the voice of Dr. Ivo Robotnik

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I found it on Cyndi Lauper Daily (facebook), i think that we all know what she is tallking about:

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Yeah even when the did the remake of it a couple years ago Celine just copied the way Cyndi did it

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People often use every ounce of their intelligence to avoid getting hurt. You listen to a voice and decide whether or not you can trust it. The same people who will say I love you to a performer might deny that same affection to someone near and dear, even when their feelings are strong for that near person. Good performers open the closets of emotion, and turn down fear. In their hands we become as we are, just folks searching for love and recognition. Find someone you love, and who loves you, and if you can, sing them this song. They deserve to hear it.

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.  He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. . . .

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Hey,now…singing well, and lookin' good is cyndi

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Nice one, Barn. George Martin gets production credit for the recording.  Meanwhile, playin' in a club on the highway to heaven…Billie

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With several of the songs below I stood apart and listened to a performance. With just one, I entered a dream. In the late 1930s bandleader Tommy Dorsey told the young Frank Sinatra that if he wanted to learn how to sing lyrics, he should listen to Bing. Today, the queen of "phrasing" is a small dynamic singer from Queens who unerringly finds the "heart" in any song.

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By Cyndi herself, her most covered song. Never another like it, none close

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Roy's version leads me to think he was sure the song was about running moonshine to Daisy Mae's pa.

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Oh, and it was Steve Farmer, Ted's partner guitarist on the Amboy Dukes who wrote "Journey," which is linked above." Ted's contriibution was one of the most breathtaking beautiful rock n roll bridges of all time. As Toscanini said of Strauss, "I take my hat off for the artist, but put it on again for the man."

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Suicide blondes like Cyndi included…

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Cyndi enjoys to be listened.

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Thanks for correction, Barney…Hmm, Clarence Gaskill's collaboration with Cab. hear call and response that Cyndi talks so much about. Poor Betty. Before girls had fun, I guess

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in 30's i see Cyndi singing "blue Moon" and wearing that hat,

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Ella in 1990, born 1917. C 6, soprano C, at 2:26

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Remembering "Cyndi-isms," out of the past. Tuesday, September 18, 2007:

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That she was able to shine bright among so many legendary stars, express her musical personality, and place her indelible mark upon the song manifests a power that no award can convey. Her reward is our remembrance more than a quarter century later. She is a voice for that time, and for ours.

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Well if Cyn would put her 2 cents in with my 2 cents you'd realize that these lads would have

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If you can truly connect to a song, there is a chance others might follow you. By overcoming fear and self consciousness and honestly connecting with your own emotion on stage before an audience, you, the singer, can do good work.

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Lookin' at the lyrics I always thought this song made sense if you considered there were two guys, one of whom is a memory, but a very good one!

Answer 374

Somebody put up a video from the Red Carpet (I think maybe this was orginally on Gettyimages but I'm not sure).

Answer 375

Cyndi versus some of the best

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The best Boop poster pictured Betty with her large eyes, in a 1930s open topped car, with a scarf around her neck, and wavin'. Underneath this picture were the words, "Beep if you boop!"

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Joan with the Blackhearts. I guess I'll put in my 1/1,000,000 of a vote for Joannie

Answer 378

Falsetto F6 by Del Shannon. Live, folks

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High Notes, Lowest to Highest

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Who said singing can't be an aerobic activity? Toward the end that girl in the audience looks like her twin

Answer 381

Mike……how close does Cyn get to covering 4 octaves on a MB cut?

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Walking 'round in your little shoes

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I guess at 2:12 she's comforting the harmonica (wink). Looks good here. I love to see her moving

Answer 384

This is a great, great duet. From six years ago. Cyndi and Sarah

Answer 385

It's my name on the front of the album cover. I should have something to say  about what's in it--

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I'm a feminist

Answer 387

Prof on Fats Waller commenting on film Stormy Weather: "Oh, that's what they listened to in those days."

Answer 388

Holland, Tom Gray, Hugh Masekela and The Hooters. The same year, Lauper

Answer 389

… this magical moment is unforgettable, the applause lasted in Admirals platz for a long time, even Cyndi herself was sorpriced look at her face at the end, in Germany who would say that is possibile i just thought for a that moment and changed opinion..

Answer 390

Little Ms. Loud and Soft! Love that dynamics control, with every note full and spot on the correct number of vibrations per sec.

Answer 391

Melbourne, 2008 again. The coolest version of She Bop this side of the MTV special of 1983 and quite different than that classic performance. This one is a classic in itself

Answer 392

I'm kind of an explorer. I need to grow–

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Live and a silent crowd listening. Can't beat that. Great song! Great rendition!

Answer 394

CYNDI LAUPER-falling in love-live! (YouTube)

Answer 395

Great song, Zlatt. I did a whole big thing with this song a few years ago on this thread (in the previous forum), but I might revisit it. The whole Paris show of 87 was miraculous.

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I'm going to sing the songs as I did on that album, as a gift to my fans--

Answer 397

As long as Cyndi performs the tracks she changes it for what she thinks is the best.

Answer 398

Can't connect with the vids that I, Barney, or Zlatt posted. Will try later

Answer 399

When 50 year old Melissa Leo loses the Oscar next week ( ironically to a 14 year old )

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Love me some Vincenzo Riccio

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You'll order your meals a la carte (that's expensive) when the song comes from the heart…They'll holler bravo*

Answer 402

Tornado touched down on our block. Trees uprooted, lines down all around me. 20 seconds more and floods would have ensued indoors. Nature is often impolite. Like rock n roll, it channels the state of wildness. I was reminded today.

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You know a song is compelling when you are forced by the force of the song to sit down and listen, and listen to the very end. An involuntary process is entered, and the thoughts of the day, the need for sleep or a sandwich are cast aside for a few brief but endless minutes. Endless because when the song fades the echoes of it remain in your head. "Just Your Fool" is one of those compelling songs for me.

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Ah, yes, remembered immediately when you reminded me. Best lullaby in a movie since 1932. By the first Blue Angel-er

Answer 405

My replies to the comments on WDRB Louisville's web site.

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Lumet? No, Mike, Sydney Pollack. Here are the credits and the very romantic John Barry theme. For all the stilted dialogue I have after all these years decided I like it, the film, I mean.

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around 2:06 slide up to extended Ab 6. nice

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A name like Von Kappelhoff just wasn't PC……….like Hagen has never been.

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keep a playin dem blooz Cyndi

Answer 410

Some stuff from 1984, ridin' the big wave of fame:

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to an earlier era when the band could shine brighter than the singer. Louis in his duel with Sid Bechet. Mr. Armstrong comes out on top.

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I neglected her when I mentioned the singing comedians. Thank you, Barney. I didn't know Miss Day had returned.

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ı Love Cyndi Lauper !!!!

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The last sentence of the first paragraph in my previous reply needs a comma, and for some reason I am having trouble with the editing thing. Here is the sentence as I would have changed it.

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My replies to the comments on WDRB Louisville's web site.

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Cyndi is sticking. I have to admire her courage. She tells us to give to support the Japanese people in their time of hardship. They gave so much to her, in times of fame, and in times of her Western wilderness years. They gave their love to her, and now she does the same for them. Maybe to leave would kill something essential in her. Who knows why an individual makes decisions. I cannot fault her for her conviction. She knows the risk and takes it.

Answer 417

Posts I saw by Tuanny, Renata, Sarah, and Dora have just disappeared. Strange!

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I love CYndi's Voice it is  so unique i love it!!!!!!

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sing one for Cyndi

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There is a rough quality to her voice, in parts, especially at the wail, but it serves to underline her vulnerability and place her among the common people, even as she soars above us. Audience identification and love comes perhaps not from perfection, but from arresting and heartfelt imperfection.

Answer 421

sounds like G6 A6 at 2:24-2:25, Barn. POWERFUL!

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at approximately 11:44

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Oh, yes, same one I linked of Nina, Barney. Great live ensemble playing and voice. Like it better than the Nina recording. Two great artists who weave worlds wonderful in rhythm and pitch.

Answer 424

Cyndi loses another influence……..not the guy from The Office

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Awww, this one makes me cry just a little. We love you, and hear ya, Cyndi!

Answer 426

Spacey WAS Bobby Darin

Answer 427

As promised above, here is Product of Misery live. Live and love, people. A good plan for ya

Answer 428

Who needs Nelson Riddle?

Answer 429

with other people, including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ailee Willis, Nicky

Answer 430

Cyndi enjoys silence while shes singins *and* talking to us.

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When did you become political, Cyndi?

Answer 432

From a recent Spinner interview

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a woman as versatile , classy and incredibly beautiful as Cyndi has left us…….what say you Mike

Answer 434

Deja vu, but not the same. Emily is longer, with a shorter voice. Hey, does Mr. Turi still manage this girl?

Answer 435

Unfortunately that revelation was 15 years too late for Cyn and every other female recording

Answer 436

Here is the lowest note I have found, a Bb3 at 1:34

Answer 437

Great rhythmic hook to the song, but the ten seconds Zi directed our attention to, with their slide up to a sustained powerful A6, are just off the chart uau in any language

Answer 438

I don't think it's possible get sick of ATTN. Time After Time has kind of worn out its welcome with me, unless I hear it on the radio, but ATTN is magical every time. I've said it before, but the Carson performance + that one = quality.

Answer 439

hmm, two ways love can go. Angel promises success, and Strong the opposite. Both great opportunities for a vocal, each song in its own way challenging

Answer 440

Wow. great find Zi. I don't wanna to listen to no other version.

Answer 441

Here's to all the voices of Lauperia, and what they may sing and feel that is beyond the clamor of the moment

Answer 442

Best version of Come Together

Answer 443

Yes, 66 in September. Rock on guys and gals!

Answer 444

The clip didn't go through. Here is Hanna bowing

Answer 445

Behind Bob is his early hero Woody. Money changes everything on the dusty road or city street, and you have to know how to compromise without losing your soul.

Answer 446

I don't really know how they decide who gets in the Rock HOF and who doesn't so I don't really care about it anymore.

Answer 447

Thanks for posting, Barney. As for outfitting, that's pretty retro. Bryan's dressed like 1956. The song is great. B4 D5 B4 wail is lovely.

Answer 448

What is the list, Zi? Would be glad to look at it. That highest note at the end on the syllable on- in the lyric "only in dreams" is soprano C, or C6 (two octaves above middle C, or C4)

Answer 449

Uncle Ted better hope they don't find that one on Jared's I-POD.

Answer 450

and it's been 30 years and still it's not enough i can hear voices of all fans Lauperians WE WONT MORE WE WONT MORE AND MORE

Answer 451

Yeah, you are correct. They're in the credits to After the Fox (tiny print).

Answer 452

Vocal chords like Vulvas change with age……….having said that the Reality show led me to believe that Cyn

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 I HAVE begun on a work which is without precedent, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I propose to set before my fellow-mortals a man in all the truth of nature; and this man shall be myself.

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Ditto for Danielle

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everybody's got an angel

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It takes more than a good voice to make a good song, more than words or music. It takes vision and voice on the part of the singer, a beautiful vision and unforgettable voice

Answer 457

No, it's the same clip as Zlatt's!

Answer 458

Not your Tony Bennett duet. Sisters sing and silence. Brilliant!

Answer 459

we each of us if we're good can reach a mountaintop. As Janis did here

Answer 460

I wish we had video from this performance, here was something else as i say rare 'out of time moment", here was something magical …..

Answer 461

In addition to digging at roots it might possible to water the blues plant and send it higher in the sky. Barney, who would you like to see her collaborate with to sing some brand new 2011 blues?

Answer 462

Sorry I meant to say Mr. George Robey. Harry Lauder was the guy with the kilt, and quite the conservative. Mr. Lauder and Mr. Robey were the great music hall stars of their day.

Answer 463

Well, as you can see, I've figured it out. Just paste the youtube location and the youtube post itself comes up.

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My mom and I went up to school and visited the guidance counselor. When Dad left she gave up her dream to become a singer and worked as a waitress for 12 hours. The guidance counselor said to Mom, "Do you want your daughter to end up like you?" Mom cried–

Answer 465

I think Debbie Reynolds first movie role was as Helen Kane in the movie "Three Little Words".

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Two thoughts……..one year earlier I've would have sworn they couldn't get any better.

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2:05 to 2:10 vibrato apparent

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

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Oh, True Colors at Budokan <333 one of my biggest favorite performances.

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and yes Cyndi and Maria both say you listen and respond to the other musicians around you.

Answer 471

But if not……..damn it , drag Elen into a simple recording studio and record those Everly Brothers / Beatles tunes.

Answer 472

Still, John is more comfortable with the top note Eb5, four half tones down the scale. Always one of my fave John songs.

Answer 473

Thanks, Zlatt, good to see Cyndi's Voice again and all the other threads that make up our forum

Answer 474

How does it compare to Tracy Nelson's……..Cyn doesn't have the

Answer 475

therefor the chap you're really looking for is Long John Baldry , openly gay at a time

Answer 476

Worrisome also is the damaged nuclear reactor 200 miles from Tokyo.

Answer 477

correction of my comments above: I'm waiting to see if this theme is continued, to see if she talks about how she did well for herself in an often constrictive society. 

Answer 478

I heard this on a public radio yesterday, played as a background to business and work, distant.

Answer 479

Thanks for the feedback Mike! I wish we could discuss sometime that top 10 blues songs list from Cyndi! =D

Answer 480

Simon/DeSica/Sellers

Answer 481

It was a demonstration vs the war. She spoke of how beautiful our country was n to talk to folks…I was thinking about her tonight when a rainbow went across the sky as we caught the last boat to the island--

Answer 482

girl and boy together then and now. Cyndi and Shaggy now (well, recently)

Answer 483

Since I saw Marisa Tomei on that geneaolgy-inspired show……I honestly wish Cyn would try it.

Answer 484

whoa…..let's not forget her going into a trance and singing in Swedish to disable Ingo

Answer 485

Revolutionary! Is this really live? It's really good!

Answer 486

You don't know how I've sacrificed

Answer 487

The Day vid didn't come up. Trying it again.

Answer 488

It's just the pain that never disappears

Answer 489

Behind the machine is a person. Machines don't control; we manipulate machines. 

Answer 490

Soundchek from 3 days ago…

Answer 491

Her recent How Blue Can You Get performance wasn't so good. She was having problems in reaching the falsettos.

Answer 492

1983? More likely, '84. What say you, lauperians? Anyway, some guy almost gets the base of a mic stand lodged in his mouth.

Answer 493

Oh, error, it's Watt, like the steam engine guy

Answer 494

Marlene slept in the mud, risked her life entertaining the forces, and nearly was captured by the Nazis in the Battle of the Bulge. Someone now reminds me of her adventure, perhaps her finest moment.

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Here is Lies, live 1993. See post above this one for discussion

Answer 496

Incandescent, bursting power. Makes you wanna go out and throw a rock at the moon.

Answer 497

Nina Hagen gets schooled by her mother………..could Cyn keep up with Eva Hagen ?

Answer 498

edit for above, lyrics to Journey by Steve Farmer

Answer 499

I just read the news about Cindi at the US Open.  I think the media is making way too much of a big deal out of it.  I think she felt the moment in her heart, and the words came out how the came out, and that should be it. 

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flat nothin' That's an extended B6, live if C

Answer 501

Wow, good one, Barney. Bea is fast approaching 94 years old.

Answer 502

There is a part of the brain that will always bear the first great imprint of love, no matter what may happen afterward.

Answer 503

A book, a name and two signs scribbled thoughtlessly on a page.

Answer 504

Unfortunately it will get lost because nobody is in charge and in the course of just a few days

Answer 505

Woops, nice sentiment from the Gershwins, but meant to post this one. Deni Bonet,

Answer 506

Poetry of Cyndi is killing :

Answer 507

They did that a lot back then, they even had Clark Gable singing and dancing in a movie.:

Answer 508

I've been doing "best of" for a while

Answer 509

I always tell my husband, "Initiate!" In the 1980s things got turned around. All the women I know are career women

Answer 510

A miracle happens and suddenly the years fall away. Is it really 1984?

Answer 511

I Found these videos on youtube, even if you dont know about the voice its great to hear the notes she sings and the lovely clips

Answer 512

this track is on the blue angel LP a great LP which has been lost through time ive played mine only once as its now available through itunes

Answer 513

Nice posts, Mike!

Answer 514

When the world presses around you, music can give you the space to think, to plan, and to enjoy. Oh, it is the greatest invention ever. And the greatest instrument is the voice, for it is always always inside of us.

Answer 515

For comparison's sake Mike…..E-Flat above High C ?

Answer 516

Something tells me I will not encounter any Mercer Mancini level of

Answer 517

I got $20 sez Cyn would disagree with you.

Answer 518

Better sound for that below, Zlatt. Jamaica, not Queens

Answer 519

There's a fire inside every onel of us–

Answer 520

beautiful, so many great songs gone unnoticed amidst the hoopla of the media as it is. We love those lonely songs Cyndi has sung, keep them alive, not because our idol sings them, but because they are good, and so is she. thanks, Zlatt

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is a good example of an Early Sintra Recording.

Answer 522

I guess you think that it's hard for you

Answer 523

I know what you mean…ya watch the skirt, ya listen…time passes…you're happy.

Answer 524

Mr. Spacey, showing his vocal flexibility

Answer 525

nothing higher than G5 in Across the Universe. John could have sung it himself

Answer 526

Clinging to the rhythm of a lyfe like stride

Answer 527

And while the Runaways were ignored in America the Japanese people embraced them. The tour in 1977

Answer 528

on Sonic The Hedgehog. Even the Beatles had to bow down to Baldry.

Answer 529

Nanci one is great, Barn. Nanci, Roy, and Phil were alil born in the state of …….

Answer 530

Ack to when that album came out – back to being 12 years old! I really hope her Summersonic set is the SSU set.

Answer 531

The photo is separate and still. The video moves, but is still separate. But a memory etched deep in the mind and heart is a part of you. It is you.

Answer 532

Each person is like a book-

Answer 533

Thanks, Tuanny. Cyn is an inspiration to generations of girls who wanna who wanna put on those sunglasses (see Girls Just Wanna Have Fun vid), too, and walk proud in the light of day.

Answer 534

May tomorrow bring a better world than today.

Answer 535

The post-er is dead on right, Barn. A sustained B flat 6

Answer 536

Rêzo… don't try fooling those peeps…

Answer 537

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night shall keep these couriers from their appointed rounds--

Answer 538

Shadows may chase from behind

Answer 539

Fantastic song:

Answer 540

material and stop doing cover songs. She wrote some songs on the album

Answer 541

unusuuuuual singers…You can't define who you are if you don't explore your borders, and a little beyond

Answer 542

sorry you can't connect Mike…….there is some problem or problems depending upon the browser used and or using adblock.

Answer 543

Now you're on to something Mike…….ask yourself why

Answer 544

I listened to the first song, which I enjoyed, and will listen to the rest tonight, Barn. What is the time of the note in question?

Answer 545

Yes, great song, Zlatt! smile

Answer 546

You send a letter with photographs

Answer 547

From the covers, I guess my fave is MJ's!!

Answer 548

Climate change, threat of lethal radioactive discharge.

Answer 549

Hmm, that gives a whole new meaning to this song, Zi!

Answer 550

fantastic performance at 2:12 your mind will be blowed

Answer 551

Very Good review.

Answer 552

origin of Peace and Love, Barney

Answer 553

Rob protecting our freedom from the Reaganites in '82……….I fear we'll need protection again

Answer 554

i see here cyndi very happy

Answer 555

I was thinking she covered more ground on Shattered Dreams,

Answer 556

live at last was released in 2004, seven years ago to be exact

Answer 557

Here is the clip of We Are the World. See the preceding post for comment

Answer 558

perhaps Emily can introduce the Unusual to the Adorkable "It's Jess"

Answer 559

yep she's my hero for the week………don't think audiovisuals are allowed while filibustering.

Answer 560

Watching her perform all these songs is giving goosebumps. Takes me right be

Answer 561

With all due respect, we didn't know she had it in her.

Answer 562

There was ol' Jolie behind the glass movin' to the music and wavin' his arms, so much so that Mr. Parks had to have him thrown off the studio lot. Three years later we find him just before his Korean tour when Al still left pieces of himself on the stage until there were no pieces left. There is probably no more honorable way to die than for a singer to sing himself to death because he has no choice but to sing, sing, sing with all his heart, all his soul, and all his mind, until it kills him, in Al's case at 64 years of age, after a nostalgia tour in Korea "for the boys.". It was this corny, vulgar guy that turned me from just listening to singin' too. It didn't matter what the words were, you could laugh at the words, but what you couldn't laugh at, what you had to admire, was the energy, the absolute conviction, and the goal to give the audience what they had never heard--yet. Along came 1983 and again I was charmed, this time by hot young singer who, like Al, threw caution to the winds.. I like to think of Al as a kind of singer's Joe Hill. Where hot, over the top, but absolutely authentic singers defend their right to do what they do, there you'll find Al, out in audience, wavin' his arms like a madman, showing the singer he or she must give the whole heart.

Answer 563

Thanks for Wild Women, Zlatt. I don't why I should be shocked how good it is. By now I should know Cyndi's power.

Answer 564

Mind if I use this to ward off the Jesus addicted wretches on Farcebook ?

Answer 565

I'll take a guess and then look it up…………..The Hollies

Answer 566

Check also your profile Mike there are some options for to update. try to update all thet maybe it will work

Answer 567

Mike, thank you very much for your review and beautiful posts! I always love to read them!

Answer 568

Hey, Adam. I wish I knew more about music than I do.

Answer 569

Time to think this day, and the days and nights to come, beyond race, class, gender, and nation to the home we all share

Answer 570

uh, oh…yeah, click on the youtube link or go to youtube yourself. Hit those notes in the middle of your range strong, and you too can have soul muscle

Answer 571

Piaf-like. "Open the windows and doors and let the wind blow through." The quotes are there for this is a movie line. Which film?

Answer 572

Still my fave performance Beth:

Answer 573

In a Dusty kind of mood.

Answer 574

Romance In The Dark is best live.

Answer 575

Tell me if you can tell me Mike………what female vocalist released her first album in 17 years?

Answer 576

girls and "girls" having fun! Look at Marilyn go, under the direction of Berliner Billy Wilder. Billy:

Answer 577

She's a CARNIVAL

Answer 578

"Jerry Vale and those guys I used to hear around the neighborhood {in Queens}, if i had to listen to that stuff again, I'd kill myself!"--

Answer 579

The big ending note by Tony Micale…….just like IGBS.

Answer 580

My point is this……..if Kinky or Reality really take off and afford similar opportunities that would be fine.

Answer 581

oops, might have taken the times from another post. Anyway, the times below refer to the clip I have attached at this post here.

Answer 582

Romance in the Dark might be my fave off the CD, Tuanny.

Answer 583

Lowest note (at beginning of clip) I place at Eb4, not at F. I am using designation C.

Answer 584

Disappointment and love endures

Answer 585

Mike, thanks too. This is the only academic and lively discussion, not to mention always updated, in the forum section. I learn a lot from everyone here.

Answer 586

I'll take the rockabilly, Barney.

Answer 587

ohh, sorrry in the above clip the Ab5 began at 4:13…Heavenly

Answer 588

Everything's just fine with me, but a few poor trees are lying down on their trunks. Thanks, Dora, for your concern

Answer 589

…Frank. Each beautiful in his and her own way. Singers, find the style that is real for you as you hold your fire up, even to the darkness!

Answer 590

typo, F35 should read F#5 above

Answer 591

I forgot. It was recent, though. They certainly sound good together, and music speaks volumes.

Answer 592

Bite me Zimmy

Answer 593

With the help of someone or something, may she live to experience that day, and beyond, well beyond.

Answer 594

The danger lies not in liberty, but conformity, not in thinking or feeling in freedom, but in marching in mindless obedience.

Answer 595

Hmmm?

Answer 596

Mike, thank you for your latest posts. Wondeful reading. 

Answer 597

I love her dance and moves on stage! She is extremely good at that!

Answer 598

Do you girls know the one who posted, or were you just noticing a similarity in names?

Answer 599

It ain't the awards, it's the longevity--

Answer 600

We already a lot about her Scott. She is unusualllyyy open about her life.

Answer 601

Sorry, Mr. Sturges, the script says, "******** caravan."

Answer 602

Come, Sparkle, walk beside me again

Answer 603

Busker Do

Answer 604

stop counting noses for normalcy and embrace the beautiful madness within The Captain

Answer 605

 You can have two people paint the same vase of flowers, but the art comes in in how the flowers are painted–

Answer 606

Love her hair in the Melbourne video.

Answer 607

When Connie went out on her own.

Answer 608

I wanted to get out and see all the magical things in the world--

Answer 609

Beyond restraint, beyond control, beyond sophistication–beyond cool. Hot!

Answer 610

Oh! From the video! Now I understand. XD

Answer 611

I blew speakers on the end of the recorded version back in the day

Answer 612

Another powerfull one of Crossroads… =)

Answer 613

The original. Nice falsetto

Answer 614

People of the night, passion, love, tragedy, and another masterpiece

Answer 615

extended Ab6 at the end. Lovely! Orlando, this month

Answer 616

Please remember Cyn's vocal chord problems in the wake of her Celebrity Apprentice era.

Answer 617

And thanks France too. Around this time Cyn had a hit single in France, and I hear Vibes did pretty well there.

Answer 618

Very few people get paid for being an idiot–

Answer 619

I think it's interesting how she divides the words a-way and s-tay by taking a breath. I still didn't get used to it.

Answer 620

Cyn certainly is revolutionizing blues attire !!!!!

Answer 621

Referring to some art work in the church she attended:

Answer 622

Impersonation is to assume the character or appearance of……..maybe you mean impression

Answer 623

Digging those leg muscles! 

Answer 624

wanna see a vocal polyp operation vid again ?

Answer 625

Keely and Louis then

Answer 626

Some are never gone. They are with us intensely and forever

Answer 627

- Betty Smith

Answer 628

in my last post  should have written your old stuff, not You're old stuff! ha, ha

Answer 629

I totally love these posts!! Guys, you are awesome, thank you very much!

Answer 630

you can look at pictures, but they can't look at you

Answer 631

More great rock n roll from the Cyn--ner.

Answer 632

in the beginning it was energy, passion, movement that she touched in us. Through her we rediscovered these as essential elements in ourselves.

Answer 633

rock n roll is a place where heart and dissatisfaction meet

Answer 634

And if we wake up old beyond our years

Answer 635

Phish – Reba – "Bag it. Tag it. Sell it to the butcher at the store."

Answer 636

Some like it HOT! Hmm, i wonder which one is Les (wink)?

Answer 637

watching this video you know how simple mind and down to earth she is and how much she is not afraid of people>

Answer 638

Say what when it comes to Staffords

Answer 639

Very nice posts again!

Answer 640

well, this one is definitely LIVE and GOOD. Same year, 2008

Answer 641

Thank you, Scott and Zlatt!

Answer 642

I love this post, Mike!

Answer 643

Oh, yeah, such as sweet song

Answer 644

To live this life, to look so nice

Answer 645

i loved this performance in germany she grabed boys camera in the middle of the song, so i found this one. what a great performance love it

Answer 646

Thanks for putting up the videos of last nights show (I noticed this version of TAT sounded kind of Celtic or something, has she ever done it like that before?).

Answer 647

so does Busby Marou

Answer 648

I totally agree also Mike and very nice post !!!!!

Answer 649

Mike, thank you for these beautiful posts!

Answer 650

Thank you, Dora

Answer 651

here is the link for Hong Kong singer to sing "time after the time".

Answer 652

That was an exclusive. XD

Answer 653

Sorry. Lack of attention. +_+

Answer 654

No hope forlorn, no instrument forsaken

Answer 655

"The rock n roll is electrifying and the lady's voice is incredible--

Answer 656

Number one the day kennedy was assassinated.

Answer 657

yes

Answer 658

changed world forever

Answer 659

Thank you, Scott

Answer 660

Against the deserts of the heart…and the proof of power

Answer 661

Thank you, Zlatt! My pleasure!

Answer 662

Woman of the people, it felt good to hear him say that!–

Answer 663

Why on earth are we here, surely not to live in hate and fear--

Answer 664

Thank you Mike,

Answer 665

Against all who say, "Impossible, " and while you can, live your own life, sing your own song.

Answer 666

He won an Emmy the year Cyn was born………..IMO the man had the skills

Answer 667

I agree, even her "sad" songs make us feel better and give power.

Answer 668

a new song sounds good

Answer 669

by "bill" above I meant to say advertising poster

Answer 670

a measure of perfection

Answer 671

recorded "Boys Will Be Boys" with The Hooters. The song "Private

Answer 672

see previous post

Answer 673

I love these posts!

Answer 674

inspiration don't you think?

Answer 675

They told me i should stand still and sing--

Answer 676

Thank you, Dora

Answer 677

Thanks for the clip, Barney. Joannie New York, New York tomorrow night and Wednesday

Answer 678

pardon, une programme francaise

Answer 679

Very good……..but could they lip-synch backwards

Answer 680

Memorize it

Answer 681

The world is at your command

Answer 682

the dance song I really love…just perfection and very sexy rhymically speaking…

Answer 683

A teedledy dumptee die.

Answer 684

Drat. OK, no embedding

Answer 685

this one try to see if you see post from you tube

Answer 686

Thank you, Dora (smile)

Answer 687

Joan is tough!

Answer 688

OH, that was gooood, Zi. Thanks for bringing it back to Cyndi

Answer 689

"US" in the post above is an emphatic of us, we lauperians, all over the world, her world wide fans.

Answer 690

love this song

Answer 691

and the video is totally different it was on a Kilborn.

Answer 692

Tommy Mottola is mafia. 

Answer 693

The worst thing is that I dunno what to type, I just found this direct link. Try copying w/ the right mouse button, its working here that way.

Answer 694

trying the link again, George, Ira, where are ya?

Answer 695

…and live. The illusion of limitless energy

Answer 696

Thank you, Zlatt.

Answer 697

Another time, another rendition

Answer 698

for comparison purposes

Answer 699

Yes, she was 102…Thinking of Bob, and partners Bing, and Doris, too. Thanks for keeping the music alive..

Answer 700

Ha, ha, forgot to post it

Answer 701

OK, here it is. Enjoy your flight

Answer 702

Thank you, Dora!

Answer 703

correction: no blues like hers

Answer 704

singsingsing said

Answer 705

many thanks…….goes immediately to my top five interviews.

Answer 706

You gotta look these people up--

Answer 707

I found myself fading, fading--

Answer 708

"I don't wanna live like that"

Answer 709

Well, one more. Thanks, Japan, for supporting rock n roll all those years ago til today

Answer 710

When I get a chance I'll look it up, Barney. Thanks.

Answer 711

bump

Answer 712

a dumbass is a person who expects magnificent perfection………….of others

Answer 713

rock and roll

Answer 714

in one interview she said; "i was never a child"!

Answer 715

very nice, Barney.

Answer 716

Anatoliy

2015-02-19 14:24:43 UTC

Stick to the essentials--

Pankaj

2015-02-19 14:25:05 UTC

wonderful song,

Basav

2015-02-19 14:25:10 UTC

the posts are fantastic, thank you Mike

Jayada

2015-02-19 14:25:05 UTC

Mike, this painful to read ~~!!

Julieta

2015-02-19 14:25:08 UTC

"Unhook The Stars"

Ruta

2015-02-19 14:23:06 UTC

i love that song, and like all her craziness.

Rosabelle

2015-02-19 14:23:46 UTC

"I thought marriage was for straight people"

Evdokija

2015-02-19 14:22:51 UTC

all it takes is to work with LEMMY

Nethanel

2015-02-19 14:24:38 UTC

music is miracle, i just found this

Leontina

2015-02-19 14:23:11 UTC

scandal

Janique

2015-02-19 14:23:03 UTC

just perfect

Visala

2015-02-19 14:24:03 UTC

We can fight them from caves--

Cirilo

2015-02-19 14:22:56 UTC

ars  pro multis?

Kakali

2015-02-19 14:23:24 UTC

you do know witcombe2009 is me dont you ?

Vibha

2015-02-19 14:24:12 UTC

thank you, Dora

Manfried

2015-02-19 14:24:48 UTC

and physiological chops?

Sinjun

2015-02-19 14:23:23 UTC

Mike Thanks for spending time to explain this to me !!" really interesting

Lateef

2015-02-19 14:24:04 UTC

We all came here in the '80s--

Urian

2015-02-19 14:23:05 UTC

maybe we can this way communicate>

Jeannette

2015-02-19 14:23:39 UTC

Nowhere man please listen, you don't know what you're missin'

Florentyna

2015-02-19 14:24:55 UTC

or beyond

Ambupati

2015-02-19 14:24:51 UTC

mother and child, connected

Yerach

2015-02-19 14:24:55 UTC

it might be the February '89

Athaliah

2015-02-19 14:23:37 UTC

What on earth… is THAT?

Rahel

2015-02-19 14:23:52 UTC

Hi, Dora, thanks for listenin' and commentin'

Hidayat

2015-02-19 14:23:19 UTC

HER FULL NOTES ARE BACK!!! HALLELUJAH!

Jelle

2015-02-19 14:23:34 UTC

CAVALCANTE above, lol!

Ealish

2015-02-19 14:23:26 UTC

Thanks so much, Dora, for your feedback. Nice to hear…

Cristan

2015-02-19 14:23:35 UTC

TMI

Dasaratha

2015-02-19 14:24:06 UTC

Thanks, Dora. I enjoyed posting all the vids

Ameer

2015-02-19 14:23:05 UTC

Hal-ay-lu-ye! I can see the vids. Thanks, forum staff!

Alcadio

2015-02-19 14:25:10 UTC

Thanks, Scott and Zlatt. My pleasure

Hereweald

2015-02-19 14:24:21 UTC

Cyndi thanks you too, Jackie

Girlie

2015-02-19 14:23:28 UTC

I check it out later, thanks , Barney

Sherry

2015-02-19 14:24:58 UTC

Thanks for German clip, Zlatt.

Adrea

2015-02-19 14:23:41 UTC

Thanks for the feedback. Dora

Zerem

2015-02-19 14:23:12 UTC

Thanks for the mention, Barn

Ahilya

2015-02-19 14:24:51 UTC

thanks a lot, Zlatt

Niralamba

2015-02-19 14:23:44 UTC

Thanks, Dora

Nastassia

2015-02-19 14:17:49 UTC

Thanks, Zlatt

Admiral

2015-02-19 14:24:16 UTC

Thanks, Dora. 

Fetuilelagi

2015-02-19 14:23:48 UTC

Thanks, Dora!

Brice

2015-02-19 14:23:47 UTC

Thanks, Dora.

Earnestine

2015-02-19 14:23:20 UTC

Thanks, Scott.

Sadik

2015-02-19 14:23:39 UTC

Thanks, Dora.

Aonghus

2015-02-19 14:25:08 UTC

Zlatt, thanks.

Agim

2015-02-19 14:24:51 UTC

thanks, Dora

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Answer 717

Stick to the essentials--

Answer 718

wonderful song,

Answer 719

the posts are fantastic, thank you Mike

Answer 720

Mike, this painful to read ~~!!

Answer 721

"Unhook The Stars"

Answer 722

i love that song, and like all her craziness.

Answer 723

"I thought marriage was for straight people"

Answer 724

all it takes is to work with LEMMY

Answer 725

music is miracle, i just found this

Answer 726

scandal

Answer 727

just perfect

Answer 728

We can fight them from caves--

Answer 729

ars  pro multis?

Answer 730

you do know witcombe2009 is me dont you ?

Answer 731

thank you, Dora

Answer 732

and physiological chops?

Answer 733

Mike Thanks for spending time to explain this to me !!" really interesting

Answer 734

We all came here in the '80s--

Answer 735

maybe we can this way communicate>

Answer 736

Nowhere man please listen, you don't know what you're missin'

Answer 737

or beyond

Answer 738

mother and child, connected

Answer 739

it might be the February '89

Answer 740

What on earth… is THAT?

Answer 741

Hi, Dora, thanks for listenin' and commentin'

Answer 742

HER FULL NOTES ARE BACK!!! HALLELUJAH!

Answer 743

CAVALCANTE above, lol!

Answer 744

Thanks so much, Dora, for your feedback. Nice to hear…

Answer 745

TMI

Answer 746

Thanks, Dora. I enjoyed posting all the vids

Answer 747

Hal-ay-lu-ye! I can see the vids. Thanks, forum staff!

Answer 748

Thanks, Scott and Zlatt. My pleasure

Answer 749

Cyndi thanks you too, Jackie

Answer 750

I check it out later, thanks , Barney

Answer 751

Thanks for German clip, Zlatt.

Answer 752

Thanks for the feedback. Dora

Answer 753

Thanks for the mention, Barn

Answer 754

thanks a lot, Zlatt

Answer 755

Thanks, Dora

Answer 756

Thanks, Zlatt

Answer 757

Thanks, Dora. 

Answer 758

Thanks, Dora!

Answer 759

Thanks, Dora.

Answer 760

Thanks, Scott.

Answer 761

Thanks, Dora.

Answer 762

Zlatt, thanks.

Answer 763

thanks, Dora