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  • Amazing.. was to her concert in Horsens and when she started singing this song it was like everybody was holding their breath... it was so amazing..had goose bumps all over...

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  • Very Few singers have or ever will be in the same league as this wonderful lady, and if people cannot see her talent and loyality then they are ignorant to the rest of the worlds feelings

  • I was there, it was sooooo great!

  • famominal

  • love it but i like david cooks too

  • *were

  • This is absolutely amazing. She is one of the great performers of our time, I agree. The purity and emotion of her singing on this song is astonishingly powerful.

  • there is not a more pure voice in this world. her ability to do this acapella (there is a little music here though) is breath-taking. she is one of the most important singers in American history.

  • it is not David Crook! he stated whose arrangements it is! ALL the judges thinks he going to win! and i do to.

  • i think(my opinion ppl) david cook's version is more energetic and better. I love him!

  • I love the way david cook sand this. he made the song more excited. but dolly is still a really good singer i think she is good

  • why she looks so scary??

  • well i respect her alot but this song just sounds pretty terrible

  • vocally she is soooo fabulous. Country would not be the same without that voice.

  • i liked david cooks version way better

  • Frankie Laine did it best, that was the version that David C(r)ook copied.

  • Actually I liked Dolly's, very heart felt. Cook tried to copy Frankie Laine's version of Little Sparrow and of that Frankie Laine's was best. Little Sparrow is a reworking of the old spiritual/folk song Wayfaring Stranger (composer unknown) which was a mega-hit for Frankie Laine and even earlier for Burl Ives. If you can download Frankie Laine's version of Wayfaring Stranger or Sparrow and listen side by side to Cook's Sparrow your jaw would drop. Cook is a good researcher but not original.

  • omg you are ridiculous hahahahaha

  • nah i still think David Cook's was good. And it's not totally the same

  • Yeah, you're right. Good, not great. Was just messing with someone earlier on who had no knowledge or respect for the roots of pop music. It forced him to do a little research which is all I really wanted him to do. There is so much great music to listen to that has been created for decades. Some people get so crazy over these contestants you would think they have never heard a truly great singer that has years of stage experience behind them.

  • "The Wayfaring Stranger," AKA "Poor Wayfaring Stranger,", a well-known spiritual/folk song about a plaintive soul on life's journey. The journey the singer speaks of is the trials and tribulations of life. The final reward is reuniting with loved ones in Heaven in the afterlife. It was 1 of BURL IVES'S signature songs, included on his 1944 album The Wayfaring Stranger. Ives used it as the title of his early 1940s CBS radio show & his '48 autobio. He became known as "The Wayfaring Stranger."

  • The song is often classified as a "white spiritual.", 1st known printing of it is in Ananias Davisson's Kentucky Harmony, or, A Choice Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, & Anthems, in Three Parts.

    It's been covered by NO LESS than 31 OTHER artist from different genres. Little Sparrow, Dolly's interpretation of a female view of Life's joureny, is NOT a cover; therfore, Cook's arrangment can not be deemed a copy/cover of Frankie Laines' COVER, a man who was a hit-maker of late 40s/early 50s.

  • plus he admitted that it's his own ARRANGEMENT!!!!

  • oh i was there

  • any one know how old she is now

  • she's 62,just google her name and it comes up

  • watching her sing this in man lat year was one of the most amazing experinces of my life, she is pure power in a fragile little shell, luminous and beautiful! an absolute legend

  • you wish there had been no applause for this. just her -- and that perfect instrument. An instrument that takes everything we go through in the human experience and wraps it in the kindest embrace anyone could ever imagine. She is one of our GREATEST national treasures!

  • vandaag kaartjes gekocht voor 2008 kan mij al die roddels schelen " ik ga " wil het voor geen goud missen.

    Bought today the tickets voor june 2008 in Rotterdam dont wanna miss it !

  • Just knocks me out. So truly not appreciated for the musical genius she is.

    Brilliantly unique.

    Itzik Basman

  • Its so amazing when she does this and the audience is dead silent. When I saw her in Birmingham in 2005 you could have heard a pin drop in the arena with thousands of people in it.

  • No way this is lip synching! You can't beat this song and she sounds AMAZING!

  • one of my all time favourite songs

  • this wouldnt have made my hair stand on end and bring a tear to my eye! Thanks so much for posting! wish i was there! :)

  • I was at this concert as well, for free haha! Had to guide people to their places and stuff, and we were allowed to stay and watch this concert, it was amazing!

  • I saw her sing this in Wembley. Despite the fact that it was a HUGE concert venue, you could have heard a pin drop during the whole song.

  • and she still looks sexy :D

  • She does sound louder when she stands in front of the mic on the stage. I'm not sure why they would combine them for but I believe they were both on. She was definatly not faking it though, thats obvious

  • Perfect - thank you

    I saw her at Newcastle, this clip brings back some amazing memories.

  • hey i was at her glasgow show and she was fucking amazing whoever bad mouthed her obviously doesnt know good music she sung this without music and she was fucking great

  • I just saw her sing this in Cardiff, and she did it without music....most amazing singing i've ever heard!

  • I'm getting soo sick of this.

    WTF is with those people talking bad about her man???

    I was in Zwolle and there's one word for it; PERFECT!!!

    I heard she will be back nest year, and like hell I will be there too

  • I don't have more..than the 4 I'm already showing...

  • Yeah, add mor evideos. I loevd the show to eath in Zwolle !!!

  • Please add more videos!!! This was great!

  • there was just one word for the show ***GREAT***

    i loved the whole show , a dream came true .

    AD Volkskrant F****

  • there was just one word for it ( the show )

    it was GREAT and the AD sucks ( dutch news paper )

    i loved the whole show

  • according to a dutch newspaper (volkskrant) her whole show was playback, lip syncing. does anybody agree with that?

  • Defenitly not! How else do you explain the talking and the different versions of the songs?

    They're just jealous!

  • They say she's not using her neck muscles while singing, and when she talks the microphone suddenly has this big buzz which is gone when she starts singing.

  • Can't imagine that to be true, the buzzing sound was there only during the first half off the concert, 'cause a one of the microfones was positioned too close to a monitor. If it was lip-sync, she's damn good at it. Loved the show, hope she'll come to Holland again soon.

  • I was there in row 2 left corner of the stage. I didn't notice any sign of her playbacking.

    She was wearing a mini mic on her cheek and sometimes grabbed a regular mic from a standard as you can see in this clip. It made no difference in the sound of her singing. In my opinion the regular mic was off. Why combine these two microphones?

    I can't imagine that she was playbacking. On the other hand if someone could do it and get away with it it might be Dolly.

    Great show,

    acrobat

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