Passing Strangers - Gina Eckstine & Elmer Hopper

[Aldantonio18]

Awesome pairing here ... both are super-talented vocalists!

[TheHop]

@Aldantonio18 Thank you so much for the encouraging words. All the very best to you. Oh yeah Billy & Sarah were two of my most favorite hero's, and Gina is like a sister to me, I just love her!. Elmer Hopper

[theejjworthy]

Well Done....

[Honey1931]

10/10/11 I JUST DISCOVERED THIS BEAUTIFUL RENDITION OF BILLY'S DAUGHTER SINGING THE VERY SONG I ADORE OF HER FATHER WITH  SARA VAUGHN. THANK YOU FOR POSTING. roselli

[Steviepics]

PS. Oh, and I forgot to say ... I saw him live in London at the famous Ronnie Scott's club in about 84/85. I sing myself and can be a terrible parrot, so occasionally I have to shake your pappy out of my feathers. No one needs poor man's Billy Eckstines when they're so much of him still out there!

Cheers to Mr.B!

SMcK

[Steviepics]

Lovely to see this ... when I was a kid I picked out a LP from my Dad's record collection and began playing it. It was your marvellous father at Basin Street East with the band arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. I now have that record on CD and thirty-five years on I still play it regularly. The thing about Billy Eckstine was that he was such an intelligent and intuitive singer of a lyric. As with Sinatra he had a screenplay running in his mind while he sang.

[OzWkym]

Gena, great song. More than twenty years ago, Bill Ekstine came to Japan. I saw him at TV show. Elmer's friend Kuni Wakayama. (April 19, 2011)

[MINEMURAKAZUYA]

Great peformance!!!! Youreally great, Mr.Hopper!!!

[TheHop]

@MINEMURAKAZUYA Thank you my friend, you're a great guitarist. I hope to perform with you someday.

[TheHop]

The Trombone solo is the great Ira Nepus, how honored we are to know our friend Ira Nepus. Sorry my camera man didn't zero in on you.