talentless useless sad cow. how she got the right to sing alfie god knows, it was terrible. dionne warwick should have sung that. she was and is, a fucking joke, i knew the beatles blah blah, she is a fucking phoney. even the scousers hate her guts, useless ginger slag.
The one and only thing that could be wrong with this video is that when it was transferred from the original tape to avi file or similar, the person doing the transfer pushed the volume a bit high so that the recording needles drifted into the red on the higher or louder parts of the song. This will make those parts then sound a bit distorted, including Cillas voice which is why there should never be "judgement" made, based on video clips. See the artist live and THEN make an honest judgement.
@dutchgoing Hey, thats fine. You stick to your narrow minded and blinkered opinion because there is no way that you are going to see it any other way. You have your opinion, I have mine and a whole lot of other people have theirs also. Lets leave it at that because I have no intention of replying to this again, unless that is, you feel that you want to have the last say. If you do, please be my guest and you have a nice day now.
@brickpaverr You really need psychiatric help. I just listened to her recordings, formed an opinion compared with better singers and that was it. I know crap when I hear it and don't have to be 100% right all the time. You are abusive because somebody disagreed with you about a gig you went to 44 years ago & a singer who stopped singing nearly 40 years ago. Stop pretending to be all pleasant now, that's just passive aggression. Taking your ball home are you? You behave like a 7 year-old.
@dutchgoing You're a bit of an unpleasant person with your passive verbal abuse aren't you, choice of words, insults, etc, especially when we can't get someone to agree with our self imposed opinions. Just have a read back at all the stuff you've fired at me and tell me that it's not the pot calling the kettle black. The precise opinions that you are aiming at me, you are also totally guilty of yourself. You have your opinions and I have mine. LEAVE IT AT THAT.! NO MORE REPLIES.!!!
@brickpaverr I thought you weren't going to reply? lol I think you need to see a therapist because you need to be 100% right about everything, which includes playing the victim. Bit late for you to complain about abuse when you pitched in with a lot of invective right at the start. If you don't like it, don't dish it out from behind the safety of your pc because something you like was criticised. Nobody was having a go at you & you went looking for a fight. Too bad if you don't like my replies.
It seems that no matter how good a singer is, there is always some non musically educated clown who will bag the singer without having the faintest idea why. Such is the case with a couple of "armchair crirics" regarding Cilla Blacks voice. The best endorsement to the quality, or lack of, to someone's singing voice is NOT always their records, but to hear them live. I was priviledged to hear Cilla sing live with a 25 piece orchestra in Australia in 1966. Absolute powerful voice & brilliant show.
@brickpaverr You really have got a bit of a testosterone problem haven't you. Can't calmly discuss a has-been singer from the 1960s who frankly had peers who could wipe the floor with her, without going for as much one-upmanship as possible. The term 'dumbass' is used by red-necks and the uneducated. Yes Cilla could do the loud thing, but I didn't like her voice & she sounds like a raped cat frankly. Believe it or not people can tell if something is good or not using their own judgement.
@brickpaverr Oh you're an Australian of a certain generation, explains all your huffing-puffing I-know-better-than-you-alpha-male chuntering. Look some people think Cilla stinks and as others have said the UK public took a few years to get wise to it and then dropped her like a hot brick. You can like or dislike what you want frankly. Btw the habit people very often have of hurling personal insults via the net hasn't passed you by, you're right up there with the times, lol.
@dutchgoing What do you mean, I'm "hurling insults"? They're NOT insults, It's called constructive criticism or didn't you notice that. You've NEVER seen her do a live show in the sixties and unfortunately, you never will. You're NOT a musician. You weren't even born then so you're basing ALL your narrow minded opinions on something or someone that you have NO first hand knowledge of but rather based solely on you-tube clips & videos. You stick to your opinion & I'll stick to mine!
@brickpaverr You are a hypocrite. You were and are saying that nobody is allowed to have an opinion about the worth of something because if they are not as you suppose not educated in a musical sense their opinion can be discounted & derided. That isn't living-and-let-live that's evidence of arrogance & snobbery beyond belief & you seriously believe you aren't being insulting. You need psychiatric help if you think you haven't got a need to be 100% right & actually think you are being fair.
@dutchgoing When I used the term "dumbass", I meant it & don't for a second assume that I am uneducated before you find out just how qualified I really am. Have you bothered to read any of the other comments, because if you have, you would notice that you are in a severe minority of people who do not like her. Did you ever see Cilla at a full concert backed by a 25 piece band, No I bet you HAVEN'T. I have. In Australia in 1966 & she was brilliant. You're NOT a musician. That's VERY obvious!
This is the Cilla I will always remember and think of. I was a little girl and I thought she was wonderful. No nose job and her teeth were crooked. A huge talent. A HUGE voice.
She could have been a primadonna in any opera house had her voice been trained. I'm glad to have been around then and I'm glad that young people are beginning to say, "Cilla Black was good,."
@Scrumdidilyumpchious She is like the singers in the USA today because none of them can sing. If it wasn't for the girls being half naked they would have never made it to any stage and then there is RAP ? What the FXXK is that nothing but screaming BULL SHIP. And it is all electrically enhanced. Terrible.
cilla was a great singer,she had 11 top 10 hits in 7 years,she sang this great song and it went to no2 in the charts in 65,even cilla said she prefered the original version,i seen cilla singing live in 08 and she was brilliant,cilla is fab.
well Mr armchair critic, tell me have you ever seen her live ??, when I say live, I dont mean the electronicly enhanced stuff we see today, I mean someone singing naturally to a large audience..... I didnt think so, because if you had, and I had the pleasure of that, you would realise that she had an extensive vocal range, that really doesnt come out on some of the horrible recordings of her done in the 60's. I dont know where you are from, but she demaded to sing live.
Lets get some facts straight. Cilla was an extremely popular entertainer in the UK Someone said "All The Beatles hated her". On what basis can anyone make such a ridiculous statement? John told Brian Epstein to check her out. After she got a record deal the first song she recorded was a Lennon-McCartney song. She recorded various Beatles songs including Its For You which was given exclusively to her by Paul and which was very innovative at the time as it was a jazzy waltz.
@dutchgoing HAHAHA! REALLY? So explain the pictures of her with various Beatles on various occasions including in the recording studio or the fact that Paul played piano on one of her records and wrote songs for her simply because she asked or that one of her recording sessions featured George and Ringo. They would only do things like that for friends or do you think they worked as session musicians to bump up their meagre earnings! Please don't make yourself look so ridiculous.
@guitarmanUK Actually I first heard the Cilla/Beatles myth about 25 years ago and realised that having shared management, label, producer & material they might have encountered each other, but the rest was Cilla bullshit, like that one about her refusing to record Alfie unless Burt B came over to conduct. She wasn't friends with them, maybe some professional contact, the 'friends' thing is just post-hoc showbiz jerking-off obviously. She didn't get invited to Macca's wedding. Great mates indeed.
@guitarmanUK Here is some typical I'm-big-mates-with-one-of-the-Beatles obvious BS from has-been Cilla.
'Speaking after she regretted not telling him about her reservations of them marrying. She said: ‘I do advise most of my friends. But not Paul. Mind you, if he'd asked I'd have said what I thought.'I'd have told him he had to make his own mistakes. That's the only way you learn. But I might have suggested (to Paul) that perhaps he should listen to what his family were saying.’
When Cilla needed a song for her new TV series in 1968 (her TV shows were always prime time and immensely popular - this was before she became a TV presenter) Paul wrote one called Step Inside Love which is a fabulous song. I've seen a YouTube clip of her at a Beatles rehearsal/recording session (you certainly aren’t allowed in the studio with an artist unless you are on friendly terms) where Paul shows her the song he has written for her. And she did not steal songs from anyone! See below.
Someone here said Cilla stole other’s songs. In the 50's/60's UK companies would often cover a big American hit. There were sometimes a few artists competing as companies tried to grab sales of a popular song. Cilla so impressed Burt Bacharach that when he wrote Alfie (based on a British film of the time) he gave it straight to Cilla and even flew to England to personally supervise the recording session. It was recorded "live" and it remains one of the most iconic records of the 60's
@guitarmanUK you beat me to it. The complainers can see the actual recording session with Cilla and Burt Bacharach here on youtube. He wouldn't have chosen her if she wasn't a great singer. He could have picked anyone to record the song and he picked her. That's a pretty good endorsement. It's lame to say someone is a terrible singer when all it is, is they don't like a singer's style or voice. There are singers I don't like but that doesn't mean they're bad singers or have terrible voices.
I am actually disgusted at some of the comments in this thread. What sort of mentality have some of you got? There is no excuse for repeating hearsay about things of which you have no personal knowledge. Some of these comments are libelous as well as insulting. In the UK libel is a criminal matter. What people are saying here bears little relation to the facts. You sad, sad people.
Funny how these so-called haters come on here, yet they obviously didn't come across this by mistake again and again. If you don't like it, don't listen to it or watch it and keep your dumbass comments to yourselves.
She got into showbiz on her back, getting shagged by everyone,a bouncer at the cavern told me,she worked in the cloakroom,and he'd seen her getting it regularly on the stairs,that was all she was good for.
@barneyboscoe odd, I doubt either you or your friend is old enough to have known Cilla back in the 60's, however if you were, then you certainly are not courteous people. This type of gossip has no place in a discussion of whether an entertainer is entertaining. Smear gossip is more telling about the people who spread it.
sad, useless, demented slag. she was fuck all and still is fuck all. the beatles hated her. and the scousers fucking despise the ginger cunt. she is a shithouse
@surfango1 It's all a case of opinion and personal taste. If you like a singer who sounds like a cat on heat giving it the full chorus in the middle of the night than that's great. Anyone who likes Cilla must listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night. If you like Cilla you'll love this, it's very easy to hear where Cilla got her inspiration from when listening to Florence.
It is all a mater of personal taste - that is your opinion.
If she was that bad she would not have made so many records, had number one hits, long running BBC Television series, topped the bill at The Palladium.........best you can't lay claim to any of that!
@iancv I certainly can't, I certainly wouldn't want to inflict my tuneless singing on the world, pity Cilla couldn't do the same. Cilla recorded some fabulous songs, mostly nicked off other artists, with some great arrangements from George Martin. In the end though the public sussed her out. That's why from 1971 onwards she had twelve flops in a row. Even she realised the game was up and instead resorted to hosting tacky TV shows.
@Scrumdidilyumpchious You miss the point ,its not always the voice ...but the emotion behind it....you,re username sounds scouser like are you ken dodd or one of his diddy men ?
i think she has a very special voice. you can like it or hate it. i personally love it, because it's not like everything else that you can find on youtube. if you don't like it don't watch it!
To be honest this ain't a bad record, one of her biggest hits. It's also beautifully shot, and I'd like to know what programme it came from - it doesn't look like TOTP or RSG. Nice use of contrast. The Righteous Brothers version is better though!
If I remember right for the first 2 or 3 weeksof their chart run Cilla was outselling the Brother's version of this and was at no.2 while they were at no.3 and then Andrew Loog Oldham and the Rolling Stones took out an add in the music press asking people buy the Righteous brothers record instead of Cilla's and the next week they went to no.1 and she started dropping down the charts.
Cilla Black a soul singer singing in the Apollo with Aretha Franklin? Puleassee, is this the same Cilla Black who had one minor hit in the US? Whose last UK hit was in 1971 after which she had a run of fifteen flops?
She sounds more like a cat on heat giving it the full chorus in the middle of the night than Aretha Franklin. The US realised Cilla couldn't manage one note in tune very early on, it took the Uk a bit longer. That's why she gave up "singing" to host her crappy TV shows.
@Isleworthful Oh please.. a veces la opinión más hiriente es la que viene de la gente...es la más severa...Cilla tiene una gran voz...siplemente hay que acomodarse...escuchar...y respetar...
@speedcrane It's all a case of personal taste as has already been said anyone who likes Cilla must have a listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night, yoiu'll love it. The similarity in vocal technique is uncanny, it's very easy to hear the enormous influence Florence had on Cilla's style of singing.
@Isleworthful what a crock. She has a big voice but she's in perfect control of it. There were alot of singers in other countries that didn't make it in America but were still big stars elsewhere. America isn't the center of the world. There's an American singer who can't make it big in America....Anastasia. She's the number one female singer in most of Europe but not here. And let's be honest. Other then Madonna (bleech) most singers careers don't last all that long.
To all the ppl making fun of a SUPER singer like Cilla... what's up ? Cilla's surname was changed from White to Black after the fantastic colour of her voice... She was working at the Cavern club when a fella said 'Wot's she's doin'here..she must be singing in the Apollo along Aretha Franklin &co!... wise comment indeed.
@dutchgoing What the hell do you mean, Cilla was tone deaf and could not sing. Why don't you take that dumb-ass statement back to the garbage bin that you dragged it out of. You don't have the slightest idea what you think you're talking about and you CLEARLY have NO musical knowledge whatsoever either.
@brickpaverr I don't know what comment of mine you are answering, but I have never thought Cilla had a flicker of talent, dreadful sounding voice, a jumped-up caberet singer at best, a very very limited talent and a nasty individual too. People like Dusty Springfield had an effortless ability. People who use the term 'dumb-ass' tend not to be very well educated in general.
@Gibbs505 ...You should check your music history. In reality, this song -- a Spector/Mann/Weil production -- was covered by Black following the original release by the Righteous Brothers.
i agree...Black certainly enjoyed greatness in the 60/70's. I have watched many times the YouTube video of her singing the Beatles' inked "Love of the Loved"!
@rjslade You are right...The Righteous Brother's hit was a big one for Phil Spector. Joan Baez performed this once with Spector playing the piano with one hand and leading the band with his left arm. I've got it on a DVD, it was about 1966. Very interesting to see.
@Gibbs505 As rjslade has pointed out Cillas managemaent team stole this song formthe Righteous brothers in the same way they pirrated Dionne warwicks Anyone Who Ha d A Heart. Anyone who thinks Cilla was great really must listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night. It's very easy to hear the influence Florence had on Cillas voice
@Gibbs505 As rjslade has pointed out Cillas management team stole this song form the Righteous brothers in the same way they pirated Dionne warwicks Anyone Who Ha d A Heart. Anyone who thinks Cilla was great really must listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night. It's very easy to hear the influence Florence had on Cillas voice
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she is so false, and talentless. she knew the beatles blah blah blah. she is working class blah blah blah. she is useless and talentless. she cant sing sing i have heard pub singers sing better. so false and so sad
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andybid you got to be having a laugh. she is awful. talentless and useless. all she goes on about is liverpoooooooooooool. never been there in 30 years. that version of alfie is absolute shite. utter shite like her. a total minger and a waste of space. you are obviouly ill so i will let this go. black sounds like a pig in labour. useless twat
@carlsperr But she just shouts there's nothing musical in her voice at all. She was a Liverpool girl in the right place at the right time and rose to fame on the coat tails of the Beatles. Her "singing" career lasted a mere 7 years and was confined mainly to Britain. She's unheard of virtually anywhere else.
@jimmy5634 it's awsome if you like out of tune shouting, she utterly destroyes the sublety and soulfulness that was in Dionne Warwick's original. The one saving grace is George Martin's magnificent arrangement which almost but not quite hides the inadequacies of Cilla's truly dreadful voice.
@Isleworthful According to Wikipedia, the original version was performed by The Righteous Brothers in 1965, Dionne Warwick did not record the song until 1969.
@GrahamLondonUK I was aware of that, my reply to Jimmy related to his comments re Anyone Who Had A Heart. Cilla tried to nick this song as she did with Anyone Who Had A Heart. This time she came unstuck as the Righteous Bros were rushed over to plug their superior version which outsold Cillas usual attempts at shouting every song she sung. She truly murdered Loving feeling, I'd forgotten just how bad her version was.
@Isleworthful Sorry, Isleworthful, I didn't realise that your reply to Jimmy referred to Anyone Who Had A Heart. Amazingly, I agree with you that Cilla's version of You've Lost That Loving Feeling is dreadful, it's a song I rarely play. I much prefer her later recordings, such as Step Inside Love, Surround Yourself With Sorrow and Something Tells Me. We're still laughing about Cilla's out of tune shouting!!
I hope you've seen the clip of her singing "Anyone Who Had A Heart" live, with the Beatles' producer George Martin conducting the orchestra. And check out the clip of her recording "Alfie" with Burt Bachrach. Incredible!
@tunenito I agree... It´s just another style...from a great british singer... I don´t kow enough about her career but i´ve got her third Abbey Roads´s album "Sher oo" from 1968 and it´s (in my opinion) superb !! ...ups Didn´t she sang "That what friends are for" in the 80´s? Agreat song!!!
I agree with gassah54 -- she is one of the world's greatest (and under-rated) singers. Watch the clip of her singing "Alfie" at Abbey Rd. studios with Burt Bachrach conducting. One of the most outstanding female vocal recordings ever!
@1957geoff Au contraire Geoff, I think Cilla had a unique talent and a unique voice You really should have a listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen Of The Night, you'll love it. The similarity between Cilla's and Flo's voice is quite incredible, it's not many pop singers that can be compared to a star of the opera.
@Isleworthful Apparently it's for real... The British like Cilla because she's considered a likeable, hard working entertainer. As for her singing... I also thought it was a joke. I think she was sort of the Florence Foster Jenkins of 1960s pop music.
@gframpton1 So was Max Bygraves, it doesn't mean either of them could sing though. Cilla has no range she mumbles the low notes, the top notes are truly horrendous, she just lets rip with this really ugly shouting. She was a Liverpool girl in the right place at the right time. The public eventually rumbled her though, after 1971 she had 12 successive flops and thankfully stopped inflicting her excrutiatingly painful voice on everyone. She sounds like a cat on heat.
Those people who say she was just karaokeing - why do you have to be playing an instrument to be called talent. She can sing!! At least she can sing live - not like a lot of artists today who mime because they need a studio to make them sound good. I wonder how she got so successful if she is not talented???
Montywhittle - you certainly have the right to think Cilla's talent was average...but in the end...you have it wrong...and millions of fans would completely disagree with you! Oh...and they'd be right too!!!
Originality, time after time, was what made Cilla remarkable (take a look at Twinkle - Terry as an example of the other girls around at the time) - as well as a really good voice when it came to songs that suited her.
I suppose success speaks for itself. She was one of the most successful female recording artists of the 1960s that that my friend you can't take away from her
If Cilla Black was just a karaoke performer, then it should also follow like wise for "The king" Elvis. He just sang other peoples songs, he never wrote anything. He may have got half-ass credit for co-writing a one song with one of his bouncers, Big Red but that was it !
I can think of others, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin....I think you get the idea.
Cilla gives the song her own favor, makes it her own.
If Cilla Black was just a karaoke performer, then it should also follow like wise for "The king" Elvis. He just sang other peoples songs, he never wrote anything. He may have got half-ass credit for co-writing a one song with one of his bouncers, Big Red but that was it !
I can think of others, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin....I think you get the idea.
Cilla gives the song her own favor, makes it her own.
I second that emotion! I never knew about Cilla's music until last year. Thanks to youtube I've been able to enjoy her MANY wonderful tunes. Quite a lovely & talented lady! CHEERS! :-)
I know exactly how you feel. I was marginally familiar with Cilla (being a big Beatles fan that I am), but never really LISTENED to her amazing singing until I began watching these YouTube videos. I'm sorry I wasn't old enough to appreciate her when she was at her peak.
@adamkincaid1234 .. not difficult to imagine at all .... isn't the current top 10 just one song re-hashed/speeded up/slowed down/sampled/re-processed etc. etc.??? :) (cue LOTS of indignant replies involving lots of witty anglo-saxon words!)
Seeing as how this made it to number two I'd say there were tons of people who'd disagree with you. I do agree with you about her recording of Alfie. She did it better then anyone else who sang it.
talentless useless sad cow. how she got the right to sing alfie god knows, it was terrible. dionne warwick should have sung that. she was and is, a fucking joke, i knew the beatles blah blah, she is a fucking phoney. even the scousers hate her guts, useless ginger slag.
peter7409 1 week ago
Just listening to the first line and she's already out of tune
keannep 2 weeks ago
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keannep 2 weeks ago
The one and only thing that could be wrong with this video is that when it was transferred from the original tape to avi file or similar, the person doing the transfer pushed the volume a bit high so that the recording needles drifted into the red on the higher or louder parts of the song. This will make those parts then sound a bit distorted, including Cillas voice which is why there should never be "judgement" made, based on video clips. See the artist live and THEN make an honest judgement.
brickpaverr 2 weeks ago
@brickpaverr I've heard the original LPs and she's shit in my opinion.
dutchgoing 2 weeks ago
@dutchgoing Hey, thats fine. You stick to your narrow minded and blinkered opinion because there is no way that you are going to see it any other way. You have your opinion, I have mine and a whole lot of other people have theirs also. Lets leave it at that because I have no intention of replying to this again, unless that is, you feel that you want to have the last say. If you do, please be my guest and you have a nice day now.
brickpaverr 2 weeks ago
@brickpaverr You really need psychiatric help. I just listened to her recordings, formed an opinion compared with better singers and that was it. I know crap when I hear it and don't have to be 100% right all the time. You are abusive because somebody disagreed with you about a gig you went to 44 years ago & a singer who stopped singing nearly 40 years ago. Stop pretending to be all pleasant now, that's just passive aggression. Taking your ball home are you? You behave like a 7 year-old.
dutchgoing 2 weeks ago
@dutchgoing You're a bit of an unpleasant person with your passive verbal abuse aren't you, choice of words, insults, etc, especially when we can't get someone to agree with our self imposed opinions. Just have a read back at all the stuff you've fired at me and tell me that it's not the pot calling the kettle black. The precise opinions that you are aiming at me, you are also totally guilty of yourself. You have your opinions and I have mine. LEAVE IT AT THAT.! NO MORE REPLIES.!!!
brickpaverr 2 weeks ago
@brickpaverr I thought you weren't going to reply? lol I think you need to see a therapist because you need to be 100% right about everything, which includes playing the victim. Bit late for you to complain about abuse when you pitched in with a lot of invective right at the start. If you don't like it, don't dish it out from behind the safety of your pc because something you like was criticised. Nobody was having a go at you & you went looking for a fight. Too bad if you don't like my replies.
dutchgoing 2 weeks ago
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brickpaverr 3 weeks ago
It seems that no matter how good a singer is, there is always some non musically educated clown who will bag the singer without having the faintest idea why. Such is the case with a couple of "armchair crirics" regarding Cilla Blacks voice. The best endorsement to the quality, or lack of, to someone's singing voice is NOT always their records, but to hear them live. I was priviledged to hear Cilla sing live with a 25 piece orchestra in Australia in 1966. Absolute powerful voice & brilliant show.
brickpaverr 3 weeks ago
@brickpaverr You really have got a bit of a testosterone problem haven't you. Can't calmly discuss a has-been singer from the 1960s who frankly had peers who could wipe the floor with her, without going for as much one-upmanship as possible. The term 'dumbass' is used by red-necks and the uneducated. Yes Cilla could do the loud thing, but I didn't like her voice & she sounds like a raped cat frankly. Believe it or not people can tell if something is good or not using their own judgement.
dutchgoing 2 weeks ago
@brickpaverr Oh you're an Australian of a certain generation, explains all your huffing-puffing I-know-better-than-you-alpha-male chuntering. Look some people think Cilla stinks and as others have said the UK public took a few years to get wise to it and then dropped her like a hot brick. You can like or dislike what you want frankly. Btw the habit people very often have of hurling personal insults via the net hasn't passed you by, you're right up there with the times, lol.
dutchgoing 2 weeks ago
@dutchgoing What do you mean, I'm "hurling insults"? They're NOT insults, It's called constructive criticism or didn't you notice that. You've NEVER seen her do a live show in the sixties and unfortunately, you never will. You're NOT a musician. You weren't even born then so you're basing ALL your narrow minded opinions on something or someone that you have NO first hand knowledge of but rather based solely on you-tube clips & videos. You stick to your opinion & I'll stick to mine!
brickpaverr 2 weeks ago
@brickpaverr You are a hypocrite. You were and are saying that nobody is allowed to have an opinion about the worth of something because if they are not as you suppose not educated in a musical sense their opinion can be discounted & derided. That isn't living-and-let-live that's evidence of arrogance & snobbery beyond belief & you seriously believe you aren't being insulting. You need psychiatric help if you think you haven't got a need to be 100% right & actually think you are being fair.
dutchgoing 2 weeks ago
This is so bad. The British public were a bit naive about what was good or bad in those days.
dutchgoing 3 weeks ago
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brickpaverr 3 weeks ago
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@dutchgoing When I used the term "dumbass", I meant it & don't for a second assume that I am uneducated before you find out just how qualified I really am. Have you bothered to read any of the other comments, because if you have, you would notice that you are in a severe minority of people who do not like her. Did you ever see Cilla at a full concert backed by a 25 piece band, No I bet you HAVEN'T. I have. In Australia in 1966 & she was brilliant. You're NOT a musician. That's VERY obvious!
brickpaverr 3 weeks ago
This is the Cilla I will always remember and think of. I was a little girl and I thought she was wonderful. No nose job and her teeth were crooked. A huge talent. A HUGE voice.
She could have been a primadonna in any opera house had her voice been trained. I'm glad to have been around then and I'm glad that young people are beginning to say, "Cilla Black was good,."
missgreeneyes56 1 month ago
@Scrumdidilyumpchious She is like the singers in the USA today because none of them can sing. If it wasn't for the girls being half naked they would have never made it to any stage and then there is RAP ? What the FXXK is that nothing but screaming BULL SHIP. And it is all electrically enhanced. Terrible.
sixtiesforever1966 1 month ago
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PinkLederhosen 2 months ago
i don't like this and i'm not going to dislike the video either, i just came here for pure curiosity.. hope not to offend anybody
miedo18 2 months ago
cilla was a great singer,she had 11 top 10 hits in 7 years,she sang this great song and it went to no2 in the charts in 65,even cilla said she prefered the original version,i seen cilla singing live in 08 and she was brilliant,cilla is fab.
faltskog36abba 2 months ago
@Scrumdidilyumpchious HEY, I recall that. Rather, I wasn't able to forget it and I tried.
All together now "And it's gawn gawn gawn wooooe-oooooe". Bloody 'ell.
TOBERT001 2 months ago
@Scrumdidilyumpchious
well Mr armchair critic, tell me have you ever seen her live ??, when I say live, I dont mean the electronicly enhanced stuff we see today, I mean someone singing naturally to a large audience..... I didnt think so, because if you had, and I had the pleasure of that, you would realise that she had an extensive vocal range, that really doesnt come out on some of the horrible recordings of her done in the 60's. I dont know where you are from, but she demaded to sing live.
freddieclark 3 months ago
Whatever people think of her as a person, be it good or the opposite.....let's leave aside.
Musically, her singing is absolutely appalling. Perversely, I had to tune in to her attempt at this Spector classic.
TOBERT001 3 months ago 5
This song gets my vote for one of the top 10 songs of all time.
kdhvernon 5 months ago
Loved her....end of story!!!
whitchie 5 months ago
Lets get some facts straight. Cilla was an extremely popular entertainer in the UK Someone said "All The Beatles hated her". On what basis can anyone make such a ridiculous statement? John told Brian Epstein to check her out. After she got a record deal the first song she recorded was a Lennon-McCartney song. She recorded various Beatles songs including Its For You which was given exclusively to her by Paul and which was very innovative at the time as it was a jazzy waltz.
guitarmanUK 5 months ago
@guitarmanUK She has always claimed that she knew The Beatles. The sad fact is that she didn't know them.
dutchgoing 3 weeks ago
@dutchgoing HAHAHA! REALLY? So explain the pictures of her with various Beatles on various occasions including in the recording studio or the fact that Paul played piano on one of her records and wrote songs for her simply because she asked or that one of her recording sessions featured George and Ringo. They would only do things like that for friends or do you think they worked as session musicians to bump up their meagre earnings! Please don't make yourself look so ridiculous.
guitarmanUK 3 weeks ago
@guitarmanUK Actually I first heard the Cilla/Beatles myth about 25 years ago and realised that having shared management, label, producer & material they might have encountered each other, but the rest was Cilla bullshit, like that one about her refusing to record Alfie unless Burt B came over to conduct. She wasn't friends with them, maybe some professional contact, the 'friends' thing is just post-hoc showbiz jerking-off obviously. She didn't get invited to Macca's wedding. Great mates indeed.
dutchgoing 3 weeks ago
@guitarmanUK Here is some typical I'm-big-mates-with-one-of-the-Beatles obvious BS from has-been Cilla.
'Speaking after she regretted not telling him about her reservations of them marrying. She said: ‘I do advise most of my friends. But not Paul. Mind you, if he'd asked I'd have said what I thought.'I'd have told him he had to make his own mistakes. That's the only way you learn. But I might have suggested (to Paul) that perhaps he should listen to what his family were saying.’
dutchgoing 3 weeks ago
When Cilla needed a song for her new TV series in 1968 (her TV shows were always prime time and immensely popular - this was before she became a TV presenter) Paul wrote one called Step Inside Love which is a fabulous song. I've seen a YouTube clip of her at a Beatles rehearsal/recording session (you certainly aren’t allowed in the studio with an artist unless you are on friendly terms) where Paul shows her the song he has written for her. And she did not steal songs from anyone! See below.
guitarmanUK 5 months ago
Someone here said Cilla stole other’s songs. In the 50's/60's UK companies would often cover a big American hit. There were sometimes a few artists competing as companies tried to grab sales of a popular song. Cilla so impressed Burt Bacharach that when he wrote Alfie (based on a British film of the time) he gave it straight to Cilla and even flew to England to personally supervise the recording session. It was recorded "live" and it remains one of the most iconic records of the 60's
guitarmanUK 5 months ago
@guitarmanUK you beat me to it. The complainers can see the actual recording session with Cilla and Burt Bacharach here on youtube. He wouldn't have chosen her if she wasn't a great singer. He could have picked anyone to record the song and he picked her. That's a pretty good endorsement. It's lame to say someone is a terrible singer when all it is, is they don't like a singer's style or voice. There are singers I don't like but that doesn't mean they're bad singers or have terrible voices.
lasktguy 3 months ago
I am actually disgusted at some of the comments in this thread. What sort of mentality have some of you got? There is no excuse for repeating hearsay about things of which you have no personal knowledge. Some of these comments are libelous as well as insulting. In the UK libel is a criminal matter. What people are saying here bears little relation to the facts. You sad, sad people.
guitarmanUK 5 months ago
Funny how these so-called haters come on here, yet they obviously didn't come across this by mistake again and again. If you don't like it, don't listen to it or watch it and keep your dumbass comments to yourselves.
FaerieCrone 5 months ago
She got into showbiz on her back, getting shagged by everyone,a bouncer at the cavern told me,she worked in the cloakroom,and he'd seen her getting it regularly on the stairs,that was all she was good for.
barneyboscoe 6 months ago
@barneyboscoe odd, I doubt either you or your friend is old enough to have known Cilla back in the 60's, however if you were, then you certainly are not courteous people. This type of gossip has no place in a discussion of whether an entertainer is entertaining. Smear gossip is more telling about the people who spread it.
Ryhela 5 months ago
sad, useless, demented slag. she was fuck all and still is fuck all. the beatles hated her. and the scousers fucking despise the ginger cunt. she is a shithouse
leon66704 6 months ago
@JohnAGood - You have no idea what you are talking about, musically that is.
surfango1 6 months ago
@surfango1 It's all a case of opinion and personal taste. If you like a singer who sounds like a cat on heat giving it the full chorus in the middle of the night than that's great. Anyone who likes Cilla must listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night. If you like Cilla you'll love this, it's very easy to hear where Cilla got her inspiration from when listening to Florence.
JohnAGood 6 months ago
@JohnAGood
It is all a mater of personal taste - that is your opinion.
If she was that bad she would not have made so many records, had number one hits, long running BBC Television series, topped the bill at The Palladium.........best you can't lay claim to any of that!
iancv 6 months ago
@iancv I certainly can't, I certainly wouldn't want to inflict my tuneless singing on the world, pity Cilla couldn't do the same. Cilla recorded some fabulous songs, mostly nicked off other artists, with some great arrangements from George Martin. In the end though the public sussed her out. That's why from 1971 onwards she had twelve flops in a row. Even she realised the game was up and instead resorted to hosting tacky TV shows.
JohnAGood 6 months ago
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cocochanelleke 7 months ago in playlist 60s pop
@cocochanelleke
Think you mean Liverpool Lullabye
corringhamlad 7 months ago
@corringhamlad
Yes, yes, thank you ever so much!
cocochanelleke 7 months ago
@Scrumdidilyumpchious You miss the point ,its not always the voice ...but the emotion behind it....you,re username sounds scouser like are you ken dodd or one of his diddy men ?
speedcrane 8 months ago
like it
allanscot1 8 months ago
i think she has a very special voice. you can like it or hate it. i personally love it, because it's not like everything else that you can find on youtube. if you don't like it don't watch it!
Scaramouchemusic 8 months ago
Do you have her show from 19 February, 1969? It has an amazing duet medley of "Walk On By"/"The Look of Love" with Cliff Richard.
pauldrendon 8 months ago
To be honest this ain't a bad record, one of her biggest hits. It's also beautifully shot, and I'd like to know what programme it came from - it doesn't look like TOTP or RSG. Nice use of contrast. The Righteous Brothers version is better though!
aoscot 8 months ago
If I remember right for the first 2 or 3 weeksof their chart run Cilla was outselling the Brother's version of this and was at no.2 while they were at no.3 and then Andrew Loog Oldham and the Rolling Stones took out an add in the music press asking people buy the Righteous brothers record instead of Cilla's and the next week they went to no.1 and she started dropping down the charts.
aoscot 8 months ago
good, good, but the brothers had this song....
macdaddy912 9 months ago
I think she looks and sounds gorgeous here.
ghb61 9 months ago
HA HA.......How many of florences records do you have......I fear you may have irreparabley damaged your hearing listening to her .
speedcrane 10 months ago
Cool. I also have some nices videos. Click on me (or just search for "tomerp84")
tomerp84 10 months ago
There were times (such as in this clip) when Cilla looked HOT! Love her voice, too.
ghb61 10 months ago
Cilla Black a soul singer singing in the Apollo with Aretha Franklin? Puleassee, is this the same Cilla Black who had one minor hit in the US? Whose last UK hit was in 1971 after which she had a run of fifteen flops?
She sounds more like a cat on heat giving it the full chorus in the middle of the night than Aretha Franklin. The US realised Cilla couldn't manage one note in tune very early on, it took the Uk a bit longer. That's why she gave up "singing" to host her crappy TV shows.
Isleworthful 11 months ago
@Isleworthful Oh please.. a veces la opinión más hiriente es la que viene de la gente...es la más severa...Cilla tiene una gran voz...siplemente hay que acomodarse...escuchar...y respetar...
Montanarus 10 months ago
@Isleworthful Everyone is entitled to an opinion...YOU ARE WRONG....thats mine!.
speedcrane 10 months ago
@Isleworthful Everyone is entitled to an opinion...YOU ARE WRONG....thats mine!..
speedcrane 10 months ago
@speedcrane It's all a case of personal taste as has already been said anyone who likes Cilla must have a listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night, yoiu'll love it. The similarity in vocal technique is uncanny, it's very easy to hear the enormous influence Florence had on Cilla's style of singing.
JohnAGood 10 months ago
@Isleworthful what a crock. She has a big voice but she's in perfect control of it. There were alot of singers in other countries that didn't make it in America but were still big stars elsewhere. America isn't the center of the world. There's an American singer who can't make it big in America....Anastasia. She's the number one female singer in most of Europe but not here. And let's be honest. Other then Madonna (bleech) most singers careers don't last all that long.
lasktdave 10 months ago
SHE HAS AN AMAZING RANGE NOT LIKE THE SILLY CUNTS WHO TRY AND SING TODAY
gazzah54 11 months ago
Have always preferred this version.
fannycraddock99 11 months ago
To all the ppl making fun of a SUPER singer like Cilla... what's up ? Cilla's surname was changed from White to Black after the fantastic colour of her voice... She was working at the Cavern club when a fella said 'Wot's she's doin'here..she must be singing in the Apollo along Aretha Franklin &co!... wise comment indeed.
Virpatrick 11 months ago
@Virpatrick Some people were just born tone-deaf. Cilla never could sing.
dutchgoing 2 months ago
@dutchgoing Is that you auntie? G A L ;)
Virpatrick 2 months ago
@Virpatrick God I hope not!!! lol......
dutchgoing 2 months ago
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brickpaverr 3 weeks ago
@dutchgoing What the hell do you mean, Cilla was tone deaf and could not sing. Why don't you take that dumb-ass statement back to the garbage bin that you dragged it out of. You don't have the slightest idea what you think you're talking about and you CLEARLY have NO musical knowledge whatsoever either.
brickpaverr 3 weeks ago
@brickpaverr I don't know what comment of mine you are answering, but I have never thought Cilla had a flicker of talent, dreadful sounding voice, a jumped-up caberet singer at best, a very very limited talent and a nasty individual too. People like Dusty Springfield had an effortless ability. People who use the term 'dumb-ass' tend not to be very well educated in general.
dutchgoing 3 weeks ago
what a waste of space this sad cow is, fucking useless, cant sing a note. all she says is, i knew the beatles. fuck off sad slag
will55768 11 months ago
She should never have been allowed to ruin such a beautiful song. It's cringe making
dylandollyspud 1 year ago
She kind of ruins the song for me.
VinylToVideo 1 year ago
Some say Cillas voice changed when she had a nose operation. She was one of the great female vocalists at the time.
Wisterialodge 1 year ago
When I was a kid I used to listen to this song, my Dad had a 33 record back then.
Saintalmac 1 year ago
Not at her best here, by a long shot. Maybe just a very difficult song to see, or especially to cover!
rjslade 1 year ago
@rjslade It was her song, others cover her!!
Not the best sound track, possibly because it is more then fourty years old!
She was brilliant in the sixties and seventies!
Gibbs505 1 year ago
@Gibbs505 ...You should check your music history. In reality, this song -- a Spector/Mann/Weil production -- was covered by Black following the original release by the Righteous Brothers.
i agree...Black certainly enjoyed greatness in the 60/70's. I have watched many times the YouTube video of her singing the Beatles' inked "Love of the Loved"!
rjslade 1 year ago
@rjslade You are right...The Righteous Brother's hit was a big one for Phil Spector. Joan Baez performed this once with Spector playing the piano with one hand and leading the band with his left arm. I've got it on a DVD, it was about 1966. Very interesting to see.
whatanightmare1 1 year ago
@whatanightmare1 Would love to see that Baez vid if you can upload it!!!
Reminds me of the (YouTube-posted) studio recording of Cilla Black singing Alfie with Bacharach directing....and playing the piano! LOL!
rjslade 1 year ago
@Gibbs505 As rjslade has pointed out Cillas managemaent team stole this song formthe Righteous brothers in the same way they pirrated Dionne warwicks Anyone Who Ha d A Heart. Anyone who thinks Cilla was great really must listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night. It's very easy to hear the influence Florence had on Cillas voice
Isleworthful 1 year ago
@Gibbs505 As rjslade has pointed out Cillas management team stole this song form the Righteous brothers in the same way they pirated Dionne warwicks Anyone Who Ha d A Heart. Anyone who thinks Cilla was great really must listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night. It's very easy to hear the influence Florence had on Cillas voice
Isleworthful 1 year ago
@Isleworthful A wonderful posting, only Florence Foster Jenkins was just a little bit more in tune than this rotten singer
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
fanastic!
preludefan 1 year ago
She sounds terrible,,,she is so bad my ears hurt
BiffFrog 1 year ago 2
cilla is 1 of the great british talents that was very underrated
sukes58 1 year ago
never trust appearances
warjoy1 1 year ago
Wonderful, powerful voice - a beautiful performance by the one and only Cilla Black. So raw, so alive and real. I adore it!
painterbythesea 1 year ago
come on glassgowify black is utter shite. a demented sad cow. a false ginger minger
rus524 1 year ago
she is so false, and talentless. she knew the beatles blah blah blah. she is working class blah blah blah. she is useless and talentless. she cant sing sing i have heard pub singers sing better. so false and so sad
carlton754 1 year ago
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andybid you got to be having a laugh. she is awful. talentless and useless. all she goes on about is liverpoooooooooooool. never been there in 30 years. that version of alfie is absolute shite. utter shite like her. a total minger and a waste of space. you are obviouly ill so i will let this go. black sounds like a pig in labour. useless twat
rus524 1 year ago
@rus524 OMG ... poor Cilla is getting no love here .. LoL!! :-)
tunenito 1 year ago 2
@rus524
what the hell is wrong with all of you?
glassowify 1 year ago
ugly useless boring minger. talentless ginger cow. cannot sing she is a total tosser. what a load of shite
rus524 1 year ago
@rus524 you ouldnt know a decent singer if it was staring you in the face
MrAndybid 1 year ago 2
alfieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. wot a horrible voice. so bad so sad so mad. ha ha ha ha ha
peter7409 1 year ago
sounds like your aunt at karaoke
musicmanregina 1 year ago
i used to run to the TV and kiss her when I was 5 :-)
MJSCountry 1 year ago
I think Cilla does a wonderful job on this treasure of a song ... Her backup singers should have never opened thier mouths though.
hammerogod 1 year ago
With the SHIT they call "singers" today and you call this hideous???? Yeah, right.
carlsperr 1 year ago
@carlsperr But she just shouts there's nothing musical in her voice at all. She was a Liverpool girl in the right place at the right time and rose to fame on the coat tails of the Beatles. Her "singing" career lasted a mere 7 years and was confined mainly to Britain. She's unheard of virtually anywhere else.
Isleworthful 1 year ago
very unique voice
undonenoob 1 year ago
well considering she sings both righteous brothers parts she does a very credible job actually quite good and her voice is just right
smokelean 1 year ago
Anyone who thinks her voice is hideous....????
Listen to her version of "anyone who had a heart" SHE IS AWESOME!!!
jimmy5634 1 year ago
@jimmy5634 it's awsome if you like out of tune shouting, she utterly destroyes the sublety and soulfulness that was in Dionne Warwick's original. The one saving grace is George Martin's magnificent arrangement which almost but not quite hides the inadequacies of Cilla's truly dreadful voice.
Isleworthful 1 year ago
@Isleworthful According to Wikipedia, the original version was performed by The Righteous Brothers in 1965, Dionne Warwick did not record the song until 1969.
GrahamLondonUK 1 year ago
@GrahamLondonUK I was aware of that, my reply to Jimmy related to his comments re Anyone Who Had A Heart. Cilla tried to nick this song as she did with Anyone Who Had A Heart. This time she came unstuck as the Righteous Bros were rushed over to plug their superior version which outsold Cillas usual attempts at shouting every song she sung. She truly murdered Loving feeling, I'd forgotten just how bad her version was.
Isleworthful 1 year ago
@Isleworthful Sorry, Isleworthful, I didn't realise that your reply to Jimmy referred to Anyone Who Had A Heart. Amazingly, I agree with you that Cilla's version of You've Lost That Loving Feeling is dreadful, it's a song I rarely play. I much prefer her later recordings, such as Step Inside Love, Surround Yourself With Sorrow and Something Tells Me. We're still laughing about Cilla's out of tune shouting!!
GrahamLondonUK 1 year ago
@GrahamLondonUK Anyone that likes Cilla must have a listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing The Queen Of The Night, you'll love it.
Isleworthful 1 year ago
@jimmy5634 :
I hope you've seen the clip of her singing "Anyone Who Had A Heart" live, with the Beatles' producer George Martin conducting the orchestra. And check out the clip of her recording "Alfie" with Burt Bachrach. Incredible!
ghb61 1 year ago
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Just stumbled across this by accident, it's a joke right? Her voice is hideous and she completely destroys this song.
Isleworthful 1 year ago
No, it's not a joke ....
Some people find her quite lovely.
tunenito 1 year ago
@tunenito Possibly her family
dylandollyspud 1 year ago
@tunenito I agree... It´s just another style...from a great british singer... I don´t kow enough about her career but i´ve got her third Abbey Roads´s album "Sher oo" from 1968 and it´s (in my opinion) superb !! ...ups Didn´t she sang "That what friends are for" in the 80´s? Agreat song!!!
Montanarus 10 months ago
@tunenito I find her quite lovely! Check out the clip of her doing 'Let there Be Love" w/ Dudley Moore, phowahrrrr!
Wilthomer66 7 months ago
@Isleworthful .... I agree, how did she ever get a record deal. If someone sang like that today they would be slaughtered!!!
hillcrestave20 1 year ago
@Isleworthful:
I agree with gassah54 -- she is one of the world's greatest (and under-rated) singers. Watch the clip of her singing "Alfie" at Abbey Rd. studios with Burt Bachrach conducting. One of the most outstanding female vocal recordings ever!
ghb61 1 year ago
@Isleworthful No...it's you that a joke Isleworthful for being so blind to the talent of our Cilla!
1957geoff 1 year ago
@1957geoff Au contraire Geoff, I think Cilla had a unique talent and a unique voice You really should have a listen to Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen Of The Night, you'll love it. The similarity between Cilla's and Flo's voice is quite incredible, it's not many pop singers that can be compared to a star of the opera.
Isleworthful 1 year ago
@Isleworthful Apparently it's for real... The British like Cilla because she's considered a likeable, hard working entertainer. As for her singing... I also thought it was a joke. I think she was sort of the Florence Foster Jenkins of 1960s pop music.
trschaefer 1 year ago
@Isleworthful You have no idea how big a deal Cilla Black was in London in 1965. I even remember her, and I was five then.
gframpton1 9 months ago
@gframpton1 So was Max Bygraves, it doesn't mean either of them could sing though. Cilla has no range she mumbles the low notes, the top notes are truly horrendous, she just lets rip with this really ugly shouting. She was a Liverpool girl in the right place at the right time. The public eventually rumbled her though, after 1971 she had 12 successive flops and thankfully stopped inflicting her excrutiatingly painful voice on everyone. She sounds like a cat on heat.
JohnAGood 8 months ago 4
@JohnAGood I hope you stop your excrutiating blogs.
skipper8257 6 months ago
My fav version. 5*
fannycraddock99 1 year ago
you never lost
victoria4043 1 year ago
Underrated talent.
Jnkdog 1 year ago 2
THE definitive version of this song was by Paul Shane on a programme called Pebble Mill 1996.............listen to the master
dpitd 1 year ago
Those people who say she was just karaokeing - why do you have to be playing an instrument to be called talent. She can sing!! At least she can sing live - not like a lot of artists today who mime because they need a studio to make them sound good. I wonder how she got so successful if she is not talented???
jacquebequick 1 year ago
Montywhittle - you certainly have the right to think Cilla's talent was average...but in the end...you have it wrong...and millions of fans would completely disagree with you! Oh...and they'd be right too!!!
gibbopg 1 year ago
Is it just me or is there an Ethel Merman influence in the way she sings?
ikgrande 1 year ago
no it's called shite singing I think.
Montywhittle 1 year ago
Too bad she never did a duet or trio recording of this with the Righteous Brothers.
dumbbo1 1 year ago
Originality, time after time, was what made Cilla remarkable (take a look at Twinkle - Terry as an example of the other girls around at the time) - as well as a really good voice when it came to songs that suited her.
sirrahnomis 1 year ago
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she is awful, and totally over rated!!! with her squeaky goofy singing.....just awful!!
Montywhittle 2 years ago
her great success speaks for itself!!!
debiedog1 1 year ago
@debiedog1 successful? ok, in England, and that's it.
Montywhittle 1 year ago
@Montywhittle AND Australia, South Africa, Europe, Japan...
Pinupip 1 year ago
I suppose success speaks for itself. She was one of the most successful female recording artists of the 1960s that that my friend you can't take away from her
weenyone 1 year ago
@weenyone That was the 60's in England. She was no song writer, she just karaoked other peoples songs. I think her talent was very average.
Montywhittle 1 year ago
Just karoak. That description would apply to any of the top selling solo singers in any decade in any language of any gender
weenyone 1 year ago
@Montywhittle
If Cilla Black was just a karaoke performer, then it should also follow like wise for "The king" Elvis. He just sang other peoples songs, he never wrote anything. He may have got half-ass credit for co-writing a one song with one of his bouncers, Big Red but that was it !
I can think of others, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin....I think you get the idea.
Cilla gives the song her own favor, makes it her own.
beet3333 1 year ago
@Montywhittle
If Cilla Black was just a karaoke performer, then it should also follow like wise for "The king" Elvis. He just sang other peoples songs, he never wrote anything. He may have got half-ass credit for co-writing a one song with one of his bouncers, Big Red but that was it !
I can think of others, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin....I think you get the idea.
Cilla gives the song her own favor, makes it her own.
beet3333 1 year ago
i am 55 and just discovered one of the the worlds greatest female singers
gazzah54 2 years ago 10
Terrific!
:-)
tunenito 2 years ago
@tunenito
I second that emotion! I never knew about Cilla's music until last year. Thanks to youtube I've been able to enjoy her MANY wonderful tunes. Quite a lovely & talented lady! CHEERS! :-)
JubalCalif 1 year ago
@gazzah54
Where have you been? One of my favourites too!!!
iancv 1 year ago
Where is she, so we can all share.
pavlosmarcos 1 year ago
@gazzah54 - Cilla Black has an incredible catalogue of songs for you to discover. An amazing performer!!!
Pinupip 1 year ago
@gazzah54
I know exactly how you feel. I was marginally familiar with Cilla (being a big Beatles fan that I am), but never really LISTENED to her amazing singing until I began watching these YouTube videos. I'm sorry I wasn't old enough to appreciate her when she was at her peak.
ghb61 1 year ago
@gazzah54 where? ha ha sorry
25091855 1 year ago
GREAT !
1dai2ta3 2 years ago
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She sounds like a cat trapped in a mangle
bonus43 2 years ago
I love her haircut.
FaerieCrone 2 years ago 2
she looks like the mother of ny friend Sebastian, a blond boy who lives in Heredia, Costa Rica.
Nancysinatrafan 2 years ago
Oh his poor mother.
pavlosmarcos 1 year ago
@Nancysinatrafan I hope your friends mother doesn't sound like her as well
dylandollyspud 1 year ago
Before the nose and teeth job.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
superbe
64069 2 years ago
Live in wonder You tube. You always will...
Grifiki 2 years ago 3
This was no.2 in the UK chart while the Righteous Brothers were at no.1 with the SAME SONG! Imagine that now?
adamkincaid1234 2 years ago 6
To adamkincaid1234 and everyone, thanks for the great posts! Rock on, Cilla!
:-)
tunenito 2 years ago
@adamkincaid1234 .. not difficult to imagine at all .... isn't the current top 10 just one song re-hashed/speeded up/slowed down/sampled/re-processed etc. etc.??? :) (cue LOTS of indignant replies involving lots of witty anglo-saxon words!)
shaggybristol 11 months ago
Cilla always appealed because she seemed like if she was yours, she'd give you everything, all of her. What a girl, what a voice
adamkincaid1234 2 years ago
I thought Cilla was adorable and had a lot of soul.
tsaisisbuying 2 years ago 2
I love this version of this song. The original is great of course but Cilla just sing the hell out of it.
lasktguy 2 years ago 2
phwoooar she was hot back in her day, i would ;)
mremile72 2 years ago 2
Bom.
Não é uma de suas melhores apresentações...
MarcelaLSD 2 years ago
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An insult to the writers of a lovely song
gusandspud 2 years ago
Cilla sank with this one You can all say what you want but she stuck it to the superstars with Alfie. Rock on Cilla
spur1960 2 years ago
Seeing as how this made it to number two I'd say there were tons of people who'd disagree with you. I do agree with you about her recording of Alfie. She did it better then anyone else who sang it.
lasktguy 2 years ago