Where words fail, music speaks.
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(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know
mettanc
934 views
Words & Music by Carolyn Leigh & Phillip Springer
If you don't know the person on the other side of the world, love them anyway because they are just like you. They ha...
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For Once In My Life
mettanc
963 views
Written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden in 1967.
The composition was originally recorded by Jean DuShon, while other artists, such as Tony Bennett and The Temptations, r...
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Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
mettanc
957 views
By American folk rock singer Jim Croce in 1973.
The song is about a man from the south side of Chicago who, due to his size and attitude, has a reputation as the "baddes...
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A Day in the Life of a Fool (Manhã de Carnaval)
mettanc
1,016 views
By Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Maria. (English lyrics by Carl Sigman)
The song appeared in the 1959 Portuguese-language film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus),...
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But Beautiful (song)
mettanc
1,020 views
Music written by Jimmy Van Heusen, the lyrics by Johnny Burke. The song was published in 1947. Featured in the Paramount Pictures movie Road to Rio (1947), it was introduc...
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The Beautiful Strangers
mettanc
1,031 views
Written by Rod McKuen.
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Old Devil Moon
mettanc
1,500 views
Composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg for the 1947 musical Finian's Rainbow.
Having video's on Youtube one gets exposed to flattery - Yuck. Honest critici...
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Angel Eyes
mettanc
1,907 views
"Angel Eyes" is a 1946 popular song composed by Matt Dennis, with lyrics by Earl Brent
Much to my surprise and delight I've been on the "Tube" five years and people sti...
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The Good Life (La Belle Vie)
mettanc
1,721 views
By Sacha Distel and composer Jack Reardon
When a singer brings a lyric to life, we typically call the process "interpretation". I try to sing every note and every emoti...
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History Repeating
mettanc
1,721 views
By Alex Gifford
About Where words fail, music speaks.
When a singer brings a lyric to life, we typically call the process "interpretation". I try to sing every note and every emotion to extract the most believability out of the text, to tell a story in the most expressive way possible. I try to pick a song I can feel and understand, so when I sing I have some credibility.
I'm not a vocal virtuoso. There are singer's whose techniques are superior to mine. I don't fully read music.
The majority of the music on my channel are "standards" and "theatre" songs. The era that spawned the songs I sing are no more. I'm a two hundred million-year-old dinosaur loose in the twenty first century.
Mettanc is a combination of "Metta" and "NC" (North Carolina).
The Pali word metta is a multi-significant term meaning loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill, benevolence, fellowship, amity, concord, inoffensiveness and non-violence.
When a singer brings a lyric to life, we typically call the process "interpretation". I try to sing every note and every emotion to extract the most believability out of the text, to tell a story in the most expressive way possible. I try to pick ...
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