Annie Lennox - Ev'ry time we say goodbye

Ev'ry time we say goodbye

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[Paulvbc]

Oh my God this is beautiful! I had never heard this version & the video is amazing... What a powerful voice! Does anyone know how long ago Annie recorded this and was it ever released? Amazing.

[ChersBoy]

@Paulvbc It was released on DVD: Red, hot + blue about AIDS

[fallingmusic]

Everytime I hear Annie's version, it is so powerful, it moves me to tears.

[unclejokey]

@Pokemongo1 See my reply above, your facts are not right

Cole Porter did not Die of AIDS, the Director of the Video Did, Derek Jarmen

and it is childhood movies of him and his sister used .

Please check your facts before posting

[unclejokey]

Pokemongo1, Cole Porter is the Writer, Pokemongo1 He did not Die Of Aids,

Porter died of kidney failure on October 15, 1964, at the age of 73 in Santa Monica, California. He is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in his native Peru, Indiana, between his wife and father, even though Porter was not close to his father.[8

Annie Lennox sang it in Derek Jarman's film Edward II (1991) as well as on Red Hot + Blue AIDS awareness tribute album to Cole Porter. The Video Footage is believed to by Jarmen's ?

[Pokemongo1]

@unclejokey I can't remember the exact details, but basically the original writer/singer of "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" died of HIV/AIDS. Annie Lennox was, and still is, very passionate about the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Hence, she recorded her version in honor of the writer/singer of this song, to spread awareness of the disease.

This version has childhood footage of Annie and her family, in memory of her brother or mother who died (can't remember which), who was very significant to her.

[FracescaMaria]

bellissimo.......!! grazie!

[unclejokey]

Can we get the back story on this video Please !

[Mendy7952]

@skyboyq You are right, and it should say "arranged by" in the title. Here is the bottom line. I know a performer who learned the song by rote from this recording and went on to sing it in public this way. When I pointed it out to the performer, she tried it the original way and didn't like it as much. So we both decided that Ms. Lennox' "arrangement" was more suited to her. But had I not pointed it out, she would never have known Mr. Porter's notes.

[skyboyq]

@Mendy7952 I'm not sad at all, so no need to be sorry for me. I'm merely responding to what I think Lennox is trying to do with the song. Call it her "arrangement" if you like. Arrangers have always have a large license for variation.

[Mendy7952]

@skyboyq I am sincerely sorry for your sadness. But, when we commit a performance to a recording that will live on after we are gone, it is nice to also pay tribute to the composer by either using his/her original notes, or giving ourselves credit for transcribing the song to fit us. Generations will now not know what Porter wanted. Is it worth that for our moment of self expression?

[skyboyq]

@Mendy7952 Think of it as a way of saying -- "The joy of a major key is now so remote from where I am that only those happier people who know the OLDER version can get there -- in echo. I know the lark sings in that key, but this is the only one I can reach from THIS place of sadness." It's not a failure, it's a commentary.

[MrLovelyb70]

Great song, amazing performace