Ezio Pinza - Some Enchanted Evening (best sound quality)

Artist: Ezio Pinza
Title: "Some Enchanted Evening" (from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific")

Label: Columbia Masterworks
Cat No: OL 4180
Release Year: 1957 (re-release) (recorded April 1949)
Country: Canada
Format: 12" LP Album

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ezio
• Pinza
• Some
• Enchanted
• Evening
• Rodgers
• and
• Hammerstein
• South
• Pacific
• Broadway
• Show
• Tune
• Pioneer
• Turntable

[cartoonfan1920s]

This sounds amazing for a 1949 record! It sounds like it's recorded in hi-fi!

[VinylToVideo]

This is not the original record from 1949; this is an LP from 1957 and probably is somewhat "hi fi."

[baghend]

Still get goosebumps listening to this. What an incredible voice. What an incredible song. Sung by a man with genuine talent and class, and written by men of genius who were-with South Pacific- years ahead of their time despite the second world war setting.

This is the standard for this song- every other performer till the end of time will be compared to Pinza's stunning version- and they will invariably come up short.

Oh that we had such talent today. Sigh.

-Thanks for this

-Bill

[ahmelmahe]

My god - my god, does it get any better than this! Rodgers, Hammerstein, the greatest love song ever; and Ezio, ONLY Ezio, brings it all together. BRAVO - BRAVO!!!

[renascencewoman]

has anyone heard perry como's version? rofl. como sounded weak and feeble in comparison to pinza. no contest.

[flyingironman1]

Some Enchanted Evening sung by Ezio Pinza, in my opinion, is the best love song I have ever heard. The first time I heard it was in 1950 and it caused me to fly to the South Pacific and visit Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora Bora for a month. The full moon light sail on a catamarane out of Bora Bora was out of this world. Jarvis H. Renfrow, Sr.

[MrBluedevil444]

My late mother Shirley Rich was the casting director for this broadway show. We will play it at our wedding to honor her. A great song for a great woman.

[thenfuckyou2]

I love how you presume it!! Damn!! That's soooooooooooooo good!

[thephantom1946]

@artcuz1 So true, Pinza's is still the best I've ever heard and I've heard many over the decades, Szot included. Pinza is just superb!

[bairns1234]

Still the benchmark. No other version has ever come close to this. Fabulous.

[artcuz1]

I just saw the Lincoln Centre production of South Pacific last night at the Barbican Centre in London and I have to say that everyone who says Pinza's is the best version of this song is right. That said, Brazilian opera singer Paulo Szot came closer to matching this performance than any other singer I've ever seen in the role and I've seen Philip Quast and others doing it! Try to see it if you can!

[rpm88able]

Truly amazing. Especially that ending!

[ensconse]

Finally got to hear it al the way through...wow!

[vpo2g2]

Pinza is what singing on the breath is all about.