Hello Nashville Live with Nashville Symphony

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The Nashville Symphony Orchestra accompanied the voice of "Hello," Florence Warner, in this piece...6 minutes of full-orchestral music. She's got quite a nose! A good example of the kind of community-oriented programming that is hard to find today.

My commentary: there are enough examples of the Hello campaign song on YouTube showing us that there are all sorts of creative lyrices Gari came up with. Yet in this extended version, which has two verses, we hear "working side by side we share the growing pride each time you touch the sky" and then in the next verse we heave "all across the countryside we share the growing pride in everything we do."

Another thing. At 5:30, I have a sneaking suspicion that she flubbed the line. I mean, "from where the rivers flow and everyone we know, they're saying Nashville we love you" - come on. How does that even make sense? The previous verse said "from where the rivers flow to where the sunsets go, we're all good neighbors passing by." Can't fault Ms. Warner, though...by this point she had sung this song for probably 100 different markets, each with slightly tweaked lyrics, in a studio, and sheet music in front of her every time...now here she is in front of a crowd, backed up by an orchestra, and singing from memory. She certainly performed the song very well...but I wonder if they just didn't get very good consultation on the lyrics or the dropped that line.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• hello
• nashville
• rank
• gari
• florence
• warner
• wsmv
• dan
• miller
• symphony
• orchestra

[cllewis1]

Dan Miller, provided the intro here, RIP 4/8/09.

[NewsLynne]

I worship the cheesy ground this walks on. Whew. I miss these news campaigns, though, and Florence has a hell of a voice.

[fossefan]

I love this too...it reminds me of that episode of Family Guy where the commercial jingle singer performed at Carnegie Hall.

[settummanque]

WAVE TV 3 purchased this and later asked Florence to do a special version for my Explorer Post cable TV station down at Fort Knox. The first version featured "makes no difference where I go, this is the best place that I know..." and "we all love you" at the end; because we were competing for a national Exploring communicative arts competition. Two years later, the Explorer Post/television station contracted and paid her to redo the lyrics to "we all thank you". A GREAT memory!

[kduideo]

she sang our tv station here in Pittsburgh :)

[newscaster13]

There was another symphonic version for ABC12 WISN Milwaukee

It was performed by the Milwaukee Symphony (conducted by former Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen), and it was sung by the orchestra's choir.

[donnaoverall]

Florence was my roommate back in the 60's. She'll always be Flo to me. One of the all time great voices!

[lemonade2cold]

I miss campaigns like this and the reason the Symphony was involved was that at the time, Channel 4 was playing an active role supporting a struggling orchestra. Whatever happened to the sense of fun and adventure at WSMV? It's almost too corporate now..

[GANNAMEDE]

What a voice! And to the naysayers, have you ever heard the Nashville symphony in person. I Have, and friends they take a backseat to no one! These musicians are arguably some of the most versatile in the entire industry, going effortlessly from Willy Nelson to Mozart and enjoying the variety as they go. No one lives on caviar, when a cheeseburger appeals to you, you eat it and love it! Snobbery has no place among true artists!

[fossefan]

The icing on the cake would be if at the end, instead of shouting "Hello Nashville!, HELLO NASHVILLE!", she'd shout "Channel Four!, CHANNEL FOUR!"

[distantsignal]

God!!! This is awesome!

If this is cheesy, then make mine with an extra slice.

Florence is a vocal goddess!!