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Category Archives: Music
Ned of Wales & The Most Boring Day of the 20th Century
Day 339 of Colourisation Project – April 11 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, April 11, 1954, 61 years ago, nothing much happened. It is a date … Continue reading
Percy Faith ~ Easy Listening
Day 335 of Colourisation Project – April 7 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Considered “the most identifiable easy-listening sound-mark” by some, and musical pablum by others, Percy Faith‘s popular … Continue reading
Johannes Brahms ~ Classical Traditionalist
Day 331 of Colourisation Project – April 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born in 1833, in Hamburg, Germany, Johannes Brahms is widely considered one the 19th century’s greatest … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Composers, Germany, Music
Tagged Beethoven, Brahms, Franz Liszt, Fritz Luckhardt, Haydn, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Loredana Crupi, Mozart, Opus Loredana, Richard Wagner
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RIP – The Singing Nun
Day 326 of Colourisation Project – March 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. When police officers found the lifeless bodies of 52-year-old Jeanine Deckers and her lover, Annie Pecher … Continue reading
Maurice Ravel ~ Unraveling Boléro
Day 304 of Colourisation Project – March 7 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. In the 1979 movie 10, Bo Derek’s character asks, “Did you ever do it to Ravel’s … Continue reading
Forever Young ~ Patsy Cline
Day 302 of Colourisation Project – March 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, March 5, 1963 the world was robbed of one of the greatest musical … Continue reading
Kathryn Grayson – Hollywood Soprano
Day 286 of Colourisation Project – February 17 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she was better known as MGM musical star, … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Music, Opera, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV, Women In Music
Tagged (1950), Anchors Aweigh, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Kiss Me Kate (1953), La Boheme, La Traviata, Loredana Crupi, Madama Butterfly, Mario Lanza, Opus Loredana, Orpheus in the Underworld, Show Boat (1951), The Toast of New Orleans
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Unforgettable Nat King Cole
Day 284 of Colourisation Project – February 15 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Who doesn’t have a bit of Nat King Cole in their music collection, iPod or otherwise? … Continue reading
Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Music, Photography, USA
Tagged Answer Me, Count Basie, For Sentimental Reasons, King Cole Trio, L-O-V-E, Loredana Crupi, Mona Lisa, Nat King Cole, Nature Boy, Peggy Lee, Ramblin' Rose, Route 66, Sammy Davis Jr., Straighten Up and Fly Right, The Christmas Song, The Nat King Cole Show, Tony Bennett, Unforgettable, Walkin' My Baby back Home
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Mario Lanza – The Voice
Day 269 of Colourisation Project – January 31 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. What Alfred Arnold Cocozza lacked in height, he made up for with his beautiful tenor voice. An … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Hollywood, Music, Photography, USA
Tagged Be My Love, Enrico Caruso, Loredana Crupi, Mario Lanza, Opus Loredana, Serenade (1956)
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