Billy Eckstine - "In the still of the night" descargar videos gratis

Richard Russette

saw the great Mr "B" in Detroit in 1949 and 1950 when I was in High School, we all had his shirts and dressed like him. RIP Mr. "B"

Istvan Jenei

What a voice!

ljliljohn

willie: I'm hip, man. What a shame. Lamont Lewis: I saw the great Mr. on stage at the Earle theater in Philadelphia in 1950 when I was 17. The best there ever was or ever will be.

willie

You can listen to Billy here, and Bing, Frank, Matt Munroe, Tony Bennett, Ella. Sarah Billy Holliday and others, and the question must come to mind.......why did this magnificent age end, and how did music so quickly turn into shit? And to a very large degree it is indeed.... purest shit!

Lamont Lewis

I'm your age. I saw him as a child. My parents were musicians. My mother was a studio musician for the Savoy label in Newark, NJ. She worked with many greats of the 40s. Considered a prodigy herself, she sidestepped commercial success for the church. Then, she had the best choir in Newark, and we were competing against Dionne Warwick, and her cousin, Cissy Houston. My sister could outsing both. Search Youtube for Yvette Glover and choose What a Wonderful World. Imagine her at 18. Mom was bad!

DrGolf4

Mr B still one of the best.........loved you,copied you, sang you songs..........

Carol-Lynn Fillet

I listened to Mr. Eckstine when I was a kid. Now 66. Still love his vocalizations.

Dave Sinclair

My mother was 5/8ths Choctaw indian and told me about the times she used to listen to Billy while in Indian Boarding School. Such fond memories she had..

Michael McNeil

Nice voice but who were the ducks quacking in the background? And who let them in?

john brown

The break for black entertainers [and when it came to "true' color,they did not come any blacker than Nat "King" Cole} was Nat getting his own show,how he did it at a time of such prejudice [pre "bussing"] I dont know,but it was of great significance and those people who were born much later dont always have full appreciation of what a significant milestone Nat's show was.

Prof. Vin Lin C

Sorry, it was not about bands or arrangements that held Eckstine back. It was nothing other than racism at the time. The politicos did not like the fact that white women were doing wildly sexy things when listening to a black man, and they knew that, to the extent these women could not get Eckstine, they would want to find some other black man to live out their fantasy. This was it plain and simple. Things have changed dramatically, just about every NBA player has a white trophy.

DrGolf4

The more I hear Mr B. the more I enjoy his unique style.....One of the greatest...

mymusicdaze

So smooth and so handsome

Sandro Damiani

Oh no, Mr.kofthebaskervilles. The problem was that B.E. was an Afroamerican singer/musician. And intellectual! Too much for american society of 50/60/70th! American society of that time loves (eventually) a "negro" artist, possibility whitout a political things, as Armstrong, Ella, Nat King Cole; not Eckstine or Paul Robeson...

john brown

What a shame as a coloured entertainer he was held back by prejudice from having his own tv show,he had a voice that was a cut above so many of the white entertainers of the day and he stuck to good songs unlike so many others who sang a lot of that post war froth and bubble stuff that we got a gutfull of then.

W. Guy Finley

I agree a lot of arrangements for Billy came up short, until he hooked up with a very young Quincy Jones. I like the fantastic arrangement Quincy did for this song that's on a live album.

kofthebaskervilles

If billy would have had better arranging he would have been a bigger star.

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