Karel Gott - Prazdny Dum /version La Golondrina,She Wears My Ring/ video free download

* From my collection with more than 800 versions of Narciso Seradell Sevilla's "La Golondrina", instrumentals and songs, world-wide, I am posting here one beautiful and so touching version from the Czech Republic:

- Karel Gott - "Prazdny Dum". *

-----One comment:

"I was recently listening to Gott's recording of "Prazdny dum." It was recorded on 18 November 1968, just months after Soviet tanks had rolled into Prague. Given Gott's reputation as a sort of political chameleon, it's doubtful whether the song, called "The Empty House" in Czech, had any connection in anyone's mind with that event, but you never know. I also realized that this same song was also recorded by Elvis in 1973 as "She Wears My Ring." The English words were by Boudleaux and Felice Bryant. The melody may have originally come from an Argentinian or Mexican song about swallows. There are certainly English, French, and Czech versions of the lyrics. The Czech version (lyrics by Jiri Staidl) talks about birds, but it's much more sadly sentimental than Elvis's droopy cowboy version.

Gott's version has some similarities with Elvis's. Both have smooth, soupy voices that are strikingly broad and full, and they seem to share a belcanto approach. They're also both backed up by heavenly choirs and strings, though Gott didn't enjoy the backing of a honky-tonk band or a choir with gospel leanings. The differences might be equally striking: Gott's voice is tighter but very sweet, more like an operatic tenor, and he makes the most of his range. *** Elvis's, on the other hand, is relaxed and loose with the largest and most wide open vowels you can imagine. Elvis tells it like it is, Gott yearns for better times".

(by Jesse Morskyjezek, Ann Arbor,Michigan,USA)

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http://indreamsonly.blogspot.com/2011/07/la-historia-narciso-serradell-sevilla-y.html