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My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion from Titanic movie   more...played on chromatic harmonica.

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people's hearts is made outta gold. started with harmonica downside up. butchered guitar play.

If there's one thing I've learned about Mordeth13, is that he's a sadist, and enjoys punishing his subscribers and giving them a hard time. I have learned well from the master. Therefore, in order to   more...get to the good part of the video, you have to endure my horrible harmonica playing.  less

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Blue Skies by Irving Berlin played on chromatic harmonica.

"Blue Skies" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin.
  more...Here are the lyrics:

I was blue, just as blue as I could be
Every day was a cloudy day for me
Then good luck came a-knocking at my door
Skies were gray but theyre not gray anymore

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see

Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When youre in love, my how they fly

Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on

I should care if the wind blows east or west
I should fret if the worst looks like the best
I should mind if they say it cant be true
I should smile, thats exactly what I do

History

The song was composed in 1926 as a last minute addition to the Rodgers and Hart musical, Betsy. Although the show only ran for 39 performances, "Blue Skies" was an instant success, with audiences on opening night demanding 28 encores of the piece from star, Belle Baker. During the final repetition, Baker forgot her lyrics, prompting Berlin to sing them from his seat in the front row.

In 1927, the music was published and Ben Selvin's recorded version was a #1 hit. That same year, it became the first song to be featured in a talkie, when Al Jolson performed it in The Jazz Singer. 1946 was also a notable year for the song, with a Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire film taking its title, and two recorded versions by Count Basie and Benny Goodman reaching #8 and #9 on the pop charts, respectively. Crossing genres, Willie Nelson's recording of "Blue Skies" was a #1 country music hit in 1978.

Recorded Versions

* Ben Selvin (1927)
* Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra (with vocal by Frank Sinatra) (1941)
* Count Basie and his orchestra (with vocal by Jimmy Rushing) (1946)
* Bing Crosby (1946)
* Benny Goodman and his orchestra (with vocal by Art Lund) (1946)
* Frank Sinatra (1946)
* The McGuire Sisters (1957)
* Ella Fitzgerald (1958)
* Jim Reeves (1962)
* Willie Nelson (1978)
* Rosemary Clooney
* Cassandra Wilson (1988)
* Lavay Smith & Red Hot Skillet Lickers (1996)
* Groove Armada (1999)
* Fiona Apple and Brad Mehldau (2002) – unreleased, but performed at Club Largo.
* Brent Spiner performing as Lt. Cmdr. Data, in the 2002 movie Star Trek: Nemesis.
* Caetano Veloso (2004)

Selected Appearances in Film

* The Jazz Singer (1927)
* Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
* Blue Skies (1946)
* White Christmas (1954)
* Glengary Glen Ross 1994
* With Honors (1994)
* Patch Adams (1998)
* Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
* The Aviator (2004)  less

I don't usually go in much for beatboxing or harmonicas, but combined I have to admit they're pretty cool.

I discovered music late in life. I bought these from RockinRon777 on ebay, and I'd recommend buying from this awesome seller. I can finally post a video in the music category. Yay.

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The Girl From Ipanema played on chromatic harmonica.

"The Girl from Ipanema" ("Garota de Ipanema") is a well   more...known bossa nova song, and was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s. It was written in 1962, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes with English lyrics written later by Norman Gimbel. It is sometimes sung by female artists as "The Boy from Ipanema."

The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The version performed by Astrud Gilberto, along with João Gilberto and Stan Getz, from the 1963 album Getz/Gilberto, became an international hit. Numerous recordings have been used in movies, often as an elevator music cliché.

In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.  less

Tom Walz performs a Lonnie Mack tune, "Falling Back in Love with You" at an open mic run by Phil Stahl at the Seemsville Tavern in Eastern Pennsylvania.

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Une Belle Histoire (Un Beau Roman) by Michel Fugain played on chromatic harmonica.

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Libertango by Astor Piazzolla played on chromatic harmonica.

Here's your daily dose of elephants playing harmonicas.

Jerry Portnoy is a blues harmonica master who has playes with Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters to name a few. A digital version of his mastercourse titled Jerry Portnoy's Blues Harmonica Masterclass, now   more...available at www.jerryportnoymasterclass.com  less

The late Terry McMillan, harmonica wizard

The late Terry McMillan, harmonica genius performs with orchestra, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear.

I'm very musically challenged, and as a result, I never appreciated or liked music until now.

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Blue Moon played on chromatic harmonica.

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Le Lundi Au Soleil by Claude Francois played on chromatic   more...harmonica.  less

congratulations to Sammy for being involved in two sold out shows with levon helm at the beacon theater in NYC. here's a little taste of Sammy playing with Fred

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La Bohême by Charles Aznavour played on Chromatic Harmonica

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Jean De Florette movie theme played on chromatic harmonica. This music has been successfully used in a Stella Artois ad where the son of a dying man drinks   more...the "assuringly expensive" beer that was one of his father's last wills.

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Jim Hanft and Samantha Yonack perform "Thief" live in our studio.

My family's humble home in Taipei. Not exactly 5-star, but I love hanging out with my grandma.