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Ghost Riders in the Sky - Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash


Live performance in 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOWjX4BpC24


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Yippie I oh oh oh
Yippie I aye ye ye!

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Too bad we can't go back in time and to watch these two legends in the same stage.

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Maybe someday... with hologram technology.

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love johnny's solo version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMll6TNnTs4

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A slower version with Johnny front and centre. Looks like he had a little fun with it.

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he was shouting and it was very funny.

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Watching this I noticed that Johnny Cash is "singing with his eyes" which is the instructed operatic method. Very impressive.

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that's concentration.

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Well whatever you call it it's the same thing that opera singers do and they call it "singing with the eyes".

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I googled it and couldn't find anything on it. I just assumed it was the same as closing's one's eyes. A form of extreme concentation.

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I saw it on a TV show where Peter Ustinov was talking to Luciano Pavarotti and Ustinov was saying that an opera singer had to " ...sing with the eyes, breathe with the forehead..." and then one other thing to do with the stomach. Pavarotti just nodded as though this was normal and obvious.

It's an Italian thing so maybe that's why it doesn't get results with an English language Google search.



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I know Elvis always closed his eyes on the high notes.

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I tracked down the video and it seems that Ustinov was having a little joke. The singing with the eyes is real but the breathing with the forehead is a stretch and the thinking with the stomach is even more far fetched.

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That simply destroys anything we've heard in the last few years and its fairly old

Two LEGENDS!

Get off my grass son, music was better before you annoying kids were born

*real talk

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And the musicianship of the backing band is absolute perfection. Even the poor drummer who looks like death warmed up.

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Musicianship is so rare now

There are not a lot of artists or bands that can write, play in studio and perform on stage to perfection

It's beyond impressive, it's magical

Genius and Beautiful

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Hopefully people will still appreciate true and genuine talent when they see and hear it in this age of studio engineered trickery.

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I have faith that future people will still be able to appreciate the really good stuff, be it music, movies, whatever

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