When Franz Lehar wrote “Yours Is My Heart Alone” for his operetta “The Land Of Smiles” in 1929, he could hardly have imagined this treatment by pianist Les McCann. McCann slows things down to a more intimate version of this perennial favorite of operatic tenors. At the end, McCann reaches over the keyboard and plays on the strings of the piano very effectively ending this piece on a quiet
Sometimes you just never know what you'll find when you search for a song title via google's video search. In this case, I was looking for a specific rendition of Les McCann's Compared to What (which, I believe, was co-written with Eddie Harris, but I'm not sure).Several people have covered this song, including Roberta Flak, Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater and there's a rare version floating ...