WOW! Give it up for "Ory":http://mog.com/ORY everyone. Ory has single-handedly made "Vikki Carr":http://mog.com/music/Vikki_Carr the Top Artist This Month. Bigger than M.I.A. and Bob Dylan. I admire Ory's devotion to this artist. I had no idea who Vikki Carr was until today. I went out and listened to a few tracks and some aren't that bad. I like the older stuff better. Not quite my tas...
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For those of you who may only know Vikki Carr from her 1970's recordings, this collection introduces us to someone who could then and can still deliver amazingly convincing performances of a wide spectrum of songs: country, jazz, current and past pop standards as well as Latin favorites. What makes this 3 cd set work is that it also has recordings which have not been available for a while as we...
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One of the surprises of Vikki Carr's "Nashville By Carr" album is her performance of Kris Kristofferson's song "Sunday Morning Coming Down." This would seem like a situation that would have numerous roadblocks for a singer to identify with. Firstly, it's obvious male viewpoint was considered too risque for it's time (1969) for a woman to sing and the biggest obstacle is that the song is in one ...
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One of the biggest surprises of the Nashville Sound era in the 1960's was an album that became a big seller for chanteuse Vikki Carr--"Nashville By Carr," recorded at RCA's Nashville studios in 1968 using a contingent of Nashville and Hollywood sessions players with the strings and horns arranged and conducted by a blind jazz musician named Julian Lee (who has since become a leading exponent of...
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Queen Elizabeth I danced to it and William Shakespeare mentioned the lovely tune known as “Greensleeves” in his play “The Merry Wives of Windsor” but this song is actually much older. It was licensed for the first time to a Mr. Richard Jones in 1580 who described it as a Northern ditty of the Lady Greensleeves but even this isn’t the correct year. The original lyrics were set as a love p
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The music for the rest of this weekend is serving as a tribute to Vikki Carr's 50 years in show business. Carr has always been America's great gift to the world of music. She is a true Renaissance woman and can sing anything under the sun and make old songs sound like newly minted coins. While Saturday may be all Gershwin, it's a tribute to Vikki Carr.This performance of "It Must Be Him" is actual
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"With Pen in hand," a song by Bobby Goldsboro, has always been one of Vikki Carr's most beautifully poignant hit songs. Originally this and "Honey" were both performed and recorded by Bobby Goldsboro who felt that his songs would sound awful if sung by a woman. Vikki Carr proved him wrong and actually made these songs ring out with authority while never over doing the sentimental nature of the ...
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This song was originally written by Christian comedian Mark Lowry shortly before he joined the Gaither Vocal Band in 1984. He had been working on a script for a play in which he wrote questions he had always wanted to ask the Virgin Mary. Six years later, Buddy Greene wrote the lyrics and the song became literally an overnight sensation. More than 30 artists have recorded this song, from Kenny ...
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"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" was originally recorded by Frank Valli and the Four Seasons one year before Vikki Carr recorded her explosive version. Although the quality of this video is a bit murky, the musical values are very evident. I know because like millions who watched the Jackie Gleason Show on October 28, 1967, this was a fine example what it is like to see Vikki Carr in a concert venu...
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...to make up for the apparent disappearance of the Vikki Carr fanclub from MOG. Wha hoppen? Maybe it was the Mogfather's dissing? HELLLLOOOO? Anybody there?
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Nashville Sound singer/songwriter Bobby Goldsborough (sp?) wrote this expressly as a man's song. When Vikki Carr expressed that she wanted to record the song, Goldsborough tried to talk her out of it, saying it was a "man" song. Nevertheless, Carr prevailed and it is her version that outshined Goldsborough's own recording. Here, from a 1970 appearance (one of many), Vikki Carr sings magnificent...
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"The Big Hurt" was a huge megahit in 1959 for singer Toni Fisher which also pleased her husband Wayne Shanklin who wrote the song. The performance itself became popular through the use of the phasing effect where the sound was delayed slightly, forming its own echo at strategic points in the song. The other aspect is a mind bending tape distortion. This is the ultimate Vikki Carr performance, s...
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Quite a few listeners at Mog who expect a piece of classical music to be in this place need not worry. This is something which Carrfan and myself have discussed many times and it is thus his knowledge that put me on the track for this offering. Many of us will remember hearing Vikki Carr sing "Eternity" on tv, radio and concert. But just exactly what is that string strain that we hear at the ve...
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I couldn't help but watching the mariachi videos and couldn't help but thinking, there IS someone else who also does this material. Unfortunately, there is not of a choice in song material, but this one song, "Por Amor," is used by that master singer Vikki Carr as an encore at even her mariachi concerts. And to think I never watched beauty pageant shows after the 1970's! Here is the great Vikki...
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Another Bob Florence original is the song “Nadie” which strikes a gently reflective backing by Bob Florence with strings and the sad melancholy sound of Don Shelton (who was also a singer and a multi-instrumentalist) on soprano sax. Carr sings beautifully, tenderly with passionate involvement.
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