Eileen Farrell sings the blues

[@fballiache]

Love that woman. Just Great!

[@staciakraft8226]

This is great singing.

[@pamelaray6032]

The Great Farrell was divine A glorious lady!

[@lefantome-anaudioserial9000]

A charming and kind lady with technique and skill.

[@OldieMusicMan]

Her voice held up beautifully in her later years. She might as well be thirty years younger. She was a treasure.

[@pamelaray6032]

I agree

[@paulprocopolis]

Just great - what a treasure this woman was!

[@ELBassodegrande]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@francescamiano8394]

True blues or not, very few opera singers could properly perform classic pop repertoire at any age. Eileen Farrell was an outstanding artist.

[@pamelaray6032]

The great Eileen Farrell was indeed a treasure. She once said, the problem was, she loved to sing! Thank God she had this problem! She was the greatest opera singer of the twentieth century. She could also properly and beautifully sing classic pop music.

[@kcsing1]

That's my old voice teacher, Eileen Farrell with the great Ted Taylor on piano, an Indiana University student at the time who played piano in our band, the Underground Express. Another IU Farrell student Janey Clewer, Terry Cockerham and I were the vocalists. Kathy Chiavola

[@markcarpenter9235]

She sounds as gppd as her 1960s record. Amazing!!!

[@yiprock]

This is from a program broadcast on CBS Cable in 1982, possibly originally in April of that year. Two more 9-minute segments used to be available on KZbin, in slightly better quality, but at 368X224px.

[@SilverSingingMethod]

@tonespinner Right, but she is singing that song about having the right to sing the blues...even if it is not the blues.

[@carlissima28]

fab!

[@cherubim4452]

Nice to hear a classical singer with blues feeling. I also appreciate both classical music and blues/soul.

[@tonespinner]

I love it, but technically it's not the blues. These are "blues flavored" popular songs. BTW, This person is one of the very few opera singers that I have heard that can get the nuances and phrasing right for this kind of music.

[@SilverSingingMethod]

@tonespinner She sings "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues".

[@bethparker3146]

Awesome, Ted Taylor! She was SO amazing, wasn’t she?

[@357CLOUDY]

Versatile lady nice phrasing - too bad she didn't get with a composer like Billy Strayhorn. He could have done much with that voice. I can hear her singing "Lush Life".

[@mindychu88]

Ted Taylor you're awesome!

[@tonespinner]

@etaoinbshrdlu You're right about that. SLB does follow 1-4-5. my appologies

[@etaoinbshrdlu]

@tonespinner - The St. Louis Blues is not a blues song?! Tell it to Mr. W. C. Handy, white boy!

[@Gary_Jaffe]

hey there -- fyi, it's Koko (not CoCo) and sadly she just passed on also, it's Billie (not Billy)

[@tonespinner]

@MrCafiero Yes sir, you are correct, but "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues" is not a blues. Neither are "How Blue Can You Get", "The Birth of The Blues" or St. Louis Blues". These are "torchy" popular songs that many people mistake for the blues because of their subject matter. "The Blues" must have a strict 1-4-5 harmonic structue of all dominant seventh chords. Usually done in a twelve bar form.

[@angiegamble1326]

Q e. v. l

[@jimrick6632]

WHEN WAS THIS TAPED????

[@jakej.5996]

This was from the TV program "CBS Signature", around 1981-1982

[@morrisnelms]

She sounds like Lena Horne with a better instrument. Nice!

[@zzausel]

@MrCafiero The pianoman doesn't play the blues, he not even swings, so how can she get in?