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Title: George Michael - ♫ Past Time Paradise ♫ (Live Tour - 1988)
Description: Official Page:
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"♪ ♫ ♪ George Michael and Wham! Fans ♪ ♫ ♪" :
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♪ ♫ ♪ Past Time Paradise ♪ ♫ ♪
"Past Time Paradise" was a song originally by Stevie Wonder and was released in "Songs in the Key of Life" album on September 28, 1976.
Released: September 28, 1976.
Cover hierarchy:
●Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder (September 1976)
●Pastime Paradise by Ray Barretto (1979)
●Past Time Paradise by Panache Culture (1994)
●Gangsta's paradise by Coolio (1995)
●Amish Paradise by "Weird Al" Yankovic (March 12, 1996)
●Gangsta's Paradise by Battery (May 1996)
●Gangster's Paradise by Havana Express (2002)
●Pastime Paradise by Najee (1995)
●Pastime Paradise by Trijntje Oosterhuis (November 29, 1999)
●Pastime Paradise by Rainer (2000)
●Pastime Paradise by Sherry Winston (2000)
●Pastime Paradise by Youngblood Brass Band (2000)
●Pastime Paradise by Patti Smith (April 17, 2007)
Title: Afro Cuban Express Show
Description: AFRO CUBAN EXPRESS
The Hottest Latin Music and Dance Extravaganza
Experience a Caribbean hurricane with Cuba's hottest dancers and musicians in the spectacular Cuban cabaret-show "Afro Cuban Express"!!!
Afro Cuban Express features some of the original members of 'Havana Nights' and 'Lady Salsa'! Stage Shows and preserves the music and dances created by the cultural mix of African and Spanish influences with an extraordinary and unique Cuban expression.
Enjoy this authentic Cuban extravaganza of high-energy dance routines and hot Cuban beats such as sexy Salsa, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha, Son, Danzon, Pilon, Mozambique, Comparsa, Carnival and Rumba.
With two hours of splendid color, rhythm and movement, Afro Cuban Express will transport you directly to a night in Cuba!
Don't miss out this amazing and exotic experience!
Title: BURL IVES-LAVENDER BLUE
Description: Life and career
[edit] Early life
Burl Ives was one of seven children born to a Scottish-Irish farming family. Born in 1909 near Hunt City in Jasper County, Illinois, Ives was the son of Levi "Frank" Ives (1880-1947) and Cordelia "Dellie" White (1882-1954). He had six siblings: Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn, and Norma. His father was at first a farmer and then a contractor who did work for the county and others. One day Ives was singing in the garden with his mother, and his uncle overheard them. He invited his nephew to sing at the old soldiers' reunion in Hunt City. The boy performed a rendition of the folk ballad "Barbara Allen" and impressed both his uncle and the audience.[2]
From 1927 to 1929 Ives attended Eastern Illinois State Teachers College in Charleston (now Eastern Illinois University), where he played football.[3] During his junior year, he was sitting in English class, listening to a lecture on Beowulf, when he suddenly realized that he was wasting his time. So he got up to leave. As he walked out the door the professor made a snide remark and Ives slammed the door behind him.[4] Sixty years later, the school named a building after its most famous dropout.[5]
On July 23, 1929, in Richmond, Indiana, Ives did a trial recording of "Behind the Clouds" for the Starr Piano Company's Gennett label, but the recording was rejected and destroyed a few weeks later.[6]
[edit] 1930s-1940s
Ives traveled about the U.S. as an itinerant singer during the early 1930s, earning his way by doing odd jobs and playing his banjo. He was jailed in Mona, Utah, for vagrancy and for singing "Foggy Foggy Dew," which the authorities decided was a bawdy song.[7] In c. 1931 he landed on WBOW radio in Terre Haute, Indiana. He also went back to school, registering for classes at Indiana State Teachers College (now Indiana State University).[8]
In 1940 Ives began his own radio show, titled The Wayfaring Stranger after one of his ballads. The show was very popular. In the 1940s he popularized several traditional folk songs, such as "Lavender Blue" (his first hit, a folk song from the 17th century), "Foggy Foggy Dew" (an English/Irish folk song), "Blue Tail Fly" (an old Civil War tune) and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" (an old hobo ditty).
In early 1942 Ives was drafted by the military and spent time first at Camp Dix, then at Camp Upton, where he joined the cast of Irving Berlin's This Is the Army. When the show went to Hollywood, he was transferred to the Army Air Force. He was discharged honorably, apparently for medical reasons, in September 1943. Between September and December 1943, Ives lived in California with actor Harry Morgan, who played Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H many years later. In December 1943, Ives returned to New York City and went to work again for CBS radio for $100 a week.[9]
On Dec. 6, 1945, Ives married 29-year-old script writer Helen Peck Ehrlich.[10] The next year, Ives was cast as a singing cowboy in the film Smoky. Other movie credits include East of Eden (1955); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958); The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; and Our Man in Havana (1959), based on the Graham Greene novel; and many others. His autobiography, The Wayfaring Stranger, was published in 1948. He also wrote or compiled several other books, including Burl Ives Song Book (1953); Tales of America (1954); Sea Songs of Sailing, Whaling, and Fishing (1956); and The Wayfaring Stranger's Notebook (1962).
[edit] Broadway roles
Ives' Broadway career included appearances in The Boys From Syracuse (1938-39), Heavenly Express (1940), This Is the Army (1942), Sing Out Sweet Land (1944), Paint Your Wagon (1951-52), and Dr. Cook's Garden (1967); his most notable Broadway performance was as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955-56), a role written specifically for Ives by Tennessee Williams.[citation needed]
[edit] 1950s: Communist "blacklisting"
Ives was identified in the infamous 1950 pamphlet Red Channels as an entertainer with supposed Communist ties.[11] In 1952, he cooperated with the House Unamerican Activities Committee and named fellow folk singer Pete Seeger and others as possible Communists.[12]
His cooperation with the HUAC ended his blacklisting, allowing him to continue with his movie acting. It also led to a bitter rift between Ives and many folk singers, including Seeger, who felt that Ives had betrayed them and the cause of cultural and political freedom to save his own career. Forty-one years later, Ives and Seeger were reunited in a benefit concert in New York City; they sang "Blue Tail Fly" together.[13]
PART OF IVE'S BIOGRAPHY TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA.
Title: La Paloma
Description: Tenor Franco Tenelli sings popular Cuban song
"La Paloma" is one of the most popular songs ever written, having been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was composed and written by Sebastián Iradier after he visited Cuba in 1861. The first line of the original song is "Cuando salí de la Habana, válgame Dios!" Iradier may have composed "La Paloma" around 1863, just two years before he died in Spain in obscurity, never to learn how popular his song would become.
The influence of the local Cuban habanera gives the song its characteristic and distinctive rhythm. Very quickly "La Paloma" became popular in Mexico, and soon spread around the world. In many places, including Mexico, Spain, Hawaii, Germany, Romania and Zanzibar, it gained the status of a quasi folk song. Over the years the popularity of "La Paloma" has surged and receded periodically, but never subsided. It may be considered one of the first universal popular hits and has appealed to artists of diverse musical backgrounds.
The motif
The motif of "Valgame Dios, Gonzalo es La Paloma" (the dove) can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492 BC preliminary to Darius' invasion of Greece, a time when the white dove had not yet been seen in Europe. The Persian fleet under Mardonius was caught in a storm off the shore of Mount Athos and being wrecked when the Greeks observed white doves escaping from the sinking Persian ships. This inspired the notion that such birds bring home a final message of love from a sailor who is lost at sea. This theme that a final link of love overcomes death and separation is reflected in "La Paloma". While the lyrics may not always be true to the original, the soul of the song seems to survive all attempts to recast it in whatever new form and shape there may be and is able to express the tension between separation with loneliness, even death, and love.
Most recordings ever?
Guinness World Records lists Yesterday by the Beatles as the most recorded song with apparently about 1,600 recordings. It has been suggested that "La Paloma" has more than 2,000, perhaps even more than 5,000 recordings.
Notable events
"La Paloma" was a favorite of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, and at the same time the Mexican revolutionaries played and popularized it well. Legend has it, popularized by the movie Juarez, that as a last wish Maximilian requested it to be played at his execution.
As a correlate - Emperor Maximilian being a Habsburg - ships of the Austrian Navy would never play the song.
First translations appeared already in 1865 in France and Germany.
One of the first recordings that were made is the playing of "La Paloma" by the French Garde Républicaine in 1899.
The introduction of the Hawaiian guitar helped spread the popularity of "La Paloma".
Diverse lyrics have been created in many languages. In English the title "No More" was made popular by Elvis Presley.
La Paloma has been interpreted by musicians of diverse backgrounds including opera, pop, jazz, rock, military bands, and folk music.
The song entered the Guinness Book of World Records being sung by the largest choir, 88,600 people, in Hamburg on May 9, 2004.
Played regularly at LA ARAUCANA restaurant in Brussels, most notably sung in the presence of her majesty Fadila Ben Meradi, first lady of Rome and Sabines champion.
Lirics:
Cuando salí de la habana, válgame dios
Nadie me ha visto salir sino fuí yo
Y una linda guachinanga como una flor
Se vino detrás de mí, que si señor
Si a tu ventana llega una paloma
Trátala con cariño que es mi persona
Cuéntale tus amores bien de mi vida
Corónala de flores que es cosa mía
Ay chinita que si, ay que darme tu amor
Ay que vente conmigo chinita
A donde vivo yo
Y una linda guachinanga como una flor
Se vino detrás de mí, que si señor
Si a tu ventana llega una paloma
Trátala con cariño que es mi persona
Cuéntale tus amores bien de mi vida
Corónala de flores que es cosa mía
Ay chinita que si, ay que darme tu amor
Ay que vente conmigo chinita
A donde vivo yo
Ay chinita que si, ay que darme tu amor
Ay que vente conmigo chinita
A donde vivo yo
When I left Havana nobody saw me go
But my little gaucho maid who loves me so
She came down the pathway following after me
That same little gaucho maid that I longed to see
If at your window you see a gentle dove
Treat it with care and welcome it there with love
It may be so I do not deny its glee
Crown it with flowers grant love its hours for me
Oh my darling be mine
Won't you say that you love me
All my passions so tender oh please surrender your love divine
Ah my darling be mine
Won't you say that you love me
Oh my passions so tender oh please surrender your love divine
Oh my darling be mine
Won't you say that you love me
All my passions so tender oh please surrender your love divine
Title: Unbelievable New Mortal Kombat 2008 Movie Promo FATALITY
Description: Xtreme Mortal Kombat Real Life Fight PLUS A REAL LIFE LIKE FATALITY...
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DEAD OR ALIVE!!
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Title: myHotelVideo.com presents: Hotel Iberostar Varadero in Varadero / Cuba / Cuba
Description: More @ http://myhotelvideo.com/de/landingpage/youtube/resourceid/Mhv_Catalog_Offer::47930
Location:
The modern hotel complex is set in a fantastic location directly by Varadero beach, surrounded by lush tropical greenery. The nearest nightclub is 1 km away and the Delphinarium is 7 km away. The centre of Varadero is roughly 18 km away. Varadero international airport is 50 km away. The capital, Havana, lies about 150 km from the hotel.
Facilities:
Opened in 2004, the hotel comprises a total of 386 rooms spread over 11 buildings. 4 of the rooms are disability-friendly. There are 324 standard rooms, 60 junior suites and 2 presidential suites. The hotel offers a lobby with a 24-hour reception and a currency exchange desk. In addition to this, there are a number of shops, a hairdresser, a nightclub, a variety of function and conference rooms, a car park, room service, a kids' club and a playground. For an additional fee guests may take advantage of the Internet access 24 hours a day, the laundry service and medical care. A car and motorbike rental service is also available. A cafeteria, 6 different bars and 4 speciality or buffet restaurants, some with live cooking, offer guests a selection of catering options.
Rooms:
The rooms all come with an en suite bathroom with hairdryer. They also feature a direct dial telephone, satellite TV, an iron and ironing board, a double or king-size bed, a room safe, Internet access and a minibar. Moreover, all rooms come with either a balcony or terrace. The air conditioning is individually adjustable.
Sports/Entertainment:
There are 3 outdoor swimming pools, one of which comes with a Jacuzzi, another with an entertainment programme, and another is specifically for children. Sun loungers and parasols are laid out for use by the pools and on the beach. In the spa area there is an indoor pool, a gym, a sauna, an aerobic, health and massage service (additional charges apply), water massage and much more. Guests also have the opportunity to try their hand at diving and windsurfing, or to play tennis, table tennis, volleyball, beach volleyball, basketball and pool, or to try archery. There is a new entertainment programme with an orchestra or other live music every evening. Guests may enjoy the hotel's nightclub in the evenings.
Meals:
It is possible to book an all-inclusive stay.
Payment:
American Express, MasterCard and VISA are accepted as methods of payment.