Wednesday, April 02, 2008

In The Past


I've had a few disappointments lately when going to my YouTube bookmarks. Some of the performances that I watched regularly are gone. I linked Nina Simone's early version of I Loves You Porgy here a couple of times. It is gone. There is one of her performing it as an older woman that is still up but the six minute version where she's very young and so vulnerable has no comparison. I made a comment on the newer version and have had notifications from Youtube that there have been replies. It seems as though several people have been missing it. One person said that s/he watched it every day. I watched it every month or so.

Many videos of Van Morrison concerts have disappeared as well. I watched these regularly as well. The bookmarked pages say that the media has been removed due to a copyright claim by Van Morrison. I don't understand how someone can own a performance. Once the sound waves are out there and the concert has been performed in public can the person who sang a song own the performance of it? It's all very confusing to me. I just know I miss these wonderful performances and hope they come back again. I will keep checking.

I just clicked on I Loves You Porgy by Nina Simone on my music pages and discover that it's gone from there as well. Another essential song to reinstall. One of the YouTube Van videos I played a lot is This Weight from one of my favorite albums of his, The Healing Game. They're the picks for today.

Update: Ralph's suggestion in the comments helped me find a copy of the 6 minute Nina Simone. I'm so happy to share this wonderful, wonderful version of I Loves You Porgy....for the third time.

6 comments:

Ralph said...

Cuidado, did you try looking in other video sharing sites? I wass looking for a particular ine, too, on youtube a while back and ended up finding it elsehwere--wish I could remember the site name! Wikipedia has a list of all such sites....

Cuidado said...

Great idea, Ralph. I'll give it a try.

Unknown said...

Nina is an angel.
I love that shot. Where did you find that beautiful instrument?

Kat said...

Cuidado,
You certainly went far afield, but I can see why. Thanks for letting me see this!

Cuidado said...

Michael, that 's in a barn on a property that a friend rents. There's a better photo of it on SC last spring.

Cuidado said...

Kat, Isn't it incredible!!. That is one of my favorite Gershwin songs and that clip is the best performance ever of it. Nina never shows emotion on her face but her voice is full of it. She's an enigma.