Christian the Lion

[Red Kittie Kat]

I don't know if you guys have ever seen this before .. I hadn't and it got me all choked up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U


... and for those nay sayers .. I already checked snopes and its true. ;)

I recognized George Adamson from that clip so I went digging. I fell in love with the movie Born Free when I was little I will never forget Elsa and her cubs :)

[Kool]

That was pretty cool. The Whitney song was a bit over the top though. :p

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Yeah I could have done without that too :D

Besides I liked the Dolly Parton Original better :p

They have it done with quite a few Love songs on Youtube ;)

[garricks]

I recently saw a different version of this story, but I'll be damned if I can remnember where.

I've hated the Whitney version ever since I heard the Dolly Parton version. It's so much more simple and pure. :)

[urstwile]

That was pretty cool. I definitely had a Born Free moment there, Kat. That movie used to tear me up almost immediately.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Same here Urst .... and Jooba darlin ... The Original is always the best ;)

[Riefnu]

Liked that one Kat. Kinda pokes holes in the idea of wild meaning "against humans". that so many people think of.

[artistsdad]

Kittie and Garricks-- I am SO glad to hear somebody else likes the original instead of the retread. I thought I was the only one. Even though the Whitney version was a far better seller.

It seems to me, that in design language, Whitney's version had too many starbursts and the original had the correct amount of white space...

Did I done good with the analogy?

[urstwile]

Very done good. :D

[artistsdad]

Ya'll are so edumakational for me. That's why I stick around. Learning is a goodness.

Been a Dolly fan from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. All the way back to her laundry detergent advertisements. Always felt her writing talents were over shadowed by her, well, um....just by herselfness. She can just pack so much into plain old everyday words.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Dolly's version was much more heartfelt ... Whitney sang it to see what new notes she could hit :p

[garricks]

Bravo, artistsdad!

My favorite Dolly moment was at some awards show or other (proabably Grammys). Her dress separated at the seam, just as her name was called as winning. Having borrowed a gentleman's tuxedo jacket, she went on stage to accept the award and started with something like, "My daddy would say, 'That's what you get for putting 20 pound of mud in a 10-pound sack!' " After the laughter died down she got on with her acceptance speech.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I love Dolly :D

[urstwile]

Dolly's version was much more heartfelt ... Whitney sang it to see what new notes she could hit :p
This is what's always bothered me about Whitney. She's got an undeniably magnificent voice, but there's so little soul behind it for the most part, it just becomes a bunch of vocal tricks and pre-packaged gospel riffs that drive me crazy.

I'll take Dolly, or Aretha with her noticeable cracks in the armor, any day of the week, month or year.

[Red Kittie Kat]

pssst .. Urst don't say crack around Whitney




:p

[garricks]

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/BBU%20avatars/notworthyyi8.gifAretha and Dolly.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Della Reese ... singing Don't You know

*sigh*


:)

[artistsdad]

Lena Horne...Stormy Weather. WOW!! Saw her on some variety show when I was a kid. We always had a radio or record player going when I was a kid, but that was the first time music broke through as more than background sound. I was too young to analyze anything about it. It was just WOW! I LIKE that!

Kittie, you're too young to remember Della Reese as anything other than a TV angel, aren't you??

[urstwile]

I saw Lena Horne on stage years ago when she did that one woman show on Broadway, in the mid-80's I believe it was? I'm old enough to start forgetting that stuff.

She was fantastic.

[garricks]

Lena Horne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMf0Z7EPdLo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0La15_Ziwo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkiZ94Af-mA

Ah, hell, just go search teh Tubz. Lotsa amazing stuff.

[urstwile]

My favorite part of the show was when she talked about getting turned down for the mulatto role in The Music Man for being "too black". o_O

[Red Kittie Kat]

That's pretty funny Urst :D

I love her too ... and No AD ... unfortunately I'm not too old to remember Miss Reese :D

[urstwile]

garricks, your first link reminded me of this song, that I used to love to sing, but could never perform, it always makes me cry a little:

Home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rY9zOd0f-k)