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Over the past fifty years, a heap of of the top songs have been sung and performed on the piano. There has always been something special in regards to a singer who tickled the ivories, and there have been great piano hits throughout a heap of genres. Ray Charles, who had his life documented in the Oscar winning movie, Ray, starring Jamie Foxx, recorded his original album way back in 1947, but it was 1954 with a song called I Got A Woman, when he had his initial solo success. In 1960 his version of Hoagy Carmichael’s Georgia On My Mind is perchance his biggest hit and is also the official song of the state of Georgia now. It was in the 1950′s, when Rock ‘n Roll was being born that artists like Jerry Lee Lewis came to the fore. His wild jokes on the piano made a song like Great Balls Of Fire a smash hit, and of course influenced so much music of today. Stevie Wonder freed his primary hit album when he was just twelve, and has had so numerous hits since then. Despite being blind, he was capable to learn a heap of instruments allround his childhood, but it is his piano hits and harmonica that most people think of when they listen his name. For Once in My Life, My Cherie Amour, Higher Ground, Part Time Lover and I just called to Say I Love You are just a heap of of the songs over the past five decades that have been hits for him. Elton John is a household name all over the world today for his fabulously written songs. As widely known and esteemed for his flamboyant spectacles, and of course for performing his hit song Candle In the Wind at Princess Diana’s funeral, he has had hit songs for more than four decades, including Crocodile Rock, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, and Rocket Man. When he wrote his iconic song The Piano Man, Billy Joel made his mark on the music industry and gave him his introductory top 40 hit of many. Over the next decade he continued to write a few more hits like The Entertainer, It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me and Uptown Girl amidst others. Today artists like Alicia Keys in the USA, and Jamie Cullum in the UK, carry on the trend of the singing pianist, churning out piano hits all over the globe. Alicia Keys’ Falling was one of the greatest hits of 2001 and she won five Grammy awards the following year. Most helpful customer reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. 7 of 11 people found the following review helpful. 3 of 5 people found the following review helpful. In addition, the technical merit of the recording itself makes this performance a jewel to listen to. Often, recordings of piano solos are entirely too “large”, where the recording engineer placed the microphones too far away from the instrument, thus picking up unwanted reverberation in the hall or studio where the recording was made and giving the final result a muddy, distant sound.
If you like intimate, yet powerful, piano solo recordings, this set will please you – especially the Military Polonaise it contains. |
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