PUTTIN´ ON THE RITZ, a song by Irving Berlin

You can participate in our quiz. You will have to answer some questions about this song by Irving Berlin. But first, enjoy some good performances. Just click on the links below.
What is the prize? Ah, surpriZe!!!

A flashmob in Moscow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KgoapkOo4vg

Performed by Philip Keer-kor-ov:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PauiXy9zE5g

Taco´s version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=eubhg1gTyj8&NR=1

If you want to sing the song, here the lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1_x4D0yi8k

Jeeves and Wooster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGItt9cCgc

Another version by Leningrad Cowboys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-iiz6g1wsM

Performed by Cory Hall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4UpUkDH_7A

By Shiny Toy Guns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcwca7QbdjE

Performed by Judy Garland:

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

Now, Harry Richman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68Wn6l5GuU

Amazing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7dz6WGU-zo

Oh, that Clark Gable!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGHxR7pH_c

Michael Jackson and La Toya dancing like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uXlsf3tvNo

 Young Frankenstein dancing this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6-tYS9k1U

Another funny version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=FCn8FniHHz0&feature=fvwp

TEARS IN MY HEART

PHOTO:  http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/silent-of-tears

  

                                                   God, you know my heart

when I am happy.

My heart dancing in the morning grass,

singing in the blowing air

when I am happy.

God, you know my heart.

You, Who read every soul,

every single thought.

Please, tell me

why are these tears in my eyes

if I only want to smile?

Blanca Langa

You can listen to a beautiful song, "Tears in my heart", by The Hollands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVwfB6pgJSI

IF, a poem by Rudyard Kipling

PHOTO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

It is a very inspirational poem. I read it for the first time when I was fifteen years old. And it changed my life.

Follow the first link and you will listen to Harvey Keitel reading the original poem (with the Spanish version). This is a commercial on CNN. It belongs to the Series of poems 1997, Thoughts that transcend, Union Bank of Switzerland. Copyright of UBS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=url4mfAAYdE&feature=related

Or if you like Federer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFcJPecO568&feature=related

Do you prefer Dennis Hooper?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZhc_YZ2fs&feature=related

A song by Joni Mitchell based on the poem?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78cSts3tJw&feature=related

Or in French:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebCEtIviBDI&feature=related

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"),Just So Stories (1902) (1894), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gung Din (1890), The White Man's Burden (1899) and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

THE PASSPORT, a song by Los Brincos

PHOTO: http://66spanishgarage.blogspot.com/2011/11/los-brinc.html

The sun is shining and I am singing this old song right now. Do you know this Spanish group?.
Enjoy their music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_9WFFZDXQ&feature=related

WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, WHITNEY

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMWcKZokhR0

   Dear Whitney,
   We are sunk now. The news in the newspapers said you had gone. And we couldn´t believe you won´t sing on a stage anymore. Nobody like you could touch our souls. And I want to tell you that you will be always with us. Your songs will always be in our hearts.
  We will always love you.

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Houston was the most-awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records. Her list of awards includes two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide.
On February 11, 2012, Houston died of unknown causes at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston

DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE, by Leonard Cohen

 

PHOTO:  http://www.undiaunacancion.com/articles/detail/36


Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love.

http://www.traduceletras.net/es/leonard-cohen/dance-me-to-the-end-of-love/367353/

THE VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx_v5qVv6H4

 

HAVA NAGUILA. A game for your pupils

   

PHOTOS:  http://www.gratismusica.org/descargar/andre-rieu-fiesta/
http://calvinaphotography.com/2011/09/alisha-nick-foresthill-california-foresthill-lodge-wedding/
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/389267
 These days I have been playing a guessing game in class. My pupils had to guess what was "HAVA NAGUILA". I only could answer "yes" or "no".
    At first, they thought it was an animal and when I showed them Andre Rieu playing the violin at the Royal Albert Hall, they smiled. This is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFtv5qe5o3c

After Andre Rieu, we watched another video, by Lauren Rose:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJbsDk-Quq0

 You can watch this one by Azúcar Moreno:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ZdgJ8CZ-0

Even in Iranian style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVhxQxZRbww&feature=related

I told them the story of this song:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Music/Israeli_Music/Folk_Music/Hava_Nagila.shtml