I listen to several stations on the internet (mostly all the ones discussed right here). The other day I heard an absolutely beautiful female vocal on WGCY, one of the last remaining true EZ stations. Now, I've heard this song on WGCY before... but never anywhere else, so I was determined to find out the title and artist.
Since they do not post a playlist, and I've had no success with e-mailing them in the past, this time I actually called the station while the song was still playing. This way there could be no question about the song I was asking about... no excuses about the time and how the songs are selected at random by the computer. Anyway, a gentleman was able to tell me the song was "Wait A While" but he couldn't tell me who the artist was.
I did some investigating and it turns out the singer's name is Sam (Samantha) Brown, but the interesting thing is the song is from an album called "Pictured Within" by Jon Lord, who was the keyboardist for the rock group Deep Purple. (Remember "Hush" written by Joe South and "Smoke On The Water"). I haven't heard this album yet, although I will be buying it. Apparently, it's all instrumental with the exception of two vocals which are both sung by Sam Brown. She has one of those angelic voices reminiscent of Nana Mouskouri or Sarah Brightman. The song reminds me of another beautiful vocal I discovered by accident and wrote about on this board a few years ago - "Greenwaves" by Secret Garden, who I think wrote the Josh Groban hit "You Raise Me Up."
But wait... there's more. A year ago, one of my new Christmas music discoveries was a real nice song called "Christmas Eve," a female vocal which, unfortunately, got no airplay this year (at least I didn't hear it on the air), but it deserves to be a modern Christmas classic much like "Christmas Canon" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra or Josh Groban's "O Holy Night." The artist... Blackmore's Night, put together by Ritchie Blackmore. The singer is Candice Night, who may be married to Blackmore (not sure), but the entire CD, called "Winter Carols," is pretty nice. By the way, Ritchie Blackmore was also a member of Deep Purple!
A rather fascinating coincidence, I think.
Since they do not post a playlist, and I've had no success with e-mailing them in the past, this time I actually called the station while the song was still playing. This way there could be no question about the song I was asking about... no excuses about the time and how the songs are selected at random by the computer. Anyway, a gentleman was able to tell me the song was "Wait A While" but he couldn't tell me who the artist was.
I did some investigating and it turns out the singer's name is Sam (Samantha) Brown, but the interesting thing is the song is from an album called "Pictured Within" by Jon Lord, who was the keyboardist for the rock group Deep Purple. (Remember "Hush" written by Joe South and "Smoke On The Water"). I haven't heard this album yet, although I will be buying it. Apparently, it's all instrumental with the exception of two vocals which are both sung by Sam Brown. She has one of those angelic voices reminiscent of Nana Mouskouri or Sarah Brightman. The song reminds me of another beautiful vocal I discovered by accident and wrote about on this board a few years ago - "Greenwaves" by Secret Garden, who I think wrote the Josh Groban hit "You Raise Me Up."
But wait... there's more. A year ago, one of my new Christmas music discoveries was a real nice song called "Christmas Eve," a female vocal which, unfortunately, got no airplay this year (at least I didn't hear it on the air), but it deserves to be a modern Christmas classic much like "Christmas Canon" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra or Josh Groban's "O Holy Night." The artist... Blackmore's Night, put together by Ritchie Blackmore. The singer is Candice Night, who may be married to Blackmore (not sure), but the entire CD, called "Winter Carols," is pretty nice. By the way, Ritchie Blackmore was also a member of Deep Purple!
A rather fascinating coincidence, I think.
