By Tom Faber
CSMR Editor
Chicago, USA -- One of our correspondents from London, wrote us and told us about the German pop singer - Ella Endlich's cover of American Country and Western music.
In the course of researching that - we also discovered that Ella Endlich also just did a cover of US pop music legend, Barbra Streisand's '73 hit, The way we were.
We have been big fans of Ella Endlich for 5 years now (although ambivalently, at times, because the communist-born East German has not been friendly to our American writers.)
Ella Endlich has a remarkably powerful voice, and an incredible vocal range.
Over lunch, I recently told my Chicago lawyer, that if there was any person in all of Europe, who was comparable to Barbra Streisand -- it was Germany's Ella Endlich.
And in a recent CSMRarticle, we wrote that she had a Streisand-like vocal quality.
We won't go so far as to call ourselves prescient - or clairvoyant - but lo and behold, Ella Endlich just did a cover of Streisand's '73 smash hit, "The Way We Were."
And she really wasn't far off the mark.
Barbra - you're out in California - and getting old. Look out! A girl from Germany just might be gaining on you!
One of the things you will note in this Ella Endlich video, is that her command of the English language, is significantly better than that of schlager superstar, Helene Fischer's. Also, Ella Endlich injects jazz-like accents into the end of the song.
She hasn't quite attained Barbra Streisand's talent level. But she's not all that far behind.
What a truly remarkable voice!
(Nici McRied and Dr. David Mann MD contributed to this article from London, England and Denver, Colorado, USA - respectively)
Here's Germany's Ella Endlich in her English language version of Marvin Hammlisch's 1974 Grammy award winning hit, The Way We Were:
Here is Barbra Streisand's original version of "The Way We Were." It was from the 1973 movie, of that same name. The song won 2 Grammy Awards for its composer, Marvin Hammlisch, and was voted the #8 US film song of all-time by the American Film Institute, in Washington, D.C.:
You can get more on Ella Endlich at our numerous earlier Chicago Schlager Music Review articles on her:
http://chicagoschlager.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-beautiful-multitalented-ella-endlich.html
http://chicagoschlager.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-little-mid-winter-summer-breeze-from.html
http://chicagoschlager.blogspot.com/2014/06/ella-endlich-turns-30-still-crazy-after.html
Or at her official Ella Endlich website:
http://www.ellaendlich.de/
CSMR Editor
Chicago, USA -- One of our correspondents from London, wrote us and told us about the German pop singer - Ella Endlich's cover of American Country and Western music.
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| Ella Endlich Reverts to American Pop |
In the course of researching that - we also discovered that Ella Endlich also just did a cover of US pop music legend, Barbra Streisand's '73 hit, The way we were.
We have been big fans of Ella Endlich for 5 years now (although ambivalently, at times, because the communist-born East German has not been friendly to our American writers.)
Ella Endlich has a remarkably powerful voice, and an incredible vocal range.
Over lunch, I recently told my Chicago lawyer, that if there was any person in all of Europe, who was comparable to Barbra Streisand -- it was Germany's Ella Endlich.
And in a recent CSMRarticle, we wrote that she had a Streisand-like vocal quality.
We won't go so far as to call ourselves prescient - or clairvoyant - but lo and behold, Ella Endlich just did a cover of Streisand's '73 smash hit, "The Way We Were."
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| Barbra Streisand |
And she really wasn't far off the mark.
Barbra - you're out in California - and getting old. Look out! A girl from Germany just might be gaining on you!
One of the things you will note in this Ella Endlich video, is that her command of the English language, is significantly better than that of schlager superstar, Helene Fischer's. Also, Ella Endlich injects jazz-like accents into the end of the song.
She hasn't quite attained Barbra Streisand's talent level. But she's not all that far behind.
What a truly remarkable voice!
(Nici McRied and Dr. David Mann MD contributed to this article from London, England and Denver, Colorado, USA - respectively)
Here's Germany's Ella Endlich in her English language version of Marvin Hammlisch's 1974 Grammy award winning hit, The Way We Were:
Here is Barbra Streisand's original version of "The Way We Were." It was from the 1973 movie, of that same name. The song won 2 Grammy Awards for its composer, Marvin Hammlisch, and was voted the #8 US film song of all-time by the American Film Institute, in Washington, D.C.:
You can get more on Ella Endlich at our numerous earlier Chicago Schlager Music Review articles on her:
http://chicagoschlager.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-beautiful-multitalented-ella-endlich.html
http://chicagoschlager.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-little-mid-winter-summer-breeze-from.html
http://chicagoschlager.blogspot.com/2014/06/ella-endlich-turns-30-still-crazy-after.html
Or at her official Ella Endlich website:
http://www.ellaendlich.de/