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Post by mariana44 » Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:34 am

I just watched a repeat the other day of "Whatever happened to Gareth Gates" and was quite impressed with some of the songs that he has written for himself and his forthcoming album.

I thought that I would check out Amazon, to see if there was any news of it--all I could see was his double cd--on sale in the new and used section at 72p---and his debut cd had 4 dealers offering it for just 1p!!
[yes--one penny]

After his initial success on the original Pop Idol, it is quite sad to see him crashing so dramatically !!!

Hope that he succeeds with his dream of reinventing himself
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Post by john » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:22 pm

Yes, Gareth was o.k. really, I especially liked his ANYONE OF US single, I bought his first album and there were one or two decent tracks on that. We'll have to see what the future hold for him.

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Post by ROBERT M. » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:58 pm

If you had held back from buying that album for a few years john, you could have bought it now for 1p :wink: :wink: :lol: :lol:
"My Tears Will Fall Now That You're Gone,
I Can't Help But Cry, But I Must Go On" :(

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Post by john » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:23 pm

Yes, Robert, if only I had known. :cry: :cry:

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Post by mariana44 » Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:25 am

That is one penny----plus postage !
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Post by Terence Lee » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:14 pm

His CDs are in the clearance bins in Malaysia for RM9.90 (equivalent to 1.41 pounds). What happened? I thought he had a successful concert on DVD not too long ago.

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Post by paul jh » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:29 pm

I label it the curse of Unchained Melody. Simon Cowell thinks that every male vocalist from his reality shows must record his favourite song, Unchained Melody. The people who include this over-recorded song on their albums usually flop big-time later on. It happened with Justin Guarini from the first season of American Idol as well.

I've only heard three versions of Unchained Melody that were listenable:

Les Baxter and His Orchestra and Chorus
Righteous Brothers
and of course, Matt Monro

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Post by Marian » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:36 pm

I used to like Jimmy Young's version of Unchained Melody, probably because it was the first one I heard. :lol:

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Post by Mark Fox » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:21 am

I guess sleeping with Jordan wasn't a very good career move?

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Post by mariana44 » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:22 pm

I did not actually know about that, until I saw this programme!
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Post by Steve the King » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:04 am

paul jh wrote:I label it the curse of Unchained Melody. Simon Cowell thinks that every male vocalist from his reality shows must record his favourite song, Unchained Melody. The people who include this over-recorded song on their albums usually flop big-time later on. It happened with Justin Guarini from the first season of American Idol as well.

I've only heard three versions of Unchained Melody that were listenable:

Les Baxter and His Orchestra and Chorus
Righteous Brothers
and of course, Matt Monro
Come on, how could you forget Robson and Jerome :lol: :D :lol: :D

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Post by mariana44 » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:23 am

Maybe Paul thinks that Robson and Jerome's version was not listenable---of course it is possible that Paul has not heard of Robson and Jerome!!

As for me--well I could not possibly comment :lol: :lol: :lol:

Except to say that my sister's dog is called------"Robson "!!!
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Post by Steve the King » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:27 am

You mean Robson & Jerome weren't global hitmakers? Well there's a surprise rofl :lol: :D Anyway enough of them before I start humming "i believe" :shock: :P

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Post by mariana44 » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:34 am

Paul knows a lot about English singers--but one or two have escaped him---like Rolf Harris---yes I know he is not strictly English!!!
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Post by john » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:25 pm

Gareth releases his new single in April. I think it is called CHANGES.

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