小編今天看到這則新聞
~ 感 人 啦 ~
A 96-year-old who wrote a song for his late wife has made the US iTunes top 10, alongside Katy Perry and Lady Gaga.
Fred Stobaugh, whose wife Lorraine died in April, has no previous musical experience and wrote the song on a whim for a competition.
He submitted his handwritten lyrics by post and, although the contest was online-only, the organisers were so moved they put the words to music.
Oh Sweet Lorraine is number seven on US iTunes and has 1.9m YouTube views.
Billboard magazine said the song had sold 6,000 copies so far, placing it at number 49 in its rock digital songs sales chart.
The track is also in the iTunes charts for Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Luxembourg.
"Oh sweet Lorraine," the chorus begins, "I wish we could do all the good times over again."
Stobaugh does not perform the song himself - on his original submission, he wrote: "I don't sing, I would scare people, haha!"
Vocals are provided instead by Jacob Colgan, whose Green Shoe Studio organised the original contest.
A song, uploaded to YouTube in July, explains how the recording came about.
"What made Fred's entry so special to us was, one, it's an online contest. People are supposed to upload their videos," Colgan says in the clip.
"But, instead of a video, we received a very large manila envelope. Well, I was excited to see what it was. Lo and behold, it was a letter from a 96-year-old man who said, 'I've written a song for my wife'.
"He sounds like a sweet guy," he continues, "but, as I'm reading through the letter, I begin to realise that his wife had just passed away a month earlier."
Stobaugh says the song, his first, came to him out of the blue.
"After she passed away, I was just sitting in the front room one evening by myself…it just [came] to me. I kept humming it."
The finished recording is a simple, country-tinged lullaby. The documentary shows Stobaugh overcome with emotion as he hears it for the first time, covering his face with his hand as he tells Colgan: "It's wonderful, it's wonderful".
"She was just the prettiest girl I ever saw," he says of meeting Lorraine in 1938. "Real timid-like. I just fell in love with her right there."
"I really, really miss her."
96歲美國音樂「素人」佛瑞德.史托寶憑一首悼念亡妻的歌曲《Oh, Sweet Lorraine》,打進蘋果iTunes的音樂排行榜,現居第7名,在音樂分享網站YouTube點閱次數超過190萬。這首歌已發行CD,據音樂雜誌《Billboard》統計,銷量超過6000片。
主辦單位說,其他參賽者都是寄來音樂錄影帶,史托寶寄來的卻是1封信和1首歌詞,他們看了之後非常感動,於是主動與他聯繫。由於史托寶不會唱歌,也不會寫譜,遂由主辦單位幫他的歌詞配上歌曲,然後製作成具鄉村風味的單曲。
咱們一同來看看這則報導吧!
大家最喜歡那句 歌詞 呢?
The lyrics: Oh Sweet Lorraine I wish we could do The good times All over again
親愛的蘿琳,我希望我們可以重溫所有美好時光
Oh sweet Lorraine Life only goes around Once But never again
親愛的蘿琳,人生匆忙,只有一次不能重來
My memories will always Linger on Oh sweet Lorraine
我的回憶裡總徘徊在有妳的地方,Oh 親愛的蘿琳
The memories will Always linger on
回憶裡總停留在有妳的地方
小編最愛這句
Life only goes around Once But never again
人生真的不重來的
不論得意或失意
好好把握吧~
資料來源:
中國時報 http://goo.gl/cW4Khf
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-I2VjNOPc
BBS http://disp.cc/b/203-6rO7
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