Cilla black thanks you for bringing these songs into our homes youtube .thank you for Saturday night where blind date mothers had never met there sons or daughters for 30 or 40 years even more than .I your looking down on your family collar greatest all on tv youtube thanks once again collar. Xxxx.
I was born in London in 1944 at the time when the Nazis were bombing England. This means I am now 80 years old. In the 1960's London was the hub of a new era of music with lots of new groups and artists vying for top spot in the Charts. When Cilla suddenly appeared she had a strong and commanding tone to her voice that went straight to the core of your mind and heart. This song has stood the test of time and is incorporated in my own Harmonica playing and Singing performance repertoire. I didn't need to seek out or learn the lyrics, they are in my brain today as clear as they were on the day I first heard Cilla sing it and listened to it time and time and time again. Like so many artists I knew of then, Cilla has passed this life. But with people like me legacy carrying on the singing of Your My World and giving credit to Cilla for it, means that the younger generation will get to hear and love it as I did. RIP Cilla...........you live on through my performances and will never be forgotten. Keep a place near you for me........we might get do a heavenly duet together!
She was a super star that could have concerd America and they would have loved her like us for cilla. Projected incredible warmth. And a voice. That was magnetic.
If you search for Ready Steady Go 1964, you can see the younger Cilla, when that song came out. Notice how her presentation had improved by 1973. In that old Ready Steady Go clip, Cilla says a few words to the presenter and shows what a modest girl she was then. By the way, following Cilla on that clip were a very young Rolling Stones. They were never my "cup of tea", but the group played so very well and Jagger had started to develop his "dancing" style, as he sang.
Few interesting facts about this italian song. It was written by Umberto Bindi in 1963, he's probably been one of the first singer/songwriters around the world to be openly gay and he paid a heavy price for it. His problems started in 1961 at the Sanremo Festival when journalists started gossiping about the ring he wore instead of focusing on his beautiful song. What they wanted was the name of his boyfriend the one that inspired "you're my world (Il mio mondo)" and "Il nostro concerto (our concerto)". While his career was going great (several singers were singing his songs internationally, among them Tom Jones, Robert Plant, Carmen McRae, Shirley Bassey, Dionne Warwick and Dusty Springfield), his career in italy was poisoned by the censorship of the governement that no longer allowed him to promote his music on tv. Those dreadful people thought that he was way too popular for being homosexual and that he was not a good example in a then bigoted and catholic Italy. By the early 70es he was facing a slow and continous decline that lead him to serious economic problems and poverty. Few years before dying he could not help but accept few dimes for the sale the rights of his songs that were actually worth millions because the italias IRS was after him. Money that did not prevent him from dying poor. Those last days a famous tv host and some journalists were influencing politicians to offer Umberto a financial support due to his artistic achievements. Sadly he died one month after receiving the first pension on may 23, 2002. He was 70.
