Just started to sing in nursing homes and my vocal coach recommended this song... this is such a beautiful song very haunting music and I’ve totally fallen in love with it.. but I’m only a high baritone so won’t be hitting those high tenor notes gosh what a voice this Gentleman had....
Heard this played when I was in love with a girl, who didn't love me. I found this out after I returned from Korea 60 yrars ago. song still moves me. P.s. I am happily married now to a girl who really loves me after 54 years beautiful years. She is my Cara Mia, and I love her more each day. I found my garden of Eden in Her, Paradise was in her eyes, and I'm enslaved to her beauty forever.
thats great .I saw the most beautiful 16 year old at a teen dance in 59. I was typical teen reb then .Motorcycle leather jkt , black hair ( long gone ) sideburns .We looked at each other and that was it .Her poor boyfriend was heartbroken when she left him for me. He was a nice guy.I did the right thing , I told her I cannot take you out unless you break with him first. its now oct 2022 and she is still with me , and people say to me she is still beautiful .And yes I still have a Bike sitting in my garage .A FXDWG. But still think about the guy she left for me in 1959
João Takanori jamjao hopefully in heaven there is a orchestra playing this timeless classic what a beautiful song... words really touch my heart.. I’m a singer and have started to sing in care homes and nursing homes and I’m looking for timeless classics that the older generation can be taken back to in time to bring them those beautiful memories..
My brother owned a Karmann Ghia convertible. He'd drive around with the roof down singing: Karman Ghia mine, you hold the road divine.... I loved the 50's
we were flying out to Australia with the RAF and on route we touched down at Honolulu airport Hawaii for refuelling. This was going to take several hours so we wandered into the town and went into a cafe/diner. There was what could only be described as a jukebox but with no lights or buttons etc., just a plain oblong metal cabinet containing a small glass panel with a list of the records playable and a small grille. There were not many records to choose from, 12 or 20 I can,t remember exactly.You put your dime in the slot and spoke into the grille the number and title of the record you wanted to hear. A most strange contraption. One of the selections was David Whitfield singing "Cara Mia" which I of course "told" the machine to play. As the sounds of David and Mantovani filled the air I could,nt help thinking "talk about being world famous Who would of thought , in a dingy cafe in a town on a tiny island , a speck in the vast Pacific ocean, thousands of miles away one can still hear the voice of the decade. A wonderful memory.
@@vickytipton7413 Roy would have falsettoed his way through it and done a creditable job of it. He would have benefited from the organization and choral backings Mantovani so magically produced. I learned the song in '54 (driving my sister and brother-in-law crazy) ìn their RET SERVICES house sang it over the phone to my girlfriend also at college with me. I reached topC but not her heart. Finding his full range of record releases was difficult in Oz, but thankfully due to this sort of technology I have most of his music and other great entertainment stacked around the walls on discs tapes LPs etc etc
You may not remember or even know, that David Whitfield had a series of programmes on Radio Luxembourg during the years that RL was broadcasting the bulk of its English language programmes on Sunday afternoons and evenings on 1293 metres Long Wave.
When I was in high school in the 1950s, I liked the sound of his voice (even though it was kind of cheesy and over-wrought), and I like hearing it now...
I'm 73. I remember the problems he had - I won't mention them here - but I don't know if he was ever actually brought to court and sentenced. He began losing control of his voice too, towards the end. But his recordings remain, and that's what we must retain.
LemThurdy420 Thanks, my friend, but what's so special? I hope I'll still be pals with RU-vid in thirty years' time too : RU-vid is my "fontaine de jouvence", thanks to which I found a delicious 20-year-old girlfriend in the US.
My late dear wife,s favourite song ,and singer, I used to sing it to her, she loved my singng God bless her. I,m afraid I can no longer hit and hold the high notes. Maybe because I supped too much beer and stout, and a modicum of whiskey. Still i enjoyed life to the full, so it may just be the first stages of what we used to call ones second childhood, they call it senility now I believe.😠😠😠
I remember him having a smack in the gob at the Carlton Cabaret Club, Sheffield Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, because he sang to a women in the audience. Damned parochial s.
his voice was comprable to mario lanza i always enjoyed listning to him sing todays music is wrap crap a lot of noise and a bunch of drug addicts getting onstage and making fools of themselves and this generation is estatic about noise that distroys your hearing
Baci302 Trapani and Lange wrote the music and lyrics I think. One of those was the pseudonym for Mantovani who also orchestrated the actual recording along with David.
