Don McLean - Vincent (1971) *DayOne Reacts* 

Doesn't everybody know that story? Julius Caesar, Benjamin Franklin, Vincent van Gogh.

Dude she knows what this's about! She literally spends a good two minutes of this reaction explaining this in the end! Lmao

@@Summon256 Thanks for your patronising (names that I can't write here) However, I'm making my own comment. You now what free speech is don't you? Or do you live a communist country? Seriously!🤐

@@michaelparsons5299 Cuz you ain't paying attention at all, now you are looking for any sort of excuses, because you haven't even finished watching till the end (likely case here...) lol

@@Summon256 What you are missing here as well as the knowledge of the reviewer is that Vincent Van Gogh was not just some artist that wasnt appreciated until after his death. He was a Mentally disturbed man. Having severe episodes including his eating of the oil paints while he was in an asylum which resulted in them taking the oil paints away. Add to which ..back then there was no international social media..you were known by local townfolk alone..and if your the crazy kid on the block ranting and raving as well as alchoholic..your going to be dismissed Alot. The song is still beautiful and even more haunting a melody when taken in just how tortured a soul Vincent was.

"Suzanne", Judy Collins(Lenord Cohen)"Dust in the Wind," Kansas, "Friends, " Elton John, "Ordinary World," Duran Duran

Ironically.

very true

Not unlike the work of the man it was wrote about

Name of that painting was "Red Vineyard At Arles".

Van Gough died poor. His paintings are worth millions today.

@@thatsnotfunnythatssick7390 Not a fan.

@@johnbrowne3950 yes, everybody knows that.

Beautiful and intelligent reaction.

AGREED. This is on my life's playlist.

It’s Van Gogh, not Van Gough

Yeah, Prine had that rare gift. Great songwriter.

Yes, sir! I’m gonna make it my mission to get John Prine on Angela’s list via Patreon request. It may take a few months, but it will happen!!

Lori Lieberman wrote Killing Me Softly as a poem after attending a McLean concert in Los Angeles. She then recorded it. Roberta Flack heard her version, made her own recording and turned it into a major hit. "Sitting in the audience, Lieberman found herself struck by another McLean song, a heartbreaking ballad, “Empty Chairs.” “As soon as he started singing, she pulled out a napkin and starting scribbling notes,” remembers the friend, Michele Willens. “The rest is history.” Lieberman says she later shared her experience - and her napkin poem - over the phone with Gimbel. As he said in multiple interviews during the 1970s, Gimbel already had a song title in his notebook that seemed to click with her feelings. He took the lyrics to Charles Fox, his piano-playing writing partner, and together they created a classic: Roberta Flack’s 1973 No. 1 hit, “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” In those days, Gimbel repeatedly talked of how the song emerged after he and Lieberman discussed the McLean concert. “Her conversation fed me, inspired me, gave me some language and a choice of words,” Gimbel told the Asbury Park Press in a story published early in 1973. Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972. It wasn’t a hit, but Flack heard it on an airplane and decided she wanted to cover it. Lieberman did not get a songwriting credit or a cut of the publishing that flowed to Fox and Gimbel after Flack’s Grammy-winning version or the 1996 Fugees redo that hit No. 2. That didn’t bother her. She was content with her place in pop history as the song’s inspiration."

And I Love You So is one of my favourites, what a wonderful song.

Well, several decades later it's a stretch to call it modern when the history of recorded musical artists is so short.

I grew up then too! Lots of us Baby Boomers were very lucky to have grown up in the 1960-1970's! Our music was and still is the BEST!

A Famous Quote by Vincent Van Gogh... Art is to console those who are broken by life. Its a phrase I keep close to my heart.

Lori Lieberman's excellent song "Killing Me Softly" was indeed inspired by Don McLean's performance. She sang the original version of "Killing Me Softly", one year later Roberta Flack did a cover.