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David Whitwell
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Hallelujah (Mr C)
A very rough one-take of my dubious version of Lenny's immortal Hallelujah.
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Transport For London Song
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Inspired by the wonderful Amateur Transplants that brought you the marvellous "London Underground Song", I'm pleased to present "Transport For London Song". Lyrics copyright 2011 by David Whitwell. Melody copyright by who whoever wrote the theme tune to the Wombles. Underground, Overground, bumbling free Transport For London is torturing me It's making me mad and it's robbing me blind It auctio...
Like I Would Do
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Very rough take of a new song. Copyright 2011 by David Whitwell.
A Run Through Nothing New
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Segments of my recent songs that will form the album "Nothing New", whenever I begin work on that. Just rough demos with on-screen lyrics added.
Let My Darling Blow Peacefully Home
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Very rough demo with the usual shitty sound quality. Copyright 2011 by David Whitwell. One April day in the Church of St Luke She moves in a flat wooden dress Led by the sound of a sad Irish flute Darling is coming to rest Good friends have gathered from all 'round the world In this serene holy place To say goodbye to a Montreal girl And her most beautiful face Is there a Jesus or is there a go...
Former Mind
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Very rough take of a new song. Copyright 2011 by David Whitwell. There's a devil in my hallway There's an angel at my door There's a scrabble board between them There's a stranger keeping score In the school of nothing new I left my life behind Where I fell in love with you And hid my former mind There's a criminal rewarded There's an innocent in chains There's an appetite for difference There'...
Lucy's Song
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Very rough take of a new song. Copyright 2011 by David Whitwell. As the sun pretends to set Lucy rolls a cigarette Then sings for you a song of pure delight. She's far wiser than her years, You could stay forever here And rest your fragile hands upon the night. Come and call her name Through the pleasure and the pain. Come and call her name, You don't know that you know Lucy's here again. Waiti...
Barney Gets Busted
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Lyrics by David Whitwell. Unsuitable for children and those without a sense of humour.
Big Piece of Shit (Rich Hall)
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From the BBC show Room 101 with Paul Merton.
Different Colour Blue
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Very rough take of a new song. Copyright 2011 by David Whitwell. Like cheap guitars in humid bars My dreams are out of tune. They're turning something very old 'to something nothing new. The fool in me is camouflaged By songs I try to croon. This crude disguise has dyed my eyes A different colour blue. I ran the race to female grace, Suffice to say I failed Even though I'd hidden gears And ...
Super Hans - A Tribute
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One must tip one's hat to Peep Show's friendly neighbourhood crackhead.
Should Tomorrow Bloom
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Very rough take of a new song. Copyright 2011 by David Whitwell. This one is my second song for Judith, Let it please salute her like the first. It's humble and as simple as its writer, Should tomorrow bloom I'll pen a third. Yes, I'm quite aware I hardly know her So I joined the library of her soul. The books that Judith stamped are overdue now, All but 'Guide To Beauty', which I stole. Judith...
What should be done about women's grunting in tennis?
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What should be done about women's grunting in tennis?
Let's Have a Wobble Through The Watery Window
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Let's Have a Wobble Through The Watery Window
London Underground Busking in a Shellnut #2
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London Underground Busking in a Shellnut #2
London Underground Busking in a Shellnut
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London Underground Busking in a Shellnut
Bob Dylan's version is my favourite but one has to love rough and rowdy because Bob doesn't do it in a 'pretty' style...he does it in his true, typical way one would expect from him and his band.
Genius
Fun fact that Americans probably don't know When Leonard came down from the monastery and found that his manager had stolen all of his money, and he was forced to embark on a tour to support himself . On the tour he came to Melbourne, where we had just had horrible bushfires many people died, many more lost their homes. Leonard came and did a Stadium show and then donated the Whole Proceedings of the concert to the fire appeal !!! What a great guy, with a great heart !!!
@4:49 mins...we stopped hearing you! : (
Leonard Cohen, connected with the Holy Spirit. And when God’s involved, it’s always right on time!!!!!! God Bless You
4:19 Leonard Cohen died at 82. I hope he was still singing at that age like he hoped.
Jeff Buckley would not have covered the song and made it a hit if he had not heard John Cale's version, which was not a hit, although Cale's version is the one that was later used in the movie, "Shrek".
Legend. First time I heard it was in Shrek and that was great
I discovered Alberta Hunter when I was in my thirties. She was amazing!
I was a huge fan of Tim Buckley, he passed away to young.
It’s sad that this is the only song people know of Leonard Cohen
Amen 🙏 God be with me oways. Hallelujah. Love ❤️ it
You are the best songwriter of all times Leonard Cohen, and you created some of the best songs that will ever exist, the fucked up society might not listen anymore to your music but I am not surprised because idiocy is trending in this society of hypocrites
He passed away at the age of 82, God rest his soul 🙏❤️
Beautiful song. I just heard it on Wyldwood Radio. Love it ❤
KD Lang? Jeff Buckley did the best version. Yours was raw and original and never to be downplayed.
He said he'd like to hear himself at 82. He died November 7, 2016 aged 82.
Hey MSN , you scrapped my comment which was positive and my comment to th responder of seven years ago , WHAT UP MSN/YOU Tube , like foad.
His greatest work and such a wonderfully uplifting and very much loved song. I think the magic of the song is the spiritual message, the longing for God that we humans crave but which has sadly fallen out of fashion under the haters of God, the Wokerati and Snowflakes.
The magic of this song is that the vibration it produces when singing "Hallellujah" creates a direct conduit to the metaphysical, our true home. Adonai
Hallelujah is an incredible song. I think it really struck a cord (literally) in the UK is because we still sing the word "Hallelujah" in hymns in school. We are not so religious but the chorus automatically takes us back to childhood and to an uplifting religious feeling.
We all translate this song into our own lives.
It is my favorite song for many years.
2:00 Everyone knows that 'Shrek' was responsible for the resurgence of "HALLELUJAH". Once that movie came out, this song spread like wildfire. Even as a kid, seeing that scene in 'Shrek' I was thinking "Wow, what song is that!?"
EVERY time I hear him sing it I feel full of grace and love from God. Reming me of all my trips down "the Rabbit hole" this song brings me back to God. HIS PASSION, ITS A COLD AND ITS A BROKEN HALLELUJAH. Rock Bottom
I could listen to these two guys talk all day. What pleasant voices
UGH!!! He was a despicable person. Why do people MINDLESSLY sing this ungodly song using the glorious word of HALLELU-YAH...which means PRAISE YAH!!❣🙌❣ Psalm 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise YAH: ❣🙌❣ Psalm 150:6 Let everything that hath breath praise YAH. Praise ye YHWH.❣🙌❣ 😭 It’s a bit facile to say, “Some feelings may have been hurt, but everyone involved was a consenting adult.” The children involved were crushed. Layton, Cohen’s friend, recalls that all the children in a family Cohen knew on Hydra died off one by one, via suicide or alcohol or drugs. She looks back: It was the days of open marriage, whatever the hell that was. I don’t think it ever was successful with anybody. One of the partners was always jealous and angry and hurt and confused. I don’t know any child who came out of it not damaged by that period. We just wanted to do it all, take drugs and f*** around. . . . The children were just - they came along on the ride. They didn’t want to come along on that ride. Marianne’s son, Axel, was an infant when his mother and Cohen were living together on Hydra. As a boy, he found himself dumped in a boarding school in Canada when his mother went back to the island. Broomfield’s film shows us the plaintive, sad postcards he used to send his mother daily, begging for her love. As an adult, he dabbled in drugs, went silent for long periods of time, and wound up being institutionalized for most of his life. news.yahoo.com/leonard-cohen-male-feminist-mistreated-103048828.html
Its religious bigots like urself that turn ppl away from most religions! U pass judgement on Cohen saying he's a despicable person, yet all Abrahamic religions share the belief against us passing judgement & that God is our judge with only Him having ultimate judgement. Ur hypocritical since WE ALL SIN & go against the creed of God being our judge. That's not a judgement against u or I would call u a despicable person like u call Cohen; it's a description of how u think of urself as a believer of God but go against Him by passing judgement that is ONLY His to make. FYI ur statement is ironic for someone that's so self-righteous yet praises God. The irony is even worse being someone who portrayed being Godly & doesn't know what Hallelujah is or the meaning behind it. Hallelujah is a phrase that translates to Praise Yah in English & NOT simply a single word that u claim it to be. Hallel comes from the word halal in meaning to shine, boast, sing, praise & is also the name for a Jewish prayer called. Yah is a short YHWH/Yahweh & the name of God. Psalms are Jewish hymns/songs & 113-118 are known as Hallel. So Hallelujah has a deeper meaning closer to a song to praise God
John Cale live version here very rare performance ua-cam.com/video/nKTqNRp-ZDw/v-deo.html
Thank you
Dance to the end of love and Hallelujah ?? not good enough??!!! How insane was that??
The last verse of Hallelujah speaks to my soul, and I am sure to may others. We don't come to redemption and wisdom through Pollyanna-ish means, but through living through life, with all its pain and disillusionment. Cohen sees this as just a song, but it is actually a benediction and a hymn from a wounded soul to God. It is how we really get there.
The beauty of "Hallelujah" is that it allows room for us to bring our own joy, pain, celebration, etc. to it. Thank you, Mr. Cohen. Rest in Glory...
Great interview…. Excellent interviewer …. Ask a good question and let the interview reply
He didn't write the song! He wrote a song by same name but only 2 worlds of that song match. He is full of crap
That piece of garbage didn't write that song! Get the original song 84 he just wants to get credit. CBS & NBC said it was a writer named David he wrote it 13 years ago. Including the other one with Jesus. Same writer. It was CC for everyone! So anyone can sing it. This guy's music sucks! I mean sucks!
I'm late watching this interview but wow, what a humble down to earth guy. Love this song. I've only heard his and pentatonix arrangements. This song has entered at the top of my favorite songs. RIP
I have begun the paperwork to have Leonard Cohen declared a god.
"A certain sense of revenge that rose in my heart..." Every word he says is poetry.
Songs of Love and Hate. It is the album that took Leonard Cohen into my consciousness when it came out. Still does.
Great job sir..
The best version I've ever heard of this is one that I recorded, but really had nothing to do with. I told the singer to really feel the song, and to use the words to express things that he had been going through. He sang the first verse and chorus more like Leonard than most. The second verse (and from your lips she drew the hallelujah") he added the emotion from things in his head followed by angry chorus. The third verse ("you say I took the name in vain") he sang as if his entire life was falling apart (which it was). The pain, the hurt, the anguish.... everything was right there as he built the crescendo to where he was begging for relief, or death, or whatever came. He told a breath and sang the chorus softly with a sense of acceptance, as if a man was finally recognizing the life he knew was over. The fourth verse and chorus were a rebuilding and a celebration. By the time he was done, there was not a person the the studio who wasn't in tears. He got it one take. I would like to think Leonard would have approved.
Is there anywhere I can hear this version?
@@domcusco360 Not as I know of. I don't even have a copy... actually, I don't have any of my old studio efforts, going back to the 80's..... We'll chalk this one up to the evil wonder that is an ex-wife
@@thecollective1584 ah right okay I see mate, no worries :)
I loved this interview! I'm sorry L.C. didn't seem to think it came to "anything interesting." I found it fascinating and illuminating. My residency in Greenwich Village coincided with Alberta Hunter's tenure at the Cookery, a block away. and I saw her regularly. I'm looking for the name of the interviewer; he did a great job!
Poetic that he did in fact make it to 82 years old, though only a few months beyond that. RIP Leonard xx
He was 82 when he passed. He sounded as fine as he ever did.
I believe the magic of the song is the fact the verses are so easily interchangeable. The song seems to sound beautiful no matter how many versions there are. Lovely.
You can't just omit the rage and despair expressed in the song.
I'll say one thing about Watchmen, they at least used it in a way that more reflects the song than most who use it.
Best version is the one in Shrek 🙌🏻
4:45 Ironically, he dies at 82
Wow, I've never seen Arj Barker be so intelligent, composed and polite before. Seriously though, great interview and thank you.