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February 26, 2007

Ennio Morricone Conducts "The Ecstasy of Gold"

Here's a little something to help wash out the taint of Celine Dion's "tribute" to Ennio Morricone at last night's Oscars. Sure, Celine has a great set of pipes. No one will argue that. But her singing? Puke! She might as well have been singing the latest bit of background fodder from American Idol for how much you could tell that it was an Ennio Morricone tune. But that's who Celine Dion is. That's what she does. She slathers a heaping does of blandness and pop schmaltz onto everything she gets her throat on.

Instead of Celine pouting and over-emoting her way through the craptastic "I Knew I Loved You," which was awkwardly set to music from Once Upon A Time In America, we offer you this clip of Morricone himself conducting one of his famous tunes from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, "The Ecstasy of Gold." You might not know the title, but you'll know the song when you hear it. Why? BECAUSE ENNIO MORRICONE IS A GENIUS, AND THIS IS HOW HIS MUSIC WAS MEANT TO SOUND.

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tuco running thru the graveyard!. . . that was such an awesome scene. . .

 

Ennio was very pleased with Celine's performance he was very touched by it, as he said in many interviews. I knew i loved you , its a very soft song and not a melodramatic melody like the ones people are used to hear Celine sing, over all i think Celine showed a lot of class and talent with her voice that is soo pure and real, i was moved , i felt the song and many others did also.

 
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