This is the best Performance of "And I'm Telling you"

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This is the best Performance of "And I'm Telling you"

Posted: 12/28/08 at 12:55am

that you will ever hear

BROADWAY NEEDS THIS KID.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3sbMeYokI

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 12:58am

He's good.

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:01am

Very good!

I also really like the one Andrew Keenan Bolger posted on his blog awhile back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vuuvrnnXoY

Some mistakes---but what a voice.

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:04am

The best????

Hmmmm... I saw Jennifer Holiday...I don't think she has to worry.

Broadway needs this kid... really?

Can he act? Can he interpret a song on his own instead of mimicking anothers phrasing and inflections? Is he famous enough to sell tickets?

The Von Smith phenomenon happened a couple years ago right? His fifteen minutes are up already.

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=927019#2837086

What great ones do the less will prattle of

Updated On: 12/28/08 at 01:04 AM

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:18am

Really, thats the best?

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re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:19am

Can you do any better, Rosscoe?

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:20am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK56KEI89yk

I think this is the best!!

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:23am

This has nothing to do with if I have the talent to sing that song or not. In my view that was far from the best version of that song I have heard. Simple as that!

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:23am

Fair enough!
:)
Im sorry I was so snippy, Im kind of tired

#10

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:25am

Well... if Von Smith is the best he is a shoe-in for Effie in the Broadway Revival of DREAMGIRLS!

Rosscoe and I can sit together on Opening Night humbled by Von Smith's talent.

What great ones do the less will prattle of

Updated On: 12/28/08 at 01:25 AM

#11

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:28am

I'm in BFB! :))

Annas, you are allowed to be snippy....:))

#12

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 2:26am

No no no no... This IS the best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrtAKxiixoA

#13

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 2:33am

I never thought I'd hear a good white male performance of anything in Dreamgirls...wrong!

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#14

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 2:37am

Von's range is really impressive, but some of his riffs are just... a bit *much*, in my opinion.

Let's face facts. The best performance of "And I Am Telling You" was in the movie "Camp." :)

#15

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 3:16am

oh my lord. camp. besides robin and dequina, does anyone know whatever happened to those kids?

#16

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 5:13am

Frankly, his voice is annoying...I listened to his other stuff...and could barely get through it.

#17

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 10:22am

Yea, I'm not a huge fan. He uses a lot of falsetto which is probably not good, and he goes very nasal.

The closest thing I think we could ever have to a white Effie, is Shoshana Bean. (Not that I like her, but she does have soul)

Now, ya wanna talk the best, find a clip of Sharon Brown singing it. She can belt.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

#18

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 11:00am

By Far the best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jvL6VlEg4Y

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Updated On: 12/28/08 at 11:00 AM

#19

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 11:13am

One of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfqKhQPCTQA

#20

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:36pm

I worked with this kid...

He sang AIATY at a benefit. He was the only white person singing the entire evening, and I couldn't help but think, "Is he making fun of the way Black people sing?"

It was very uncomfortable.

Haven't we done this type of thread before, TO DEATH, in the past?

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#21

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 2:06pm

He is singing through his nose and overdoing. Not really all that great.

#22

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 2:14pm

oh Von. So over him. He is kind of a tool.

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#23

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 3:02pm

I thought this the last time he was foisted upon us; he should have owned it totally and sang "you're the best man." I think I would have bought it then.

It is very hard for a little white boy to sing this song without irony or a wink. Homeboy is just creepy.

PS - I submitted a video of me singing this for a contest when the movie came out on dvd. I didn't win the big cash prize, but I got an honorable mention and a free dvd! I sang the lyrics as written, thank you very much.

Updated On: 12/28/08 at 03:02 PM

#24

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 3:13pm

Oh God... Von Smith. Kid drives me nuts... Did anyone watch his performance on The View? His ridiculous riffs were rivaling Jennifer Holliday's when she performed with Jennifer Hudson at that award show last year...

"See I'm the best man you'll ever know" Come on, you don't have to change the lyric! We all know he is actually the best man you'll ever know. You're not fooling anyone, silly!

"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA

#25

re: This is the best Performance of 'And I'm Telling you'

Posted: 12/28/08 at 3:15pm

"I submitted a video of me singing this for a contest when the movie came out on dvd."

I would LOVE a copy of it.

Can you PM it to me, Phyl?

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