Mario Lanza Oh, Danny Boy

Описание: This video is best watched at 480 p.
Photographs of Mario Lanza and Ireland along with assorted paintings, appropriate to the song lyrics, together with Lanza's incredible, heart-felt vocal interpretation of Oh, Danny Boy, create the mood for this touching and beloved Irish song. It is obvious that Mario deeply felt the meaning of this song's moving lyrics with all his heart.

Is Oh, Danny Boy originally an Irish or English tune?
According to http://www.h2g2.com/approved_entry/A3..., "Malachy McCourt, author of Danny Boy: The Legend of the Beloved English Ballad, claims there is evidence that the original tune was written by a blind Irish harpist named Rory Dall O'Cahan1. Blind Rory, a descendant of the ruling O'Cahan clan, was a composer who lived sometime between 1560 and 1660 and who was well-known for his purths, or harp tunes, the best known of which is 'Tabhair Dom do Lámh', or 'Give Me Your Hand'." This story is an interesting read, I recommend it.


Special thanks go to the following web sites and their holders for use of their photos which made this video possible:

   • Mario Lanza Christopher Program Music  , the web site from which the photographs of Mario Lanza were made. It is a YouTube video by Vincent Di Placido who said his video was of "Mario Lanza in a 1957 TV show recorded in Rome for the The Christophers, who are a religious Inspirational group, founded by Father James Keller...." Please visit    • Vincent Di Placido Danny Boy   to hear Vincent Di Placido, himself, sing Oh, Danny Boy. His singing is a very lovely interpretation of this song.
http://www.imagespublicdomain.wordpre...,
http://www.PDPhoto.org,
http://www.public-domain-image.com,
http://www.wikipedia.com and
http://www.wikivisual.com
are sites from which beautiful photographs of Ireland and other photos and paintings were taken.
http://www.courses.nus.edu.sg , the web site of the National University of Singapore from which the Impressionist painting: "Man Standing at his Window" was taken.
http://store.tidbitstrinkets.com/blog... the web site from which the photo of Carl Frederic Aagaard's lovely rose painting done about 1877, of which I only show a small portion, was taken.
The lovely painting "Guardian Angel" was done by Araldo di Luca.
http://creativecommons.org/ns# http://www.immediate-entourage.com/ for allowing usage of their walking man image.
and
http://www.iunvapost31.com/picturesot... Very special thanks go to the webmaster and his Irish United Nations soldiers serving in Kosovo for allowing me to use their 2008 photo of one of their soldiers proudly holding his battalion's flag.