The Rose
At this time of the year, I keenly miss friends who are far away.
This New Year, my dearest friends, singer-songwriters Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman, are at home in California and I am in London. I wish they were here or I was there but I’m so grateful that, electronically, I can conjure them up with a great song. It’s not the same as being together, but it helps.
Here they are, live at Café Carlyle in New York, with Amanda’s most famous worldwide hit, The Rose. She wrote it some years ago in an ecstasy of inspiration in only 45minutes and it has flown around the world, covered by everyone you’ve ever heard of from Judy Collins to James Galway and by dozens of the best singers and musicians from many countries.
It was made famous by Bette Midler but this is the version that speaks to the heart, just Amanda and Michele and a piano. The arrangement is by Michele. This is an amateur video shot by someone in the audience at the Carlyle but perhaps more immediately accessible for that.
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