Sometimes one performance stands out from the many, and Charice’s rendition of “All By My Self” with David Foster in Las Vegas last year is exactly that.
The performance is part of the “Hit Man Returns: David Foster & Friends” concert held at Mandalay Bay on October 15 last, and is available to buy on DVD/CD and CD/Blue-Ray sets from March 1. It will also feature on the PBS Great Performances broadcast on March 1, for which the event was specifically recorded.
However, footage has just been released on YouTube that isolate Charice’s version of Eric Carmen’s 1975 hit, which was also recorded by Celin Dione in 1996, as probably the great moment of the night.
Charice nails a vocal test that so few singers have ever been able to get, but it is the performance that brings the audience at Mandalay Bay to their feet in a standing ovation even before she had managed to finish the song.
What makes this version even better than the night, however, is the last 4 bars of the song. On the night, David Foster admitted on stage that he had neglected to tell Charice of a change, which had left the teenage diva a little out of sorts. However, on the recording, the 4 bars are there – expertly edited in by PBS personnel.
In fact, we think it’s so good we are setting you Chasters a challenge. The footage has only just gone up on YouTube (514 hits at the time of writing). Can you play your part to make it 1 million hits in, say, the next two weeks?
Your part is not a difficult task. Just let your friends, family, neighbors and even your enemies know about it and view. In fact, email it to them, share it with them on Facebook or whatever social networking site you’re on. You can even forward it to any of the other entertainment and news websites you know of. Just GET THE WORD OUT!
We have to work quickly because it’s only a matter of time before the powers that be will take this footage down and prevent anyone from seeing it – except, of course, by buying the DVD or Blue-Ray disc.
What we are suggesting is that nothing will inspire someone to buy the “Hit Man Returns: David Foster & Friends” if this 5-minute taster of Charice’s performance doesn’t!
So, CHASTERS! Spread the word! Spread the links! Spread the name! And, let’s make it 1 million hits in 2 weeks! VIRAL SUCCESS EQUAL INCREASED SALES!
Pre-Order Now >> Hit Man Returns: David Foster & Friends (CD/DVD)
Charice performs “All By Myself” during the David Foster & Friends concert in Las Vegas. Available in CD/DVD and CD/Blue-Ray from March 1
Pre-Order Now >> Hit Man Returns: David Foster & Friends (CD/DVD)
David Foster Brings Seal, Charice and More Stars to His Second ‘Hit Man’ Concert Special
As Foster tells PopEater, the success of the first ‘Hit Man’ caught him off-guard. “I think it aired 7,800 times,” he says. “It proved to be such a big fundraiser for PBS, and it ran for over a two-year period. There were lots of singers and artists that I had worked with in my career that were not available on that first show. >> Full story
‘Hit Man Returns’ DVD Set for March Release
There were so many magic moments that night. I’m especially proud of the terrific combinations of talent including a medley with Chaka, Seal and Michael Bolton, a breathtaking duet with Natalie Cole and Ruben Studdard and a standout performance by Charice, Ne-Yo and Robert Randolph,” he said. >> Full story
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Goosepimples at the end when they show a view of the crowd reflexively stand in ovation… wwwoooooooot! wwwooooot!!
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Open many tabs then view the video individually. (Of course, let your friends know about the video)
Let’s make the 1mill-hit hit possible.
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i almost can not breathe while im watching this video….absolutely amazing!
CHARICE,thank GOD i was witnessing the real GEM artist of the new Generation………
2 days left before we got the real GEM CD performance of Charice in store.don’t buy Piracy buy the Original Copy of HIT MAN RETURN as like the original voice of our Princess Diva Charice.
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“here, here at last, perfection-absolute, cool, instantaneous-and its intangibility. its beauty slipping liquidly away, while one listened in rapture and in tears. it doesn’t matter that it can’t last, that we don’t find it more often. To know that there is such perfection-it is worth living for. it exists. it has been-it is. one can contemplate it and feel a complete peace. ‘the wholeness’, the completeness of such moments-i can stumble in imperfections for years to make up for it.” (anne morrow lindbergh)
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people not familiar with the background of this particular performance and who will be viewing this for the first time on PBS might wonder why Charice is less than jubilant at the end of the song inspite of her electrifying performance, and what’s behind that *puzzled* look on her face as she approaches David …
she must have taken to heart what David had ingrained in her, to be “great” and not just “good” … but like a gentleman in the audience had shouted at 6:08 here, “It was perfect!”, to which David could only agree:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vv4vtWbD6g&feature=fvsr
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cheers,
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The Celine today is not the Celine that first made “All By Myself” her own. Celine can no longer match Charice in those extended notes.
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Sometimes the truth hurts which is why two people hit the dislike button. Here is Celine in 1996 at the peak of her vocal power. In singing All By Myself her belting compares favorably with that of Charice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naPgrhX6rIk
It is now 2008. Celine is not the Celine of 1996.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwyfTSIBlw
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one million hits, no sweat for chasters!
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Did I say the smile? It just melted my heart and made my day just by looking at it.
Of all her performances with the just concluded DF&F concert, this is the best that Charice was presented in attire and renditions. That night was the first time I saw Charice finally bloom from a spunky kid to a beatiful and composed lady.
Having been weened by watching her grow up literally in cyberspace, I am but all too familiar and delighted as do most countless Chasters on her story and progress in life and accomplishments.
This video was the coming out party for Charice from child to adult and I am very proud that this was captured for posterity. I did my pary by watching the Youtube video, Chasters kindly follow suite and make that million hit not in two weeks but in one!
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