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Old 26-10-2008, 13:01
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Ruth

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lm9mCm9yTk


Leona

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2KvW6rST8B8


Fantasia

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVoKTNJbdk
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:06
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Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince imo

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_W9kcxdPPjk
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:08
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Fantasia will always be my fave with this. Loved it.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:08
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I loved Fantasia's version
Then Leona's.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:08
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Fantasia.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:09
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Leona, then Fantasia for me. Both fantastic though.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:09
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Ruth for me.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:09
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Defo Leona

Though I really liked Ruth's virsion.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:10
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Leona has the big advantage of having a strip down version: no loud backing band on big band night.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:10
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Fantasia, then Leona, and ruth is very far behind because summertime is not meant to be sexy.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:11
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Leona > Ruth > Fantasia
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:12
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Leona in my opinion. I thought her version had something else to it.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:17
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I liked all three versions but Leona's was just amazing imo.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:18
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Leona, absolutely amazing.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:21
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Leona's has something about it; something that makes it special.

But all 3 versions are different; but great in their own right. I find it hard to rank them tbh because the only things that are similar about them are the words and background music.

In all honesty, if I had to choose a favourite version I'd choose Leona's; but thats just "for me"; if I were rating on quality of the performance each has their own *something* that makes it stand out.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:22
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Ella Fitzgerald. Try this version by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - they could be singing a baby to sleep. Something that none of the XF or AI singers seem to understand is that Summertime is a lullaby.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1yKgAEkCKxY
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:24
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I always find it quite hard to actually compare Leona and Fantasia's because they were so completely different. But personally, I prefer Leona's by quite a bit, then Fantasia and then some way behind, Ruth. She was good, but it was the wrong song for her because it was such an obvious comparison and she wasn't even the best performance of the night. The previous performances of that song have been among the best talent show performances of the 21st century.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:24
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Fantasia by a long a** country mile.

Leona just oversang most of it, and doesn't have half the personality. I do think it's technically better than Ruth's. Although I kind of PREFER Ruth's to hers... I just think Leona's is another case of Simon lazily lifting from a great A.I. performance. Summertime is the type of song that makes the rounds on these shows, but you can't tell me that he wasn't thinking of Fantasia's brilliant performance when he picked it.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:28
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Ella Fitzgerald. Try this version by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - they could be singing a baby to sleep. Something that none of the XF or AI singers seem to understand is that Summertime is a lullaby.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1yKgAEkCKxY
OMG definitely! Now I have goosebumps....
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:28
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Fantasia by a mile - wasn't overally impressed by either Ruth or Leona's version.

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Old 26-10-2008, 13:30
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Leona has the big advantage of having a strip down version: no loud backing band on big band night.
Huh? Leona had a big band when she did it.

I would say:

1. Leona
2. Ruth
3. Fantasia
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:32
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Ella Fitzgerald. Try this version by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - they could be singing a baby to sleep. Something that none of the XF or AI singers seem to understand is that Summertime is a lullaby.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1yKgAEkCKxY
and what you don't understand is that Porgy Besse is an opera and none of them sing in it operatic style.

That version is definitely the worse version I have heard, the version that Fantasias is style on.
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:36
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and what you don't understand is that Porgy Besse is an opera .
You wouldn't happen to mean 'Porgy and Bess' would you?
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:36
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Hands down Fantasia , gut wrenching heart breaking soulful all this coming from a teenager who'd never heard of the song a week before she performed it

Ruth at least tried to put a mature individual spin on it

Leona's performance betrays her stage school background and the style is anything but individual
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Old 26-10-2008, 13:43
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Although they are all very amazing performances and no comparisons should be made because they are three totally different singer.

If I had to put them in order I would say
1. Leona
2. Ruth
3. Fantasia

All of them added something different.
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