"If I Can't Have You" - Yvonne Elliman

I think you're thinking of Paula Abdul. And isn't she part Lebanese?

I've heard those rumors, too.

no way.

Not an Asian-American but "Ue O Muite" by Kyu Sakamoto is the only US #1 (1963) sung in Japanese.

I still think that "Calypso Breakdown" and "Jive Talkin'" are the best songs on the soundtrack.

Of course I do. I'm just saying, something's off with that arrangement harmonically.

see like, ok, you play the chorus "if i can't have you" backwards vvvveeeerrrrryyyyyyy sssssllllooooowwwwllllyyyyy and it sounds like "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEH YAH NICK KNIFE!"

You also hear an "accidental" playing of the devil's tritone

Moral: DO NOT FUCK WITH ELLIMAN

Great song in the movie and out of it. Did she ever do anything else as good?

"Love Me" is def. a contender

yeah.

Did she sort of pack it after SatFev? She probably had enough money to...

well, fresh from her wiki let me answer that for you. She took like 20 years off and had an ep in 04'. I like "Everything Must Change" too, kind of Melissa Manchesteresque hamming over proto-Anita Baker arrangements, oddly involving. She's got some elegance to her.

Good god this song is so C.L.A.S.S.I.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Do14z5ycic&

Also does anyone happen to know how well this might have fared in the charts in European countries?

yeah classic. even her lipsyncing is lovely.

Is this pretty much the only American #1 hit sung an Asian-American?
-- Michael Daddino

not really

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8vOQNvd3c

also, yvonne rules

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDFRVWMA8wY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3_2RNf_RaI&NR=1

Good god, gershy's link of "Can't Find My Way Home"...yikes. Is she in her own private Stairway to Heaven there or what? Bloody brilliant.

Ah! I just realized the opening riff for that reminds me of "Naked Eye" by The Who!!! Must rip it to iPod forthwith!

This song is better than all your grandmother's 78 records. Nominate this one for "best song ever".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Do14z5ycic

No, I'm serious. I want 3000 page essays on why that song isn't the best thing that ever happened to your life. Dave Segal, don't let me down. Haha.

I don't know if I could have fulfilled Bimble's request for a 3000 pg. essay on the subject matter but damn this really is one of my favorite songs of all time. <3

I think I'm the only one in the eorld what truly hates a Yvonne Elliman.

She does sing v pretty on the verses tho.

:-( Abbott.

the French horn is nice on this song, too...it's just Jesus Christ Superstar is one of my fave albums & I hate her character & songs in it SO MUCH (this will probably make you sad too)

but this has been a beneficial thread insofar as it reminded me to listen to the JCSS OST

fuck "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and its cloying ersatz longing

I forgot she had a bit in "What's the Buzz," my self-protection mechanisms must have erased this bummer memory

French horn is nice on this song, too..

classic brothers gibb touch.

It's basically a first draft for "Heartbreaker."