Today Sissy Willis included the lovely Renee Fleming and her rendition of the Ave Maria as she was grinding through a Typepad problem... (many of her old photos had disappeared when they moved her to the new beta software).  Better news tonight, Typepad found the bug and will be getting things restored shortly!!!

In the meantime, click over to Sissy's and listen to some beautiful music.

And because my brain tends to jump about, the video reminded me of one of my favorite movies... Mad About Music with Deanna Durbin (1938 - that was 70 years ago this year that the movie was released!!!).

Of course this led me to youtube to see if I could find Deanna's version of the Ave Maria sung in that movie. I had little hope as the movie has never been released on DVD (at least in this country).  But it turns out someone has posted the entire movie in 9 minute segments.  If I can't get the movie at least I can watch it on youtube. (TCM hasn't shown it since we got our DVR... *sigh*)

Therefore, I decided to post the segment  (the third one) that has the song in it.  You have to watch to the 2:35 mark before she starts singing.  It's a fun movie and I'm really glad to be able to see it again!

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