Paul Potts [United Kingdom]: One Chance

Media Type: Audio CD

Format: Import

Release Date: July 31. 2007

Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l

Amazon.com Sales Rank: 30339

Average Customer Rating:

UPC: 886971386820

List price: ~~$22.98~~

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Evocative and heartfelt, December 31, 2008

I believe his Ognuno Soffre is the most gripping foreign-language cover of a pop song I can imagine. Everybody Hurts is a song I can imagine Paul having taken comfort in, as he watched his dreams dashed before the reversal of fortune his talent provided him on Britain's Got Talent.

lovable thoughts, November 17, 2008

this is one performance a person should buy to enjoy the flavor of light opera and some enduring love songs from broadway musicals. mr. potts voice is enchanting and so very pleasing to the ears. he even shows his talent on some arranagements by singing in a foreign language charm that is highly exhilitering.......i positively recomend this one for your collection.

Touching story with a happy ending! Thank you Paul!, June 1, 2008

I first heard of Paul Potts on YouTube and like many others, thought it was a fairytale ending to a beautiful story. Paul conquered bullies, sadness, and shyness and won over our hearts with his amazing voice and talent. He brought Opera to those that didn't understand it or appreciate it. I bought this CD not only for myself, but for Paul. He made me smile, cry, and laugh. Success couldn't have happened to a nicer person. Thank you Paul...

Phenomenal!, May 25, 2008

Saw GBT a month or so ago, a fluke as it's the only time I've ever watched it and don't watch American Idol either. It was a totally mesmerizing experience and probably one of the most dramatic real-life stories ever seen. Distracted, it was only a week ago that I decided to Google it. Didn't even know his name just American Idol opera singer (even forgot it was GBT) and came up with Paul Potts. Ah, played his audition video over 200 times by now I believe. The most moving two or three minutes of television I've ever seen, better than any Hollywood movie! The awkward, none too handsome, nervous, fella with bad gnashers, wearing a cheap, ill-fitting,off-the-rack suit just totally floored me with the sounds that came out of his mouth, along with the judges and the audience of course.

Some of the opera mavens are saying he's lazy, untalented, cheated, at best a good pop singer, etc. etc. Maybe they're right. I'm pig ignorant at opera and had to even look up the word squillo and another by Kaine, but for good or evil I don't think Paul Potts planned to "cheat" by becoming good enough to impress us pig ignorant folk and never taking any pay to do so. Just worked out that way. I went back and started listening to the few opera cds I have and although I like Paul's version of Nessun Dorma even better than Pavarotti's I just listened to Ben Heppner's version and can easily see that he's got more equipment and sings it better than Potts, but hey, maybe Paul will improve enough to at least be a professional opera singer, maybe not. Nessun Dorma is one of the few arias us pig-ignorant of opera can appreciate cold though. I'd like to see him sing Rigoletto. Just saw Roberto Alagna sing it on a you tube video that blew me away. There's a tune that most of opera ignorant recognize and perhaps he should have sang that rather than Nessun Dorma again. Loved his Con Te Partiro on the show though -- made me cry -- was thinking of my mother, perhaps Amanda was thinking of her Grandfather. Yes, I guess it wasn't a "real" opera song, but a great one to show off a trained voice. Oh, and his self-confidence and demeanor were vastly improved from his "nervous little boy" that one detractor labeled him.

I've read every review posted by Amazon and the one attribute you'll see is his ability to get to us emotionally. The people that love Paul now though wouldn't be listening to him if he were to sing mostly real opera songs. You have to learn opera over a period of time I suspect.

Loved his Music of the Night rendition I downloaded. I'm just now buying his album. Btw, I have a program that allows me to download the videos from Google or YouTube and it also extracts the audio for mp3s. Made a CD with his audition Nessum Dorma, (even included Simon Cowell's "okay, ready when you are." and Time to Say Goodbye and Music of the Night. Actually surprising how good it sounds!

One thing that bothered me was one person said that Sony got him a top-notch coach, but I was reading his newspaper accounts from around the world and they were saying he was traveling light with only his tour manager and his wife. After this whirlwind tour I hope he spends more time improving his voice. I'm hoping he can at least make it to the professional level if that's what he really wants. Time will tell if he's good enough for the pros, eh? Having spent years studying chess I wonder if the mavens are correct in their assessment of his talent, i.e., even his potential talent? I know a grandmaster can judge a chessplayer's talent at a glance more accurately than the average club player. On the other hand Bobby Fischer was playing another grandmaster, Robert Byrne, in an important game and two grandmasters commenting on the game thought Byrne's had the better game. A few minutes later Byrne's resigned. So, even the experts aren't always seeing everything, perhaps what us common folk are seeing, i.e., the emotional power of his singing will transcend his deficiencies (if he corrects them at least somewhat, maybe a lot) to win all the marbles and grab the brass ring after. Then again, mabye not.

Paul Potts: One Chance, April 27, 2008

I listen to this CD over and over. By about the 3rd time I have forgiven everyone for everything and love them all! And that is without knowing what the words are saying!


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