A clip from a TV show featuring Beth, with Garth Brooks dissolving into tears at the end of this song, along with some of the audience. A remarkable song.
Her song, "Years," is utterly fantastic - so well written and singable. Bravo. Haven't forgotten it since I heard her live in Nashville, early 1990s, singing it. WOW!
Years was the song that introduced her to me. I've been lucky enough to talk with her several times. She's had a lot of tragedy in her life, but she puts it to words. A great songwriter.
This is the best song showing what friendships are all about. It also taught me how I can never leave the love I have for my sister who has been gone for 29yrs. Emily is my Kris. I cry every time I hear this song but now out of love and remembrance..not sorrow. 😢
A young lady named Kathy introduced me to BNC, by playing this song. "Lay down here, with your head between the speakers", she said, and she started this song, off of Beth's first CD. Kathy lay down next to me, and I concentrated on the song , with my eyes alternately closed and looking at the ceiling. When it was over, Kathy got up and stopped the CD. By the time she returned, I was wiping the tears from my eyes, and noticed that she had tears brimming her eyes. "What an incredible song", I said. Every time I play it or watch it being performed, I still have the same reaction - tears - and feel overwhelmed by the line, 'please, Emmy, let me do what I can', every single time. And, then, count myself so very fortunate that there are people in my life for whom I feel the same. Fortunate indeed, and so brimming with riches beyond my dreams when I was a young kid. It is not money or position or jujubes (as Godspell proclaims), but the friends in one's life that give it true value.
@@grassflats2 When reading about her, it is amazing that she has survived to write at all. Her first husband, Ernest, died of cancer. She survived having breast cancer, and a benign tumor on her brain pressing on the language center. In the early 2000s, perhaps 2003 or so, she was involved in a concert at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, OH, touring with Arlo Guthrie and Judy Collins. I am sure most of the audience was there to see the headliners, but I was there to see BNC, having already seen Arlo and Judy. She opened her short set with "Every December Sky", written, in part, as a catharsis to Ernest's death. I was sitting in the front row, all the way on the audience left, and after the song, slowly from the back of the lawn, a standing ovation occurred like a wave hitting the stage. "Thanks, I needed that", was her simple response. If you have not heard the song, give it a listen. It is just another incredible song in an incredible catalog of great melodies and superb wordsmithing.
A very good friend of mine was in a breast cancer support group with Beth. I've loved her songs for a long time. "Years" is one of the best songs ever written.
Like Karen Carpenter, Beth Nielsen Chapman's voice is beautiful, but tinged with a bit of sadness. She is one of my favorite singers of all time. Her lyrics are incredible and timeless, much like Gordon Lightfoot. I wish she were better known.
I don't know how much you know about Beth, but the sadness comes from within. She has had a lot of challenges in her life. A very underrated writer and singer.
When reading about her, one is taken by the resiliency that encompasses her . One of the finest wordsmiths in any genre, but particularly as a songwriter. The best ones are able to create images that stay with you and make you see the world, the commonplace, in a whole different way. Beth does that. This is the first song of hers that I had ever heard, and had tears streaming down my face afterward.
Years after I first heard this and of her, it is still the number 1, most emotional song I have ever heard. It engenders something that someone who never has had and never will have, something that happens between two people, like magnets, it just fits. I cry everytime, on a few levels. L...and if ever she thinks, because she never made it huge, she actually did in my heart. My favorite song of all time. (And I dj wedding almost weekly) someone should say to you, thank you. My solitude is brightened by the example of imagination this song demands.
This reminds me of my friend, Honey, from college. We lost touch, and this is how I thought it would be when we reunited. And we did, after about 25 years. So much had changed in our college town, just like the song says. But our connection was as strong as it had been when we saw each other. We cried when we first saw each other. This song touches my heart so much.
She is the only artist that ( for me) has a voice that is “similar” to Laura Nyro’s. I can say I have loved both from the beginning of their decades apart careers. Both Are The Real Deal to me.❤ They both wrote beautiful songs related to the name “Emmie/Emily”. Thank you so much for this flawless performance 🎭
I wish they would have added some sort of introduction, so you know what the song is based on. I get the feeling that Emily is now in the hospital, and that Beth is there to visit her old friend and give her comfort. That's just what I get from it. A very emotional song.
There is a line in her song “Touch my heart” which goes, “There are songs I love that catch my breath When the first chord starts to play” This song was the one that made it happen for me. My late wife and myself were attending our first BNC concert, at the Southbank Centre in London. Beth had already sung a song (Gershwyn’s “Someone to watch over me”) which was very precious to us, so we were already in bits (a la Garth Brooks on this video) but the minute she struck up the intro, it was like we knew the whole plot of the song, in every detail, musical changes, heart rending lyrics and all. I have never heard Beth confirm it, but I’m absolutely certain that you are correct, and the song is it’s own interpreter. I still tear up every time I hear it.
@@jeremychadwick900 It's really about friendship and was emotionally a result of the combination of two important friends in my life; one was a high school girlfriend and one was my boyfriend at about the time I was 18, who died suddenly of a brain tumor. So the story of "Emily" is like a collage of these two powerful relationships and the impact of death on my life. It was many years later that I wrote the song. Sometimes all that stuff of life has to process down deep inside until it comes back through a song.
Have always loved this song. BNC is such a heartwarming and thought provoking artist. She pulls on my heartstrings in melody and lyrics. Thank you for the upload.
The most underrated female singer/songwriter anywhere. Beth you’re the best!
Her song, "Years," is utterly fantastic - so well written and singable. Bravo.
Haven't forgotten it since I heard her live in Nashville, early 1990s, singing it. WOW!
Years was the song that introduced her to me. I've been lucky enough to talk with her several times. She's had a lot of tragedy in her life, but she puts it to words. A great songwriter.
This is the best song showing what friendships are all about. It also taught me how I can never leave the love I have for my sister who has been gone for 29yrs. Emily is my Kris. I cry every time I hear this song but now out of love and remembrance..not sorrow. 😢
A young lady named Kathy introduced me to BNC, by playing this song. "Lay down here, with your head between the speakers", she said, and she started this song, off of Beth's first CD. Kathy lay down next to me, and I concentrated on the song , with my eyes alternately closed and looking at the ceiling. When it was over, Kathy got up and stopped the CD. By the time she returned, I was wiping the tears from my eyes, and noticed that she had tears brimming her eyes. "What an incredible song", I said. Every time I play it or watch it being performed, I still have the same reaction - tears - and feel overwhelmed by the line, 'please, Emmy, let me do what I can', every single time. And, then, count myself so very fortunate that there are people in my life for whom I feel the same.
Fortunate indeed, and so brimming with riches beyond my dreams when I was a young kid. It is not money or position or jujubes (as Godspell proclaims), but the friends in one's life that give it true value.
Thank you for writing that. I was lucky to find this video, because the song is one of the best written songs ever.
@@grassflats2 When reading about her, it is amazing that she has survived to write at all. Her first husband, Ernest, died of cancer. She survived having breast cancer, and a benign tumor on her brain pressing on the language center.
In the early 2000s, perhaps 2003 or so, she was involved in a concert at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, OH, touring with Arlo Guthrie and Judy Collins. I am sure most of the audience was there to see the headliners, but I was there to see BNC, having already seen Arlo and Judy. She opened her short set with "Every December Sky", written, in part, as a catharsis to Ernest's death. I was sitting in the front row, all the way on the audience left, and after the song, slowly from the back of the lawn, a standing ovation occurred like a wave hitting the stage. "Thanks, I needed that", was her simple response. If you have not heard the song, give it a listen. It is just another incredible song in an incredible catalog of great melodies and superb wordsmithing.
A very good friend of mine was in a breast cancer support group with Beth. I've loved her songs for a long time. "Years" is one of the best songs ever written.
Like Karen Carpenter, Beth Nielsen Chapman's voice is beautiful, but tinged with a bit of sadness. She is one of my favorite singers of all time. Her lyrics are incredible and timeless, much like Gordon Lightfoot. I wish she were better known.
I don't know how much you know about Beth, but the sadness comes from within. She has had a lot of challenges in her life. A very underrated writer and singer.
When reading about her, one is taken by the resiliency that encompasses her . One of the finest wordsmiths in any genre, but particularly as a songwriter. The best ones are able to create images that stay with you and make you see the world, the commonplace, in a whole different way. Beth does that. This is the first song of hers that I had ever heard, and had tears streaming down my face afterward.
Years after I first heard this and of her, it is still the number 1, most emotional song I have ever heard. It engenders something that someone who never has had and never will have, something that happens between two people, like magnets, it just fits. I cry everytime, on a few levels. L...and if ever she thinks, because she never made it huge, she actually did in my heart. My favorite song of all time. (And I dj wedding almost weekly) someone should say to you, thank you. My solitude is brightened by the example of imagination this song demands.
One of my favorite songs from one of my all-time favorite artists!
This reminds me of my friend, Honey, from college. We lost touch, and this is how I thought it would be when we reunited. And we did, after about 25 years. So much had changed in our college town, just like the song says. But our connection was as strong as it had been when we saw each other. We cried when we first saw each other. This song touches my heart so much.
She is the only artist that ( for me) has a voice that is “similar” to Laura Nyro’s. I can say I have loved both from the beginning of their decades apart careers. Both Are The Real Deal to me.❤ They both wrote beautiful songs related to the name “Emmie/Emily”. Thank you so much for this flawless performance 🎭
I wish they would have added some sort of introduction, so you know what the song is based on. I get the feeling that Emily is now in the hospital, and that Beth is there to visit her old friend and give her comfort. That's just what I get from it. A very emotional song.
There is a line in her song “Touch my heart” which goes,
“There are songs I love that catch my breath
When the first chord starts to play”
This song was the one that made it happen for me. My late wife and myself were attending our first BNC concert, at the Southbank Centre in London. Beth had already sung a song (Gershwyn’s “Someone to watch over me”) which was very precious to us, so we were already in bits (a la Garth Brooks on this video) but the minute she struck up the intro, it was like we knew the whole plot of the song, in every detail, musical changes, heart rending lyrics and all. I have never heard Beth confirm it, but I’m absolutely certain that you are correct, and the song is it’s own interpreter. I still tear up every time I hear it.
@@jeremychadwick900 It's really about friendship and was emotionally a result of the combination of two important friends in my life; one was a high school girlfriend and one was my boyfriend at about the time I was 18, who died suddenly of a brain tumor. So the story of "Emily" is like a collage of these two powerful relationships and the impact of death on my life. It was many years later that I wrote the song. Sometimes all that stuff of life has to process down deep inside until it comes back through a song.
What a gift❤
Simply beautiful one of my favorite songwriters.
J
So beautiful - my heart just warms listening to this song
Such a beautiful singer,saw her in Beverley a couple of months ago.Love this song
How is she not a super star other than to us
It doesn’t matter. She is beloved by many & it’s a very strong connection between artist and Beth lover’s. ❤
My Emily, I'll never understand the road your on! But I'll always love you 💖💖
Beth is up there with the very best. Thanks to our good friend the late Sir Terry Wogan for introducing her to me.
Have always loved this song.
BNC is such a heartwarming and thought provoking artist.
She pulls on my heartstrings in melody and lyrics.
Thank you for the upload.
❤😂 Lindoooo gratidão 🙏
beautiful
とても心が暖かくなる曲。ありがとう。
Is that Garth Brooks crying? and then song must be good.
does anyone know what year this is ? (the album version was from 1990 )
I actually don't remember when I recorded this clip, but Garth was hosting a TV show from Nashville....other than that, I don't know...
I seem to remember that it’s about 2011, but it maybe in the late ‘2008, 2009. Best recollection. I’ve loved and followed her from the first album ❤