Emma just said, as we replayed the UK song on Youtube, "A proper song; a proper singer." Fine diction: you could hear every word he sang ~~ of how many of the others could you say that? He may be a bit old, but his vocal control is good: managed the modulation for the final chorus, and the climactic octave-up note on that final "set you FREE" perfectly. A trace of mid-Atlantic in some passages, but not nearly as obtrusively so as so many. Good, appropriate and unobtrusive, acoustic accompaniment

Might not have been the best song ~~not as good as the Babushkaya: but way better than the vast ruck of them; sure as hell not the second worst.

Probably is time for us to pull out: "Infamy, infamy..."!

~M~