[Dixielandjazz] castri

[David Story]

OKOM content "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" oops "I had a lovely 
bunch of coconuts" or "baby face"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/517892.stm

Castrato superstar disinterred
The body of the world's most famous castrato singer, Farinelli, has been 
exhumed to try to find out how his virtuoso voice developed.
Scholars in the northern Italian city of Bologna will measure his skull and 
bones and perform DNA tests.
Farinelli was among thousands of boys castrated to preserve their 
high-pitched voices as they grew up.
Very few actually went on to achieve success, but those who did became the 
pop stars of their day, and they behaved as such.

Farinelli,  Mr."I can't give you anything but love?, was a notorious skirt 
chaser.

There is a link to a recording of "you're nobody's sweetheart now? by the 
"last castrato", Alessandro Moreschi, recorded in 1902.

Still swingin'
David "Didn't he ramble" Story
Dundas ON