Young@Heart (film)

Young@Heart is a 2008 British documentary film directed by Stephen Walker. Its focus is Young@Heart, a New England chorus of senior citizens that sings contemporary and classic rock and pop songs.

Synopsis

Young@Heart, a chorus of twenty-two senior citizens with an average age of eighty, is directed by a frequently demanding Bob Cilman. In preparation for a concert in their hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts, they spend two months learning new material ranging from James Brown to the Pointer Sisters to The Clash and Sonic Youth, a task that's daunting for them and frequently frustrating for Cilman. At one point they take a break to visit a nearby low-security prison and entertain the inmates, who literally and figuratively embrace them after they perform. The group's determination to succeed increases with the passing of two of their members in rapid succession, and the concert proves to be a major success with the community.

Production

The film was produced for British television and edited for its theatrical release.

Young@Heart

Young@Heart is an entertainment group created by and for the elderly, comprised at present of people at least 70 years of age. Some have prior professional theater or music experience, others have performed at amateur level, and some have no experience whatsoever. They are particularly noted for their unconventional covers of rock, punk, and other modern pop music songs.

Founded in 1982 in Northampton, Massachusetts the members all lived in an elderly housing project, The Walter Salvo House. The first group included elders who lived through both World Wars. One had fought in the Battle of the Somme as a 16-year-old and another, Anna Main, a stand-up comic, lost her husband in the First World War. Main stayed with the group until she was 100 years old. Diamond Lillian Aubrey who performed with the first two European tours performed Manfred Mann's "Doo Wah Diddy". In later years she appeared "on stage" via video, performing the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want".

Young Heart

Young Heart is the 2005 debut album by English singer Kerry Norton. It is an album of jazz and soul covers.

The first single, "Everlasting Love", was released to Dutch radio in summer 2005, to some success and was used in a Dutch beer commercial.

Track listing

  • You've Got Your Troubles (3:53)
  • Lovely Day (3:48)
  • Everlasting Love (3:54)
  • Love Hurts (3:25)
  • Tell It Like It Is (3:33)
  • I Wish You Love (4:08)
  • Feel Like Makin' Love (3:35)
  • I Don't Wanna Talk About It (3:53)
  • Sweet Soft N' Lazy (4:15)
  • And I Love You So (4:08)
  • Young Hearts Run Free (4:04)
  • Cheek To Cheek (3:40)
  • So Nice (2:48)
  • Charts

    Album

    Singles

    Personnel

  • Artwork By - Peter Moest'l Saglia
  • Artwork By [Photography] - William Rutten
  • Bass - Aram Kersbergen
  • Cello - Muriel Bialek
  • Choir - Geronimo Latumeten, Glenn Corneille, Kelley ter Horst, Roger Happel
  • Drums - Marcel Serierse
  • Engineer - Geronimo Latumeten, Hans Aalbers
  • Guitar - Martijn van Iterson, Peter Tiehuis
  • Keyboards, Piano - Glenn Corneille
  • Producer - Glenn Corneille, Tom Peters (2)
  • Podcasts:

    developed with YouTube
    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Young Heart

    by: Kerry Norton

    What's the sense in sharing, this one and only life
    Ending up, just another lost and lonely wife
    You count up the years, and they will be filled with
    tears
    Love only breaks up, to start over again
    You'll get the babies, but you won't have your man
    While he is busy loving, every woman that he can ("aahh
    haa")
    Say I'm gonna leave a hundred times a day
    It's easier said than done
    When you just can't break away ("just can't break
    away")
    CHORUS
    Ohhhhh
    Young hearts, run free
    Never be hungup, hungup like my man and me ("umm, my
    man and me")
    Oooooh
    Young hearts, to yourself be true
    Don't be no fool when
    Love really don't love you ("don't love you")
    It's high time now just one crack at life
    Who want to live in, trouble and strife
    My mind must be free, to learn all I can about me, oooh
    I'm gonna love me, for the rest of my days
    Encourage the babies every time they say
    Self preservation is what's really going on today
    Say Im gonna turn loose a thousand times a day
    How can I turn loose
    When I just can't break away ("just can't break away")
    Instrumental
    CHORUS
    CHORUS ( fades at the end )




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