anon said:

okay. i admit it's a bit, not quite the thing. but really, it's a LOT better than if he'd stuck chocolates, or a teddy bear there.

besids, we're on a prince site, remember? and although it's ancient history i could trot out some rather embarrassing pics of our hero prince in less than appropriate attire. :cough:buttless:cough: attire that we fans at one time considered normal. so who are we to say engelbert's bow is forbidden

so are you familiar with don ho's stuff??

XxAxX said:

wow - that's some eloquent sh1t right there!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

[NOT true at all, edit. turns out my entire post is way off the mark since old 'engelbert' deliberately chose his name]

and true! except, perhaps the bit about his parents being drunks or nut jobs. i took a certain liberty with their reputations i maybe shouldn't have.
[Edited 11/4/06 19:37pm]

XxAxX said:

If Prince grew a belly like that, and then tried to decorate it...I'd hope an org intervention crew would form.
Quick.

Engelbert sounds good and looks good. He's not even that big, but he is too big to be that tight and shiny. So it's not the bow that's the problem, it's the "gift" it's sitting on top of.

Maybe in Vegas, nostalgia is more important than practicality.

It is my mom's birthday on the 22nd of Nov. My brothers and I got her tickets to go and see him in Atlantic City, on the 11th. She loves this man, she has seen him 5 times in concert. I must admit, he does grow on you. Did you know that he was born in India?
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OMG!!!!! My Dad used to always talk about this person!!!

I always thought it was a funny name he made up.

Awwwww!!!!!

anon said:

shorttrini said:

i didn't know he was born in india!!!! clearly i need to research mr. humperdinck a bit more thoroughly~!!

luv4all7 said:

XxAxX said:

okay i'm back with some fascinating tidbits about EH, not the least of which is the fact that his name is actually a stage name that he chose for himself!!!!! my sincere apologies for not realizing that the name was voluntarily assigned. now that i reflect upon his reasons for choosing 'engelbert humperdinck' i can see why he did.

Arnold George Dorsey (born May 2, 1936 in Madras, India) is a well-known pop singer of the 1950s-present. Of Anglo Indian ethnicity, he was raised in Leicester, England and adopted the stage name Engelbert Humperdinck, after the famous German opera composer. Dorsey has sold about 150 million records and has established himself as one of the world's premiere live performers in a number of sold-out tours. The title of "King of Romance" was given him by his fans. He has over 200 Fan Clubs around the world.

Personal life
Arnold George Dorsey and his family, which included nine brothers and sisters, spent the early years of his life in India, until his family returned to England in 1946. His father served in the British military, and his mother was an Indian housewife. At age 11, while living in Leicester, young Arnold Dorsey became interested in music and began to study saxophone. The veteran performer said he planned to return to his 120-dates-a-year schedule after his 70th birthday bash.

In the 1970s Humperdinck had purchased the Pink Palace from film star Jayne Mansfield. The estate was a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallee, located at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Engelbert sold it for about $4,000,000 to developers and it was torn down in November of 2002. Engelbert has residences in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Sherman Oaks, Las Vegas, as well as one near his native Leicester.

Early career
Arnold began singing in nightclubs during the early 1950s. He didn't try his hand at singing until he was 17 when he found himself playing at a pub that sponsored a singing contest. When his friends coaxed him into entering, he put down his sax and for the first time revealed another vocal talent: impersonations. He gave a fine impression of Jerry Lewis and was quickly dubbed Gerry Dorsey by his friends. It became his professional stage name and he never picked up the sax again. He started singing in nightclubs, but after finishing school, he put his budding music career on hiatus to serve in the military through 1956. When Dorsey returned, he got the chance to record for Decca Records in 1958, but the lone single released, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, flopped.

Gerry was very active until 1961 when he contracted tuberculosis, which silenced him for six months and nearly snuffed out his rising star. Many people assumed his career was finished. Upon regaining his health, he knew he had to bury his old, somewhat tainted image to make a comeback as a strong, dynamic performer.

As Gerry Dorsey, he struggled for several years until he got in touch with former roommate Gordon Mills in 1965 led to a change of direction, career and name. Mills was a clever manager and promoter who knew that a performer had to call attention to himself in any way possible. His idea for Gerry was to change his name to something that people would remember. He convinced Gerry that an audience would never forget the name Engelbert Humperdinck, the name of the German composer who wrote "Hansel and Gretel". Mills also helped him secure a recording deal with Decca Records.

Engelbert has frequently been likened to Tom Jones because of their smooth, pop style. The two even shared the same manager, Gordon Mills, for a short time. However, his career declined for a while, partly due to the British invasion of the early 1960s, not reaching its height until 1967.

In that year, Humperdinck cut a single, Release Me, and the result was an almost instant success for the singer. The song quickly hit the number-one slot on the British music charts, beating The Beatles song, Strawberry Fields Forever, and this success was reflected on the U.S. music charts as well. At its peak, the "Release Me" single sold an unprecedented 85,000 copies daily, and the slow, powerful ballad became Humperdinck's signature tune.

Almost immediately, Humperdinck began to amass legions of devoted fans, many of them female. On these grounds, coupled with the fact that most of Humperdinck's recordings are love songs, some critics immediately dismissed the singer as a mere "crooner." While Humperdinck cannot be said to have made significant musical innovations, the freshness, energy, and range of his delivery set him apart from other show business Romeos. As Humperdinck told the Hollywood Reporter's Rick Sherwood, "If you are not a crooner, it's something you don't want to be called. No crooner has the range I have. I can hit notes a bank couldn't cash. What I am is a contemporary singer, a stylized performer."


Career in the 1960s and 1970s
During his heyday in the late '60s and early '70s, Humperdinck cultivated the image of a mysterious heartthrob, sporting shaggy sideburns and a flamboyant wardrobe that, when coupled with his rich, silky crooning, drove female fans wild. He was especially popular in Europe and his native UK. Humperdinck continued to produce million-selling albums of love songs, and developed increasingly more extravagant stage shows, sometimes over one hundred per year. While the mood of Top 40 radio quickly changed, Humperdinck's music, more akin to Broadway show tunes than post-Beatles rock, did not. Subsequently, Humperdinck's live performances became more crucial in reaching his fans, and the singer responded by producing lavish, energetic extravaganzas that set the standards for Las Vegas-style glamour. "I don't like to give people what they have already seen," Humperdinck was quoted as saying in a 1992 tourbook. "I take the job description of 'entertainer' very seriously! I try to bring a sparkle that people don't expect and I get the biggest kick from hearing someone say 'I had no idea you could do that!'"

By the late 1960s, Engelbert Humperdinck fan clubs had begun to sprout around the globe. By the next decade, the fan mania had grown to giant proportions, reportedly the largest such club in the world, with chapters including "Our World is Engelbert," "Engelbert... We Believe in You," and "Love is All for Enge." While an occasional fan ventured into the realm of obsession—several fanatics claimed to have been pregnant with the singer's offspring—Humperdinck's following of a reported eight million members guaranteed record sales with limited radio air play. "They are very loyal to me and very militant as far as my reputation is concerned," Humperdinck said of his devotees to Sherwood. "I call them the spark plugs of my success." He hosted a variety show in 1970, based on Tom Jones' extremely popular series This Is Tom Jones. Engelbert's show was cancelled after six months. Humperdinck has always enjoyed a healthy rivalry with Tom Jones.

The release of the album After the Lovin' in 1976 was a relative watershed in Humperdinck's career. In addition, the album received a nomination for a Grammy Award, the first major nod Humperdinck had received from critical corners. Perhaps part of the reason behind Humperdinck's critical neglect stemmed from his lack of involvement with the recording of albums, whereas he had so much control over live presentation. Until the late 1980s, Humperdinck had little say in which songs were selected for each album, a fact that might have supported claims that he was little more than a pawn of his label's executives. Over the years, this arrangement slowly changed, giving Humperdinck full creative freedom. Humperdinck's albums began to cover more musical terrain than ballads alone. The perpetual success of Engelbert's music is overwhelmingly due to romance being the theme of most of his songs. With romance at the core of his music, the eternal themes of love and longing make lovers always want to hear them sung. Engelbert Humperdinck is often billed as the King of Romance, and for millions of fans around the world, he more than lived up to that title.

1980s to present

By the 1980s, Humperdinck was approaching the age of 50, yet he was still producing albums regularly, performing sometimes more than 200 concerts in a year, and he was still a source of attraction for his female fans. Despite all this, Humperdinck had managed to maintain a solid family life with his wife, Patricia. Perhaps a mixture of business and pleasure had contributed to this success: Humperdinck's four children are involved in their father's career in some way. A truly jet-set family, the Humperdinck/Dorsey clan shuttled between homes in England and Beverly Hills, California.

In 1989, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as well as a Golden Globe Award for Entertainer of the Year. He had met Queen Elizabeth II and several American presidents. Still, he retained his element of humanism, and began major involvement in charity foundations. In addition to involvement with The Leukemia Research Fund, the American Red Cross, and the American Lung Association, Humperdinck contributed to several AIDS relief organizations. For one of these, Reach Out, Humperdinck even penned and performed an anthem for the organization's mission, called "Reach Out." As longtime friend Clifford Elson said of Humperdinck, "[h]e's a gentleman in a business that's not full of many gentlemen."

He is a patron of the charity County Air Ambulance, which is based in the East Midlands of England. In August 2005 he put up his Harley-Davidson motorcycle up for auction on eBay to raise money for the Air Ambulance and other charities in Leicester

Trivia
In Germany and Austria, Dorsey is simply known as Engelbert. The heirs of the romantic composer Engelbert Humperdinck had sued him for adopting his stage name, as they are not related to each other.

The Pink Palace took its name from Jayne Mansfield's trademark color. The Pink Palace was once one of the most memorable landmarks on Sunset Boulevard. Taking up more than 1 acre, it easily caught the eyes of passing motorists who, had they gotten inside, would've gaped at its 10,000 square feet, the eight bedrooms and nine baths. When Jayne Mansfield purchased the property for $75,000, she installed pink lighting and a heart-shaped swimming pool. The bombshell is said to have bathed in a pink heart-shaped tub filled with champagne. It was built in 1929 and designed by architect GC McAllister
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...k_(singer)

okay here is something about the REAL Engelbert Humperdinck:




Engelbert Humperdinck
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For the pop singer of this name, see Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

Engelbert Humperdinck (September 1, 1854 – September 27, 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel (1893).
Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine provinces. In 1872 he entered the Cologne Conservatory under Ferdinand Hiller. In 1876 he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Munich, where he studied with Franz Paul Lachner and later with Josef Rheinberger. He won the Mendelssohn Stiftung (foundation) of Berlin in 1879, and went to Italy, and became acquainted with Richard Wagner in Naples. Wagner invited him to go to Bayreuth, and during 1880-81 Humperdinck assisted in the production of Parsifal. Having won another prize, however, he went again to Southern Europe, traveling through Italy, France and Spain, spending two years in Barcelona teaching at the conservatoire. In 1887 he returned to Cologne, and was appointed professor at the Hoch Conservatory (Frankfurt-am-Main) in 1890, and also teacher of harmony at Stockhausen's Vocal School. By this time he had composed several works for chorus and a Humoreske for orchestra, which enjoyed a vogue in Germany.
His chief reputation rests on his opera Hänsel und Gretel, which was produced at Weimar, 1893. In 1896 the Kaiser made Humperdinck a Professor and he went to live at Boppard. Four years later, however, he went to Berlin where he was appointed head of a Meister-Schule of composition. Among his other operatic works are Dornröschen, Die Königskinder and Die Heirat wider Willen.
Humperdinck was greatly influenced by Richard Wagner, and worked as his assistant. In his opera Königskinder, Humperdinck became the first composer to use Sprechgesang, a vocal technique halfway between singing and speaking, and later exploited by Arnold Schoenberg.
This article is based on a text from the Etude magazine, 1909-1922, that is in the public domain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...umperdinck

Steadwood said:

Steadwood has intimated to me that he is an arse. And I would have to agree.

Bluuuee Spanish eyes.... finest eyes in all of Mexicoooo!!!

soulyacolia said:

How does it go again.... old buddy old chum ?

Black and Bluuuee Spanish eyes.... puffiest eyes in all of Lancashire!!!

Steadwood said:

hey guys, you wanna form an engelbert humperdinck tribute band?

Why wern't u guys on my julio iglesias and stevie wonder thread?

thesexofit said:

we thought you hated us because you ignored our barry manilow thread ~!
so you wanna be in the band??

XxAxX said:

I never saw the barry thread? I got a few of his albums from the 80's. He went out and bought a synth for "swing street". Its a nice album. I got the self titled one after that aswell.

Neil diamond is cool in small doses too. Again, iam an 80's man, so i have his "best years of our lives" and "lovescape".


Anyway, iam a big fan of glenn medeiros. He had MOR on lock with 2 albums:



(self titled)


Sure, he is just a kid, but its the best MOR of the late 80's. His voice is like george michael somewhat. He went all poppy on his third album (which i love), but his first 2 are definately slick, well produced MOR


Another fav is Jack wagner "don't give up the dayjob". AOR/MOR. Dropped in the late 80's. Awesome album

http://www.youtube.com/wa...at1X_l1-Ok

Anyway, Julio's album "non stop" has a few of my fav songs of all time. One of them "words and music", Would make my all time top 5.


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"Englerbert Humptiback, Zinglebert Bambledack, Slut Bunwalla, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dinglebert Wingledank...'No, no, go back one'"

XxAxX said:

thesexofit said:

and what of don ho??? can you find it in your heart to embrace the marvelous croonings of mr. ho??

minneapolisgenius said:

Steadwood said:

i'll take that as a yes! Steadwood's in!

minneapolisgenius said:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...XSAG2PT9T4

Gotta love Eddie Izzard!!

minneapolisgenius said:

That would be a great porn name.
Englebert HumpHerDink.

sinisterpentatonic said:

listen mr spintentatonick this thread has tens of posts and is quite educational too. it is not 'doody' is it shiny and fun.

Illustrator said:

personally, i would have stuck with gerry dorsey

soulyacolia said:

I was hoping someone would know what I was quoting.

minneapolisgenius said:

Eddie!