Lena Hall Obsessed: Elton John - “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”

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  • Опубликовано: 8 мар 2018
  • Lena Hall, a singular artist who authentically and explosively brings the worlds of Rock and Broadway together, is releasing a series of EPs every month in 2018. The OBSESSED series features stripped-down vocal-intensive covers of one artist/band with whom Lena is "obsessed." Subscribe on RUclips for new videos weekly.
    The third release in the Obsessed series is a five-track EP of Elton John songs, which will be available in digital music outlets on Friday 3/2. Pre-Order the EP at lenahallobsessed.com or smarturl.it/lh-eltonjohn.
    OBSESSED: Elton John Track List
    1. The Bitch Is Back
    2. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
    3. Take Me to the Pilot
    4. Have Mercy on the Criminal
    5. Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
    Like OBSESSED on Facebook: / lenahallobse. .
    Follow Lena on Instagram: / lenarockerh. .
    Follow Lena on Twitter: / lenarockerhall
    Lena Hall is a Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee, recently portraying the dual starring roles of Hedwig and Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Following her Tony-winning Broadway run, she toured North America with Josh Groban on his Stages tour. She originated the role of Nicola in the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots, and can be seen on HBO’s Girls, Amazon Prime’s Good Girls Revolt, and heard voicing the fan-favorite role of “Countess Coloratura” on My Little Pony. In 2018, Lena will be appearing opposite Jennifer Connelly in TNT’s science fiction epic Snowpiercer.
    Musicians:
    Justin Craig (guitar / keys)
    Matt Duncan (bass / keys / sax)
    Director of Photography: James Eades
    Camera Operators: E. Matthew Cady, Nathan R. Lynch.
    Gaffer: Michael Reynolds
    Editing: James Eades
    Album Cover Image: Melisa Hall
    Wardrobe: Malan Breton

Комментарии • 89

  • @FrisellFan01
    @FrisellFan01 17 дней назад

    Talk about taking my breathe away....this did it! your amazing.....

  • @mjg716
    @mjg716 2 года назад +10

    Wow, I wish I would have discovered this when it came out three years ago. Better late than never - great version!

  • @teatime009
    @teatime009 Месяц назад

    Love that you did this. I was studying that song, top shelf fave... and I was thinking no, this is impossible. Your beautiful performance highlights the artistic choices of the studio original in a way I found helpful. I really enjoyed this and you guys are great.

  • @franksieber9699
    @franksieber9699 2 месяца назад

    Apart from the vocals, the piano was captured so flawlessly that the sound left me speechless. Remarkable achievement!

  • @rivkajazz
    @rivkajazz 8 месяцев назад +2

    Woohoo!!!! Love you girl!!!!❤

  • @yalboor8189
    @yalboor8189 9 месяцев назад +2

    Beautiful voice. Well done

  • @jasonwhite5160
    @jasonwhite5160 5 лет назад +32

    Incredible. Elton John is hard act to cover because he and Bernie wrote these songs for him and what his voice could do, but this is wonderful.

  • @mtthwskdmr2
    @mtthwskdmr2 5 лет назад +7

    I just discovered this and I must say, I am absolutely blown away. This version is so good, completely stripped down to bare bones, bare essentials, and an amazing voice to back it up. The instruments compliment but don't detract, there's a feeling of holding back early but as the bridge comes in it goes into full power. As an Elton superfan, this is such a fantastic job. Very well done. Chills.

  • @matthewhenley783
    @matthewhenley783 4 года назад +2

    This is one talented lady that uses her voice like a precise instrument. She colors the notes in such beautiful contrast. Love that they left the distinctive bass guitar line in the instrumentation to accent the low notes on the piano. Elton John attributed the inspiration for those deep bass notes to Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys.

  • @geraldcurtis9646
    @geraldcurtis9646 Год назад +2

    wow. you are amazing,

  • @user-dv7qw8ft6z
    @user-dv7qw8ft6z 4 месяца назад +1

    Incredible voice

  • @geraldcurtis9646
    @geraldcurtis9646 Год назад +2

    you give me chills. beautiful.

  • @LotusPunk
    @LotusPunk 6 лет назад +18

    These songs are the perfect way to kick off Elton John's birthday month. I'm really digging your Obsessed series. You're just so amazing.

  • @michaelkoval6508
    @michaelkoval6508 3 года назад +1

    Nice job to an iconic song by of the greatest singers of all time

  • @justyflipsgaming8339
    @justyflipsgaming8339 Год назад +1

    LENA HALL is AMAZING🎌Love her as Miss Audrey is Snowpiercer too ✨ And her MUSE covers totally ROCK 🎃

  • @rivkajazz
    @rivkajazz 8 месяцев назад +1

    😢😢😢 This was stunning! ❤

  • @rjminar1980
    @rjminar1980 2 года назад +1

    Her power always catches me off guard.

  • @joelkoricich1771
    @joelkoricich1771 2 года назад +2

    Absolutely a beautiful version of the song sung by a even more beautiful women

  • @raymiemac71
    @raymiemac71 3 года назад +1

    Bloody Brilliant and Bloody Gorgeous. 🇬🇧

  • @njcr4restores
    @njcr4restores Год назад +1

    One word: Wow!

  • @TN-ez6lz
    @TN-ez6lz Год назад +1

    So good!!!

  • @mjeffo
    @mjeffo 3 года назад +1

    Beautifully done, didn’t think a female voice would work on this but it certainly did ! Added a new take on this classic.

  • @erniecaplanson5823
    @erniecaplanson5823 4 года назад +1

    AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!...
    Thank You Lena for Your AWSOMEST WONDERFUL VOICE!!!NICE!!♥️🙂

  • @Aortiz415
    @Aortiz415 5 лет назад +2

    My favorite Elton song done so gracefully and powerfully. Thank You Lena.

  • @cjprice1700
    @cjprice1700 11 месяцев назад +1

    EJ greatest song

  • @brown08pgse0912
    @brown08pgse0912 4 года назад +2

    Just a perfect song for this moment in our lives.

  • @ryblinkaway
    @ryblinkaway 4 года назад +3

    Huhhh!!....your voice is sooo ..! Addictive!...I can listen to it over and over, so beautiful

  • @fireemblemhd2025
    @fireemblemhd2025 4 года назад +1

    Amazing!!!!!!!! Just Amazing! I just discovered this. REALLY Late to the party. My favorite Elton song sung so beautiful it brought me to tears. Thank You Lena. And Elton and Bernie too! Peace :)

  • @AndrewCagnetta
    @AndrewCagnetta 6 лет назад +7

    Wow. Watched this twice today. Thank you. Needed it

  • @wbiro
    @wbiro 6 лет назад +13

    Nice range in taste (from Radiohead to Elton John)... what's next... (a Broadway tunes obsession...?)... and nice touch on the piano...

  • @mangstadt1
    @mangstadt1 6 лет назад +3

    This new series makes me feel like I wish I were a songwriter. Lovely to listen to even though I'm not.

  • @sryoungren
    @sryoungren 5 лет назад +1

    This is OFF THE CHARTS!!!! Great accompaniment as well!!

  • @australopytekus02
    @australopytekus02 3 года назад +1

    Incrível.....
    Será que Elton John viu esse seu vídeo? Parabéns, foi uma das coisas mais lindas que eu vi no RUclips.

  • @pup1008
    @pup1008 5 лет назад +1

    Simply *Beautiful!* Wonderful to hear that amazing soft American lilt to this classic song. Props to the other musicians too. Your pianist looks a bit like Elton's guitarist Dee Murray!
    Respect & love to you all from Elton's homeland!

  • @whiskeyslick2456
    @whiskeyslick2456 5 лет назад +1

    Great vocals, but to leave the drums out of this song absolutely kills it. It's one of the best grooves in the history of popular music.

    • @thebordenasylum7726
      @thebordenasylum7726 3 года назад

      Elton's best version of this is live in '76 and it was just him and the piano, better than the record imo.

  • @jasonbwell
    @jasonbwell 5 лет назад

    Amazing! Thankful for looking back and realizing someone saved my life

  • @zigner
    @zigner 6 лет назад

    Simply amazing! Love the sparse arrangement, the quality sound, and of course, the voice!

  • @stemikger
    @stemikger 6 лет назад +2

    Third Shift goes much smoother with Lena Hall Obsessed

  • @Peyton_Urich
    @Peyton_Urich 6 лет назад +3

    Simply amazing.

  • @Thekhajjah
    @Thekhajjah 6 лет назад +5

    Elton john is an artist most fail to duplicate and it is immediately evident. You did agreat job making it your own and it resonates well, thanks.

  • @kellyknauthbrown3491
    @kellyknauthbrown3491 4 года назад

    Thank you for covering this.

  • @LH-xo2hf
    @LH-xo2hf 5 лет назад

    I’ve fallen in love with this song because of your cover !

  • @mikeoh712
    @mikeoh712 3 года назад

    I’m blown away ❤️

  • @chrisholland2016
    @chrisholland2016 6 лет назад +2

    🤧🤧☺️☺️ that's beautiful.

  • @daniel0060
    @daniel0060 3 года назад

    Thank you for this 🙏🙏

  • @blemast
    @blemast 5 лет назад

    You're amazing, Lena 😍😊 love from Illinois

  • @neilmartin99
    @neilmartin99 4 года назад

    Bravo. Simply fantastic.

  • @margaretkennedy5308
    @margaretkennedy5308 5 лет назад

    Love your version ❤

  • @272numbers
    @272numbers 3 года назад

    BEAUTIFUL TY

  • @victoriachristmas5775
    @victoriachristmas5775 6 лет назад +2

    Beautiful song and voice!! Amen!! * Look to your Heavenly Father and his son Jesus for miracles when there is noone near!! Beautiful!!*

  • @williantorres2866
    @williantorres2866 4 года назад

    Amazing voice, amazing cover! Congrats! 👏🏻

  • @AnnaRiots
    @AnnaRiots 6 лет назад

    Loved this one

  • @alexmanoli2666
    @alexmanoli2666 4 года назад

    Beautiful piano.

  • @jeffrush8315
    @jeffrush8315 3 года назад +1

    You're Amazing !

  • @5028pat
    @5028pat 6 лет назад

    superbe!

  • @onekcali
    @onekcali 5 лет назад +1

    Wow. Amazing voice and rendition. Would love to hear you do Leather and Lace by Stevie Nicks. Great job.

  • @snidelywhiplash
    @snidelywhiplash 5 лет назад +1

    DAMN.

    • @acorrochanov
      @acorrochanov 5 лет назад +1

      snidelywhiplash espectacular !

  • @jimmysaviano4950
    @jimmysaviano4950 5 лет назад

    and not much to not like about this, her voice is strong,...nice pianist...

  • @alessandroabaza4118
    @alessandroabaza4118 3 года назад

    super ! and super song

  • @jmctigret
    @jmctigret 5 лет назад

    Good job

  • @normabarreca7185
    @normabarreca7185 5 лет назад

    Loved her in uncanny with haley

  • @torimig2151
    @torimig2151 4 года назад

    Yeees

  • @margaretkennedy5308
    @margaretkennedy5308 5 лет назад

    SAME!!!!

  • @ibtisamal-jahsyi242
    @ibtisamal-jahsyi242 3 года назад

    When I think of those east end lights
    Muggy nights the curtains drawn
    In the little room downstairs
    Prima donna Lord you really should have been there
    Sittin' like a princess perched in her electric chair
    And it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymore
    We've all gone crazy lately
    My friend's out there rolling 'round the basement floor
    (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh...)
    And someone saved my life tonight
    Sugar bear (sugar bear...)
    You almost had your hooks in me
    Didn't you dear
    You nearly had me roped and tied
    Altar bound hypnotized sweet freedom
    Whispered in my ear
    You're a butterfly
    And butterflies are free to fly
    Fly away
    High away
    Bye bye
    (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh...)
    Never realized the passing hours of evening showers
    Slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
    I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
    Just a pawn outplayed by a dominating queen
    It's four o'clock in the morning
    Damn it listen to me good
    I'm sleeping with myself tonight
    Saved in time
    Thank God my music is still alive
    (Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah...)
    And someone saved my life tonight
    Sugar bear
    (Sugar bear sugar bear...)
    You almost had your hooks in me
    Didn't you dear
    You nearly had me roped and tied
    Altar bound hypnotized sweet freedom
    Whispered in my ear
    You're a butterfly
    And butterflies are free to fly
    Fly away
    High away
    Bye bye
    (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
    I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river
    Clinging to your stocks and bonds
    Paying your H.P. demands forever
    Coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
    Someone saved my life tonight
    Someone saved my life tonight
    Someone saved my life tonight
    Someone saved my life tonight
    Someone saved my life tonight
    So save your strength and run the field you play alone
    And someone saved my life tonight
    Sugar bear
    (Sugar bear sugar bear)
    (Sugar bear...)
    You almost had your hooks in me
    Didn't you dear
    You nearly had me roped and tied
    Altar bound
    Hypnotized
    Sweet freedom
    Whispered in my ear
    You're a butterfly
    And butterflies are free to fly
    Fly away
    High away
    Bye bye
    Someone saved someone saved
    (Someone saved my life tonight)
    (Someone saved my life tonight)
    Someone saved someone saved
    (Someone saved my life tonight)
    (Someone saved my life tonight)
    Someone saved someone saved
    (Someone saved my life tonight)
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    Someone saved someone saved
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    Someone saved someone saved
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  • @willfuller10
    @willfuller10 6 лет назад +6

    Haunting and powerful. Compare this to Mumford & Sons' lifeless version on the Revamp tribute album.

  • @jimmysaviano4950
    @jimmysaviano4950 5 лет назад +1

    I saw somewhere years ago, the lyric on the 2nd verse, "stung by a hornet social scene, just a pawn outplayed by a dominating queen..." Not sure if that's correct, but it sounds like what EJ says....

    • @robdaviesprogm
      @robdaviesprogm 5 лет назад +6

      Nope, that's definitely not the lyric. It's "I'm strangled by your haunted social scene, just a pawn outplayed by a dominating queen".

  • @buzzin010
    @buzzin010 5 лет назад

    OoooooOOOOOoooooOOOOOoooooOOOOOooo

  • @eunseo_is_good
    @eunseo_is_good 6 лет назад +7

    you are so beautiful

  • @sakbalam
    @sakbalam 4 года назад

  • @hansjavis5854
    @hansjavis5854 3 года назад +3

    She performs this song perfectly in a technical sense, but I feel she loses a little bit of the dirt when she enunciates too much in her pronunciations.
    Great song and good cover none the less.

  • @Hannah23222
    @Hannah23222 2 года назад

    what key is this in?

  • @HuasoPodrido
    @HuasoPodrido 2 года назад

    Aww come on! Nobody is this good! Gotta be done with mirrors.

  • @Esmon03
    @Esmon03 3 года назад

    No “bye bye”

  • @thedarkstranger963
    @thedarkstranger963 3 года назад

    Cardi B., Miley Cyrus, Nikki Manajai and Beyoncé take notes and see what true talent is. No auto tune and keeping her clothes on.

  • @manco828
    @manco828 3 года назад

    Very well done, but loses a lot without the harmonies and synth.

  • @michaeld8443
    @michaeld8443 2 года назад +1

    Piano player is more talented

  • @libraryfiles4470
    @libraryfiles4470 3 года назад

    A little too nasal for me.

  • @sampalermo4409
    @sampalermo4409 Год назад

    Not the original but a decent job

  • @yendorelrae5476
    @yendorelrae5476 4 года назад +2

    sorry ... but this just doesn't sound right being sung by a woman....it does not make sense, as the lyrics are clearly from a male perspective! (even if it is Elton John)
    A great voice....a horrible song selection....just being honest.