I had the pleasure of hearing R&B singer Alice Tan Ridley last night at 42nd St. I was running late for a friend’s birthday party, but I had to stop and hear her sing “Midnight Train To Georgia” – she is simply spectacular!
I shot a little video of her singing on my camera I was going to post, but then I saw this other great video of her singing ‘Lets Stay Together‘ with some seemingly random doughy middle-aged white guy (I can say that because I am one) – but, as it turns out, this guy can sing too – which flips out the crowd!
Updated – here is the video I shot:
OK and now I have added like four more – they are all great!
There isn’t one clip here that doesn’t make me smile a mile wide and want to get up and dance.
Watch:
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1 Ludmilla // May 10, 2008 at 1:06 pm
that’s fantastic. Now if only she was singing in the tiki bar car on your way home!
2 Midnight 6-Train to Georgia » trainjotting.com // May 12, 2008 at 3:54 pm
[...] Metro-North-obsessed brethren Station Stops has some great video of an R&B singer named Alice Tan Ridley belting some tunes out in the subways. It’s the kind of stuff that [...]
3 Adam N // Oct 31, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I saw Alice Tan Ridley perform in the NY subway in October 2009 — she has the most amazing voice you will ever hear… I could not believe she was singing in a subway…
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