# More Susan Boyle music popping up **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-susan-boyle-music-popping-up/495397 "2009-05-05T06:49:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-susan-boyle-music-popping-up/495397/1 "2009-05-05T06:49:31Z")
First we had [“I Dreamed A Dream”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY&feature=related) from Britain’s Got Talent. Then this recording of [“Cry Me A River”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ETPG26ALE&feature=related) was found. Here’s a demo of [“Killing Me Softly”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRr9KxO_nRc&NR=1) (YouTube link but audio-only) Here’s part of what it says in the More Info section: > [@](#): > > It is the earliest example of Miss Boyle’s attempts to gain recognition of her talents as a singer. By the time the tape was made she had already built a reputation among the pubs and clubs of West Lothian. > > A friend of Ms Boyle, who gave the recording to [Telegraph.co.uk](http://Telegraph.co.uk), said she had forgotten about the tape until her friend shot to global fame. > > The friend, who did not want to be named, said: "I had heard lots of stories of what a great singer Susan was but I had never heard her sing. > > "So she came past one day and told me she had made this tape of a couple of songs she said to take care of it as it had cost her all her savings to get it made. > > "She said she hadn’t had many made and had only given a few out to her closest friends in the village. > > "I forgot about it then when I watched Britain’s Got Talent I suddenly remembered I had it. I listened to it again and thought it was incredible that she had not been discovered until now. > > “Now millions of people all over the world have fallen in love with her voice and I hope they get to hear this tape. It’s an incredible story.” In 1994 she was on a talent show and did [“My Kind of People”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9WS3z3jAw) which an audience member (and daughter of a fellow contestant) videotaped. Don’t watch it if you have high blood pressure though, because it’s rage-inspiring. You’ll get a taste of how Susan wasn’t taken seriously. The host, Michael Barrymore, decides that things are boring and makes it about him, even at one point laying down on the floor and trying to look up Susan’s skirt while she’s singing. Instead of kicking the MF in the balls, she just keeps singing. If there’s any justice, this will become viral and ruin this dickhead’s career. A very young Susan. Live [“I Don’t Know How To Love Him”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PopDMYLWzVI&feature=response_watch) [“The Way We Were”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2y5y8JXquM&feature=related) An acapella [“I Don’t Know How To Love Him”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UOO55a0xg0&feature=related) at “her parents Patrick and Bridget’s golden wedding party 23 years ago”. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-susan-boyle-music-popping-up/495397/2 "2009-05-05T07:09:10Z")
It’s unreal how completely professional she was with Michael Barrymore. She never cracked or broke persona, and the way she actually addressed it to him (almost like she was playing Mary Magdalene) was adorable. (Looking it up on wiki to see just who that coked up turd was, it seems the latter day revelation he was so disrespectful of the world’s current sweetheart couldn’t have come at a much worse time for him since he’s had years of legal troubles [and probably a fortune of legal bills] over a coked up dead guy who died suspiciously in his pool following a gay orgie at his place; he must be something like England’s answer to Andy Dick.) Her _Killing Me Softly_ is a lullaby. Even better than Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult’s duet!😉 I just hope the uproar over her doesn’t evaporate before she makes some serious money. I’d love to see them release something for sale on ITunes tomorrow so she could go ahead and clean up while the iron is hot and not have to be like one of the American Idol finalists who go from red hot to hosting infomercials because of timing. ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-susan-boyle-music-popping-up/495397/3 "2009-05-05T07:13:53Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Instead of kicking the MF in the balls, she just keeps singing. If there’s any justice, this will become viral and ruin this dickhead’s career. [It’s pretty much already gone down the toilet.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrymore) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-susan-boyle-music-popping-up/495397/4 "2009-05-05T07:19:57Z")
I won’t say “serves him right” but he was such an asshole to Susan that I don’t much feel sorry for him. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-susan-boyle-music-popping-up/495397/5 "2009-05-05T12:56:22Z")
Awesome. Funny how she sings my favorite songs. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-susan-boyle-music-popping-up/495397/6 "2009-05-05T15:29:34Z")
I was making a joke about all these recordings being found to myself a few days ago- who’s profited the most from Susan Boyle? ITV, Boyle herself, or the British tabloid industry, who is starting to make a cottage industry out of “finding” old Susan Boyle recordings?