Am I alone in finding it creepy...

OOh-er. That does sound creepy, grandMattie. Didn't Nancy Sinatra do something similar with Frank's voice? And, more recently, Harry Belafonte? Sounds weird to me, especially singing with your younger self. Reminds me of those Victorian family photos where one member of the group was actually dead - a propped up corpse.

I quite like it but a whole CD would be too much- have heard some pieces on Classic FM which were lovely.

I think it is just a pleasant CD to listen to, I don't think it was ever meant to break any records (no pun!), but a nice idea to combine the two different voices of one individual.

NoToOld , those pictures were called momento mori . They fascinate me but I am possibly a bit weird !

Sorry grandMattie I don't agree.

I don't find it in the least creepy. Recordings were made of his younger voice - they're out there and we can listen to them anytime we like. We don't consider listening to them creepy now that his voice has changed, so why should we think it creepy to combine them? I think it's quite a good idea and and makes a rather nice recording.

I find nothing creepy in this, it isn't an adult singing with a dead child

I don't find it creepy but a little of Aled Jones goes a very long way.

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I don't find it creepy either - lovely in fact, but only in small doses. I heard him say he looks upon his younger self in a fatherly/avuncular way after so long. I think it's rather sweet - and a great way to fill the coffers too

....they're really pushing it on CFM

I don't find it creepy. He/they do rather murder my favourite song though.link to it here

I do not find it creepy - I guess it is a good commercial gambit and will probably make lots of money. But, as someone above has said, he had a lovely voice as a child, but his adult voice is barely mediocre.

f77 - is that what they are? Really horrible, then. The Victorians had some VERY weird ideas.

I loved that link, Jingl. The song always makes me cry. His soprano voice is stunning! I don't find it creepy at all.

I think it's beautiful, a lovely idea.

Just heard some of it on the Weight Stuff, I think it's beautiful.

NotTooOld Look it up on google , I think because photography was so expensive and out of the reach of most people , it was perhaps the only way of having a momento of the person who had died . It was mainly children who were photographed and they had all sorts of contraptions to make them look as if they were still alive . Fascinating !

Haha! Should have been "Wright" not Weight!!!

I like it

He sings it a little bit slow.

I must confess I prefer to hear a woman's voice singing Danny Boy.

He slaughters Danny Boy, which I think should only ever be sung by someone with an Irish accent!

Good point.

I clicked on the link (thanks jinglebellssfrocks) and thought it was lovely.
I'm a fan of Aled, not just his singing, as to me he comes over as a nice person wihout any pretentiousness.
But I do take Juggernaut's point that Danny Boy really is better with an Irish
accent.

f77 - just spent a scary half hour looking at the death pics. How awful - those poor children made to pose with dead siblings and the like.