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This song is my tribute to the great song: "Vincent", by Don McLean, and also a tribute to the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh. The song by Don McLean is absolutely brilliant. I have loved it ever since I first heard it. My song is intended as a complement to Don McLean's work, and to the life of Vincent Van Gogh.

It was Don McLean's music, lyrics, and performance, that inspired me to write my song. And, it was a recent 60 Minutes broadcast, on CBS, about Vincent, and how he actually died, that triggered the completion of my song.

In this video I have used images of the art of Vincent Van Gogh, and also some scenes from the great 1956 film: "Lust for Life", starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh, and Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin (Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor). Kirk Douglas looks so much like Vincent Van Gogh in this film that it is scary.

The video of this great film, directed by the legendary Vincente Minnelli, is available from Warner Video, and I have found a copy of it at Amazon.com at this link:

http://www.amazon.com/Lust-Life-Kirk-Douglas/dp/B000BYA4HY/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1319285958&sr=1-1

It is truly a treat, so do see it -- if you haven't done so already.

One more thing -- in the Bonus Features, your video should have a segment called: "The Making of Lust for Life". This is the "behind the scenes" account of how the film was made, and it is a fascinating documentary. In one scene, the filming is suddenly interrupted by an old woman, who starts to speak to actor Kirk Douglass in French. He immediately stops the scene, and replies to her in fluent French. I did not know that Kirk Douglas was fluent in French, but he is, and it's a treat to see him interact with this woman, who was in this scene as a "village extra".

NOTE: YouTube will not permit me to display the whole story that I have written, because they say it's too long. So, for the rest of this story, please visit:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/glenndiamond34

and go to the section: Album Notes, and then click on: Read More. It's worth reading ....

(PS -- Short segments from the films: "Lust for Life" (1956), "Van Gogh" (1991), and other images whose content may have been part of other content of this video, are here being used for display and educational purposes only, under the provisions of Paragraph # 110 of the US Copyright Act, and other related provisions for the use of short segments for display purposes. This also applies to any videos that I have created for my channel. My videos are for the purpose of illustration, in the same manner that TV news uses images, and clips, to illustrate the content of the written news broadcasts. In my case the content is my song, or songs, and each clip is only a few seconds long, even though the provisions allow for up to several minutes for each clip. The other images of the art of Vincent Van Gogh are all from various public sources, such as libraries and so on. There are so many of them that to list them all would require a gigantic web site. -- I am mentioning this here because I want everyone to know that I take great care to make my videos in a way that tells the story, as best as I can.)