Huliganov’s “Oh del mio dolce ardor”

Original YT playout date: 10 September 2009
Duration: 4:35

I found this jazzed up version of the Gluck singing lesson staple on the net, but the singer and the backing were not credited. If anyone can help me give credit where credit is due, by all means do!
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Lucjan O’Powrocki’s Extraordinary Rendition of “Lippen Schweigen”

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Original YT playout date: 14 August 2009
Duration: 1:37

From Frites Le Hair’s opera “The Merry Window”.
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Have you seen but a white lily grow?

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Original YT playout date: 21 June 2009
Duration: 1:48

Lucjan O. Poworocki returns with a grievous rendition of this music class staple. Originally composed by Robert Johnson in 1616 for one of Ben Johnson’s plays, and possibly hummed by the Bard William Shakespeare himself on his way to work, this piece has been massacred by aficionados over the centuries, most notably of late by the former Police-man and head teacher Sting, who got his name while trying to put the songs lyrics into action and “taste the bag of the bee”. Probably.
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Caro Mio Ben

Original YT playout date: 13 February 2009
Duration: 4:15

“This is the second of two comedy double bills kicking off YouCam created personas Lucjan O Poworocki and Bernie Mansfield.

Let me know if you want more of these guys in the future.”
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Non Te Scordar Di Me

Original YT playout date: 12 February 2009
Duration: 3:22

“This is the a premiere for two new characters which emerged as I was mucking around with a program called Cyberlink YouCam – Lucjan O Poworocki and then a Yorkshire comedian whom I shall probably dub Bernie Mansfield, or something like that.

I have no idea whether people will like this or not. I’ve done two of these for now: this and another similar one. Have to see how it goes from there. Anyone else would have done two separate films instead of a double bill in order to double the hits, but I’m a fool to myself, sometimes, I really am…”
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