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Boyle Then Was as Good as Boyle Today: God Bless the Queen of Online Viral Video

May 4, 2009 at 5:08 pm PT

Here’s more extraordinary video of Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation.

The unknown 47-year-old is seen below in new online videos unearthed by Scotland’s Daily Record and shot at a 1984 competition at the Fir Park Social Club in Motherwell.

She is 22 years old in these videos, but sings “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “The Way We Were” just as well as she did recently on “Britain’s Got Talent,” with the emotion and depth of someone of great insight.

BoomTown has obviously been deeply moved by Boyle’s voice–and I don’t even much like any of these weepy-sappy songs she is performing–but is mostly in shock that this talented woman has remained so undiscovered until now.

Thank goodness for viral online video.

The “Way We Were” video already has almost three million views. And the first video of her recent performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” has gotten almost 52 million views.

Here are the new ones:

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http://blog.macb.net Mac Beach

Well, I cried when was sent the clip of the recent performance. But I felt a little ripped off when I found out how much they knew of her talent beforehand and probably had her dress down to produce a scripted “surprise”.

I hope she does well in spite of the charlatanism surrounding all this.