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| The Hazelnuts in their most recent lineup. |
Tonight, I heard just one line of a sung as a lead-in a Wayfair furniture commercial. Quickly, tried to figure what the song was . It turned out the song was called "Tempted" and was performed by a Israeli vocal trio called the Hazelnuts". Although it sounded like vintage music it was in fact a totally new song. I love it when ad people dig up musical gems for commercials.
This vocal trio has been around since 2013. though often as a part time concern. Apparently, their studio recordings have not released on a major label. But there did turn out to be wide variety of material by the group, including lots of jazz vocals, some songs in Hebrew and even covers of David Bowie, Tom Waits and Beyonce, but most of the material was vocal trios performances in the 1930' and 1940's style of the Andrew Sisters and the Boswell sisters.
The group seemed to be quite talented, and honestly, I was surprised I had trouble finding information on their recordings at least initially. The reality is that there are really quite a lot of musically talented people out there -and often their musically talent is not rewarded with stardom. It's not clear if the group is still a going concern, because the members have been doing other musical stuff concurrently with the group.
The group's two steadfast members have been Shira Carmel (wears glasses) and Yifeat Ziv (has short hair). The third member has changed a number of times. So in the videos of the group at various times you will see first Talya Amzaleg, then Sapir Rosenblatt, and now Anat Moshkovski as the third vocalist. Usually the group had some pretty effective mostly male musicians backing them. All the members of the group had some impressive resumes of other activity in their lives. So here is a sampler of performances
Here is the aforementioned song "Tempted". It was written by Shira Carmel (she also sing lead) It was released on a EP in 2020.
Below: "It's the Girl" with Talya Amazag (on the right). The performance is from 2014
A great 2015 performance with Marshdondurma instrumental band .This song features Sapir Rosenblatt (the singer on the left) as the third singer.
A nicely shot 2015 video of "It Don't Mean a Thing" with Sapir is below.
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