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May 1st, 2009 at 7:24 pm

Susan Boyle The Way We Were Video (1984)

Here is the Susan Boyle The Way We Were video from 1984. See the video along with a recently discovered Susan Boyle promo photo from 2001.

In the 1984 video the unknown Scottish singer was only 22 years old and she is captured on video singing the Barbra Streisand signature hit The Way We Were in a competition at Fir Park Social Club in Motherwell. The singer’s powerful voice is apparent in the early recording and she is notably attractive in a flattering 1980s hairstyle.

Susan Boyle, now an international star, thanks to Britain’s Got Talent fame, was recorded on video that night more than 25 years ago by Gerry McGuinness who discussed the singer and that night in an interview with the Glagow Daily Record, the newspaper which obtained the videotape from him. The newspaper previously uncovered the 1999 CD of Susan Boyle singing Cry Me A River.

According to McGuinness, Susan Boyle also sang I Don’t Know How To Love Him, from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

She was so shy but she was also very attractive back then – she turned a few heads when she came in.

“I didn’t recognise Susan as the girl on my video when I first saw her on Britain’s Got Talent until a relative called and asked me if I still had the tape.

“It’s great to see she is finally getting some recognition. She is a great singer and it seems right that at some point she would get the credit she deserved.”

Source: Video exclusive: Susan Boyle’s earliest singing performance on film revealed

Here is the Susan Boyle The Way We Were Video YouTube link if you can’t see or play the video above.

Susan Boyle in 2001

Additionally, a Susan Boyle promotional photo from 2001 has been discovered. See: Susan Boyle faces up to her future stardom in old promotional picture

The original Susan Boyle Britain’s Got Talent I Dreamed a Dream video, has already been seen by tens of millions on YouTube, and become the most watched viral video in history. (See: Susan Boyle Britain’s Got Talent Sets a YouTube record.) The singer whose next appearance on Britain’s Got Talent will be on May 23, 2009, has seen her popularity unabated in recent weeks as the inspiring story of the 47-year-old Scottish singer’s international stardom through a breathtaking performance that amazed cynical and unreceptive audience and judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden. (See: Susan Boyle Video (Britain’s Got Talent))

With the Susan Boyle The Way We Were video and the Susan Boyle promo as the latest discoveries, suspense builds not just for her next appearance on Britain’s Got Talent but for further treasures of the past, to say nothing of the much expected future album and biopic.