Last of the "Ghost Doctor" music videos - Daydream Believer - Susan Boyle

YouTube ^ | 14 October 2022 | Mary Van Deusen

[mairdie]

A musical love story between the famous heart surgeon coma ghost and his ex-love, a neurosurgeon, who has left her American hospital to stay and care for him back home in Korea. "Cheer up, sleepy Gene, oh, what can it mean to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen."

[mairdie]

Cha Young Min was in love with Jang Se Jin when he was a young doctor, but she left for the states without saying goodbye. When he goes into a coma, she comes to the hospital for her father but discovers Cha. Taking leave from her US hospital, she stays to take care of Cha, eventually discovering that he exists as a ghost beside her. It's that or the young resident whose body he can occupy, Go Seung Tak, has a peculiar penchant for talking to himself. Given that Go has a girlfriend, we're talking major relationship confusions between the four of them.

Hint: words to the 2nd verse that I have great trouble understanding.

You once thought of me
As a white knight on his steed
Now you know how happy I can be
And our good times start and end
Without dollar one to spend
But how much baby do we really need?

[mairdie]

Final set of Ghost Doctor music videos. Ghost Doctor drama plays on viki.com.

Daydream Believer - Susan Boyle
Cha Young Min/Jang Se Jin
https://youtu.be/BlzO3ImB-NY

Just You and I - Melissa Manchester
Cha Young Min & Go Seung Tak
https://youtu.be/ztYMMQP-xqU

My Ghost - Glass Pear
General
https://youtu.be/2EIpDPUr-Y4

Some Move Up - Joey Scarbury
General
https://youtu.be/ReQ6RHGu6xY

Like a surgeon - “Weird Al” Yankovic
Cha Young Min & Go Seung Tak
https://youtu.be/Te0bbWnoLZ8

[PrairieLady2]

Susan Boyel took an ‘ok’ song and made it beautiful. She has such a clear and lovely voice.

[DallasBiff]

Sorry, but Davy Jones will always own that song.

[mairdie]

I agree. I listened to versions of that song over and over again. It was the lyrics that I needed and I thought I’d go with the version I remembered. The problem is that the story is about a coma victim. (I keep wondering how Rain stayed so still for so much of the time in that drama!) And the popular version of the song is upbeat and excited. The coma victim is definitely NOT that. So I felt forced back to Susan Boyle’s slow version to match the rhythm to the video movement (or lack thereof). While I do love her voice, here I would have preferred Davy Jones, if all things had been equal.

[Leaning Right]

One of my favorite YouTube videos is Susan Boyle’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ audition. Neither the judges nor the audience took her seriously when she first took stage. Many snickered. Then she started to sing.

https://youtu.be/RxPZh4AnWyk

[mairdie]

I love her voice. Here’s some other videos I made with her songs:

Deep Space 9 - René Auberjonois Memorial - Who I Was Born To Be - Susan Boyle
https://youtu.be/pBdin_ZYKlU

Smallville - I Dreamed - Susan Boyle
https://youtu.be/xtd29fRgPl0

NCIS - Proud - Susan Boyle
https://youtu.be/ySnaFrf9BlI

Dr Who - Father Christmas - Susan Boyle
https://youtu.be/pKpH7TnlK9k

[mairdie]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve watched that multiple times. So glad to have the link again.

[DallasBiff]

I know I sound like Marcia Brady, as the President of the Davy Jones fan club, but the Susan Boyle version sounds depressing.

Susan does have a beautiful voice.

[enumerated]

Great song when done by the Monkees. This version? Meh.

[mairdie]

You’d really prefer an upbeat coma ghost?

[mairdie]

Oh, I am SO tempted to remake it to demonstrate what I mean. But I’m currently logging King 2 Hearts and will probably stick with that for now.

The South Korean brother of the mythical king of SK is sent on a joint military competition with a North Korean team headed by a female special forces operator. The king’s goal is country reunification and he pushes his brother toward marrying her. All the forces are arrayed against this, including the potential bridegroom.

[Slicksadick]

Hint: words to the 2nd verse that I have great trouble understanding.

You once thought of me
As a white knight on his steed
Now you know how happy I can be
And our good times start and end
Without dollar one to spend
But how much baby do we really need?

You are right, it's hard to understand. I looked it up, it was originally written as “funky” not happy. It makes a bit more sense when you think funky in a 60’s way.

From here...
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-monkees-daydream-believer-song-story/

BTW, I really like the video as well as her rendition of the song. I am a sucker for unrequited love, more-so even as a result of tragedy.

[mairdie]

I will never forget going to dinner with my first cousin, who I’m betting was a recreational drug user, and the entire conversation being “Wow.” “Groovy. “That’s a bummer.” The sixties. So many memories. Loved the fashions.

[PeachyKeen]

Every time I watch that video I cry. Touches my heart.