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The singer, Shirley Ross, is made to look and sound black here, but she was white.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers really created magic on the screen.

Istanbul not constantanople

No one does this like Judy does it!

My only wish really is to hear Mitzi Green sing this - sadly I was born seventy years too late.

My goodness. This is an education to me! There is so much we do not know about others. What determination the man had. Very interesting!

It's good to know how it was supposed to sound. Doesn't mean it has to sound this way in every future production. If any. Thing is, there have been so many great renditions recorded since then. This is lovely, but a bit prim, proper--stiff. Of course it is. It's 1937. There's no microphones. An actual teenaged actess is singing this, about a teenaged boy she just met (played by a guy in his 20's). The song was considered so controversial for these reasons, that when a movie was made, with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney--this song was left out! Most of the songs were. They used "Where or When" but as a sort of collective schmoopy platonic ballad, for all the kids to sing. It does NOT work. The entire movie. A complete and total failure. I think future productions should be informed by all we've learned in the last 90 years or so about the full emotional potential of these songs. From Jazz vocalists like Anita O'Day, but also theatrically trained sopranos like Barbara Cook. We can acknowledge teens have sexual feelings, as well as romantic ones. The innocence and naivete can still be there, but Billie has already seen a whole lot in her life, roaming Depression-Era America, and finally finding somebody she can't just walk away from. There should be a sense of desperation to it. Because he just walked away from her in a huff, believing she's sold out. But she's saying here, "Yeah, he's an idealistic doofus who hasn't a clue how badly he's screwing up- here-but I wouldn't have him any other way." It's an emotional epiphany, and needs to be played as one. Leave the schmoop out--deep deep feeling is needed. Or the song isn't what Larry Hart wrote it to be. No matter how it was orchestrated then.

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Thx u LA LA Brook!

Ed, constantly excellent!

Great!

Sorry to take up more space, but people tend to forget that she sang this 8 times a week! At best, most operas are sung with at least a performance or full day between, but Broadway demands 8 shows a week...8 shows in 6 days, which means two days of two performances. Singing "My White Knight" 8 times weekly is one thing; to sing "Glitter and be Gay" 8 times a week blows my mind

Superb analysis of a great song. D

The Beethoven theme certainly sounds like it was borrowed and used as the first melody we hear in "Somewhere," but to my astonishment, so does the theme that begins the Adagio movement of Bruckner's Symphony No. 6, as heard from 0:18 to 0:25 in this clip. So I guess Bruckner borrowed from Beethoven, and then Bernstein borrowed from one or both of them. Incredible! ruclips.net/video/gkkJ9HwLJbc/видео.html

jeremy wasn't wrong when he said that jonathan groff was the one who would always take all of the parts he auditioned for.. 😭😭 (or in this case, jeremy got it and groff also got it but on bway)

Thank you for giving us the complete recording and a look at what was sung. She later was called "a song's best friend." She was legend.

GEORGE GERSHWIN said " FRED ASTAIRE" , what was he trying to say ?

This was a very successful Broadway show that ran for 321 performances between 1950 - 51. A professional and personal triumph for Mr Karloff.

The most beautiful melody and song ever written. It’s been my favorite song since I saw “West Side Story.”

I came from the Boys

This just blew my mind.

Invaluable to hear how the composer wanted the song to sound when arranging for jazz, thank you so much

Completely agree that this is Joni at her best. Coyote is probably in my top 5 of hers but I think it's probably her best song.

Was in Equus? Followed by Richard Burton? Anthony Hopkins on Dick Cavett. Tony Perkins? Friendly Persuasion, Psycho, North Sea HiJack. My favourite Perkins role is that TV role. Evening Primrose. A paint choice of ours in another time. Odd memory. If You Can Find Me, I'm Here",

Loved those 60's songs

Eat blood, drink blood, that's pretty dark!

Thank you, I love this song as sung by Streisand. But now I know the backstory.

THAT'S the way the song goes.

I am surprised that the expression “some day” - rather than the expression “someday” - appears in the lyric. Did Sondheim simply make a mistake?

Very few singers sing the original version including the intro. One of the few that did was the amazing Linda Ronstadt ruclips.net/video/l6bgzsJHXoI/видео.htmlsi=WMCtHt_Xca9KB2Ma

Frank....you've taught me so much about phrasing.....which includes great breath control.

Being an Olympian athlete on your instrument isn’t necessarily the same as being a great popular songwriter. As a modern example of Irving Berlin’s transposing piano, nowadays Taylor Swift only ever plays guitar or keyboard using C and G key fingerings, and she uses a guitar capo or the transposing features on modern digital keyboards. (And a computer program can generate sheet music from her keyboard playing - taking over from the musical secretary!) To the extent either of them would need some virtuoso musicianship in the song, a lot of players would line up to be part of what they’re doing. Irving Berlin did pretty well for himself, and nowadays Taylor Swift is a massive success.

Thanks for this! Marvelous!

I WANT A SIDE BY SIDE OF THIS VERSION OF PUTTIN ON THE RITZ WITH TACO'S VERSION

What a flawed genius Spectre was.

Could you edit a video like this but for "Ladies In Their Sensitivities" from Sweeney Todd?

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This was great. I didn’t recognize the tune until the chorus came in. She sang it so well to. This song has always sounded sinister to me. Her bright tone paired w the dark melody made for an interesting listen

My favorite Sondheim show...Congratulations! Tony Award winning show.

Masterpiece

Who listen june 2024❤❤ sounds as good as ever story of my first boyfriend ❤❤

Look, because of social media I _think_ I know Darren and Jeremy but we all know I don't (just don't tell me, let me continue to live in denial) but let's face it, everyone has to agree that they must have shat bricks. They not only got to sing a Sondheim song in front of the man himself, they got to _perform with him._ "Oh, you have five Tonys? That's nice, I got to perform with _Sondheim_ and I have it on video." If that were me, I'll have that on my obit. Others will be like "Olympian Gold Medalist So-and-so died while saving 24 children from drowning..." mine will be "Denial Man, who performed with Stephen Sondheim (yes _that_ Sondheim, look it up, there's a video on it on RUclips), passed away last night after watching Smallville again, his heart giving out when Clark was mind controlled for the sixteenth time."

This music 60 s a grad no job no allowance Navy says war58000 End result still have beat ❤

Marvelous artist! Thank you, Ms. Cook.

A classic.😅

The tuning shown @2:00 is incorrect. The correct tuning is (low to high) CGDFCE not CGBFCE. This makes the stacked C/G/F chords analysis incorrect. If you look at videos of Mitchell performing this song, or the still seen in this video (taken from the Rolling Thunder doc), you'll see the first chord shape she fingers looks like an A major chord at the 2nd fret, which in the tuning you show would include a C# (on the D string), which doesn't fit the context.

Imagine what it would be like if Ethel married Jolson...lol.

I saw the West Side Story movie in 1961. "Somewhere" is sung by artists today and it moves me no matter who sings it.

Walk this way 😎

Enjoyed your analysis and Ms. Dench’s performance very much!