My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies - If He Walked Into My Life (Official)

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  • My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies - If He Walked Into My Life - Jennifer Holliday
    Recorded Live: 9/28/1998 - Carnegie Hall - New York, NY
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Комментарии • 73

  • @DanFeinman-xd2uf
    @DanFeinman-xd2uf Месяц назад

    Jennifer puts her thrilling "stamp" on this classic, knocking it out of the park. She made it her own and was in beautiful voice, using soft tones, her miraculous range and power. A true showcase for her gifts as an artist.

  • @hillbaby02
    @hillbaby02 6 лет назад +37

    I hate that she is never given the credit she deserves. She can sing any genres of music, and this proves it. Love this.

    • @Mike-fp5rc
      @Mike-fp5rc 2 года назад +1

      Never got credit? Oh henny, she's widely considered one of the Broadway greats and a queen among female vocalists.

    • @hillbaby02
      @hillbaby02 2 года назад +3

      @@Mike-fp5rc Only for And I am Telling and maybe I Am Changing. I'm saying she can sing beyond Broadway and has.

    • @Mike-fp5rc
      @Mike-fp5rc 2 года назад +1

      @@hillbaby02 Hold up now, what about "I am Love". No matter what she still better than the other Jennifer H who stole her name! Don't get me all riled now.

    • @hillbaby02
      @hillbaby02 2 года назад

      @@Mike-fp5rc I know those songs, but the general public doesn't.

    • @Mike-fp5rc
      @Mike-fp5rc 2 года назад +2

      @@hillbaby02 Well the general public are generally stupid people right? So maybe they just don't recognize her with her tremendous weight loss. Again, SHE should have been paid to do Weight Watchers, not that clone wannabe!

  • @CarmenZynger
    @CarmenZynger 5 лет назад +23

    Miss Holliday can do it all. This rendition, she's capturing being a big band singer. A chanteuse. Love it! Thank you for posting.

  • @johnfong2817
    @johnfong2817 2 года назад +6

    Miss Holliday sings this song in her own interpretation as the artist that she is. She isn't trying to be anybody but herself. Wish we saw more of her!

  • @edwinkorody4860
    @edwinkorody4860 3 месяца назад

    She sang it as only she could have done. Love it!

  • @CarmenZynger
    @CarmenZynger 5 лет назад +10

    Gorgeous phrasing. Lovely voice. Jennifer owns this song!

    • @peterclark498
      @peterclark498 4 месяца назад

      an amazing job she does!!!...but Edyie Gorme owns it!!

  • @marypaquin9943
    @marypaquin9943 4 года назад +6

    As someone who played Vera Charles in MAME, and musically directed the entire show, my MAME, Gwendolyn Calloway, knocked this song out of the park!

  • @Ed-iz4wm
    @Ed-iz4wm 5 лет назад +5

    Ms. Jennifer just took us to church! Love her!

  • @raymonddigiacomo3072
    @raymonddigiacomo3072 Месяц назад

    OMG. W-O-W!

  • @michaelhill7571
    @michaelhill7571 9 лет назад +12

    I thought I had never heard this song before the other day. I realize now, that I had never heard this song from this realm of experience. She sings this song not from the actual perspective of Mame. She sings this song through the prism of a mother who has worked her whole life to raise a child to succeed and is rejected by him. A woman with a working class mindset keeping her child as safe as possible. Trying to make him the man she knew he could be and he leaves her behind with no illusions. Maybe, it speaks to me because of that. These are the wails I would have heard from my mother who always said, "I did not raise you to smile at you through bars!" I do not see being left unprepared for life as an advantage. I much prefer the way I was left.. This is the song of a mother who has lost a child that is not even her own. This is the song of every woman who has lost a child to the streets, or violence, or drugs. Is is the primordial roar of a parent.

    • @saulramirez3056
      @saulramirez3056 Год назад

      "This is the song of every woman who has lost a child to the streets, or violence, or drugs. Is is the primordial roar of a parent." MAAAAAN!!! That was so deep and 100% true. I now need to go hug my mother and tell her to please forgive me for everytime I failed her!

  • @alondramichellegarzamartin9868
    @alondramichellegarzamartin9868 9 лет назад +11

    amazing i love her,jennifer holliday is my favorite singer

  • @gmh952
    @gmh952 4 года назад +3

    AMAZING performance!! Holliday does Jerry Herman proud, brava!

  • @harlemhomme
    @harlemhomme 7 лет назад +5

    thrilling version!

  • @vocesparacristo6966
    @vocesparacristo6966 9 лет назад +6

    awesome jennifer holliday

  • @obiephillips9174
    @obiephillips9174 4 года назад +9

    Jennifer is a great vocalist BUT unfortunately people only want her to sing that 1 song from a certain Broadway show now movie. I love her album "I'm on Your Side".

  • @The.leatherlungs
    @The.leatherlungs 10 лет назад +7

    Incredible!!!!

  • @zaneramjeawan8042
    @zaneramjeawan8042 8 лет назад +4

    wow just pure singing...wow

  • @BalletBabyBoy
    @BalletBabyBoy Год назад

    She is Magnificent!

  • @laurenceesposito3393
    @laurenceesposito3393 3 года назад +1

    So glad I saw her live in Dreamgirls. So exciting.

    • @teddywells9960
      @teddywells9960 2 года назад

      7th grade trip. Dreamgirls and Evita. I knew at once what I wanted to be when I grew up. A star! LMAO. It didn't matter that I never studied dance as a child, as one typically does. It was "too queer and expensive. " Dramatic classes came from watching Carol Burnett, the Dean Martin Roasts, and Dynasty. I could study music, if my absent father paid, which he did happily, but I was not allowed to practice at home because my mother hated my doing anything well or better than she. She was a monster. Envious and bitter, "Bye, Bye trumpet and alto sax." There already was a Paul Lynde so, I couldn't do that either. Never say never. After my military service, my sane, sobee-ish, and endlessly encouraging gal pals put me in drag. I COULD be a DRAG QUEEN! AND I DID BECOME A STAR! In fact, I became many stars. Celebrated as Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Bette Davis and more from Hollywood's HeyDays, I was a real live Las Vegas Showgirl for several years with my own show on the Las Vegas Strip, a rare honor, indeed. I did learn to sing. I did learn to dance. My body became my "instrument." And, according to my dear ol' friend, Rose Marie, who knew, loved, and worked with him, Paul Lynde himsrlf would have been very big fan, had he lived. "Oh he would have loved you." [Oh God! Did I ramble on and on?! I'm a little drunk.] Those women gave me my most beautiful dreams in a life filled with nightmares. Loretta Devinr, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Jennifer Holliday,,Patti LuPone. Jennifer took this song to Church!

  • @johnperry713
    @johnperry713 2 года назад +1

    Wow!!! She really made me feel the song!!!

  • @luisitofundales3817
    @luisitofundales3817 9 месяцев назад

    Bravoooo!!!!

  • @charlesbarry2767
    @charlesbarry2767 5 лет назад

    I LOVE LOVE LOVE JENNIFER HOLLIDAY SHE HAS A VOICE AND THEN SOME, BUT NO ONE CAN SING THIS LIKE EYDIE GORME.

  • @soyfreddypicasso
    @soyfreddypicasso 3 года назад

    Sencillamente GENIAL...!!!❤️

  • @sidneytircuit7661
    @sidneytircuit7661 5 лет назад +1

    Bravo Bravo

  • @StevenLasher
    @StevenLasher 3 года назад

    I COULD NOT FIND THIS EARLIER

  • @tenorcandao
    @tenorcandao 2 года назад

    Greatness.

  • @raydewey2001
    @raydewey2001 2 года назад +1

    Killin' it girl!!! And THANK YOU for recording my song Magic Man (Ray Dewey, Jimmy George) which was placed in the Wayans movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Would LOVE to hear your complete version of it. I bet you tore that baby up!!!

  • @Usercantwelve
    @Usercantwelve 10 месяцев назад

    👏👏👏👏👏👍🏼

  • @robertclatworthy1857
    @robertclatworthy1857 2 года назад

    This didn’t appear on the dvd . Well done

  • @aminsmith9657
    @aminsmith9657 7 лет назад +3

    jennifer yessuh you betta sang that song now!!!!!

    • @Imissingu2001
      @Imissingu2001 6 лет назад +2

      Amin Smith Didn't she sang that?! Awesome!!

  • @znmnky13
    @znmnky13 2 года назад

    Mmh mmh mmh, damn.

  • @sidneytircuit7661
    @sidneytircuit7661 5 лет назад

    sang Jennifer

  • @timlester1867
    @timlester1867 Год назад

    Was this one cut from the DVD? I've seen the DVD and don't remember this.

  • @charlesbarry2767
    @charlesbarry2767 5 лет назад

    I THINK ONE OF RU PAUL'S HAIRSTYLIST DID HER HAIR/WIG !

  • @BaeLasso
    @BaeLasso 7 дней назад

    Fire the hairdresser please

  • @SuperSmily20
    @SuperSmily20 4 года назад +3

    Edyie Gorme still the best version .

  • @jrbflymeful
    @jrbflymeful 2 года назад

    Fabulous job, but sorry, Leslie Uggams did it way better! But I did enjoy this!

  • @raymatthews7624
    @raymatthews7624 4 года назад +2

    Beautiful voices. But this song belongs to; Eydie Gorme and Nancy Wilson.

  • @nicermguy1
    @nicermguy1 9 лет назад +4

    She's very good but too bad the band is out of sync with her.

    • @bigred8432
      @bigred8432 7 лет назад

      At which point?

    • @mmaybrown
      @mmaybrown 6 лет назад

      beginning, the band is all over the place.

    • @grantc4516
      @grantc4516 5 лет назад +2

      @@mmaybrown It's not. You're wrong.

  • @shanedeleon5376
    @shanedeleon5376 6 лет назад +1

    Sorry Jennifer, this isn't my favorite interpretation of this song. A lot of belting without feeling; she's singing this song to showcase her voice, not to sing the song.

    • @roycey32
      @roycey32 5 лет назад +1

      She's singing it for both....her phrasing is how SHE expresses the feeling.

    • @zaneramjeawan2875
      @zaneramjeawan2875 4 года назад

      @@roycey32 I disagree with you.. i feel everything..its great

    • @roycey32
      @roycey32 4 года назад

      @@zaneramjeawan2875 ok

  • @TruthSerum101
    @TruthSerum101 Год назад

    She didn't know the song well.

  • @kennetpon
    @kennetpon 7 лет назад

    love her but don't fudge lyrics singing classic Broadway songs

  • @gildamarlowe5110
    @gildamarlowe5110 7 лет назад +1

    too much vibrato-- listen to Lansbury, Gorme, and Mazzie- no comparison at all

    • @malcolmgrant2197
      @malcolmgrant2197 6 лет назад

      I agree. It's a lament, not a torch song. It's also about Patrick not Mame. She's singing it as if she's the focus of the song, when it is all about him.

    • @Imissingu2001
      @Imissingu2001 6 лет назад +10

      Gilda Marlowe That's called soul singing...would not expect you to understand. :-)

    • @Imissingu2001
      @Imissingu2001 6 лет назад +3

      Malcolm Grant The dictionary defines "torch song" as "a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments.....LAMENTS a lost love. So try that again. :-) The focus of the song is her...her life...and what would become of it, if he walked into of HER life 'today'. Lol Again this is a soul version of the song and I know it is hard for you people to understand that.

    • @vxhorusxv
      @vxhorusxv 4 года назад +6

      Malcolm Grant there is more than one way to interpret a character and a song. When an artist like Jennifer Holliday performs something, it’s because she wants to show you something. This is what she wanted to show us and really paying attention to it might let you see what she was trying to express. Her intentions seem perfectly clear - and awesome - to me.
      Every artist is different.

  • @gildamarlowe5110
    @gildamarlowe5110 7 лет назад

    she's ok-- but that wig--OMG

    • @grantc4516
      @grantc4516 5 лет назад +4

      She's more than okay.

  • @richardmayora1289
    @richardmayora1289 4 года назад +1

    Love her but this version is God awful. She has no idea what the song means. Stick to Leslie Uggams..the best version. Or Eydie Gorme, also fabulous.

    • @janinejackson712
      @janinejackson712 4 года назад +1

      Ok you

    • @1868foxpoint
      @1868foxpoint 5 месяцев назад

      Eydie Gorme won the Grammy for her rendition of this fabulous Jerry Herman composition 👍🏻