What an amazing singer and performer she was! She was before my time, but I just hopped on here via the British Music Hall Society. Thinking she was brave to sing a love song to another woman in 1978, then she made that quip about singing a man’s song all her life, was unexpected and most endearing! Thank you for posting this. She was great!
I love this. I was actually there. My second Royal Command/Variety. First was with my darling Bud Flanagan. My very old pal Danny La Rue was playing too. There’s nothing like it now is there? It now seems like the end of an era. Our Glorious Queen has gone. I suppose I must say ‘Long live the King’. That’s new for me, at almost 70!!
It's refreshing that Gracie still is able to get younger fans. I'm 20, and have been fan of and collecting Gracie since I was 15, so it's good to know there are others out there!!
I love the little bits of self-mockery. "I've been singing a man's song all me life!" and the little "wah, wah!" that she put in. I still have one of my mother's 78s of Gracie. 'Alone' and 'Why Did She Fall For The Leader Of The Band'. Thankfully, all the 78s survived the move just recently. I made sure of that. I carried them myself!
I'm over 60 and like Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Beefheart etc. Never imagined until recently that Gracie Fields would be worth a listen. How wrong can you be? So glad to have discovered her wonderful talent after all these years. A very fine singer, with great charm and personal warmth, and indeed a beautiful woman.
I am a George Formby but love Grace just as much,sad that the public turned on her during the war just because she chose to go to Canada with her husband to save him from a British prison camp because he was Italian, and he was great director,he did 3 Formby films,but she raised thousands for war bonds for Britain, true great Britain,what people could put there thumbs down,shame on you,our darkest hour and Grace did as much as any one and more.
She was just truly sensational, a true star in every sense of the word. Her pitch and musicality was perfect, she could sing any type of song, and she was just legendary at something that no-one else has managed since - the communial sing-song. I dont beleive that anyone will ever match Our Gracie, and in some ways I'm glad, she will reign forever in my opinion x
she had a most unusally high soprano /natural voice ever non ever like her it or her again, im sorry to say. i loved her truly she was such a jolly person and a lovely lady. god bless her in the world of the truth.
Turned on to Gracie as an American while listening to a war years album one day just stunned that all these years I missed such talent. She's magnificent. She's owns the stage, doesn't she? And what a voice~ love her!
Presumably your war years album also included some Vera - very different, but between them got us through the war. (I say "us", though I wasn't born until 1960!) Both later careers rather eclipsed by their wartime output, which is sad - both remained performing for many decades and remained in good voice (as is clear here), but are thought of as wartime singers.
I'm so glad I was around to see gracie when she appeared on TV, fresh out of retirement. Was the most iconic moment of my life and has never been repeated. Talent doesn't have to be perfect. It's the heart and fire that they put into it that counts. Gracie had it all and she could hold a note.
I've searched for this full version for so long I'd almost given up, thank you so much I remember being in awe of her when I saw this at the time as a 16 year old. Even at 80 her voice was perfect.
@@TheJohnpandyI seem to remember she was introduced by David Jacobs, but I’m sure it was Danny who roared with laughter at the “I’ve been singing a man’s song all me life” aside
Superb upload - and as you say, the best version of it! :) Mine is not that clear or full, Thank you so much for adding this. David Jacobs was the announcer who brought her onto the stage - saying something like: "Now to introduce a lady, who has come home. A lady who has appeared upon this stage so many times it almost seems to bare her, frobance. Please welcome, Miss Gracie Fields!" (All that and from my memory too!)
I saw her in concert 1n 1965; she was 67 and the voice was in wonderful shape even then - here she is at 80, still hitting her top notes cleanly and with the voice astonishingly unaltered! And look at her amazing modesty, immediately rejoining the other personalities on concluding her song, rather than milking the audience, as she could have been forgiven for doing. Such a great stage singer, actress and personality, and such a great woman.
Whether it's being born to an older father or feeling that I was born later than I should have been or feeling that I've lived a life before, this song brings tears to my eyes.
That would have been some bill, to have Gracie & Danny La Rue on it. Great to see Danny's reaction to Gracie. Those who started in music hall and variety, they sure had balls, including the Ladies.
Our amazing Gracie, what a lady, what a talent, and good to see the full version of her final song, brings a tear to the eye watching it. I was 6 when this was recorded, and vaguely remember it as my grannie was mad on Gracie. Its a shame our world these days doesn't appreciate great atists such as her, but euqally, no-one could replace her.
Great talent, charisma and class! Loved the movies she made with Monty Wooley. So glad that we have the technology that allows us to see some of her live performances.
my Father remembers her performing for the troops of the 5th Australian Infantry Division on the Island of New Britain in 1945 to was a favorite of the troops
My father George Mannell was a professional portrait photographer in Baker Street in London. He photographed Gracie ipossibily on the 1940’s. We lived above the studio.Continue in other comment, tech problems,sorry.🇬🇧🇬🇧
I was born just after WW2, but Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn were still prominent. This song always makes me think of "Love on the Dole," a novel by Walter Greenwood. (Read it!) A classic.
i loved her even as a child when first heard her on r adio noi tvs back them ahem yes no tvs lol and she sang Land of Hope and Glory magnificently and with all her heart my gracie fields , no our gracie fields she belonged and was loved by everyone especially for her humor
Churchill told her to go to America at one point during WWII and she did. She came to my home town, Hollywood, and made some movies. She also had a radio show on every week night at 6 o'clock for the troops. She began each show singing 'We're one for all and all for one.' My twin brother and I who were between one and two years old would sit in our high chairs and wave our spoons in rhythm to the song. I don't remember this, but my mother told me of it.
I keep coming back to watch this video, and more and more realize what a "treasure" our Gracie was. I grew up in Newfoundland and she was just as special there as she was anywhere. One of the most loved women ao all times.
If I'm feeling sad I pop in a Gracie Fields CD to laugh and love her. She's sadly missed, we're all mortal & age does us all in if nothing else. RIP Gracie. Love to Gracie, a one in a billion.
We went to see Gracie in 1948 at The London Palladium. Cost 2s6d to stand in the Gods. Her first song was ‘Take me to your heart again’. It brought the house down. She was fantastic. No one who had a happy marriage could have criticised her for following him abroad during the war. I wonder how many new of her concerts that 0:07 she did for our serving soldiers.
keep watching this video over and over again, makes me smile every time, there is nothing like true music from a true legend to momentary take you from reality im 17 and and it captures me im too young to say "our gracie" but the title is well deserved :-)
Hmm. Though very different in style, Vera was comparable in popularity, from that period - and Julie; decades later (but still before autotune) we produced Lulu, Cilla, Dusty, Shirley … and probably others now, I'm just not familiar with the current scene.
On the full version of this which includes the national anthem, at the end, someone threw onto the stage what appeared to be a leek which was 7ft long.
@@eileenharvey1990 I think you might mean "Someday I'll Find You"; created by Noel Coward for his play "Private Lives", and most famously sang by Gertrude Lawrence, reprised very nicely by Julie Andrews ( _as_ GL) in "Star!" (with Daniel Massey as Coward): ruclips.net/video/Ygq22FBf6kk/видео.html . Very different from Gracie's style, though!
candd going from song to song, slagging off Fields. The truth is, she continued to work abroad for the British cause, and only left Britain because her Italian born husband would've been interned.
Sally, Sally, pride of our alley Sally, Sally Don't ever wander Away from the alley and me Sally, Sally Marry me Sally And happy forever I'll be When skies are blue You're beguiling And when they're grey You're still smiling, smiling Sally, Sally Pride of our alley You're more than The whole world too me The skies were blue When he met you, Sally You were his gal His little pal, so true You came along Made life a song, Sally If he lost you He wonders what he'd do Sally, Sally Don't ever wander Away from the alley and me Sally, Sally Marry me Sally And happy forever I'll be When skies are blue You're beguiling And when they're grey You're still smiling, smiling Sally, Sally Pride of our alley You're more than The whole world too me Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Harry Leon / Leo Towers / Will E Haines
It's rather a misogynistic song in some ways - he doesn't want her to ever leave the alley! But - like Delilah - I don't think it should be suppressed; it's a great song.
What an amazing singer and performer she was! She was before my time, but I just hopped on here via the British Music Hall Society. Thinking she was brave to sing a love song to another woman in 1978, then she made that quip about singing a man’s song all her life, was unexpected and most endearing! Thank you for posting this. She was great!
I love this. I was actually there. My second Royal Command/Variety. First was with my darling Bud Flanagan. My very old pal Danny La Rue was playing too. There’s nothing like it now is there? It now seems like the end of an era. Our Glorious Queen has gone. I suppose I must say ‘Long live the King’. That’s new for me, at almost 70!!
Bud Flanagan and Gracie fields, what more could you ask for?
A pity Dame Gracie did not record more songs in her later years: her voice is operatic.
It's refreshing that Gracie still is able to get younger fans. I'm 20, and have been fan of and collecting Gracie since I was 15, so it's good to know there are others out there!!
Look at the line up around her; Danny Larue, Cilla Black, Max Bygraves, Leslie Crowther, Harry Seacombe, Frankie Howerd...Giants.
Close your eyes for 2 mnutes , just listen, then ask yourself "is that the voice of an 80 year old?". Just Incredible!
Gracie sounded great, even @ 80!
A bright shining star 🌟
Thank you for posting.Her diction was perfect. Some of our so-called screaming stars of today should to her.
Absolutely right. Most of the so called singers are only screamers!!
I love the little bits of self-mockery. "I've been singing a man's song all me life!" and the little "wah, wah!" that she put in. I still have one of my mother's 78s of Gracie. 'Alone' and 'Why Did She Fall For The Leader Of The Band'. Thankfully, all the 78s survived the move just recently. I made sure of that. I carried them myself!
she brings tears to my eyes, what a beautiful lady
I'm over 60 and like Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Beefheart etc. Never imagined until recently that Gracie Fields would be worth a listen. How wrong can you be? So glad to have discovered her wonderful talent after all these years. A very fine singer, with great charm and personal warmth, and indeed a beautiful woman.
I am a George Formby but love Grace just as much,sad that the public turned on her during the war just because she chose to go to Canada with her husband to save him from a British prison camp because he was Italian, and he was great director,he did 3 Formby films,but she raised thousands for war bonds for Britain, true great Britain,what people could put there thumbs down,shame on you,our darkest hour and Grace did as much as any one and more.
She was perfect in her comeback, but we didn't enjoy her performance as much as we would have liked.. quite a girl!!!!
Wonderful she was a great star for so many years they don't have stars like this anymore.
My dad named me Sally after this song!
Such charisma!
She was just truly sensational, a true star in every sense of the word. Her pitch and musicality was perfect, she could sing any type of song, and she was just legendary at something that no-one else has managed since - the communial sing-song. I dont beleive that anyone will ever match Our Gracie, and in some ways I'm glad, she will reign forever in my opinion x
Her unpretentious dignity is what I first think of when I think of Gracie.
she had a most unusally high soprano /natural voice ever non ever like her it or her again, im sorry to say. i loved her truly she was such a jolly person and a lovely lady. god bless her in the world of the truth.
I was flying home from Malta in 1957 , and Gracie and her husband broader on the plane at Capri to fly to London, a really lovely lady,
"I've been singing a man's song all me life!" Classic Rochdale humour, what a brilliant person :)
I fancy myself an old music and movie person, but I have completely missed this woman, and she's absolutely extraordinary! Thank you SO much!
Met someone tonight called Sally and an old memory came back out of the mist of time , my mother singing this song in the kitchin .
Turned on to Gracie as an American while listening to a war years album one day just stunned that all these years I missed such talent. She's magnificent. She's owns the stage, doesn't she? And what a voice~ love her!
Presumably your war years album also included some Vera - very different, but between them got us through the war. (I say "us", though I wasn't born until 1960!) Both later careers rather eclipsed by their wartime output, which is sad - both remained performing for many decades and remained in good voice (as is clear here), but are thought of as wartime singers.
I'm so glad I was around to see gracie when she appeared on TV, fresh out of retirement. Was the most iconic moment of my life and has never been repeated. Talent doesn't have to be perfect. It's the heart and fire that they put into it that counts. Gracie had it all and she could hold a note.
We named our one and only daughter after the song “Sally” sung by dear Gracie Fields ❤️🎼🎼🎼🦋🌻🦋🕊🌏🕊❤️
She’s related to me I’m very happy about that
Still beautiful in every way at some 80 years.
Fabulous Gracie, I'm just reading her biography and what a humble beautiful human being she was. .lovely voice too aged 80 x.
Even with such age her voice is still so strong and crisp. Amazing!
I've searched for this full version for so long I'd almost given up, thank you so much I remember being in awe of her when I saw this at the time as a 16 year old. Even at 80 her voice was perfect.
She was introduced by Danny La Rue. Jxxx
@@TheJohnpandyI seem to remember she was introduced by David Jacobs, but I’m sure it was Danny who roared with laughter at the “I’ve been singing a man’s song all me life” aside
Superb upload - and as you say, the best version of it! :) Mine is not that clear or full, Thank you so much for adding this. David Jacobs was the announcer who brought her onto the stage - saying something like: "Now to introduce a lady, who has come home. A lady who has appeared upon this stage so many times it almost seems to bare her, frobance. Please welcome, Miss Gracie Fields!" (All that and from my memory too!)
so glad i found this video
my mam would always sing this in her concert party
brings back so many happy memories of her
thank you for sharing
I saw her in concert 1n 1965; she was 67 and the voice was in wonderful shape even then - here she is at 80, still hitting her top notes cleanly and with the voice astonishingly unaltered! And look at her amazing modesty, immediately rejoining the other personalities on concluding her song, rather than milking the audience, as she could have been forgiven for doing. Such a great stage singer, actress and personality, and such a great woman.
Just bloomin' wonderful. Such a voice at a grand age.
Talent and charisma. How times change.
Whether it's being born to an older father or feeling that I was born later than I should have been or feeling that I've lived a life before, this song brings tears to my eyes.
That would have been some bill, to have Gracie & Danny La Rue on it. Great to see Danny's reaction to Gracie. Those who started in music hall and variety, they sure had balls, including the Ladies.
Bloody hell that brought a tear to the eye, remembering my Dad singing it to my Mum funny as she was called Joyce.
Our amazing Gracie, what a lady, what a talent, and good to see the full version of her final song, brings a tear to the eye watching it. I was 6 when this was recorded, and vaguely remember it as my grannie was mad on Gracie. Its a shame our world these days doesn't appreciate great atists such as her, but euqally, no-one could replace her.
Great talent, charisma and class! Loved the movies she made with Monty Wooley. So glad that we have the technology that allows us to see some of her live performances.
Instant memories of childhood right there!! ❤
my Father remembers her performing for the troops of the 5th Australian Infantry Division on the Island of New Britain in 1945 to was a favorite of the troops
Please do thank your father for all his work for the Empire & Commonwealth Marcie! We are not all ignorant or selfish troglodytes back in the UK.
My father George Mannell was a professional portrait photographer in Baker Street in London. He photographed Gracie ipossibily on the 1940’s. We lived above the studio.Continue in other comment, tech problems,sorry.🇬🇧🇬🇧
A Legend, simple as that, God bless Our Gracie xx
I was born just after WW2, but Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn were still prominent. This song always makes me think of "Love on the Dole," a novel by Walter Greenwood. (Read it!) A classic.
😊😊❤❤❤what a beautiful performance
One very special lady. A star all of her life.
Pete recently celebrated his 99th birthday, Tony still going strong. RIP Val and Sir Terry
Nothing says "we remember those days" like knowing the words....
i loved her even as a child when first heard her on r adio noi tvs back them ahem yes no tvs lol and she sang Land of Hope and
Glory magnificently and with all her heart my gracie fields , no our gracie fields she belonged and was loved by everyone especially for her humor
Absolutely brilliant and never to be forgotten
Churchill told her to go to America at one point during WWII and she did. She came to my home town, Hollywood, and made some movies. She also had a radio show on every week night at 6 o'clock for the troops. She began each show singing 'We're one for all and all for one.' My twin brother and I who were between one and two years old would sit in our high chairs and wave our spoons in rhythm to the song. I don't remember this, but my mother told me of it.
The 1978 Royal Variety Performance. Gracie Fields died the following year, 1979.
I keep coming back to watch this video, and more and more realize what a "treasure" our Gracie was. I grew up in Newfoundland and she was just as special there as she was anywhere. One of the most loved women ao all times.
bless our wonderful gracie fields. xx
If I'm feeling sad I pop in a Gracie Fields CD to laugh and love her. She's sadly missed, we're all mortal & age does us all in if nothing else. RIP Gracie. Love to Gracie, a one in a billion.
Fabulous,Dame Gracie Fields.
Wow, this is when she was Eighty!
I didn't have any idea who she was until I saw an episode of What's my Line? She was the mystery guest. What a presents.
We went to see Gracie in 1948 at The London Palladium. Cost 2s6d to stand in the Gods. Her first song was ‘Take me to your heart again’. It brought the house down. She was fantastic. No one who had a happy marriage could have criticised her for following him abroad during the war. I wonder how many new of her concerts that 0:07 she did for our serving soldiers.
Our Gracie shows how to behave as a star and a celebrity....god bless you Gracie
Bless her ..a proper lady...
Gracie what a wonderful performers, they don't make them like that anymore, hard act to follow.
Very good 👍 Dear Gracie I loved you ❤️ 1:37 😊
above the studio.Of course I was named after the song. We still have the original negatives and photographs.
Hi, I’d love to see them if possible. I run her Appreciation Society. Please get in touch! sebastianlassandro@yahoo.co.uk
Dame Gracie Fields still in fine voice at 80 years of age.
Jheeeze she still had a voice at that age good on her and rip👑
beautiful!
Never, Sir Bruce is was a truer word spoken, sir, God rest you both
keep watching this video over and over again, makes me smile every time, there is nothing like true music from a true legend to momentary take you from reality im 17 and and it captures me im too young to say "our gracie" but the title is well deserved :-)
My mother's favorite singer.
Good old Gracie it takes me back Memories
Love it. Love it.
It makes me cry too and I'm not really sure why!
Gracie was thee Soldiers Sweetheart all too often forgotten by the BBC and Establishment as she represented the true British spirit...
Brilliant!
An amazing lady!❤️
Beautiful memories of my Grandma singing this❤️
Sensational ❤️👏👏👏👏
A beautiful voice. 'This House is Haunted' is wonderful.
Gracie is the biggest female star ever to come put of the UK and what a worker. My mother loved her and actually got to see her perform. Jxxx
Hmm. Though very different in style, Vera was comparable in popularity, from that period - and Julie; decades later (but still before autotune) we produced Lulu, Cilla, Dusty, Shirley … and probably others now, I'm just not familiar with the current scene.
I’m related to Gracie fields
awesome oldie thanks
Our gracie always.xxxx💚💛💜
Danny LaRue's reaction 1:02. So natural and funny!
I’m so sad. I loved Gracie so much and if only I had known I would have named my first daughter sally. Later I found my gt. Gt. Aunt was Sally
This makes me feel so sad 😭 if only she was more appreciated in her life time lol
Superb legend, soon she went, and we will follow
talent
legendary!
On the full version of this which includes the national anthem, at the end, someone threw onto the stage what appeared to be a leek which was 7ft long.
So true!
Thanks...............................
who made record of music someday I'll meet you l
@@eileenharvey1990 I think you might mean "Someday I'll Find You"; created by Noel Coward for his play "Private Lives", and most famously sang by Gertrude Lawrence, reprised very nicely by Julie Andrews ( _as_ GL) in "Star!" (with Daniel Massey as Coward): ruclips.net/video/Ygq22FBf6kk/видео.html .
Very different from Gracie's style, though!
candd going from song to song, slagging off Fields. The truth is, she continued to work abroad for the British cause, and only left Britain because her Italian born husband would've been interned.
Anyone would love her as their Grandma, she was real!.
A star
Sally, Sally, pride of our alley
Sally, Sally
Don't ever wander
Away from the alley and me
Sally, Sally
Marry me Sally
And happy forever I'll be
When skies are blue
You're beguiling
And when they're grey
You're still smiling, smiling
Sally, Sally
Pride of our alley
You're more than
The whole world too me
The skies were blue
When he met you, Sally
You were his gal
His little pal, so true
You came along
Made life a song, Sally
If he lost you
He wonders what he'd do
Sally, Sally
Don't ever wander
Away from the alley and me
Sally, Sally
Marry me Sally
And happy forever I'll be
When skies are blue
You're beguiling
And when they're grey
You're still smiling, smiling
Sally, Sally
Pride of our alley
You're more than
The whole world too me
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Harry Leon / Leo Towers / Will E Haines
It's rather a misogynistic song in some ways - he doesn't want her to ever leave the alley! But - like Delilah - I don't think it should be suppressed; it's a great song.
they don't make them like this anymore
As I always say when someone says that: they didn't make many like that then, either! (Vera and Julie, but they're very _different_ to Gracie.)
This song bears more than a little resemblance to « Georgia on my mind » which was composed one year before, in 1930.
That England no longer exists anymore.
Wunderbar !!!!!
She was a great actress as well!
Splendid