"I've Been to a Marvellous Party" by Noël Coward, performed by Dame Patricia Routledge.

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
  • "I Went to a Marvellous Party" (sometimes known as "I've Been to a Marvellous Party") is a song with words and music by Noël Coward, written in 1938 and included in the revue, "Set to Music". Although a melody exists, the text is most often recited over a piano accompaniment. In my estimation, Dame Patricia Routledge's rendition is definitive. Please note that in British English, the word is commonly spelled "marvellous".

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  • @SavoxYT
    @SavoxYT 2 года назад +22

    Her voice still sounds great and she's hardly aged at all since _Keeping Up Appearences._ She truly is a national treasure.

  • @mom9022
    @mom9022 3 года назад +32

    😍😍 92 and she's still glowing, doing what she loves the most 😍😍

  • @TVHouseHistorian
    @TVHouseHistorian 3 года назад +77

    The great Noel Coward would be BURSTING with pride if he could hear this woman do what she's done with his text. The conversational quality she lends to this is exceptional, and very much her signature. Dame Patricia's love and deep respect of the spoken word is deeply evident in this. I've watched this 10 or 11 times now, and it just doesn't get old.

    • @TimelordUK
      @TimelordUK 2 года назад +5

      Same. For me this is the definitive version of this song.

  • @patensman7415
    @patensman7415 3 года назад +80

    This woman is so talented. When I think of all the different things she has done and how well she has done them, it is amazing.

    • @philipswilson
      @philipswilson Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face,

    • @robstockton911
      @robstockton911 3 месяца назад

      Hippolyta to Hyacinth, and everything in between.

  • @joer9643
    @joer9643 3 года назад +31

    The Grand Dame, absolutely brilliant.

  • @nathanm8369
    @nathanm8369 3 года назад +56

    There isn't a more richly interpreted rendition of this song. The words came alive in her head like she herself had been at this grand party the night before. I grew up with Dame Routledge (the Funny Lady as my family colloquially called her), watching Keeping up Appearances beginning at the age of 4 at my grandparents' house on the weekends. Now I'm 25, and I've shared this show with everyone who's come into my life and when I go home for the holidays, though we're all much older, my family and I watch it, even though we could have seen the same episode a hundred times, and still laugh. She is a gifted actress and a gift of a human being. One day I'll write her, though to this point, what I'd say eludes me. Because I simply haven't found a way to express to her how much she has meant to me throughout my life, the uniting fixture in a family with very different interests. I'll watch Hyacinth and Hetty before bed usually, especially when I'm feeling anxious or unsettled after a day or before the day ahead, and I'll sink into a younger part of myself, full of memories. I studied literature, like Dame Routledge, and I'm an actor now in New York, where I know she had many a night on the stage, and now she is my teacher. She inspires me both personally and professionally. I could ramble on with a hundred more ways I've been influenced by her, but maybe I'm hoping a little too much she will actually see this. May she continue to live on and perform lovely little surprises like this. A sublime experience. Thank you for your beautiful work on the piano and for sharing this.

    • @TVHouseHistorian
      @TVHouseHistorian 3 года назад +11

      I could not agree more! She lends such a conversational quality to this that her rendition is all her own product, completely distinct from that of Coward’s original performance. I’m always amazed at how she is able to totally transform herself into whatever character she’s portraying, whether your talking Ms. Fozzard (Talking Heads), Mrs. Bowler (Anybody’s Nightmare), Hetty Wainthrop (...Investigates), Hildegard, Hyacinth Bucket, whatever... You could swear she isn’t Dame Patricia, and that she really did come from a “marvelous party.” No costume or makeup necessary, just knowing who she’s portraying, and being that person. I’ve learned a lot how to do a monologue from this woman. She’s among the very best actors in the world, in my opinion.

    • @moosekeating
      @moosekeating 3 года назад +7

      I couldn't agree with you more. I'm American so I was late in the game to watching "Keeping Up Appearances".
      I watched this entire video without realizing this was Hyacinth Bucket. Noel Coward would have been so so proud of this performance.

    • @GeorgiaGeorgette
      @GeorgiaGeorgette 3 года назад +6

      Send her a copy of your comment; it's perfect.

    • @levimacdonald5188
      @levimacdonald5188 3 года назад +2

      What a thoughtful comment DAME Patricia Routedge is loved by so many👒👑⭐🍸❤💓🎶💐 BEST wishes to everyone who commented on this video x👍⭐💙

    • @thenoobpolice3002
      @thenoobpolice3002 6 месяцев назад

      You absolutely have to see her as Kitty in Victoria Wood's sketches. Utterly superb.

  • @naly202
    @naly202 3 года назад +24

    My God, she did justice to this wonderful song! Noel would be proud!

  • @twomfilmsllc1654
    @twomfilmsllc1654 3 года назад +15

    Dame Patricia! What a legend! What an icon!

  • @zooeyzooeyzooey2324
    @zooeyzooeyzooey2324 3 года назад +27

    She’s just wonderful. I watch keeping up appearances every week.

  • @marklangfield4403
    @marklangfield4403 3 года назад +14

    She is an amazing talent. A shame we don't see her on TV, she is amazing for remembering all the dialect and her expressions are fantastic

  • @livinghere1972
    @livinghere1972 3 года назад +20

    This woman is a force of nature x

  • @stoffels74
    @stoffels74 3 года назад +28

    Wow, she still has is aged 91

  • @antoninamrowka
    @antoninamrowka 2 года назад +4

    My English istn't very good, but when I listen to the Great Lady Patricia, I can understand everything! She is absolutely crazy and absolutely gorgeous 💚

  • @dr.plutonus1496
    @dr.plutonus1496 3 года назад +5

    She was utterly magnificent when she came to our local theatre a couple of years ago to do her show in which she reminisced about her career; her interlocutor Edward Seckerson made it clear at the beginning that her performance as Hyacinth wouldn't be the main part of the conversation. During the interval I overheard a lady (who had clearly expected two hours of Bouquet stories) on her phone saying to someone, "Well, it's alright for a sit-down I suppose". A line worthy of Kitty and Victoria Wood! 😆

  • @Laser82
    @Laser82 3 года назад +5

    She makes the world a better place for a while. Xx

  • @christopherdrennan5819
    @christopherdrennan5819 3 года назад +25

    Imagine Emmet's reaction!😂😂😂

  • @vickifriend9285
    @vickifriend9285 3 года назад +5

    I saw Patty Routledge in an afternoon interview at The Theatre Royal in the Haymarket. I was in 2 minds whether to go.
    I’m so pleased I did. She’s hugely entertaining, so many extraordinary theatrical experiences. Marvellous.

    • @philipswilson
      @philipswilson Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face,

  • @xyon172
    @xyon172 2 года назад +3

    She is just magical.

  • @amyerickson7749
    @amyerickson7749 3 года назад +5

    I adore Patricia Routledge - such a treasure!

    • @philipswilson
      @philipswilson Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face,

  • @treesny
    @treesny 3 года назад +3

    My first introduction to the great Patricia Routledge, many years ago now, was via a 2LP recording of the London stage revue "Cowardy Custard." The numbers she performed ranged from Coward's sentimental ballads to this comic classic. I was riveted! Later on of course came Keeping up Appearances and Alan Bennett's Talking Heads and so much more, including the great good fortune to see her "live" in The Pirates of Penzance in Central Park (where she was the standout performer). What's interesting is that her interpretation here adheres very much to that one I heard long ago, both in broad outline and much of the detail, now polished and refined to perfection, mellowed a bit - but only slightly! - by the perspective of age. That's true comic genius... and incredible discipline and craft. Thank you, Dame Patricia, for all you have given us! :)

  • @DaleGerrard
    @DaleGerrard 3 года назад +5

    Tour de force, masterclass, perfection. I love her! Bravo!

  • @markhodge1809
    @markhodge1809 Год назад

    Just sublime. She must be 90 here. Such great work.

  • @el-gn7vp
    @el-gn7vp 3 года назад +3

    I love Patricia Routledge, what an enormous talent.

  • @mash_loved_by_God
    @mash_loved_by_God 3 года назад +9

    Absolutely amazing performance! Thank you Dame Patricia Routledge. ❤

  • @bogumiapotargowicz8661
    @bogumiapotargowicz8661 3 года назад +7

    Absolutnie fantastyczna kobieta!
    Pozdrawiam z Polski

  • @pgbear
    @pgbear 8 месяцев назад

    Happy 95th birthday to the wonderful Dame Patricia Routledge. She is so talented! This song performance is absolutely wonderful. She's clearly enjoying singing it and that makes it even more fun for us.

  • @Jungletraveler00_12
    @Jungletraveler00_12 3 года назад +10

    In her 90's she still sounds and looks like the Hyacinth I always remember

  • @gagrlntxworld6641
    @gagrlntxworld6641 3 года назад +4

    Absolutely my fav!!! No one can even come close to her talent! Hyacinth she will always be to me.🇬🇧

    • @philipswilson
      @philipswilson Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face,

  • @MyFirst_Love
    @MyFirst_Love 6 месяцев назад

    Absolutely outstanding performance. Thank you for being an inspiration to us. God bless you.

  • @ozhartley6408
    @ozhartley6408 2 года назад +3

    Patricia's always had it, she's still got it!

  • @TheMadamfee1234
    @TheMadamfee1234 Год назад

    What an Outstanding Performance!!! Perfection!!!!

  • @Bluedolphingirl01
    @Bluedolphingirl01 3 года назад +2

    I love Dame Routledge so inspiring, so talented. Her music is absolutely fabulous. I wish they would make a DVD with her Climb Every Mountain and other music on. Its a shame because noone plays records anymore. Would have loved to thank uou in person for making me laugh,uncontrollably.

  • @brianbrooks9979
    @brianbrooks9979 3 года назад +4

    Simply marvellous

  • @Sharonewarnock
    @Sharonewarnock 3 года назад +10

    Love this woman. She is wonderful. Shx

  • @levimacdonald5188
    @levimacdonald5188 3 года назад +2

    DAME Patricia Routedge is on top form as EVER
    Xx 👒👑⭐🍸❤

  • @flav2689
    @flav2689 5 месяцев назад

    I’m back here to watch this again, this is very funny but also so inspiring! She’s simply incredible. To think that she’s over 90 - apparently 91 here is _crazy_. She looks easily 10-15 years younger!! Maybe even 20. Many look older in their 70s than she looks here at the freaking age of 91. But the real point - her talent and skills which she still got. Respect.
    Thank you for everything, Dame. ❤

  • @bernardcleary4330
    @bernardcleary4330 3 года назад +3

    Delightful! I hope I'm as spry at 90!

  • @charlalar14
    @charlalar14 3 года назад +5

    Keeping up appearances was part of my childhood, I loved it so much. I didn't know that she was still alive! I know "Richard" isn't.
    She looks amazing for her age!! X

  • @billhennessee7571
    @billhennessee7571 3 года назад +3

    I love "the Bucket woman" This is magnificent.

  • @koolgart
    @koolgart 2 года назад +3

    This was fantastic. Love this marvelous lady!

  • @caribmale
    @caribmale 3 года назад +3

    Gotta love this lady!

  • @reneekennedy716
    @reneekennedy716 3 года назад +9

    What a treasure! Thank you for sharing this! ♥

  • @bojack40
    @bojack40 3 года назад +3

    Why we don’t see Dame Pat on TV I don’t know. Fans should look at the you tubes of her as Victoria Woods ‘Kitty’ who was a sort of pre curser to Hyacinth!

  • @darjo2012
    @darjo2012 Год назад

    Happy Birthday to You Miss Routledge

  • @arlenecerf8833
    @arlenecerf8833 3 года назад +3

    Correction: It is not Patricia Routledge but Dame Patricia Routledge!

  • @zozik84
    @zozik84 2 года назад +1

    She is incredibly amazing. Bless her !

  • @RichardTheBigBunny
    @RichardTheBigBunny 2 года назад +2

    She is fantastic!

  • @krisjames5914
    @krisjames5914 3 года назад +3

    I couldn’t of like this more either. Love you xxxxx

  • @anthonyjohn3202
    @anthonyjohn3202 3 года назад +2

    What an incredible woman!!!

  • @katieakakt
    @katieakakt 2 года назад +1

    More of these please xx

  • @danmeadows3859
    @danmeadows3859 2 года назад +2

    She’s a national treasure.

  • @Anders4771
    @Anders4771 3 года назад +3

    I want to meet her so bad:/ If only this pandemic would end soon I could make my way to the UK.

  • @Sam-gw5pl
    @Sam-gw5pl 2 года назад +1

    This is utterly superb

  • @MrGranfield
    @MrGranfield Год назад

    Absolutely marvellous.

  • @MaggieKrenek
    @MaggieKrenek 3 года назад +2

    I so love her.

  • @I.amthatrealJuan
    @I.amthatrealJuan 3 года назад +3

    I've only discovered Keeping Up Appearances recently and this dame is surely admirable.

  • @ginenelafontaine8343
    @ginenelafontaine8343 3 года назад +2

    Absolutely marvelous.

  • @lachlansmith2361
    @lachlansmith2361 2 года назад +1

    It's the hiccup right at the very end that just tops it off 🤣

  • @divaden47
    @divaden47 2 года назад +1

    Fabulous talent!!

  • @animallover18193
    @animallover18193 2 года назад +2

    She’s brilliant in acting and singing both

  • @TheMadamfee1234
    @TheMadamfee1234 Год назад

    Fabulous Fabulous Fabulous!!!!!!!

  • @Usvaa
    @Usvaa 3 года назад +3

    Oh how brilliant and lovely!! When was this filmed?

  • @aaa98730
    @aaa98730 3 года назад +2

    A wonderful lady! She's going to outlive the queen herself ;)

  • @micheleniedermeyer8805
    @micheleniedermeyer8805 3 года назад +4

    Sweet Lady may your party never end...and reach on into heaven one day!

    • @levimacdonald5188
      @levimacdonald5188 3 года назад

      💞🎉🌸🌹🍸❤💜🎹🎤📺
      Dame Patricia is one amazing LADY
      Bless her

  • @extrude22
    @extrude22 3 года назад +2

    The woman is a legend

  • @ginadodds2695
    @ginadodds2695 3 года назад +4

    She's adorable. I loved her as Hyacinth Bouquet. How I left during that series. Bellmore, NY USA

    • @philipswilson
      @philipswilson Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face,

  • @wilroseestate5435
    @wilroseestate5435 3 года назад +3

    Amazing talent!

  • @levimacdonald5188
    @levimacdonald5188 3 года назад +3

    📞🎶🌟👑💞❤✨
    Dame Patricia is AN AMAZING LADY
    Love HER singing this jolly fun Noel cowArd song
    ..it's Bouquet 💐😅
    I'm thinking of sending a autograph request to DAME Patricia Routedge! It'll make my DAYyy if SHE replied BACK with a sighned photo

  • @sionara11
    @sionara11 3 года назад +2

    Another great performance in the bucket I mean..bouquet

  • @Dewario
    @Dewario 3 года назад +4

    This is too good.

  • @nickpalmer3076
    @nickpalmer3076 3 года назад +2

    Wonderful.

  • @tomwestbrook
    @tomwestbrook 4 года назад +3

    Wow! Perfect!

  • @karamattox
    @karamattox 3 года назад +6

    Hyacinth delivers a recitation at one of her smart dinner parties.

    • @philipswilson
      @philipswilson Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face,

  • @blackcitroenlove
    @blackcitroenlove 2 года назад

    What a great voice!

  • @eliranpinhasov5940
    @eliranpinhasov5940 3 года назад +2

    Happy I found current video of her
    Watched keeping up appearances as teenager in Israel 🇮🇱💋
    Pretty of health and years with us

  • @przemyslawprzemyslaw885
    @przemyslawprzemyslaw885 Год назад +1

    Pięknie brawo!!! 😊

  • @irenemak1302
    @irenemak1302 3 года назад +6

    How old was she here?

    • @levimacdonald5188
      @levimacdonald5188 3 года назад +3

      Dame Patricia WAS 91 this was summer 2020 👒

  • @Onslow-82
    @Onslow-82 6 месяцев назад

    She is great !

  • @antoniodg2673
    @antoniodg2673 3 года назад +4

    "Oh no, it's the Bucket woman!"

  • @danstoreyphoenix
    @danstoreyphoenix 3 года назад +3

    Looking great for 92!!

  • @dandyhiphop
    @dandyhiphop 6 месяцев назад

    Sir Noël would be so proud

  • @deanwoodvine4574
    @deanwoodvine4574 2 года назад

    Wonderful ❤

  • @Bellesawyer
    @Bellesawyer 3 года назад +1

    Fabulous.

  • @adamlittle8691
    @adamlittle8691 3 года назад +8

    Fantastic. Do you know when this was?

    • @Musicalfantastic
      @Musicalfantastic 3 года назад +6

      Summer 2020

    • @adamlittle8691
      @adamlittle8691 3 года назад +7

      @@Musicalfantastic thank you. She looks and sounds so good for 91

    • @Musicalfantastic
      @Musicalfantastic 3 года назад +6

      @@adamlittle8691 Yes. Sadly Dame Patricia injured herself, because she fell in her home a few weeks ago. I hope she recovers very soon.

  • @michaelboese6069
    @michaelboese6069 2 года назад

    Love this, apparently this was based on an actual party of Elsa Maxwell's in 1937-38 , what fun it must have been.

  • @Pawełczytapsalm40
    @Pawełczytapsalm40 Год назад

    long live the queen

  • @dariuszrysak1133
    @dariuszrysak1133 3 года назад +1

    She is brilliant :D

  • @davidbaker2138
    @davidbaker2138 Год назад

    Amazing!

  • @Objectification
    @Objectification 3 года назад +3

    ❤️

  • @pszemhub8759
    @pszemhub8759 3 года назад +10

    Lady Buck- i mean Bouquet still has it AND SHE'S 92???? damn..

    • @flav2689
      @flav2689 3 года назад +1

      Indeed. I’m speechless. What the hell is this sorcery? So sharp and 92?? 👀

  • @Bazylland
    @Bazylland 3 года назад +9

    👍👍🥰

  • @michaellonergan8318
    @michaellonergan8318 3 года назад +1

    Try the Bway cast album of *Darling of the Day*. She won a Tony even though the show had been closed for months.

    • @treesny
      @treesny Год назад

      She's wonderful on the album, especially in a number titled "Not On Your Nellie," which you can find here on RUclips.

  • @jaggass
    @jaggass 3 года назад +3

    She did this at 91?

  • @Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo
    @Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo 2 года назад +2

    *DAME Patricia Routledge

  • @evanmax6080
    @evanmax6080 3 года назад +3

    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @bulaaa89
    @bulaaa89 3 года назад +3

    92 wow !

  • @charliedrosario999
    @charliedrosario999 3 года назад +12

    On the 17th February DAME Patricia Routledge will be 92, butt she could easily pass as 72, couldn't she. Or 67.

    • @flav2689
      @flav2689 3 года назад +3

      Very easily. I’m so surprised! It’s like she hasn’t aged at all in the last 15 years...?!

    • @arlenecerf8833
      @arlenecerf8833 3 года назад +2

      Very youthful and radiant indeed

    • @charliedrosario999
      @charliedrosario999 3 года назад +3

      @@arlenecerf8833 O-R! I loved her pink dress and pearls in this video.

  • @BreskevPoland
    @BreskevPoland Год назад

    Legend ❤️

  • @oliverwilson9577
    @oliverwilson9577 Год назад

    I knew she’d sing at me!!😂😂😂

  • @agaJCh
    @agaJCh Год назад

    ❤❤❤