I used to listen to that beautiful song over and over again back in th 70's and 80' because I identify myself with the words of that song. Unfortuately, we don't hear nor see her again...
I am here for the same reason. This is one of my old karaoke torch songs. But it really does seem like something Dan Levy would listen to when getting over a breakup, lol.
Melissa Manchester without a doubt one of the most underrated singer/songwriter of her generation. The woman was the complete package and what a showman. Here catalog is masterful and getting just her "Greatest Hits" will only be a tease, her early out of print albums clearly define the artist. Is about time that a full "Remastered Anthology" of her work is finally released.
i wonder what the singers think when they rehearse and see what's happening behind them? they probably had no control over it but it'd be enough to push someone to heavy drug use!
Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She celebrated her 70th birthday on Monday February 15, 2021 Manchester was born (1951) in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, to a musical family. Her father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Her mother was one of the first women to design and found her own clothing firm. Manchester started a singing career at an early age, singing commercial jingles at age 15.
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I totally agree with you! A few years ago, I saw her perfom in Niagara Falls and was completely blown away by her amazing live performance.....people do not understand how much she has contributed to the modern pop music canon of the 1970's, and how her talent continues to influence a new generation.
I remember seeing her sing this on the Muppets as a little girl. It made me cry…Still makes me cry, because I miss being a little girl and I lived this life
I stopped listening to the radio around 1980 when music like this seemed to disappear. Now thank goodness I still have these oldies. Melissa Manchester really knew how to sell it heart and soul. Another I know by heart.
Written by her friend from Australia, the late Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager. I actually discovered Peter Allen last night for the first time I love his version of this song too!! I actually saw and met Melissa a few years ago in Philadelphia! She was so sweet and she put on an awesome concert. This song was included in the set and she sang it beautifully! She and I had the same curly hair, we were twins that night. My mom called her my hair sister! I would love to see her again very soon. She still sounds amazing today just as she did back then.
I'm seeing Melissa again next month!! My mom got me tickets as a birthday present! She's coming back my way to Philadelphia! 14 years later, and we finally get to reunite! I cannot wait to hear my hair sister's voice again! See you in a few weeks Melissa! Dara
OMG I watched this on the Muppet show when I was in me kindergarten years, 25 odd years ago!!!!!! I cant believe they have the video now on YT!!! Love live YT!!! Thank you for bringing back those sweet sweet VHS memories, Ralph, my favourite muppet and all those wonderful guests. Melissa Manchester, Linda Rondstadt, all wonderful memories.
OLD SONGS always bring back good memories of our past... those were the days when Songwriters have high moral standards for their chosen words/lyrics that remain/stay in our thoughts and hearts... that often give encouragement, hope, trust, lesson learned, and love.
I would not have discovered this song if not for watching Schitt's Creek. Boy am I happy I stopped procrastinating about that even if just for this beautiful song. Wow!
I haven't thought of this song in years, but back in the 1970s, this was one I'd try to sing with my hairbrush "microphone." I really wanted to match these soaring, powerful vocals. Of course I couldn't even come close - I really tried though!
this is and is still one of my favorite songs. it teaches me to be positive, and never give up when things get too hard. that's the listen i learn when i hear this song. thanks melissa manchester for doing this song.
I was just a kid when Melissa released this classic song and I STILL love it today! Could you all imagine if the late and legendary Karen Carpenter recorded this?!
I can think of hundreds of songs that I wish Karen had recorded. Her version would have been the best on most all of them. We can only imagine what we lost by her early death.
How she kept a straight face through the performance was just pure professionalism. Back when people actually sang live and didn't need to lip-sync or use autotune.
K Parsons this remind me of a girl I used to like a lot many years ago back in 1979 I met her at a discotheque and I really liked her she was my first real girl I ever liked a lot and she turn me away he said I was infatuated by her but I wasn't that cared for her son was because I had a good time with there and something about her that I really like and I never forget her she's married now I own my own so it wasn't never met the day that it could have been
And there actually weren’t any truly high notes…high for this particular song, but not First Soprano high. Barbra can certainly hit these notes. And you spelled Barbra’s name wrong
Love the song. It's actually the background music for a dream I had as a child, as it was playing on my radio when I woke up. In it I was hit by lightening and electrocuted. My mom and dad cried over me as I lay dying. In retrospect, that was much less disturbing to me than seeing those haunting clowns dancing around, and that creepy f***ing puppet on the high wire.
Man, I haven't laughed that hard for that long in a long time. Totally ridiculous over the top with the big top clown theme. How could Melissa keep a straight face through that debacle is beyond my comprehension.
My friend no lie. I literally just posted the exact same thing before I even found your comment. I don't know how she kept a straight face either. She must have the patience of a saint. Just as you're about to possibly forgive the clown mess they come up with the most disrespectful and unappetizing moves that don't fit the song at all. And is that Janice the Muppet sax player dancing on a tightrope? All that was missing was Gonzo doing ballet
I love how there's this really dramatic performance of an such an emotionally saturated song in the middle of a choreographed routine featuring 3 strung out homeless clowns and underneath a tightrope dancing fetus. Btw you guys have to watch this shit high -- its a fucking trip
Looking back over my 68 years now this is just one of those songs you heard first back so long ago but always knew you would never forget throughout life. VERY dynamic ....
I dont know why but when I hear this song, it makes me sad and brings tears to my eyes... Yes, there are so many things in life that I need to keep inside of me... and learn how to hide my feelings... Maybe, because I feel like it's so much close to me... I love the music, the lyrics, above all Melissa Manchester's vocal and performing...❤😢😢😢!
I was feeling depressed and chose this video of the song, hit play, closed my eyes until the end, when I open them and realize they were clowns dancing around her. I never realized how much I needed to see clowns dancing around MM emoting my most inner feelings to make me feel better.
On this day in 1979 {February 3rd} Melissa Manchester performed "Don't Cry Out Loud" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'... At the time the song was at #24 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and seven weeks later on March 25th, 1979 it peaked at #10 {for 1 week} and spent 23 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #9 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, and also #9 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart... Ms. Manchester will celebrate her 64th birthday in twelve days on February 15th {2015}...
The song would probably have charted higher on the pop charts were it not for the fact that it was hard to get a ballad to play on the radio in the midst of the disco craze. Clive Davis gave an interesting interview at the time to Billboard where he talked about the difficulties of getting the song recorded by the right person.
dinh Thanks for the reply and the heads up info concerning Shirley Bassey; did a little surfing and found that Ms. Bassey covered the song on her 1982 album 'All by Myself'...Thanks again...
"WHAT A POWER HOUSE< BEAUTIFUL VOICE & A COMPELLING MESSAGE BEING SUNG, A SONG FOR THE AGES>SHOULD HAVE A MILLION ++ VIEWS HERE>POSSIBILITY TOO MANY OF HER FANS HAVE PASSED ON. I WILL TRY YO PASS THIS MUSICAL MASTER PIECE ON>(DID I FORGET TO MENTION HER BEAUTY
Few songs ever captured my heart the way this did. This is one of the few songs that helped redeem the seventies. My thanks and Beth Wishes go out to you for posting this, and to all the others that recognize a good song when then hear it!
The clowns KIND OF make sense. When your heart is breaking, bottle it up and put on a smile the same way a clown has to smile even if he's had the worst day of his life. The execution of putting clowns in this however, made me glad I haven't done drugs for a while or I would probably be freaking out.
@Robert Lee, Countertenor Exactly! 1st verse: “Baby cried the day the CIRCUS came to town, cause she didn’t want PARADES just passing by her, so she PAINTED ON A SMILE and took up with some CLOWN while she danced without a net up on the wire.
Isn't it rich, aren't we a pair Me here at last on the ground - and you in mid-air Send in the clowns Isn't it bliss, don't you approve One who keeps tearing around - and one who can't move But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
SOUL SEARING INTERPRETATION. EVERYTHING MELISSA SANG TURNED GOLDEN. WISH SHE WOULD RECORD "1" OF MY MANY POTENTIAL "#1" 100 ONE HUNDRED BILL BOARD HITS"
This song was offered to Shirley Bassey by Peter Allen, she declined it, later she regrets it. It was a big hit that made millions of dollars. Melissa Manchester was the lucky one!!! If it meant to be, will be!
Ah Jocelyn and Roland’s wedding song ❤️
And honeymoons...
@@colchris me too
And me 😂
Me three! lol
What’s show you guys taking about
"DON'T CRY OUT LOUD!"
I still cry when I here this
song..... I'm 65 now, but this MUSIC NEVER GETS OLD!❤️💯
I used to listen to that beautiful song over and over again back in th 70's and 80' because I identify myself with the words of that song. Unfortuately, we don't hear nor see her again...
I saw her this afternoon in the national tour of Funny Girl. She was amazing as Fanny's mother.
Who else had never heard this song until Schitt$ Creek? 🙋♂️ Now I will have nightmares for days
I am here for the same reason. This is one of my old karaoke torch songs. But it really does seem like something Dan Levy would listen to when getting over a breakup, lol.
I'm here because Family Guy nearly did it but couldn't afford to so they did Black Betty instead.
Melissa Manchester without a doubt one of the most underrated singer/songwriter of her generation. The woman was the complete package and what a showman. Here catalog is masterful and getting just her "Greatest Hits" will only be a tease, her early out of print albums clearly define the artist. Is about time that a full "Remastered Anthology" of her work is finally released.
Songwriter???
Her and Stephanie Mills.
She seems pretty… rated. I mean, this song is terrible.
@@goosegaskins the song is great by Peter Allen
@@evans54 I prefer the version done by Byron Allen.
The song is great, the video is a nightmare come to life.
Oh my. You aren't kidding.
i wonder what the singers think when they rehearse and see what's happening behind them? they probably had no control over it but it'd be enough to push someone to heavy drug use!
Ryan Grant It's "It" times three!
Is this the theme song to Stephen King's IT?
And i said, hey yyeaayeaaayee hey hey yeaayea, i said hey! What’s going on?!
Wow. This was live, not just her miming to the words! What a great voice!
“David! Can you turn that down please?!”
“As if you think that’s what I listen to.”
LoL
100% how I found myself here 😆 🤣
@@carmenherrera9420 just one of many hilarious exchanges on SC. Brilliant 🤣
@@TrollForKnowledge me too🤣
Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She celebrated her 70th birthday on Monday February 15, 2021
Manchester was born (1951) in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, to a musical family. Her father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Her mother was one of the first women to design and found her own clothing firm. Manchester started a singing career at an early age, singing commercial jingles at age 15.
Well, thank you for that info.
She's got a beautiful voice. Melissa can sing just about anything
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I totally agree with you! A few years ago, I saw her perfom in Niagara Falls and was completely blown away by her amazing live performance.....people do not understand how much she has contributed to the modern pop music canon of the 1970's, and how her talent continues to influence a new generation.
That puppet is absolutely killing it on that tightrope
Wtf is even up with that?
I remember seeing her sing this on the Muppets as a little girl. It made me cry…Still makes me cry, because I miss being a little girl and I lived this life
I am a 60 year old man and I karaoke some. My daughter came home from college and I sang it to her. She cried out loud. I love her.
here is is nearly 2024 and this song is still a great song !!!
Wow... what a beautiful woman.. love her voice.....
I stopped listening to the radio around 1980 when music like this seemed to disappear. Now thank goodness I still have these oldies. Melissa Manchester really knew how to sell it heart and soul. Another I know by heart.
This song moves you each time you hear it...even if you don't realize it at the time
The song is a classic from the late 70's! Thanks for posting!
Tears and chills.
Schitt's Creek, anyone?
South West yes the hotel guest
Moira rose my fav of all time
South West yes!
Yup. God this is some weird shit.
I literally just came from that omg
Written by her friend from Australia, the late Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager. I actually discovered Peter Allen last night for the first time I love his version of this song too!! I actually saw and met Melissa a few years ago in Philadelphia! She was so sweet and she put on an awesome concert. This song was included in the set and she sang it beautifully! She and I had the same curly hair, we were twins that night. My mom called her my hair sister! I would love to see her again very soon. She still sounds amazing today just as she did back then.
I'm seeing Melissa again next month!! My mom got me tickets as a birthday present! She's coming back my way to Philadelphia! 14 years later, and we finally get to reunite! I cannot wait to hear my hair sister's voice again! See you in a few weeks Melissa!
Dara
OMG I watched this on the Muppet show when I was in me kindergarten years, 25 odd years ago!!!!!! I cant believe they have the video now on YT!!! Love live YT!!! Thank you for bringing back those sweet sweet VHS memories, Ralph, my favourite muppet and all those wonderful guests. Melissa Manchester, Linda Rondstadt, all wonderful memories.
Great song! The memories that come with hearing this song is priceless. Just wonderful!
I know right 😭😭
This song makes me cry it's so powerful ...
OLD SONGS always bring back good memories of our past... those were the days when Songwriters have high moral standards for their chosen words/lyrics that remain/stay in our thoughts and hearts... that often give encouragement, hope, trust, lesson learned, and love.
I would not have discovered this song if not for watching Schitt's Creek. Boy am I happy I stopped procrastinating about that even if just for this beautiful song. Wow!
I haven't thought of this song in years, but back in the 1970s, this was one I'd try to sing with my hairbrush "microphone." I really wanted to match these soaring, powerful vocals. Of course I couldn't even come close - I really tried though!
this is and is still one of my favorite songs. it teaches me to be positive, and never give up when things get too hard. that's the listen i learn when i hear this song. thanks melissa manchester for doing this song.
I was just a kid when Melissa released this classic song and I STILL love it today! Could you all imagine if the late and legendary Karen Carpenter recorded this?!
Melissa and Karen could've done it as a duet
Now, there's an interesting thought. She would have nailed it.
Karen Carpenter was a way better vocalist than Melissa.. not even close. But, this song was good, video was awful
I love Karen! I think her take on “Don’t cry out loud,” “Midnight blue,” and Rita Coolidge's “higher and higher” would be interesting
I can think of hundreds of songs that I wish Karen had recorded. Her version would have been the best on most all of them. We can only imagine what we lost by her early death.
A beautiful song sung by a beautiful lady! I love Melissa Manchester.
How she kept a straight face through the performance was just pure professionalism. Back when people actually sang live and didn't need to lip-sync or use autotune.
I had the same feeling watching it. But fortunately, the clowns were behind her most of the time!
This song will never feel the same after watching those clowns and the muppet on the high wire.
Of course they couldn't use it if they wanted to.
Love this song and what a beautiful singer that is Melissa Manchester.I remember loving this song from my youth.
This took me back to my teenage years. So Nostalgic! 😍
I remember this song from when I was young, I'm a 70's/80's child. Actually remember several of Melissa Manchester's songs. Wow, the memories! 😊
Unbelievably voice and soul.
a timeless masterpiece
I’m convinced this is the greatest video of all time.
This song is beautiful
She's got some major pipes !
I love Melissa Manchester!!!
K Parsons this remind me of a girl I used to like a lot many years ago back in 1979 I met her at a discotheque and I really liked her she was my first real girl I ever liked a lot and she turn me away he said I was infatuated by her but I wasn't that cared for her son was because I had a good time with there and something about her that I really like and I never forget her she's married now I own my own so it wasn't never met the day that it could have been
Oh man, this is priceless!
What a voice she hits those high tones with ease not even Barbara Streisand could not hit.
Melissa is sweet but what you said is nonsense 😂😂😂😂
And there actually weren’t any truly high notes…high for this particular song, but not First Soprano high. Barbra can certainly hit these notes. And you spelled Barbra’s name wrong
I wonder how Judy Garland would have done this Song ????
Love the song. It's actually the background music for a dream I had as a child, as it was playing on my radio when I woke up. In it I was hit by lightening and electrocuted. My mom and dad cried over me as I lay dying. In retrospect, that was much less disturbing to me than seeing those haunting clowns dancing around, and that creepy f***ing puppet on the high wire.
...so you're just going to pretend she isn't singing under a giant spinning pentagram/pentacle. Nothing creepy here...😳
😂
Funny comment!
Looooooool 😂
She was such a powerful singer. Love this song! Love all her songs. Is she still performing??
Yes she is!
Will never forget seeing her on The Great Peace March send off on 3/1/86. She is an amazing singer and it was one of my happiest days of my life
Wow...no need for autotune just pure voice talent ❤
Man, I haven't laughed that hard for that long in a long time. Totally ridiculous over the top with the big top clown theme. How could Melissa keep a straight face through that debacle is beyond my comprehension.
My friend no lie. I literally just posted the exact same thing before I even found your comment. I don't know how she kept a straight face either. She must have the patience of a saint. Just as you're about to possibly forgive the clown mess they come up with the most disrespectful and unappetizing moves that don't fit the song at all. And is that Janice the Muppet sax player dancing on a tightrope? All that was missing was Gonzo doing ballet
Before music was profane. She’s one of the best and biggest voices of her time. Thank you Melissa!
This song touches me too much ... No words to explain !!!

Melissa hit #10 in Billboard, 3-31-79. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! Shalom, Melissa.
Such a beautiful classy lady, and she sings with so much power and passion, OMG!
This is one of my favorite songs. I first heard the song on the Muppet Show and it has been one of my favorites since.
One of my favorite singer Mellisa Manchester
Extraordinary. Absolutely.
Timeless
a classic song of the 70's!!!
A work of absolutely beauty.
used to belt into my hairbrush back in 79 when this came out, wore out two copies. Just love it. A Peter Allen original.
I love how there's this really dramatic performance of an such an emotionally saturated song in the middle of a choreographed routine featuring 3 strung out homeless clowns and underneath a tightrope dancing fetus.
Btw you guys have to watch this shit high -- its a fucking trip
Lmao.
This comment is so under rated.
LOL
I think the clowns overshadowed the performer.....not my cup of tea .......yikes...tq
I’m crying rn 😂😂😂
Man, I haven't laughed so hard for so long in a long time!!! How could Ms. Etheridge keep a straight face through that is beyond my comprehension.
"Schitt's creek" brought me here LMAO
same here
Turn the music dooowwwwn!!!!!
Looking back over my 68 years now this is just one of those songs you heard first back so long ago but always knew you would never forget throughout life. VERY dynamic ....
I dont know why but when I hear this song, it makes me sad and brings tears to my eyes... Yes, there are so many things in life that I need to keep inside of me... and learn how to hide my feelings... Maybe, because I feel like it's so much close to me... I love the music, the lyrics, above all Melissa Manchester's vocal and performing...❤😢😢😢!
And they say drugs are bad. Whoever was the choreographer was on some good stuff
Such a stunning song, one of my faves, bit literally dying with those clowns lol.
I STILL can't believe it.
One of my favorites of Melissa's Songs..❤😊
HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA
HAPPY 66TH BIRTHDAY MELISSA MANCHESTER (FEBRUARY 15, 2017)
Happy 70th birthday and so many thanks for for your art
Beautiful voice!!!❤❤
Tears are good for the soul. GREAT SONG....
OH my god! I cried when I saw that scene.. I can relate so much...
"Okay, Melissa, we like what you've got here. We'll set you up with a music video. Just one question: How do you feel about clowns?"
Lmaooo 😭😭😭😂😂😭
I DESPISE CLOWNS
I bet that’s actually what Jim Henson said to her
I was feeling depressed and chose this video of the song, hit play, closed my eyes until the end, when I open them and realize they were clowns dancing around her. I never realized how much I needed to see clowns dancing around MM emoting my most inner feelings to make me feel better.
I remember watching this on TV I was just a litte shit dang that's freaking awsome
love this song!! straight from the heart, I know!!!
On this day in 1979 {February 3rd} Melissa Manchester performed "Don't Cry Out Loud" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
At the time the song was at #24 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and seven weeks later on March 25th, 1979 it peaked at #10 {for 1 week} and spent 23 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #9 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, and also #9 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart...
Ms. Manchester will celebrate her 64th birthday in twelve days on February 15th {2015}...
The song would probably have charted higher on the pop charts were it not for the fact that it was hard to get a ballad to play on the radio in the midst of the disco craze. Clive Davis gave an interesting interview at the time to Billboard where he talked about the difficulties of getting the song recorded by the right person.
Frank D Shirley Bassey had turned it down as well.
dinh Thanks for the reply and the heads up info concerning Shirley Bassey; did a little surfing and found that Ms. Bassey covered the song on her 1982 album 'All by Myself'...Thanks again...
2022, of July. What a fantastic memory. 👏
This song brings so many of my emotions to the surface..how I’ve had to hide my feelings during my lifetime…I GET this song…bec it’s me..
I came here when Lois in Family Guy said she's going into the next room to sing this song.
Guess who's been watching Drop Dead Gorgeous and needed the real thing...
So amazing.
This is an amazing song.
Maravillosa Melissa inmensa...tocando el alma de quien oye tu voz
Descobri esta música hoje e me fez chorar um pouco. Gostei demais, muito bom descobrir boas músicas muitos anos depois.
"WHAT A POWER HOUSE< BEAUTIFUL VOICE & A COMPELLING MESSAGE BEING SUNG, A SONG FOR THE AGES>SHOULD HAVE A MILLION ++ VIEWS HERE>POSSIBILITY TOO MANY OF HER FANS HAVE PASSED ON. I WILL TRY YO PASS THIS MUSICAL MASTER PIECE ON>(DID I FORGET TO MENTION HER BEAUTY
one of the great voices of popular music. and a great song.
Boy could she sing…absolutely amazing
Few songs ever captured my heart the way this did. This is one of the few songs that helped redeem the seventies. My thanks and Beth Wishes go out to you for posting this, and to all the others that recognize a good song when then hear it!
Amazing Voice!!!
Your are wright! She is great. Her voice is wonderful and the song phantastic!!
What a voice! ❤❤
MELISSA can hit those high notes!!!!!!!!!
On repeat for the inauguration today
Beautiful & talented lady.
She’s got that very soft beautiful voice!!
The clowns KIND OF make sense.
When your heart is breaking, bottle it up and put on a smile the same way a clown has to smile even if he's had the worst day of his life.
The execution of putting clowns in this however, made me glad I haven't done drugs for a while or I would probably be freaking out.
Lmao
The fact that this was on Disney channel at one time makes it sad again thooo
@Robert Lee, Countertenor Exactly! 1st verse:
“Baby cried the day the CIRCUS came to town,
cause she didn’t want PARADES just passing by her,
so she PAINTED ON A SMILE and took up with some CLOWN
while she danced without a net up on the wire.
Isn't it rich, aren't we a pair
Me here at last on the ground - and you in mid-air
Send in the clowns
Isn't it bliss, don't you approve
One who keeps tearing around - and one who can't move
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
I currently am on drugs. The clowns need to go.
FOR ME THIS IS THE BEST VERSION.
And she was the original singer
SOUL SEARING INTERPRETATION. EVERYTHING MELISSA SANG TURNED GOLDEN. WISH SHE WOULD RECORD "1" OF MY MANY POTENTIAL "#1" 100 ONE HUNDRED BILL BOARD HITS"
This song was offered to Shirley Bassey by Peter Allen, she declined it, later she regrets it. It was a big hit that made millions of dollars. Melissa Manchester was the lucky one!!! If it meant to be, will be!
Here's Shirley Bassey singing it here:
ruclips.net/video/MRezgM3yHew/видео.html