Betty Garrett-- I'm Still Here, 1976 TV Performance
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Betty Garrett performed her version of "I'm Still Here" from Stephen Sondheim's "Follies," on this 1976 TV appearance. (25 years later she starred in the show on Broadway, but in a different role, singing "Broadway Baby"). This is how she performed it in her one-woman show, so she's adjusted to lyrics to fit her own story.
Wow. Didn’t expect that. Wonderful. Great interpretation. Joy joy joy
This might be my favorite version of the song. There's such joy to it. I always felt it should be played that way instead of angry, bitter, or defiant.
Love the uptempo swingy version of this song! And Betty Garrett....wow. A triple threat and beautiful to boot. I just love her.
WOW!!!! I knew Betty Garrett could sing, of course, but I had NO IDEA she had such marvelous vocal range - that ending high note - awesome!! an absolutely amazing performer and performance! LOVE that tempo!
What a legend. She was amazing💕😍 and she hit that note at the end with a kick! 👏👏👏 love her.
Blown away by this. No pretaping there. That s pure talent
I remember watching this when it first aired: she was on Dinah Shore’s talk show titled “Dinah!”
So good to reveal my strong attraction to this hot lady. many men watching tv shared it.
Such an appropriate song for her (if you know her story) WOW!!!!
Star quality!
Yep, the Lady can sell a song.
She is good...think her last broadway show was meet me in st louis
Was this on Mike Douglas or Merv Griffin?
I think "Dinah".
Alan Eichler it definitely was Dinah: I saw it when it first aired. It was so long ago that I was watching it with my mom.
Free at last to reveal my secret attraction to her. Many men felt the same way.
She was once called a communist and both her and her husband were blacklisted
She and her husband were blacklisted, or she would have been more well known. This version too fast, and I don't care for lyrics.
She was actually blacklisted because she refused to divorce her husband, Larry Parks. She was actually who the wanted for Annie Get Your Gun when Judy Garland collapsed. but she was told in order to get the part, she'd have to divorce her husband. Betty Garrett politely told the producers to go to hell and Betty Hutton got the role of her life, which also pretty much destroyed her.
This is the adapted version she did for her one-woman show about her life and career, so it's appropriate.
Another version of that story is that Garrett was set to do "Annie Get Your Gun," but her agency William Morris double-crossed her and made a better-paying deal for their other client Betty Hutton.
I've never heard that one. But I've seen the other one several times, including an interview with Betty Garrett herself. One can only wonder about how Annie Get Your Gun would've turned out for both of the sensational, brilliant wonderful Betty's had Betty Garrett got the role. Maybe Betty Hutton's psyche and career wouldn't have been destroyed by all of the onset problems and Betty Garrett wouldn't have slid into obscurity until Irene Lorenzo and Edna Babish. What true talents both Betty's were!