‘You will excuse me, Ma’am. I will hope to see you again soon, in a little while.’ The saddest words ever said at the end of a love song. Jerry Hadley, RIP.
He had such a beautiful voice, so bright, youthful and rich. Just wonderful. She is so great too. Amazing singers both and great acting too. Absolutely delightful scene.
Handsome, believable, a great voice: what an artist. This scene is perfection, and you want it to work right from the very beginning. between the two of them. I have heard him in other roles, and the truth is that he was an exceptional talent with a huge range. Such gift and personality is so rare.
great vocal coordination perfect technic and he was such a sincere and tenderhearted man, only seeing his acting one can tell, he is truly missed indeed.
So beautiful, both of them, their voices and their acting. How touched by sorrow, both the story of this musical and the tragic ending of Jerry Handley's life. Yes, heartbreaking.
This punishes Howard Keels rendition in the movie. Smooth, effortless and as natural as walking and talking. I love his style even more than his voice. I understand he died young. What a talent.
Wouldn't it be fun if PBS would start to replay/rerun some of the best things they've ever done? Certainly this "Flicka and Friends" program would be near the top of my "Want to See" list! I happened on it when originally broadcast and was enthralled! One of the very rare TV programs I've actually most fondly remembered. Come on, PBS!
Jerry Hadley was a wonderful tenor, who suffered from being an American in an opera world that at the time discriminated against American Italianate tenors and sopranos. Too many songs were left unsung.
I love the way Jerry Hadley simply inhabits songs and arias. I look for this quality in other artists and really never have found anyone that "delivers" the character through vocal expression the way he does.
The genius of a kinder gentler time brought to us through the talent of the performers. They required the raw material to work with and thankfully Kern and Hammerstein gave them just that.
Charles Lawrence. Have you heard Irene Dunne and Allan Jones in The 1936 movie Berbara Cook with John Raitt or Stephen Douglas Rebecca Luker and Mark Jacobi or Sierra Boggess and Julian Ovenden?
Charles Ravenal was composed for a tenor like Jerry Hadley or a light baritone and Howard Keel eas a bass baritone not the right voice for the role. Listen to the singers I named 😊
Quel plaisir de réentendre cette si belle Comédie Musicale, ici interprétée superbement par Frederica von Stade et Jerry Hadley, les voix idéales...Merci.
This scene is so unbelievably sweet, innocent and endearing it brings tears to my eyes. Believe it or not I KNEW Flicka in her salad daysays, We were both students at Mannes then. I had the privilege of accompaning her several times. She was even a soloist at the church where I directed the music for a brief period.a Flickr was a lovely, down-toearth and unaffected as anyone coud be. She was modest too. None of us who knew her at the time realized she would be im on of Opera's brightest stars. Amazingly she did nt particualrly WANT to sing opera back then. Her heart's desire a the time was to do wxactlt what she does so butifully on this video. WI knew her, she wanted most of all to sing AMERICAN MUSICALCOMEDY, Perhaps that's why she was so VERY good at it? Hard to believe her singing career asa lyr-coloratua mezzo has been over for qute some time already She was such a GREAT Cenrentolla.
Truly bizarre and delightful seeing Von Stade, who I associate with Melisande, Hansel, Cherubino, and Angelina, singing this musical, though Showboat is very common in the occasional blend of opera and musical repertoire!
From Wikipedia: "On July 10, 2007, Hadley sustained a catastrophic brain injury after apparently shooting himself in the head with an air rifle at his home in Clinton Corners, New York.[9] Hearing the shot, his fiancée called 911.[10] Hadley was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York where CAT scans and X-rays showed severe brain injury; he was put on life support.[11] On July 16, he was taken off life support.[12] Hadley died two days later." At about age 55.
Only make believe I love you Only make believe that you love me Others find peace of mind in pretending Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we Make believe our lips are blending In a phantom kiss or two or three? Might as well make believe I love you For to tell the truth, I do The game of just supposing is the sweetest game I know Our dreams are more romantic than the world we see And if the things we dream about don't happen to be so That's just an unimportant technicality Though the cold and brutal fact is You and I have never met We need not mind conventions, P's and Q's If we put our thoughts in practice We can banish all regret Imagining most anything we choose We could make believe I love you Only make believe that you love me Others find peace of mind in pretending Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we Make believe our lips are blending In a phantom kiss or two or three? Might as well make believe I love you For to tell the truth, I do
I believe that spiritual guidance could have helped him. but was never sought, even friends could have helped him, but no one recommended it. In reading an article about the cause of his death, it seemed that he was alone to solve his problems. I know prayers could have helped him. Perhaps he thought of himself as a failure (this, from reading the cause of his death) and he suffered alone. He had a beautiful voice and very happy when he performed.
Dina Lombos I was very surprised to hear about his death about a year ago. I have heard from many psychiatrist say when a Entertainer commit suicide it's all due to depression. When they around people hey seem very happy go lucky but deep inside they are not happy. They also say the same time suicide is the only solution for them because of their mental torment. Many people have financial problems or bad marriages Etc. But deep depression it's something that even the best of psychiatrist cannot cure or help someone that is deeply depressed. Anthony Bourdain is a perfect example. Another one is Robin Williams. Even the people that were closest to him did not see any signs of suicide or depression. It's a terrible hunting disease and it's not normal 2 want to take your own life we are created to live. I was in the medical field before I retired my VP that I reported to her mother took her life and hung herself in the garage. She had so much to live for. My boss took it very hard she found her. All these individuals that I had mentioned we're not under psychiatric care. I also read that Jerry Hadley was not under psychiatric care. All we can do is be really kind to each other and get to know the special individuals better so gifted and be kind to them. My dad always said that you can tell when someone is deeply depressed by looking into their eyes. Someone who wants to be the center of attention. He was right. His Uncle committed suicide and he was the life of the party. But my grandfather could see it in his eyes that he was not totally happy. Just something I wanted to share with all of you. It's an ugly world and sometimes we cannot do anything to prevent it. I apologize if I offended you and anyway. Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral
@@arnoldamaral7406 No, you did not offend me. I am sad for him and for all those who are suffering from depression that only them who suffer know but could not find ways to solve it. I agree with you in showing kindness to each and everyone. Thank you for your comment. Sincerely, Dina Lombos
None would say these are velvet-like timbres... only those of postmodernism... as everything nowadays. Being searched for most dirty sounds in music generally. Overdrive sounds most preferred.
Michael Miano it makes me smile eveytime I hear her fluff the line. As a singer I know how scary it feels when you have those blanks. Even this wonderful lady could make a mistake!!
I loved Jerry Hadley Ravenal but the great Frederica Von Stade wasnt the best voice for Magnolia.Rebecca Luker should have recorded it with Hadley and Flika coukld have recorded Julie although Teresa Stratas was very good.
Every time I listen to this beautiful tenor and man,it brings a tear to my eye. RIP dear Jerry.
It is heartbreaking to see and listen to Hadley. What a gifted artist and how he is missed.
You said it, he is absolutely perfect in this role, so endearing ...
His kiss of her hand at the end is sublime perfection.
‘You will excuse me, Ma’am. I will hope to see you again soon, in a little while.’ The saddest words ever said at the end of a love song. Jerry Hadley, RIP.
Jerry Hadley was brilliant in the genre of American musical theater.
He had such a beautiful voice, so bright, youthful and rich. Just wonderful. She is so great too. Amazing singers both and great acting too. Absolutely delightful scene.
Yes they are acting and singing naturally❤
Handsome, believable, a great voice: what an artist. This scene is perfection, and you want it to work right from the very beginning. between the two of them. I have heard him in other roles, and the truth is that he was an exceptional talent with a huge range. Such gift and personality is so rare.
great vocal coordination perfect technic and he was such a sincere and tenderhearted man, only seeing his acting one can tell, he is truly missed indeed.
his passion pouring out his all his songs, he truly deserves more Bravo, what an American proud!
So beautiful, both of them, their voices and their acting. How touched by sorrow, both the story of this musical and the tragic ending of Jerry Handley's life. Yes, heartbreaking.
Not only a fantastically beautiful voice but handsome too!!! Was having a rather down day so I started to his music and it lifted my spirits!
What a priceless gift to us all to be able to watch and listen to two such wonderful voices !
Virginia, thank you for posting these great videos.
J RH It's a pleasure. I'm so glad you like the videos.
May God rest Jerry Hadley 's soul. He was a great singer.
Her voice is so *thrilling* when she sings, "We only pretend!"
Heartbreaking to listen to lovely Frederica Von Stade and Jerry Hadley who is so greatly missed.
I saw this on PBS in April 1990, and was immediately struck by the beauty of Jerry's voice. ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS SINGING!!!!!!!!!!!
Me too. I got the full CD Broadway recording of it. Totally beautiful!!!
Just Wonderful!
superb! beautiful song, beautiful lyrics, beautiful voices, beautiful people!! just wonderful.
This punishes Howard Keels rendition in the movie. Smooth, effortless and as natural as walking and talking. I love his style even more than his voice. I understand he died young. What a talent.
I have heard others do this duet. These are the best. Beautiful voices, fine actors. Bravo!
Wouldn't it be fun if PBS would start to replay/rerun some of the best things they've ever done? Certainly this "Flicka and Friends" program would be near the top of my "Want to See" list! I happened on it when originally broadcast and was enthralled! One of the very rare TV programs I've actually most fondly remembered. Come on, PBS!
Jerry was one of the finest tenors America has ever produced. I especially loved the “Tom and Jerry” concerts.
Hadley was and is through recordings just wonderful
Really beautiful! They perform so well together. Beautiful blend of voices with great non affected diction!
I.ll miss your marvelous performances Jerry !!! Flicka is a wonderful voice companion !!!! ...
Jerry Hadley was a wonderful tenor, who suffered from being an American in an opera world that at the time discriminated against American Italianate tenors and sopranos. Too many songs were left unsung.
Exactly
What talent we have here. Such a shame that this talent is no longer, and we have to listen to the garbage they put out now!!!!
When he sings, "The driftwood floating over the sea" at 1:11 I melt. So beautiful
Jerry Hadley died in 2007 . He was a marveleus tenor and recorded this excelent Show Boat with Frederica Von Stade
Frederick’s was always the BEST Cherubino of Mozart and both are so excellent in this program. How lucky we were to hear them.
I love the way Jerry Hadley simply inhabits songs and arias. I look for this quality in other artists and really never have found anyone that "delivers" the character through vocal expression the way he does.
What a treat to see and hear them together, they make beautiful music.
If the combination of songs, instruments, voices and their expression gets any better than this, I hope I will eventually be able to discover them.
RIP for the untimely departure of Mr.Hadley, JRT
The genius of a kinder gentler time brought to us through the talent of the performers. They required the raw material to work with and thankfully Kern and Hammerstein gave them just that.
Listening to these two amazing performers makes one "believe" anything is believable; only these two will ever top Keel and Grayson
Charles Lawrence. Have you heard Irene Dunne and Allan Jones in The 1936 movie Berbara Cook with John Raitt or Stephen Douglas Rebecca Luker and Mark Jacobi or Sierra Boggess and Julian Ovenden?
Charles Ravenal was composed for a tenor like Jerry Hadley or a light baritone and Howard Keel eas a bass baritone not the right voice for the role. Listen to the singers I named 😊
Kathryn Grayson had a thin, shrill soprano.
God bless you Jerry
I’m an opera enthusiast. I’m my opinion you are up there with the greatest, your artistic personality says it all. Bravo 👏
They are so wonderful, so happy someone taped it!
I get happy just listening to Jerome Kern's MAKE BELIEVE. She's beautiful.
Fantastically beautiful.
Quel plaisir de réentendre cette si belle Comédie Musicale, ici interprétée superbement par Frederica von Stade et Jerry Hadley, les voix idéales...Merci.
Glorious voices!
Marvelous. As in, marvel. As in wonderful.
I'm in love again.
I do believe I love you both, .......you' re so magnificent
Only just seen this wow brilliant so talented love them.
Excellent performance!!!
Great Stuff. Both are very elegant
A man and a woman in each other's arms, it doesn't get any better than that!
This scene is so unbelievably sweet, innocent and endearing it brings tears to my eyes. Believe it or not I KNEW Flicka in her salad daysays, We were both students at Mannes then. I had the privilege of accompaning her several times. She was even a soloist at the church where I directed the music for a brief period.a Flickr was a lovely, down-toearth and unaffected as anyone coud be. She was modest too. None of us who knew her at the time realized she would be im on of Opera's brightest stars. Amazingly she did nt particualrly WANT to sing opera back then. Her heart's desire a the time was to do wxactlt what she does so butifully on this video. WI knew her, she wanted most of all to sing AMERICAN MUSICALCOMEDY, Perhaps that's why she was so VERY good at it? Hard to believe her singing career asa lyr-coloratua mezzo has been over for qute some time already She was such a GREAT Cenrentolla.
Two of the great voices
R.I.P. Jerry
Thanks for uploading, I had it on VHS, watched it a hundred times, really great singing!
RIP Jerry Hadley.
Beautiful!!!
Fantastic singer..
It is almost a musical perfection.
Love Flicka!!
A friend indeed to all who love vocal art, and that ain't hay.
Truly bizarre and delightful seeing Von Stade, who I associate with Melisande, Hansel, Cherubino, and Angelina, singing this musical, though Showboat is very common in the occasional blend of opera and musical repertoire!
I'm tired of the "dark" crap, I stand with such beauty.
Lovely!!!!
I could only make believe that I could sing like Jerry Hadley..Kids
do it Don't they?
This great
From Wikipedia: "On July 10, 2007, Hadley sustained a catastrophic brain injury after apparently shooting himself in the head with an air rifle at his home in Clinton Corners, New York.[9] Hearing the shot, his fiancée called 911.[10] Hadley was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York where CAT scans and X-rays showed severe brain injury; he was put on life support.[11] On July 16, he was taken off life support.[12] Hadley died two days later." At about age 55.
wonderful
How romantic!
Masterful stuff
Loved her in Carmen
At 5:10, von Stade seems to forget the lyrics.
This is how musical should be sang!
The more postmodernity steps in, the more arts step out within this reality.
Marvellous
Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II (Rio, 30/jun/2018).
GRADUATE OF OUR HOMETOWN UNIVERSITY BRADLEY PEORIA IL
Only make believe I love you
Only make believe that you love me
Others find peace of mind in pretending
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we
Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two or three?
Might as well make believe I love you
For to tell the truth, I do
The game of just supposing is the sweetest game I know
Our dreams are more romantic than the world we see
And if the things we dream about don't happen to be so
That's just an unimportant technicality
Though the cold and brutal fact is
You and I have never met
We need not mind conventions, P's and Q's
If we put our thoughts in practice
We can banish all regret
Imagining most anything we choose
We could make believe I love you
Only make believe that you love me
Others find peace of mind in pretending
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we
Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two or three?
Might as well make believe I love you
For to tell the truth, I do
Easily the best of Kern and Hammerstein.
I believe that spiritual guidance could have helped him. but was never sought, even friends could have helped him, but no one recommended it. In reading an article about the cause of his death, it seemed that he was alone to solve his problems. I know prayers could have helped him. Perhaps he thought of himself as a failure (this, from reading the cause of his death) and he suffered alone. He had a beautiful voice and very happy when he performed.
your expression of compassion does you credit...
Dina Lombos I was very surprised to hear about his death about a year ago. I have heard from many psychiatrist say when a Entertainer commit suicide it's all due to depression. When they around people hey seem very happy go lucky but deep inside they are not happy. They also say the same time suicide is the only solution for them because of their mental torment. Many people have financial problems or bad marriages Etc. But deep depression it's something that even the best of psychiatrist cannot cure or help someone that is deeply depressed. Anthony Bourdain is a perfect example. Another one is Robin Williams. Even the people that were closest to him did not see any signs of suicide or depression. It's a terrible hunting disease and it's not normal 2 want to take your own life we are created to live. I was in the medical field before I retired my VP that I reported to her mother took her life and hung herself in the garage. She had so much to live for. My boss took it very hard she found her. All these individuals that I had mentioned we're not under psychiatric care. I also read that Jerry Hadley was not under psychiatric care. All we can do is be really kind to each other and get to know the special individuals better so gifted and be kind to them. My dad always said that you can tell when someone is deeply depressed by looking into their eyes. Someone who wants to be the center of attention. He was right. His Uncle committed suicide and he was the life of the party. But my grandfather could see it in his eyes that he was not totally happy. Just something I wanted to share with all of you. It's an ugly world and sometimes we cannot do anything to prevent it. I apologize if I offended you and anyway. Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral
@@arnoldamaral7406 No, you did not offend me. I am sad for him and for all those who are suffering from depression that only them who suffer know but could not find ways to solve it. I agree with you in showing kindness to each and everyone. Thank you for your comment. Sincerely, Dina Lombos
Did a marvelous Rosencavalier
None would say these are velvet-like timbres... only those of postmodernism... as everything nowadays. Being searched for most dirty sounds in music generally. Overdrive sounds most preferred.
What in the world is she singing at 5:11???
Michael Miano it makes me smile eveytime I hear her fluff the line. As a singer I know how scary it feels when you have those blanks. Even this wonderful lady could make a mistake!!
“That’s just an un-i-important techni-i-cality!”
lucky guy - i'd love play love scenes with Flicka - preferably not in front of an audience
What a woman! That's a beautiful 👗 she almost has on too.
Frederica von Stade's performance is nowhere near as believable as Jerry Hadley's. What a gifted voice he had.
Is! Haha. This IS great. Want to please the grammar police
I loved Jerry Hadley Ravenal but the great Frederica Von Stade wasnt the best voice for Magnolia.Rebecca Luker should have recorded it with Hadley and Flika coukld have recorded Julie although Teresa Stratas was very good.
A musical theatre voice, not operatic. Too white, conversational. Doing these performances inevitably leads to vocal decline.
He sounds tired here.. his low notes kinda suck - which usually denotes weak breath support and thus a sub-par performance
What an arsehole remark you are an imbecile
That’s an insult to imbeciles !
He’s an idiot
Boring