JUDY GARLAND: 'TOO LATE NOW' FROM 'ROYAL WEDDING'.
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Judy Garland was signed to play the lead role as Ellen, opposite Fred Astaire, in 'Royal Wedding', but due to personal issues was fired from the film. This was the defining situation that led to the end of her career at MGM. I have often wondered what she was thinking about during this performance. I suppose its better left to imagination ... I am pleased she sang it, & we can share in her moment.
Performed on 'The Judy Garland Show,' taped June 24, 1963.
Words by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Burton Lane, 1951.
Nominated for Best Song Academy Award, 1951.
Too late now to forget your smile,
The way we cling when we've danced a while,
Too late now to forget and go on with someone new.
Too late now to forget your voice,
The way one word makes my heart rejoice,
Too late now to imagine myself away from you.
All the dreams we've dreamed together,
I relive when we're apart
All the tender words together
Live on in my heart.
How can I ever close the door
And be the same as I was before,
Darling, no, no I can't anymore - it's too late now.
/ michelebell1
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After so many years not even 40000 views this should be more than a million!
She is the synthesis of the pinnacle of acting and singing.
DreamCraftPictures I agree but I have a hard time believing she is acting, I’m not as I sing it. I’m not trying to feel the emotion , Judy draws them out. I think Judy just really felt the emotion of the song , a great interpreter of music ( even her speaking voice had a rhythm similar to singing) . Forgive me as I’m not picking because singing is hitting the notes and what makes this a work of art is judys delivery of it. She stays in that particular emotion as she sings it. So many singers lift off from the emotion too soon as they arrive to the lyric and you wonder if they really get it ( depth of feeling or emotion of what they just sung ) . Judys stays with you and there is no sense of Judy pulling you along but she does and you don’t feel manipulated. Judy could make the hardest of hearts stand on their chairs applauding. ( Henry Fonda did just this when he saw her in person at her Carnegie Hall performance. )
Absolutely breathtaking. Her ear is so perfectly pitched to the "off beat" diminished or odd note composers love to slide into/onto for a special tingle ...and her lyric is like hearing Shakespeare whisper. She was the BEST!
I know Judy was a sublime actress, but that performance is SO real. I just love it.
There will never be another like Judy. So sad
I don;t find it sad. I think ONE Judy makes her THE Judy. Of course there WILL be ohter incredibly GREAT singers (and there are)...but I'm happy she has a Category of her own; "Miss Show Business."
breaks me heart, how real, raw, honest and gorgeous she is/was
It's a glorious song whose lyrics she does great justice to; thanks for posting.
Mama Judy! This beautiful song that keeps emerging more and more, sung by one of the ones who led us....
The industry creates and destroys as it will, and she was one of the great ones.
Judy was not of this earth yet the confines and limitations of this earth grated against her sense of “ How could they “ and “ why can’t I find that someone who can handle what I see and feel as well as love. When I listen to her the sound of her voice it’s too late , my heart has fallen for her with or without my permission. That’s what happened in 1939 just 11 minutes in to “ wizard of Oz “ when she sang that beautiful song only she can sing., the world fell in love with her and always will .We cared about Judy Garland not just Dorothy and generations to come will find themselves really caring and loving her heart and her talent. She reminds us all that we are human for as she sings emotions percolate and spill out especially toward the last verse of This. Song . You have me Judy , Itto late now for me to ever close the door on you. It’s not a sexual love but a true love based on really appreciating her soul. Judy was gods gift to all of us and I know she. Had a hard time ( name a human with substance who has not had strife in their life ) and we owe her our gratitude because she didn’t have to share her talent . If I had her talent there is no way I would or could expose my emotions in front of strangers. I call her the percolator for she makes your stuffed. Emotions spill out after she percolates them , with or without your permission.
What a beautiful comment.
The music is from "Royal Wedding, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.
It’s too late now , can’t undo love, what makes the song sad is that the one still in love is saying this to the one who is breaking it off. Judy delivers the emotion of this horrific trapped feeling while trying to express the inability to move on due to falling in love , your love doesn’t just stop because the other one broke it off. It’s cruel but a reality of life that one can have their heart broken and not have any control of it because you can’t control the emotions and choices of an other person.
I listened to Nancy LaMott's version (I didn't know who she was) as well as some of her other songs. She had a nice voice, but Judy Garland she was not! I prefer Jane Powell & Rebecca Luker's versions of this song to LaMott's version. Hearing Judy sing this particular song is special because of her connection to it and because of her "reflective" delivery, which of course, cannot be duplicated - by anyone!.
So true........they'll never be another "Judy". The beautiful "tremor" in her wondrous voice was so indicative of the terrible real life struggles she was going through and desperately trying to endure yet hide from all her fans. From what I read over the years about her - it was so tragic and shameful the way some of the big movie moguls treated and used her in the "Wizard of Oz" days.....nearly starving her to keep her weight down and working her such long hours without enough rest. This is tragically where all the addiction to pills started.
Ann Hampton Callaway does a nice version of it on her first solo album. Check it out.
An excellent point you are making here. This song is to be used as a platform to AFFIRM the wonder an irreversible permanence of a relationship and the delicious surrender to it.
Being "immersed in love" and finding the words to describe it.
Yes, she exuded a sad pathos in her delivery of this song that reflected the longing emptiness and lack of emotional fulfillment that was probably going on in her life at the time primarily due to chemical dependence. Beautiful delivery nonetheless.
softclay4thought I believe the sad pathos had nothing to do with her chemical dependency. She is singing a song oof ones attachment because their bond is of love . It has gone past the stage of deep affection. As in , it’s too late for all of us to forget Judy Garland .
As a singer myself (retired at this old age, but alive enough to remember Lamott and all the NYC greats), I have ALWAYS called a certain type of sining (like Judy does); "METHOD SINGING." I dabbled in it myself for the really sad, musical stories of my life. It IS a technique, although, not to be looked down on; if anything, it brings a depth of emotion to a song.
Judy could have TAUGHT at the Actors Studio ;)
At this level of performance, to rate one better than the other probably a matter of taste. But absolutely rate Rebecca Luker as my favorite with this Burton Lane ballad. Performed by Jane Powell sing to Peter Lawford in the '51 movie, Royal Wedding. I also loved Tommy Flanagan's (pianist) jazz version of this.
Listened to miss luker's version and it was beautiful. When listening I couldn't get away from the Operetta, trained voice singing a low brow song. Judy's version seemed more fitting for a woman with a broken heart.
I loved Jane Powell's version of it from the movie.❤
Thanks for a great clip, but I have to state one of my pet peeves: the video is stretched to widescreen format. Please try to maintain 3x4 for these classic clips!
@thebackgroundartiste Hatten is wrong. After Freed hired Garland, director Chuck Walters quit, as he had already dealt with her serious addiction problem and related excuses during 1950's Summer Stock, which took over a year to film, so Freed hired Stanley Donen. Very quickly Judy started asking for half-days, then didn't show up, etc. Garland's 17 year contract was suspended, and Powell was hired to replace her.
dannybex if you want a person who shows up hire Dinah Shore but Judy was an artist . When an artist wakes up on the right side of the bed they can reach heights no one can. Judy painted far mor paintings than Jane Powel . If you get Judy you get the best and must be willing to be patient because the best is worth it. Mgm just wanted to extract the last corpuscle from Garland. She made 400 million for mgm in 1940 dollars, Judy was paid at most toward the end 6 g a week. Toto was paid more than Judy was in wizard of oz ( trainer was paid)
This isn't a song about deep pain but rather about being deeply immersed in love. It intimates the danger of loss but it is nonetheless a song about of wonder and exaltation. Judy Garland, fairly late in her sadly shortened life, converts into a song of pathos, perhaps making a commentary on something lost and irretriveable in her own life. But the cost is that she distorts the song's fundamental meaning and deprives the narrative of joy.
Samuel Kaplan Garland gives one interpretation of this song. One can only present one point of view . One could happily say “ it’s too late now I love you and be happy . Judy chose to sing this this way because it shows the beauty and fragility of such bonds . These bonds can have your heart serve a prison term if your not careful . Even in the movie the character realizes it’s hopeless to tell herself she’s not in. Love. .
cole porter had nothing to do with the music or lyrics of this piece of music. that is one of the problems of the internet....no one correcting the writings of the uniformed.
loflyerz7 I’m sure you’ve never made a mistake . People don’t write things they know they do not know .
Nancy LaMott owned this ballad.
So true, Judy's version, drugged up as she was, is fair, but doesn't compare to Nancy's beautiful version. By that time, she had to hang on to a stand in front of her. So sad, but true. She had to sing in a lower key due to alcohol injuring her vocal cords. Well, she O.D.'d on Seconal and alcohol at age 47, just 3 months after marrying her latest of 5 husbands. Tragic life, sad death. Accidental, probably, but she continued to abuse both drugs. It was inevitable.
Although I have heard a number of singers sing this song, I must agree with andocrates that no one compares to Nancy Lamott.
Yes. Nancy left us with so many beautiful versions of many beautiful songs. May she rest in harmony.
@@MJLeger-yj1ww I admit Nancy LaMott WAS was awesome. It is, however, comparing apples to oranges. Part of me thinks Judy put a "little extra" into this one to show the Producers/Directors, whomever was left alive from, "The Studio"....that she should have had the role. ;> That's our girl.
Sorry, I have to disagree. There have been many singers who could do this like Nancy LaMott (Nancy Wilson is the first that comes to mind), but who could do it like Judy?
Loved Judy so much.....but I got to say, Nancy La Mott's version was actually better!!! Judy's tv.show, was kinda the beginning of the end of her career....
Sorry, but to my ears Nancy's performance is emotionally flat without the wonderful coloring of Judy's rich contralto voice.