Ethel Merman Live - Everything's Coming up Roses
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2017
- Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall. October 5, 1960.
With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra.
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" is a song from the 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Jule Styne. Introduced in the musical's inaugural production by Ethel Merman, "Everything's Coming Up Roses" became one of Merman's signature songs. 
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This is why Gershwin , Cole Porter and Irving Berlin all vied with each other to get Ethel to sing their songs in a Broadway show.
Thank you kindly for that information. Sir.
They wanted a brassy obnoxious Jewish woman to belt ot out?
My grandmother loved Ethel.
Prophecy Every!
@@benjaminperez6620And your grand Mother loved you for posting this Even, "from beyond the graveside."
She didn't just sing the songs, she Hurled them at the audience! Absolutely FANTASTIC!!!!!! Wonderful to see this, what a treasure!
She’s reincarnated into a little elf boy singing in Greta Van Fleet🤣🤣🤣
From her toes up!
Well put. Hurled right from her heart to ours.
Straight out singing. No nonsense. Here it is folks.
Amen!! My memory stretches way back and I can remember all the great talent of the last century on TV....you don't see "stars" anymore...much less talent... it's like that line of Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard "...We use have FACES! Whadda we got now? Trash! "
What a set of lungs! Musicals aren't my cup of tea but I DO love Ethel Merman. I love her as a comedic actress. She made "It's Mad Mad Mad Mad World" funny. ❤️
The queen of the cheap seats. You’d have heard every word, mic or no mic. What a powerhouse!
Exactly! I forgot who it was who admonished a lyricist that if you screw up the lyrics, Merman'll make sure they hear it in the second balcony.
Her cameo in AIRPLANE was awesome.
I am watching 'No business like show business' (1954) on TV in 2023 and the costumes, talent, showmanship and abilities of all the stars still shine. Thanks for posting.
There was nobody like her. Unique.
At the end of the performance, soundman comes up and says, Miss Merman we forgot to mic you, oh well it's too late.
Very few can sing with no mic,Judy Garland once sang at the palace with no mic,doing over the rainbow. It was said it was the best ever...!
Can’t tell if actually Ethel Merman or a soldier with an extreme case of shell shock. Amazing either way
War is hell!
This is why I came here. But the talent kept me here!
I found the tunnel it’s this way!! 20 dollars is too much for a cigarette!!!
Wow, the original arrangement! What a rarity! Thanks for posting.
You are welcome! By the way, I really love Kate Smith's songs:)
My God, she was good. You can see, hear, and feel the desperation and determination of the character she was portraying, the ultimate stage mama, her own ego tied up in the success she herself needs her daughter to achieve. Freaking superb.
I can't even imagine what it was like to hear this sort of thing in the theater. I would've had a stroke. Brilliant.
I can tell you, because I'm ancient enough to have seen Merman in Gypsy shortly after it opened: thrilling! Sharing a "space" with her talent at full throttle--the best, never to be forgotten!
You got that right!!
Well thats a reaction in itself
Hahahah me too!!
I’m literally never going to stop thinking about this comment 😂
There will never be another Ethel Merman....she was one of a kind whose like we will never see again...BRAVO!!! Miss Merman!! You were simply THE BEST & BRIGHTEST Star on Broadway!! I always wanted to be able to sing and perform like her!! What a set of pipes she had and perfect timing and perfect pitch!!! Nobody could touch her!! RIP!
I never heard her in person but I believe she shook the building
Seismically she did.
I want to stand up and cheer right here at my desk! This is so thrilling. Imagine hearing her in the theater. Your insides would have been all acquiver.
I'm proud to say I saw Ethel Merman live in the Lincoln Center revival of "Annie Get Your Gun." It was about 1966, I was 12, she was in her 50s and it was glorious. One to tell the grandkids.
"Lt. Hurwitz. Severe shellshock. He thinks he's Ethel Merman."
Hey Striker, how about a break, I'm getting tired?
Dreams come true...and the dream come true to this world was named ETHEL MERMAN!!!!
Fantastic You,ll never ever see or hear anything like this great lady ever again Period !!!!!
She really had an amazing voice.
It's a shame that don't make STARS like that Ethel Merman anymore. Her voice and talent are timeless. She will have new fans in upcoming generations since she the only TRUE queen of Broadway.
And it is long overdue that a Broadway theater is named after her, most appropriately THE Broadway Theater where she did Gypsy.
Perfection. Hail to the Queen
That was beyond exciting. She is arguably the greatest talent in Broadway history. No one could punch out a song like Ethel, what a legacy. Entertainment like Ethel or Fred Astaire is once in a lifetime, she was a force of nature
i thank god every day for miss merman and mr sinatra
Best rendition EVER by Merman of this classic song. The original arrangement, and ALL the lyrics. She used a dreadful arrangement and sang a shortened version in her later concert years. Terrific band here backing her with a great drummer staying right on top of Merman’s perfect timing.
Patrick Hamilton yeah until Billy Porter did it impromptu at the Tony’s!! Ha. (Obvi joking...but he killed it. And similar arrangement)
Colleen Yvonne Thomas
Yes, his was great too but messed up some of the lyrics.
Patrick Hamilton Was Merman moving her hand to the beat of the drum, or directing the drummer?
Probably not. The pit drummer would have been way off to the far stage-left end of the pit facing semi forward toward the Conductor and probably wouldn't have been able to see her if he wanted to under the lip of the stage overhanging the pit.
Nothing back then was left to chance and this would have been fairly deep into the run of the show when the hits from the show were making it into public consciousness already from pop singers like Como covering them. For this telecast it would have been running on instinct for Merman by then, with the drummer and Conductor probably brought in just for the one number on the TV appearance along with orchestration used in the show itself, being played by Como's house band, who probably got to read through it and nail it two or maybe three times in a rehearsal. Mitchell Ayers was an old school Music Director former bandleader from the Swing Era who migrated to television when the band boom busted up in about 1946-47 and he had a rep for being tough on musicians so you can bet that the pit on this was all top shelf full of big band vets and no slackers at all. The really hard driving "jump" in the orchestra is pretty evident. All of those cats were a force to be reckoned with, even if most weren't ever particularly known as being "jazz" musicians.
what brilliant performance, I could feel the emotion coming from her voice. Her timing is impeccable & she knew she had to build to the climax of the song. what a woman.
She OWNS this song and always will!
This was the Great Merman in her prime at the very top of her game.. Thank God these early Perry Como tv shows were preserved🤗👍
Mama is gonna see to it *sigh, in pure awe of the great Jule Styne*. That's it. I'm speechless. I have no more words. Miss Merman: EXCELSIOR!
Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics!
That's the reason why Ethel Merman packed the theaters.
The beauty of this is that we have her and so many others available for basically forever. Think if we had actual recordings of Beethoven, etc and singers through out the ages...
Yes!! Wow, makes me tearful but true!
Wow, what a thought!! Just imagine!!!!!!!
❤️👑❤️ Watched her in my youth. Thank you for making this 67 years young person cry.🙏🏾
This was the great Merman..no one will ever replace the Merm!,
I was watching Rosalind Russell performing this song with her own voice and with Lisa Kirk's voice. Both versions were highly effective and involving But then, down below in the comments section, I read another one of those comments that just has to compare Merman's acting style with Russell's. Just watch this clip if anyone doubts Merman's emotional involvement in a role. Maybe Merman didn't study her Stanislavsky before each performance but she had the magic key to character, music, script, and her audience.
Now This Folks is Singing!!! Pure Class and Talent!!!!!!
This is the perfect example of brilliance on every little. How lucky Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and the immortal Ethel Merman had this opportunity to collaborate. It's wonderful to see Merman doing the original arrangement.
Sadly Jack Warner didnt let her make the Gypsy movie.
@@dianaaljadeff2983 Unfortunately, she wasn't a very good movie actress. The only thing I really liked her in was when she played the mother-in-law from hell in ITS A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. Rosalind Russell couldn't sing and the lower-octave dubbed voice matched her, but still didn't work. But the way she acted in those last couple of scenes for me made up for it. Not sure if Merman's acting would have been as effective.
I doubt that there is a Broadway singer alive and performing now who could do this kind of justice to any song let alone a number of songs that make up 1/3 to 1/2 half of a show score, and do it 8 times a week, rarely (if ever) missing a performance, singing all of it with and over a pit full of 28 musicians (as Gypsy calls for, done properly), and without any microphones anywhere on stage, and always be heard clear as a bell in the last row of the top balcony.
Watching this video makes me feel as if I'm watching Her Majesty of Show Business!
Fabulous!
Ethel Merman is the queen, was the queen, will always be the queen.
Ethel Merman...The Definitive Gift of A Miracle To The World!!!!!!!
Old Ironsides! An absolute star!
Amazing! Black and white makes it even better as long as the clarity of the picture is good, making the vintage film or tape appearing even more from a time in the past.
there will only ever be one Ethel that clarion voice makes you have it fantastic
Absolutely crushing she didn't get to do the movie.
Rosalind Russell was magical....but I agree.
Though many actress/ singers have played Rose Ethel Merman was fantastic in Gypsy, This was one of her best renditions of Everything's Coming Up Roses. She belted out that song and made it her own.
no one does it better...a real legend
Ethel merman's performances always leave me in a state of wow!
The great Merman in best form here. No slick version later heard, but the actual orchestration heard in Gypsy. Even the Merms' acting seems right on the money.
The lyric with "lollipops and Santa Claus" so dramatically telling. Rose sees her teenage daughter still as a child. Implications that will deepen in the final scene of the greatest musical of all time- - GYPSY.
Ethel Merman & Stephen Sondheim together forever in heaven. RIP.
Standing O!!! Still gives me goosebumps!!!
I'm here because this song started going through my head while I was making the bed, I started humming it then singing it and well, I just had to hear the original! I think it was a sign from above for me, as it's feeling like a new wonderful chapter is arriving after a mountain of crap! She was the absolute best, what a powerful voice! ♥
The one and only Miss Ethel Merman!
When it concludes Act 1, the railroad station is dark and empty the tracks seen extending a long way onto the empty plains. The contrast of hope and despair shattered by unrestrained optimism by a show biz tune like no other ever quite like it performed by a Broadway legend. That's musical theatre at its very best!
So many childhood memories of Ethel Merman singing...wish I could have seen her in person
Maybe the best I’ve ever heard Merman sing it. Great voice and she looks great v
I can't ever forget those fabulous voices of yesterday.
Thanks 🙏🏿 to the movie 🎥 “ In & Out”, I’m here and I’m happy 😊 to be here cause I love it 😻 05•21•22
Maybe the best rendition I’ve ever heard merman sing. She looks. Great and the voice was absolutely sublime.
That voice 👏👏👏
Love it! Nobody does it better.
SO GOOD ❤
Absolutely wonderful 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 sitting here in the hospital with some lung thing going on. Been fighting a bad cold and bad cough then coughing up some blood so was checked in and testing for every from bad to worst and this version of this song just sprang into my head. Brings a smile some chills maybe even a couple tears. Ethel Merman one of the greats of all time. Love her! 😎👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😍🌎✌🏽️
I would’ve not believed this performance if I saw it live.... can’t believe how good she is ❤️on another level man
WOW! Was Ethel Merman sensational or wasn't she????? A true theater great and as someone commented here, why haven't they named a theater for her? And now with Stephen Sondheim's passing, TWO theaters named for TWO musical greats!
Lisa Merle: There are so many New York theaters and too many writers, lyricists, composers, actors, critics etc. Merman was very close to having one named in her honor but the powers that be realized Lena Horne had been in more musicals and plays which dwarfed Merman’s meager output so one was named for her.
@@johnpickford4222 Sarcasm alert, for those in doubt. I agree.
PERFECTION!
The audience then had no idea that in only thirty years time, all of it would be gone, replaced by the hack maudlin nonsense of Webber, Disney on Broadway, the awful Hamilton and the like. My God, thank goodness for visual and audio recordings! That was the best generation for entertainment in America, ever.
ETHEL IS THE BROADWAY VERSION OF FREDDIE MERCURY EXTREMELY STRONG , LOUD AND ON KEY!
Absolutely thrilling---can't believe I haven't seen this until now. Many thanks.
You are welcome!
It’s you! Can’t wait for your return.
@@fergusmurray1828 Thank you sir---won't be long.
Amazzzzing!
Great song and video! Thanks for sharing
You are welcome Phillip!
@@CostAnder 👍
One of the best songs ever....and nobody did it better than Ethel Merman
What a pleasure to be able to hear this!!
What a voice! What a gal....Ethel....I love you! SWELL AND GREAT!
God, she was fabulous!
Unbelievable, thrilling, timeless. She's just the best!!
Classic!
A legend and an icon
Absolutely brilliant. Wish I could have seen her in the show.
Ginger Rogers was the one who suggested Ethel be cast in Girl Crazy. That was her first break on Broadway and the rest is history
*CLASS ACT. INIMITABLE. ONE OF THE VERY BEST! 👌🏻💐👌🏻*
incredible.
Thanks for sharing.💙
You're welcome!
utterly fantastic
Here after Billy Porter singing this sing at the Tony’s.
Make me vomit that creepy perv. 🤮
Sick creep!
@@nhmooytis7058 what’d he do 🤨
@@s.o.4956 look up the way he was dressed!
@@nhmooytis7058 I saw lol what’s the big deal? It’s just a pair of heels
Not sure what provides greater nostalgia...Ms Merman's brilliant performance or Perry Como hosting Kraft Music Hall!
I think my love of musical-theatre was born in watching this very broadcast an all-too-short 63 years ago. (Write my epitath as: Where did the years go ?)
Thanks for the post.
💭🤩 She really played with this song in " Mad, Mad, Mad World 🤗💌☺😃👌👏👏👏👈👀❕ G-G.
Saw her in all her shows from Annie Get Your Gun to Hello Dolly! Some 30:times! She was the best on the stage..no one like her! Happy we have, at least, the Facebook, etc. She was Broadway..one that will never come back! The young lady in the red jacket is what we now get …..she tries, but……..
Oh My Yes!
Bravo!
A classic. Can there there be any other????
I would have loved to have sen her live at her peak. Completely incomparable. No one else could be her.
Ethel Merman inspires confidence, despite the tea leaves!
RIP Stephen Sondheim at 91.
Gypsy was the most fun high school play ever, for me, because I got to play Electra. :-D
Gee, is a musical about stripping appropriate for a high school? There are so many others...
Corgicottage why not? What universe do you live in where as young as 11 year olds haven’t already been watching R rated movies for years? Children have the internet at their finger tips all day long. They probably know more about burlesque and stripping than you do LOLs. Kids aren’t stupid and sheltered anymore and there’s no reason to be puritanical about sex. Education and information is never a bad thing.
@@corgicottage8578 I agree with you.
Awesome!
there will never be another👍👍👍
The great Ethel. The one and only Ethel!!!
One of the lyricists of the time advised never give a bad lyric to Merman as it would be heard clearly in the second balcony.
Can I say amazing ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Dear Miss Suzanne, you chose to perform a difficult song without a happy ending. Usually the normal audience is bewildered by the ambiguous lyric. It leaves them cold, perplexed. Your performance completely captivated me like no other. I think you may understand unrequited love, for your tremendous artistry made me understand it also. BRAVA!
Thanks for shareing
You're welcome
And Google has the nerve to say that Shirley Bassey made this song popular, bullshit!!!! Ethel did, many years earlier!!!!
Whenever I see/hear Shirley Bassey, I always think of Ethel.