M*A*S*H • Suicide Is Painless • Johnny Mandel
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2021
- Soundtrack from the 1970 Robert Altman film, "MASH" with Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff, René Auberjonois, Roger Bowen, David Arkin, Jo Ann Pflug, John Schuck, Carl Gottlieb, Fred Williamson, Michael Murphy, Bud Cort, G. Wood & Bobby Troup. --- HD Film Tributes is a channel with over three hundred movie homages currently posted. We make zero money from RUclips as obviously none of these edits will ever be monetized by us. Any and all ad revenue from these videos goes directly to Google as well as to the various copyright owners, the film studios and the recording industry.
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I'm 63 now. Everytime I hear this song it Magically brings Me back to My Youth.. What a Awesome feeling to have. 😎
me too age 63 - I learned to play it on guitar during lockdown - magical song
still watch from time to time.
G.D. Army!
Same age here.
It's amazing the lyrics were written by a 15-year-old-boy.
Get a good headphone and listen to the theme song………it’s awesome, sad yet happy!
In the 90s, this series began to be shown on television in Russia. Dad loved this series, I watched with him, although I did not understand anything. There was humor, and also about how stupid wars are, scary and terrible. I didn’t understand anything, I liked the intro with this song, which brought tears to my eyes (this happens when you don’t understand a foreign language, but you guess the intonation and meaning). Then I learned what war is, having arrived in one of the cities in the south of Russia and saw refugees, crying children and cripples. Dad then said: war with people does this, remember, not a single war brings good, does not start from good intentions, smart people do not start them, and not one war makes a person happier. I was 5 or 6 years old and I remember. Now my native country is at war and again refugees, fear, war, death and cripples. And I remember my father's words: smart people don't start a war and don't bring any good.
Blessings to you and your father 🌻
Unless you start a war of independence maybe. Otherwise, spot on.
Two people kill each other, both not ever known or met. Both have families and loved ones with both equal reasons to live. All caused but the orders of some political figure.
Prayed for your comfort during these difficult times.
Your father was wise. It is critical to defend yourself as a populous, but what matters is what do you justify under the guise of "defense?" As an American veteran at 27, I do not feel I defended my country. I felt like I did more as a volunteer firefighter. Rightful countries have defended themselves through war, all throughout history. But those civilizations did not start it. To defend, means one is about to or has attacked you, and you react. Most wars and all major wars have been conducted over greed and gain. Not good or bad, right or wrong, defense, nor liberation.
My father fought in Korea and was badly wounded by a land mine. He was evac'd on one of those outside stretchers on a MASH unit helicopter. I asked him if that was scary and he said that he was so doped up on painkillers, that it was a surreal experience. Every time I see a scene with one of those helicopters, I think of him.
God bless your father I love him too.
Cool Dad. He’s lucky & so are u to have such a cool Daddy-O Much love & God bless ur whole family 🙏🏼❤️
First Marine Division, Second Battalion? 😎✌️
Thank your father for his service and for our freedom.
@@gus473 Sorry, I don't know. My father passed back in 1999.
I'm an Army soldier and watching and hearing this made me think of my friends that didn't come back with me. We're soldiers. We're not supposed to cry but hearing songs like this or God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood will make even a hard ass Marine tear up. I've lost too many in Afghanistan and Iraq. More than one is too many.
Who says soldiers aren’t supposed to cry? Crying is better than the 22/day.
Thank you very much for your service, Sir. Best Wishes and good health to you.
@@bloke_19xx33 Thank You.
Marine, tracks
im there with you brother, OIF veteran here,
My late wonderful dad raised me on MASH The Movie and the Legendary MASH TV Series. I'm 37 now and next month I'll be 38 I Miss You dad. 😢
Same here man. Miss my pops too. 😪
Apart from the humor, the underlying message was very painful and emotional at times. Some scenes had me in tears, that is also what makes this such a classic show.
I was trained as a Combat Medic in the US Army. M*A*S*H the movie came out while I was on Active Duty training, 322nd General Hospital. This clip is from the movie.
My uncle was a Corpsman green side.
I saw this at Fort Sam 1970
With my mom (rip) i used watch this series every evening on tv when i was a child. This brings me just best memories.
My entire family has been in the military. My grandfather was in Korea, my dad was in El Salvador, I did two tours in Bosnia, and my brother served in Iraq and Afghanistan. For us listening to this is actually painful. For me when I hear the sound of a UH-60 or a CH-47 I always freeze and look up. For us. It’s never over
God bless you and your family. Thank you for my freedom. Much respect.
thank you and yours for their service. your appreciated !
One of the most relatable songs
In 1973, I worked in a movie theatre. This movie played in the theatre for months. I must've watched it 50 times over that summer. I still like the original movie better than the TV series.
Me too.
I must be sick, i find this song comforting. Deep meaning full IMO.
you're not sick. !!!.. I channel the energy of the song and use it as therapy. turning a negative Into A Positive. 👍
Funny, I watched the serie at least 25 years ago and I was wondering what the song sounded like. But when the video started I already had the song in my head. Some memories will last forever.
Imagine the irony from hearing this on hold while calling a suicide hotline.
Fucked up thing, if you say (Suicide is painless) to RUclips, it diretces you to a suicide hotline 😮
This is why I am glad, the lyrics are rarely played.
And I am not to happy about the songs from the singer bad guy. she has several songs about suicide, and I believe she has tried.
Yooo let's go see you on the other side
I noticed a lot of ppl were shocked or impressed that this song was written by a 14 year old. You should not be. Children can be just as perceptive and profound as any grizzled senior.
The prompt was “it has to be called suicide is painless and it has to be the dumbest song ever written.” That is why he let his kid help.
It is shocking. You ask 99.9% of teenagers to write lyrics for a song and they will not come up with couplets this profound. It’s truly remarkable honestly
@@stopculture you are profoundly shallow.
@@theseaward4613 Or just profoundly realistic. If you actually believe if you walked into a freshman year high school cafeteria and gave any of the kids the same prompt you’d receive lyrics like these from any of them, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya bucko.
Wow! What a great tune by the late Johnny Mandel. Movie brings back great memories from the early 70's. My uncle Felix took me and buddy Richard to view it back in El Paso TX. R.I.P. uncle Felix & Johnny Mandel....
My Uncle Earl was in the Vietnam he fought in Danang. When he returned home he had a severe case of PTSD and night terrors. If he went into the store and seen an Asian person shopping or if he was at the checkout getting ready to pay an Asian person walk in front of him with a grocery cart he would literally leave all the groceries there and walk out. His children would have to come back with the money and purchase it. Kroger knew about his situation and understood.
Sounds rough, I'm really sorry that you guys had to go through that. War is hell, always was always will be. Let's hope we can one day come to peace as a species.
I already know there's gonna be people here calling your uncle racist and whatever. Saddens me really, that we have to put outselves into camps based on politics or other stupid stuff that doesn't matter. But such is the human nature, I suppose. Wars wouldn't exist otherwise.
Im only 21 and i remember this show still being play briefly on television as a kid!!
This was from the movie, of which I think only Radar O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff) played in both the movie and the series. Definitely watch the movie if you get a chance.
I was a medic with the 3rd Marines when this movie came out. I can relate.
Funny story, this song was meant to be a parody. Robert Altman the director wanted it to be in his words, "The stupidest song ever written," He tried to write it himself but realized a man in his mid-40's couldn't write like a pretentious 20-year-old, so he tasked his son with writing the lyrics. It took him five minutes. The public took the song earnestly, it became a massive hit and Altman's son made over $1 million in royalties. Robert Altman was paid roughly $70,000 by the studio for directing M*A*S*H.
But his son, Mike Altman, was 14 or 15 depending which Wikipedia article you read, not 20.
@@scottcurry479 14 or 15 is a hell of a lot closer to 20-something than 40 is.
@@scottcurry479 - NBL (above) didn't say the boy was 20.
Altman was paid 70k upfront, but the movie was a massive hit so he almost definitely made a lot more than that.
Theres nothing stupid about this song. It’s quite sad actually
Loved the original movie. Loved the series. Comedy at its best.
The lyrics for this iconic song were written by an eleven year old boy, the son of director Robert Altman, Michael Altman wrote the song in five minutes when his father who attempted to write the song himself couldn't. The rest, as they say, is history.
Robert notes that his son probably made over a million in royalties from this song, even though the TV series never played the lyric version -- he got $70k for directing the film.
love this song for me when i am in a bad place i recall this song and the words most people dismiss " I can take of leave it if i please , and you can do the same thing IF YOU PLEASE.
for me it reminds me i have a choice and only i can make that choice.
He was 14. He earned more than $1 million in royalties after a version of “Suicide Is Painless” hit the No. 1 spot in the United Kingdom’s music charts. That was back in the 70's and h is still collecting royalties from it.
Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it
If I please
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say
Suicide is painless (suicide)
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it
If I please
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger, watch it grin
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it
If I please
A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
"Is it to be or not to be?"
And I replied, "Oh, why ask me?"
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it
If I please
And you can do the same thing
If you please
Cool
Morphine song.
That song was written by a kid...
@@brianhinkel7833 I know. I wrote it.
You're Robert Altmans son?
What a wonderful and an all-time favourite film that set up the series and that song and the lyrics still blow me away to this day. I remember the Manic Street Preachers doing a version but they never did justice.
Although the music was written by Johnny Mandel, the lyrics were written by a 14 year old boy named Michael Altman, son of the famous Robert Altman.
I was on my second tour in Nam when this flick came out. We saw it at our base camp in Lai Khe A/227 AHB, 1st Cav Div. A real morale booster and our medics were just like M.A.S.H folks. God Bless them!!!!!!!!!!
In school I had a teacher that was a very good singer and sang her songs with *Alot of emotion. Every once in a while, she would sing this and "One tin Soldier". On those days nobody was standing at the door waiting for the bell, we were all sitting, listening and some using tissues, we didn't run out at the bell, we all walked out thinking.
This movie as well as the TV series inspired me to enlist to the 204th MASH, in my hometown.
I listen to this song a lot. I want to .... the words are too hard to say. The game of life is hard to play and I'm gonna lose it anyway.
Hang in there, darlin. 🌻
I concur.....I hope to leave soon.....living under a Joe Biden or Donald Trump has no fascination for me.
I started watching as a small boy when the series started in the early 70s. There are this movie, 255 series episodes plus the 2 hour series finale and I’ve seen every bit of all of them probably at least 20 times each. Maybe more. There are back to back reruns on MeTV 6 nights a week and I still watch religiously. I sing these lyrics in my head during the show intro everytime I watch- and every couple months I watch the movie again. It never gets old. I see a recurring character in a show and I can name the other episode(s) he/she also appeared on. Maybe I got a little obsession problem…
This was written by a 14 year old for this show! Wow.. great song and feels
Tommy Tedesco wrote it
Mike Altman
Maybe my favorite TV series. It's amazing how a song about suicide can be so warm and makes you feel good...or isn't it?
Made it very dark which was part of the point. They asked for a simple song so he had his 12 year old kid write the lyrics
@@robertgary3561 I know...but I meant something else...
Perhaps it's the association you have with the TV series before you knew the lyrics and had lived more life that gives you both the warm feelings and the melancholy now?
0In 2000, while I was stationed at Camp Humphreys (formerly K-6) in the Republic of Korea, I had the pleasure to have my medical care taken care of by the unit that was the basis of the 4077th MASH! They embraced their legacy set and made famous by the Movie and then the television series MASH.
As a stroke survivor. For me life sucks with very little I can do ..to compound matters my girlfriend ditched me and cut contact with me. The pain is quite bad physical and emotionbal fortunately Singapore is a nice place with many nice people who are supportive of others in pain. Many have come forward to give support in multiple ways. Through physical means and prayer. In your shoes I would say you did have some good experiences and what you might have is a good old days syndrome where like in the song the way we were. We remember the wonderful stuff but forget the bad stuff. Me. I feel at this point the future. Is really
Bleak and listen to this song to put my feelings into a spoken word or song. I mean really suicide as an option is painless but I still have this feels Ng I am not finished my purpose yet. So pain or no. I still must carry on recover and never give up until I recover. I hope you fel better soon. I recall mash the TV series and how the series ended cos one of the lead actors was tired of acting his part. Anyways. God bless ed us with some really good times that we can actually miss. Salutes.
We, the unwilling, led by the uncaring, in service of the unknowing, have done so much with so little for so long, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Robert Altman's son wrote the lyrics (not the music) for this song when he was 18 years old and all he wanted was a guitar as payment but one of the co-producers of the film insisted he would get the standard credits for writing the lyrics. He wound up making over $1 million over the years and his dad Robert Altman was only paid $75K for directing the film!
Thanks for the info . I like the lyrics
He was actually 14, which makes it more amazing.
@@amiblueful The director wanted "I'm 14 and this is deep" energy. Literally, he wanted the lyrics to be bad.
He gave the task to his teenage son, who knocked it out in one afternoon.
@@HALLish-jl5moAnd Ingo Preminger was the who who insisted on paying the kid properly. "I don't want to steal your ideas."
Whoa, never knew this song had lyrics. 😮
Written by a 14 year old kid - the director’s son I believe
It's played twice in the movie. Once at the opening, and sung during the "Suicide" party for Painless the dentist (that's the guy you see drinking a glass of something, in this vid).
The lyrics were too dark for television
@@magiclampboogiesdown9717 it was the director's then-15 year old son. Due to songwriter credits and royalties, that kid became a millionaire while in high school; his dad only made $70k just directing the film.
I can't describe the pain this song brings me. I used to watch this show every now and again with my grandma, and now that she's gone I look at a death in a whole new aspect.
I can't help but cry listening to this, I can't imagine the torture and agony soldiers have/had to go through, vividly reliving terribly traumatic experiences, and becoming permanently disabled from it. My dad had to watch his best friend die, and from being deployed it's confirmed he'll have some sort of dementia when he gets older. I hate death and how it just takes and takes, leaving nothing but broken hearts. I know I shouldn't look at it that way, but I don't know how not to. I miss my grandma very much, and even though my dad is relatively fine, watching those stupid "what would you do" videos where mentally disabled soldiers are bullied, I just can't help but cry for them, real or not.
Sorry for the vent, I just don't know how else to express my grief and this helps a little
it ok.
but to be honest, and feel free to hate me, but i think when you say "i hate death" i think you meant to say that you hate war.
death is part of nature, war isn't. hawkeye said so himself" war isn't hell. war is war, and hell is hell. only sinners go to hell. but the innocents die from war.
I'm sorry if i sound like i belittle your feeling, i just think that what you feel is ok and you have the right to be this way.
@@mr.inkwell4782 No, I think you're completely right. You aren't invalidating or belittling my feelings in the least, and hearing this makes me feel a lot better. I know it might sound over-emotional, but I really do appreciate people like you and hearing what you have to say. Thank you so much
@cbraxton Thank you for the reassurance, it makes me feel more optimistic about the future. Sending my condolences and I appreciate what your father has done so we can live.
@@derangedclownie well, that very kind of you to say. it had made my day/night.
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Very nice. One of your replies states that you shouldn't hate death but hate war. They are correct. Life and death can be beautiful but never commit suicide, it will never help or change anything for the better. Here is a paist of my comment... Shame on the lyrics to this song. It's a beautiful melody and has nostalgic vibes but Suicide is never painless and should not be glorified. Sending a message to people that you're losing the game of life so kill yourself is pathetic. Remember it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game so get right with God and be grateful for your life no matter what. Thank you and God bless ♥ ☯ 🕯
I remember watching "Mash" after "Hogan’s Heroes".
When we graduated as combat medics at Ft. Sam, the military band played this for our final review as we marched by.
Saw the film at the base theater.
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I miss standing to attention at the base theater for the National Anthem and when the symbols crashed, everyone would go "PSSSSHH!!"
every time i hear a helicopter flying overhead i think of this song.
Same
A piece of wonderful history not to be forgotten by many but as the song hints to some of us have left to them I say RIP!
i'd rather watch these old goldies than watch Netflix shows
I'm starting to think the same.
One of the best shows ever produced.
This Song is Epic 👏👏👏👏👏
Beautiful Tv serie and song.
This is beautiful song yet sad😢
I honestly never really watched MASH itself, but hearing this song from the tv as a kid, it just... Clicks. Still does.
Don't ask a veteran how many people they killed, instead ask how many people they saved.
Great selection you made from the film by Robert Altman, released in 1970 and awarded Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the same year.
Sound is also high quality. Good job, this pearl deserved it well.
As a kid, I loved this show.
After my multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan I can only watch this completely drunk and then sob for hours.
I'm sorry, homie. Thank you so much for your service.
I’m sorry. I hope you have a good support system ❤
Thank you for your service !
I’ll tell you how old this movie is…….my friends and I watched this at a drive-in.
My father served in Korea in The New Zealand K Force Regiment. He adopted the Korean cuisine, lovely food, just trying to find the ingredients when he came back was a mission. 😂❤
Watching M*A*S*H at 10 then 15 now 26 it has been 3 completely different shows. first it was funny doctors when I was a kid, then it was the side you don't see in war movies, but now Watching it I'm constantly thinking how psychologically scaring that environment would be the lyrics to the theme song fit so well to what I could only imagine would be a thought if that was your day to day life
I've always loved the song and used the lyrics for speech competition when I was in High school (75-79).
If my life had a soundtrack, this would be my theme song.
I love this song so much
MASH is my favorite show ever. This song is great and sad at the same time. I know so many people who have taken their own lives. One of which is my oldest daughters father before she had a chance to meet hm.
Used to watch this in summer on true entertainment in uk
This brings back memories. As a Brit I first saw it on Brit TV in 1973; It is so very poignant. I really doubt that it would be made to be shown on modern TV networks. It does not glorify war enough. The futility of war and the humanity of the cast are so clearly portrayed. I can look at episodes now fifty yeas later and it brings tears to my eyes, My personal sense of fifty years gone and my grown capacity to see the waste of life are intermingled. I do not like people seeing me cry so I must calm myself before going downstairs.
I never watched this show. I am too young to understand it but it always fascinates me. It's so unfiltered and true, somehow it makes me feel normal.
The movie is good but actually the TV show is great. Any age you should sit and watch it sometime.
When I was young, I didn't fully understand the show either, but I completely absorbed the series. You should watch the series. You will learn a lot. Than watch the show and you will understand the meaning and intensity of it.
That is the best song I ever heard give that kid a cigar
I love this version of this song it makes you think
Shouts out to everyone else that got a "You are not alone" message from You Tube, after searching for this song. I'm glad they do that, at least.
my grand dad loved this show i remember watching this with him when i was a kid he was a tail gunner on the b-52 in ww2....
People didn't want to forget the life they were born into despite all the many changes that wouldn't just help them forget, demand that they do.
This is incredible
I love this song!❤
So many comments about the darkness of the lyrics -- the context is dark, and the lyrics are bleak, but they're not hopeless, they're defiant. "The losing card I'll someday lay," "And I replied oh, why ask me," yes, but the refrain is the key, "And I can take or leave it, if I please -- and you can do the same thing, if you please..."
I've *always* heard that as feeling hopeless, realizing that ending it all is an option, but knowing you have the choice, the option to "do it if you please," that means you have control. Control of something, one thing, maybe the only thing, but control and a decision, and as long as the choice isn't made, that control is still there. I've always heard the note of light, the spark of hope in this, a haggard but stalwart warning against suicide, in favor of keeping the choice alive. "If you please."
Sublime.
What a sad song
Also positive I've been suicidal for a while but the the line you can take or leave it as you please gives me a hope and belief the choice is in my hands, which gives me hope
Love that tune...haven't heard it with singing? 😅😮
Every time I hear this song I think of my Father who flew the OV-1 Mowhawk in the DMZ in Vietnam 🇻🇳 and how it bothered his conscience for what he did!!!
What a great show. Oh the memories.
I did a search for this song. It redirected me to the suicide hot line.
The government wants you to stay alive so you can pay taxes
❤❤❤best singers .. best song in wartime.. to think things over: in wartimes as doctor
No wonder there are several generations that have messed with by replaying all of this trauma. I was a small child when I saw this blood and gore and heard this song "Suicide is Painless" in my home every week. I wish more ppl could understand that so-called entertainment is to keep us in trauma mode.
Born and raised on M.A.S.H 🎶💀🎶
16 years of military service and about two years ago, I started realizing the futility of the unjust wars that our generation has been thrust into. Nothing to show for it, the world is not a better place for our sacrifice, and I fear I have condemned my daughter to repeat the same mistakes. Message for the future, invest in peace, be smarter than the past, and find a better way to do things.
I still have the 45.
Essa série era sensacional! Daqui do Brasil
Heard this and the instrumental version many times listening to the Far East Network during my 14 months over there 1970-71.
The lyrics sound bleak but the last line is the most important, it doesnt matter how things look, you still have a choice & hopefully its to laugh at it all
I always play this song day and night
I didn’t understand this intro or show until I enlisted. I opened Pandora’s box
Beautiful
I had a music teacher that said he had the sheet music for the song and since the actor pierce was from Quapaw Oklahoma he contacted him for the music. It was really interesting to find this out .
You can buy the sheet music. I've had it for at least 30 years. It's even easier to buy now than it was 30 years ago.
pierce was from mane. BJ's farther in law was from Quapaw, and so am I. I served two tours at Kunsan Korea in the 70s. My farther was there in 1953. @@srellison561
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pierce was from mane. BJ's farther in law was from Quapaw, and so am I. I served two tours at Kunsan Korea in the 70s. My farther was there in 1953
Temazo de esta serie.
Fantastic editing!
.. I saw this movie at the post theater in Illesheim when it was released in IIRC 1972...
But not for those of us left in it's wake 38 years and I'm still dealing with the aftermath of it. I miss you Joe 1959 1986.
great video mash number was ex marine memmories for ever amen
the real freedom!
This tv show was great on American televisión 📺
This was always on late at night in the UK but we didn’t have the channel to watch it but we could see M*A*S*H on the guide all this time for 15 odd years I thought it was p*rn
Lol odd story but true
MASH MOVIE WAS AWESOME 54 YRS AGO
And it still is.
I love the manic street preachers’ version of this song. I think it was their first song to make it into the charts, without looking, I think around 1992??
One of only a few perfect movies .
I was today year's old when I found out about the true meaning to this song. 🤯🤯
one of the great antiwar films.