Went with my brother in 1977 to see spiderman in Croydon, and for some reason we had to watch this before the spidey film. I can tell you now, that a 9 year old and an 11 Year old boy were not particularly happy about this!! I lost my one and only, amazing brother tony 19 years ago. The film Sort of stuck with me. I had to look it up.
@@jamesfeeney3016 I think he probably knew that. Kasey/Kvitka was a very talented person, though, may she RIP as best she can with her native country Ukraine being destroyed by Vlad and Dmitry from Moscow as I type.
In wandering around on RUclips, I discovered that Kasey died in 1998. Such a wonderful voice .. and IMHO the best version. RIP, Kasey .. and know that we will always enjoy this song as our memory of you
You might want to look up the music Kasey sang under her legal name, Kvitka Cisyk. It is in her native language (Ukrainian) but I think you will be glad to have listened to it.
I love this song so much. Makes me think of a friend that passed away at the age of 18 yrs old. He sang this song to me for my birthday. I love you Larry. R.I.P.
I remember seeing the promos for this movie in 77. Never saw the movie then, but fell in love with Didi Conn's cuteness. I was 20 years old then. Flash forward to 2015. GET TV ran the movie and saw it for the first time, and now at 58 I'm still in love with Didi's off the scale cuteness. Yeah, movie was kinda sappy, but Didi portrayed her character well. I'm a rock/metal guy, but have to admit I like this song.
Oh, yes, I loved those promos on TV too! Didi Conn used to be on Match Game a lot. Huh, the ads spoiled the bit where she said, "I can't marry you." huh, considering that you'd think she meant the song for the love interest guy. I have to see the film again. I saw it in theaters back then.
I went to see it at a drive-in. I would have been 17, and it was after midnight. I tried to watch it through, but dozed off. Maybe I saw half of it? Wasn't there a T-Bird driving on the freeway?
Here's a rare opportunity. It's not right to judge how how good a song is until you hear it sung by a singer doing it full justice. That is what we have here, I think, and we can all decide whether or how much we like it because it could not be sung better. My verdict is the song was very good but Kvitka was special.
"you light up my life" 1977...joe brooks did "if ever i see you again" in 1978 and its music is just as beautiful. he was a brilliant man and composer and he will be sorely missed.
I agree...the entire You Light Up My Life album is classic! My mom would play it on her turntable all the time while I was merely 4 or 5. So it's ingrained in me. Joe Brooks composed and produced most of it. Yeah he had sexual impulses that were inappropriate, but it was the 70s...when "free love and experimentation" reigned mostly guilt free and Aids free. No excuse...I believe most super talented and creative people suffer from social ineptitude and different of mental illness. RIP Joe..your music is timeless
actually the conductor is jerry keller and he had a hit song himself. he's very talented and has a featured role in "if ever i see you again" from joe brooks...1978.
I love this. Never seen it before. Her reaction when the strings start -- I know that feeling. I've sung with bands and orchestras and when you feel that energy coming from the instruments it's a HUGE RUSH. Didi portrays that feeling so beautifully here. This is also the first time I've heard Kasey Cisyk's version of "You Light Up My Life," and it's leaps and bounds better than Debby Boone's version. This version has raw emotion and so much more feeling. Debby's version sounds bland in comparison. It was, essentially, a copy of Kasey's version (I just learned the whole story behind that), so I'll let Boone slide in that she didn't have much control over what she could do with the song. But hearing other things she's done, she's not nearly as expressive a singer. I wish Kasey had a chance to build a career with her voice. It was truly lovely.
D Boone's version sounds like shit. She ripped Kasey off by re-recording this and releasing it. He putrid father ripped black artists in the 50's like Little Richard for re-recording his music with P Boone's bland white bread crap. Two vile musical sows, the Boone daughter and father.
That’s because Kasey had a much better voice than Debby Boone!! I saw this movie when I was around 17, it wasn’t that great but I loved Didi and the song.
MOR music is pretty much gone from the radio nowadays. The only time I listen to the radio nowadays (unless I am in someone else's car) is when I listen to the NPR classical station for classical music or All Things Considered. RUclips Music gets a LOT of use in my home and I also have an extensive music collection, most of which I copied over to my computers. I have literally outlived my generation (I am almost 80) and because of this radio stations no longer cater to my interests. My father is still alive at 104 and he feels the same way.
I remember being a little kid watching this movie and crying at this song and had no idea why. I only watched it because Didi a.k.a. Frenchy was in it.
One wonders why they didn't just use Kasey Cisyk as the actress in this movie too. I think there's more to Hollywood than meets the eye, and it's not just a matter of talent or charisma that makes you successful.
@@robertamirtha4242 I wondered that as well. This was an arthouse film to begin with so they didn't need Didi's name for the marquee to hook in the general public. Kasey should have been able to handle this one just fine.
Україна завжди пам'ятатиме тебе ,Квітка !!!ТИ освітлюєш нам життя й даруєш надію ! З Наступаючим Новим 2018 Роком, Товариство ! Слава Україні ! Миру злагоди й тепла У наші чесні та нескорені серця !
I think it is every person's greatest fear to not to have been able to go back home to tell someone that you love them one last time. Here, the resolution of a present or future experience overrides the nostalgic, tragic past. - Frederic Kahler, Apalachicola
Difference between Cisyk and Boone is similar to Enrico Caruso and Beniamino Gigli. Cisyk and Caruso sing as if their life depends on every note. Gigli and Boone sing as if they could do it all day. Not a judgment. Just a choice.
this was and always will be a great movie didi conn great job great plot music awesome i loved it when i first saw it in the seventies and i still love it wonderful story cant get better than this classic
I was a young sailor away from my Mother for the first time, afraid didn't want to let anyone know it. this song and movie got me through this. I saw the movie many times, I had a crush on Didi that lasted five years
yes very tragic indeed...but they both left us a legacy of beauty unparalleled to date!! we're lucky we had them for a little while anyway...true geniuses!
My girlfriend had broken up with me and I took another girl to see this movie. I really liked this new girl but the old girl realized she made a mistake and came back. We got married and broke up within a year. I still wonder what would have happened if I would have stayed with the new chick.
Recently rediscovered this song, having heard it numerous times when I was a kid. Never knew it was from a movie. Hopefully I'll get a chance to see it.
Kacey Cisyk was the singer and actress Didi Conn lip-synced the song. Kacey thought the film would and was a flop so she walked away from it after she recorded it. Debby Boone was then brought in by Mike Curb to sing it and kind of promote the film although recording it was for her debut as a solo singer away from her sister act. Boone went on to win the 1978 Grammy for Best New Artist and Joe Brooks won the Oscar That year for Best Motion Picture Song of the year Note: Boone’s version is more polished and engineered
I don't think Didi sang this but it sure sounds like her/even though her speaking voice is so different.. I love this version the best. Love Didi Conn!!! Think I said that already! OK so I'm repeating myself>LOL!
Dieses schöne Lied wird hier aber nicht von Debbie Moore sondern von Kasey (Kwitka) Cisyk gesungen, die es auch im Film singt. Die Schauspierin ist Didi Conn. Dies nur zur Info. Liebe Grüße und Danke für das Posten! 💐
Film co-starred the wonderful actor, Michael Zaslow. An accomplished actor in all mediums, but best known for his New York based soaps: Guiding Light and One Life to Live. He was living his best life until ALS took hold.
+John Rogan That is Ukrainian Kasey Cisyk doing the singing!!!!!! Didi Conn could never sing this - she is an actress not a singer and Cisyk (known a Kacey or Kvitka (the flower)) was a professionally trained opera singer!!!!!!
wow...good to know....always thought Debie Boone stole Dedi's thunder....the unknown Kacey...a riddle inside an enigma bundled into a puzzle...the Russian way!
esta es la esena original de la pelicula y la trama romantica de la pelicula te atrapa para los que nacimos con un corazon vijito por unos añitos como dice Roberto Carlos soy uno de esos amantes a la antigua .............. BOB su angelito delfin.
Knowing didi’s voice and how high it is, can you imagine how funny it would’ve been to hear her singing this song with the track? LOL!
She’s was dubbed
Went with my brother in 1977 to see spiderman in Croydon, and for some reason we had to watch this before the spidey film. I can tell you now, that a 9 year old and an 11 Year old boy were not particularly happy about this!! I lost my one and only, amazing brother tony 19 years ago. The film Sort of stuck with me. I had to look it up.
This is the original and best version of this song. Her wonderful dark voice fills the song with the spirit it needs. Thank you!
Didi conn did not actually do the singing in this film! A voice over was used.
@@jamesfeeney3016 I think he probably knew that. Kasey/Kvitka was a very talented person, though, may she RIP as best she can with her native country Ukraine being destroyed by Vlad and Dmitry from Moscow as I type.
Oh, snap!! That IS Didi Conn!! Frenchie from Grease!!! I never knew that!! G+ brought me here!!
In wandering around on RUclips, I discovered that Kasey died in 1998. Such a wonderful voice .. and IMHO the best version. RIP, Kasey .. and know that we will always enjoy this song as our memory of you
You might want to look up the music Kasey sang under her legal name, Kvitka Cisyk. It is in her native language (Ukrainian) but I think you will be glad to have listened to it.
Happy 60th Birthday Didi! 07/13/2011
Kasey Cisyk's rendition is the best of these.R.I.P., Kasey
amen....kasey cisyk was the very best voice i've ever heard! without her it wouldn't be the same. rest in peace kasey!
I love this song so much. Makes me think of a friend that passed away at the age of 18 yrs old. He sang this song to me for my birthday. I love you Larry. R.I.P.
Kacey Cisyk - ukrainian girl ! in 1978 she has got an Oscar ( Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song) for this song!!! proud of her!!!
She didn’t get the Oscar - the songwriter (Joe Brooks) did.
Kacey Cisyk-ukrainian girl ! In 1978she has got an Oskar ( Akademi Award for Best Music, Original Song) for this song!!! proud of her!!!
@@liliyavibla6085 She didn't win an Oscar. The songwriter Joe Brooks won it.
@@liliyavibla6085 Her parents were Nazi collaborators. Right?
@@AZ-qm4gz паскуда 💩
this is how you film a musical segment - - - three minutes and 24 seconds of a single continuous take. absolutely wonderful.
Lady your voice is heaven on earth, God bless you l, if this is your soul singing you are the most beautiful angel ever
Kasey Cisyk!! The BEST version!!
The actress who dubs the song does an excellent job. That action of touching your head is like saying "I can't believe how good this turns out!".
I remember seeing the promos for this movie in 77. Never saw the movie then, but fell in love with Didi Conn's cuteness. I was 20 years old then. Flash forward to 2015. GET TV ran the movie and saw it for the first time, and now at 58 I'm still in love with Didi's off the scale cuteness. Yeah, movie was kinda sappy, but Didi portrayed her character well. I'm a rock/metal guy, but have to admit I like this song.
Oh, yes, I loved those promos on TV too! Didi Conn used to be on Match Game a lot. Huh, the ads spoiled the bit where she said, "I can't marry you." huh, considering that you'd think she meant the song for the love interest guy. I have to see the film again. I saw it in theaters back then.
Kem Hayes I know,she is soooo cute.
I've the biggest crush on her.
I went to see it at a drive-in. I would have been 17, and it was after midnight. I tried to watch it through, but dozed off. Maybe I saw half of it? Wasn't there a T-Bird driving on the freeway?
@@michaelhilber8284 That was American Graffitti
Didi Conn is amazing in this scene
Here's a rare opportunity. It's not right to judge how how good a song is until you hear it sung by a singer doing it full justice. That is what we have here, I think, and we can all decide whether or how much we like it because it could not be sung better. My verdict is the song was very good but Kvitka was special.
joseph brooks wrote it and won a grammy, academy award, people's choice and many other accolades. he was truly brilliant.
This scene always tugs at my heart strings.
"you light up my life" 1977...joe brooks did "if ever i see you again" in 1978 and its music is just as beautiful. he was a brilliant man and composer and he will be sorely missed.
I agree, he was a musical genius. Too bad he was mentally ill and became a creep. Loved both movies.
I agree...the entire You Light Up My Life album is classic! My mom would play it on her turntable all the time while I was merely 4 or 5. So it's ingrained in me. Joe Brooks composed and produced most of it. Yeah he had sexual impulses that were inappropriate, but it was the 70s...when "free love and experimentation" reigned mostly guilt free and Aids free. No excuse...I believe most super talented and creative people suffer from social ineptitude and different of mental illness. RIP Joe..your music is timeless
@@jamesrose3395 he was a rapist who killed himself before he was sentenced so obviously a coward.
actually the conductor is jerry keller and he had a hit song himself. he's very talented and has a featured role in "if ever i see you again" from joe brooks...1978.
After all these years, I still love this movie.
Kasey Cisyk's voice... Wow...
How I'd love sooo much the song 💜💜💜😇
Beautiful voice. I will never forget. Rest in Peace...
Kasey Cisyk is the original singer of this song
I love this. Never seen it before. Her reaction when the strings start -- I know that feeling. I've sung with bands and orchestras and when you feel that energy coming from the instruments it's a HUGE RUSH. Didi portrays that feeling so beautifully here.
This is also the first time I've heard Kasey Cisyk's version of "You Light Up My Life," and it's leaps and bounds better than Debby Boone's version. This version has raw emotion and so much more feeling. Debby's version sounds bland in comparison. It was, essentially, a copy of Kasey's version (I just learned the whole story behind that), so I'll let Boone slide in that she didn't have much control over what she could do with the song. But hearing other things she's done, she's not nearly as expressive a singer. I wish Kasey had a chance to build a career with her voice. It was truly lovely.
D Boone's version sounds like shit. She ripped Kasey off by re-recording this and releasing it. He putrid father ripped black artists in the 50's like Little Richard for re-recording his music with P Boone's bland white bread crap. Two vile musical sows, the Boone daughter and father.
That’s because Kasey had a much better voice than Debby Boone!! I saw this movie when I was around 17, it wasn’t that great but I loved Didi and the song.
Debbie Boons much more soulful
She is all beautiful in so many ways, made me cry
Danke Dir für einen glücklichen Moment
Always makes me cry this scene. Well done Didi and Kacey. The rest of the movie's not bad either.
And Jerry Keller as the conductor.
How come we never hear this song on the radio as we do say The BeeGees or Donna Summer from this era. This was such a mega hit back then!!
MOR music is pretty much gone from the radio nowadays. The only time I listen to the radio nowadays (unless I am in someone else's car) is when I listen to the NPR classical station for classical music or All Things Considered. RUclips Music gets a LOT of use in my home and I also have an extensive music collection, most of which I copied over to my computers. I have literally outlived my generation (I am almost 80) and because of this radio stations no longer cater to my interests. My father is still alive at 104 and he feels the same way.
I saw this movie when it first came out with my first true love (may he RIP) Thank you for sharing this.
It's not Debbie Boone, the voice over singing for the movie was done by Kasey Cisyk. Debbie boone later released the cover we all know so well...
Awww Kvitka - we really miss you!!!!!
sung by kasey cisyk....not didi conn! she died in 1998 from breast cancer...what a wonderful voice she had. thanks for everything kasey!!
Always thought her version was better than Debbie Boone’s!!
I Love you diddi.
I remember being a little kid watching this movie and crying at this song and had no idea why. I only watched it because Didi a.k.a. Frenchy was in it.
Kasey Cisyk....The real voice behind the best version!!!! RIP
One wonders why they didn't just use Kasey Cisyk as the actress in this movie too. I think there's more to Hollywood than meets the eye, and it's not just a matter of talent or charisma that makes you successful.
Didi Conn was something of an established actress. You don't know if Kasey can act.@@robertamirtha4242
It was much better than the Debbie Boone version.
@@robertamirtha4242 I wondered that as well. This was an arthouse film to begin with so they didn't need Didi's name for the marquee to hook in the general public. Kasey should have been able to handle this one just fine.
Nah.
What a song...timeless...
Україна завжди пам'ятатиме тебе ,Квітка !!!ТИ освітлюєш нам життя й даруєш надію !
З Наступаючим Новим 2018 Роком, Товариство ! Слава Україні !
Миру злагоди й тепла
У наші чесні та нескорені серця !
I love didi
Saw the movie when it came out in 1977. Loved it.! ....and love this song :)
❤❤❤ Música 🎶 linda! Eu tinha 10 pra 11 anos de idade. Embalou muitos sonhos românticos...
Didi Conn, whom I remember from the 1980s ABC comedy Benson, is a great singer
My god alot of people thought this movie was a bomb. I was 16 I loved it- I fell in lovre with Kacey
I was in my teens when i saw the 2 versions... I truly like this one with Didi, more soulful.
I think it is every person's greatest fear to not to have been able to go back home to tell someone that you love them one last time. Here, the resolution of a present or future experience overrides the nostalgic, tragic past. - Frederic Kahler, Apalachicola
it's kacey cisyk...and she was great!
Hard times around here.. and this is why I hear exactly this.
Just try to make myself feel better with music.. It works..
Oh God...this song has a soul in it
Didi Conn.....die beste...so schön.....mag mir diese Filmszene immer wieder sehr gern an schauen.....☆☆☆☆☆
+didi connfan Stimme beste Version 🎵🎶🎼🎶🎵
I Love this Song ...
sung by the lovely kasey cisyk...her voice is so much more mature and refined than debby's inmho....rip kasey!
When I saw this movie in the theater, the song was still number one on the charts.
Thank you to the friend that played this for me on the piano. you will always be in my heart.
This should have waaaay more views :(
Good Job Didier, fantastic Song Kacey R.i.P.
Her Ukrainian name is Kvitka (Flower). We are very love her! Hugs to all bright people from Ukraine!
Difference between Cisyk and Boone is similar to Enrico Caruso and Beniamino Gigli. Cisyk and Caruso sing as if their life depends on every note. Gigli and Boone sing as if they could do it all day. Not a judgment. Just a choice.
Beautiful song
la vi cuando tenía como 17 años, lloré mucho con ella
Best song !
this was and always will be a great movie didi conn great job great plot music awesome i loved it when i first saw it in the seventies and i still love it wonderful story cant get better than this classic
hearing broadcast radio after a season at Holden Village blacked out, this song on the air spiced that back to civilization feeling
Didi Conn is SO BEAUTIFUL
I was a young sailor away from my Mother for the first time, afraid didn't want to let anyone know it. this song and movie got me through this. I saw the movie many times, I had a crush on Didi that lasted five years
ケイシー 素晴らしい。あなたの、事は、忘れません、お亡くなりになって、残念です。素晴らしい 映画でした。
Immer wieder schõn zum anhören danke
yes very tragic indeed...but they both left us a legacy of beauty unparalleled to date!! we're lucky we had them for a little while anyway...true geniuses!
wish I could go back in time to be with the girl I took to see this movie with I missed a great chance
Wish I coukd go back in time to be with Didi Conn
Alan Wells Awwwww💜🌷
My girlfriend had broken up with me and I took another girl to see this movie. I really liked this new girl but the old girl realized she made a mistake and came back. We got married and broke up within a year. I still wonder what would have happened if I would have stayed with the new chick.
Look for her honey!!
I sometimes think of it...
Her appearance, voice, song, and atmosphere are all good.
from S. korea
Genial... you.ligth up my live....ein Filmausschnitt mit Didi Conn aus dem Film Stern meines Lebens 1976/77 danke für den Upload...beste Wünsche
Recently rediscovered this song, having heard it numerous times when I was a kid. Never knew it was from a movie. Hopefully I'll get a chance to see it.
this was a awesome movie awesome song ddi so beautiful wow great time the 70s early eighties
you are correct...she was wonderful!
what a brilliant film and a fantastic music score
Kacey Cisyk was the singer and actress Didi Conn lip-synced the song. Kacey thought the film would and was a flop so she walked away from it after she recorded it. Debby Boone was then brought in by Mike Curb to sing it and kind of promote the film although recording it was for her debut as a solo singer away from her sister act.
Boone went on to win the 1978 Grammy for Best New Artist and Joe Brooks won the Oscar That year for Best Motion Picture Song of the year
Note: Boone’s version is more polished and engineered
I remember this song and movie when I was 9yrs old . 1977 ....This actress end up playing Frenchy on Grease 1978
AHHH I LOVE DIDI CONN
I don't think Didi sang this but it sure sounds like her/even though her speaking voice is so different.. I love this version the best. Love Didi Conn!!! Think I said that already! OK so I'm repeating myself>LOL!
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Dankeschön für dieses schöne Beitrag
joe brooks wrote the most beautiful music ever and i miss him so very much.
I love that little moment at 1:35 where she turns her head to her left
Dieses schöne Lied wird hier aber nicht von Debbie Moore sondern von Kasey (Kwitka) Cisyk gesungen, die es auch im Film singt. Die Schauspierin ist Didi Conn. Dies nur zur Info. Liebe Grüße und Danke für das Posten! 💐
es lo mas hermoso q he escuchado en mi vida...y la pureza de didi es tan bella como el alba
The year of the fabulous Liza Minnelli's "New York, New York" and this song won instead!!!!!What a musical crime!!
Film co-starred the wonderful actor, Michael Zaslow. An accomplished actor in all mediums, but best known for his New York based soaps: Guiding Light and One Life to Live.
He was living his best life until ALS took hold.
einfach nur genial und schön
Many Thanks Geneva Johnson. It relindles my memories back to early 1980s when I was just 18 years and enjoyed the cinema in Kolkata (India).
wunderbar...
この歌、大好きです。
ディディコンさんの演技素晴らしいです。
キャシーさんの歌声も大好き❤️🎶
指揮者の人、大柄だけど、繊細な指揮に好感をもちます。
みんなに、この映画を見て欲しいです。💓
Laurie...Dedi Cohn...wow...greatest singing ever....pulls at your heart strings!
+John Rogan That is Ukrainian Kasey Cisyk doing the singing!!!!!! Didi Conn could never sing this - she is an actress not a singer and Cisyk (known a Kacey or Kvitka (the flower)) was a professionally trained opera singer!!!!!!
wow...good to know....always thought Debie Boone stole Dedi's thunder....the unknown Kacey...a riddle inside an enigma bundled into a puzzle...the Russian way!
+John Rogan Note, Kvitka was not russian
ok ukrainian...a rose by any other name...Putin thinks your Russians...lol.
John Rogan ...and that is why I try to set the record straight, when I can! Thanks!
great song, great voice ^^
Soooo schön. Und der Film war auch grandios!
it was this scene that won the movie it's oscar, good song...
Kvitka Cisyk (Kacey) is the original voice in the movie! Kacey is the original singer of this song! The best of all!!
Lovely !
esta cancion o esena de movi la estoy buscando hace 25 años creia que jamas la encontraria pero vivi para verla nuevamente gracias desde argentina
ok it is Kasey Cisik its the original soundtrack of the movie, . i hope that goes to all the hearts in the world... in mine it is yet
esta es la esena original de la pelicula y la trama romantica de la pelicula te atrapa para los que nacimos con un corazon vijito por unos añitos como dice Roberto Carlos soy uno de esos amantes a la antigua .............. BOB su angelito delfin.