My Sicilian grandma spoke hardly any English, but when Liberace came on the TV, life stopped and we all were required to watch. Grandma Nina knew quality.
I often come to youtube to listen to one or two of Liberaces videos and then I find myself 30 minutes or so later still watching...No one has ever or will ever compare to this wonderful , kind and gentle soul of a man...So many will never know his true talent, and realize the great loss to the world when he died....I love his talent...It makes me sad to know the horrible death he experienced, but i trust that he is resting in peace...Thank you Lee for sharing your world with all of us.........
Lee was a great man with unbelievable talent and showmanship, also a great deprecating sense of humor. He was the biggest star in America in the early 50's.
I saw Liberace in concert at the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford Connecticut circa 1973. Fabulous showmanship! Great talent! Wonderful entertainment. God rest his soul.
Oh, I have watched pretty much every video of Liberace. Plus, I am old enough to remember him when he was alive. I believe he played by ear, not really memorized. Watch the video where he asks people to name their favorite songs He puts them all together. I wouldn't even be able to remember th names of the 12 songs the audience called out. Oh, why do people have to get old and pass away. How I miss this man. He passed away in 1985? Or around that year.
OMG, When he plays the Ballads Im'e a mess, I was Even sobbing at this, Waw there will never be another Liberace. And when he does the rock an roll. Boogie Woogie My God It's What the hell dude, I have never seen hands play so Frigging Fast Baby WOW. No Pianist before or since has come close, Russ Conway was a very good pianist, Les Dawson, But who was he copying, Ok he messed the notes up on Purpose, but when he wasn't Mucking around who's style was he copying, Well i must admit that's why i play the piano, Thanx to Liberace Russ Conway, And Less. but My first Favorite has got to be Liberace, He's the man to look up to if your a Musician. He's the reason i started to play, And i play just like him with no Music to, What a true Legend. RIP Mr Piano.
He was fabulous. And now we have a 21st century pianist/ entertainer who reminds me of Liberace.. the 27 year old Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino aka Cateen. Classically trained who melds classic, jazz and pop together in his own way...I thought immediately of Liberace when I first heard Sumino
I used to play his "Concert by Candlelight" vinyl LP for hours on end when I was a little girl. I would lie on the floor with my head between the speakers and dream of being a concert pianist!
I was just reminded of why I love the oldies. 😍 Truly a beautiful melody & pianist. It was soothing & relaxing, until I visualized being in a 1950s movie dancing with my partner and falling in love. ❤ True music. 😍
Astounding! This is a difficult song for any pianist--he plays it without one hitch! I am happy we have his recordings to remind us what great once was.
I have the honor of being close friends with Hoagy Carmichael's great niece. And, played Stardust at her father's funeral. Stardust has always been one of my favorite all-time songs. Beautiful melody, and lyrics. It's no wonder why it is one of the greatest songs ever written.
He certainly wore a lot of finger weights when he played. Most pianist don't wear any jewelry, a wedding band, if that. Librace was Elvis long before anyone realized it. A great showman and so talented & witty. He never stopped smiling.
Quem me apresentou esse grande artista foi o meu sogro e desde então já fazem 8 anos que me deleito com seus trabalhos maravilhosos!!!
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A great piano player and dresser. He once gave Elvis style advice, and loaned him his jacket on the Ed Sullivan Show. No one realized that Liberace and Elvis had worn the same jacket that night. From then on Elvis changed his style of dress. Think about the way Elvis and Prince dressed on stage. Liberace was still influencing the way entertainers dressed long after his death.
This absolutely makes me cry. My Mother could play just like him and she use to play this certain song. He was truly the genius on the piano. I know he is in heaven now playing for her. Nobody was ever better than him. Love him.
Mmm love the showmanship, musicianship and positive-attitudeness of this great performer. This particular song lends itself more appropriately to a more heart-broken artist, or at least one who can perform as such. I have no problem with Liberace and his shows. In fact I really enjoy finding them on RUclips. I just don't think an all time top tear-jerker song is something he could let his guard down to perform
In my humble opinion, Liberace was the greatest pianist of all time. He could play like the classical pianists, but they could not play like him when it came to playing and arranging popular music 🎵🎶, style and improvisation.
I am surprised he is playing on a Baldwin not a Steinway. Stardust probably the best song ever written( especially the lyrics). Nat King Cole has the superlative sung version in my estimation. The arrangement for Mr.Cole's recording is an absolute classic which others are measured against.
I saw Liberace on Johnny Carson and he asked the same question and also commenting on the weight of his costumes. Liberace said as a student he was trained to play with lead weights on his fingers the way runners wear weights. And when they were removed his fingers just flew. He preferred the restriction when he played.
I was fortunate enough several years ago to visit the Liberace museum in Las Vegas before it closed. I was permitted to play his piano which was completely covered in mirrors, with one mirror above the keyboard so your own hands were reflected back. I would never have dreamed how difficult it is to find the keys on the keyboard when you are seeing a double set of them, plus your own hands!
@@RRozsaIndeed, my Dad played in that museum for an event one time, a number of years back, and yes, he used Mr. Liberace's piano (of course). The key to playing with that mirror there is that pianists, like touch typists, are trained not to look at the keyboard. That's why you literally can play a piano blind (Art Tatum, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and so on). Dad taught me to do the same thing with drums, and string instrumentalists do likewise with their fretboards. That's why Mr. Liberace could do that and not get confused, because he had that old-school classical training. BTW, that piano of his with all the mirrors is gorgeous. Totally over the top...just as Lee himself was. That man was a national treasure.
And he wouldn't have died as soon if he'd only not been so addicted to getting his butt banged. The world lost a major talent too soon because he just wouldn't stop being a rectal ranger. Rock Hudson's premature death should've been a wake up call, but nope he wouldn't get off his knees
Thanks, Lee. Does anyone have any Hoggy Carmichael videos? He did not equal L Liberace, but was good, plus fun. Stardust is beautiful. Mitch Miller. Lawrence Welk? Musicians of the 1950’s & 1960’s? Soupy Sales?
My Sicilian grandma spoke hardly any English, but when Liberace came on the TV, life stopped and we all were required to watch. Grandma Nina knew quality.
I often come to youtube to listen to one or two of Liberaces videos and then I find myself 30 minutes or so later still watching...No one has ever or will ever compare to this wonderful , kind and gentle soul of a man...So many will never know his true talent, and realize the great loss to the world when he died....I love his talent...It makes me sad to know the horrible death he experienced, but i trust that he is resting in peace...Thank you Lee for sharing your world with all of us.........
The flash, the costumes, the showmanship, we sometimes forget, just how great a piano player he truly was.
rhbramle
Yeah just realized that
So true,
Why would anyone forget how great of a piano player he was? That’s literally HOW he became famous. The other stuff came a little later
@@O-Heyguys pretty well said.
Lee was a great man with unbelievable talent and showmanship, also a great deprecating sense of humor. He was the biggest star in America in the early 50's.
Liberace was one-of-a-kind no one could not match his talent thanks for the beautiful memories Liberace may your soul rest in peace
Perdón,pero existió un Carmen Cavallaro
He wore a lot of fluffy stuff but nobody that I have ever heard could play a piano like this guy. What an amazing man!
Indeed, he was one of a kind. I never tire of his style and talent. I listen to his music often!
And he was just as good a singer as he was a pianist in my opinion.
Why mention the fluffy stuff???😢
Back when Baldwin pianos were supreme, such great tones and balance. Liberace technic and dynamics are amazing. He never misses a note!
I saw Liberace in concert at the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford Connecticut circa 1973. Fabulous showmanship! Great talent! Wonderful entertainment. God rest his soul.
Such a powerful song an absolute masterpiece with Liberace playing it.
Beautiful job playing the piano beyond words really..a true classic song and man.. long live Liberace on you tube.
I've never seen him play with sheet music. Every time it's from memory! Awesome!
Oh, I have watched pretty much every video of Liberace. Plus, I am old enough to remember him when he was alive. I believe he played by ear, not really memorized. Watch the video where he asks people to name their favorite songs
He puts them all together. I wouldn't even be able to remember th names of the 12 songs the audience called out. Oh, why do people have to get old and pass away. How I miss this man. He passed away in 1985? Or around that year.
Mr. Showmanship, indeed. My mom and dad always watched him when I was a child. I loved him then and I love him now. Pure class and amazing talent!
Beautiful! He had a phenomenal playing technique and had total command of the keyboard
He really can put classical and popular tune together. Simply unbeatable
Liberace’s music touches my heart so deeply! He was a true master ! I love it! Thank you for sharing this with us!🌷
OMG, When he plays the Ballads Im'e a mess, I was Even sobbing
at this, Waw there will never be another Liberace. And when he
does the rock an roll. Boogie Woogie My God It's What the hell
dude, I have never seen hands play so Frigging Fast Baby WOW.
No Pianist before or since has come close, Russ Conway was
a very good pianist, Les Dawson, But who was he copying, Ok he
messed the notes up on Purpose, but when he wasn't Mucking
around who's style was he copying, Well i must admit that's why
i play the piano, Thanx to Liberace Russ Conway, And Less. but
My first Favorite has got to be Liberace, He's the man to look up
to if your a Musician. He's the reason i started to play, And i play
just like him with no Music to, What a true Legend. RIP Mr Piano.
He loved his fans and had complete mastery of the piano
What a dreamy romantic version by the Master himself. No one will ever compare😍
He was the master of entertainment and the piano no modern pianist can match him
I had an uncle, who accompanied Judy Garland among others
He was quite fantastic
Not famous, but never the less a fantastic musician
Charlie Albright is actually an amazing pianist. He actually plays Liberace’s boogie woogie 8 to the bar.
He was fabulous. And now we have a 21st century pianist/ entertainer who reminds me of Liberace.. the 27 year old Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino aka Cateen. Classically trained who melds classic, jazz and pop together in his own way...I thought immediately of Liberace when I first heard Sumino
There will never be another one like him.
I used to dance in the living room to Liberace when I was a little girl in Brooklyn- nice memories! RIP Lib !
Frances Van Siclen what a picture you painted, how nice! BTW Van Siclen is an old-timey Brooklyn-New Utrecht name, isn’t it?
I used to play his "Concert by Candlelight" vinyl LP for hours on end when I was a little girl. I would lie on the floor with my head between the speakers and dream of being a concert pianist!
Pure Magic
My mum and dad had this song at their wedding in1942 great song
Breathlessly beautiful
The best pianist in my life time he's always with us the memorable concerts he have given will never die🎹🎶🎤
Well done.
I was just reminded of why I love the oldies. 😍 Truly a beautiful melody & pianist. It was soothing & relaxing, until I visualized being in a 1950s movie dancing with my partner and falling in love. ❤ True music. 😍
What a great piano player he was..i miss him so much..
Astounding! This is a difficult song for any pianist--he plays it without one hitch! I am happy we have his recordings to remind us what great once was.
I have always loved Stardust and I loved watching Liberace on TV.
I have the honor of being close friends with Hoagy Carmichael's great niece. And, played Stardust at her father's funeral. Stardust has always been one of my favorite all-time songs. Beautiful melody, and lyrics. It's no wonder why it is one of the greatest songs ever written.
What an honor for you to play Stardust at the funeral of the great composer.
He certainly wore a lot of finger weights when he played. Most pianist don't wear any jewelry, a wedding band, if that. Librace was Elvis long before anyone realized it. A great showman and so talented & witty. He never stopped smiling.
Fabulous! What a pianist and showman!
I saw him in the late seventies and he was truly Mr. Showmanship
Always watched his show as akid. Just the greatest
Quem me apresentou esse grande artista foi o meu sogro e desde então já fazem 8 anos que me deleito com seus trabalhos maravilhosos!!!
A great piano player and dresser. He once gave Elvis style advice, and loaned him his jacket on the Ed Sullivan Show. No one realized that Liberace and Elvis had worn the same jacket that night. From then on Elvis changed his style of dress. Think about the way Elvis and Prince dressed on stage. Liberace was still influencing the way entertainers dressed long after his death.
So true.
This absolutely makes me cry. My Mother could play just like him and she use to play this certain song. He was truly the genius on the piano. I know he is in heaven now playing for her. Nobody was ever better than him. Love him.
The master of the piano Liberace love this. Marlain
Got to hand it to him he does a flamboyant celebration of this wonderfull song The orchestra were fantastic too marvalous
I have never heard this man hit one wrong note! Truly a spectacular musician!
❤wonderful
Wow! Liberace was amazing! This was beautiful, pure genius on the piano.
Thank you for posting...the music is just so incredibly beautiful...
Amazing pianist, memory, sympathy and performance.
That was so beautiful. I could listen all night!!
i would have killed to see him live anywhere!! not just in Vegas!
Bravo maestro. And to think he did that with 10 lb of jewelry on his fingers!😎
4..36kg😭😹
Mmm love the showmanship, musicianship and positive-attitudeness of this great performer. This particular song lends itself more appropriately to a more heart-broken artist, or at least one who can perform as such. I have no problem with Liberace and his shows. In fact I really enjoy finding them on RUclips.
I just don't think an all time top tear-jerker song is something he could let his guard down to perform
Love this song, and beautiful on piano. Liberace is the best. Thanks for sharing. 🎶❤️
A wonderful entertainer and brilliant pianists.
This is so beautiful. Wow
In my humble opinion, Liberace was the greatest pianist of all time. He could play like the classical pianists, but they could not play like him when it came to playing and arranging popular music 🎵🎶, style and improvisation.
Siempre me gusto mucho Liberace, lo considero un gran artista !!!
He was a American Institution. Missed is a understatement. Rip Lee.
Stardust. My late father's favourite.
Pythonaria Hoagy Carmichael
The Era of 1940 the discovery of american progress from tears of the planet
Love this tune
He sure could walk the keyboard, big time!
I am surprised he is playing on a Baldwin not a Steinway. Stardust probably the best song ever written( especially the lyrics). Nat King Cole has the superlative sung version in my estimation. The arrangement for Mr.Cole's recording is an absolute classic which others are measured against.
My God what a beautiful melody!!
Charlie Boy love hoagy carmichael.
Charlie Boy Masterpiece
Yes - in the same league as Misty!
I like how he turns off the glitzy personality and becomes deadly serious when he plays. He respects the music.
Wonderful play, from Liberace, what a pity, he is gone today.
Such a gracious man.
No one did more for popular piano performance than Liberace... NO ONE.
Holy Jesus!! This is SO Amazing!!
Breathtaking!
Im continuously amazed by that it is even humanly possible to lift a hands with so much jewelry, not to mention playing piano with it...!
I saw Liberace on Johnny Carson and he asked the same question and also commenting on the weight of his costumes. Liberace said as a student he was trained to play with lead weights on his fingers the way runners wear weights. And when they were removed his fingers just flew. He preferred the restriction when he played.
I was fortunate enough several years ago to visit the Liberace museum in Las Vegas before it closed. I was permitted to play his piano which was completely covered in mirrors, with one mirror above the keyboard so your own hands were reflected back. I would never have dreamed how difficult it is to find the keys on the keyboard when you are seeing a double set of them, plus your own hands!
@@RRozsaIndeed, my Dad played in that museum for an event one time, a number of years back, and yes, he used Mr. Liberace's piano (of course). The key to playing with that mirror there is that pianists, like touch typists, are trained not to look at the keyboard. That's why you literally can play a piano blind (Art Tatum, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and so on). Dad taught me to do the same thing with drums, and string instrumentalists do likewise with their fretboards. That's why Mr. Liberace could do that and not get confused, because he had that old-school classical training.
BTW, that piano of his with all the mirrors is gorgeous. Totally over the top...just as Lee himself was. That man was a national treasure.
Great pianist mother loved himplaying
Cuánta Carisma Este maravilloso Músico todo un Genio Majestuoso versátil.
Liberace
A man connected to the essence of Spiritual Science Music
One word for that, BEATIFULL. 👍
Beautifully played ❤❤
Nessuno e' grande come Liberace 😢
Such an elegant and magical style!!!!!!!!😢
A Consumate entertainer! A true professional,sadly misses!
If that isn't beautiful then I don't know what is I can tell you that.. ol Liberace was the best
This man died the year i was born. This guy was the definition of cool and his style was just great. 32 years now and still missed!
WOW
Music to dream a lazy afternoon away
My parents used to stop whatever they were doing to watch him. And Stardust was their song!
Misty is another great song that will always be played
This was my Mothers favourite.
My mothers also!
Virginia Stock Beutiful 💖
I wish I honestly had just Half the Talent He had..Amazing!!
Parabéns pela linda interpretação! 😍
sensacional, divno é de outro mundo esse magistral peanista
Anyone watching this wonderful video in 2019?
2020 now...
July 10, 2020
Coronovirus 2020. August. But happy😊
Anyone watching in 2023?
Most beautiful!
Liberace was an animal lover, and had quite a few dogs. In his will, he left many thousands of dollars for the safekeeping of his doggy friends.
And he wouldn't have died as soon if he'd only not been so addicted to getting his butt banged. The world lost a major talent too soon because he just wouldn't stop being a rectal ranger. Rock Hudson's premature death should've been a wake up call, but nope he wouldn't get off his knees
MUSICÃO mmmmmmmmm♥ ... adore you Liberace ! RIP MÃOS GLORIOSAS♥ ...........
He is amazing also the song is amazing too.😀
Such beautiful music....
So macho!
All kidding aside, whatever you want to say about the style, the touch and technique are pretty damn good.
beautiful perfect!
There no ather star like Liberace full of stardust amazing talent
Love watching this talented Man
Some pianists just play the right notes. Liberace’s fingers played the notes, but his soul played the music.
he is the BEST by far ! EVER
Such talent and perseverance.
Maravilloso.
MARAVILLOSO ❤❤❤EXTRAORDINARIO ❤❤❤
Fantastic.❤🎉
Good man , came in batman TV series Adam. West one
Liberace played Stardust just like a wind swept heart-ache should sound. Rest In Piece Dear Lib!
Only he could make the piano speak from it's very best❤😂❤
можно слушать бесконечно такую игру
Thanks, Lee.
Does anyone have any Hoggy Carmichael videos? He did not equal L Liberace, but was good, plus fun. Stardust is beautiful.
Mitch Miller. Lawrence Welk? Musicians of the 1950’s & 1960’s? Soupy Sales?