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i …i remember all the days that i have missed, and the tears cried for me, all the happiness and all the sadness, i remember who i really am, who i was. i remember my lovers face and my children’s face, i remember everything, i remember going to war for my country and getting to shoot off grand cannons, i remember every part of everything. when i look into the mirror i don’t get confused anymore, i remember
She said in her memoirs that she sang this one better when she was older. Very self-critical. And of course, it was very important to her, that second career, as a cabaret and concert singer, once Broadway wasn't an option anymore. In many ways, she was an even bigger star--but she was a truly great singer as a young woman. I think sometimes, when she talks about how she's improved, she means more as a person than as a vocalist. To me, the recording she cut for her From the Heart album, in the late 50's is best, if only for the exquisite offbeat musical arrangement. She was pregnant with her son when she cut that one. Honestly, there's not much difference in the way she sings either version I think she felt different singing it, with more life experience--she'd loved and lost several times by then. She understood better what Lorenz Hart's words meant, having lived them. But there's no less emotion in the earlier version--because an actress of her caliber could imagine how it would feel to lose someone who loved you--and wonder if you'd deserved that love. Which I've no doubt she did, but it's only human to feel that way when something beautiful ends. Only Nina Simone rivals her on this song. Nina didn't sing the verse. It's quite a different take. Goes way into the emotional darkness of the piece. I go back and forth over who's best. It doesn't really matter. Genius is genius. If you're ranking it, you're missing the point of it.
Mike studied music but he was a good actor on record like Leslie Fyson. I wish someone would put the Mike Sammes Singers Gilbert and Sullivan series on RU-vid. There's only "Gondoliers" which is more like community singing so I'm not sure when John Camburn is singing. A relative of his contacted me. Awful orchestrations but good production. That may apply to the Singers "My Fair Lady".
This was issued on a Decca US 45/78 single in the early days of radio and Gene Rayburn's career, through Match Game on TV and NBC Monitor on 1960s radio.
Such a bluesy swell tune! Eddie Harkness and his orchestra was a fine San Francisco band that was hired to play in the Marc Hopkins Hotel when it opened in 1927. Thankyou for posting Eddie's exceptional Victor record!
So nice to have access to these little known R&H treasures. One complaint: the word Ms. Rae sings as "valet" is actually 'varlet' (rhymes with 'scarlet')
Speaking of tears...I'm sobbing my way through Jane Powell's touching rendition of this evergreen standard by the great Vincent Youmans (with able help from lyricist Edward Heyman). I wish you many more upvotes and favorable comments!
"Ida Morgenstern" was a BABE once?? :o <3 <3 It's a very Broadway sound compared to Ella May Morse, who introduced me to the song, but JUST AS CATCHY!! 10 <3 of 5!! :D
I have searched the internet all over to find the lyrics for the Foreman Brown translation of this song, and come up completely empty. Does anyone have any leads or know where I can find them?
