My husband has been gone 5 years now. Bernadette Peters was his favorite female singer. Sinatra male singer. He alway called me his buddy! It’s due to this song. Beautiful!
I've always loved this song. Bernadette Peters sings it beautifully. A beautiful and very affectionate male cat has made me his buddy, and that's the name I have given him. Buddy like it when I play this on the piano just for him!
MY DAD PASSED INTO HEAVEN ON HEAVEN 8/28/20 I HEARD THIS SONG ON BOARDWALK EMPIRE FOR SOME REASON I THINK I MIGHT HAVE HEARD THIS SOMETIME WHEN I WAS A KID AND 2 NIGHTS AGO I GOT UP AT 4 AM AND THE BOBBY DARIN VERSION CAME INTO MY HEAD AND IT IMMEDIATELY MADE ME THINK OF MY DAD IT WONT LEAVE MY HEAD AND I CRIED A FEW TIMES AS I WRITE THIS IM TEARING UP IT HURTS
Aww Bernadette's outfit in this song looks so pretty I dont think I've seen her in a blue dress like this one before but holy cow she looks absolutely gorgeous in it
My white cat George was my buddy...he used to cross his paws and lay down on me... and he would happily meow and greet me when I came home...a true buddy...lost him 02/01/2016
I was just thinking of my Riley dog, my buddy. I miss him so. One day a neighbor was us by while we were out walking. He stopped and said, "That's it, you know. He's your buddy." And no other description was ever truer.
My wonderful Chow, Bubba, left me 7 years ago and his and my buddy Redd, a golden retriever/chow died this year. I loved them so much and miss them daily. Tears flow.
Barbara gray commenting: when I was performing as a singer I used to sing duets with my dearest buddy she and I were friends for over 50 years but of course at over the years I went on my own she went on her own we both married and went our ways but we always kept in touch she's gone now but I used to sing this song and think of her she was truly my buddy the best friend I ever had this is such a touching song and Bernadette Peters really sings it beautiful. Now I live in Florida close to her four children.
This was the song my dear mom had for her very close cousin who died of cancer very young! I was quite young & didn't really understand, but I do now. I miss my mom!
What a GREAT rendition of this song ...quite different when a woman sings it. I've always heard it as sung by a guy. Originally in the 1920's when Henry Burr popularized it...I know my parents gave me the impression that this was a song about two WWI trench soldiers as the two buddys ... But Bernadette does a fabulous job and gives it a different pitch. Both versions are great - a great song and two great artists!!
My father-in-law Archie Patterson, Jr when traveling to fight. The Germans in France listened to this song on a Liberty Ship. He was a part of the D Day Invasion nd his daughter is Kellee Patterson , first Black Miss Indiana.
Wow!!! First off....its Bernadette 😚 And.....the *abrupt* key change -- freakin cool as hell...... And of course, the beautiful, gentle, heart felt ending......sighhhhhh Thanks So Much!!! 😎😎😎
All you people saying this is a man's song, Doris Day sang it before Bernadette did, so you're wrong. It could be a woman missing her man who has gone off to war. Especially the "miss your voice, the touch of your hand" part. That sounds more like a woman missing her man to me.
You're right. Doris Day did it before-- and Lena Horne recorded a poignant version in the 1990s. One point of contention though-- to think that missing one's voice and the touch of one's hand is restricted to the domain of a woman for a man. . . well, that's simply ignorant of human possiblities-- and of reality. Two men, two women, or a man and a woman could all share such sentiments for one another. In any era.
@@pattibrown8496 What a gracious and evolved reply-- thank you! We've all been ignorant of many things, and my own journey has been steep and long, with so much longer to go. It's people like yourself who help me continue to find a voice, a way.
She sings it beautifully. BUT: !. This song was written in the teens and not the 20's, and represents the feelings of WWI, and not the Roaring 20's. 2. It represents the deep feelings of a man for another man, non-sexual feelings. I prefer to hear amna sing it. Jolson made it popular.
The song was not published until 1922, though in tone and temperament, I agree that it suits the teens better than the later 20s. It's definitely about a man missing a man; all of the early popular recordings of it (1922-23) were by men, including Henry Burr, Ernest Hare, and Ben Bernie (all of which can be heard on RU-vid).
Bernadette Peters is always nice, nice voice, really cute, fun to watch, but I really don't like what they've done to the song - the rhythms is all changed and the melody is hardly discernible
