Ethel Merman Live - Everything's Coming up Roses 

She’s reincarnated into a little elf boy singing in Greta Van Fleet🤣🤣🤣

From her toes up!

Well put. Hurled right from her heart to ours.

Straight out singing. No nonsense. Here it is folks.

Amen!! My memory stretches way back and I can remember all the great talent of the last century on TV....you don't see "stars" anymore...much less talent... it's like that line of Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard "...We use have FACES! Whadda we got now? Trash! "

Thank you kindly for that information. Sir.

They wanted a brassy obnoxious Jewish woman to belt ot out?

My grandmother loved Ethel.

Prophecy Every!

​@@benjaminperez6620And your grand Mother loved you for posting this Even, "from beyond the graveside."

Exactly! I forgot who it was who admonished a lyricist that if you screw up the lyrics, Merman'll make sure they hear it in the second balcony.

Very few can sing with no mic,Judy Garland once sang at the palace with no mic,doing over the rainbow. It was said it was the best ever...!

War is hell!

This is why I came here. But the talent kept me here!

I found the tunnel it’s this way!! 20 dollars is too much for a cigarette!!!

I can tell you, because I'm ancient enough to have seen Merman in Gypsy shortly after it opened: thrilling! Sharing a "space" with her talent at full throttle--the best, never to be forgotten!

You got that right!!

Well thats a reaction in itself

Hahahah me too!!

I’m literally never going to stop thinking about this comment 😂

Hey Striker, how about a break, I'm getting tired?

Seismically she did.

And it is long overdue that a Broadway theater is named after her, most appropriately THE Broadway Theater where she did Gypsy.

I'm proud to say I saw Ethel Merman live in the Lincoln Center revival of "Annie Get Your Gun." It was about 1966, I was 12, she was in her 50s and it was glorious. One to tell the grandkids.

i thank god every day for miss merman and mr sinatra

You are welcome! By the way, I really love Kate Smith's songs:)

Patrick Hamilton yeah until Billy Porter did it impromptu at the Tony’s!! Ha. (Obvi joking...but he killed it. And similar arrangement)

Colleen Yvonne Thomas Yes, his was great too but messed up some of the lyrics.

Patrick Hamilton Was Merman moving her hand to the beat of the drum, or directing the drummer?

Probably not. The pit drummer would have been way off to the far stage-left end of the pit facing semi forward toward the Conductor and probably wouldn't have been able to see her if he wanted to under the lip of the stage overhanging the pit. Nothing back then was left to chance and this would have been fairly deep into the run of the show when the hits from the show were making it into public consciousness already from pop singers like Como covering them. For this telecast it would have been running on instinct for Merman by then, with the drummer and Conductor probably brought in just for the one number on the TV appearance along with orchestration used in the show itself, being played by Como's house band, who probably got to read through it and nail it two or maybe three times in a rehearsal. Mitchell Ayers was an old school Music Director former bandleader from the Swing Era who migrated to television when the band boom busted up in about 1946-47 and he had a rep for being tough on musicians so you can bet that the pit on this was all top shelf full of big band vets and no slackers at all. The really hard driving "jump" in the orchestra is pretty evident. All of those cats were a force to be reckoned with, even if most weren't ever particularly known as being "jazz" musicians.

Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics!

Yes!! Wow, makes me tearful but true!

Wow, what a thought!! Just imagine!!!!!!!

Sadly Jack Warner didnt let her make the Gypsy movie.

@@dianaaljadeff2983 Unfortunately, she wasn't a very good movie actress. The only thing I really liked her in was when she played the mother-in-law from hell in ITS A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. Rosalind Russell couldn't sing and the lower-octave dubbed voice matched her, but still didn't work. But the way she acted in those last couple of scenes for me made up for it. Not sure if Merman's acting would have been as effective.

The one and only Miss Ethel Merman! When it concludes Act 1, the railroad station is dark and empty the tracks seen extending a long way onto the empty plains. The contrast of hope and despair shattered by unrestrained optimism by a show biz tune like no other ever quite like it performed by a Broadway legend. That's musical theatre at its very best!

Rosalind Russell was magical....but I agree.

Lisa Merle: There are so many New York theaters and too many writers, lyricists, composers, actors, critics etc. Merman was very close to having one named in her honor but the powers that be realized Lena Horne had been in more musicals and plays which dwarfed Merman’s meager output so one was named for her.

@@johnpickford4222 Sarcasm alert, for those in doubt. I agree.

You are welcome!

It’s you! Can’t wait for your return.

@@fergusmurray1828 Thank you sir---won't be long.

You are welcome Phillip!

@@CostAnder 👍

You're welcome!

Make me vomit that creepy perv. 🤮

Sick creep!

@@nhmooytis7058 what’d he do 🤨

@@s.o.4956 look up the way he was dressed!

@@nhmooytis7058 I saw lol what’s the big deal? It’s just a pair of heels

Gee, is a musical about stripping appropriate for a high school? There are so many others...

Corgicottage why not? What universe do you live in where as young as 11 year olds haven’t already been watching R rated movies for years? Children have the internet at their finger tips all day long. They probably know more about burlesque and stripping than you do LOLs. Kids aren’t stupid and sheltered anymore and there’s no reason to be puritanical about sex. Education and information is never a bad thing.

@@corgicottage8578 I agree with you.