(HD 720p) "Billy's Soliloquy" From R&H Carousel, Gordon MacRae 

Not to mention, he acts the role well too...

Absolutely agree wholeheartedly. I love him still.❤️🇬🇧

​@@tiggywinkle20Me too miss Tiggywinkle 😊

Absolutely! I love Sinatra, but the few photos I’ve seen of him in the costumes shots for this are just your skinny Sinatra. MacRae was perfect!

+Kaylie Rawcliffe I agree. I've been listening to different versions of the song, but he was the best! It's my favorite movie, right after The King and I.

I feel in love with Yule Brenner from the king n i i found out at the age of 18 he passed away i was so sad.....

One of the best voices ever. I love Oklahoma especially. I swoon at his voice, I can’t help it.

@@elizabethplascencia1414 I LOVE he and Shirley Jones together in Oklahoma! Carousel was beautiful in it's own right, but the first time I saw it, I freakin' BAWLED!

I thought I was reading about myself! I too fell in love with him when I was 8. Still feel that way!

You 're in good company. On a TV show his daughter Meredith, a beautiful actress who starred in several TV series, was asked to name something that made her cry. She said hearing her father sing the Soliloquy from Carousel always made her cry.

Thank goodness that Frank Sinatra backed out !

Yes! He's far and away the best Curly, too. I've had a crush on him since I first saw Oklahoma! So for about 35 years and counting, heh-heh.

It's a genius piece that shows the good intentions of Billy's character, but foreshadows his demise literally in the final lyrics of the song. It's a perfect characterization of a tragic hero. Carousel is my favorite R&H musical, and the Soliloquy is my favorite song in the entire musical.

Impossible to top.

Hope, to fear, to love, to making the most tragic decision of his life.

Yes. yes, yes!

Carousel is a flawed show but this song is flawless and timeless

You too, huh? I’m a single woman as well and hearing this makes me wanna be the best dang dad in the world.

That's sweet. You'd be a great father.

Mother

@tallyho..😆😆😆🤣😅😂😅🤣

Two years later, has anything changed?

Emotionally intelligent dads rule. Sincerity over frequency. The emotion & sympathy/empathy Bill’s character evokes in us here is art at its max potential. But 2022 culture focuses solely on the negative/“problematic” parts. Hope brilliant AND accessible creative art like this has a comeback asap!

This incredible singer clearly has chops on him and it’s why no other cover I’ve heard so far has held a candle to McRae’s. Great voices all around however. Heard this in a music history class once and have circled back to it ever since. I admit that I do mostly like the polished sound of what we have today, but equally like older music where imperfections were more clear. All depends on the quality of the singer as always. This doesn’t even go back to the 50s or 60s either funnily enough, an early 2000s debut album by one of my favorite bands is incredibly unpolished compared to everything they made after, giving the whole thing a sound uniquely it’s own. There’s this…perfectly crafted chaos to it that nothing afterwards quite touches, but some songs in their follow up album do get very close to. I can’t get enough of the unintentional vocal wavers or odd sound mixing, because the talent of the lead singer shines through despite it. Fans have gone back and forth over whether or not the album is good or not, and this is all clearly opinion based, but regardless their first one was an experience many such as myself absolutely adore.

He only got the role because Frank sinatra walked out of the studio on the First day of shooting.

The music itself will never be forgotten, I think. The musicals might be too old-fashioned and "corny" for "sophisticated" young people, but good and great music hits deeply. The stories of some of the old musicals might be a bit corny and contrived, but who cares when you get songs like this and "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk alone." Great music will always stand the test of time. At least that's my bet!

@@Radiatoron88 amen!

@@johnlorenzen4633 I'm glad you feel the same way!

He recorded it, and I think it meant a lot to him. But he didn't have that resonance or beauty of tone, or the looks, or the acting sense . . .

His version was on one of my mom's Sinatra albums. I loved the song long before I saw the movie.

+vin johns AMEN!!!!

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Thank you so much for sharing this

...very well said. Cheers.

)h but we DO. We have Nathan Gunn who is one of the Great Wonders of Our Age.

I understood that he had operatic training, and wanted to go back to it.......

I absolutely agree with you on Gordon singing this. He remains my favourite American singer, in my view unequalled in this field. I really love Gordon MacRae, one of of the very very best.

It’s dubbed.

I feel exactly the same after seeing all of his movies since I was about 6 yrs old- On Moonlight Bay ets and he just got better with every movie and later in person- He was always my favorite-

I beg to differ- check it out! Gordon MacRae had one of best voices there was ever-

Absolutely!!

+Cheryl Phillips I saw it at the movies in Pittsburgh!

No, but Frank did the most incredible version of "Solioquy" ever, much better than Mc Rae."

@@meckel1271 It's the last track on Side One of "The Concert Sinatra" album. The entire album is a masterpiece, with him singing with a full orchestra and showing his bel canto training. He's amazing. Still, even though he was the first choice for the film, it's hard to imagine him as a big, brawny, physically imposing Billy Bigelow. The thing is, the film was going to be filmed in regular format as well as widescreen. Sinatra didn't want to do every scene twice, so he turned the part down. The irony is that it was eventually figured out how to shoot both versions simultaneously.

I agree. I like Frank, but an operatic voice is needed for this role.

@@TheStockwell Actually 20th Century Fox originally planned to film "Carousel" the same way they did "Oklahoma!", in two different widescreen formats -- 35mm anamorphic and CinemaScope 55, which used 55-millimeter film.

@@scotpens You're absolutely correct. It was the idea of having to do multiple takes of everything - for the benefit of two different cameras - that caused Sinatra to turn down the role. He was comfortable doing multiple takes when recording songs, but film was a different matter. He'd give a few takes at most, then call It a day. Ironically, by the time "Carousel" began shooting they'd figured out how to use both cameras simultaneously. Have a grand day, Scotpens. 🐧😀🐧

Absolutely!

I always thought that that was the problem. Billy was not used to caring for other people, which is why he did not understand what being a father meant.

Good for you . Yes definitly west coast.

Yes his voice has more depth , which is much better for the character of Billy Bigelow

@leswainwright5343 - PLEAZE!!!! Sinatra had NOTHING on Macrae!!!! I never thought Sinatra had that good of a voice anyway!!!!

@@libertygiveme1987 Thats what I said Gordon had a better voice !

@@libertygiveme1987 Whoa! I agree Gordon had a better voice than Sinatra !

I agree, especially when paired with Shirley Jones

Yes, but it is better for me! Gordon was simply amazing in this part, never to be surpassed.

Indeed, I agree with you on that.

Some how, I seem to know all the words too.

He was the best!

WOW!

Had heard that FS quickly realized that his voice couldn't manage the score, and off he WENT!

TransPac Zuma Beach in Malibu, CA. Also used partially in Louise’s ballet near the end of the film, and Pacific Palisades is used in a shot during the final scene.

TransPac The green kelp shows, but actually adds color to the neutrals in the scene. As long as we’re speaking of inaccuracies, airplanes fly by in the upper left at 2:50, as pointed out in a book on film flubs.Also, Billy’s shadow can be seen as he walks away from Julie later in the finale- but who cares-it’s Gordon MacRae!-“and all the rest is talk”!

They still did shoot parts of Carousel in Boothbay Harbor Maine

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