I Won't Send Roses - Michael Feinstein, Mack & Mabel 

A wonderful song, well sung

Robert Preston!

@@tangotwo73 Robert was great, but he talks it a bit in the second half and music-mans through it afterwards. Michael performs it with more passion and depth of feeling.

Have you seen the Brian Stokes Mitchell version?

Try Robert Goulet the original who died in 2007 a Hollywood star

@@tangotwo73 Robert could sing but he wasn't a great singer. Try John Barrowman ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NuFIzHifuu4.html

......................for sure............What a gift he gives us............I'm thankful......

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Kevin Russell shall we danced with her to

My dad also loved this song too

It takes its place alongside "Send In The Clowns" for its "repeat value" and expert lyric writing.

It really is beautiful. I had the great pleasure of experiencing Michael perform for a couple of hours behind that beautiful piano. Honestly it was something I will remember until my days on this crazy planet come to an end. 2 hours of playing, talking, singing.

@AMT No not at that concert. I saw him about this time at a theatre in my city. The Palace Theatre in Melbourne Australia. It really was wonderful. Decades ago yet it remains a wonderful memory.

@AMT I’ve never heard of that town but I see on Google earth it’s a mining town. I’ve never been to W.A. at all actually. I know the movie Red Dog True Blue was filmed in the Pilbara, I’m sure despite its harshness there would be some beauty there in the landscape. I have been to central Australia on a two week photographic trip. Nice to see the gorges and the BIG rock. And been up to Queensland and Cairns a couple of times. And Tassie a few times. Travelling is hard work but maybe I should venture out a little more before the grim reaper comes calling 😂 The concert I saw was not being filmed. It was different to the concert in this video in that there was no orchestra, it was just the immaculately dressed Michael with his huge beautiful grand piano. That’s what was wonderful about it how just one man could be so personable and entertaining with his playing, singing, and story telling, just wonderful. Most concerts I’ve been to actually have been very good though I’ve only been to about half a dozen. Tommy Emanuel at the Melbourne concert hall back in the late 80s was incredible. Phil Collins a couple of times was great, his In The Air Tonight drumming was very memorable, sadly his days of performing to any high standard are no longer. Cyndi Lauper was actually extremly good but in hindsight that concert would have been mostly lip synced because her dancing and stage performance took priority. Saw George Benson in the early 80s. Saw Robert Palmer at the Entertainment Centre, that was a weird concert, his performing was fine but he didn’t speak a single word from beginning to end.

Any songwriter would consider themselves blessed to have one of their songs given such a loving nuanced interpretation. The composer's applause was evidence of that!

That was Jerry Herman, surely, the writer of this and so many other incredible songs? Were they partners?

Mabel escucha desde el cielo.

Anthony B 9