@@Mikep487 I just did; didn't know he has performed it. As always, he is VERY GOOD too; but I still give the nod to Harve....his emotion just carries it over the top. Gives me goosebumps. Every time.
@@debra-dianemcdonnell6371 I'll never understand why, as Goulet's voice is much better suited for this song and his is undeniably fuller. But of course you're entitled to your opinion.
Harve Presnell, Howard Keel, Gordon MacRae etc. How I do miss those movie singers who had such beautiful voices. I feel cheated by what I have to listen to now.
@@alwaysbeenacowgirl8475 It isn't just the singers, it's the music and lyrics as well. It's like they aren't even trying anymore. I will say, though, that there have been a few singers that, when given REAL songs to sing turn out to actually have some talent.
I don't understand why people call this a bad film.i saw it while quite young and thoroughly enjoyed it and still think of it as one of my favourites.people are too critical.
Who calls musicals bad? Oklahoma, West Side Story, Carousel, King and I and.... All wonderful; family entertainment that will always bring forth emotion. Listen to the words❤
I agree 100%. I’m 71 and saw it in the theatre. Clint Eastwood,Lee Marvin,and Ray Walston. Great cast and funny as hell at times. Lee Marvin was hilarious when his character was drunk. Hey don’t make films of this calibre anymore.
he was so handsome with the black hair and that lovely black beard. Can't believe he didn't keep that look. wow he was such a lovely singer. Natural, a gift from God for sure.
@@gloriamureau9542 Sorry mate. John Farnham has had a long and successful career and all due respect. But he is a screamer, nothing more nothing less. Always sounds like he is trying too hard, a bit like a contestant on a talent show, trying to impress the judges. I respect him for his contribution to Australian music, but he could not sing this song better than ol Harve.
Harve Presnell owned Mariah the moment he uttered "Way out here." I have listened to many, many versions by various performers -- all fine, fantastic singers -- but Harve's version remains unmatched. His singing invokes true emotion, not just from himself, but within me, each and every time. I can't help but think of my dear, departed father, who always had appreciation for singers of this caliber.
I don't see how you can say that. Goulet's version is much fuller and I think sung the way the song was intended to be sung. Harve is good here but I feel Goulet's Ed Sullivan version is better.
I remember seeing and hearing this from my parents TV when it was first aired. The TV was small!! They truly loved good singing and opera. Harve came from a noble musical background in this. Thank you for bringing it out for us.
I was named for this song, but this is the first time I’ve ever listened to the whole thing… I’m suddenly very proud of my name in a way I’ve never been before.
I was very young when I heard this song, and I always wanted to name my daughter, Mariah Michele. Sadly my husband nixed it. Glad your parents saw the beauty of the name.
This song blew me away the first time I saw it. Only went to the movie because Clint and Marvin were in it. I was a very young teenager, and musicals were not my favorite form of entertainment. I was hooked and landed by this powerful voice. Top ten all-time favorite movie.
Listen to Richard Kiley's version (also on YT). It's different, but I find it also very good. RK has a bit of an edge in his voice which suits the song very well. When he sings the phrase " I need my girl beside me" RK's version is even better, to my mind. Let me know what you think. 🤗🎵
I met him once in 2000 and he was a hoot. He was a big guy well over 6 ft as I recall. Great sense of humor and I remember him saying how much he loved cracker barrel restaurants!
The film was great and then. Harvest singing wow. Beautiful. Loved the song from years ago when I heard it in film and off and on from then. He died young but what a voice. Love these older much better songs we can so enjoy. Amazing. I meant. Harve.24.
It does really standout, although many of the other tunes weren’t intended to be on that level, having Lee Marvin and Eastwood singing them. Kind of like Peter O’Toole singing in Man of La Mancha. Marvin and O’Toole do lend a certain charm in their renditions, limited as they are.
Harve is in The Unsinkable Molly Brown when he was younger. Such a Great Singer & Handsome Man. He should of been given more parts. A Profound Star 💞 🎶
I met Harve during the shooting of Bright Shinning Lie, in Kanchanaburi, Thailand... In fact I shared a couple of scenes with him. We returned to Bangkok via van and spent the better part of two hours in conversation.. He was a great story teller and I completely enjoyed his company.
When Harve steps up into the frame and hits the first line - magic. Love the use of the miners as the doleful chorus. Yeah, it's not their voices but the image of the lonely, cold, windblown miners fits it so well.
Chorus was the Robert Shaw Choral and were on site. Shaw was being paid by the day and the rain was preventing the shoot. Finally, they shot it in one take.
Wow! I am so heartened to see that so many people feel the way I do about this song and Paint Your Wagon! Saw it as a kid at a drive-in when it came out and loved them since. Parents bought the sound track, and it was on regular rotation as I grew up. Can sing most of the PYW songs by heart, still (although not well). I adore this song and Harve singing it!❤
Absolulty beautiful reminds me so much of Oregon where I was born and raised. Thanks so very much .I lovedd the movie Wandering Star so mush and Lee Marvins singing "Wandering Star,"was so touching in the movie
I beg to differ.... My 16yo knows exactly what "real singing" is. Here in Wyoming he has plenty of opportunities to inform others of the name of the Wind. The kid loves this musical!
I agree.. I've always remembered listening to this song in my youth, but couldn't place the artist because of my young age at the time. You talk about a hauntingly beautiful song!
@@isabellamayer8398 Harve was brought to the set in order to replace the Broadway actor playing the character of rotten luck Willy. After the movie was over, Harve was brought to the Broadway show to save it as well. As for the other cast not singing, the producers wanted the big name stars in the film to make money from the play. All told it is still one of my faves rite soundtracks to listen to as they were not that bad. Clint and his son write and play a lot of music in multiple films as well.
I've read many comments here, but I truly believe your use of the word "haunting" was perhaps the most accurate and appropriate description. There are many songs that can be "covered" by multiple artists and be done well. THIS song is not one of them. He owns it.
When this movie came out the critics said Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood were fine but that Harve Presnell stole the movie with his singing of Mariah. I have to agree. One of my favorite moments in any musical.
This is why Paint Your Wagon is such a special item. Marvin and Eastwood along with Seberg are simply bonus icing on the cake to go with this song. Or, this song is the icing. It's a great movie reproduction of a Broadway show.
I will always relate to this windy days in Oregon living in the country among Douglass for trees bending in the wild. When limbs came off they were called widow makers. They formed a spear going straight into the ground, best beware.
@@mezobromelia I live in New York now with my daughter. I spend a lot of time at the senior center. I'm involved with a few activities that keep me happy and busy. Zumba, writing, photography, and latin dancing. My mind and health are doing good and I'm having the time of my life.
I miss Pernell Roberts, Howard Keel, Harve Presnell, Frankie Laine, Tex Ritter, Gordon Macrae and many other singers very much. They had great voices. Thanks to TH-cam I can listen to their beautiful songs .
Yes. Not a tattoo, nose ring , ear spacer or any other self-centred 'look at me, look at me' adornment amongst them. Just real men with manly voices. RIP.
Saw Paint Your Wagon at the theater by myself when I was about 8 years old (double feature). I was in awe when Harve Presnell sang this. Everyone was so moved, you could have heard a pin drop.
Harve's song is the only part of the movie that I have never forgotten. With his looks and voice, he should have played and sung the male leads in lots of musicals.
Love this movie and all the music in it. Wish they'd make movies like this again. Oklahoma, South Pacific, etc. Harve Presnell had such an incredible voice and this song showed it off so well. Used to go to a bar in Groton CT back in the mid-70's when I was in the Navy and there was a guy who'd play his version of this and it was incredible, too.
Just fell in love again with Paint your Wagon and it's amazing songs !! You just can't bear the musicals from that time when actor's could dance and sing wonderfully. His voice is amazing !!
When I was in my early teens I had seen Harve Presnell in 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown', ''The Glory Guys' and 'When the Boys Meet the Girls'. I had the albums for all of them and just wore them out playing them over and over again, especially this song. I loved him! In 1965 when I was 15, a friend and I rode a bus from our little suburb to the bordering Detroit to see him in 'Carousel' at the Fisher Theatre. I was used to riding the bus into Detroit for shopping trips and lunches with aunts and my grandmother, so going a little further into the city was no problem with my mom and dad. We had seats in the nosebleed section in the back of the highest balconey. An usher noticed our enthusiastic clapping for him and told us that if we went down to the main floor before the final curtain we could see him leave. We were at the right stage door when he finished and yes...he did leave, still in makeup out that door to a waiting car. His makeup was just dripping off his face from sweat...but he still was gorgeous to us. He signed my autograph book. Moving forward to 2008...he made a movie called 'Bait Shop' that my actor sister Maureen Preuss also was starring in. She told him of my admiration for him and his singing. He signed two photos for me. What a class act! Unfortunately, he died the next year. I still love him!
it is not only a great song and Harve's isn't only the best version, looking at his face, he is not only singing this song, he is living it, you can see it in his eyes, in his expression, the words and the story behind the song have meaning, that is what really transcends all other versions, listening to it (even Harve singing it) on record or any other medium would lose that
@@mizg6313 for me what makes a song great is the picture it paints in your minds eye, this one does that in spades! but that is just me, I am not saying I am either right nor wrong, it is how it makes you feel that counts
What a rich voice! Baritone is always my favorite, Presnell sings this song with the justice it deserves! Astoundingly beautiful! I love his version of Shenandoah also, incredible! I wish I had seen him in one of his musicals, but, alas, I was a working musician also as soon as I finished school so didn't get to see some of the artists I would really have liked to see perform. Thank goodness we have their recordings, which keeps them with us forever!
This song has always given me chills. It's me. It's responsible for me moving from South Carolina to New Mexico. I'm so gal durn lost not even God can find me!
It's to bad money dictates what's played on radio unless it's an Independent station or college radio . Todays pop just has no backbone , and some really talented singers will never get exposure . I listen to college radio here in Boston specifically Emerson college WERS 88.9fm . College students at the helm playing a wide variety and all genres especially a segment they call "standing room only" music from the theater
I like really good music in almost all genres. Howard Keel was one of my favorites, and Mario Lanza. But, I was really surprised by one singer. I didn't like the way he dressed, the songs he sang, etc. But-for opera I learned to listen to the voice of a singer, not the words, and I discovered music anew. The guy I didn't like was Boy George. One day I listened to his voice as an instrument and was shocked at how beautiful a voice he had. I have always wondered why he did all the dumb stuff. The reason I discovered this way to listen to music is because it dawned on me one time that I loved instrumental music and yet I had no idea of the notes they were playing. So I started listening to all singing as though the voice was an instrument and it enhanced my enjoyment of all music.
Thank You. This Version by Harve, is My Personal Favorite. What other's have said is Gospel, Truthful & just IT. My Love of Music is from My Parent's, a Church upbringing, the availability of always being Around it 🎶🎵the Hearing it, & all the different Genres of it. Music has too be the Universal Cords that Binds, everything together in the Universe, I'd have too Reason? Now that I'm personally at an Age of Reasonable lengths, there isn't a Minute or Hour that passes. IN which Music doesn't come into just the Normalcy of the EveryDay process of Life. FGD that may seem Odd, or untrue but from My, opinion & Outlook that is where I've come too My Current Assessment of the General Situation. So enough, Said but as always Thank You.
I loved this movie. I watch it about once a year. Harve Presnell's rendition of MARIA is one of the reasons I keep watching it. His range of talent is under-appreciated and he was under-utilized as an actor.
They could not have come up with a better cast - Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin and Jean Seaberg. What a shame she got so screwed up with that Cleaver character and had to overdose in despair. She was also great in AIRPORT.
After Harvey Presnell's version of this, every other singer in world came to a joint decision, that if a song lyric contained any of the words, mountain, wind or fire, Only Harvey Presnell could sing it.
Although the movie set is long gone every time I visit the film site in the beautiful Eagle Cap Mountains of Eastern Oregon I'll sit and watch the river flow and feel the wind and clouds blow thru the majestic pines of East Eagle I swear I can hear Harve singing... Mariah.
I went to see The Unsinkable Molly Brown in Vancouver over 20yrs ago and was so disappointed he was sick that night so unable to be on stage. His voice touches one's soul.
He was pretty big...just not a brand like Sinatra. He did the stage and the movie of The Unsinkable Molly Brown for which he won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
I was actually named Mariah after this song because I was born during a hurricane. I can't tell you how many times people have sung or mentioned this song to me.
I heard a very short clip of this song at the end of 50 First Dates and it is really something that captures your attention. Every other Saturday we screen classic musicals via Zoom to introduce these films to people who haven't seen them. I am definitely going to put this one on the docket for this song alone.
That beautiful voice, now silenced, is sorely missed. He lent that voice to such a wide variety of films from Fargo to American Dad (TV) and never gave up a shread of it's impact, dignity, or beauty. RIP Harve. You are missed.
Whenever I would go to the nurse in high school and tell my nurse my name (Mariah) she would sing or play this. I’m glad i grew up listening to this song❤️
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Paint Your Wagon is one of the greatest musicals. Terribly underrated.
Indeed! I saw it a a child in the theater. I am in my very late 50's. I own this movie in vhs/dvd/and streaming. magnificent film!!!
I love that movie!! I also love Lee Marvin's solo.
I'm 42 I watched this when I was a kid... this was an amazing musical! Western comedy plus beautiful songs!
It's a great movie so funny plus good songs
I watched Lee Marvin on Johnny Carson right after the movie released, he sang his solo and was great!
This is HIS song. NO one else has ever done it justice. Always moves me to tears. So powerful!
Listen to Goulet's version and still tell me that.
@@Mikep487 I just did; didn't know he has performed it. As always, he is VERY GOOD too; but I still give the nod to Harve....his emotion just carries it over the top. Gives me goosebumps. Every time.
@@debra-dianemcdonnell6371 I'll never understand why, as Goulet's voice is much better suited for this song and his is undeniably fuller. But of course you're entitled to your opinion.
If you "live out west", go check out the site where they filmed the movie. Bring a tent, and spend the night. Sure is beautiful in the fall.
I’m partial to the smothers brothers version
Dang... no matter how many times you have heard this song, by this man, you still get goosebumps.
And my 40 yr. old son says it's boring!#☆! He says, well, admits he can sing, but, "lots of people can sing." Grrrrrr. I mean, "can you?"
@@margiecarol2944 And anyone can criticise without a real thought.
His version of THIS SONG is BY FAR THE BEST OF THE BEST!!
Same here
Harve Presnell, Howard Keel, Gordon MacRae etc. How I do miss those movie singers who had such beautiful voices. I feel cheated by what I have to listen to now.
I feel your pain...having grown up listening to the afore-mentioned singers (among others) what he have now makes me sad.
Do not feel sad! Please find music you love and listen to that instead of modern trash!
@@EVENINGWOLF666 I agree with you 100%. So many of these current singers are terrible. Doesn't take much talent to be a "star" anymore.
@@alwaysbeenacowgirl8475 It isn't just the singers, it's the music and lyrics as well. It's like they aren't even trying anymore. I will say, though, that there have been a few singers that, when given REAL songs to sing turn out to actually have some talent.
@Henry Horner Yep!
My father loved this song, Harve Presnell did this performance in a single take, and he had one of the greatest voices I've ever heard.
It is a beautiful song but to think that they recorded his vocals in a tent with rain coming down is silly.
@@billybaldwin8918 I'm sure it was recorded on a sound stage.
@@cunard61 Definitely not. They would need to have mics at least a few inches from everyone's mouths.
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So, exactly who thinks this?🤔?🙉?
@@miltonmoore8369 Anyone who has done professional singing.
I don't understand why people call this a bad film.i saw it while quite young and thoroughly enjoyed it and still think of it as one of my favourites.people are too critical.
Who calls musicals bad?
Oklahoma, West Side Story, Carousel, King and I and....
All wonderful; family entertainment that will always bring forth emotion.
Listen to the words❤
People! They're the worst. 😅 They know nothing. Musicals and H Bomb, America's 2 unique contributions to the world.
Good on you. I thought it was a terrific film and still do!
I agree 100%. I’m 71 and saw it in the theatre. Clint Eastwood,Lee Marvin,and Ray Walston. Great cast and funny as hell at times. Lee Marvin was hilarious when his character was drunk. Hey don’t make films of this calibre anymore.
I like the Mormon scene and frilly blouse. Farmers rule.
Can we talk about how good the background male choir and Harve sound together? Breathtaking voices!
Mr Persnell owed this song................no one will ever do it better.
Nobody sings this song as good as Harve!
His voice is incredible!
You are so right! woot!
Totally agree
@@franhollow1477 got so gravelly in his old age tho
I really wanted his "girl" to show up!
@@deathisonlythebeginning5098
Gravelly voices! - love them!
he was so handsome with the black hair and that lovely black beard. Can't believe he didn't keep that look. wow he was such a lovely singer. Natural, a gift from God for sure.
& perhaps a nod to makeup & hairdressing, & the cinematographer who handled the lighting, close-ups, & moody visuals.
Show me a singer today who can put so much feeling into his singing. Harve rips your heart out with this one.
TRY JOHN FARNAM AUSTRALIAN SINGER HES SO GOOD FREDDIE AND BRIAN MAY ASKED HIM TO JOIN QUEEN DONT BELIEVE ME FACT CHECK
@@gloriamureau9542 Sorry mate. John Farnham has had a long and successful career and all due respect. But he is a screamer, nothing more nothing less. Always sounds like he is trying too hard, a bit like a contestant on a talent show, trying to impress the judges. I respect him for his contribution to Australian music, but he could not sing this song better than ol Harve.
Still one of my favorite movies...
Harve Presnell owned Mariah the moment he uttered "Way out here." I have listened to many, many versions by various performers -- all fine, fantastic singers -- but Harve's version remains unmatched. His singing invokes true emotion, not just from himself, but within me, each and every time. I can't help but think of my dear, departed father, who always had appreciation for singers of this caliber.
I don't see how you can say that. Goulet's version is much fuller and I think sung the way the song was intended to be sung. Harve is good here but I feel Goulet's Ed Sullivan version is better.
I just don't know where you draw that from. For me, Harve, even though he does a nice job, is reed thin compared to Goulet.
I remember seeing and hearing this from my parents TV when it was first aired. The TV was small!! They truly loved good singing and opera. Harve came from a noble musical background in this. Thank you for bringing it out for us.
@@Mikep487You’re out of your tree.
Harve has not been bettered 👍 Andrew Lloyd Webber 🎶🎶🎵🎵👍👍
I was named for this song, but this is the first time I’ve ever listened to the whole thing… I’m suddenly very proud of my name in a way I’ve never been before.
I was very young when I heard this song, and I always wanted to name my daughter, Mariah Michele. Sadly my husband nixed it. Glad your parents saw the beauty of the name.
Should be, cutie. 😉
I am sure you are as beautiful as this song is
@@randallkarlin4115 aw, thank you!!
Harve Presnell...definitive...nobody ever sang this thrilling, haunting song better. Nobody ever will.
This song blew me away the first time I saw it. Only went to the movie because Clint and Marvin were in it. I was a very young teenager, and musicals were not my favorite form of entertainment. I was hooked and landed by this powerful voice. Top ten all-time favorite movie.
Harve owned this scene so hard, Pure brilliance. This is cinema.
This song is soooo good. One of the underrated hits of the Broadway songbook.
The man OWNS this song. Heard them all and none compare in any facet.
Listen to Richard Kiley's version (also on YT). It's different, but I find it also very good. RK has a bit of an edge in his voice which suits the song very well. When he sings the phrase " I need my girl beside me" RK's version is even better, to my mind. Let me know what you think. 🤗🎵
You're right, the only one that comes close to Harve Presnell is Frankie Laine.
@@cathrinrehder6652 l listened and liked it though I thought Presnell's version had more passion in it that just flowed smoother for me.
@@cathrinrehder6652 Not even vaguely close . . .
Richard Kiley’s version is excellent, but Harve had the “look” and the scene and setting from the film just takes it over the top.
Harve Presnell and this song were made for each other. Truly exhilarating. ❤️
Harve Presnell was amazing. He is part of my family on my grandmothers side. Met him once and he was phenomenal.
I was blown away he was in Private Ryan!
@@jackdundon2261 Not to mention "Fargo".
I met him once in 2000 and he was a hoot. He was a big guy well over 6 ft as I recall. Great sense of humor and I remember him saying how much he loved cracker barrel restaurants!
Hope you conveyed how much we loved his singing!
@@ddivincenzo1194 Fargo??? He was in FARGO????
Awesome song! Harve has the perfect voice for this powerful song! Timeless!
The film was great and then. Harvest singing wow. Beautiful. Loved the song from years ago when I heard it in film and off and on from then. He died young but what a voice. Love these older much better songs we can so enjoy. Amazing. I meant. Harve.24.
The best song in this movie. Presnell is a powerhouse of a singer. Loving it.
healingbuddy, Lee Marvin "Wandering Star" is also quite good as well.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Yes. Agree
Especially for a nonsinger.
It does really standout, although many of the other tunes weren’t intended to be on that level, having Lee Marvin and Eastwood singing them. Kind of like Peter O’Toole singing in Man of La Mancha. Marvin and O’Toole do lend a certain charm in their renditions, limited as they are.
This song isn't sad or lonely to me. There is something wild and untamed about the song. It gives me the goosebumps!
Me too !
@@marymcdonald3668 One of those songs that you can listen to over and over!
Yes it is.
It's true. Wild and untamed.
Linda Carey lol
His voice + the choir + the strings = absolute bliss.
I could do with a lot less tamborine! (more cowbell!) :-)
Harve is in The Unsinkable Molly Brown when he was younger. Such a Great Singer & Handsome Man. He should of been given more parts. A Profound Star 💞 🎶
This is legitimately the best part of the movie. I'm not even exaggerating
Noooo.... Nothing tops Clint attempting to sing "I Talk to the Trees".
Agree...gives me goosebumps
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It's kind of like Joel Schumacher's Phantom: DON'T BLOW YOUR WHOLE LOAD in the fiirst TEN DAMN MINIUTES 😤
“But dad if you don’t smoke and drink you’re missing the second and third best things ever”
I really love this song, but there's a few contenders, Wandering Star has always been a standard for me for long walks.
I met Harve during the shooting of Bright Shinning Lie, in Kanchanaburi, Thailand... In fact I shared a couple of scenes with him. We returned to Bangkok via van and spent the better part of two hours in conversation.. He was a great story teller and I completely enjoyed his company.
THE BEST version of this song....hands down!! Just magnificent!!
This movie is a masterpiece...This song still gives me chills...Wandering Star is another one...Bravo!!!!
Marvin singing Wandering Star is probably my favourite movie song ever. His gravelly, untrained voice is perfect.
NO ONE can sing THIS Song like , HARVE PRESNEL ; ONLY he can TRULY express the Love , the sorrow and regret of this Beautiful work of art
I disagree. I think Goulet's fuller, powerful baritone is better suited for this song, though I do like Harve's version, but not as much.
@@Mikep487 you're entitled to your opinion ... Even if you're wrong , LoL 🤣
@@mikeyates7931 Of course I'm entitled to my opinion, even when I'm RIGHT like I am here.
Harve was Miles better than Goulet🎶🎵👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@davidchamberlain5425 absolutely
Still miss you, Harve. Thanks for the beauty you left behind. God bless you.
Far and away the best rendition of this classic tune. Presnell's voice belongs in Heaven.
His voice sounds like thunder rolling between two mountains. His voice takes your breath away.
And not only that he is beautiful
And my son, God love him, says it's boring. What can I do?
When Harve steps up into the frame and hits the first line - magic. Love the use of the miners as the doleful chorus. Yeah, it's not their voices but the image of the lonely, cold, windblown miners fits it so well.
I listen to this song on days like today. 2/3/22 " the bludy bludy rain " 🌬 🌧 🌧
Chorus was the Robert Shaw Choral and were on site. Shaw was being paid by the day and the rain was preventing the shoot. Finally, they shot it in one take.
There's just something about the rain, it's dreariness invades your soul.
A truly great number...
Wow! I am so heartened to see that so many people feel the way I do about this song and Paint Your Wagon! Saw it as a kid at a drive-in when it came out and loved them since. Parents bought the sound track, and it was on regular rotation as I grew up. Can sing most of the PYW songs by heart, still (although not well). I adore this song and Harve singing it!❤
And this is why a 56 year old man is crying at 9.30 on a Tuesday
He has a very powerful voice. Looks great with the facial hair...very handsome. Love this song too
Absolulty beautiful reminds me so much of Oregon where I was born and raised. Thanks so very much .I lovedd the movie Wandering Star so mush and Lee Marvins singing "Wandering Star,"was so touching in the movie
I've ever heard anyone sing this song with as much passion as Harve Presnell - he nailed it!
Out of the park,Margie
The youth of today do not know what REAL singing is. Wish a lot of singers of the 50's thru 70's were still around
Many are. Mathis, Humperdinck and and Anka. Many of course, have sadly bit the longboard.
So true.
And Elvis is living in a retirement home in Mississippi.
I beg to differ.... My 16yo knows exactly what "real singing" is.
Here in Wyoming he has plenty of opportunities to inform others of the name of the Wind.
The kid loves this musical!
Yes they do, your problem, Youth of yesterday, forgot what being young is about
I am undone. This is exquisite. Why does beautiful hurt? I feel like I'm losing an era.
I love this song and I think he has such a beautiful voice.❤
His voice is perfect, not many sing this song with heart.
I agree.. I've always remembered listening to this song in my youth, but couldn't place the artist because of my young age at the time. You talk about a hauntingly beautiful song!
@@isabellamayer8398 Harve was brought to the set in order to replace the Broadway actor playing the character of rotten luck Willy. After the movie was over, Harve was brought to the Broadway show to save it as well. As for the other cast not singing, the producers wanted the big name stars in the film to make money from the play. All told it is still one of my faves rite soundtracks to listen to as they were not that bad. Clint and his son write and play a lot of music in multiple films as well.
Harve Presnell owns this song. Fantastic.
One of the most stirring musical scenes ever filmed. Beautiful song, beautiful man.
Indeed, easy on the ears and easy on the eyes.
This manliness that every woman wants! Handsome and can sing like this!
Over half a century later and this song still reverberates through my spine.
Amazingly, hauntingly mesmerizing performance
what film is it from
@@margaretallen9541 Paint Your Wagon.
I've read many comments here, but I truly believe your use of the word "haunting" was perhaps the most accurate and appropriate description. There are many songs that can be "covered" by multiple artists and be done well. THIS song is not one of them. He owns it.
He looks soooo handsome here! And his voice...Wow!
This movie showed another side of these famous actors. Showed there singing talent. They will forever be classics.
When this movie came out the critics said Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood were fine but that Harve Presnell stole the movie with his singing of Mariah. I have to agree. One of my favorite moments in any musical.
This is why Paint Your Wagon is such a special item. Marvin and Eastwood along with Seberg are simply bonus icing on the cake to go with this song. Or, this song is the icing. It's a great movie reproduction of a Broadway show.
I will always relate to this windy days in Oregon living in the country among Douglass for trees bending in the wild. When limbs came off they were called widow makers. They formed a spear going straight into the ground, best beware.
I live in Oregon too, and this song really speaks to me
@@mezobromelia I live in New York now with my daughter. I spend a lot of time at the senior center. I'm involved with a few activities that keep me happy and busy. Zumba, writing, photography, and latin dancing. My mind and health are doing good and I'm having the time of my life.
I only like 3 musicals,this was the first,primarily because of this song....powerful movie though,feels like you are there...
One of THE BEST music videos ever made.
The man had a set of pipes. Song still gives me goosebumps.
This is a real classic. Wonderful!!
So powerful...but it's not the loud notes, but the quiet ones that move the soul. This recording is what I call singing.
I miss Pernell Roberts, Howard Keel, Harve Presnell, Frankie Laine, Tex Ritter, Gordon Macrae and many other singers very much. They had great voices. Thanks to TH-cam I can listen to their beautiful songs .
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Julian Ovenden ❤
Yes. Not a tattoo, nose ring , ear spacer or any other self-centred 'look at me, look at me' adornment amongst them. Just real men with manly voices. RIP.
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I grew up when gas was a quarter and girls didn’t have tattoos. Been married to my brown eyed girl for 61 years ❤
Listening to this in 2024 🙏🏼
one of the most beautiful songs in the world!!!!!! thanks for posting
Saw Paint Your Wagon at the theater by myself when I was about 8 years old (double feature). I was in awe when Harve Presnell sang this. Everyone was so moved, you could have heard a pin drop.
Harve's song is the only part of the movie that I have never forgotten. With his looks and voice, he should have played and sung the male leads in lots of musicals.
Oddly, he played Wade Gustafson in the Coen Brothers' movie FARGO.
He did in several hits. First saw him in as Johnny Brown in Unsinkable Molly Brown with Debbie Reynolds.
He was a natural blonde but lord he looks soooo much better with black hair and beard.
Arrived on the scene at the dying end of musicals unfortunately 😥
The movie "Paint Your Wagon" starred Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, but everyone remembers Harve Presell's solo.
No one can top Harve Presnell! What a gorgeous voice! One of my favorite musicals of all times! Thank you so much for posting this!
Love this movie and all the music in it. Wish they'd make movies like this again. Oklahoma, South Pacific, etc. Harve Presnell had such an incredible voice and this song showed it off so well. Used to go to a bar in Groton CT back in the mid-70's when I was in the Navy and there was a guy who'd play his version of this and it was incredible, too.
What a beautiful voice to say the least 👍❤☮️
Just fell in love again with Paint your Wagon and it's amazing songs !! You just can't bear the musicals from that time when actor's could dance and sing wonderfully. His voice is amazing !!
One of my favourite songs of all time.
When I was in my early teens I had seen Harve Presnell in 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown', ''The Glory Guys' and 'When the Boys Meet the Girls'. I had the albums for all of them and just wore them out playing them over and over again, especially this song. I loved him! In 1965 when I was 15, a friend and I rode a bus from our little suburb to the bordering Detroit to see him in 'Carousel' at the Fisher Theatre. I was used to riding the bus into Detroit for shopping trips and lunches with aunts and my grandmother, so going a little further into the city was no problem with my mom and dad. We had seats in the nosebleed section in the back of the highest balconey. An usher noticed our enthusiastic clapping for him and told us that if we went down to the main floor before the final curtain we could see him leave. We were at the right stage door when he finished and yes...he did leave, still in makeup out that door to a waiting car. His makeup was just dripping off his face from sweat...but he still was gorgeous to us. He signed my autograph book. Moving forward to 2008...he made a movie called 'Bait Shop' that my actor sister Maureen Preuss also was starring in. She told him of my admiration for him and his singing. He signed two photos for me. What a class act! Unfortunately, he died the next year. I still love him!
it is not only a great song and Harve's isn't only the best version, looking at his face, he is not only singing this song, he is living it, you can see it in his eyes, in his expression, the words and the story behind the song have meaning, that is what really transcends all other versions, listening to it (even Harve singing it) on record or any other medium would lose that
I totally agree!!!
@@mizg6313 for me what makes a song great is the picture it paints in your minds eye, this one does that in spades! but that is just me, I am not saying I am either right nor wrong, it is how it makes you feel that counts
That's a little thing called acting--and he did it so well.
So compelling it ruined the movie for me; I like happy endings. I soooooo wanted his girlfriend to show up.
Well said.
What a rich voice! Baritone is always my favorite, Presnell sings this song with the justice it deserves! Astoundingly beautiful! I love his version of Shenandoah also, incredible! I wish I had seen him in one of his musicals, but, alas, I was a working musician also as soon as I finished school so didn't get to see some of the artists I would really have liked to see perform. Thank goodness we have their recordings, which keeps them with us forever!
This song and the rendition are from a time when singers invested themselves in their recordings, not just cutting a record. Well done! Thank you
No one will ever match this voice. What a good guy! Met him once years ago in Houston. Never forgot his kindness and sincerity.
Come on now, Goulet was better than this with this song. Harve does a fine job, but don't make him out to be another Caruso.
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@@Mikep487 Idiot.
Lucky you
@@dougreed2257 I like Robert Goulet....BUT...in this song. ...Ill go with the power and passion of Harve Presnell.
Mighty voice
What a marvellous voice and man, this can never be bettered by any singer I know.
Saw this movie when it was released. This was actually the highlight of the whole movie for me.
This song has always given me chills. It's me. It's responsible for me moving from South Carolina to New Mexico. I'm so gal durn lost not even God can find me!
I live in New Mexico. I can relate.
a C & W classic from the golden age. brings memories of my childhood when
c&w was all I knew from the radio and tv.
Another beautiful melody!
What power in his voice,striking and overwhelming I can't get enough. Where are the singers like this today? We need them our music is getting stale.
You're looking in the wrong places
MrsXanatrix They are certainly not on commercial radio
I concur!
It's to bad money dictates what's played on radio unless it's an Independent station or college radio . Todays pop just has no backbone , and some really talented singers will never get exposure . I listen to college radio here in Boston specifically Emerson college WERS 88.9fm . College students at the helm playing a wide variety and all genres especially a segment they call "standing room only" music from the theater
I like really good music in almost all genres. Howard Keel was one of my favorites, and Mario Lanza. But, I was really surprised by one singer. I didn't like the way he dressed, the songs he sang, etc. But-for opera I learned to listen to the voice of a singer, not the words, and I discovered music anew. The guy I didn't like was Boy George. One day I listened to his voice as an instrument and was shocked at how beautiful a voice he had. I have always wondered why he did all the dumb stuff. The reason I discovered this way to listen to music is because it dawned on me one time that I loved instrumental music and yet I had no idea of the notes they were playing. So I started listening to all singing as though the voice was an instrument and it enhanced my enjoyment of all music.
Thank You. This Version by Harve, is My Personal Favorite. What other's have said is Gospel, Truthful & just IT.
My Love of Music is from My Parent's, a Church upbringing, the availability of always being Around it 🎶🎵the Hearing it, & all the different Genres of it. Music has too be the Universal Cords that Binds, everything together in the Universe, I'd have too Reason? Now that I'm personally at an Age of Reasonable lengths, there isn't a Minute or Hour that passes. IN which Music doesn't come into just the Normalcy of the EveryDay process of Life. FGD that may seem Odd, or untrue but from My, opinion & Outlook that is where I've come too My Current Assessment of the General Situation. So enough, Said but as always Thank You.
I loved this movie. I watch it about once a year. Harve Presnell's rendition of MARIA is one of the reasons I keep watching it. His range of talent is under-appreciated and he was under-utilized as an actor.
They could not have come up with a better cast - Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin and Jean Seaberg. What a shame she got so screwed up with that Cleaver character and had to overdose in despair. She was also great in AIRPORT.
After Harvey Presnell's version of this, every other singer in world came to a joint decision, that if a song lyric contained any of the words, mountain, wind or fire, Only Harvey Presnell could sing it.
Arthur Ravenscroft Man, that's beautiful!
This is the best version
Agree!
Yer DAMN RIGHT!!!
I don't think any singer ever came to that conclusion. Harve is good here but nothing more. I'll take Goulet's version any day of the week.
Although the movie set is long gone every time I visit the film site in the beautiful Eagle Cap Mountains of Eastern Oregon I'll sit and watch the river flow and feel the wind and clouds blow thru the majestic pines of East Eagle I swear I can hear Harve singing... Mariah.
I heard this song for the fist time when I was a little kid, in the 70s.
Even today, 50 years after, I get shivers down my spine listening it again.
Me, too!
Fabulous! Gives you chills!
Perfect musical description of the wind.
What a voice! Gives me chills. RIP Harve
Me too Lisa...............Dwight
Hello Lisa, How are you doing?
What an incredible voice. Many movies should have been built around him.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I went to see The Unsinkable Molly Brown in Vancouver over 20yrs ago and was so disappointed he was sick that night so unable to be on stage. His voice touches one's soul.
Harve Presnell never made it big, but damn what a voice.
He was pretty big...just not a brand like Sinatra. He did the stage and the movie of The Unsinkable Molly Brown for which he won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
He had a long and varied career in TV.
I will always remember him as Mr Parker in the "Pretender"
He also appeared in the movie “Fargo.” Also, as Daddy Warbucks in the Broadway musical “Annie.”
@@jimstokes6742 He played "Dash Riprock" on the Beverly Hillbillies!
@@jenniferdonlin6627 Patton in SPR...
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" MARIA" soooo BEAUTIFUL !!!
I was actually named Mariah after this song because I was born during a hurricane. I can't tell you how many times people have sung or mentioned this song to me.
Are you serious?? Thats crazy! I was named after this song after i was born in a hurricane in NY 1995
My son Dennis was born during hurricane Dennis.
Literally same
My ancestor aunt was named Mariah Johnson back in the 1800’s.
my dog named Mariah used to love the wind, the stars, and the rain!
You can feel the power of the wind in his voice.
I heard a very short clip of this song at the end of 50 First Dates and it is really something that captures your attention. Every other Saturday we screen classic musicals via Zoom to introduce these films to people who haven't seen them. I am definitely going to put this one on the docket for this song alone.
Such a gift from God. .... ...that voice!!! Awesomeness defined, the whole package so handsome ...that voice!!!!!!
Never have gotten tired of listening to Harve Presnell sing this song.
That beautiful voice, now silenced, is sorely missed. He lent that voice to such a wide variety of films from Fargo to American Dad (TV) and never gave up a shread of it's impact, dignity, or beauty. RIP Harve. You are missed.
Who did he play in american dad
moabrob he was gifted no doubt. RIP Harve.
This is why, as a very old lady, that I am so grateful for records, youtube, tv, cd's, etc. They keep much of our history alive.
Magical , just sheer magical
"so lost not even god can find me..." what a line
All one can say to this is "Masterpiece" !
So much emotions put into singing this. amazing
Whenever I would go to the nurse in high school and tell my nurse my name (Mariah) she would sing or play this. I’m glad i grew up listening to this song❤️
Been stuck with this song since birth, and yet my dad hates musicals lol.
No one sings this song better.....NO ONE.