There is Nothin' Like A Dame
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- Luther Billis and the Seabees sing "There is Nothin' Like A Dame" from the 1958 film of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC.
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After long and highly distinguished careers with other collaborators, Richard Rodgers (Composer, 1902-1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (Librettist/Lyricist, 1895-1960) joined forces in 1943 to create the most successful partnership in American musical theater. Prior to joining forces, Rodgers collaborated with lyricist Lorenz Hart on musical comedies that epitomized wit and sophistication (Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Babes In Arms and more), while Hammerstein brought new life to operetta and created the classic Show Boat with Jerome Kern. Oklahoma!, the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, introduced an integrated form that became known as “the musical play.” Their shows that followed included Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. Collectively, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals have earned Tony, Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Pulitzer, and Olivier Awards. The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization is a Concord Company, www.concord.com.
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The 1950's and 60's were the Golden Era for Hollywood musicals - sadly never to be seen again!
😥
Yeah, but the era of Musical Theater was just around the corner. Phantom, Cats, Le Mis and many many more!
A bunch of dudes singing about how they miss women! It never gets old! Love it!
and with uncle martin....
Now no one can even tell you what a woman is. Nothing you can name, I guess. . . . 🤷🏼♀️
A lesbian bar in Nu Awlunz had this on their juke box…one of the most popular selections
There was probably a lot of masturbation going on around there. I also noticed the ' LOOK BUT DON'T TOUCH ' banner with two supposedly naked men hiding behind it at the start.
Robbie Hagberg and I can go to the restaurant and I can go to the card and I can go back to the store and see if I can go to the card and the card and the card and I can go to the store and get a new one for the money for the
This was my mom's favorite musical she played the songs all the time dancing around the living room she was a navy wave I lost her this year RIP mom thanks for the memories
Laurie, this is also my favorite Rogers and Hammerstein play/movie from the 50's. My uncle bought the sound track album & my brother & I would always be playing it. Great songs & memories. Your Mom had great taste. Bless you.
I’m so sorry bro. Our house was filled with it too
I feel you. My dad loved this music and explained the racism aspect to me in a wonderful way. We lost him two years ago. He was a USMC vet. As a USN vet I had the privilege of carrying his urn to the area where his military honors were conducted. My brother received his flag.
My mom too she play this all the time and always dancing
My favorite version of this starred Glen Close, who was. I think, more nearly the right age. Totally surprised how well Close sang the role, and of course she is a great actor,
I love how he buttons ONE BUTTON on his shirt like, 'Well, I suppose now I'm presentable.'
Notice how the shirt goes from buttoned to unbuttoned to buttoned and then unbuttoned again. Oops.
😂😂😂
You have to make the effort.
@@amyfisher6380 Director Josh Logan probably bit it off between takes. Logan was well-known for the beefcake parades in his plays and films.
So funny...
“Hey, Tony, what do you think of Dames?”
“They’re GRRRRRREAT!”
Oh snap crackle and pop! That was funny!!!
Yep.....he must be from Battle Creek MI.
@@allybally0021 Thurl was from Norfolk, NE.
Much more subtle than my post; great to see other Thurlologists. 😝
@@WillBravoNotEvil I had family from Norfolk. Everything is named after Carson, though.
Oh the good old musicals, that never grow old!!! It is evergreen. Bravo Rodgers and Hammerstein!
Spot on!!!!
Still brilliant and moving!
Now THAT is music!!
They sure did write some good plays.
Every time I see this clip, I laugh to the point of tears. Every word in the song is pure genius. I think this was popular among the WWII generation because it conveyed the experience of the WWII American servicemen so far away from home in the remote Pacific islands.
I was five when my late mother played her LP of South Pacific for days while she painted the living room.
When i hear this, i think of the British comedy duo, Morecambe and Wise. Too funny.
There was probably a lot of masturbation going on around there. I also noticed the ' LOOK BUT DON'T TOUCH ' banner with two supposedly naked men hiding behind it at the start.
I wish men sang like this today
Some still do lol
Robbie Hagberg and Sue Hagberg I thinking about you all the van and I can go back to the house if I don't know what to do it tomorrow and I can go out for lunch tomorrow if you need them to get it 😄 tomorrow morning and I can go with you and I can go to work today if that works for you to do it for me if you need me for anything else else
Lots of gay mens' chorus nowadays.
My mom was a US Navy nurse, in 1959 and 1960, just before Viet Nam. She can swear like a sailor and has a voice that can make a corpsman jump. She joined the Navy to pay for college and to see the world. She paid for college and went all the way from Arlington, VA to Bethesda, MD. She could literally still live at home. Even now, this is a fairly easy commute. The doctors and officers would get to the front desk and get to see the nurses' schedules before the nurses did. They would then ask them out on dates and when the nurse would say, "Well, I have to check my schedule first," the doctor/officer would answer, "Oh, you're free. I've already checked your schedule." My mom organized a group of nurses who went to the hospital administration and requested that no one else see their schedule before they did. Bethesda Naval Hospital complied with their request.
Same with my, now days deceased grandmother. She had been a German Armee Nurse in World War I.
I was a photojournalist in the Army in the early 70’s and it felt like I had to fight for almost everything while the men did pretty much as they pleased, especially when not on duty. That was not the case for the women.
@@rogerlynch5279 My Granddpa was a US Army medical corpman in WW1. Empathy.
My dad played Billis in a stage production of this show when I was 13. I tagged along to all the rehearsals and utterly fell in love with everything about this show and the theater culture in general. He used to draw a ship on his belly before every performance using a mirror, he was amazing. This show will always be special to me. RIP Dad
The Geek Monster lovely story! I was in South Pacific as a junior in high school in 1980. Still very strong memories. What a lovely way to remember your father! Your story made me happy!
@@chocolatesouljah Awww, thank you!
Sounds like your dad laid down some happy memories for you - that's great!
How lucky can you be! Thanks for sharing. 🌹
@Rebecca Godfrey South Pacific! One of the greats.
It addresses racism.
A young James Stacy singing the part "We got mangoes and bananas
you can pick right off the tree." RIP.
He was certainly handsome. Tragic story.
"There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here,
That can't be cured by putting him near,
A girly, womanly, female, feminine dame!."
Fantastic! Rodgers and Hammerstein at their best.
unless you're gay.
In our 1971 High School production, I had the "Has a soft and wavy frame like the silhouette of a dame" line. What wonderful memories !
What a musical and what a song. Perfectly captured the frustrations of men and boys separated from their families by war. Some things never change. Sing with me now...there is nothin like a dame...
Two million young males, each with raging hormones. All you out there who think this scene is gay have never been in the military! Grow up, you twits!
🎵"Nothing, in the, woooorld..."
What a great song. It lifts the spirits as does Luther's comedy.
I love this musical! I love the old musicals like Rogers and Hammerstein.
OH YES
When I was a kid I watched musicals because my mum loved them.
Me and my dad would take the mick out of her and the films. '"Where's the orchestra behind that tree?" Stuff like that but I'm now 63 and confess I love songs from some of those musicals especially this one and many others. Thank you mum.
Am sure that most of you Film & TV aficionados recognized Ray Walston as Luther Billis. Ray also had the title character role in TV's "My Favorite Martian". He was also in many films (the Sting, Damn Yankees, Popeye, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Of Mice and Men, etc) during his lifetime.
Good actor
He was great as Mad Jack in Paint Your Wagon. A consummate professional in every production.
Mr. Hand!
Don't forget his appearance in a remake of Red River Valley with James Arness (Matt Dillon from the "Gunsmoke" decades).
He was also in the movie version of the musical "Damn Yankees" He had a great role and a lot of fun playing the Devil!
Really good actor, really under rated.
My fave song form South Pacific. My mom had the cassette tape she would play it on our drive up to the cottage when I was younger (maybe 14-16.) I'm 50 now, Sadly she died back in October but great finding this clip !!
Lots of great songs in this musical. I'm partial to Bali Hai.
Yeah 44 here. Only one TV in the house growing up so I ended up watching all the old movies and musicals. My favorite song is Bali Hai
Now I miss your Mother. 🥺
"Gosh, I guess I'm the luckiest nurse on this island to have found you. You're a treasure"
Luther:"No, don't do that don't give me hope."
Mitzi Gaynor was a Heartbreaker. ❤
The greatest single Broadway opening song in history... period. Btw, Mitzi Gaynor is still with us today, at the age of tender age of 90. God bless her.
Well, bless your beautiful hide, but I kinda disagree!
@@dpandcrspandvn
Okay. What do you think is a bigger or better opener of a Broadway show??
"There Is Nothing Like a Dame" is sung in Act One, Scene 3 of South Pacific, AFTER: "Dites-Moi Pourquoi," "A Cockeyed Optimist," (Double Soliloquies), "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Bloody Mary Is the Girl I Love." So it's actually the fifth (or sixth) musical number. R&H had revolutionized the American musical several years earlier when they opened "Oklahoma!" with Curley singing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" and beginning it off-stage. Here they put the relationship between Nellie and Emile front and center from the start -- and that's where the show will end as well.
@@treesny
These two O&H musicals are so entirely different that in no way can they be compared. I was speaking specifically of "South Pacific," NOT "Oklahoma."
@@treesny You're right -- but the 1958 movie (perhaps unwisely) rearranges the scenes that open *South Pacific* so that "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" comes much earlier, as the second song, right after "Bloody Mary."
Probably the truest song ever written. That, gentlemen, is our joy and our burden.
I was one of the sailors, with the Magic Circle Theater, (Montrose, Colorado) 2011. That play, the music, the actors was such a blast to be a part of. Great memories!
I was in this play when I was in High school. It was the local amateur theater group. Need less to say I was playing a young sailor who lied about his age to enlist. I loved every minute about it. The one song that stuck with was the song that you had to be taught to hate people. I've tried to love everybody since.
Having watched Ray Walston on My Favorite Martian, I was blown away the first time I saw South Pacific, and saw him in that musical. He was terrific in it, and South Pacific became one of my favorite films/musicals.
He was one of the few that did his own singing.
Mr. Hand
One of my favorite actors!
You NEED to see Damn Yankees. It's a great film with him in it
“A Woman Worth Fighting For”
It's so great we haven't forgotten the 👍 great classics...!!!
Amazing sound for 1958. Originally recorded and mixed for the 6 - channel surround sound system. The engineer earned the Academy Award for Best Sound, and won it again four more times for other musicals.
I so enjoy it. TaKes me melodically back to a sweeter time in all our lives. ToniAnn Ferraro
Thurl Ravenscroft did the singing voice for "Stew Pot". Thurl is the deep singing voice for the Grinch and Tony the Tiger.
also sang bass in the mellowmen
Great name: Thurl Ravenscroft
He also did singing for the Haunted House and Pirates of the Caribbean rides.. and did vocals and voiceovers on the record album for the Pirates of the Caribbean ride..
I knew I recognized his voice.
He did asleep in the deep where he gets really low. But his best singing work might be his album story of Hymm & song" He does several great gospel songs on it including Old Rugged Cross & he tells the story of how the song came about. Fantastic album. He also did more Disney voices then anyone in history & was a great narrator for Disney.
Theres is really nothing like an incredible stereophonic Technicolor outstanding screen rendering rendition for Hollywood historical history. No more words ever.
Played this selection every year in our orchestra Pops concerts, with outstanding singers, circa 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, always a crowd pleaser, bring the house down composition.
Bring back musicals!
Wonderful memories. Great talent. Where did the music geniuses go? Lucky to live in that era.
The Geniuses are where the money is, not in Broadway Musicals. Think the Beatles, Quincy Jones, etc. There is no equivalent for Irving Thalberg.
Days gone by and missed - when stage met screen. Damn I'm glad to be old.
The Americans made the greatest films ever, I can’t stop watching all these old brilliant musicals, also all
the other movies of different types. The UK also made some great movies.
Absolutely!!! There is truly nothing like a Dame :-))))))
It was much worse for the fighting men of the South Pacific in WWII awk, women in a dress in the military even now, don't exist. So men really miss a real woman when they are in combat still.
But mixed military roles have sadly lead to a lot of sexual personnel problems too.
When I see this, I think back on what it meant for US servicemen in WWII just to get a new record by a popular female singer, and let it play over and over in their minds. The wartime nickname given to singer Peggy Lee was “Sex on Wax”... While I don’t know if this 1969 clip does full justice to the burlesque of the wartime imagination, I think it goes some distance in helping to understand her enduring popularity. She could do so much with the vocal equivalent of simply flicking an ash....
Miss Peggy Lee - “Is That All There Is?”
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“Dama” (дама) is the Russian word for queen - as in a playing card.
@@scottcarter828 99% of which problems are caused by men who can't behave professionally or keep it in their pants.
@BlueJayRobin It must surely be exceedingly Easy for one to Fancy one's self a white night from the confines of one's Mother's basement, not to mention fantasizing about imaginary Blow Back directed at the type of woman You can only meet in your Dreams. (However, I must confess that I did get a Wet Wide-on while trying to imitate your quirky syntax, grammar, and capitalization, however incorrect they may be. Stay in school!)
One of the best songs ever to grace a Broadway stage! Utterly fantastic! It doesn't hurt that the film was also extremely well done!
There is nothing like a dame, nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame
I know this is nine years ago, But I had to comment. South pacific is the best musical i've ever seen in my life. I was born in nineteen fifty seven, And the first time I saw this with my dad. It was so awesome. Not these people. Roger and Hammerstein, you have done a great job. The best musical ever in the world.💕💜💖😍🥰❤️💘❣️😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
What do you mean by "not these people?"
@@margaretfitzgerald7187 Sorry that was a mistake.🙂🙂🙂
Two friends and I did this song in our 7th grade concert...we came in from 3 directions to the auditorium with brooms and then sang this...it was so much fun!! Love this song!!
Brilliant scene and song. Brings back some nice memories of watching this as a youngster.
I miss you Pa, you were the best Luther Billis.
Released 62 years ago but look like it was filmed yesterday in HD. Amazing.
The original filming was on 65mm film converted to 70mm projection prints with 6 track Magnetic Sound - nothing digital comes close to that experience in a theatre! That is why this looks amazing - it is because the source is incredible.
Memories. My senior year in high school our quartet sang two numbers at the region competition as part of the Literary Meet. One of the numbers we sang was this one: "Nothing Like a Dame". We were really good but came in 2nd place so we did not go on to the state finals. It was so much fun singing with those other three guys. I sang the bass part, by the way. PS: My junior year as part of the quartet placed 1st in our region, so we did go to state finals at UGA in Athens. We came in 2nd in the entire state and still managed to get a nice trophy for each of us. But the experience and memories were worth so much more. Cheers music lovers
That's such a great story!☺
This is a perfect opening number. It’s funny, and it’s catchy.
4:37 Love the orchestrations so incredible
Four different orchestrators are credited for *South Pacific* (1958) -- Edward B. Powell, Bernard Mayers, Peter King, and longtime Rodgers & Hammerstein orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett. I don't know if anybody knows who did what specifically.
Rodgers & Hammerstein...what a couple...¡GREAT FOLKS!...UNIQUE ONES...
Amazing how they adapted this story from book to musical. This squeaky clean depiction is hilarious. Read the book.
I went to Kauai a few years ago, and that dock is still there, ( in the background)
I was in this in High School, 1970, ...then now-a-days bought tickets to see it at Lincoln Center a few years back...had to actually wait about 16 months to get seating...but saw it, and it was Great!!
This is one of my favourite songs and scenes from the movie!!!
...and mine, "Wash that man right out of my hair…"
the two songs
I remember best of "South Pacifc" are : I´m gonna wash this man out of my hair...." and "Bali Hai"....
2'14" nothin' in the WORLD!! Ooooh! The harmonies!! Beautiful!!
Just had a vision of the soldier characters from the animated Mulan movie, dressed as American sailors, singing this instead of "girl worth fighting for". Hahaha
We did this show in high school. The next year we did Oklahoma and the next year we did King and I. All were great and fun to do. Love R&H
This gives me goosebumps....Great song...
I went to Kuai specifically to go to this beach. Lots of other stuff to do but this was my goal. Beautiful island.
When he was a young body builder Sean Connery was on stage as a US navy sailor in local performances of South Pacific. 🙂
Connery was never a "body builder." He was in the chorus of a touring company of SOUTH PACIFIC in the UK. He purposely did not want to perform in the London company.
@@mylesgarcia4625 Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British Army. He apparently did at one stage enter the Mr. Universe contest. And yes, he was in local UK based performances of South Pacific , playing one of the US sailors... I never said he performed with the London company.
The bodies of them guys. ❤
Oh man I love this musical 😍 in my little town they use to do plays and my grandpa apparently played Luther Billis; coconut bra, ship tattoo and all!!!! Long before I was ever a thought!
Great song! I sung this with an ensemble. I sung "Stewpots" part, on that low part "There is absolutely nothing like the frame , of a dame" I didn't go up for the last note, I went down to it. Even funnier, I was the absolute shortest guy in the enemble singing that part !
I guess the only thing I can do to take this song out of my head is to sing it wholeheartedly
I loved this when I was a kid,appreciate it more now.
That deep voiced guy sounds amazing
That's the same voice that did Tony the Tiger's "They're grrreat!" and sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."
@@lindac7966 Thurl Ravenscroft.
@@creech54😁☺️🥰
Leon Shamroy was director of cinematography who also shot Cleopatra - his high-key style keeps on shining.
This is my favorite Rogers and Hammerstein musical!
In my opinion, this song is the greatest tribute to women, ever.
Mitzi and Rossano were fantastic in this film! Also, fine performances by Juanita Hall, John Kerr, France Nuyen, Ray Walston, and Giorgio Tozzi as the singing voice of Emile de Becque!
Juanita Hall and John Kerr were also dubbed.
@@davidallen508 John Kerr was dubbed by Bill Lee, who also provided the singing voice of Captain Von Trapp in *The Sound of Music* (1965).
This is so cool, that raw energy into a performance.
We did South Pacific for our senior class play in 1972. I was one of those sailors, and I still remember the lyrics of that song. What a blast we had doing that show. My only regret is that it wasn't recorded, because nobody had the means. Beta and vhs came along later, along with cam-corders and cel phones. Still great memories.
I so love this movie
Me, too. My mother loved Rodgers & Hammerstein films/music and walked around the house singing all their songs all the time like a nut! I love all the songs in this film, especially, "Bloody Mary!" ROFL!
A beautiful work! Beautiful people, beautiful weather...beautiful life.
Best musical ever!
I think Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is better! Check it out.
The sound of music
The king and I
Hamilton
They're all really good musicals.
@@Coupal1 That one has got truly jaw-dropping dancing feats.
The scenery is spectacular, a great backdrop for a great song
South Pacific. "There is Nothing Like a Dame". "I'm thankful, for what they got."
my top favorite song from the whole musical!!!
What a timeless classic- wonder how many times a day in this country this is performed.....
Men, men, men ,men ,Men, men, men, men 🎶
Amen!
I remember being forced to sing this in choir having no idea where the hell it came from. Welp, now I know.
My brothers and I watched this so often we knew the script and even acted out the songs, mom had the record and on rainy days we wore it out
That looks like KAUAI …… that 100 yr old flood destroyed a lot of north shore
But the HANALEI PIER ISstill standing ! ! My son lived on Kauai 20 years …………
Love the song ! Thank you Denis ❤️🏄♀️🏄♀️🏄♀️🏄♀️🌴🌴🌴🌴
It was filmed on Kauai. A beautiful island--they chose well.
Brilliant film and music
Love this movie!!!
Gosh!! After seeing this! I just have to go out and find this movie!! This..I gotta see!!
The Navy 50 years after, a good musical of course and a great classic no way! I'm french and I DO love musicals, so much classic arias, incredible situations of course! I DO appreciate évidemment! Happy new year to every one of you. Emmanuel from Paris
The picture is so clear and good that it looks as though this film were made yesterday with 2023's camera technology.
I got to see this onstage in 1987 with Robert Goulet, Barbara Eden, David Carroll, Armelia McQueen as Bloody Mary and Lia Chang as Liat.
It was an amazing show unto which I cannot imagine a comparison.
I don't remember the cast, but I did see a touring company with Robert Goulet. Not only did the part fit his voice very well, but it was good to hear De Beque with a French, instead of an Italian accent.
One of my favorite RH movies and songs!!!
One of my all time movie favorites. This is great. Thanks for posting all this great stuff from the musicals. My favorites.
Whenever the dames...I mean, women, are on screen it's sunny and whenever they are not it's cloudy. That's dames!
Great song, great movie
I saw this film with my Grandad, best film ever. When I was a child. Thank you. A special film. Love Janet xx
The lone black man on the beach, looks like a young Jamie Fox.
Did that in Ord High School. Freaking awesome times
Ahh.. I don't think a "Dame" is what these fellas are looking for.. & I thank them for their service..
That’s one hell of a basso! To think this was once popular entertainment in the USA. Wow!
Steven Yourke Broadway is still popular entertainment.
We did this one year with the drama club in high school....I was the stage manager..
I grew up watching all these oldies. "Nothin like those Less but Goodies👍". Growing up, Weekend Movies were AWESOME: All the Classic Movies played All Day & Night! Then the Industry, Actors & Content CHANGED, & Not for the Better, just more & more Extreme Everything goes! 1st sign of change: Now the People R taking back the Industry: even Christian Producers, Directors, Actors & Crews R AGAIN putting out Movies for Ppl of All Ages to Watch 👏. PRAISE GOD for Waking Us Up🐝🌱💞👼
"You do *beautiful* work Luther!" 😂
Her little high-pitched squeak in saying "beautiful" is hilarious!
As I watch and sing along, I remember when I was in acting school when I was younger. My line was, "We feel hungry as the wolf felt when he met Red Riding Hood." #East Jefferson High School #Nostalgic