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Ethel Merman sings "Do I Love You"; "You Do Something to Me"; "I Get A Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter)
From: VAI DVD 4299 Cole Porter: An All-Star Tribute
A treasure from the Bell Telephone Hour series! A glorious tribute to a great songwriter and a feast for fans of the best that Broadway has to offer. Program stars Ethel Merman, John Raitt, Martha Wright, Gretchen Wyler, Peter Nero, and Jillana in performances of 52 Cole Porter classics. The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra is under the direction of Donald Voorhees. Originally telecast January 28, 1964.
As a bonus, Merman sings a selection of ragtime and dixieland favorites in a January 29, 1960 telecast.
Color, 65 minutes, Playable in all regions.
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The greatest talents have come and gone. Stuff we see on tv now days does not hold a candle to this. Films and song performances used to be more dramatic and theatrical. They are missed.
Classics. Ethel's iconic haunting voice so reminiscent of great songs of past eras indulging in the romance and genius of Cole Porter. Both made the world a little brighter.
What a clip. Ethel Merman's singular singing, and Cole Porter's wonderful songs -- wonderful. I love how classy these old entertainers were. Too bad there are so few left nowadays.
Who today has the unique quality of Merman? She was one of a kind even in her own time.
Ethel Merman ws meant to sing Cole Porter songs.What a great singer,has been long time since she has been with us.Never know how much you will miss someone till the artist is gone.Thank You to the persons who downloaded it.
She was on of Cole Porter favourite performers. Her voice wasnt as beautiful as others but she was an excelent performer. There was a list made in 2012 of the leading Broadway Musical ladies adn she was the number 1 followes by Patti LuPone, Dame Angela Lansbury, Gwen Verdon,Bernadette Peters,Mary Martin, Liza Minnelli,Dame Julie Andrews,Chita Rivera and Barbara Cook,the ten first ladies in the list.
Great, great singer and performer. Cole Porter knew who could bring out in singing the sentiment of his songs, that is why she was one of his favorite performers. Thanks por posting this wonderful voice.
Fantastic words can't even explain how good she is....
Wow, she is beautiful in that dress. Her voice is as great as ever!
She actually wanted a film career but she never came off on film the way she did live. She was too big. The same with many of the greatest stage performers.
Glorious Ethel--how thrilling to hear these Porter renditions!!! Thanks a million.
In a 1977 interview with Gene Shalit she said ther that she was 65 so that put her back around 1912,though she did mention that people were quoting her age then as 68.
She was born in 1908.
She was wonderful,and I love her whatever her faith was.FYI there is no such thing as a Jewish name.Though I believed her to have been Jewish-my purpose- unlike the bigots was not to judge her other than musically.
I saw her at Carnegie Hall in the early '80's. She sounded like she did in films from the 40's and 50's. I was blown away. Charisma galore. Definitely up there with Garland, Streisand, Liza, Bette, et all. Who knew?
Gregg30-I now would love to further enlighten you -by informing you of a fine internet encyclopedia called wikipedia.Knowing of it's existence would have made your search so much easier.wikipedia knows all,and is the encyclopedia brittanica of the internet.German lutheran father,and scottish american mother.Baptized episcopalian.Agnes Ethel Zimmerman at birth.Hopefully this news will now make you a much happier person.Better that it had made you a better person as well.
This information is correct.Although your info on the third largest religion in Germany (and probably in the U.S.) Is totally way off-your info on this was correct.I have not found it important enough to research the american statistics,but should it be important to you-I will.
I have read that Ethel Merman, contrary to some assumption, was not Jewish but Protestant, and of German & Scottish ancestry.
Zimmerman is a German surname, but not nessarily Jewish. In fact, most of Germany is predomiantly Protestant, Catholic secondarily, the Jews the third-largest religion, as with the U.S.
This I know personally, as my friend's husband is a Zimmerman of Protestant faith.
Also married a Jewish man and father of her children in 1945
That's a bit of a poor comparison between the old and the new considering Ethel Merman's film career never really took off. She was a theatrical woman. So though big talents in the movie world are obscure and hidden behind big-budget garbage, the current talent in the world of theatre is extremely high today, in my opinion sometimes even exceeding the great Merman's talent.
Splendid and Classic!
Right on the dot.
I have not paid for one in many, many years, and I'm a big movie fan, but they lost me a long time ago.
Their strategy is the following, since they, (producers, CEO's) are a shitless, untalented bunch, let's feed the audience crap.
That way, they think that Crap is the best possible product out there. Publicized Crap, expensive Crap, "glamourous" Crap, in other words, "Hollywood" Crap.
And honoring that Crap, we award ourselves, awards, for our "greatest' Crap. Now, Clap!
When I look at this stuff, I wonder why we gave up an interest in talent over....what ever it is most actors are vomiting over us. Do any of them possess any talent? For Hollywood, which (traditionally) is supposed to be a community of artists, I haven't seen much in my lifetime (80's, kid). Can any of them dance, sing, write, choreograph or live with out CG. I might actually pay for a movie again if they did.
She still is one-of-a-kind. I never said that there are singers today who sound like her, just that there are people today who are just as talented. When it comes to range, power, and talent, a lot of singers are in her league today, people as varied as Patti Lupone, Stephanie J. Block, and Kate Pazakis, even Patti Labelle. And each one of those singers is completely different and beyond comparison but still an unbelievable level of talent.
and she never had one voice lesson.coleporter orter maid her promis never to take one.
Your Welcome as I get older those people who provided the soundtrack to my life are slowly leaving us.
But thanks to all the great people who download videos.
These singers get a fresh audience to hear them and they live on.
Like Abba said Thank you for the music these songs just get better with age.
I've only heard Ethel in Gypsy and call me madam. She belts most of the songs in Gypsy. Her voice seems so soft in this video, I love it. I have to listen to more of her recordings. Thanks for posting the video
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I strongly suggest a reading course for you-along with a vision test.Nowhere was there even a mention of nastiness to this lady,and your news is about s old as last months newspapers.This issue has been long resolved,and does not need the distorted views of yet another.
FYI,there are 3 million muslims in Germany.This is far more than the tiny number of Jews that live in Germany.For the sake of credibility,I suggest that you check more carefully your facts before making such claims.And yes,she was Jewish,much as you seem to want her to not have been.
Wikipedia is as Churchill said of democracy.Democracy is not perfect,but it is the best system that he knows of!
Let me preface this comment by saying that Ethel Merman was one of a kind and came to define and enrich an entire era of musical theatre, but I have to say her harsh releases (i.e. you = yoo-wah) is distracting during the first half of the number. Stylistically it makes more sense when the tempo picks up, but over-annunciation can bring more ballad-like pieces down. Still, what a voice!
Hi, check out Tracy Ullman, Catherine Zeta Jones and Kevin Spacey. They are really good (especially Ullman and Spacey) they are triple threats (can sing, act and dance). Also the gorgeous Richard Gere. Check out the underrated but fabulous Cotton Club. Gere is an incredibly talented musician. My favourite pair of all time are Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, the acting may not have been fabulous but the music is sublime. Look for Al Jolson, and Eddy Cantor on youtube.
I wonder if anyone has got Ella Fitzerland's rendition of DO I LOVE YOU. It's exquisite!!
Thank you!
I think you mean Patti Lupone.
AHH! The good OLD days.
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i occasionally hear people saying such rude things about ethel merman, and i really can't understand why... while i tend to prefer judy garland's version of "do i love you" for the more technical and sentimental aspect of it, ethel merman had a great vibe about her... the over-the-top campy style that has been emulated by broadway greats for decades, and i think she's wonderful.... truly a great entertainer, even if her voice wasn't the best; she made it interesting for people to listen to...
I'm so truly happy for you.I suppose that you shall now love her to desth ,for not being one of them!Her music will also sound so much better as well.
This is clearly the video to comment on if you'd like your comments to be misconstrued time after time and your words to be twisted to prove someone else's point. Clearly, TWaileka, you missed my whole point that big-name film actors and actresses are not as talented as they used to be. Thank you for commenting back as though you're arguing with me while simultaneously agreeing with my entire point. Theatrical talent today, however, is as strong as ever.
@windstorm1000: Hi, I'm not sure what the context of your question was but the surname 'Cohen' and it's other variations you mention mean 'priest' in Hebrew, not 'teacher'. Amongst the Orthodox Jews it still refers to the hereditary patrilineal line of of cohens ie: priests descended from Aaron, the brother of Moses.
And in 2003 film "Chicago," Richard Gere's deserved Golden Globe best acting, and his delightfully deft courtroom tapdancing and wholehearted hamminess onstage as Billy Flynn -- as ventriloquist w/ Roxie Hart as dummy, and as male center divo in Busby Berkeleyesque number. And he had been Danny Zuko in first Bway "Grease."
There are a million examples of Patti Labelle on the stage right here on TH-cam, including ones where she walks away from the mic and you hear her powerful vocal carry through the entire hall--just as Ethel's voice was known to do. You seem to be interpreting my statement that there is still talent in musical theatre as a slight against Ethel's talent, which is quite far from the truth.
@paulostroff99 You are 99% right--The one exception: I've been told "Kahn" or "Cohn" means 'teacher' in Hebrew...Al the other ones are derivatives of whatever the countries of the diaspora of Jews went to. Am I accurate here?
I'm getting so forgetful.I now take them only when I remember to!The other times-I don't.
she was actually in the original stage version of "Girl Crazy" the previous year, but that's correct essentially (or correct to the story, who knows if it really happened lol)
Nope, I mean Patti Labelle, since the person I was responding to was specifically targeting my mention of Ms Labelle in a previous post.
Before It's a mad mad, mad world or after words?
Air date: January 28, 1964.
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