The complexity here. Alonso went mad from reading of the ill will and ugliness of the contemporary world and lost himself in the nobility of the the lost age of chivalry. He believes himself a knight of old Arthurian legend and behaves as the highest standards chivalry demand despite looking like an old fool. In his mad state he does this out of a need for adventure and glory but inwardly he wishes to bring the light of a better age to people who'd never experienced the beauty of an impossible dream. The world laughs at him, and he is mad, but Don Quixote represents a rare beacon of ancient nobility in a dreary, uncaring world. this is why I cry when I hear this song. The world could use a real Don Quixote.
Keen analysis. I have only one amendment: he is aware he is scorn and made a mockery of, fully, thus meets the scorn face on. He is not mad, but as the author of the play states: it is more madly to see the world as it is instead as it should be. Don Quijote represents that what should be, and is fully aware of it, only the idiots around him think he is mad, not himself, and not us who know what morality and sacrifice truly look like: like a "mad old fool"!
@@drivebypoet I prefer the "sanitized" lyrics that Jack Jones used, "To be willing to give, when there's no more to give, to be willing to die so that honor and justice may live.". I guess he didn't want to sing the original lyrics.
She suddenly understands that this man is not an optimistic fool at all, but rather an "Active pessimist", someone who knows life very well and has decided in his later years to start fighting.
This song is on the office walls of my law office and will remain until I retire. The words move me, motivate me, and remind me of what is real and just.
The comments only prove that they do not understand what you said at all! It is not the win that counts! It is to fight for what is just ; long may the righteous have a voice and a lion in their corner ,,,, no matter from which side you battle , as long as it is true, just and righteous then all else seems pointless ! I hope you have many successes as the world needs many more like you.
@@christophersansone2755 it does remind me of that episode where Don Quixote feeling pity for chained prisoners whom he freed and who ended up beating him up and robbing him. Maybe if a lawyer defends a criminal for the money, that's certainly immoral. But to do so because it is his duty because he is an officer of the court which, in its idealistic conception, is really no different from a knight defending justice. Even beyond a mere idle fancy, human rights lawyers around the world are continuing the fight for humane treatment of prisoners.
My father took me to see this play in Boston many years ago as a "coming of age" gift on my 16th birthday. Afterwards I spent the evening with many of his aviator friends who flew for the airlines. As they drank their scotch and smoked cigars they spoke only of brotherhood and the virtue of good men and what it meant to be one. His heart was very much that of a wandering poet and his lessons were always direct and thoughtfully handed out. He passed away earlier this year and being a sailor of many years we buried him at sea and returned him to the chaotic beauty of the ocean that he loved so dearly. Movies like this are too infrequent just like my father was.
I cry during this song every time. There’s something about the way Don Quixote sings so passionately about a complete delusion. Seriously my favorite character, he never realizes when people are making fun because he’s having the time of his life. I think if he was an idiot character this story would hurt so much less. But he’s a kindhearted and well spoken gentlemen who’s plummeted into madness. AHHHH it’s all so sad.
Strange when wanting a light and bringing it to people to bring them a better life, like the world in his eyes, he is called mad at o bring hope in a hopeless world.
Now this is the perfect example of a character song. We not only learn his motivation and viewpoint but feel the emotion that leads him to it. This short piece turns a whimsical fool into a tragic idealist, it makes me wonder if the real world has gone mad and the so-called fool is one of the few sane men
My mom took me to see Man Of LA Mancha at the theatre in Boston for my HS graduation present. That was 1978. I've never forgotten my love of it. Mom will be 90 next month.
We sang this in choir when I was about 13 years old. Even now, as a 47 year old, it still stirs my soul. When I had to fight for things (like cancer and chronic pain), I played this on repeat in my head. It never failed to lift me up.
I too first sang this at about the same age and was incredibly moved! Every word meaningful, and either said how I felt, what I was striving for, or inspired in me what I wanted to strive for, and at 44, still do. I haven’t had your struggles and am so very thankful you’re here to speak of those that you’ve endured, though I’m sorry you’ve had to endure such. I have and continue to have struggles of my own and this song continues to remind me of an oath I’d begun long ago, an oath filled out by these very words, and one Gd willing I will continue to uphold until I am here no longer. Blessings upon you and yours.
I always played paladin and my mother told me this was the song of the paladin. She was the dm. When he chronic pain set in twenty years ago this was my rally song to keep going, and it still works
The knight's commandments: ✅ Fight the unbeatable foe. ✅ Bear with unbearable sorrow. ✅ Run where the brave dare not go. ✅ Right the unrightable wrong. ✅ Love pure and chaste from afar. ✅ Try when your arms are too weary. ✅ Be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. The world *will* be better for this. Strive, strive with your last ounce of courage.
when i was 20 years old, I played Sancho in a local community college production of Man of Lamancha. Before one of the shows on the second weekend, I was in the dressing room with the actor who played Don Quixote putting on make -up. There was a knock on the door of the dressing room and an older gentlemen popped his head into the room. He told us he was living with cancer and lost hope for life, but he came to the show the previous weekend and was so moved he decided to live again. A life defining moment for what I was and am doing with this life. A few years ago during covid, I was at a pretty low point in my life, on the edge of giving up. This song found it's way to me again and gave me life.
I love the passion Peter O'Toole brings to this. There are a lot of good/great singers who've done this, but many forget to bring their heart & soul into it.
It wasn't sad... It displayed COURAGE! Inner and outer courage against all odds! The prisoners... found him innocent of all charges! They to... realized... it is the simple little things we do... everyday... without notice... without recognition... or reward. They sang his lesson! Poet, actor, insane...???? You decide.
@@rodneyringler3745 The message, that it's the responsibility of each of us to make the world a better place than we found it is uplifting, but the ending is sad. After he arrives home, Don Quixote falls ill, renounces chivalry as foolish fiction, and dies.
@@DavidLS1 no... he was BROKEN ....by the knights of mirror's...they stole the dreams so he would, could of found, for himself or others... It took Dulcimaya to bring him out of his "confusion of shadows"... To try to ride once more. For glory, for honor? for one more "miss" adventure. That story.. how ever barefoot he was, getting out of his, virtual deathbed, unto his rationalized one... That Cowboy died with his "BOOTS ON!".
No. Not "now more than ever". Now AS ALWAYS. Why is now more urgent than any other time in the past? The only reason you think now is more urgent than any other time is because you're experiencing it now, and you're not experiencing one of those past events. But if you take a step back, you will realize that it has always been necessary to reach for the unreachable star, and that now is actually just as urgent as all other times in the past.
@@OpenBiolabsGuy with respect to your well written post, no matter what is at present, nor what has come before, now is always more important than the past. This is said by a man whose past is nothing to be proud of... A man who is blessed to still be here. Right now is what matters. The past effects now, but we cannot let our past diminish our striving for the true, the right and the beautiful.
This was my favorite song since the first time I heard it in high school. And now, forty years and thousands of songs later, it's STILL my all-time favorite song! It's like a shot of adrenaline for my soul!
@@seppyq3672 Thanks for reminding me. I have a prayer... it is: DREAM BIG FOR ME GOD ALMIGHTY, AND LET MY DREAM BECOME YOUR REALITY. Keep dreaming friend, it can change whatever it is. All things are possible with God. Have a blessed one.
Google the Jim Nabors version he sang of this song on the sitcom Gomer Plyle USMC. I have never heard a better version of this song sung in my life. When it debuted on TV, everyone stopped to watch the episode and never have we been more proud of our Marines and our military
The spirit of freedom. Of bravery. Of steadfast belief and trust in what your heart tells you is true. This song has touched my heart for more than fifty years. An to this this day. perhaps more than ever, it still hits home.
This song will forever remind me of my beloved friend and grandfather figure, James. Thank you for introducing me to this lovely movie. I will seek solace in these words as if they're your own. I'll miss you for the rest of my life. Thank you for everything ❤️
@WintersTheSixth Paladins in D&D 5e don't have to follow a deity. And glory is only under the purview of a few Oaths. This song definitely represents a type of paladin.
This song was sang to my dad by his favorite musician after he had a brain aneurysm many many years ago. He lived, but barely. I was too young to appreciate what I had heard, I now understand I have no words to explain my graditude.
We're swaying on horseback The hills are green And the birdies sing And roses are pink Experience I never had I'm so happy Happy to just be part of your story After you I follow After you I follow The world you show me broaden my horizon Forever my hero Forever my hero I am your biggest fan I am your biggest fan Merry-go-round In a circle I run It's so much fun leaving reality behind I fall down the horseback With my crippled legs And then it starts to rain Showing me it's all fake Raindrops wash down the facade Hills are painted Birdies are robotic Roses are made of clay Excitement that I feel Excitement that I feel Return them to the shelf Cause now I understand Heroes cannot be real Heroes cannot be real I wasn't who I am I don't know who I am ¿Who am I? ¿Who am I? ¿Who am I? Here we go, another lap Prizes to claim" Here's a dream for you Here's a dream for me Golden tickets in my bag stay unexchanged Don't you love the thrill of the chase? Just let me be your fan I wanna be your fan I'm still your biggest fan Why is it that some were given the role of villian The moment they were released into this system? Stand up Gallop on Nothing can be done by feeling so sorry for myself Hero On a plastic horse Fighting like it's real With a cardboard sword I know Successful or not, I am who I am I am my biggest fan I am my biggest fan I am my enemy and my friend Hero Gonna prove my version of justice Is more just than yours Uno Remaining on this stage, I am the only one I am my biggest fan I am my biggest fan I am my enemy and my friend
I listened to this song for the first time less than 24 hours ago and I already love it. The lyrics capture all the values I spent my whole life striving to live by. The same values I took with me when I enlisted in the US Navy!!!
If you knew that neither Sophia Loren (dubbed by Marilyn Horne) nor Peter O'Toole (dubbed by Simon Gilbert) sang themselves would that change your mind?
Nothing less than Beautiful. 🙌🎵. I saw this play on Broadway (I grew up w/ my Mom's album listening over, & over again). Mr. Raul Julia 🙏played & sang this "Dream". Thanx' U Sir.. 😎🙃 Jersey Shore.. 🌹
The Impossible Dream was our Class song when I graduated highschool and we learnt it by heart. It remains with me this many years later. I was fortunate to see José Ferrer live in Man of La Mancha as well. His Dolcinea is also very beautiful.
Google the Jim Nabors version he sang on the sitcom Gomer Pyle USMC. It will give you chills. Jim Nabors is a classical train artist who starred in that show.
I love the musical Man of La Mancha. I know the songs from the 1966 Broadway play with Richard Kiley as Don Quixote and Joan Diener as Aldonza. Much as I liked seeing Sophia Loren for the first time, I liked the songs in the original play better than the movie. I admired Quixote's spirit as he sang The Impossible Dream and cried when Aldonza, Sancho, Quixote's niece, and others sang it at his deathbed, and again during the closing credits as Cervantes and his faithful friend climb the stairs to face the inquisition. Joe Darion, the lyricist who wrote the song, had a magical way with words. I hope he was proud of his creation.
Omg so was looking for another version of this song and came across this omg in shock what a stunning version of this beautiful song wow I didn’t know he could sing loved it
Always loved this song, we had this album, among several other musicals as well. Guess my fondness for musicals started when my dad took me to see The Sound of Music as a youngster. The good old days~
Currently, I am going through a major "down" time in my life. I woke up this morning with "The Unreachable Star" going round and round my head. I made a cup of coffee and sat down here and Googled "The Unreachable Star", only to find this site. I sit here with a huge lump in my throat and tears trying to fall, listening to it in my mind and find comfort unattainable other wise.
hi i am here from limbus company i always heard this song somewhere never sure where but i heard it probably from a radio but its nice to hear a familiar tune i found it it i heard it from a bearbrand commercial
Ahaha, someone finally pointed out that weird milk ad. I think some radio channels in the country love playing old songs so may have heard it there before. I hope Canto VII makes reference of the musical (ㆁωㆁ)
Thanks for spreading the beauty and depth of Cervantes' masterpiece into this wonderful movie and thus reach millions of people who otherwise wouldn't know about it.
DANG!!! He doesn't look like he has the strength left to sing happy birthday and he sure belted out that song. Sometimes you just have to do what needs to be done and to hell with the consequences.
And the world will be better for this That one man, scorned and covered with scars Still strove, with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star these final lines get me so hard, I cry everytime
First heard the song by Jack Jones in 1966. Then saw the broadway show in New York in 1968 with Hal Holbrook. Saw the play again in the 1970’s at the Fisher Theater in Detroit with Robert Goulet. Loved this song since I first heard it. It’s one of my favorite plays.
Peter O'Toole's singing voice is provided by Simon Gilbert, for the simple reason that O'Toole, though a great actor, could not sing, so he is dubbed throughout the movie by a trained professional singer who is quite a good match for O'Toole's voice, all the other actors do their own singing except Harry Andrews who is is dubbed by Brian Blessed.
Chris Mac: Thank you for providing the answer to my question: "Was that really Peter O'Toole singing?" The answer that I trust by you is: "No, it was Simon Gilbert." Now, my next question is: "Why have I never heard of Simon Gilbert before?" His singing of the song was fantastic. I'm a beginner singer (at age 70) and sang the song today. Singing is my new hobby for my senior years. YOU TUBE: TOM KITCH "THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (THE QUEST)" published September 7, 2021. I wish that I could redo the last word "STAR", but I only had a cell phone and now I'm wishing upon a star. Anyhow, hopefully, you'll care to view my video and hopefully, you'll care to say something nice as a comment.
Sorry, for correcting you here. But Sophia Loren also doesn't sing a single note on her own. She was dubbed by Marilyn Horne, a renowned American opera singer (mezzo-soprano).
@@MarioStahl1983 that is quite alright, I didn't know that, thank you for the correction and that information! I'm always happy to be corrected and learn something new if people are polite about it which you are of course! Amazing how much dubbing and post synching went on back in those days! have a nice evening!
It's wild, hearing him speak and then go into singing it doesn't sound like a different person at all. The intonation and style are so well matched. They did a great job here.
@@MarioStahl1983 “Simon Gilbert dubbed Peter O'Toole's singing voice and mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne was approached to dub Sophia Loren's. She only would consent if she was given equal billing with Loren, who ultimately did her own singing.” IMDB TRIVIA Stop lying about Sophia Loren
The lost age of chivalry- it means so much to me. Just to imagine what the world has become, filled with a bunch of doddering irksome little people just scrolling on their phones all day and night long. And then to imagine what used to be, and how much we have lost. Don Quixote knows it all.
Because I read the novel of Don Quixote when I was a grade 9 student, I borrowed this video tape in Canada, I was attracted by Peter O'Tootle 's singing and acting, I bought the tape and watched it over 20 times. I believe that every man has a hero dream, but can we keep on it or not? I know there is a Cantonese version of Man of La Mancha will perform in Hong Kong next year, so I reviewed this song again.
Behold, a true man with true sight. He is the one who sees reality; it is the others, with their mirrors and their degeneracy that are delusional. Good will inevitably triumph over evil, but were it not so, it would still be better to live one day as Don Quixote than an eternity in the ways of the world.
The complexity here. Alonso went mad from reading of the ill will and ugliness of the contemporary world and lost himself in the nobility of the the lost age of chivalry. He believes himself a knight of old Arthurian legend and behaves as the highest standards chivalry demand despite looking like an old fool. In his mad state he does this out of a need for adventure and glory but inwardly he wishes to bring the light of a better age to people who'd never experienced the beauty of an impossible dream. The world laughs at him, and he is mad, but Don Quixote represents a rare beacon of ancient nobility in a dreary, uncaring world.
this is why I cry when I hear this song. The world could use a real Don Quixote.
He was more sane than all of them too. I love what you said.
Keen analysis. I have only one amendment: he is aware he is scorn and made a mockery of, fully, thus meets the scorn face on. He is not mad, but as the author of the play states: it is more madly to see the world as it is instead as it should be. Don Quijote represents that what should be, and is fully aware of it, only the idiots around him think he is mad, not himself, and not us who know what morality and sacrifice truly look like: like a "mad old fool"!
That was beautiful.
Too true
Chivalry will not die. Never. That's what feminism is...
“To be willing to march into Hell for a heavenly cause.” Amazing
That's my favorite part.
@@drivebypoet I prefer the "sanitized" lyrics that Jack Jones used, "To be willing to give, when there's no more to give, to be willing to die so that honor and justice may live.". I guess he didn't want to sing the original lyrics.
@@chrismulwee4911 all of them are great, pitty they weren't all part of it, to be complete.
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don't take the vax
She suddenly understands that this man is not an optimistic fool at all, but rather an "Active pessimist", someone who knows life very well and has decided in his later years to start fighting.
In other words, he is a noble gentleman.
No, he is not. He is a violent lunatic that goles around beating people and helping no one
This song is on the office walls of my law office and will remain until I retire. The words move me, motivate me, and remind me of what is real and just.
I am sure you read right before you walk into the courtroom to defend dope pushers, rapists, crooked politicians, murderers and child molesters.
@@christophersansone2755 out in your hate you would assume i represent criminals.
@@christophersansone2755 Innocent till proven guilty
The comments only prove that they do not understand what you said at all! It is not the win that counts! It is to fight for what is just ; long may the righteous have a voice and a lion in their corner ,,,, no matter from which side you battle , as long as it is true, just and righteous then all else seems pointless !
I hope you have many successes as the world needs many more like you.
@@christophersansone2755 it does remind me of that episode where Don Quixote feeling pity for chained prisoners whom he freed and who ended up beating him up and robbing him. Maybe if a lawyer defends a criminal for the money, that's certainly immoral. But to do so because it is his duty because he is an officer of the court which, in its idealistic conception, is really no different from a knight defending justice. Even beyond a mere idle fancy, human rights lawyers around the world are continuing the fight for humane treatment of prisoners.
My father took me to see this play in Boston many years ago as a "coming of age" gift on my 16th birthday. Afterwards I spent the evening with many of his aviator friends who flew for the airlines. As they drank their scotch and smoked cigars they spoke only of brotherhood and the virtue of good men and what it meant to be one. His heart was very much that of a wandering poet and his lessons were always direct and thoughtfully handed out. He passed away earlier this year and being a sailor of many years we buried him at sea and returned him to the chaotic beauty of the ocean that he loved so dearly. Movies like this are too infrequent just like my father was.
How truly beautiful. Your soul is richer for it.
A Beautiful Eulogy!
Not Realised to be one when written and the words more true for being so written by the heart!
Best Wishes!
Paul
I cry during this song every time. There’s something about the way Don Quixote sings so passionately about a complete delusion. Seriously my favorite character, he never realizes when people are making fun because he’s having the time of his life. I think if he was an idiot character this story would hurt so much less. But he’s a kindhearted and well spoken gentlemen who’s plummeted into madness. AHHHH it’s all so sad.
He realizes, that's the point of the song. He realizes.
and within that madness he found the inescapable beautiful truth
Strange when wanting a light and bringing it to people to bring them a better life, like the world in his eyes, he is called mad at o bring hope in a hopeless world.
It's the world that is mad.
fantastic comment! right on.
Now this is the perfect example of a character song. We not only learn his motivation and viewpoint but feel the emotion that leads him to it. This short piece turns a whimsical fool into a tragic idealist, it makes me wonder if the real world has gone mad and the so-called fool is one of the few sane men
My mom took me to see Man Of LA Mancha at the theatre in Boston for my HS graduation present. That was 1978. I've never forgotten my love of it. Mom will be 90 next month.
It's been a month so congratulations to your mother! 90 is an impressive age indeed. Wish her all the best :D
@ao.❤ompotato6278
Om❤
Come to Peterborough within the next two weeks, Scott Bakula is playing there!
We sang this in choir when I was about 13 years old. Even now, as a 47 year old, it still stirs my soul. When I had to fight for things (like cancer and chronic pain), I played this on repeat in my head. It never failed to lift me up.
I too first sang this at about the same age and was incredibly moved! Every word meaningful, and either said how I felt, what I was striving for, or inspired in me what I wanted to strive for, and at 44, still do.
I haven’t had your struggles and am so very thankful you’re here to speak of those that you’ve endured, though I’m sorry you’ve had to endure such.
I have and continue to have struggles of my own and this song continues to remind me of an oath I’d begun long ago, an oath filled out by these very words, and one Gd willing I will continue to uphold until I am here no longer.
Blessings upon you and yours.
@@arsVegas Blessings to you and yours as well.
@Bill Smith Glad you're still here and fighting the good fight!
I always played paladin and my mother told me this was the song of the paladin. She was the dm.
When he chronic pain set in twenty years ago this was my rally song to keep going, and it still works
Wishing you all the best!
"I am but Don Quixote!La Manchaland Don Quixote!"
and now,the dream must meet its ending!face the oblivion!
✍️🔥
Manager esquire!
@zafranorbian757 Sancho I have conceived an idea most ingenious
The knight's commandments:
✅ Fight the unbeatable foe.
✅ Bear with unbearable sorrow.
✅ Run where the brave dare not go.
✅ Right the unrightable wrong.
✅ Love pure and chaste from afar.
✅ Try when your arms are too weary.
✅ Be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause.
The world *will* be better for this. Strive, strive with your last ounce of courage.
The Knights Templar
GALLOP ON ROCINANTE
WE ENDING THE DREAM WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣
NAH, THE DREAM IS NEVER DYING WITH THIS ONE
NAY, THE DREAM SHALL BE NEVERENDING!
limbus?
@@wertf1068 Company!
HERO ON A PLASTIC HORSE FIGHTING LIKE ITS REAL 🔥
when i was 20 years old, I played Sancho in a local community college production of Man of Lamancha. Before one of the shows on the second weekend, I was in the dressing room with the actor who played Don Quixote putting on make -up. There was a knock on the door of the dressing room and an older gentlemen popped his head into the room. He told us he was living with cancer and lost hope for life, but he came to the show the previous weekend and was so moved he decided to live again. A life defining moment for what I was and am doing with this life.
A few years ago during covid, I was at a pretty low point in my life, on the edge of giving up. This song found it's way to me again and gave me life.
I love the passion Peter O'Toole brings to this. There are a lot of good/great singers who've done this, but many forget to bring their heart & soul into it.
It's not Peter O'Toole singing. It is a voice double
@@pirateofthecarabiners And not a great one at that. The singing is still pretty ropey
Truly a dream most ingenious.
Half a century old.. still a great rendition, of a great song in an incredible legend
WHICH TREATS THE BUS, THE COMPANIONS, AND THE ADVENTURES OF HOW SANCHO, OUR DON QUIXOTE, REFUSED TO END THE DREAM!
I LOVE THIS SONG!
It's a powerful song indeed!
Despite its sad ending, Man of La Mancha has always been my favorite musical.
It wasn't sad... It displayed COURAGE!
Inner and outer courage against all odds!
The prisoners... found him innocent of all charges! They to... realized... it is the simple little things we do... everyday... without notice... without recognition... or reward.
They sang his lesson! Poet, actor, insane...????
You decide.
@@rodneyringler3745 The message, that it's the responsibility of each of us to make the world a better place than we found it is uplifting, but the ending is sad. After he arrives home, Don Quixote falls ill, renounces chivalry as foolish fiction, and dies.
@@DavidLS1 no... he was BROKEN ....by the knights of mirror's...they stole the dreams so he would, could of found, for himself or others...
It took Dulcimaya to bring him out of his "confusion of shadows"... To try to ride once more.
For glory, for honor? for one more "miss" adventure.
That story.. how ever barefoot he was, getting out of his, virtual deathbed, unto his rationalized one...
That Cowboy died with his "BOOTS ON!".
Sometimes Don Quixote's dream is all we have to cling to.
“To be willing to march into Hell for a heavenly cause”
Most inspiring lyrics ever imo
Yes and you did Ukraine. God be with you.
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WTF does Ukraine have to do with this???
@@Merrymaid the hell ukraine has to do with the song ?
Keep fighting, everyone... Now more than ever ❤️
+!
No. Not "now more than ever". Now AS ALWAYS. Why is now more urgent than any other time in the past? The only reason you think now is more urgent than any other time is because you're experiencing it now, and you're not experiencing one of those past events. But if you take a step back, you will realize that it has always been necessary to reach for the unreachable star, and that now is actually just as urgent as all other times in the past.
@@OpenBiolabsGuy with respect to your well written post, no matter what is at present, nor what has come before, now is always more important than the past.
This is said by a man whose past is nothing to be proud of... A man who is blessed to still be here. Right now is what matters. The past effects now, but we cannot let our past diminish our striving for the true, the right and the beautiful.
AMEN! ♥️
'To bear with unbearable sorrow'.
This was my favorite song since the first time I heard it in high school. And now, forty years and thousands of songs later, it's STILL my all-time favorite song! It's like a shot of adrenaline for my soul!
The most moral song ever sang.
An ode for morality and the heightened spirit of man.
This is my song.... Its my inspiration, to reach for the unreachable star. The impossible dream. So beautiful.
Ive been listening to it on repeat the last few weeks
@@seppyq3672 Thanks for reminding me. I have a prayer... it is: DREAM BIG FOR ME GOD ALMIGHTY, AND LET MY DREAM BECOME YOUR REALITY. Keep dreaming friend, it can change whatever it is. All things are possible with God. Have a blessed one.
me too , whenever i listen to it , it makes me cry
@@BeyondmyEternal I love it, it really is inspiring isn't it? Hey have a great one, and take care. God bless....
Thanks for your thoughts.
Google the Jim Nabors version he sang of this song on the sitcom Gomer Plyle USMC. I have never heard a better version of this song sung in my life. When it debuted on TV, everyone stopped to watch the episode and never have we been more proud of our Marines and our military
I am 8 years Old and i love this music
This brings out my enemy and my friend
The spirit of freedom. Of bravery. Of steadfast belief and trust in what your heart tells you is true. This song has touched my heart for more than fifty years. An to this this day. perhaps more than ever, it still hits home.
This is one of the most beautiful interpretations of the heart of this song that I've ever heard. You're a true Renaissance Man.
America Needs This Now!
To Save Themselves and The Free World!
Regards Sir!
Paul
GALLOP ON, ROCINANTE!
Om
O.m
Justice *WILL prevail!
When this movie came out it had received very negative reviews. This is one of my favorite movies. A true classic
Truly a Impossible dream ending
This song will forever remind me of my beloved friend and grandfather figure, James. Thank you for introducing me to this lovely movie. I will seek solace in these words as if they're your own. I'll miss you for the rest of my life. Thank you for everything ❤️
When my new D&D players ask me "what is a Paladin?", I send them this video.
Haha amazing
This feels like more of a bannerette fighter
It's less glory and feats for a god
But to be a symbol and a hero for the sake of kindness and heroics
@WintersTheSixth Paladins in D&D 5e don't have to follow a deity. And glory is only under the purview of a few Oaths. This song definitely represents a type of paladin.
This song was sang to my dad by his favorite musician after he had a brain aneurysm many many years ago. He lived, but barely.
I was too young to appreciate what I had heard, I now understand I have no words to explain my graditude.
This always brings me to tears. It's such a beautiful song with incredibly beautiful and meaningful lyrics.
We're swaying on horseback
The hills are green
And the birdies sing
And roses are pink
Experience I never had
I'm so happy
Happy to just be part of your story
After you I follow
After you I follow
The world you show me broaden my horizon
Forever my hero
Forever my hero
I am your biggest fan
I am your biggest fan
Merry-go-round
In a circle I run
It's so much fun leaving reality behind
I fall down the horseback
With my crippled legs
And then it starts to rain
Showing me it's all fake
Raindrops wash down the facade
Hills are painted
Birdies are robotic
Roses are made of clay
Excitement that I feel
Excitement that I feel
Return them to the shelf
Cause now I understand
Heroes cannot be real
Heroes cannot be real
I wasn't who I am
I don't know who I am
¿Who am I?
¿Who am I?
¿Who am I?
Here we go, another lap
Prizes to claim"
Here's a dream for you
Here's a dream for me
Golden tickets in my bag stay unexchanged
Don't you love the thrill of the chase?
Just let me be your fan
I wanna be your fan
I'm still your biggest fan
Why is it that some were given the role of villian
The moment they were released into this system?
Stand up
Gallop on
Nothing can be done by feeling so sorry for myself
Hero
On a plastic horse
Fighting like it's real
With a cardboard sword
I know
Successful or not, I am who I am
I am my biggest fan
I am my biggest fan
I am my enemy and my friend
Hero
Gonna prove my version of justice
Is more just than yours
Uno
Remaining on this stage, I am the only one
I am my biggest fan
I am my biggest fan
I am my enemy and my friend
I listened to this song for the first time less than 24 hours ago and I already love it. The lyrics capture all the values I spent my whole life striving to live by. The same values I took with me when I enlisted in the US Navy!!!
You owe it to yourself to see the entire film.
I understand completely. I joined the Navy in 1975, after singing this song in 1968 in Junior High Choir. This song makes my heart swell.
This is one of the most amazing performances by both Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren - even brings tears even after seeing it 40 years ago.
If you knew that neither Sophia Loren (dubbed by Marilyn Horne) nor Peter O'Toole (dubbed by Simon Gilbert) sang themselves would that change your mind?
@@MarioStahl1983 who is the singer
@@drislamfathy333 Simon Gilbert sang this.
@@MarioStahl1983 yes for this one .....and there's Richard Kiley version
@@MarioStahl1983 I think Richard kiley is the oldest
The hills are green, the birdies sing and roses are pink with this one🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Nothing less than Beautiful. 🙌🎵. I saw this play on Broadway (I grew up w/ my Mom's album listening over, & over again). Mr. Raul Julia 🙏played & sang this "Dream". Thanx' U Sir.. 😎🙃 Jersey Shore.. 🌹
ROCINANTE!!!
Hello sancho, are you okay
@@TOMERRY985 I HAVE MY DREAM!
ONWARD ROCINANTE! AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL THE DREAM IS WITHIN OUR GRASP!
The greatest actor and the most amazing woman
Actors. The man here is lip syncing another man that is actually singing.
@@RigelOrionBeta i know it well but he's still an amazing artist
Ande men too
I listen other versions, but Peter O'Toole the best!!! His is singing and feel words of this wonderful song!!!!!!
Yes. Even better than the Andy Williams version.
Born in Leeds!
England!
The Impossible Dream was our Class song when I graduated highschool and we learnt it by heart. It remains with me this many years later. I was fortunate to see José Ferrer live in Man of La Mancha as well. His Dolcinea is also very beautiful.
Google the Jim Nabors version he sang on the sitcom Gomer Pyle USMC. It will give you chills. Jim Nabors is a classical train artist who starred in that show.
Tears come from hearing this song. Play is fabulous.
I love the musical Man of La Mancha. I know the songs from the 1966 Broadway play with Richard Kiley as Don Quixote and Joan Diener as Aldonza. Much as I liked seeing Sophia Loren for the first time, I liked the songs in the original play better than the movie. I admired Quixote's spirit as he sang The Impossible Dream and cried when Aldonza, Sancho, Quixote's niece, and others sang it at his deathbed, and again during the closing credits as Cervantes and his faithful friend climb the stairs to face the inquisition. Joe Darion, the lyricist who wrote the song, had a magical way with words. I hope he was proud of his creation.
Omg so was looking for another version of this song and came across this omg in shock what a stunning version of this beautiful song wow I didn’t know he could sing loved it
Peter O'toole was not the singer, it was dubbed.
@@jasonbrown9749he was dubbed a knight!
Always loved this song, we had this album, among several other musicals as well. Guess my fondness for musicals started when my dad took me to see The Sound of Music as a youngster. The good old days~
Musicals are some of the best forms of entertainment. Also, quite fun to be in too. You can really get lost in the roles and the characters.
We did this play freshman year of highschool and this song has stuck with me ever since. I love listenin to this when im feeling down.
Currently, I am going through a major "down" time in my life. I woke up this morning with "The Unreachable Star" going round and round my head. I made a cup of coffee and sat down here and Googled "The Unreachable Star", only to find this site. I sit here with a huge lump in my throat and tears trying to fall, listening to it in my mind and find comfort unattainable other wise.
“To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star...”
That's when you're pushing your Honda to the garage.
Gallop on, ROCINANTE
Peter O'Toole, one of the greatest actors and performers of all time...
Om❤
I totally agree.
Back in the 60s this was my elementary school song for graduation. Still brings back memories good and bad .
Just finished Volume 2, now im here to see if this anime adaptation is good
Lost 60lbs in 3mo to the soundtrack of this album. Would not stop exercising . Super inspiration
That is so awesome! What a testimony!
hi i am here from limbus company
i always heard this song somewhere never sure where but i heard it probably from a radio but its nice to hear a familiar tune
i found it it i heard it from a bearbrand commercial
Ahaha, someone finally pointed out that weird milk ad. I think some radio channels in the country love playing old songs so may have heard it there before. I hope Canto VII makes reference of the musical (ㆁωㆁ)
@@jeonlie3477 it would be so funny if it was the final boss theme (havent gotten to ot yet)
where can i grab that ad (is it filipino LMAO)
@@angeluskardia459 it is
R.I.P. Don ♡
I saw the play twice and the movie. what a great story. I love that song. Man of La Mancha was one of the best.
Peter O'Toole was a true knight errant, who gave his all when he delivers The Impossible Dream!
One of the first songs I ever learned as a young girl singing int the concert choir
The story of my life.
Brings tears to my eyes.
What a song. What outstanding lyrics. Goosebumps all the way.
Thanks for spreading the beauty and depth of Cervantes' masterpiece into this wonderful movie and thus reach millions of people who otherwise wouldn't know about it.
I think the book' moral is just the opposite of this modern interpretation...
Learn to
"Live life as it is not as it could be.'
DANG!!! He doesn't look like he has the strength left to sing happy birthday and he sure belted out that song. Sometimes you just have to do what needs to be done and to hell with the consequences.
One of the greatest songs sung to perfection❤
His duty...nay,his privilege. After all these years this still strikes me to the heart. 🙏❤️
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
these final lines get me so hard, I cry everytime
First heard the song by Jack Jones in 1966. Then saw the broadway show in New York in 1968 with Hal Holbrook. Saw the play again in the 1970’s at the Fisher Theater in Detroit with Robert Goulet. Loved this song since I first heard it. It’s one of my favorite plays.
Even without doing his own singing the man is marvelous! Ms Loren's face is one of the few things that could distract me from this performance.
El señor Quijano , un soñador romántico.
I try to sing along but i just get choked up.
I can not "like" this...
I still embrace it and LOVE IT.
It is a "Dream" of, for... HUMANITY!
Watched it with my parents when I was a child and have loved it ever since.
Peter Otoole fantastic! Such emotion!
If you refer tothe singing voice that's actually Sinom Gilbert who dubbed him.
Anton Ego
@@MarioStahl1983 very much alike as a voice
Gallop on! Together!
SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE...
Que saudade do tempo em que Hollywood tinha atores e não apenas efeitos especiais. Maravilhoso
Peter O'Toole's singing voice is provided by Simon Gilbert, for the simple reason that O'Toole, though a great actor, could not sing, so he is dubbed throughout the movie by a trained professional singer who is quite a good match for O'Toole's voice, all the other actors do their own singing except Harry Andrews who is is dubbed by Brian Blessed.
Chris Mac: Thank you for providing the answer to my question: "Was that really Peter O'Toole singing?" The answer that I trust by you is: "No, it was Simon Gilbert." Now, my next question is: "Why have I never heard of Simon Gilbert before?" His singing of the song was fantastic.
I'm a beginner singer (at age 70) and sang the song today. Singing is my new hobby for my senior years.
YOU TUBE: TOM KITCH
"THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (THE QUEST)"
published September 7, 2021.
I wish that I could redo the last word "STAR", but I only had a cell phone and now I'm wishing upon a star. Anyhow, hopefully, you'll care to view my video and hopefully, you'll care to say something nice as a comment.
Sorry, for correcting you here. But Sophia Loren also doesn't sing a single note on her own. She was dubbed by Marilyn Horne, a renowned American opera singer (mezzo-soprano).
@@MarioStahl1983 that is quite alright, I didn't know that, thank you for the correction and that information! I'm always happy to be corrected and learn something new if people are polite about it which you are of course! Amazing how much dubbing and post synching went on back in those days! have a nice evening!
It's wild, hearing him speak and then go into singing it doesn't sound like a different person at all. The intonation and style are so well matched. They did a great job here.
@@MarioStahl1983 “Simon Gilbert dubbed Peter O'Toole's singing voice and mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne was approached to dub Sophia Loren's. She only would consent if she was given equal billing with Loren, who ultimately did her own singing.” IMDB TRIVIA
Stop lying about Sophia Loren
The most beautiful song on earth.
One of the best songs ever written.
The lost age of chivalry- it means so much to me.
Just to imagine what the world has become, filled with a bunch of doddering irksome little people just scrolling on their phones all day and night long. And then to imagine what used to be, and how much we have lost. Don Quixote knows it all.
Please accept a nomination for one of the greatest comments ever submitted on TH-cam.
No matter how old this version is. l enjoy listening. 2023
RIP Peter, best of the best...
When my marriage was failing and my life falling a part, this song brought me much solice and kept me going.
EL SUEÑO IMPOSIBLE
This song is the soundtrack of my life… ❤😊
The best story ever told.
Perter O Toole is a legend in the entertainment industry
GALLOP ON TOGETHER ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🎠🎠🎠🎠🎠🎠🎠🎠🎠🎠🎠
Always sing this during an interview and after you leave the company
Truly one of the moment of all time
Moved then and moved today!!!
Same, I watched this when I was younger at a theater and will watch it again and again.
A song that reaches the deepest part of the human being
Because I read the novel of Don Quixote when I was a grade 9 student, I borrowed this video tape in Canada, I was attracted by Peter O'Tootle 's singing and acting, I bought the tape and watched it over 20 times. I believe that every man has a hero dream, but can we keep on it or not? I know there is a Cantonese version of Man of La Mancha will perform in Hong Kong next year, so I reviewed this song again.
The Brothers of Don Bosco , Nashik ( India ) presented this as their annual event ... beautifully talented with their live music !
@@maureensamson4863 Thanks God. I graduated from Salesian's School which was organized by Father Don Bosco
@@122006hilton They have organizations world wide ... were you in Nashik ?
@@maureensamson4863 No, I'm in HK
@@122006hilton okay ... all the best!
GALLOP ON ROCINANTE
I was introduced to Man of LA Mancha at a time when I was an age to want to go questing. Taught me treasure load about honor!
I was so fortunate to see this live in Toronto Ontario Canada ...at 15 years old it made a lifelong impression ❤️
Peter O'Toole moved me so and now I think about Alexei Navalny, this was exactly what he did
This song, sung by Peter O'Toole, stirs my blood!
He dubbed by Simon........
Behold, a true man with true sight. He is the one who sees reality; it is the others, with their mirrors and their degeneracy that are delusional. Good will inevitably triumph over evil, but were it not so, it would still be better to live one day as Don Quixote than an eternity in the ways of the world.
I watched this show so many times and it never got old. Love him! He’s so sweet! Beautiful story