Rodgers & Hart - "Where or When" from "Babes in Arms" - Brian d'Arcy James & Susan Egan

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  • @trumpet71
    @trumpet71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    One of the most beautiful songs EVER written. Truly a masterpiece of words and music.

    • @DonaldBeckerJr
      @DonaldBeckerJr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah. It makes me feel a sort of camraderie at arms length

  • @john-ug7nc
    @john-ug7nc ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "Where or When" is a timeless song that captures the imagination with its clever and romantic lyrics. Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, this classic song has been covered by countless artists and continues to enchant listeners with its beautiful melody and imaginative lyrics.
    The song is a testament to the incredible thought that went into its creation. The lyrics are filled with imagery that paints a vivid picture of two lovers lost in time, trying to find each other again. The opening lines set the tone for the entire song:
    "It seems we stood and talked like this before
    But I can't remember where or when"
    These simple yet evocative lines create a sense of nostalgia and longing that is at the heart of the song. As the song continues, the lyrics become even more imaginative, with references to moonlit nights, soft breezes, and the magic of love.
    The melody of "Where or When" is equally captivating, with its soaring chorus and lush instrumentation. From the first notes of the piano to the final crescendo of the orchestra, the music perfectly captures the romantic and imaginative spirit of the lyrics. The many references to the past suggests the song captured a period of time. A period of time that is gone forever.

  • @14mathurin
    @14mathurin 13 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I think this version is absolutely fabulous - for both the voices and personalities - I play
    it time & time again - I don't remember where or when

  • @keithsmd1948
    @keithsmd1948 10 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    One of Rodgers & Hart's half dozen or so best songs, and I've never heard it sung better.

    • @abneryokum
      @abneryokum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Richard Rodgers' favorite of the songs he wrote with Larry Hart, according to this documentary.

  • @lerebs
    @lerebs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This song is from the year of my birth and I have loved it for as long as I can remember. They don't write songs like this anymore.

  • @Arkelk2010
    @Arkelk2010 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'm also enjoying the acting with the singing. Their smiles are just right, especially Brian d'Arcy James's with the transformation from tentative to pleased while a bit bashful.

  • @AtlantaGymFan
    @AtlantaGymFan ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I played this at my first piano recital in third grade (1958) and I still adore it!

  • @theirishroses
    @theirishroses 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    loving and missing my dear departed parents on this special day

  • @keithsmd1948
    @keithsmd1948 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    There are several great versions of this song on TH-cam, but in my opinion this is the best because it's acted as well as sung by two great performers.

    • @StarofSolomon
      @StarofSolomon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah, i prefer the Peggy Lee version.

    • @starrynightwatch1597
      @starrynightwatch1597 ปีที่แล้ว

      I prefer George Michael version a 100 %, but I'm thankful to these guys for creating this beautiful song for the future 🙏

    • @christopherlyons5900
      @christopherlyons5900 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Their songs were all written to be acted as much as sung, so while they work very well as solos by great vocal stylists--they always mean more when there's a character there--and that character is Lorenz Hart. Begging to be loved. Please God, let somebody have heard him. I don't know where or when, but somebody.

  • @hankaustin7091
    @hankaustin7091 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    LOVE her voice! just fantastic - so pure, clear and simple! Love their combined vibrato, a marvelous blend.

  • @mediocremaiden8883
    @mediocremaiden8883 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this song since i was little at dance class and at the recital and we were so in awe of the talent and what seemed to my 5 year old eyes very difficult choreography that 'the big girls' (read:Older Teenaged girls and young adult women) could do. 4 of them danced a beautiful lyrical number to this song. And this is the version! Been looking for the version they danced to for years

  • @abneryokum
    @abneryokum 10 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    One of the best renditions of Where or When. This is how the song was originally sung -- as a duet between two young people rather than an overwrought jazz solo. Fantastic.

    • @Jeph629
      @Jeph629 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes, exactly on all counts.

  • @varadero1839
    @varadero1839 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    WOW! So grateful to have discovered this most beautiful duet by these 2 young people! This was elegantly filmed; the now ancient refrigerator, the general appearance of the kitchen…so 50s, and charming! Best of all are their beautiful voices! It's as if they were meant to sing to one another. Many thanks fschnell for your brilliant post!
    varadero

    • @schoolssection
      @schoolssection 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How about the 30's?

    • @christopherlyons5900
      @christopherlyons5900 ปีที่แล้ว

      Technically, the story is set in the Depression, and there shouldn't be any refrigerator. That's an icebox. With actual ice (well, they probably didn't bother to put ice in it).
      They're both a bit long in the tooth to be playing teenagers, but that's nitpicking, when they sing the song so well, and convey the emotions behind it so poignantly. The actor who first played Valentine was 28 when the show opened, but most of the cast were actual teenagers. (And a few were even younger).

  • @TheTourmaline57
    @TheTourmaline57 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It WAS true perfection and the lyrics to this beautiful song are timeless.

  • @theirishroses
    @theirishroses 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The two of them remind me of my blessed Parents, the dress looks and music so beautiful

  • @whiteyboy6454
    @whiteyboy6454 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Brings tears evert time.

  • @barbee0715
    @barbee0715 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Oh, how beautiful-one of my favorite songs from my Rodgers and Hart-I can't believe I didn't see this PBS performance!

  • @elsieleesullivan5298
    @elsieleesullivan5298 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    No words can describe how "beautifully" this awesome song is being done, off the hook, it totally rocks! LOL No one does it better!

  • @GeorgeTennesseeWiseman
    @GeorgeTennesseeWiseman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I feel that this song has some amazing ethereal quality that I can't quite put my finger on. It seems so beautiful and so utterly perfect that although I know that it was created by mere morals, there lingers a nagging doubt in the back of my my mind that it is of this world. A melody of preternatural loveliness always floating just above the ground, yet never quite touching it. I do not recall ever hearing music that I felt was more beautiful than this. I am awed by it.

    • @cufflink44
      @cufflink44 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And I am awed by your comment. You expressed what I was feeling myself but didn't have the words for. Thank you.

  • @gmp2606
    @gmp2606 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the best song I had heard in my life.

  • @janiegolden5338
    @janiegolden5338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well sung and gorgeous words and music by Rodgers and Hart.

  • @williamrubinstein3442
    @williamrubinstein3442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of the 8-10 greatest songs from the American golden age, 1920-1960- certainly very close to the very best. This and "I didnt know what time it was" are probably the two best by R & H, along with "My Funny Valentine. "

  • @itsayesfromme2669
    @itsayesfromme2669 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    You would be hard pushed to name a better song ;what a melody and such a clever lyric. One of the very best songs ever written I would say.

    • @graymra6882
      @graymra6882 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ...and I would second

  • @playerpianogal
    @playerpianogal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved this version and loved the movie. My piano roll cannot do it justice!!

  • @briansounalath
    @briansounalath ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this musical. They’re way too old but we did this in high school.

  • @chrisnorman9980
    @chrisnorman9980 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ah, my high school summer musical, from 1975. The audience was spared me singing this wonderful song but, as Gus, I did get to 'sing' 'I Wish I Was in Love Again'. Every song in this show is like summer out loud.

    • @brianholmes7620
      @brianholmes7620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes So ethereal, some deja vu and serendipity at work here, sung by two ordinary looking people, with the most extraordinary voices that compliment each other like? Peaches & Cream, beautiful !

  • @georgestrum3478
    @georgestrum3478 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The best I ever heard it sung.

  • @CliffMcAulay
    @CliffMcAulay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Perfection, in composition and performance. Thank you.

  • @davidvalensi8616
    @davidvalensi8616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Since this was published in 1937 and WW2 was soon to happen, I get the feeling this is a couple that met before the war, then the uncertainty of those four years, and now they're meeting again after the war, a war he wasn't sure he was going to survive, and now nothing can stop them.

  • @elliottglassart4859
    @elliottglassart4859 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My mother's (RIP) favorite song or so she told me once.

    • @julirensch
      @julirensch 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Elliott Glass Art
      Mine too...it's the ultimate reincarnation wish....can we do it once again?
      Jules

  • @PG-gu9cm
    @PG-gu9cm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Everything about this video and song is so good and proper,

  • @PG-gu9cm
    @PG-gu9cm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A perfect song and done perfectly

  • @gloriahudson9408
    @gloriahudson9408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up to this song, with Ray Coniff. I loved it. The original is precious.

  • @2487784
    @2487784 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely the best version of this song ever❤

  • @Evan1060
    @Evan1060 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This version is precious. Ah....guess I'm getting older and the past stylings seem so sweet and make sense to me

  • @penelopemorris6200
    @penelopemorris6200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    (Chorus)
    [VALENTINE]
    It seems we stood and talked like this before
    We looked at each other in the same way then
    But I can't remember where or when
    The clothes you're wearing are the clothes you wore
    The smile you are smiling you were smiling then
    But I can't remember where or when
    Some things that happen for the first time
    Seem to be happening again
    And so it seems that we have met before
    And laughed before and loved before
    But who knows where or when?
    (Verse)
    [BILLIE]
    When you're awake, the things you think
    Come from the dreams you dream
    Thought has wings
    And lots of things
    Are seldom what they seem
    Sometimes you think you've lived before
    All that you live today
    Things you do
    Come back to you
    As though they knew the way
    Oh, the tricks your mind can play!
    It seems we stood and talked like this before
    We looked at each other in the same way then
    But I can't remember where or when
    The clothes you're wearing are the clothes you wore
    The smile you are smiling you were smiling then
    But I can't remember where or when
    Some things that happen for the first time
    Seem to be happening again
    And so it seems that we have met before
    And laughed before and loved before
    But who knows where or when?
    (instrumental break)
    [VALENTINE AND BILLIE]
    And so it seems that we have met before
    And laughed before, and loved before
    But who knows where or when?

  • @eddiecat
    @eddiecat 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Beautifully done!

  • @user-ig7nq7pc7k
    @user-ig7nq7pc7k 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I could listen to Susan Egan all day long.

  • @lynnmiller3937
    @lynnmiller3937 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful song!

  • @cliffford
    @cliffford 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic!

  • @Glinkaism1
    @Glinkaism1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lovely! Awesome! Thanks for posting.

  • @DefenderofPepperland
    @DefenderofPepperland 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutely LOVE this!

  • @futuredisneyvoice
    @futuredisneyvoice 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In addition to her role as Belle onstage, she was the voice of Megara in Hercules. :)

  • @avrildipalma7721
    @avrildipalma7721 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Magnificent!

  • @RichRodgersOnline
    @RichRodgersOnline 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the Videography and the music! I thought the actors were great in this clip!

  • @derekking8690
    @derekking8690 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely 😊

  • @BH-xu5ol
    @BH-xu5ol 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    LOVELY

  • @georgesavage4708
    @georgesavage4708 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks great song from rodgers and Hart. is this available on DVD in the UK
    Thanks.

  • @kingusmcgee
    @kingusmcgee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was in the '39 movie Babes In Arms with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney alth'o' they didn't sing it.

    • @oliverbrownlow5615
      @oliverbrownlow5615 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Judy did sing a brief line from it. But the song (like most of Rodgers & Hart's score) is essentially squandered in the movie.

  • @Glinkaism1
    @Glinkaism1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, please, if possible!

  • @geraldjampol3120
    @geraldjampol3120 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gorgeous song! If I had perfect pitch I could follow the key changes and enjoy it even more, if that's possible.

  • @Broadwayboundchannel
    @Broadwayboundchannel 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Wrap them up, I´ll take them home!!!!!

  • @danielmkubacki
    @danielmkubacki 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They are good.

  • @Glinkaism1
    @Glinkaism1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great staging! No spfx. Just good tasting & showing the ork, too.

  • @totalt6600
    @totalt6600 ปีที่แล้ว

    They had to have known, how cosmic this song is.

  • @ecanuck
    @ecanuck 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Surfing around TH-cam versions of this as I suddenly began singing it out of the blue this evening (deja vu moment?) and looking for a version approximating my range. These two are maybe a half-tone high for me. I notice the jazz and other treatments, even by greats like Ella Fitzgerald, just don't do the song justice 'cause it needs a musical singer's heft--stage volume I guess--to elevate the musical progression.

  • @christopherlyons5900
    @christopherlyons5900 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Egan is breathtaking. This is just how Rodgers & Hart should be sung. As if the words were just occurring to you, the melody came out of thin air, the feelings spontaneous and unexpected, full of delight and melancholy. So many great singers have performed this (usually not the full stage version). She tops them all, even Peggy Lee.
    Less enchanted with Mr. d'Arcy, but then again, he's got a nice reedy tenor, along with the vacant brow and tousled hair. And to be done 100% right, it has to be a duet.
    Maybe this show was never done 100% right--maybe it can't be. But just once, I'd like to see it live. Actually, what I'd like to do is go back in time and kill whoever ruined the 1939 MGM version. Seriously? Not only do they cut most of the best songs, they turn this one into something sung by the entire cast, and Judy Garland just gets a wee snatch of it? Don't get me started on the blackface number. (Which apparently offended test audiences, not because it was ludicrous, but because they thought Mickey and Judy were actually black--they had to go back and shoot a scene of them putting on the makeup.

    • @christopherlyons5900
      @christopherlyons5900 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Since finding this, I've also discovered a truly great rendition by Barbara Cook (from her magnificent R&H tribute album of the 50's, with superb offbeat arrangements).
      But in terms of depicting the characters in the play--in terms of the duet between soulmates this song was written to be--this is probably as good at it can ever get. I assume the arrangement is Hans Spialek's?
      I very badly underrated Brian d'Aarcy. Sometimes it takes a few listenings to really hear.

  • @julirensch
    @julirensch 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the ultimate message of re-incarnation...begging the question....will we do it all over again?
    ........can we ?

  • @edwardolson8996
    @edwardolson8996 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In my senior year of high school we did a production of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". It's not one of Rodgers and Hart's best, and that despite the genius of our best writer, Mark Twain.
    Although the school did pay the meager royalties, the director decided to give the play itself little respect. She decided to keep two or three of the best songs, and then stole the creme de la creme from their other musicals. The fact that they didn't fit the plot didn't bother her. It might have been the greatest musical score of all time.
    This masterpiece was included, and it actually does fit the plot pretty well. I played Merlin the magician, and I bought my makeup in the same places near Times Square where real Broadway actors bought theirs. I was very involved in the production in almost every aspect.
    My passion was the theater, and I was very lucky to live only half an hour from the theater district. Merlin has no songs, but she decided that I might sing another masterpiece, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", from "Pal Joey", their last show. The song could hardly relate less to the part. She decided, correctly, that my singing voice wasn't good enough.
    I couldn't sing, but taking into account that I was a big fish in a tiny pond, I could ACT, which was resoundingly affirmed at curtain call time.

  • @fattguy21
    @fattguy21 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice job.

  • @list55
    @list55 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely orchestra! Full sounding. But the best version of this song is in the film Alice doesn‘t live here anymore with Ellen Burstyn. It’s never left me

  • @WilliamJCroft
    @WilliamJCroft 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    the "Where or When" clip was from "The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty", th-cam.com/video/yxruMAuctL0/w-d-xo.html

    • @cufflink44
      @cufflink44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THANK YOU for that!

  • @Highbrow06
    @Highbrow06 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely.

  • @drewhan802
    @drewhan802 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i LOVE susan egan!

  • @MargotDarby
    @MargotDarby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the deja vu song

  • @BH-xu5ol
    @BH-xu5ol 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely

  • @oykukarasu8093
    @oykukarasu8093 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The English Patient version is the best 👌 ❤

  • @walterlilly9550
    @walterlilly9550 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've passed this way before ?????

    • @julirensch
      @julirensch 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Walter Lilly
      .....the ultimate reincarnation story.....can we do it once again ? Yes, we will !
      Jules

    • @moviemaker60fps
      @moviemaker60fps 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are so right Jules This is a very cosmic song about Past Life memories.

    • @petes9122
      @petes9122 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This song is not about past loves, past lives or reincarnation. It’s about the feeling of deja’vu one might feel at a first intense romantic encounter. Read the lyrics. In the original form the last line is: “The mind plays tricks on you”.

  • @giovannicultrera
    @giovannicultrera 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    hermoso y simple...

  • @barbarahourigan8462
    @barbarahourigan8462 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤️❤️

  • @gettothechoppppaahhh
    @gettothechoppppaahhh 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes she was belle in the original broadway play, but not in the animated movie.

  • @fredrighetti
    @fredrighetti 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good , bye, Fred Italy, Milano, ciao.

  • @emeraldcityentertainment
    @emeraldcityentertainment ปีที่แล้ว

    Wh3n two soulmates meet each other again.

  • @lavender36
    @lavender36 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey guys, Just wondering, from someone in the know, what are the character descriptions for the version of babes in arms with billie, dolores and mrs owen in?? Because I'm being ignorant as there are sooooo many versions of this show. But I have an audition for it and cant seem to get straight which character is which? Please HELPPP if you can....thankssss sooo much. :)

  • @Marcel_Audubon
    @Marcel_Audubon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They borrowed the set from The Honeymooners ... waiting for Norton to bust in haha!

  • @MrAbomb234
    @MrAbomb234 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This sounds really cool as a boss a

  • @_beehop_7988
    @_beehop_7988 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have this song for my vocal lessons and I can't sing it. Seriously I just can't sing this song and I don't know why. It's terrible because I want to be able to.

  • @NYCprincess7
    @NYCprincess7 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is that Brian d'Arcy James?

  • @walt1896
    @walt1896 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you have the rest of the special? Please post more ! :)

    • @WilliamJCroft
      @WilliamJCroft 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the "Where or When" clip was from "The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty", th-cam.com/video/yxruMAuctL0/w-d-xo.html

  • @kingpedlar3998
    @kingpedlar3998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree, hard beating this tune. Too many swing it, sorry, not my taste. Ballad form, the way it was written
    hits it outta the park.

  • @frankiebowie6174
    @frankiebowie6174 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not bad, not bad at all.

  • @walterlilly9550
    @walterlilly9550 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This a Brit show ?

    • @fschnell
      @fschnell  11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      www.imdb.com/title/tt0181792/

    • @walterlilly9550
      @walterlilly9550 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      fschnell
      ...Thank you , I see IMDB sez " USA " tho I'm still a little unsure .

    • @abneryokum
      @abneryokum 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      American show. Originally broadcast on PBS Great Performances, and unfortunately available only on bootleg DVD's from a UK rebroadcast.

  • @funstuff192
    @funstuff192 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    val is supposed to be 19. what is up with that?

  • @DmitryBrodsky007
    @DmitryBrodsky007 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great rendition, but I think George Michael (RIP) does this song better than anyone. IMHO

  • @heavenlylk
    @heavenlylk 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    cute :-)

  • @Prancer1231
    @Prancer1231 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song should be haunting, this is goofy.

  • @pianistajs
    @pianistajs 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brian never knows when to end a word. I enjoy him, but he's a dog with a bone. End words, you don't need to go vowel crazy.

    • @philipmarq
      @philipmarq 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your right. After reading your comment I listened again. Brian just can't let go of a vowel. Still, a nice rendition of one of my top 10 songs.
      In any event, thank god it wasn't like the Sinatra version where at the end the orchestra and Sinatra were competing with each to see who could be the loudest or who could drown out the others' voice.

    • @pianistajs
      @pianistajs 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Being Glaun oh, hands down superior to sinatra.

  • @Lgevirtz
    @Lgevirtz ปีที่แล้ว

    Magnificent!!!