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OMG. Isn't it rich?

I haven't heard this in YEARS and YEARS.

Have YOU?

What do/did you make of it?

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by Anonymousreply 151February 4, 2020 1:27 AM

I like it, but I prefer Canadian national treasure Joni Mitchell's version.

by Anonymousreply 1January 18, 2020 12:50 AM

I didn't know there were two versions.

Which is the most famous, R1?

by Anonymousreply 2January 18, 2020 12:51 AM

Judi has a go ☛

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by Anonymousreply 3January 18, 2020 12:53 AM

Actually, you might want to give the Judi one a miss.

by Anonymousreply 4January 18, 2020 12:55 AM

I think that Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra each have recorded cover versions too.

by Anonymousreply 5January 18, 2020 12:55 AM

This is the definitive version you're looking for.

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by Anonymousreply 6January 18, 2020 1:00 AM

OMG, you're right, R5 - Babs really dresses it up like a Christmas tree. Hard pass.

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by Anonymousreply 7January 18, 2020 1:01 AM

What the fuck was Glenn doing singing it?

by Anonymousreply 8January 18, 2020 1:05 AM

Collins’ version remains my favorite because it was the one I knew first. I almost posted the song on the sad, nostalgic song thread. Definitely takes me back to my childhood in the 70s.

by Anonymousreply 9January 18, 2020 1:06 AM

Collins has the best version, though charlie will be here momentarily in his BarbraMobile. (It's a scooter actually.) Streisand sang it pretty and repeated the bridge, but she did the unthinkable by insisting that Sondheim write HER new lyrics. It's an ironic, bitter, wistful, character song, not an excuse to show off your voice. If you want something more magical and tragic - then pass on babs - and hear it by an artist. Sarah Vaughan.

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by Anonymousreply 10January 18, 2020 1:07 AM

There were a lot of these kinds of songs in the mid '70s, R9.

A time for and of introspection.

"Feelings" anyone?

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by Anonymousreply 11January 18, 2020 1:09 AM

That Sarah Vaughan one is painful.

by Anonymousreply 12January 18, 2020 1:11 AM

Sarah Vaughan was a maestro bub. She's just not for everyone.

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by Anonymousreply 13January 18, 2020 1:19 AM

I thought #10's pic was Jimi Hendrix (imagine HIS version?!).

by Anonymousreply 14January 18, 2020 1:21 AM

Miss Grace Jones

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by Anonymousreply 15January 18, 2020 1:23 AM

Is this thread some kind of parody?

by Anonymousreply 16January 18, 2020 1:24 AM

My partner looooves Judy Collins. I hear this song every other day. It’s easier to take then a lot of her other recordings. She’s a legend, etc. but ya’ll ain’t lived til you heard her recent duet album with Stephen Stills.

by Anonymousreply 17January 18, 2020 1:25 AM

I thought it was Isaac Hayes, R14. I got confused when Sarah appeared.

by Anonymousreply 18January 18, 2020 1:25 AM

That Grace Jones one sounds like Yoko Ono.

by Anonymousreply 19January 18, 2020 1:27 AM

Maybe DL needs a really basic qualification exam.

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by Anonymousreply 20January 18, 2020 1:28 AM

[quote]My partner looooves Judy Collins.I hear this song every other day.

LOL. That's true love...dealing with that on an every other day basis.

by Anonymousreply 21January 18, 2020 1:29 AM

This is actually important because Collins' version won Sondheim "Song of the Year" at the Grammys. He's won several for Original Broadway Cast, but this is his only win in the pop music category.

by Anonymousreply 22January 18, 2020 1:29 AM

Glynis is the original. The song was written for her, and Judi Dench’s version is very much what Sondheim intended.

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by Anonymousreply 23January 18, 2020 1:34 AM

Who is the actor in the E. Taylor clip @ R20? Someone must know.

by Anonymousreply 24January 18, 2020 1:36 AM

Judy's is technically flawless, but there's no soul behind it. That juxtaposition kinda gives me the creeps, to be perfectly honest. So it's gotta be Judy and Glynis at r23 for me.

This is not a song where you should be showing off your technical prowess by adorning it with bells and whistles, I don't think.

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by Anonymousreply 25January 18, 2020 1:37 AM

His name is Len Cariou, I've found out for myself.

He takes the American teeth thing a bit too far, I think.

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by Anonymousreply 26January 18, 2020 1:42 AM

Judy Collins is a big white-voiced bore

by Anonymousreply 27January 18, 2020 1:43 AM

R 21 also Rita Coolidge, Buffy Saint Marie, Odetta & Laura Nyro! On rotation with Judy Collins. Those are his divas & they all have a million albums! I give.

by Anonymousreply 28January 18, 2020 1:43 AM

Len looks better with his mouth closed.

Sorry America!

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by Anonymousreply 29January 18, 2020 1:44 AM

I never liked Judy Collins. She was always too airy-fairy. Her version is too vanilla, no feeling in her version.

Cleo Laine is a contender.

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by Anonymousreply 30January 18, 2020 1:49 AM

[quote]I never liked Judy Collins. She was always too airy-fairy. Her version is too vanilla, no feeling in her version.

I think it's beautiful. I prefer understated. There's enough drama in the song.

[quote]Cleo Laine is a contender.

But I agree. One of the best so far.

by Anonymousreply 31January 18, 2020 1:53 AM

[quote]What the fuck was Glenn doing singing it?

In the early-mid 1990s, there was a general feeling that it was time for a revival of A Little Night Music. New York City Opera had done their very good version with Sally Anne Howes and Regina Resnik and people wanted more of the show.

Miss Glennie thought she was the leading contender to play Desiree, because ya know she looks Swedish and she was a STAR! Well producers in America dragged their feet about a revival. Finally, the National Theatre in London rolled out their version with Judi Dench, who gave a spin on the song by making it angry, and Glenn slunk away in shame, never to be heard from again. Then Miss Catherine Zeta-Jones swooped in and brought beauty and elegance to Desiree and picked up her Tony.

by Anonymousreply 32January 18, 2020 1:57 AM

What a story, R32!

I'll memorize everything you've said and will throw it out there when I'm called upon to do so.

by Anonymousreply 33January 18, 2020 2:03 AM

Len Cariou is Canadian. He originated the role of Fredrik in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC on Broadway and later plated the same role in the film. He was also the original Sweeney Todd on Broadway. He is now the patriarch on the television show, BLUE BLOODS.

by Anonymousreply 34January 18, 2020 2:03 AM

[quote]Len Cariou is Canadian.

Yet his teeth are clearly AMERICAN.

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by Anonymousreply 35January 18, 2020 2:06 AM

Glenn was part of "Up With People"---for years she refused to discuss it, but now she will and maybe she wanted to sing again.

Glynis sounds awful--like she'd been gargling with razor blades.

Sarah Vaughan just has a bad arrangement--I'll bet she could carry it off with a different one

But Judy Collins' version is near perfect. It's crystalline in a way that really fits the song and draws attention to the lyrics.

by Anonymousreply 36January 18, 2020 2:08 AM

Fun fact: Glenn Close used to be Len Cariou's lover. Now she just looks like him.

by Anonymousreply 37January 18, 2020 2:09 AM

I never understood that song. What the fuck was it about? "Send in the clowns?" What fucking clowns? At any rate, this honored, revered song is a stunning mediocrity. It's NOTHING.

by Anonymousreply 38January 18, 2020 2:09 AM

[quote]But Judy Collins' version is near perfect. It's crystalline in a way that really fits the song and draws attention to the lyrics.

I think she makes it a song in its own right.

by Anonymousreply 39January 18, 2020 2:11 AM

Yes, Count Basie is a terrible arranger. Fuck off old white dude.

by Anonymousreply 40January 18, 2020 2:11 AM

[quote]I never understood that song. What the fuck was it about? "Send in the clowns?" What fucking clowns? At any rate, this honored, revered song is a stunning mediocrity. It's NOTHING.

Maybe if you understood it, you'd realise it's SOMETHING.

by Anonymousreply 41January 18, 2020 2:12 AM

Why the hell not? Everybody else sang it.

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by Anonymousreply 42January 18, 2020 2:15 AM

Peggy Lee

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by Anonymousreply 43January 18, 2020 2:22 AM

Frida from ABBA does a lovely version in Swedish, clearly inspired by Judy Collins version

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by Anonymousreply 44January 18, 2020 2:26 AM

I love Eydie, but her voice wasn't suited to this.

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by Anonymousreply 45January 18, 2020 2:27 AM

81 year old great-grandmother sings it.

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by Anonymousreply 46January 18, 2020 2:27 AM

Peggy's version's a drag.

by Anonymousreply 47January 18, 2020 2:30 AM

[quote]81 year old great-grandmother sings it.

She's amazing.

What's not amazing is all the cutting to people on that panel.

by Anonymousreply 48January 18, 2020 2:33 AM

"Maybe if you understood it, you'd realise it's SOMETHING."

Well, you explain it to me then, because I still don't know what the fuck it's about. All I know is that it's so dull it puts me to sleep just listening to it.

by Anonymousreply 49January 18, 2020 2:34 AM

Just because I said that doesn't mean I know that the fuck it's about either.

by Anonymousreply 50January 18, 2020 2:37 AM

Judy Collin's version is lovely, but it's surface beauty. No soul as someone above stated.

Not crazy about Dench's rendition. It's a wistful, rueful song, not an angry one. But she's better than CZJ who did it as if Desiree was bi-polar.

Barbra is too self-conscious in her singing of the song.

by Anonymousreply 51January 18, 2020 2:38 AM

Oh for fuck's sake! Is this a drag queen?

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by Anonymousreply 52January 18, 2020 2:42 AM

It was written to be a song of regret and anger.

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by Anonymousreply 53January 18, 2020 2:43 AM

I had no idea there were so many versions.

This thread is a Pandora's Box! I think. I'm not exactly sure what a Pandora's box is.

by Anonymousreply 54January 18, 2020 2:46 AM

Torchy Men's Choir

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by Anonymousreply 55January 18, 2020 2:51 AM

Desiree Armfeldt, born on Long Island.

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by Anonymousreply 56January 18, 2020 2:56 AM

A beautifully trained singer who also conveyed the subtleties of the lyric....Ruthie Henshall.

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by Anonymousreply 57January 18, 2020 2:59 AM

Millicent Martin doesn't even bother to change out of her jogging clothes before singing it.

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by Anonymousreply 58January 18, 2020 3:06 AM

OP - I think you meant can of worms more than a Pandora's Box.

When I first saw Glynis' version, a while ago before this thread was created, I thought it was so painful that it was cruel of them to actually film it.

by Anonymousreply 59January 18, 2020 3:09 AM

Cher LOOKS gorgeous here. She sings it the way you'd expect. Not bad. It requires no range to sing this song - just some attitude of ennui and sadness.

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by Anonymousreply 60January 18, 2020 3:11 AM

Poetry in motion:

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by Anonymousreply 61January 18, 2020 3:13 AM

No one sings it quite like the beautiful AND talented Collins.

by Anonymousreply 62January 18, 2020 3:14 AM

Sadly, I don’t have a recording, but the version my high school marching band performed in 1982 was majestic, if I do say so myself.

Send (quarter turn)

in (quarter turn)

the (quarter turn)

CLOWNS!!!!

by Anonymousreply 63January 18, 2020 3:17 AM

Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall (2001).

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by Anonymousreply 64January 18, 2020 3:20 AM

Can't have a Sondheim classic without his beloved Bernadette. She's no Ruthie Henshall.

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by Anonymousreply 65January 18, 2020 3:20 AM

What the hell does Flo start singing in the middle section? Something that Sondheim ripped up and threw in the trash? Was she contracted to perform a 4 minute segment and they had to pad the song?

Start about the 2:10 mark.

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by Anonymousreply 66January 18, 2020 3:21 AM

Helen Schneider's neurotic version. Oh, those wacky Germans!

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by Anonymousreply 67January 18, 2020 3:28 AM

Florence Henderson interpolates some lines from Rodgers and Hart's "Little Girl Blue."

by Anonymousreply 68January 18, 2020 3:28 AM

Dear God - this goes on and on and on.

OP from England here. I just don't think it was ever such a family favourite in my country. Apart from Judy and Judi I've never heard another version.

My life has changed forever.

by Anonymousreply 69January 18, 2020 3:43 AM

Stay tuned. Dame Shirley,Liberace,Dame Julie,Boy George, Placido Domingo, Krusty and lots more after the break.

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by Anonymousreply 70January 18, 2020 4:00 AM

I never much liked the song. It's really just a minor key recitation, with a few grace notes. Properly theatrical. Judy Collins version was kind of spectral and spooky. I didn't know when I first heard it that that's how she sang everything. She's long before my time. I've posted a few versions of Send in The Clowns on this thread and have now heard a few too many. I'll never listen to that fucking song again.

by Anonymousreply 71January 18, 2020 4:09 AM

[quote]r66 What the hell does Flo start singing in the middle section? Something that Sondheim ripped up and threw in the trash?

[quote]R68 Florence Henderson interpolates some lines from Rodgers and Hart's "Little Girl Blue."

Yes. This was perhaps a medley that had Mrs. Brady opening with that song, then they brought a verse of it back before the big finish (?)

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by Anonymousreply 72January 18, 2020 4:10 AM

As with all musical-based songs, it's always Bernadette who can pour the most pathos into it. Her version from the actual production after she took over for CZJ is fantastic.

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by Anonymousreply 73January 18, 2020 4:16 AM

I hear when Stritch auditioned to replace Lansbury in the revival she sang this song.

Send in the fucking clowns, where are the god damned clowns, don't fucking bother, they're here.

by Anonymousreply 74January 18, 2020 4:20 AM

[bold] [italic]LINE ! !

by Anonymousreply 75January 18, 2020 4:21 AM

Julie Andrews.

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by Anonymousreply 76January 18, 2020 4:24 AM

Shouldn't that be, "Send in the...LINE ! !?"

by Anonymousreply 77January 18, 2020 4:25 AM

Valentine Ruth.

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by Anonymousreply 78January 18, 2020 4:26 AM

Krusty (feat. Sideshow Mel)

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by Anonymousreply 79January 18, 2020 4:26 AM

Oops--here's Krusty!

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by Anonymousreply 80January 18, 2020 4:26 AM

All of us - -

(Waitress: “Hi! Can I get you a drink?”)

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by Anonymousreply 81January 18, 2020 4:31 AM

It is with great sadness I just read that Wing retired in 2015 (!) This means we will never hear the penultimate, definitive version of “Send In the Clowns”[bold]: ( [/bold] GOD DAMN YOU, MR. SONDHEIM, FOR NOT GRANTING HER THE RIGHTS!

We’ll just have to make due with her ABBA stuff...

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by Anonymousreply 82January 18, 2020 5:15 AM

OP, not to blow your mind but I just realized the recording you posted isn't the same one I've been listening to all my life. She must have re-recorded the song at some point (I notice it charted in both 1975 and 1977 - different recordings?) Anyway, I prefer her vocals in this version. Much softer and more vulnerable.

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by Anonymousreply 83January 18, 2020 5:59 AM

Never liked Judy Collins' music, but she inspired a lot of music I love via Stephen Stills.

by Anonymousreply 84January 18, 2020 6:00 AM

[quote]OP, not to blow your mind

Too late. It's blown!

I agree, your version is much nicer.

I don't know how to identify one from the other once I get out into the world with these. Maybe one was the album version and the other the single.

by Anonymousreply 85January 18, 2020 10:52 AM

Hannah Waddingham, who was the first Desiree in the Trevor Nunn's London production that later transferred to Broadway with CZJ.

She was really great.

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by Anonymousreply 86January 18, 2020 11:39 AM

Don’t you love farts? My farts I fear...

by Anonymousreply 87January 18, 2020 1:06 PM

Don’t you love farts? My farts I fear...

by Anonymousreply 88January 18, 2020 1:06 PM

Judy's version leaves out verses, which of course makes it suck.

I would like to have heard Karen Carpenter sing this..

Olivia Newton-Lez did a version but it's after she got old and her voice went so it's not worth listening to.

by Anonymousreply 89January 18, 2020 2:14 PM

All these versions!

It was The Shadow Of Your Smile of the 70s.

by Anonymousreply 90January 18, 2020 2:17 PM

[quote]I didn't know there were two versions. Which is the most famous, [R1]?

How little I knew just 13 hours ago!

by Anonymousreply 91January 18, 2020 2:20 PM

Dame Shirley

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by Anonymousreply 92January 18, 2020 2:21 PM

[quote] I prefer Canadian national treasure Joni Mitchell's version.

I'm dying to hear it, as I never recorded it.

by Anonymousreply 93January 18, 2020 2:24 PM

I still think Judy wins. So understated.

You can imagine if it had been a new song post-1990, the shrieking and embellishing!

And she sang it so well LIVE back in '76 >

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by Anonymousreply 94January 18, 2020 2:29 PM

R93, FINALLY!

by Anonymousreply 95January 18, 2020 2:31 PM

I don't like her version best, but Barbra Streisand was absolutely correct.

Sondheim screwed up by not using his strongest line last: "Don't bother they're here."

by Anonymousreply 96January 18, 2020 2:34 PM

Beyond the Icelandic zombie-like soullessness of Collins' singing, she always sounded slightly off-key to me.

R11 Yeah, the mid to late 70s... a time of quiet reflection and self-assessment. As in, "where are the rest of the drugs?? I know there were some left last night!! What did you do??!!" (what am I doing with this loser... jeez, I need to get high.)

by Anonymousreply 97January 18, 2020 3:18 PM

I'm sorry if that was your experience of the mid to late 70s, R97.

Listen to Judy sing it live at R94 and think again.

There were many sides to that era.

by Anonymousreply 98January 18, 2020 3:41 PM

I will never forgive Judy Garland for checking out too early. If she had just held on for a few more years, she could have done wonders with those Sondheim songs. No doubt, Send In The Clowns would have been in one of her concerts. It's almost the book end to Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Shame on Liza for not getting her mother the help she needed!

by Anonymousreply 99January 18, 2020 3:42 PM

[quote]Shame on Liza for not getting her mother the help she needed!

She wash a lasht caush!

by Anonymousreply 100January 18, 2020 4:07 PM

r52

what the fuck

by Anonymousreply 101January 18, 2020 4:29 PM

Jerry Lewis on the Donny & Marie Show, totally missing the point

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by Anonymousreply 102January 18, 2020 4:42 PM

[quote]Shame on Liza for not getting her mother the help she needed!

R99, gurl.

Don't be a trouble maker!

by Anonymousreply 103January 18, 2020 4:45 PM

LOL - every time I scroll past this thread, I think OP's pic is Kate Middleston posted by a Meghan stan.

by Anonymousreply 104January 18, 2020 4:47 PM

[quote] She’s a legend, etc. but ya’ll ain’t lived til you heard her recent duet album with Stephen Stills.

Because it’s so good or because it’s so bad?

by Anonymousreply 105January 18, 2020 5:01 PM

[Quote] Sondheim screwed up by not using his strongest line last: "Don't bother they're here."

Hardly. He wanted to end the song on a semi hopeful note - you can hear that not just in the lyric but in the melody of the line "Well, maybe next year."

by Anonymousreply 106January 18, 2020 5:04 PM

I wish the Nora Dunn parody would see the light of day! I remember watching it when it first aired. Hilarious!

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by Anonymousreply 107January 18, 2020 5:04 PM

I've been running through the album this song first appeared on, searching for another gem. No luck so far.

by Anonymousreply 108January 18, 2020 5:13 PM

I remember there being a very nice "I'll Be Seeing You" on that album.

by Anonymousreply 109January 18, 2020 5:16 PM

Judy’s best album.

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by Anonymousreply 110January 18, 2020 5:16 PM

[quote]I remember there being a very nice "I'll Be Seeing You" on that album.

I found that. It's...OK.

by Anonymousreply 111January 18, 2020 5:24 PM

R102 Marie Osmond is hilariously moon-faced. No wonder she wears such big wigs now.

Donny was so cute. Pity he resorted to bad surgery and worse wigs.

by Anonymousreply 112January 18, 2020 5:44 PM

I don't think he looks bad. He should let go of the boot polish black hair dye, though.

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by Anonymousreply 113January 18, 2020 5:48 PM

[quote]I don't think he looks bad.

Put your glasses on grandpa. He's pulled tight!

by Anonymousreply 114January 18, 2020 5:51 PM

What race is Donny Osmond now? He looks like a Filipino street vendor. There ought to be clowns...

by Anonymousreply 115January 18, 2020 7:13 PM

Don’t bother, they’re here

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by Anonymousreply 116January 18, 2020 7:18 PM

R116 OMG! Are Donny Osmond and Sarah Huckabee Sanders the same person?

by Anonymousreply 117January 18, 2020 7:28 PM

Streisand includes this one in her concerts- seen her do it a couple times- You can hear people breathing when she sings it.

by Anonymousreply 118January 18, 2020 7:35 PM

This is about Donny Osmond now?

by Anonymousreply 119January 18, 2020 7:35 PM

We could make it about Follies if you’d prefer

by Anonymousreply 120January 18, 2020 7:59 PM

I started to watch the Jerry Lewis version at r102, but the clowns scared me. Seriously.

At least Mrs. Brady’s r66 clowns are innocuous. (And is that MAUREEN emoting @ 01:58???)

by Anonymousreply 121January 19, 2020 1:20 AM

Carol Diane Johnson.

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by Anonymousreply 122January 19, 2020 1:24 AM

Hasn't this thread kind of worn out? Everyone but the OP knew that the song had been performed many times, by many famous people. And some here are reposting the same recordings. A simple google or youtube search will bring up many renditions. It's not a song that can be covered in many different variations. Just different singers. Hundreds of them. The OP is in love with Judy Collins. That's a bad sign. And anyone else who thinks it's a great or profound song is dating themselves. Not even the simplest minds can see it as anything more than luck on his part.

Fun Fact: Judy Garland never sang or recorded "My Funny Valentine." She hated that song - said it was like singing the scales. Lots of famous songs aren't much more. Send in The Clowns isn't even that.

by Anonymousreply 123January 19, 2020 1:34 AM

No, it isn't rich.

by Anonymousreply 124January 19, 2020 1:46 AM

In context, near the end of “A Little Night Music”, when Desiree sits down on that bed, “Send in the Clowns” is remarkably effective. It has made me cry in the theater several times.

Out of context, the song is slight and odd.

by Anonymousreply 125January 19, 2020 2:25 AM

[quote] The OP is in love with Judy Collins. That's a bad sign.

Nonsense. I don't like anything else she's done. I don't even like this that much.

And why should it bother you if a few stragglers post a few more versions?

You're an awful bossy woman, suggesting google and shit.

This was a sweet thread until you lifted your leg on it.

And then you have the cheek to post your horrid “fun fact”....with another snark about Clowns.

by Anonymousreply 126January 19, 2020 3:10 AM

But that fun fact is true. And worth considering. Why didn't Judy Garland want to sing My Funny Valentine? It is as I reported, and indeed is a fun fact. I wasn't born until 1983 so I wasn't exactly there. Some y'all eldergays get too drunk on Friday and Saturday nights. That's why the racist threads proliferate here during that time too right R126. Miss Collins was surely very white. And her disconnected falsetto head voice was awful and that was accepted as singing back then because I've heard Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez do it too. Very weird. Better singers came along or like Joni, they adjusted their style. But we don't have to like Judy Collins now do we? She did sing Send in The Clowns quite well. You must be not only a Judy Collins fan, but also a dripping old Linda Ronstadt troll? I can't figure out your animosity R126? What about my post upset you so much.....Garland was right, old drunk drug drag addict she was - but she knew music and was incredibly astute. My Funny Valentine is just like climbing the scales. You must have loved Ronstadts blaring version of it. Everyone sang it. Judy Garland's opinion gives you a chance to run the song over again, in your head. But you already proved you aren't musical OP. "Is your figure less than greek, is your mouth a little weak, when you open it to speak are you smart? Don't change a hair for me, not if you care for me, stay little valentine....stay." All that is climbing the musical scale with a few grace notes between. Dammit but Garland was right!!!

My fun fact was about one very popular singer who refused to sing that song. That's all. It wasn't meant to hurt you motherfucker @126. What a weinergristle.

by Anonymousreply 127January 19, 2020 3:34 AM

I can believe that R125. I never liked the song, and for a long time I thought it meant I didn't like Sondheim...but I've never seen A Little Night Music. (And I've since come around to Sondheim on other occassions.)

by Anonymousreply 128January 19, 2020 5:14 AM

Isn't it rich? Am I a pair?

Me here at last on the ground, me in mid-air,

Where are the clones?

Isn't it twice? Don't you approve?

I who keeps tearing around, I who can't move

Where are the clones?

There ought to be clones

Just when I'd stopped, unraveling twine

Finally knowing the one that I wanted was mine

Making my entrance again with such duplicity

Sure of my lines, but unsure of me

Don't you love farce? My fault, what else?

I thought that I'd want what I want, Sorry, my self

But where are the clones, send in the clones

No condoms for me

Isn't it rich? I am a queer?

Often I fuck myself, right in my rear

But where are the clones? There ought to be clones

Now I'v HIV

by Anonymousreply 129January 19, 2020 9:07 AM

I love Collins version of the song and the entire album, Judith, is especially fine. Her follow up album Bread and Roses includes a wonderful cover of Leonard Cohen’s Take This Longing.

by Anonymousreply 130January 22, 2020 8:39 PM

No one sang (and acted) it better than the person for whom it was written, Glynis Johns, in the original production of ALNM. And, believe it or not, a close second is Elizabeth Taylor's rendition in the crappy movie. She hits every acting beat perfectly, and certainly better than Judi Dench, who played it all for sadness and tears.

by Anonymousreply 131January 22, 2020 9:49 PM

"Out of context, the song is slight and odd"

So slight and odd it's only one of last musical theatre songs that became a ubiquitous standard for the last fifty years.

by Anonymousreply 132January 22, 2020 9:52 PM

One of my favorites...

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by Anonymousreply 133January 22, 2020 10:02 PM

But this version of another Collins standard is even more devastating, sharing pride of place with.... Joni Mitichell's 2000 BOTH SIDES NOW revisit One for the ages.

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by Anonymousreply 134January 22, 2020 10:05 PM

Joni...

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by Anonymousreply 135January 22, 2020 10:07 PM

The truth is: both Joni and Judy were far too young when they first sang that song about looking back on life.

by Anonymousreply 136January 22, 2020 10:09 PM

[quote]The truth is: both Joni and Judy were far too young when they first sang that song about looking back on life.

I know what you mean, but don't think it matters.

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by Anonymousreply 137January 22, 2020 10:18 PM

The thing was, Joni wrote Both Sides Now in her early 20s. Though it's a beautiful song, it's really kind if naive.

by Anonymousreply 138January 23, 2020 3:57 AM

I remember that Barbra wanted to record "Send In the Clowns" for years. But she was worried because the lyrics really depended on the show. The song did not tell the complete story. She was reluctant to do a "show tune" that relied so much on the show.

I suggested that maybe Stephen Sondheim might write her another verse or two, if need be. After all, she was who she was.

When she was putting together an album of Broadway show tunes, she finally went with the idea. She called Sondheim and told him her problem with the song and asked him to consider adding another verse. He became rather indignant, called her a couple of bad words and hung up on her.

It was rather baffling. They knew each other socially, and had even been to each others' homes. It didn't seem right. After a couple of days, several of us, including Barbra, decided that maybe there was some kind of misunderstanding.

So Barbra gave him another call. And, lo and behold, it turned out that, somehow or another, Sondheim had thought during the previous phone call that he was talking to Suzanne Somers, of all people. He was happy to contribute to Barbra's project. Thus was born the "What a surprise, who could foresee" verse, which (luckily, if you ask me) never made it into the canonical lyrics. I would come to appreciate in the next few years how Sondheim must have been kowtowing to the diva, by focusing on the words "I" and "me."

by Anonymousreply 139January 23, 2020 4:35 AM

I will never forgive Sondheim for giving Streisand “Children will glisten.”

by Anonymousreply 140January 24, 2020 1:06 PM
by Anonymousreply 141February 2, 2020 1:59 AM

Why would I want to subject myself to listening to that old shit?

by Anonymousreply 142February 2, 2020 2:28 AM

R142 Is too stupid to get Shakespeare. Trash.

by Anonymousreply 143February 2, 2020 2:30 AM

She annoys me and makes me nervous, so all songs sung by her including this one do the same for me.

by Anonymousreply 144February 2, 2020 2:52 AM

[quote]Glynis sounds awful--like she'd been gargling with razor blades.

Which makes her version perfect.

by Anonymousreply 145February 2, 2020 7:04 AM

The popcorn i´m grabbing now,matches Barbras off-white gown perfectly...

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by Anonymousreply 146February 2, 2020 7:46 AM

Yeti

by Anonymousreply 147February 2, 2020 11:17 PM

OMG those AWFUL kitsch messages people leave under songs on YouTube!

This from Send in the Clowns. Get out your hankies!

[quote][bold]My mother died today after a long illness. She loved this song. She was a tough cookie with a heart of gold, lived through WW2 and used to tell me about watching the bombers flying overhead - Just a different world to the likes of me. It's ok to cry but you know what? If she were here she would probably just smile and say, "Life goes on". I'm going to miss her.[/bold]

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670 THUMBS UP

by Anonymousreply 148February 3, 2020 9:47 AM

I laugh at all the YouTube posts when some celeb dies young, and people are wailing, “Well, she’s with God now. Sleep well, baby angel!”

I’m like, “Well, why did your god have to [italic]SLAUGHTER HER??”

by Anonymousreply 149February 3, 2020 3:01 PM

[quote] I remember that Barbra wanted to record "Send In the Clowns" for years. But she was worried because the lyrics really depended on the show. The song did not tell the complete story. She was reluctant to do a "show tune" that relied so much on the show.

You can see why she was so worried. I mean, it had never been taken out of the show before then and sung on its own.

by Anonymousreply 150February 3, 2020 3:51 PM

You bitches are slipping! No one who ever saw this version sang for a tv audience of MILLIONS will ever forget the passion, the pathos, the hair. I present the one, the only: JUDY COHEN.

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by Anonymousreply 151February 4, 2020 1:27 AM
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