Baby Rose Marie ~ My Bluebird is Singing the Blues
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- čas přidán 14. 11. 2007
- Baby Rose Marie
My BluesBird is Singing the Blues.
The Vaudeville girl with a voice to fill the whole theatre. An Amazingly big voice in a tiny girl.
I apologize for the poor video quality, I have posted this mostly for Rose Maries Talent and this song.
I hope you over look the poor video quality and Enjoy!!!
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"My Bluebird's Singing the Blues"
Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, 1933
I heard a Blue Bird Singing One Day
He seemed a Messenger of Happy News
He Filled the Air Above with His Song of Love
But Now My Bluebird is Singing the Blues
A Pair of Blue Eyes Wandered My Way
And How Was I to Know I'd Love and Lose?
But Now My Bluebird's Nest is a Blackbird's Rest
And my? Bluebird's Singing the Blues!
I was a Dumb One, Love was Blind
Or Maybe I Should Blame it on the Moon
A Certain Someone Changed Her/His Mind
Now My Bluebird Changed His Tune
And Now? my Blue Skies Seem to be Gray
And I Packed Away My Dancing Shoes
Because My Big Romance Was a Song & Dance
That's Why My Bluebird is Singing the Blues! - Hudba
![SEA SORE [1934] - "BABY" ROSE MARIE, MONTE COLLINS](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jqdLSG5LFPc/mqdefault.jpg)
She had a very big career as a kid but her family somehow managed to give her a totally normal childhood. As she said once, her friends then were still her friends in her later years. She had a long, long, long career as a singer, an actress, a comedienne and she played the top night spots all across the country from the start. She was never a second-tier act. As a person she was totally down to the earth and totally practical. Her T.V. career was the cherry on the cake.
In fact, Rose Marie lived a block away from my grandma when she grew up in Fairview, NJ. RIP Rose Marie ❤️❤️
Spanky McFarland from Lil Rascals lived in my town when i was growing up...his granddaughter sat next to me in band ...we were both sax players.
I knew about Baby Rose Marie, the child star of the 1930s, but I didn't realize that she was THE Rose Marie from the Dick Van Dyke Show!
Get a load of that kid. Wow. She was sensational.
Yes In this performance. You can see why Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner hired her to be Sally on the Dick Van Dyke show And they gave her multiple opportunities to sing on that show and sounds exactly like how she sounds here I’m not kidding
Took some time before I found out Sally and Baby Rose Marie is the same person, incredibly talented both as a child and as an adult.
I watched the documentary about her life which she narrated in her later years. She was the highest paid performer of this time, yet never saw a cent of her earnings. Her gangster father took it all. Amazing talent for one so young!
Wow, what a crum! What a real bum to take his own daughter's money. He was like the prototype for Jamie Spears. 😠
My father was a Concert Pianist a few years earlier. He left Italy in 1928 at the age of 8 to do a 2 year tour. He was an amazing talent. He was billed as The Italian Mozart. My Grandfather was an attorney in Rome but he could not do so in this country. My father's earnings were used to support his parents and his brother and sister until he was married in 1948. It wasn't that unusual in that era. He didn't resent his family in the slightest. Still it is a shame they didn't put anything aside for him when he reached adulthood...
She must have had the longest career in show biz of any woman.
Yeah, she was. And I think Mickey Rooney was the same for a man.
...well....there’s still Betty White, hangin’in there...:)
@@suzannereilman4516 Rose Marie's career ran from 1926 to 2017. That's 91 years active!!! 😯
Betty White's career ran from 1939-2021. That's _only_ 82 years active. 😜
Betty was borne a year after Rose Marie, but Rose Marie got a jump on Betty by starting out at only 3 years old. Betty waited until the ripe old age of 17 to start out. 🙃
Betty was more high profile in recent years, but Rose Marie was definitely still working, doing a lot of voice acting.
RIP to both these wonderful women. 💖
Rest in peace. December 28, 2017.
My bluebird's singing the blues now that Rose Marie has passed, loved her. :(
What an amazing talent a regular mini flapper and what a mature vocal quality. All my love to Baby Rose Marie
not just an amazing voice, but total stage command and amazing performance personality--you just can't learn that. What an amazing natural talent
True, a voice like that - you are born with that talent. Tremendous voice!
@@suzannelawson9215 Not just the voice -- she also had amazing stage presence.
Looked this up after hearing her mention it in an interview. Wow-- what a talent! Always enjoyed her role on the Dick VanDyke Show; only recently learning that her career was much more than that-- NINE decades! Amazing! 👏 Thanks for posting this--
Ya gotta love Rose Marie! It's just the right thing to do.
It’s the only thing you can
Do
I was watching an old episode of Dick Van Dyke we are Rosemarie was singing a song during one of the episodes. I looked her up in IMDb and then came across this video. And amazing voice as a young child and hey career spanning 90 years. Pretty amazing
* She was decades ahead of her time as a kind of 1930s not yet pre-teen Janis Joplin. ☺
This is so trippy - we're viewing a clip from a film on a TV, recorded by the OP, and the film shows its characters watching Rose Marie on a TV. Thanks, OP! :D
The plot of the movie was about bidders trying to buy the rights to a television device from a Chinese inventor.
This clip is from "International House" (1933) with W.C.Fields.
Wow! What a great piece of history this film is. RIP Rose Marie!
The film is international house ..WC Fields with Can Callaway an more
What incredible control
She really was a unique child singer.
Thanks for the post
To have such a mature voice at such a young age is amazing so talented.
5 going on 25 what a voice💞
She was 9 1/2 years old here.
Wow, that's Rose Marie?? Omg she has been so talented all of her life!! =)
As Mr. Rogers often said, you learn something old every day.
from the 1933 ensemble movie International House, which also featured WC Fields, Burns and Allen, Cab Calloway, and Bela Lugosi.
Cab Calloway does his famous "Reefer Man" number in the movie.
From the movie International House. What a show stopper.
She had serious soul in her style and voice! Loved her too on the Dick Van Dyke show. Everytime I revisit this little video I play it like 5 times in a row!
Thanks for posting this number from the movie "International House", I watch the DVD often. Amazing how much music was produced with just two pianos and a small girl's gifted voice!
RIP gal. Thanks for the memories.
Love her bob style.
This was the Prince Valiant cut very popular for children male or female. Also called the Buster Brown cut. My father had one around 1926 he was six....
What a gem! RIP Baby Rose Marie.
she looks like a young Bea Arthur
Just wonderful!
So cute and talented.
Born to sing!
Rest In Peace, Rose Marie!
She was exceptional. I loved her in everything I saw her in. 💘
After seeing her all those years on DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, and later, it was such a joy to see what I had heard about. Baby Rose Marie could certainly belt it out.
I miss her already❤️ rip, rose marie
Sweetpea3339, Zeke Pratt is right. Rose Marie was 9 or so when this was filmed. That was the thing about her...she had this voice and that mature face...but she was a child.
She looks 12.
yes amazing voice.. I am looking at this clip because i wanted to hear her sing "I wanna be around" which she sang on the Dick Van Dyke show. I enjoyed her singing it more than any other recording of it...Can't find it though.
She's amazing!
She was 9 1/2 years old here -- defining the term "precocious talent".
She sang locally from age 3, was put on radio at age 5. She was a seasoned professional by 9 1/2.
Surprisingly Ms. Marie's looks did change much over her long life !
I love this clip!
You found it!!!
GREAT!!
That is from the 1933 movie International House.
I don't know, I love her voice.
Baby Rose Marie was pretty much a miniature "flapper". She was probablythe most talented child performer ever. She had a great career. She started performing when she was 4 years old. She was given a 3 year contract to perform on the radio at the age of 12. People who listened didn't believe she was a child so they put together a live tour to prove she wasn't an adult. She actually sanf at the opening of The Flamingo in the 40s. She became upset when she recieved her first paycheck. It was a couole ofvdollars less than what she thought she would get and she complained to the man who gave her the check. She didnt know who he was. It was actually Ben Siegal aka Bugsy Siegal. Ben Siegal did not appreciate being called Bugsy....
LOOK FOR HER DOCUMENTARY!!! its great . 'Wait for your laugh"
Thank you soooo much for putting this back up'!
To Gregg and others:
I also love Rose Marie. In reference to her voice, she ruined it by giving it that gravelly, strained quality that was so in vogue at that time. I took singing lessons and that is one thing they teach you: "Never strain your voice in that way". She paid for it in later live-- it ruined her vocal chords and she had that raspy quality but she overcame it.
Actually, her voice was most likely ruined as a product of smoking and pregnancy and not that gravelly singing tone (though it probably didn't help matters). Growing up in an era when smoking was in vogue, she was likely hooked at an early age. Few articles actually discuss her smoking, but at the time if you didn't smoke it was odd. Rose Marie also had a child (Georgiana Marie Guy). Hormones from pregnancy will wreak havoc on the vocal folds making the tone permanently deeper and sometimes raspy on top of the smoking. Ultimately, her lower tone and raspy voice was almost assuredly the product of cigarettes and pregnancy hormones. In the 50s and 60s, no one thought twice that smoking or pregnancy might change the voice in this way. Today, we know better.
As another more recent example, Whitney Houston's vocal folds paid the ultimate price from smoking (literally becoming hoarse in 2003-2005.. she could only whisper). It took extensive vocal coaching to bring back any of her voice. Whitney is the penultimate poster child of why you shouldn't smoke as a singer and shows exactly what damage smoking can do. Smoking is especially damaging to the female vocalist where high notes are important for a long career. Note also that while Whitney Houston had one child, she miscarried 5-7 times, each of those also wreaked havoc on her vocal folds because of hormones in addition to smoking (among her other vices).
+abigguitar nobody's voice is ruined by pregnancy. That crazy.
Oh, wait- you're saying she gave birth through her mouth. Makes total sense.
Not ruined, necessarily, but changed. Melanie Safka's voice changed noticeably after she had her first child. She started having this kind of mellow sound and her middle register sounded better.
mgbsecteacher: Thank you for confirming something I've long suspected.
@@abigguitar Well I'll be damned, you're right. I looked it up and found this quote:
"Researchers from the University of Sussex found new mothers' voices become lower and more monotonous after they have had their first baby."
I found that very funny, especially the "monotonous" part. I thought it took mothers a few years of having to repeat themselves before they became monotonous, but apparently it happens immediately. 🤣
As for the smoking thing, you're 100% correct. My grandpa started smoking in the 1930's at the age of 9.
Between the smoking, the pregnancy, and the growling singing, Rose Marie was destined to end up with a gruff voice.
Did Witney smoked cigarettes? Or just crack? God, it really blows my mind the "THE Voice" would smoke ANYTHING. Everyone definitely knew better than to smoke if you wanted to protect your voice by the time she started smoking. But I guess she just needed the high to keep her pepped up and going. But of all the ways to administer a drug, smoking should have been the LAST option for Witney. Her voice was so damn amazing. She still retained her voice through all the smoking. Simply amazing.
Rest in peace.
If you have not seen 'International House' with Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a woman who swung more than a 'few' big deals in her day' playing herself and getting top billing, even over W. C. Fields! With George and Gracie Allen too! Not to be missed!
And Bela Lugosi in a comedy role! I love the movie and have had it for years, first recorded onto a vhs tape when it was on AMC years ago and now on DVD.
And Cab Calloway's famous "Reefer Man" number.
love it!
Didn''t miss a note...Impressive..
Right, and given the year she was born (1923) and the year of this clip (1933), she was indeed about 10.
Not that old -- she was only 9 1/2 :-)
I heard that singing this way as a child without professional voice training was why her voice was so rough as an adult
I was just listening to her acceptance speech from just a few years ago when she was honored by the Smithsonian. It struck me that for the first time ever, her voice sounded clear and feminine, not husky the way it's always sounded since at least the Dick Van Dyke Show. It's very odd that her voice would be higher now in her later years rather than deeper and more husky. That's the reverse of what usually can happen.
Wow. Maybe she stopped smoking and growl singing for long enough that her vocal chords were able to repair themselves?
Unfortunately, her way of singing as a child ruined her vocal cords. She swore she never smoked a day in her life but sounded like she did.
Spendid!!
RIP, Ro.
So she adopted the hairbow in adulthood????? I've never seen her without it, even in her later years.
wow she was born 5 years before Shirley Temple
I can’t believe this is the same person that played Rose Marie in the 1960’s Dick Van Dike show. She said later in life, people thought it was a GD midget singing on the radio 📻
I wonder what Sophie Tucker thought of Rose Marie!
That's what I want to know, 'cause that's who she's imitating with that "gutter voice"!
I guess that jazz rasp that she does is quite difficult to do correctly, for someone so young singing with such a voice, I imagine it might be tough on the vocal chords...?
has everyone heard Janet Klein's version of this song?
And that sitcom was "MY SISTER EILEEN" (1960-'61), co-starring Elaine Stritch and Shirley Bonne- which was going to be cancelled after only one season, anyway.
Thanks for posting this. I had never known she was Baby Rose Marie before she was just Rose Marie. Does anyone know if she was ever on the Little Rascals / Our Gang series for an episode? There was a "little rich girl" in one episode where she was lonely in her big house playing with a pet monkey. (No kidding!) The girl reminds me of Baby Rose Marie. Was that her? What a voice!
I think you’re talking about Shirley Jean Rickert
RIP
She was born in 1923. This clip is 1933. Do the math.
With a bit more precision, it comes to 9 1/2 .
No math needed! She seems like she's a little older! If that pisses you off TOO BAD!
The pianist is just amazing; who is he?
There are two. IMdb makes no mention of who they might be.
In better-quality videos (no offense meant), the one in the foreground looks a lot like George Gershwin (but of course he isn't).
@ipmoic i don't think she sounds ruined at all
she died yesterday
Are the piano players the Gershwins? The one in front looks like George!
Looks like, but isn't -- if he were, we'd know about it. And the other one certainly isn't Ira.
Where can I find the lyrics?
Right above, in the description.
You can see why dick van Dyke and Carl Reiner hired her
I bet it was cigarettes that did in her voice
Rose Marie and June Lockhart (still working) should hold the record for longest career, not Betty White and a Brazilian actress.
Shes Amazing...But she looks more mature...Getting to look more teenager here... but still dressing like some one younger....Strange times....
Makeup.
Look really close at her face ........she is NOT 9 or 10 in this clip. She is older than that! But still talented!
Despite what you think you see, she was 9 1/2 -- based on year of birth and filiming dates.
They put makeup on her.