For those who don't know: "Some Other Time" has lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein. It was written for the first musical they all did, "On the Town" (premiered on Broadway in 1944). Originally it's sung by four people: two sailors on 24-hour shore leave and the women they've met and fallen in love with. We have director George Abbott to thank for this wonderful song -- he told Bernstein, Comden & Green to come up with a quiet number for the four characters in the subway on their way to Coney Island in Act Two. The number was written out-of-town in Boston, and because Bernstein didn't have a piano in his hotel room, he rehearsed it with the cast in the show window of Boston Music Company, opposite the Boston Common. The greatest song from a great score!
Thank you sharing your knowledge of how this song was created.....Fascinating information .......I'm always amazed at how people know wonderful details about a song and how it was created......
@@pamelaledgerwood2004 You're welcome! Fyi, director George Abbott was also responsible for the writing of "Steam Heat" -- one of Bob Fosse's great numbers in The Pajama Game -- and for telling Stephen Sondheim to replace the opening number in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum -- result: "Comedy Tonight"! What a legacy!
Barbra has the most glorious sounding tones of any singer. And what she does with her voice is just mesmerizing. It’s like liquid diamonds when she opens her mouth to sing. What a gift!
Streisand a good singer, but best female siner that ever existed, there are many other singers superior vocally Barbara Cook, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Berrnadette Peters, Audra McDonald, just to mention a few.
@@peterholwill1170 Only one Best Voice- Maria Callas. Her voice was "Miraculous". BUT as a whole, it would be hard to argue that anyone had overall performing talent close to Barbra.
Hi difficult to compare singers from different genres.Callas was a great opera star, great actress as well as a singer.I saw her in Tosca ROH in Tosca she was fantastic.That said her high notes C5 and above not always pretty to listen to.Joan Sutherland, Tebaldi were also singing at the time and vocally superior to Callas, but not her equal in orher areas of performance.Barbra Streisand a theatrical singer so you can't compare to Ella or Sarah Vaughan who were jazz singers.These Ella and Sarah had exceptional voices and musical skills beyond anything Streisand could do.Singer closest to Streisand in style and voice production was Judy Garland.Having seen them both Garland the better of the two, but that's personal preference.Garland at her best had more vocal power and greater emotional intensity and her voice was warmer, richer and never had the nasal quality present in the Streisand voice.
Well you have a right to your opinion but such sweeping statements sound rather silly.How can you compare an opera singer very very different styles and vocalT techniques from pop singers ? Opera singers are taught to sing without amplification, put Streisand on a stage without amplification with Callas, Tebaldi, Renee Fleming and you would not be able to hear her.Then there are jazz singers like Ella and Sarah Vaughan, great voices with musical skills neither Streisand or opera singers possess.So many great singers in different genres, so to select one singer as the best unfair and disrespectful to many great artists.
@@peterholwill1170 I am a Musician/Teacher who has played/arranged for both and Know(Knew) both. For much of my life I was a recording musician - only taking the place of performers for their records and completely anonymously by contract - back when they recorded everything in one place before mixing. Opera singers have properly designed Opera houses that are acoustically correct but they still have to fill the house. I am directly talking to pure control of the voice at all volume levels and while Maria was the master at her best- there is not another popular artist that can hold a candle to Barbra for the ability to control her volume and vibrato at the same time. Both have lost some control over time but at their best, Neither Ella nor Sarah (Both of whom I also played for - but late in their careers) can really be compared to those two although they are among the finest as well. No disrespect is intended to the greats - they are not in competition and know it. Being in that elite category for different Genre's is still a great compliment to them. Judy, for example, was well known for coming and recording a song perfectly in ONE take. I do not feel it logical to name drop here but NO DOUBT you have heard MY playing on many different recordings. Having actually spent time with quite a number of the best, the differences at the top are Minuscule - while many of the most liked are actually pretty bad.
What album is this from? Such a beautiful song. I know I'm getting old if I still call them albums and not cds.But who cares they had a better sound quality anyway or is it just that I remember them with such great memories not like the crap that they put out today?
The greatest female popular singer of the 20th century, but I much prefer the simpler version of this Bernstein/Comden/Green classic by Tony Bennett and Bill Evans. Never did hear the rendition by Barbara Cook. I look forward to hearing it.
Barbra Streisand should have avoided this song so late in her career, vocally somewhat strained, a far superior version of this by Barbara Cook, live 2007 when she was 80 years of age, the voice truly remarkable, so much vocal colour, beaiutiful tone and interpretation of lyrics spot on. No justice in the world Sreisand should have sold many more millions of records than Ms. Cook.
Peter Holwill: Per Barbara Cook’s autobiography she writes about a production of FUNNY GIRL she did with George Hamilton. But I can’t imagine Streisand as Marian the Librarian.
Yeah the audience makes it very gratifying alright. Amazing how a hundred million (give or take) can cure "stage fright". She'll be telling that stale "I forgot the words in Central Park" story until they plant her.
I am one of her biggest fans and from day one I never believed a word about having stage fright. That was a calculated move on her part so that when she did finally "Over-come-it"... as she says.... later on in her career, she could charge big bucks for tickets.
For those who don't know: "Some Other Time" has lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein. It was written for the first musical they all did, "On the Town" (premiered on Broadway in 1944). Originally it's sung by four people: two sailors on 24-hour shore leave and the women they've met and fallen in love with. We have director George Abbott to thank for this wonderful song -- he told Bernstein, Comden & Green to come up with a quiet number for the four characters in the subway on their way to Coney Island in Act Two. The number was written out-of-town in Boston, and because Bernstein didn't have a piano in his hotel room, he rehearsed it with the cast in the show window of Boston Music Company, opposite the Boston Common. The greatest song from a great score!
Thank you sharing your knowledge of how this song was created.....Fascinating information .......I'm always amazed at how people know wonderful details about a song and how it was created......
@@pamelaledgerwood2004 You're welcome! Fyi, director George Abbott was also responsible for the writing of "Steam Heat" -- one of Bob Fosse's great numbers in The Pajama Game -- and for telling Stephen Sondheim to replace the opening number in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum -- result: "Comedy Tonight"! What a legacy!
Barbra has the most glorious sounding tones of any singer. And what she does with her voice is just mesmerizing. It’s like liquid diamonds when she opens her mouth to sing. What a gift!
Can’t stop watching this! Fantastic vocal and shows Barbra’s great sense of humor.
She is perfection!! ❤
She is so cute and funny! I freakin' love her!
And this song is one of my favorites! :)
Thanks for sharing!
She really is cute and funny. Love her smile.
Great singer, great song.
Beautiful lower register.
Song and words are like poetry.
True, that's what I love about her songs! So deep. I'm 27.
she has no equals. never did. best female vocalist that ever existed
Streisand a good singer, but best female siner that ever existed, there are many other singers superior vocally Barbara Cook, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Berrnadette Peters, Audra McDonald, just to mention a few.
@@peterholwill1170 Only one Best Voice- Maria Callas. Her voice was "Miraculous". BUT as a whole, it would be hard to argue that anyone had overall performing talent close to Barbra.
Hi difficult to compare singers from different genres.Callas was a great opera star, great actress as well as a singer.I saw her in Tosca ROH in Tosca she was fantastic.That said her high notes C5 and above not always pretty to listen to.Joan Sutherland, Tebaldi were also singing at the time and vocally superior to Callas, but not her equal in orher areas of performance.Barbra Streisand a theatrical singer so you can't compare to Ella or Sarah Vaughan who were jazz singers.These Ella and Sarah had exceptional voices and musical skills beyond anything Streisand could do.Singer closest to Streisand in style and voice production was Judy Garland.Having seen them both Garland the better of the two, but that's personal preference.Garland at her best had more vocal power and greater emotional intensity and her voice was warmer, richer and never had the nasal quality present in the Streisand voice.
Well you have a right to your opinion but such sweeping statements sound rather silly.How can you compare an opera singer very very different styles and vocalT techniques from pop singers ? Opera singers are taught to sing without amplification, put Streisand on a stage without amplification with Callas, Tebaldi, Renee Fleming and you would not be able to hear her.Then there are jazz singers like Ella and Sarah Vaughan, great voices with musical skills neither Streisand or opera singers possess.So many great singers in different genres, so to select one singer as the best unfair and disrespectful to many great artists.
@@peterholwill1170 I am a Musician/Teacher who has played/arranged for both and Know(Knew) both. For much of my life I was a recording musician - only taking the place of performers for their records and completely anonymously by contract - back when they recorded everything in one place before mixing. Opera singers have properly designed Opera houses that are acoustically correct but they still have to fill the house. I am directly talking to pure control of the voice at all volume levels and while Maria was the master at her best- there is not another popular artist that can hold a candle to Barbra for the ability to control her volume and vibrato at the same time. Both have lost some control over time but at their best, Neither Ella nor Sarah (Both of whom I also played for - but late in their careers) can really be compared to those two although they are among the finest as well. No disrespect is intended to the greats - they are not in competition and know it. Being in that elite category for different Genre's is still a great compliment to them. Judy, for example, was well known for coming and recording a song perfectly in ONE take.
I do not feel it logical to name drop here but NO DOUBT you have heard MY playing on many different recordings. Having actually spent time with quite a number of the best, the differences at the top are Minuscule - while many of the most liked are actually pretty bad.
I love this song so much.
Beautiful song by the great Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
It's a shame that Leonard Bernstein saw his musical theatre compositions as less important than his "serious" compositions.
Barbra, the one and only for eternity ♥️
8throwcenter It looks like Barbra is looking directly into your camera at the end. That would have frightened me a bit. But still exciting.
I don’t know how she washy are. Both sounds great.
"This is really it..."
Amém Apaz do senhor Jesus Cristo
Glória Deus
What album is this from? Such a beautiful song. I know I'm getting old if I still call them albums and not cds.But who cares they had a better sound quality anyway or is it just that I remember them with such great memories not like the crap that they put out today?
cd "love is the answer"
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The greatest female popular singer of the 20th century, but I much prefer the simpler version of this Bernstein/Comden/Green classic by Tony Bennett and Bill Evans. Never did hear the rendition by Barbara Cook. I look forward to hearing it.
Wonder which city this is ?
What did she whisper around 1:30
“I think this is really it.”
Barbra Streisand should have avoided this song so late in her career, vocally somewhat strained, a far superior version of this by Barbara Cook, live 2007 when she was 80 years of age, the voice truly remarkable, so much vocal colour, beaiutiful tone and interpretation of lyrics spot on. No justice in the world Sreisand should have sold many more millions of records than Ms. Cook.
Peter Holwill: Per Barbara Cook’s autobiography she writes about a production of FUNNY GIRL she did with George Hamilton. But I can’t imagine Streisand as Marian the Librarian.
She is such a beautiful person! I just don't like her outfit!
Yeah the audience makes it very gratifying alright. Amazing how a hundred million (give or take) can cure "stage fright". She'll be telling that stale "I forgot the words in Central Park" story until they plant her.
You sound so hateful and bitter. What has she done to you?
I am one of her biggest fans and from day one I never believed a word about having stage fright. That was a calculated move on her part so that when she did finally "Over-come-it"... as she says.... later on in her career, she could charge big bucks for tickets.