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| Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:43 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| Mr. Richards' Woody Mahoney on the OCR of "Finian's Rainbow" is beautifully sung, but he unfortunately Richards died quite young in a automobile accident in 1953. Here's video of him on tv. He's not singing from that show here, but good to get some idea of who these folks we listened to were like as performers any way we can. Yes, that's a young, thin Jackie Gleason as the host. I'll try to add some other videos of performers we mostly know from OCRs, and you can do the same if you'd like. |
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| Link | Donald Richards singing |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" | |
| Posted by: singleticket 02:59 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" - PlayWiz 12:43 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| It's a good example of how the art of delivering a song or selling a song has changed. Also interesting to see the young and thinner Jackie Gleason. | |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 03:04 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" - singleticket 02:59 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| True, and also how some vocal standards and technique have changed, too. What a gorgeous voice he had! | |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" | |
| Posted by: singleticket 03:28 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" - PlayWiz 03:04 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| Particularly the way the hands are used to hold the audiences' attention, to tell a story and often to frame a vocal line. Contemporary politicians and Ted Talkers still use those techniques. | |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 04:29 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 04:25 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" - singleticket 03:28 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| If you've ever been to Italy and to some other countries, or some of their American counterparts who've had ancestors that emigrated here, there are plenty of folks who use quite a bit of gesturing. I had one French and English teacher years ago, Harvard trained who had escaped from Germany as a child during WWII, who did a lot of hand gestures, and he was absolutely brilliant. There have been some studies that show people who use their hands a lot are considered quite communicative, and people really learn from and remember them. I do notice in that Ella Logan clip I posted down below that she did gesture quite a lot, with practically every phrase (though not in an indicating way). It's also early tv, and that might have been especially magical in a big theater with her wonderful voice accompanying it. It depends, really -- some past famous singers like Edith Piaf would mostly not gesture too much, until perhaps the climax of a song, and then she would make le Grand Gesture. | |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:05 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:51 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Donald Richards of "Finian's Rainbow" - PlayWiz 12:43 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| Yes, she was known for her role on Howdy Doody, and also her outstanding acting and presence in the Elvis movie, "Jailhouse Rock", but Judy Tyler could really sing -- singing opposite Wagnerian soprano Helen Traubel back when Broadway shows weren't miked in "Pipe Dream". Here's some video of Tyler singing. She also died in a terrible auto accident and deserves to be remembered. It sure looks like Elvis had an impact on her in these performances, too! | |
| Link | Judy Tyler singing |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 09:41 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" - PlayWiz 12:51 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| Okay, I'm automatically in love with any movie titled Bop Girl Goes Calypso. But, yes, Judy Tyler was very probably a major star in the making, and it's so unfortunate that it had to end for her almost before it began. | |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" | |
| Posted by: bmc (bmccabe67@comcast.net) 01:25 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" - PlayWiz 12:51 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| my sister and I had our hearts broken when Princes Summer-Fall Winter-Spring, was kidnapped and never returned to the Howdy Doody Show. If i'd know she left for a R&H show I would not have been upset. KING AND I was my favorite fill in the summer of '56. | |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:31 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:30 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" - bmc 01:25 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| I was rather upset when at a talkback for "Pipe Dream" at Encores that had starred Leslie Uggams (wonderful as usual), the guy from Rodgers and Hammerstein almost snidely said that the show had originally co-starred someone mainly known from Howdy Doody. Judy Tyler had a helluva voice on that "Pipe Dream" OCR, and according to my older cousin, who grew up watching "Howdy Doody" on tv and watching Elvis films, she was quite beloved by many. | |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 06:18 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" - PlayWiz 01:30 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| She is also terrific on a first season Perry Mason episode, which she apparently filmed just before her fatal car crash on the 4th of July weekend of 1957. CBS waited until the end of 1957 to air the episode, but it was one of the first that the company shot. Her performance is brassy and confident and proves, along with her singing on the Pipe Dream cast recording and her great work in Jailhouse Rock, that we would have seen and heard a lot more of and from her had she lived. | |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Ella Logan of "Finian's Rainbow" | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:11 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:57 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Judy Tyler of "Pipe Dream" - PlayWiz 12:51 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| Here's a treat -- the original star, Ella Logan of "Finian's Rainbow", singing "Look to the Rainbow" from that great show! It sounds as though she is singing in a higher key than on the OCR. | |
| Link | Ella Logan - "Look to the Rainbow" |
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| re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Pat Stanley of 'Goldilocks" and "Fiorello!" | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 02:04 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:57 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Ella Logan of "Finian's Rainbow" - PlayWiz 12:57 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| Here's the delightful Tony-winner Pat Stanley in her audition for Jerry Lewis' film "The Ladies' Man" (which she ended up getting!). She's not singing here, though Jerry does rather delight her by singing a bit of her big number "I Love a Cop" for her. Ms. Stanley also starred on Broadway opposite Robert Redford in "Sunday in New York" in the roles taken in the film by Jane Fonda and Rod Taylor, respectively. Apparently she and co-Tony winner Russell Nype did a song from "Goldilocks" on the "Ed Sullivan Show" back when the show was on Broadway, but I haven't seen a clip of it turn up yet on the internet. There's also a video of her and a male co-star doing "Her Is" from a tour of "Pajama Game" that exists, but I currently can't find on the internet. Very charming, rather enchanting performer. | |
| Link | Pat Stanley's audition for Jerry Lewis |
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| Danny Meehan | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 09:55 am EST 12/29/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Rare videos of Broadway performer you mainly know through OCRs - Pat Stanley of 'Goldilocks" and "Fiorello!" - PlayWiz 01:57 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| I recently caught Funny Girl's original Eddie Ryan in the 1961 late-noir film Blast of Silence. He plays the singer/bongo player in the nightclub scene. He comes off a bit shrill, truth be told, but I still appreciated getting a chance to see him. | |
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| re: Danny Meehan | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:45 pm EST 12/29/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:40 pm EST 12/29/21 | |
| In reply to: Danny Meehan - TheOtherOne 09:55 am EST 12/29/21 | |
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| I've seen some clips of him dancing from the original "Funny Girl" that pop up from time to time on YouTube, and he was quite a good song and dance man, with some very impressive dancing (and tumbling I think) skills. | |
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