Madeline Kahn - You'd Be Surprised!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The brilliant Madeline Kahn performing "You'd be Surprised!" by Irving Berlin on Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration, 1988.
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Wasn't she just the best? God, I miss her.
She certainly was!
Ever watch her performance of Not Getting Married? It was like the song was made for her.
@@cannedmusic Absolutely! Comic genius.
@@cannedmusic lol oh yes!!! I’ve stared at it many times! (“I’m not well….”
She was everything.
Amazing talent vocally and with such subtle humor. How this is missed today!
Great comment...I fully agree. But, accurately--God did not take her, cruel death did, which comes from sin (Romans 5:12). It's not her fault nor God's--just an inherited defect we can all get past.
@@troybarnette8002 what the fuck are you talking about?
I envy anyone who knew her, or met her in person. What a lovely girl.
This is wonderful ... what a gem! :)
She was such an amazing performer,,,
That wonderful woman had such elegance, talent, poise etc. etc. There will never be anyone that could fill her shoes. How sad that thought is. Never again. This performance of hers is my personal favorite.
Johnny was bashful and shy
Nobody understood why
Mary loved him
All the other girls passed him by
Ev'ryone wanted to know
How she could pick such a beau
With a twinkle in her eye
She made this reply
[1st refrain:]
He's not so good in a crowd but when you get him alone
You'd be surprised
He isn't much at a dance but then when he takes you home
You'd be surprised
He doesn't look like much of a lover
But don't judge a book by it's cover
He's got the face of an Angel
But there's a Devil in his eye
He's such a delicate thing but when he starts in to squeeze
You'd be surprised
He doesn't look very strong but when you sit on his knee
You'd be surprised
At a party or at a ball
I've got to admit that he's nothing at all
But in a morris chair
You'd be surprised
[2nd verse:]
Mary continued to praise
Johnny's remarkable ways
To the ladies
And you know advertising pays
Now Johnny's never alone
He has the busiest phone
Almost ev'ry other day
A new girl will say
[2nd refrain:]
He's not so good in the house but on a bench in the park
You'd be surprised
He isn't much in the light but when he gets in the dark
You'd be surprised
I know he looks as slow as the Erie
But you don't know the half of it, dearie
He looks as cold as an Eskimo
But there's fire in his eyes
He doesn't say very much but when he starts in to speak
You'd be surprised
He's not so good at the start but at the end of the week
You'd be surprised
On a streetcar or in a train
You'd think he was born without any brain
But in a taxicab
You'd be surprised
Thanks!!
wow. making it look easy. gonna go watch it again (and again)
lol yea when i see the movie i rewind it till i get tierd of laughing lol which i never do hehe
@LoudCitizen I had posted a clip of that performance, but it got taken down years ago. Sorry.
Her voice was amazing. People who chose to sing comedy are so often under-rated as singers, but boy she had talent.
Yes, but technique too? You're not born with breath control like that
Madeline first trained to be an opera singer, and it sure shows here.
Love her. The subtle changes she could make to her voice and her facial expressions to hit a punchline are amazing. Such a funny lady she was, lost way to soon.
She was the epitome of a charming, lovely, comedic woman who was equally accomplished in the theater, or on the screen. This rendition is outstanding. No one could do it better in my humble opinion.
I totally agree. She was a magnificent talent.
I agree too. No matter what show, movie ot TV show she managed to steal it all the minute she appeared. I loved to watch her in anything she did and her voice was amazing. Oh, Why did she have to die so young.
@@marilynntobash6420t 3:31
At 02:08 is this lyric: "He's not so good in the house, but on a bench in the park..." After Madeline Kahn's death, a bench dedicated to her memory was erected in Central Park by her husband John Hansbury and her brother Jeffrey Kahn.
The hundreds of tiny nuances that shape the inflections of each verse... She was a genius! Just exquisitely superb!
I wouldn't use the word genius here. That requires LONG periods of study and practice.
She is, quite literally, a natural. It is effortless to her. She makes us believe every word and emotion with her inflection as if this is what she actually is like, on or off the stage.
Beautiful voice + on-target gestures and body language make this a comic gem.
To me this is a perfect match of singer and song. Madeline Kahn brilliantly brings out the humor of Irving Berlin's lyrics.
I miss that wonderful woman so much. Bless you for the great times you gave us.
The show tune way of saying, “My man is an introvert with no social life, but he’s BOMB in the sack.”
"It is tru, it is tru!"
Happy Birthday Madeline Kahn! Sept 29;)
Best version of this song. Too many others skip the opening, which is the perfect setup for the sweet comedy
Everything she ever did was this good….her acting was without peer. Wow
Everytime I see her I am happy..then sad that she's gone..her loss was our loss too.
I celebrate her every time i watch her....she makes me happy ❤
My GOD I miss her. I have never found another entertainer who quite matched this queen of the silver screen. Her vocals and charm, and of course, her humor, are just next level to the nth degree. ❤
Perfection down to the millimeter, every nuance - what talent(!) and what incredible instincts about how to deliver the song & the subject. MK was just great and so much fun!
Her voice, her voice.
I just loved Madeleine's voice, very captivating, seductive and sexy. And yes, she was classy all the way.
Her body English knocks the song out of the park!
Can't picture anyone else performing this with as much charm. She was simply a delight. I never tire of watching her, and still miss this spectacularly talented woman.
What a TREASURE she was! Thank goodness for movies & you tube! She could have sung the NYC phonebook & made it sound spectacular. I MISS her! Wish some 1 had produced a TV show OR special- "An Evening with Madeline Kahn".
I think my favorite moment is the split second before the clip ends when Madeline goes from looking her character to getting this mischievous glint in her eyes and how she smiles. That just tells me how much she loved performing and how much fun she had with this song
How can anyone sing so well? Madeline had an unbelievable voice! Wow!
She was a great comedian.
I'm constantly surprised by Madeline Kahn. :)
I posted a post without even reading the other posts, such as the one I did 3 years previous. embarrassing! lol
really miss her...left us all way too soon.
A real operatic soprano bestowed upon a great charismatic commedianne personality, with all theatre/ cinema skills!!! #GodblessYou #rip #Diva #MadelineKahn
She also sang Musetta in San Francisco, and was due to sign contract for #Fledermaus on #Metropolitan opera, alas- illness prevented her. Still , enormous #legacy remained! #JADORE She had/has it all!!!
I SO love the arrangement of this!!! It's totally awesome, and Madeline sells it as well.
Frickin' brilliant and hilarious!
Such a Beautiful babe and oh so talented, a great comedienne and a great singer as well!!! Madeleine Kahn, rest in peace doll, you are so missed by us all.
Give me an actor who can sing over a singer who can act anyway, Madeline Kahn is both!!!
She is so versatile, she really nailed it. I've gotta get that sheet music!
She was the proverbial total package. Who, in this generation, is even close?
Ridiculous! Perfection! Incredible! Madeline Kahn is missed sooo much. We are so fortunate to have youtube. Thanks!
A silly song... we can never have too many of those.
Who else could have sung it so well?
love her voice
What a loss! What a talent!
I love Madeline Khan. Such a true talent. Love all her movies. She cracks me up. Wow! What a good singer.
The voice and comedic delivery are perfect.
@@MrsBettyBowers as are yours!
perfect! this was awesome! when i was little and in my teenage years i had a massive crush on this woman for so many reasons. BUT i would always get her confused with Bernadette Peters. They look so much alike! Thank you Madeline... gone to soon but your work... and great looks.... will live on forever thanks to all these mediums we now have. I love you.... muuuuah
Trying to picture her singing this number as Lili von Schtupp. Not so far off the mark.
I love this! She was so great at everything she did. I had the good fortune to see her perform with several others in skits when she was first starting out at a club named "The Downstairs at the Upstairs".The ensemble was great but she stood out from the rest with her great voice and hilarious personality. I'm so grateful for the experience. Many great artists came to NYC when they started out. Unfortunately, it is now a shadow of what it once was. Our culture is disappearing and the world is a very different place than it was not long ago. Sad
what are ya talking about? there are oodles of great artists in New York, and oodles of great young artists too! maybe you're just looking in the wrong places?
no place stays the same over the course of a generation. regardless of whatever forces you deem responsible, it's simply impossible as people come and go.. NYC was vastly "different" from when your parents were young...and theirs....and theirs. Has everything been getting progressively worse as time goes on? To you, no doubt, yes...and the next generation may be fascinated with the world as it was through story, but...to each generation, things are what they are now, at their peak. It is the greater changes in the world that we struggle with later in life. But, to a younger person....it's all normal...just, this is how it's always been....and THEY see culture and identity in droves...where you do not, because you're clinging to what YOU define it as, and what YOU perceived as law when YOU were young. And in this way, you're unable to see the truly great artists and works that continue the spirit of artists like Madeline. You're so obsessed with her being irreplaceable, that no one else comes on your radar. In human history....NYC hasn't even been a city that long. Culture? How about when NYC was all like Central Park? Wasn't that long ago. How's that for a change?
Man, she was great. I really miss her. She was gone too soon.
She was magnificent, beautiful, funny, unique, marvelous, delightful!
Never oversells the humor. Just plays it simple and true, with that airborne voice. Love it. She alters one lyric so the contemporary audience will get the nuance: “a Morris chair” becomes “an easy chair.” Back in the day, a Morris chair was the predecessor of a modern recliner, with notches to lock it in place from upright to several degrees lower to full recline. They still make lawn chair loungers this way.
Flawless. Maddie doesn't skip a beat! What total perfection. I miss her.
you watch entertainment now, and maybe you don't notice as much until you come back and watch a performer this Talented, that we're really not seeing very talented people in our entertainments anymore.
But they look good don't they? All of them look very much alike - cookie cutter entertainers - and it's easy to see how good they look because we see so much of them thanks to their skimpy clothing. The art of suggestion and seduction is gone.
What a treasure! Thank you for sharing.
Madeline Kahn brilliant in everything.
the ART of performance
She did this song so perfectly. I love her.
Back when there were truly talented and admirable entertainers.
I'm in love with this girl. RIP sweetheart 😢
Madeline Khan her name is a statement by itself of a brilliant talented person.
Yes!
Madeleine! What a honey! A true treasure. Perfect timing, and that voice....NOBODY better! Thanks for posting!
what a performance! where are the stars like this today?!?!
She was glorious!
She and Gilda Radner can make any scene/act appear so goddamn effortless !! Truly a mark of genius ....
She was so wonderfully gifted...and we miss her so. This made me cry.
Effortlessly perfect.
Oh, I miss her.
Who are the 20 misanthropes who did not like this?
There is no accounting for poor taste.
+honeyjbc1 I thought the same thing before I saw your comment. Now there's 22. Everything Madeline Kahn did was brilliant!
+honeyjbc1 The 20 who didn't like her/the song, were born after music & lyrics died. Now, no talent nothings scream to cover the 'tracks' already laid down & baby, baby oooohhhhbbbaaaaabbyy passes for lyrics. BAD would be 'poets' are 'glorifying/advocating robbery, rape, advocating cop killing & calling it 'rap'. 'Melody' rarely/barely exists.
+honeyjbc1 I am hoping that 22 people were too drunk to hit the correct thumb orientation. If sober minds prevailed, 'misanthrope' is precisely the correct nomenclature for said individuals.
It doesn't matter how many dislikes she didn't get, but how many she got.
Too funny Madeline. I miss you!
What an amazing talented performer.
Her delivery and her facial expressions are precious.
I soooooooooooooooooooooo love this!!!
She’s among the greats of comic history. At the risk of invoking the “women in comedy” ghetto, Madeline Kahn is in the same league as Gracie Allen and Lucille Ball. I’d put Catherine O’Hara in that company as well.
What a voice! Still missing her after all these years.
I adored Madeline Kahn. A great talent who left us much too soon.
Speaking of Reese Witherspoon, I don't know if the lady can sing, but there's more than a passing physical resemblance between her and Kahn and after her fine work in WALK THE LINE she has shown an ability to do biography; they could do worse in a Kahn biopic than Reese Witherspoon. And they can always dub in Kahn's singing voice; they've been doing THAT since Hollywood went from silents to talkies. Thoughts?
I've always thought the same.
Rip madline kahn :(
Brilliant! Thank you for posting.
Thanks again for posting this. I have viewed it many, many times and never get tired of it. what a gem. Madeline is the best!
It's twoo. It's twoo.
There needs to be LOVE BUTTON for this!!! Love Madeline Kahn and Love this clip.!!!
i love that she can make little gestures or facial expressions and it still be amazing!
Everyone who met, or knew Madeline Kahn had nothing but good to say about her. She was a beautiful lady, inside and out.
Surprised
[1st verse:]
Johnny was bashful and shy
Nobody understood why
Mary loved him
All the other girls passed him by
Ev'ryone wanted to know
How she could pick such a beau
With a twinkle in her eye
She made this reply
[1st chorus:]
He's not so good in a crowd but when you get him alone
You'd be surprised
He isn't much at a dance but then when he takes you home
You'd be surprised
He doesn't look like much of a lover
But don't judge a book by it's cover
He's got the face of an Angel
But there's a Devil in his eye
He's such a delicate thing but when he starts in to squeeze
You'd be surprised
He doesn't look very strong but when you sit on his knee
You'd be surprised
At a party or at a ball
I've got to admit that he's nothing at all
But in a morris chair
You'd be surprised
[2nd verse:]
Mary continued to praise
Johnny's remarkable ways
To the ladies
And you know advertising pays
Now Johnny's never alone
He has the busiest phone
Almost ev'ry other day
A new girl will say
[2nd chorus:]
He's not so good in the house but on a bench in the park
You'd be surprised
He isn't much in the light but when he gets in the dark
You'd be surprised
I know he looks as slow as the Erie
But you don't know the half of it, dearie
He looks as cold as an Eskimo
But there's fire in his eyes
He doesn't say very much but when he starts in to speak
You'd be surprised
He's not so good at the start but at the end of the week
You'd be surprised
On a streetcar or in a train
You'd think he was born without any brain
But in a taxicab
You'd be surprised
There is only one Madeline Kahn. ❤
She's absolutely charming performing this number. Brava!
thank U for paying tribute to this remarkable Lady. Madeline was a comedic genius.
We miss her, of course, but how winderful thatwecan enjoy her still, thanks to people like BDTB.
No one can handle that musical material anymore.
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what a voice, what timing, exquisite, thrilling mimic!!! The best!!
One of the most effortlessly funny actresses of all time! God that voice!!! Wherever she is, she's makin' 'em laugh.
There is one here on UA-cam called Intimate Portrait Madeline Kahn 1
I remember this. Glad I found it. Thank you. Love her.
madeline kahn was such a wonderful lady of my young time. I loved her so much
She looked so much like Bernadette Peters.
Madeline was a performing genius.
Impossible NOT to love, love, LOVE the genius that was Ms. Madeline Kahn.
What a legend! Unparalleled talent!! This is an absolute master class.
Celebrities used to have talent.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Okay, we're both crying. I miss her so much.
Genius Madeline - so so funny - so talented.