Jeez. Yes, Billie Holliday sang a beautiful, gut-wrenching rendition of this song. Personally, I think that it will never be topped. But that doesn't change the fact that Bernadette sang it beautifully. Singers interpret pieces differently, that's what makes music interesting.
@TheMomokofuma that is not an opera voice she is using. Each artist has there own interpretation of songs. This happens to be how she wanted to sing it and it was very effective.
Spine tingling-- i replayed it 4 times back-to-back. Such control, such diction,such elocution and the voice just soars...and she looks so damn good too!
It's curious how in this day and age people get so caught up in somebody owning a song. This was a rarity when the song was written. This is a SINATRA song first and foremost (he co-wrote it and the '51 version is definitive) but that takes nothing away from Lady Day on her final album. All of that said, Bernadette does an incredible job on this song, it's what truly GREAT songs and truly GREAT artists are all about.
There's a song Miss Peters sang, something like "What would I do if you're apart of me... but I have no further information. Does someone kow this song or the play Miss Peters sang it?
What'll I Do is the song. By Irving Berlin. A very simple melody that Bernadette warbled prettily. It's not often sung, because it is a kind of singing the scales sort of song. Simple. Ronstadt recorded it and Streisand too, of course. Singing the scales...
love this interpretation! notice the woman next to quincy jones as she cuts him a look at 4:11...it's as if she annoyed that he's too enraptured by the sultry & wonderful bernadette
If you think that was something extraordinary - you should look up "Later - Bernadette Peters In Concert" there are some operatic notes in that and she completely nails them!
This song, along with "This Love of Mine," are two of the most covered Frank Sinatra songs (aside from "My Way" and "NY, NY," of course), but they are special because both were co-written by Sinatra himself. Most of the covers were done in the 50's and 60s, and it's fairly rare nowadays to hear someone sing "I'm a Fool to Want You." Billie Holiday, Linda Ronstadt, Shirley Bassey, Jack Jones and others did it in the past, but I'd love to hear Harry Connick, Jr. or Michael Buble or Josh Groban sing it.
that would be like saying a lisp has nothing to do with oral communication and if you were an actor your speech impairment wouldn't allow you to perform pieces that were dramatic because the lisp would take away form the dialogue. YES vibrato has much to do with lyrical connection and execution and can hurt lyrics if its overdone. However, to each his own and my opinion obviously contrasts yours that doesn't make it incorrect.
can this girl sing ! i was in the cottage for late lunch with wife and two friends when she appeared outside with her dog who was out of control. so i went out and got the dog under control and talked to her for awhile, giving her some career advice ! a few weeks later we met a producer at lincoln center who knew her and said she had a sister who looks like her. there are some songs she does like no other singer. hey, that's a little new york memory.
@@harlemhomme Yes the very same. Sadly closed last year as Peter simply had it. Seafood dumplings in peanut sauce ! We probably ate there about the same time you did as we went over thirty years.
“Except when she sings this song”
I’m gutted.
Thank You Bernadette
Jeez. Yes, Billie Holliday sang a beautiful, gut-wrenching rendition of this song. Personally, I think that it will never be topped. But that doesn't change the fact that Bernadette sang it beautifully. Singers interpret pieces differently, that's what makes music interesting.
@TheMomokofuma that is not an opera voice she is using. Each artist has there own interpretation of songs. This happens to be how she wanted to sing it and it was very effective.
Spine tingling-- i replayed it 4 times back-to-back. Such control, such diction,such elocution and the voice just soars...and she looks so damn good too!
She’s there for it. Truly.
super!!!
It's curious how in this day and age people get so caught up in somebody owning a song. This was a rarity when the song was written. This is a SINATRA song first and foremost (he co-wrote it and the '51 version is definitive) but that takes nothing away from Lady Day on her final album. All of that said, Bernadette does an incredible job on this song, it's what truly GREAT songs and truly GREAT artists are all about.
There's a song Miss Peters sang, something like "What would I do if you're apart of me... but I have no further information. Does someone kow this song or the play Miss Peters sang it?
What'll I Do is the song. By Irving Berlin. A very simple melody that Bernadette warbled prettily. It's not often sung, because it is a kind of singing the scales sort of song. Simple. Ronstadt recorded it and Streisand too, of course. Singing the scales...
love this interpretation! notice the woman next to quincy jones as she cuts him a look at 4:11...it's as if she annoyed that he's too enraptured by the sultry & wonderful bernadette
If you think that was something extraordinary - you should look up "Later - Bernadette Peters In Concert" there are some operatic notes in that and she completely nails them!
I've always loved Bernadette Peters, with her stunning beauty and awesome talent... Just wonderful.
amazing! can someone just please tell me where is this clip from?
..its..notlike billies!
daaaayaaammm OPRAH
This song, along with "This Love of Mine," are two of the most covered Frank Sinatra songs (aside from "My Way" and "NY, NY," of course), but they are special because both were co-written by Sinatra himself. Most of the covers were done in the 50's and 60s, and it's fairly rare nowadays to hear someone sing "I'm a Fool to Want You." Billie Holiday, Linda Ronstadt, Shirley Bassey, Jack Jones and others did it in the past, but I'd love to hear Harry Connick, Jr. or Michael Buble or Josh Groban sing it.
Bernadette is wonderful , the horns & percussion are too hot (loud)
leejaimeson i love the way the horns come in ,giving her the opportunity to really belt it out...great arranging
that would be like saying a lisp has nothing to do with oral communication and if you were an actor your speech impairment wouldn't allow you to perform pieces that were dramatic because the lisp would take away form the dialogue. YES vibrato has much to do with lyrical connection and execution and can hurt lyrics if its overdone. However, to each his own and my opinion obviously contrasts yours that doesn't make it incorrect.
can this girl sing ! i was in the cottage for late lunch with wife and two friends when she appeared outside with her dog who was out of control. so i went out and got the dog under control and talked to her for awhile, giving her some career advice ! a few weeks later we met a producer at lincoln center who knew her and said she had a sister who looks like her. there are some songs she does like no other singer. hey, that's a little new york memory.
You mean the Cottage restaurant that was on Amsterdam Ave?
@@harlemhomme Yes the very same. Sadly closed last year as Peter simply had it. Seafood dumplings in peanut sauce ! We probably ate there about the same time you did as we went over thirty years.
@@richardcondon3797 I saw her once at the old Ollie's Noodle, near Lincoln Center
@@harlemhomme A man who lives in Harlem by any chance ?
@@richardcondon3797That's me
she needs to lay off on her vibrato a bit it really distracts me from the connection with the lyrics
terrific!!!....only billie holiday could sing this great song.
@joeA2000 any irony in that?
She's been there. ;)
this is slim Oprah!
What's this from?
This is not a freakin opera piece where is the jazz she sounds sooo white... like a disney princess singing ........... not for this piece
Horrible rendition of this song. She is off key and is shouting instead of singing.
My favorite rendition.I play in big bands and musicals.The dynamic contrast is fantastic...guess everyone has their own tastes.