Perry Como & Carol Channing - If You Hadn't, But You Did

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  • Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
  • 1954 performance of the song "If You Hadn't, But You Did." The song was originally from the 1951 musical revue "Two on the Aisle."

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  • @morricone1900
    @morricone1900 13 років тому +69

    I'm totally knocked out by the way Carol Channing absolutely takes over after she dropped a verse and holds out that pickup note until she can hear that Mitchell Ayres (the music director) has caught on that she's skipping to the end. Then the pianist continues and covers, and then by the time she gets to very end, Ayres has brought the band back in for the ending. A perfect recovery by Channing, adopting an approach which prevented disaster and put the brakes on a moving train. Genius!!

    • @ralphoism
      @ralphoism 2 роки тому

      This sure looks rehearsed to me . Wouldn't rapping so quickly have ended the bit much quicker and left them with nothing to do but smile to fill time ?

  • @2emeraldeyes
    @2emeraldeyes 10 років тому +109

    I never realized how gorgeous she was. I only knew of her from old guest spots and 70's game shows!

    • @donreed
      @donreed 4 роки тому +3

      She looks like the young, pre-horrible Gwyneth Paltrow.

    • @donreed
      @donreed 4 роки тому +1

      @Robert Lee, Countertenor This is proof that they don't have to end up as Goop Grifters.

    • @Trumpsaturd
      @Trumpsaturd 15 днів тому

      Totally , she should never have gotten a nose job, her nose is perfect as is.

  • @BTURNER1961
    @BTURNER1961 5 років тому +56

    Who else could do this song at this pace, , lose her place, and make us delighted that she did. Nothing like Carol today, that's for sure. I don't think casting directors on the stage, would know what to make of her or what to do with her. They are too prosaic in their thinkings. Just put characters like this on the stage and the audience will figure it out. Nobody takes their eyes off a Carol Channing for long. Nobody fails to find their smile and good humor before she is done.

    • @slipbone
      @slipbone 3 роки тому +1

      I first heard this song on Kristen Chenoweth's CD and she really does Carol justice. I found this looking for things from Carol's younger days. An two year old announcement of her death popped up on a friends page. Perry was such a pro to stay focused with that beauty and energy inches from him. We normal men would have melted.

    • @artemusprine
      @artemusprine Рік тому

      Talents like hers are often brought up in then/now comparisons. She was a great in her own time.

    • @chrizgrv
      @chrizgrv 11 місяців тому

      I saw Patti Lupone sing this last month. She is another who can do this song justice with diction and comedy. However Carol is just mesmerizing everytime she sings.

  • @MichaelDG2023
    @MichaelDG2023 5 років тому +34

    He’s so smooth...utterly imperturbable.
    They’re adorable together.
    She’s fantastic in this...it’s like campy 50s musical theater rapping!

    • @jeremiahgabriel5709
      @jeremiahgabriel5709 2 роки тому +1

      This is such a specific genre description and I don't disagree 😂

  • @tric5122
    @tric5122 3 роки тому +15

    Was this the first recorded rap? Didn't know how talented she was, born in the 70's, grew up in the 80s just seeing her on the game shows. I knew she was a star but didn't really know why/how. What a great voice.

  • @MizzezJaxon
    @MizzezJaxon 9 років тому +81

    She can rap lowkey!

    • @gutz1981
      @gutz1981 5 років тому +15

      Well, she did have some black in her apparently.

    • @harveymencey7234
      @harveymencey7234 6 місяців тому

      😂 She is black,not just some.😅

  • @audhull
    @audhull 11 років тому +13

    That was so good that I thought she was messing up on purpose :)

  • @darlingchampagne8356
    @darlingchampagne8356 10 років тому +27

    Without that voice and smile; no way would I guess this was her!! I love her hair like this :D

    • @jennyq4979
      @jennyq4979 7 років тому +1

      I know! I totally didn't recognize her at first! She didn't have the big hair and big eyelashes that I'm used to. I love and miss both her and Perry Como. She's still alive and living in Seattle and is 96 years old now! And Perry Como had a hit song called Seattle... hmmmm lol.

  • @taylordowning2533
    @taylordowning2533 7 років тому +28

    This was cute. Carol was so pretty when she was young and I didn't realize how sexy Perry Como was

  • @asylumchoir4586
    @asylumchoir4586 4 роки тому +7

    She reached for heights out of this world, mastered and nailed it every time, and took us with her. There is no other. Carol Channing was/is an Honorary Angel!!! We love you, Carol, always. ❤️🕯🌹

  • @valsadie
    @valsadie 12 років тому +7

    Yeah, I never saw her so young and I just caught on to the nose job! And you're right! And I keep forgetting Perry Como had a sense of humor!

  • @douell0001
    @douell0001 7 років тому +18

    She's adorable.

  • @tmasters321
    @tmasters321 12 років тому +8

    This one needs a love button. She is my idol!

  • @geoffreyfox9801
    @geoffreyfox9801 3 роки тому +8

    Carol's mother was white. Carol's father George Channing was black by birth. Her father was light-skinned and his birth certificate said "white". However, his parents were black. Carol knew this all her life. She was bi-racial. Carol adored her father. Carol was a free-thinking Aquarian and did not have a problem with it. She did not let this hold her back. She wanted to be a performer and became a sensational one. In the 1940s and 1950s, and even much later, an actor, actress, or singer, could not be a mainstream performer and be openly biracial. It was taboo. Carol was very open about this in her later years. I saw Carol perform in her one-woman show and on Broadway. She was terrific and audiences loved her.

    • @lettiegrant9447
      @lettiegrant9447 3 роки тому +2

      It's just a good thing Hollywood never knew this until she was old. She never would have made it as far as she did. Sad.

    • @therantingprofessor262
      @therantingprofessor262 2 роки тому +2

      Carol's father had an African-American mother and a white father.

    • @tommoncrieff1154
      @tommoncrieff1154 3 місяці тому

      Her father was mixed race.

  • @douglaso6428
    @douglaso6428 3 роки тому +2

    Delightful, funny, charming and they’re both so talented; what a wonderful gift to see! Thank you for posting…

  • @Torontobears
    @Torontobears 13 років тому +4

    Thanks so much for posting this. So wonderful to see such talent!

  • @joecampos5624
    @joecampos5624 5 років тому +10

    Wow she's wonderful

  • @AvalonMorley
    @AvalonMorley 11 років тому +13

    And to add: It's so skillful the way she handles her momentary lyric-loss, just playing w. it humorously & quickly getting back into the song. I love Carol!

  • @borgrav
    @borgrav 12 років тому +11

    She is so beautiful here.

  • @santafejack
    @santafejack 2 роки тому +2

    Perry Como was absolutely gorgeous!

  • @artemusprine
    @artemusprine Рік тому +2

    What professionals. And so adorable.

  • @abrennakonski
    @abrennakonski 6 днів тому

    She's brilliant!

  • @stavinchain
    @stavinchain 13 років тому +1

    How wonderful...but how I wish someone had Carol's performance of this song on the Flip Wilson show in the early '70s...
    Thank you VERY much!

  • @stonerrocky
    @stonerrocky 3 місяці тому

    So glad to see this. Wondering if that was her real hair. So talented. Entertain the heavens!!

  • @nstruebluey39
    @nstruebluey39 8 років тому +19

    She still sounds the same!!!!!

    • @DoubleEdged7
      @DoubleEdged7 6 років тому +2

      Sage like a southern black woman

  • @jvinikour
    @jvinikour 13 років тому +2

    Absolutely delightful. Carol Channing is unique, that's for sure!

  • @07FreshMaker
    @07FreshMaker 2 роки тому

    Wow.. I just love her so much. I had never seen this before!!? And who is this gorgeous gentleman? Wow.. what a time! I grew up obsessed as a young child watching her as the white queen in Alice in Wonderland haha.. jam tomorrow jam yesterday!

  • @annacampbell3809
    @annacampbell3809 5 років тому +8

    RIP Carol

  • @chas766
    @chas766 5 років тому +3

    Hard to believe she's only 29 or 30 years old here. What a life she lived.

    • @DPMusicStudio
      @DPMusicStudio 3 роки тому +1

      She was 35, if this was indeed filmed in 1956

  • @Marcel_Audubon
    @Marcel_Audubon 5 років тому +11

    Perry was always so charming; Channing delightful saving herself here

  • @Blrmad
    @Blrmad 11 років тому +3

    That was fun!

  • @rdeda8129
    @rdeda8129 5 років тому +2

    RIP Carol. Beautiful singer :-(

  • @chas766
    @chas766 5 років тому +48

    First female rapper

  • @tommoncrieff1154
    @tommoncrieff1154 3 місяці тому

    It’s amazing to see them both so young and both so good looking and stylish. By the time I knew them they were both far older, still wonderful and entertaining, but not super-cool like here.

  • @bway1497
    @bway1497 13 років тому +3

    Just as adorable as she is today

  • @ihaveallthecoins2785
    @ihaveallthecoins2785 2 роки тому +2

    The best breakup song ever.

  • @wickedfeylady
    @wickedfeylady 12 років тому +16

    I think Carol was very beautiful when she was young. She's so talented and funny

  • @bjmccann1
    @bjmccann1 6 років тому +2

    Delightful!

  • @lorahindsley8274
    @lorahindsley8274 5 років тому +2

    I have always loved the transatlantic accent that they had.

  • @pretendingtoswim
    @pretendingtoswim 11 років тому +7

    That's because people knew how to be professionals and hold it together, back then. I think the performance is even more charming with the mistakes, and the way everyone worked with it to an advantage makes it more interesting than if it had been perfect. :)

  • @kierstenwhite7807
    @kierstenwhite7807 2 роки тому

    That was pure heaven. Love Carol.

  • @CarmenZynger
    @CarmenZynger 9 місяців тому

    Carol is just stunning here! So talented and beautiful. What a talent. I love her old nose too! It suits her natural face. Everything is plastic today. Perry Como reminds me of Russ Colombo. I wonder if that is who he parodied for his singing voice?

    • @Ursaminor31
      @Ursaminor31 7 місяців тому

      She contoured her nose in the 70’s until She stopped. It’s just makeup, her 90 yr old nose is this one. It was all stage makeup. Especially the dinner plate yes, bowl wig and upturned nose

  • @HartAngel5
    @HartAngel5 5 років тому +1

    This is SO cute!!!!!

  • @TheRealCantaraBella
    @TheRealCantaraBella 6 років тому +2

    Now that is how a pro recovers!!! Nicely done!!

  • @shellyt1453
    @shellyt1453 Рік тому +2

    They say she was half black 💅🏾

    • @myronsmith2114
      @myronsmith2114 7 місяців тому

      1 quarter. She had a black grandparent

  • @jayatissa6028
    @jayatissa6028 5 років тому +1

    RIP Carol.

  • @indigothecat
    @indigothecat 4 роки тому +1

    Never knew that Carol Channing did this song before Kristen Chenoweth!

    • @dw2161
      @dw2161 3 роки тому +1

      This song predates Channing, too. Originally sung by Dolores Gray in the Broadway musical revue, Two on the Aisle in 1951.

    • @indigothecat
      @indigothecat 3 роки тому

      @@dw2161 The more you know! 💫

  • @coreylevi2328
    @coreylevi2328 3 роки тому

    Just adorable

  • @rdhorsey9081
    @rdhorsey9081 5 років тому +2

    She is so cute here.

  • @theboxingforce4701
    @theboxingforce4701 3 роки тому

    Really pretty 🦋

  • @Oddworld2024
    @Oddworld2024 3 місяці тому

    58 second mark …wow carol first to spit bars ? and super fast to? Back then even. Wow. Seen much about her but not this. He’s good to.

  • @zolazarayk
    @zolazarayk Рік тому

    if....❤

  • @walkingtrails7776
    @walkingtrails7776 5 років тому +8

    Carol broke it down..with a rap! Don't let her dyed blond hair fool ya...she was part African American.

  • @ztramsey93
    @ztramsey93 3 роки тому

    A goddess!

  • @ragemanchoo82
    @ragemanchoo82 13 років тому +5

    I miss Perry Como. Why don't they build voices like that anymore in the US? Seems like the only rich voices that actually enunciate are coming out of Europe these days.

  • @Oddworld2024
    @Oddworld2024 3 місяці тому

    58 second mark …wow carol first to spit bars ? and super fast to? Back then even. Wow. Seen much about her but not this. He’s good to. Reminds me of Eminem or technine

  • @jayology
    @jayology 11 років тому +4

    This is charming. I can forgive Carol for blowing the lyrics. She's still terrific. Besides, I've seen Kristen Chenoweth, who has sort of made the song her on in recent years, flub it during a live performance. This song is a mouthful!

  • @hizgrase
    @hizgrase 2 роки тому

    Wow

  • @AvalonMorley
    @AvalonMorley 11 років тому +2

    Of course you're right. I just don't care for the set-up/premise being used, of holding the scores, pretending it's an arrangement they just got. What I meant about her not knowing it so well was where she (understandably) blanked & missed a few lyrics around 1:41. But, watching it again, it's clear that was only 1 blip, & she had the song down cold, otherwise. (Not sure what I was smoking, saying she didn't know it well enough--anyone can blank even on a song they know well, & she's got this!).

  • @brkitdwn
    @brkitdwn 2 роки тому

    Carol was 33 in 1954. Pre wigs.

  • @BoopShooBee
    @BoopShooBee 3 роки тому

    Carrol made a lot of funny faces but she was beautiful. Good bones perfect figure and tall enough to dance cheek to cheek with a tall guy like me.
    sigh

  • @sandyk8594
    @sandyk8594 4 роки тому

    Another drag brought to you by hollywood.

  • @kbrodeur
    @kbrodeur 9 років тому +1

    omg this is so gwyneth paltrow it's so uncanny! WOW! great and talented team there! she's lovely!

    • @Splentaur
      @Splentaur 2 роки тому

      Paltrow is an annoying no-talent who's not fit to shine Ms. Channing's dance shoes.

    • @kbrodeur
      @kbrodeur 2 роки тому

      @@Splentaur can you dance or act?

    • @Splentaur
      @Splentaur 2 роки тому

      @@kbrodeur Yes, I can sing and play guitar, sax and keys as well... not sure what that has to do with anything.

    • @kbrodeur
      @kbrodeur 2 роки тому

      @@Splentaur so why would you call someone a hack, do you have lots self esteem even as your can do so many things?

  • @whocares_bear
    @whocares_bear 2 роки тому

    0:57 Carol spitting those bars. Is Eminem her grandson?

  • @sIouchingpoet
    @sIouchingpoet 2 роки тому

    she was a space alien even back then

    • @davidwesley2525
      @davidwesley2525 8 місяців тому

      🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

  • @1FlyJedi
    @1FlyJedi 7 років тому +4

    she's a fucking genius.

    • @1FlyJedi
      @1FlyJedi 7 років тому

      she does this in the Alice in wonderland movie as well.

    • @lettiegrant9447
      @lettiegrant9447 3 роки тому

      Use better language next time.

  • @jasonpatten9159
    @jasonpatten9159 9 місяців тому

    My Grandmother was a "fallen away"' Christian Scientist like Carol Channing and they both lived to be 97... I'm so sorry she's gone now that they're giving out Emmy's for reality shows and crap "music" there are only a handful left standing here in NYC who are worth meeting that I would be excited to meet I mean folks like Quincy Jones are still with us and Shirley MacLaine(sp?) but I'm not holding my breath I ran into Sally Field and well I don't think that BONIVA drug that she was a spokeswoman for is helping her at all....

  • @johnphillips4268
    @johnphillips4268 5 місяців тому

    When she passed, Holywood did not honor her passing and her contribution to their industry. That still angers me.

  • @Countfoscolikesmice
    @Countfoscolikesmice Рік тому

    WTF old people were hot?!

  • @AvalonMorley
    @AvalonMorley 11 років тому

    Nice to see them both so young & juicy. This performance didn't really do the song any favors, though. I think it works better w. its proper intro, & then doing it while looking at the score all the time just gives no thrill. Weird why they'd choose to do this, before she knew it well enough to do it properly. She's still a favorite, though.

  • @henryjackson2357
    @henryjackson2357 6 років тому +4

    She's part black.

    • @Lama-Su
      @Lama-Su 5 років тому +2

      @228candy Her father was only partially black, so there was no "passing" required idiot

    • @lorahindsley8274
      @lorahindsley8274 5 років тому +1

      Henry Jackson reminds me of Dinah Shore who also had black ancestry.

    • @lettiegrant9447
      @lettiegrant9447 3 роки тому

      Partially means nothing. She was a black woman. It's dad that people just don't want to accept that all that talent was from a black woman. Well just face it. It was. Sorry for all those who can't accept it.

    • @myronsmith2114
      @myronsmith2114 7 місяців тому

      @@lorahindsley8274 You look like you could or should have some black in you

  • @barrymiller99
    @barrymiller99 6 років тому +5

    Interesting. Not much of a singer but a great entertainer.

  • @sblizzy
    @sblizzy 4 роки тому

    Drill rap....

  • @markbraunstein58
    @markbraunstein58 Місяць тому

    I love Carol but Delores Grey did this better in every way- diction, rhythm and pretty tones...

  • @Richie-tn9wi
    @Richie-tn9wi Місяць тому

    She sounds a lot like Jerry Lewis.

  • @lh9497
    @lh9497 5 років тому +2

    Sad-that-i-never-hear-for-protect-the-black-movement😐in,the-60s-she-has-a-power-voice-during-this-time.??or iam wrong?

    • @lettiegrant9447
      @lettiegrant9447 3 роки тому +1

      She was black. It was just never made known to the public. She never would have made it that far in those early years it she had made that known. Sad but true. Our country has a bad history regarding black and white.

    • @QueenBees456
      @QueenBees456 2 роки тому

      Yeah she had black ancestry too…

  • @miltsar
    @miltsar 12 років тому

    interesting to see her before the nose was done. she almost looks like Betty Hutton

  • @phillychildcare
    @phillychildcare 11 років тому +4

    well she's part black, LOL

  • @lh9497
    @lh9497 5 років тому +1

    For-am-Mixed-race African-american--women.she-passes-as-white--

  • @AdityaPradiptaMeneer
    @AdityaPradiptaMeneer 12 років тому

    In a way, she sort of looks like Gwyneth Paltrow.

  • @vanessajackson1388
    @vanessajackson1388 Рік тому

    She does not sound that good she would’ve been gong

  • @Rosseroni88
    @Rosseroni88 13 років тому

    This is back when she was somewhat human. lol

    • @davidwesley2525
      @davidwesley2525 8 місяців тому

      So She's Part Human & Part What ?
      🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

  • @MissDebra
    @MissDebra 7 років тому +1

    Not Carol Channing! Voice is dubbed in.

    • @alison2649
      @alison2649 5 років тому +11

      What you talkin bout???

    • @judithfabian2473
      @judithfabian2473 Рік тому +1

      That's not dubbed. That is what her voice always sounded like.

  • @MizzezJaxon
    @MizzezJaxon 9 років тому +19

    She can rap lowkey!