I am a professional drummer. I played a show where Bernadette sang this and also "You'll Never Know." At rehearsal she had a real tear running down her cheek, which spoke volumes to me. It showed that she really meant it; not just for the show, but even at the rehearsal. She was so kind to every musician, stage hand, food servers, etc. I have worked with some Divas, and Miss Peters is NOT that at all. Quite the opposite. So vulnerable, kind, and engaging. Her goodness just shines through. I have the utmost respect for her as an artist and as a human being.
Joe Caroselli - Thank you, Joe, for your insight. Public figures are savaged by media wonks and now with social media, anyone can have an opinion about anyone else. It’s nice to read some positive, kind words about a performer whose singing I’ve enjoyed for the last 40 years. Thanks, again.
I’ve seen a few of Bernadette’s shows - I adore her. Just last night I was out with an old friend and his buddy, whom is met before, we were talking shop and this guy mentioned Bernadette Peters. He told a story of a very similar tone and - from (full orchestra)rehearsal to curtain Bernadette was fantastic to everyone. I’m here tonight not just for that but because it’s the three year anniversary of my partner’s untimely death and, well... it’s nice to know she means what she sings and sings what she knows. Much love and much more than you’ll ever know, From Boston
What separates Bernadette Peters from most others is that she doesn't just "sing" a song, she performs it. She's the ultimate Ideal of what Stephen Sondheim has always wanted in his casts, an actor who can sing -- and can she ever sing! She finds the true core meaning of each song she does and conveys that to her audience. She makes us hang on every word, every note. We're transported to wherever the song leads her, and we're compelled to follow her along. I've seen her in Broadway plays, but have never had the joy of seeing her in concert. I'm so envious of those of you who have seen her in concert. I think she's perfect.
This was my father's favorite song. He died very recently and now this song has become mine. I see him everywhere in all the old familiar places. I now honestly understand this song.
Saw her Pasadena a week ago ...just as wonderful as 75 as she was at 60.....her kindness comes through, her sense of humor, her dramatic delivery of material that rings true every time......sublime.
She has a beautiful voice, her wit for humor is outstanding, and she is a very talented actor. And if that isn't enough (don’t let her little girl voice fool you,) she has a doctrines degree in science. I don’t recall which science. Just trust me… she is very smart!
The only criticism I have concerning the magic woven by the special artistry of dear Ms. Peters when she graces us with her singing is that the songs don't go on forever and ever and ever.
I'll be seeing you In all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day through In that small cafe The park across the way The children's carosel The chestnut trees The wishin' well I'll be seeing you In every lovely summer's day In everything that's light and gay I'll always think of you that way I'll find you In the morning sun And when the night is new I'll be looking at the moon But I'll be seeing you
I saw her at UCONN right after she lost her husband. She sang Time Heals Everything. I don’t know how she got through it, but she did. It was stunning. The silence in the auditorium during her singing was palpable. She is my favorite and by inspiration.
It always fascinated my dad how Bernadette could be weeping, tears rolling down her cheeks, and not miss a note. She's extraordinary!! We've loved her beautiful voice for so long!
Great phrasing. Can't think of anyone singer who can top this rendition. Composers - Music: Sammy Fain; words Irving Kahal. Written in 1938. Revived 1943 to become one of the most successful ballads of WW2, At the piano: Marvin Laird who was also musical director for Broadway's Gypsy and Annie Get Your Gun revivals in the 1990's. I researched his bio, hardly anything written about him. A fantastic musician and accompanist Bernadette Peters - born Bernadette Lazzara, Ozone Park, Queens, NY 1948 FEB. Wikipedia notes her father is Maltese
wow! she has a beautiful voice! i've never heard someone who had such a unique voice...singers begin to sound alike these days, and hearing her voice made me feel relieved and reassured
I watched her sing on the Boston Pops on TV and she had tears running down her cheeks, too. So impressed me. She has a wonderful soul. Thank you, Bernadette, for you.
I can never think of Bernadette Peters without remembering her tears during many of the touching ballads she is known for. She sings her lyrics from deep within. Great singers and great musicians, like great actors, know the words and their meaning, and are able to convey the author's feelings as if they were their own, which they often are. This is how the greatest musicians can make us feel the lyrics as if they were actually being spoken ...or sung by their instruments.
What a beautiful rendition of this classic! Bernadette Peters is so talented, sexy, outrageous, funny, bright and unique... It's always a real treat to see her, always, always, always...
She is a special and spectacular performer, as unique and rare as a red diamond! She, of all the singers who sing Sondheim songs, has the passion and perception that only Sondheim might have felt while he was writing the songs. When she sings, when Sondheim is in the audience, it is like she is singing directly to him. She is the feminine side of Sondheim. She shows the emotion he only shows in his songs, which he hides from the media and in his rare interviews. Distress, loss, regret Sondheim songs are sad, mock lasting love, conventional lives. Yet the unfulfilled longing is always there, and Bernadette Peters, when she sings Sondheim songs, sings like she knows this
l bought this video years back and although l love most versions, this along with Dale Belmonts (RIP) is my favourite version. My best friend Mike has been on Chemo for a year or so but has been told that there is no more that they can do for him. While he told me the sad news over the phone I cried but silently. I am all he has and l will see this with him through till the end. I go to karaoke most weeks and being a very good singer myself will make this version his theme tune and keep him in my heart. God bless you Bernadette for this wonderful version. It means l will alwys be seeing him in most of his familiar places we went too.
BERNADETTE PETERS! Bernadette is one-of-a-kind. Bernadette is a beautiful lady who can sing with passion and make any song her own! I have uploaded her songs from iTunes and I am a big fan of this amazing lady!
When Liberace had a TV show a Looong time ago, this was his closing song. I have it on my smartphone and, believe it or not, it is just lovely. I know...Liberace...but it really is lovely.
Liberace was a showman but he did know music ... he just made it all seem as if he was play acting. To do that and get away with it (and he did!) you had to know your stuff. It's easy to take it as a joke the way he did it but to make it work you had to really know the basics. He was no fool which is why he succeeded.
Agree. He was a showman. People came to see him just to see his costumes and furs and diamond rings. And he was a pianist not just a diva sitting on a bench.
I just melt into my socks when I hear this... three more are from her self-titled album with the angelic portrait by Antonio Vargas: "If You Were The Only Boy (In The World), "Other Lady" and "Only Wounded" She, as well as her voice, is an enigma. As tender and sweet as a waif of a girl, and as arrestingly beautiful, supremely confident as a woman, she can hopelessly captivate me, bringing me to tears that fall like the rain, then mischievously make me smile, like the sun following the rain.
From the moment I saw her in The Jerk I thought she was the most gorgeous woman ive ever seen in my lifetime and shes still just as breathtaking today. :D
i dunno but this song has been in my life since i was young... i heard it once from a movie and since then i naven't forgotten it, but the thing is i just know the melody and the last paragraph so when i was reaching for it few years back it wasn't in any site, not YT not google, its just this morning that it occurred to me that the title must be "ill be seeing you.." and it was! thanks for posting this. this is the best version i've seen so far, although it's short. ^_^
This song was written was composed by Sammy Fain & lyrics by Irving Kahal, in 1938, just before WW2. It’s a sad song for loved ones leaving to go to war. This song is also for loved one leaving but we don’t know when we will see him/her. Over the years many singer have sung this song (including Jimmy Durante, Brenda Lee etc). It’s also a song some people listen to, to remember loved ones who have passed away.
Una intérprete. Una elegida. La heredera de los productos "Entherman". Recibió de su madre el talento y las clases necesarias para entender cuántos días de ensayos son necesarios para darle a tres minutos de interpretación de páginas magistrales y clásicos de la cultura de los EU esa perfección desde lo imperfecto. Ella lo sabe todo, desde el proscenio a la pared de fondo en un escenario. Ella sabe decir las canciones. Ella sabe ser linda. Ella es una autoridad en esa ciudad donde se consume más teatro que en otra.
She grew up in my neighborhood in queens just a few block from where I lived. Her name was Lazzaro. Her father owned a bread route and I would see his trucks dashing thru the neighborhood all the time. My friend Russell delivered the LI press to her house. She was a few years younger than me, I don't think she ever married. What a voice. What a beauty. She has discovered the fountain of youth.f
20,000 feet over festung Europa.... just at the IP.... straight and level waiting for lead to toggle .. the 109's queing up to make their attacks......a woman like Bernadette singing this song..the last vision of life and beauty some nineteen year old ever had.
I'm crazy about Bernadette Peters, our first lady of the theater. She sings this beautifully and is probably the only other female singer, I enjoy singing this song........And then, there's Johnny Mathis who blows it out of the park. But again, I love Bernadette Peters.
lol~"...if you want to." ..It's nice to see when people give performers they can't stand, {and we know are wonderful;)}, a second chance, finding themselves--darnit!--pleasantly surprised!;)
They dont make classic and versatile stars like bernadette peters and liza minelli. Oh i always mourn the passing of those years when stars really shine
I am a professional drummer. I played a show where Bernadette sang this and also "You'll Never Know." At rehearsal she had a real tear running down her cheek, which spoke volumes to me. It showed that she really meant it; not just for the show, but even at the rehearsal. She was so kind to every musician, stage hand, food servers, etc. I have worked with some Divas, and Miss Peters is NOT that at all. Quite the opposite. So vulnerable, kind, and engaging. Her goodness just shines through. I have the utmost respect for her as an artist and as a human being.
Joe Caroselli - Thank you, Joe, for your insight. Public figures are savaged by media wonks and now with social media, anyone can have an opinion about anyone else. It’s nice to read some positive, kind words about a performer whose singing I’ve enjoyed for the last 40 years. Thanks, again.
I’ve seen a few of Bernadette’s shows - I adore her.
Just last night I was out with an old friend and his buddy, whom is met before, we were talking shop and this guy mentioned Bernadette Peters. He told a story of a very similar tone and - from (full orchestra)rehearsal to curtain Bernadette was fantastic to everyone. I’m here tonight not just for that but because it’s the three year anniversary of my partner’s untimely death and, well...
it’s nice to know she means what she sings and sings what she knows. Much love and much more than you’ll ever know, From Boston
What separates Bernadette Peters from most others is that she doesn't just "sing" a song, she performs it. She's the ultimate Ideal of what Stephen Sondheim has always wanted in his casts, an actor who can sing -- and can she ever sing! She finds the true core meaning of each song she does and conveys that to her audience. She makes us hang on every word, every note. We're transported to wherever the song leads her, and we're compelled to follow her along. I've seen her in Broadway plays, but have never had the joy of seeing her in concert. I'm so envious of those of you who have seen her in concert. I think she's perfect.
she cried on Johnny Carson's show when singing, 'Send in the Clowns' but i think you're supposed too
I cry every time I hear her sing this. So beautiful. After your remark I love it more. Thank you ❤
“i’ll be looking at the moon, but I’ll be seeing you”……one of the loveliest lyrics ever written
A way to say goodbye to someone who touches your heart forever...
It's a war song, Lynette (WW2). It was for many people who said goodbye to someone fearing it was forever, and it often was.
This was my father's favorite song. He died very recently and now this song has become mine. I see him everywhere in all the old familiar places. I now honestly understand this song.
💝
I'm sure he's still with you, all these years later.
Saw her Pasadena a week ago ...just as wonderful as 75 as she was at 60.....her kindness comes through, her sense of humor, her dramatic delivery of material that rings true every time......sublime.
She has a beautiful voice, her wit for humor is outstanding, and she is a very talented actor.
And if that isn't enough (don’t let her little girl voice fool you,) she has a doctrines degree in science. I don’t recall which science. Just trust me… she is very smart!
AND she can dance like Fred and with Gene -- for sure.
The only criticism I have concerning the magic woven by the special artistry of dear Ms. Peters when she graces us with her singing is that the songs don't go on forever and ever and ever.
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
In that small cafe
The park across the way
The children's carosel
The chestnut trees
The wishin' well
I'll be seeing you
In every lovely summer's day
In everything that's light and gay
I'll always think of you that way
I'll find you
In the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you
I saw her at UCONN right after she lost her husband. She sang Time Heals Everything. I don’t know how she got through it, but she did. It was stunning. The silence in the auditorium during her singing was palpable. She is my favorite and by inspiration.
It always fascinated my dad how Bernadette could be weeping, tears rolling down her cheeks, and not miss a note. She's extraordinary!! We've loved her beautiful voice for so long!
Great phrasing. Can't think of anyone singer who can top this rendition. Composers - Music: Sammy Fain; words Irving Kahal. Written in 1938. Revived 1943 to become one of the most successful ballads of WW2, At the piano: Marvin Laird who was also musical director for Broadway's Gypsy and Annie Get Your Gun revivals in the 1990's. I researched his bio, hardly anything written about him. A fantastic musician and accompanist
Bernadette Peters - born Bernadette Lazzara, Ozone Park, Queens, NY 1948 FEB. Wikipedia notes her father is Maltese
LINDA EDER..
It’s the voice, and the heart, and the deep understanding of the meaning of the song she is singing that makes this special.
Bernadette Peters sets the standard for the meaning of the word beautiful my god
what a beautiful woman.
Not only is this tender without being bathetic, but her accompanist is top-notch. Nicely done.
One of the only old songs /classics that gets me choked up.
What a gorgeous woman. Voice, personality, appearance. Just beautiful.
wow! she has a beautiful voice! i've never heard someone who had such a unique voice...singers begin to sound alike these days, and hearing her voice made me feel relieved and reassured
Perfect for healing the wounds suffered today ... :'(
even yesterdays wounds...
I had forgotten what a wonderful performer Bernadette is, and what a lovely voice she has. Definitely one of my favorite renditions of this classic.
I watched her sing on the Boston Pops on TV and she had tears running down her cheeks, too. So impressed me. She has a wonderful soul. Thank you, Bernadette, for you.
I HAVE ALWAYS JUST ADORED BERNADETTE. WOW! THIS IS GORGEOUS, JUST AS IS SHE....
I forget just how GREAT a voice she has. WOW! Her phrasing, her power, she's wonderful.
I can never think of Bernadette Peters without remembering her tears during many of the touching ballads she is known for. She sings her lyrics from deep within. Great singers and great musicians, like great actors, know the words and their meaning, and are able to convey the author's feelings as if they were their own, which they often are. This is how the greatest musicians can make us feel the lyrics as if they were actually being spoken ...or sung by their instruments.
What a beautiful rendition of this classic!
Bernadette Peters is so talented, sexy, outrageous, funny, bright and unique... It's always a real treat to see her, always, always, always...
Can never get enough of Bernadette! She is sublime!
Bernadette sings this so beautifully that tears easily come!
Everything about this performance is superb.
Dear God, never mind her wonderful singing - WHO is that lovely pianist! ???
MuscleDaddyCMH really
Marvin Laird - the wondrous Marvin Laird!
love her singing. and the lovely piano accompaniment...............
She is a special and spectacular performer, as unique and rare as a red diamond! She, of all the singers who sing Sondheim songs, has the passion and perception that only Sondheim might have felt while he was writing the songs. When she sings, when Sondheim is in the audience, it is like she is singing directly to him.
She is the feminine side of Sondheim. She shows the emotion he only shows in his songs, which he hides from the media and in his rare interviews. Distress, loss, regret Sondheim songs are sad, mock lasting love, conventional lives. Yet the unfulfilled longing is always there, and Bernadette Peters, when she sings Sondheim songs, sings like she knows this
We'll be seeing you, wonderful Bernadette
A singing goddess truly !!
I never stop loving this beautiful performance...
Sammy Fain and Irving Kahain.... if they wrote only one song... this would be one of the greatest saddest love/goodbye songs EVER!....Genius x x
l bought this video years back and although l love most versions, this along with Dale Belmonts (RIP) is my favourite version. My best friend Mike has been on Chemo for a year or so but has been told that there is no more that they can do for him. While he told me the sad news over the phone I cried but silently. I am all he has and l will see this with him through till the end. I go to karaoke most weeks and being a very good singer myself will make this version his theme tune and keep him in my heart. God bless you Bernadette for this wonderful version. It means l will alwys be seeing him in most of his familiar places we went too.
I love Bernadette peters soooooo much and she sings this song so beautifully and she is very pretty and confident i like her !!!!
I love Bernadette.. simply beautiful!
BERNADETTE PETERS! Bernadette is one-of-a-kind. Bernadette is a beautiful lady who can sing with passion and make any song her own! I have uploaded her songs from iTunes and I am a big fan of this amazing lady!
When Liberace had a TV show a Looong time ago, this was his closing song. I have it on my smartphone and, believe it or not, it is just lovely. I know...Liberace...but it really is lovely.
Liberace was a showman but he did know music ... he just made it all seem as if he was play acting. To do that and get away with it (and he did!) you had to know your stuff. It's easy to take it as a joke the way he did it but to make it work you had to really know the basics. He was no fool which is why he succeeded.
Agree. He was a showman. People came to see him just to see his costumes and furs and diamond rings. And he was a pianist not just a diva sitting on a bench.
shes awesome
I just melt into my socks when I hear this... three more are from her self-titled album with the angelic portrait by Antonio Vargas: "If You Were The Only Boy (In The
World), "Other Lady" and "Only Wounded"
She, as well as her voice, is an enigma. As tender and sweet as a waif of a girl, and as arrestingly beautiful, supremely confident as a woman, she
can hopelessly captivate me, bringing me to tears
that fall like the rain, then mischievously make me
smile, like the sun following the rain.
what a nice version of this classic. Nice to hear a modern female singer than can sing in tune, and do a song justice. Nice.
Ohhh This Is One Of My Very Favorite Songs!!! 5*s Thankyou....Anita..
What a voice.....beautiful.
Thanks for being so honest, and maybe now you'll realize that Bernadette is one of America's finest singers...if you want to.
Very beautiful voice and pretty lady and very fine actress
Great music and lyrics song by an OUTSTANDING voice.
I love you Bernadette..♥♥
Absolutely stunning
A rare multi-talented woman.
She can sing, act, and GOOD GRIEF! is she ever stunning.
I've always thought she has a loveliy, clear voice with excellent control. It's nice to hear that she's a lovely person, too.
Just lovely!
She can put her spin on a song and make it her own like nobody else can.
She’s lovely
From the moment I saw her in The Jerk I thought she was the most gorgeous woman ive ever seen in my lifetime and shes still just as breathtaking today. :D
Bernadette Peters: that was so beautiful
Have akways really liked her voice!
Stunning...
i dunno but this song has been in my life since i was young... i heard it once from a movie and since then i naven't forgotten it, but the thing is i just know the melody and the last paragraph so when i was reaching for it few years back it wasn't in any site, not YT not google, its just this morning that it occurred to me that the title must be "ill be seeing you.." and it was! thanks for posting this. this is the best version i've seen so far, although it's short. ^_^
She's magnificent!
This song was written was composed by Sammy Fain & lyrics by Irving Kahal, in 1938, just before WW2. It’s a sad song for loved ones leaving to go to war. This song is also for loved one leaving but we don’t know when we will see him/her.
Over the years many singer have sung this song (including Jimmy Durante, Brenda Lee etc). It’s also a song some people listen to, to remember loved ones who have passed away.
I love her since I was 11
That is so wonderful
speechless, such a talent !!!
Beautiful
Wow! Beautiful voice!
Lovely!
My Jazz Mad group did this it was in a four part harmony but in general this song is very difficult and she does it very beautifully and elegantly
I love this
She is a National treasure. The Kennedy has never honored her.
Cecil Rudisill They need to. She has had a long and versatile career.
The best DVD i ever bought.
Oh, I love the feeling she sings this song with. So woeful. So beautiful.
Though not a World War II Vet but a Vietnam Vet the feelings and message of this song are the same.
Beautiful voice
my favorite version, Queen Latifah singing this song at the tribute's part during the Oscars over six years ago. I still listen to it.
Great rendition, great lady!
Fantastic !!
Thank you for sharing this fabulous post.
If I close my eyes, this really takes me back.. I feel like im in some 'small cafe' in the 1930s... Amazing song.
Una intérprete. Una elegida. La heredera de los productos "Entherman". Recibió de su madre el talento y las clases necesarias para entender cuántos días de ensayos son necesarios para darle a tres minutos de interpretación de páginas magistrales y clásicos de la cultura de los EU esa perfección desde lo imperfecto. Ella lo sabe todo, desde el proscenio a la pared de fondo en un escenario. Ella sabe decir las canciones. Ella sabe ser linda. Ella es una autoridad en esa ciudad donde se consume más teatro que en otra.
My gosh!!
Magic.
She grew up in my neighborhood in queens just a few block from where I lived. Her name was Lazzaro. Her father owned a bread route and I would see his trucks dashing thru the neighborhood all the time. My friend Russell delivered the LI press to her house. She was a few years younger than me, I don't think she ever married. What a voice. What a beauty. She has discovered the fountain of youth.f
Another incredible SICILIAN! :)
She sings this one from the Heart.
amen to that.
I love her style....hope you like this
why she's not getting old? forever young.
20,000 feet over festung Europa.... just at the IP.... straight and level waiting for lead to toggle .. the 109's queing up to make their attacks......a woman like Bernadette singing this song..the last vision of life and beauty some nineteen year old ever had.
She's doing a show March 20th in San Fran think i'll go
i kinda want to see Peters sing Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from phantom of the opera
I forgot how truly good she was/is. I hope the business was kind to her.
Allowed me to see some of everyone that have gone on❤️
Very nice job!!
I'm crazy about Bernadette Peters, our first lady of the theater. She sings this beautifully and is probably the only other female singer, I enjoy singing this song........And then, there's Johnny Mathis who blows it out of the park. But again, I love Bernadette Peters.
lol~"...if you want to." ..It's nice to see when people give performers they can't stand, {and we know are wonderful;)}, a second chance, finding themselves--darnit!--pleasantly surprised!;)
They dont make classic and versatile stars like bernadette peters and liza minelli. Oh i always mourn the passing of those years when stars really shine
Her Mam was Italian, her papa was Italian...and she can't goin he sun without burning up. I love it. She's a beauty though.
i first saw her in that Mel Brooks movie....WOW!!!
Sweet
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
She was the voice of Dot in Animaniacs. There... just blew your mind