I hope everybody that listens to this realizes the absolute greatness of this performance. Judy is only fifteen years old, singing live. Real live, not like today's live with backing tracks, studio overdubs and editing.
This is a favorite song of mine, I sang it and had so many requests for it, an oldie but very much a goodie. Irving Berlin was just so talented. He wrote some of the best lyrics ever.
how does a 15/ 16 year old kid do this. oh man/ i imagine people were and of course to this day are blown away by her talent, the rich sounds/ like she understands but at 16 could she ? well she had the interpretation/ and the feeling down pat. no wonder we still care just wow people just wow
I love that throbbing emotion-laden vibrato. I think she must have originated it, although she certainly wasn't the only female singer to use it. It is a stylistic idiom of pop singing of that era. It's easy to forget that Garland had a pop singer career as well as a movie career. There is a tape of her singing with Barbra Streisand floating around on youtube. It's interesting to remember that Judy was looking at and singing with someone who was basically experiencing what Judy herself experienced in her career in the 30s and 40s. Garland must have seen and understood waaay more when she looked at Barbra than any of us could imagine!
Lyrics (feel free to correct them) How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie, How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? How many times a day Do I think of you? How many roses Are sprinkled with dew? How far would I travel To be where you are? How far is the journey From here to a star? And if I ever lost you How much would I cry? How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? If I've been bad, I'm sorry If I've been naughty then I'm sad For I would never never hurt you, I want so much to make you glad Perhaps someday I'll find the way to show you A way to show you how much you've been worth, A way to say how very much I love you, The grandest mother on this Earth And when I am grown up, I want yoy to stay, I'll need you beside me, To show me the way Oh, darling, never leave me! Let's not say to die... We'll go on together, My mother and I
Wow. Beautiful, sublime... and a little sappy. I wonder if Berlin wrote the extra words himself, he often did that kind of thing. Anyway, thank you, this is a real gift!
The extra lyrics are really icky. But they couldn't have a fifteen-year-old girl thrillingly sing one of Berlin's most impassioned love songs without cloaking it with ":for mothers everywhere":.
I thought that she is going to sing about the different measures of depth of Atlantic or Pacific, but it turned out differently. One can`t trust the tittles any more.
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I hope everybody that listens to this realizes the absolute greatness of this performance. Judy is only fifteen years old, singing live. Real live, not like today's live with backing tracks, studio overdubs and editing.
Judy Garland is a gem! At 15, Judy Garland owns and makes this song her own!
I Love Judy Garland!
This is a favorite song of mine, I sang it and had so many requests for it, an oldie but very much a goodie. Irving Berlin was just so talented. He wrote some of the best lyrics ever.
Outstanding Performance! Outstanding Recording!
how does a 15/ 16 year old kid do this. oh man/ i imagine people were and of course to this day are blown away by her talent, the rich sounds/ like she understands but at 16 could she ? well she had the interpretation/ and the feeling down pat. no wonder we still care just wow people just wow
JUDY GARLAND'S "How Deep Is The Ocean?" is a lost gem rediscovered for a new generation to love.
Thank you for this beautiful version
Thank you for sharing this lovely performance by Judy.
I love that throbbing emotion-laden vibrato. I think she must have originated it, although she certainly wasn't the only female singer to use it. It is a stylistic idiom of pop singing of that era. It's easy to forget that Garland had a pop singer career as well as a movie career. There is a tape of her singing with Barbra Streisand floating around on youtube. It's interesting to remember that Judy was looking at and singing with someone who was basically experiencing what Judy herself experienced in her career in the 30s and 40s. Garland must have seen and understood waaay more when she looked at Barbra than any of us could imagine!
Lyrics (feel free to correct them)
How much do I love you?
I'll tell you no lie,
How deep is the ocean?
How high is the sky?
How many times a day
Do I think of you?
How many roses
Are sprinkled with dew?
How far would I travel
To be where you are?
How far is the journey
From here to a star?
And if I ever lost you
How much would I cry?
How deep is the ocean?
How high is the sky?
If I've been bad, I'm sorry
If I've been naughty then I'm sad
For I would never never hurt you,
I want so much to make you glad
Perhaps someday I'll find the way to show you
A way to show you how much you've been worth,
A way to say how very much I love you,
The grandest mother on this Earth
And when I am grown up,
I want yoy to stay,
I'll need you beside me,
To show me the way
Oh, darling, never leave me!
Let's not say to die...
We'll go on together,
My mother and I
Wow. Beautiful, sublime... and a little sappy. I wonder if Berlin wrote the extra words himself, he often did that kind of thing. Anyway, thank you, this is a real gift!
The extra lyrics are really icky. But they couldn't have a fifteen-year-old girl thrillingly sing one of Berlin's most impassioned love songs without cloaking it with ":for mothers everywhere":.
Judy most definitely did not feel this way about HER controlling mother!
But she was a hell of a good actress!
No she didn't, and justifiably so! 🙄😳🥺🤔
I thought that she is going to sing about the different measures of depth of Atlantic or Pacific, but it turned out differently. One can`t trust the tittles any more.