Shirley Jones is so beautiful here.She does not appear dated and her gestures, when she says “ but you don’t “ are so enamouring. I married a gill who looked almost identical to her when she wore a dress like that and had her hair styled like that and was about the same age Shirley is here in 1973. Our marriage lasted 35 years until cancer took her from me. So, I enjoy watching this clip from Carousel. Thanks for posting!

@poohbearsauntie

2 жыл бұрын

Dear 940hahl ~ I Am SO VERY Sorry To Hear Of Your Heartbreak, My Dear!! I Am Pleased That This Very Lovely And Quite Beautiful Ballad Gives You At Least Some Comfort. I Certainly Am. 🌸💔❤️‍🩹☮️☯️❄️🍁🥰

How fortunate we are to have YT for these memories you don't get to see anymore.

I'm 77 now, and Carousel and Oklahoma played such an important part in my life: they taught me to know and find true love; my heart is full and light. The only important lesson in life!

Two hauntingly beautiful scenes from the movie joined together by one of the greatest love songs ever written for a musical play -- I'm glad you loved the video. Thank you very much for the kind words.

This is so etherially beautiful it defies description.

I grew up on R & H musicals and I keep coming back for more.

Music and lyrics in perfect harmony, this song has to be the finest ever to grace the big screen,its certainly effects the hell out of me, I cant even whistle it without my heart ending up in my throat and tears flowing,i rarely cry at anything but this tune gets me every time

If I Loved You is totally beautiful and heartbreaking, and Gordon and Shirley are very much up to conveying that here. Hard to watch, shed tears every time. Such is the power of the song, and their performances. No better love duet in movie musicals, in my opinion.

This is the best film I have ever seen and I'd watch it time and time again. The music is the best I have ever heard especially 'If I Loved You'. This song brought my husband together and he often sang it to me, When my husband died 3 years it was played at his funeral, which he wanted and when my time cimes I want it played at mine. I am not being morbid but I can't wait to hear my husband sing it once more when we are tgether again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

@richardcrockett6337

3 жыл бұрын

I loved. you comment. I am an onlty child romantic, with limeted success in love. But the idean still has romantic ppeal.

@ritapacitti9599

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful just beautiful story. Thanks for sharing.

@kimberlypatton9634

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 62 and fell in love with this movie at 14 and it still (this song especially!) ... brings me to tears.. this and "When You Walk Through A Storm".... Just singing this to myself has gotten me through the worst of days . .What excellence!

It's been decades since I viewed this movie and heard Shirley Jones sing this song. It brings tears to my eyes. A beautiful piece of music and Ms. Jones' voice is wonderful.

Gordon Macrea had the purest Baritone voice and the looks to match. He and Shirley Jones are a match made in Heaven.

Absolutely the best representation of what love means

I love this song and scene. They are so cute. Just beautiful.

And when the theater goes dark and the orchestra starts playing the overture. . . . . magical !!

My all time favourite show, All time favourite duet, two magic singers together & complimenting each other so well. one word ,beautiful.

@ritapacitti9599

3 жыл бұрын

You said it better thankyou

@allenjones3130

2 жыл бұрын

Shirley Jones and Gordon Macrae were musical geniuses...and so were Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 2d.

Absolutely fantastic, made me cry as it always does,Gordon is perfection

Oscar Hammerstein is my favorite lyricist. He was a romantic dreamer(the word dream appears numerous times in his lyrics) a poet and an idealist. Working with Sigmund Romberg, Rudolf Friml, Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers he created some of the most beautiful songs in operetta and musical theatre. Lorraine

My favorite as well. Kind of a darker story line & theme, but very thought provoking, definitely touching in many ways. It sticks with me more so than any other musical.

Carousel is one of my most favorite R&H musicals w/Shirley Jones & Gordon MacCrae, along with Oklahoma. As Oklahoma is more light-hearted & good-humored, Carousel is more emotional, teary-eyed & heartwrenching - I love them both! "If I Loved You" seems to contrast with "People Will Say We're In Love", but both convey love for each other. I love the scene's reflection in pond & falling blossoms.

They are perfect together.

Absolutely beautiful, reduces me to a complete mess of tears every time I watch it - and I've been watching it since I was a kid - If I loved You is still one of my absolute favorites.

"Never let fear of any kind stop you from expressing such deep, pure love." I got that message upon seeing Carousel on TV when I was about 8 or 9 and was deeply moved. Little did I know that, decades later, this wise message would be so important in my life.

@romympanlilio

10 жыл бұрын

Nice comment. Thanks.

I woke up this morning hearing this song in my head! If I loved you! Slowly, all the words came back to me from my childhood. We listened to all the musicals. Wonderful memories!

A lovely song, a lovely era!

Just listen to that most beautiful classical song! and those singers are the greatest!!! I'm so moved everytime I hear and never gets tired! Rodgers and Hammerstein were FANTASTIC! Thank you so much!

I was only 8 when I watched this movie, I could not follow the story but the music was enough. Wonderful, and I have this in my little MP3, joy, hope and love when I hear these songs in Carousel.

Gordon MacRae is so good it's just sick

indescribably lovely.

In 1956 I turned thirteen, had a crush on Shirley Jones, and cried like a baby during my first exposure to Carousel. The idea of Billy coming back as a spirit, knowing what he had lost, and finding out just how much he really HAD loved ... and the final scene made me cry even more TODAY when I watched it. Carousel with Gordon MacRea & Shirley Jones is definitely my all time favorite musical !

@MrDaiseymay

9 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Mulvey Well said Jim, I'm back to listen/watch again after a year, ( see above) and I'll be honest, I got emotional too. I was 15 that year, and started my first job too. I always say--the REAL music stopped when those two absolute geniuses, Roger's and Hammerstein--departed. There are exceptions I know---Bernstein and Sondheim's Westside Story, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair lady, and Bart's Oliver; I don't think anyone else came close though.

@devydu

9 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Mulvey I'm 55-year old woman and I love Shirley Jones for her beautiful sopranic voice. I, too, cry everytime I watch Carousel. (See my comments below from 1 year ago). I love Shirley not only in this musical, but Oklahoma & Music Man. I saw her "Music Man" theater performance 2 years ago, with her son, Patrick Cassidy who played Professor Harold Hill. Of course she was not Marian, but played her mother, but it was a joy to see Shirley perform in person on stage. My other all-time favorite singer of musicals is Julie Andrews whom I am so sorry she has lost her singing voice due to throat surgery complication. And my next favorite is Marnie Nixon who dubbed for so many actresses in movie musicals such as Natalie Wood - Westside Story, Deborah Kerr - King & I, Audrey Hepburn - My Fair Lady, and others. I also love Sarah Brightman and new singers on Broadway. And of course, everyone's ultimate favorite, Barbra Streisand. My favorite Sirius radio station is "Broadway Series" that plays old & new songs from Broadway musicals.

@najat5779

9 жыл бұрын

devydu She was magical! But I truly believe there was something unique between the 40's to early 60's that flat-out died thereafter. Hollywood lost it; America as a culture/society lost it; Europe did as well. We all lost. Innocence and goodness, hope for the future, love and faithfulness were thrown aside. What we got in return, what we allowed ourselves to choose...we cheated ourselves (or maybe I shd say our elders cheated us as I was about 12-13 at the time...but I saw it happening before my eyes, and I could see what was going on; and I hated it, this tearing apart of everything) and we cheated our children, most terribly.

@devydu

7 жыл бұрын

Did u see and like La La Land which pays homage to the classic musicals of the past of love stories in song & dance, with contemporary theme? Generations of young & old love it and the songs are upbeat and joyful to sing along. The singing may not have been high caliber, but it wasn't meant to be, as the director chose actors who learned to sing & dance for this movie, and it worked. Of course, I will always love the classic R&H musicals and others of the past as my most favorites.

Beautiful! Still gives me goosebumps.

One of my favorite songs from my childhood. I remember watching this on our black and white T.V. in the 1960's... wasn't Gordon MacRae charming? And what a voice! Now, as a lady of 55 I truly understand the lyrics "longing to see you, but afraid and shy, I let my golden chances pass me by" Thanks for posting this beautiful video.

Excellent; Thank you.

Beautiful.

So beautiful, of a love eternal

BEAUTIFUL AS EVER!! SHIRLEY IS SUPERB!! X

Never EVER fails to have me blubbing at the sheer, magical, expression of true love....If only I could express it so succinctly to my wife.

Lovely movie , always great to watch

Gordon MacRae was a wonderful artist -- better than we knew when this first came out.

@elizabethf1591

4 жыл бұрын

Gordon MacRae .💙

This song reminds me of my dear departed dad. He loved this musical so much. He used to tell me about the story on his knee. I cannot hear this song without crying.

Quite right. Another attraction for going to the cinema / theatre was the luxuriously decorated and appointed buildings---the complete opposite of most ordinary peoples homes. It was all part of the treat.

So beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful editing, romympanlilio. You could not have done a better job. It's perfect. Thank you so much.

So beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great video quality. Really brings out the magic in the film.

so beautiful...thanks so much...makes me cry!

Genius only comes around so often, and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were geniuses. Even Musical directors, critics and conductors of today tip there collective hats to the genius that was Richard Rodgers. Someone once said that copying is the highest form of flattery, well R & H broke new ground in the musical theater, everyone else just copied.

Never Ever makes me cry always whenever I hear it espwcially the movie version absoulety pure Hollywood magic of the fifites and sixties.McraeandJones soo beautiful together.

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed. Yes, there is magic in the film.

“It’s just their time to, I reckon.” A line with one meaning on the surface, but a far deeper meaning underneath. Magnificent.

So beautiful…🥰

The incomparable Gordon MacRae. Many people name Howard Keel as the best musical lead, ---for me, keel's voice was too harsh and edgy, Gordons was as smooth as melted chocolate--warm and sensitive.

@ritapacitti9599

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. But harv presnell had a wonderful voice, too. Remember him with deb Reynolds in unsinkable Molly Brown.

@tiggywinkle20

2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree with this. Gordon MacRae was supreme. Love him.

Very well said !! Thank you for the comment.

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Beautiful!

As I said there are a few exceptions--and your right, that is an excellent example of what i meant.

ahh so beutifull

Very well said !! That makes me sad too Thank you for your comment.

Too bad most people will only know them for the sound of music. They're missing out on their wonderful earlier work.

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An observation I've made myself. God damn Andrew Lloyd. One good tune per show gives him a career. Even bad Rodgers and Hammerstein makes his work marginable.

Music, film, theatre,dance, for those able to afford a movie/theatre ticket or a radio/record player provided beautiful escapism during the dark days the Great Depression.

You're right. It's Rodger's musical genius. From the 1920's with Lorenz Hart--a far superior lyricist to Hammerstein--to his collaboration with the latter, whom I don't mean to disparage. H's talent was precisely suited to the musical theater of his day and his passion for social justice shines through in Show Boat (with Jerome Kern) & South Pacific (yet another beaut!). I just saw "Carousel" at Goodspead in Ct & an A1 production. Gordon McCrae is superb! "Carousel Waltz" is sooo beautiful!

I love classics like this.shirley Jones was underrated

I wish that life was like a musical.

Oklahoma is a simpler story, but the music is just as gorgeous as this. I couldn't really live without either of them. South Pacific is also so beautifully orchestrated and arranged by Russell Bennet.

@margueriterezoagli240

2 жыл бұрын

Anything by Rodgers & Hammerstein is magic.

Absolutely right--and this amidst all the other great writers of that period, what a productive time it was in the popular arts, of music--dance--film--theatre and fashion. The wonderful Art Deco period which spread to all areas of culture. And yet--side by side with great poverty, deprivation and destruction, before WW2 even began. How was that possible, and could it ever be repeated.

I neef you .i know u liked this song ..i need my friend who i do love.. Cause just sitting with you and not even talking makes me feel safe and happy

Gordon MacRae's part following the opening vocal by Shirley Jones is certainly the most awesome and glorious performance by a male vocalist in the history of all film and recorded popular songs. It makes one wonder if God Himself is a baritone! Because of its depth, range, tonal beauty, vibrato, and power, I would like to have possessed the voice of Gordon MacRae over any other vocalist. Next in line would be Brook Benton (Google his "That Old Feeling.") Then I get into a four-way tie with Tony Martin, Johnny Mathis, Jim Reeves, and Vic Damone. Sadly, Gordon MacRae, Richard Rogers, and Oscar Hammerstein II all died from cancer, Gordon at age 64 of oral and jaw cancer, Richard at age 77 of cancer of the jaw and larynx, and Oscar of stomach cancer at age 65. Oscar never lived to see the film "The Sound of Music," which contained the last song he wrote the lyrics for, "Edelweiss." He died shortly after the Broadway play opened from which the film was adapted. In conclusion, anyone who admires an immortal voice MUST google Franco Bonisolli on RIGOLETTO by Verdi, the aria "Ella MI Fu Rapita" on the Gabriel Gonzales channel. You shan't regret it! (This video & other versions are titled as a duet, but it is not a duet because the vocalists never sing together in unison. Also, for whatever reason, Gordon pronounced "just" as "jest." Either the error was not caught, or a decision was made not to go to the effort of re-filming the scene.)

You're welcome, Glad you liked it !!

@tanimiya Sinatra could never have done the role as well. Hard to have room on the screen for Frank and another prima donna at the same time. Kudos to Shirley Jones and RIP Mr. Gordon MacRae-the man who was Curley and Billy Bigelow.

Goodnight my someone was pretty melodic and Shirley Jones sang that as well. But it's largely remembered for the brass and that you got trouble song.

love the song,but not the movie too well.love shirley and gordon they look so cute together

I too love Oscar and his values. Even in the light hearted operettas his humanity /idealism is present. For example the lyrics for "Stouthearted Men"(from NEW MOON) contain the following line-"if you have the soul and the spirit, never fear it, you`ll see it through. Lorraine

Why is this video not viewable in Germany and Japan? It should be a crime against humanity to restrict any R&H music anywhere in the world where beats a human heart.

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mrspanamadi---You are right to point up the operatic favourites, although personally, I prefer to listen to the orchestral music only. There are superior and medioca examples right accross the music spectrum, but the video we are asked to comment on is--in this particular, is a favourite stage and screen masterpiece. I don't think we can compare like for like.

This is such a joy...but OUCH! that buzzing which someone below explained as 'high-frequency aliasing from the compression encryption' actually hurts my ears. There is another clip free of this, but the ending is cut off...much frustration! Ahhh, but @ 5:39 where his voice breaks, and 5:46 where he flicks his hand at Julie while singing, "Soon, you'd leave me..." impossible to keep a dry eye.

I say Yozi, you look a work of Art too ! A'hem back to R & H, they both had previous musical partners before WW2, from which came some of the worlds greatest songs. And of course, we can name other greats like the Gershwins, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin etc etc. All of whom wrote fantastic songs for other peoples musicals. But, R &H gave the world MOST of the greatest music, that was verbally threaded into the dialogue of the plays, and formed part of the story, in other words, tailor made to fit.

Mr Daisy May, I agree, for the most part, but don't miss out on other great songwriters. Verdi, Puccini, to name a few....I'd be glad to send you good recordings via You Tube...if I've piqued your interest) I've always thought music has levels of enjoyment, from the simple to the complex. The complex takes some getting used to but the pay off is heavenly. The trajedies, lovestories and emotions in those stories are unsurpassable and timeless. We are so lucky to have this technology today.

@MsMaynes You're very welcome. I;m glad you enjoyed it.

Hi Lorraine - Thank you for your comment.

Thank you for watching.

Why is there a cut at about 3:48? It's funny they don't have a bench or anything to sit on. Too bad the film cuts out so much lovely material--spoken, sung & orchestral--from this scene.

My favorite R&H is South Pacific with Carousel a very, very close second. Lorraine

She was cuter than cute. They were magic together. He's a singer of singers. Move over Buble.

@MsMaynes I wish they could, too. Mr. Gordon MacRae passed away many years ago. Ms. Shirley Jones is still around Thank you for watching.

golden chances

@romympanlilio It was Oklahoma! which was filmed in Todd-AO and Cinemascope. Carousel was one of just two films shot in Cinemascope-55; the other was The King and I. It was released in 35mm Cinemascope.

Way different than Oklahoma, that's for sure...but that's what I like about it. :)

Yes it is. South Pacific is a close second too.

the overdubbing at the start of this clip is intrusive. There is a clip of this same scene without it out. Compare. Discuss.

Great job. That duet never fails to move me and they were both perfect for the roles, especially Gordon Macrae. I did hear that Frank Sinatra was originally cast to play the role. I would loved to have seen him in this scene but somehow I think Gordon nails it perfectly.

@lindavanniekerk8020

3 жыл бұрын

I had heard that within of starting to film,Frank Sinatra realised that his voice wasn't up to scratch,and baled. Don't think it would have worked. Gordon MacRae the voice of the last century,musically speaking. I loved him!

@tanimiya Yes, I heard that too about Frank Sinatra and that he backed out when he learned that every scene had to be shot twice (Todd AO and Cinemascope). Thanks for watching.

@srfurley You're right. 20th Century Fox planned on filming Carousel twice - Cinemascope 55 and regular 35 mm Cinemascope. However, they found a way of converting a movie filmed in Cinemascope55 to regular 35mm Cinemascope, eliminating the need to film Carousel twice..

Just out of curiosity, is this your favorite R&H musical? For me it is but South Pacific is a very very close second.

Please don't forget some other great songwriters and shows: Jerome Kern, My Fair Lady, Music Man, Camelot.....Man of La Mancha....and more.

With a few notable exceptions---the REAL musicals died with Rogers and Hammerstein. (in my opinion) The big difference lies in the simple fact that--virtually EVERY SONG In their musicals were memorable and first class. They were hits in their own right. TODAY, your lucky to hear ONE song that is memorable and hum-able---simply no comparison.

5 people don't know what real music is!

@wlbaz Way different but equally as great!

You folks have it right. An unmistakable contribution to American culture in a mode that "we" invented -- I mean the musical -- often appended with "comedy." I call it adaptation. Look at the population differences. And I'm glad "adaptation" happens in art. Look what Lerner and Lowae did with Pygmalion.