Deanna Durbin - Someone to Care for Me - Kaper

[musicloversingable]

Almost too good to be true. But it is true - this beautiful young lady was a wonderful singer. Has anyone in films ever sung better??

[softlavender]

I just have to applaud after listening to that. Thanks so much for posting it.

[7754349200]

Beautiful, a wonderful voice

[CuddlyBadger]

So good it's scary.

[thynaluna]

Tiene voz de adulta y cara de niña!

[Montavanni]

Just beautiful! . . . plain and simple!!

[theart1rm]

From what is posted on Wikipedia she doesn't care for the Deanna Durbin character (speaks of it in the 3rd person. I don't blame her for leaving Hollywood. That was a system that needed to be crashed. It's too bad she turned her back on that part of her life. What a legacy to have. I find it hard to believe she would completely give up singing. I'm sure she probably sings to the farm animals. It would be great if she would give an interview with her thoughts about all the posts on YouTube.

[TOMSLASSIE]

Does Deanna know that she has thousands (millions?) of new fans who have found her on youtube?.  What a marvelous voice! her range was A below middle C, up to E above high C.

[petelovesbevsills]

@TOMSLASSIE You are definitely my kind of person and to reply to your comment .....No, I don't think that she has any idea of just how many people adore her wonderful and incomparable style of singing! The ghastly rubbish that have the audacity to call themselves singers today, make me cringe and want ot hide in the deepest darkest corner!

[avbouffard]

@petelovesbevsills How TRUE when you say " ,,,,,, rubbish that have the audacity to call themselves " singers " ......

[mainejerry]

It's great that Youtube provides the means for young people to hear Ms. Durbin today.. I bet she gets a kick out of so many young people hearing her in 2010 ... something she would have never though possible when she was at her prime in the 1930s and 40s.

[vertxxgg]

A grand aunthie of mine took lessons with Don Andres...(Perello de Segurola ) and knew her..she s still an Opera fan..Deanna lives near Paris and is still a Wagnerian fan

[stars22mm]

What a beutifull lady the ladies today have lost the beuty of the mind. Michael

[spellson1930]

La bellisima Deanna Durbin endulza nuestros oidos con su dulce, melódica y tierna vioz de chiquilla prodigio !!!!!

[spellson1930]

Qué bella Dianita Durbin, Qué ternura, qué suavidad de voz. Este video es algo muy especial y desde Colombia siempre hemos admirado a esta encantadora chiquilla y enorme vocalista !!!!

[spellson1930]

Qué bella Dianita Durbin, qué suavidad y ternura de voz y en este hermoso video hace gala de los atributos que hemos mencionado. En Colombia la adoramos !!!

[SuzelleDeGrace]

Je n'ai jamais entendu une voix si mature à cet âge.

[bluexxg]

she idolize Lucrecia Bori who said adieu to Metropolitan Opera House Society members with a concertto in New York coast to coast by radio to L.A in 1936

[TheOriginalDCBernard]

She is so pretty and talented.. I have to pinch myself. She doesn't seem real to me. Yes, that's a little dumb.

Where is our next Deanna Durbin, Hollywood?

[Deader87]

Oh my gosh she would have been millions upon hundreds of millions better for the Snow-White role than the other woman who had done it

[emerging2012]

Will I discover someone to care for me Wholl never scold me just hold me tenderly Will someone ever sing me a love song while we dance Will the music bring me romance Will there be someone whenever skies are gray To kiss my lonely tears away And will that someone be all I dreamed my love would be Someone to care for me Bluebird you sing of happiness Swinging in a blossom laden tree But tell me bluebird will there be happiness for me

[bluexxg]

in my videos an homenage to Segurola her TEACHER...freckle face Deanna

[telfordp110]

Different skills, she wouldn't have been a great opera singer, not enough power. But then again no great opera singer ever was a good film/recording star. She was brilliant at what she did.

[glomur1]

tell Operbuff to see "Something in the Wind" she will see her sing with Jan Peerce he was a superb Tenor. They sing an aria from Il Travatore, and it is superb and very well done.

[eclecticcowboy]

i need bigger speakers

[crazedgeek101]

I love her.

[dcbernard]

Yes, I think we all do.

God bless that woman.

[OperaBuff1935]

Am I the only one who thinks she would have had a great career in grand opera? Imagine her singing Mozart - Pamina, Susanna,Despina,Zerlina - advancing to Donna Elvira, Donna Anna, the Countess - Donezetti roles such as Norina, Adina, some of the Queen roles, maybe even Lucia down the road. Rosalina,Adele, Manon Lescaut - the possibilities are endless. But it didn't happen, except for some operatic arias within her films. Speak to me, opera fans. What do you think?

[BethGoth15]

She would be great!

[sandymouthbay]

Yes, l agree with you. Though a career in opera would have been probably much harder, she was lucky enough to get the break in Hollywood and at the age of 27 retired having probably made enough.

What l don't understand is how someone with so great a talent can at such a young age give everything up. Maybe there's more to this than we know. The public lost a great voice.

[796824]

Deanna Durbin would have been an excellent opera singer, but a film career was probably far more lucrative and she was better known. Why she left the movies, is a mystery that only she could address.

[796824]

You are right. Durbin would have been a very fine opera singer certainly surpassing all the leading sopranos today who are singing (?) on the harmonics rather than the fundamental tone

[Orulyon]

beautiful:)

[BethGoth15]

I think she's lovely.

[phylanson]

I rememberDeanna so well she was maybe 10 years older than I but being a Singer and loving music and a Sister who sounded much like Deanna in later years, I am so happy to have found here again-- "Someone to care for me" My oh My I can't stop singing it nor coming to the Tube to hear and see her again--And to have all the other songs offered here well I am overwhelmed

[xAngelofMusic130x]

14 years old? wow. i never knew this girl existed and i cant believe it. she sings so beautifully!

[JCMarra]

Deanna Durbin wanted to sing at The Met. She never was given the opportunity. That's what a movie career will do for you. No wonder she turned her back on it.

[crazedgeek101]

What? She turned down the Met to do movies! They asked her when she was 15, and she turned THEM down. She would have been the youngest singer there, too.

[OperaBuff1935]

I didn't know she had opportunities to sing at the Met, but I'm not surprised. Every time I hear her do an aria, I think of what she could do in opera. Mozart's Zerlina, Despina, Susanna, Pamina - Donizetti's Marie, Norina and others - Gilda, Violetta, Mimi, Musetta, Manon Lescaut. And singing opposite some of the great tenors and baritones of the 30's, 40's and 50's - and giving some of the divas of the day a run for their money. Would one compare her with Dawn Upshaw?

operabuff1935

[texasoperastar]

What beautiful lyrics. Some of the words were changed for Deanna because of her age.

[violinthief]

You're right! "Who'll never scold me, just hold me tenderly" was originally "A perfect lover to hold me tenderly". The original lyrics would sound creepy, sung by a young girl!

[ilistenalot]

I, or no one I have read can adequately describe with mere words, the beauty, innocence and talent contained in this clip.

I remain forever grateful for this video.

[huhas1]

She is angel.. was child prodigy, sang from very early

age. Left stage at 27 years old and never returned..

[texasoperastar]

I wish I had a daughter just like Deanna. I would be the happiest man on earth!

[796824]

The sad thing is that this society is totally decadent. There is nothing of beauty, dignity, innocence and alas, children have become the victims because of profiteers who not only lack in good taste, but worse, have no conscience

[6thearetist6]

You are talking of today's society?

Then I couldn't agree more.

'Voice of an Angel' Charlotte Church is a good example though i doubt she would agree with me.Sad thing is her real talent seems to have been forgotten in this

shallow 'celebrity' driven media that passes for entertainment.

[swanningaround]

Pullesse. Don't even mention Church in the same breath as Deanna. Kiri te Kanawa is probably the closest in talent, voice sytle, and both are loved by the audience.

[oldiesgal16]

I wish i could sing like Deanna Durbin!