Dolores Gray - I'm Still Here (Original Tempo)

[PalmerEldritch666]

.....the best.......simply the best........she sang and the house went wild

[companythemusical]

amazing note to life itself...i met her, i was young and knew the cast of follies....and now i just watch this and know MS

[marcosvalenca]

Better than Ann Miller's version!

[dannybex]

@marcosvalenca Miller thought she was a singer, but she wasn't. 

[satnitcboy]

Ms Paige is just dandy. She's unique in the role, more hysterical than I needed, but she wakes things up a bit.

Ms. Gray - some pipes, I have to say. Not a jot of self-pity (one assumes this is how she played the role on stage). I did keep wanting to jump up there and push her along, but that's some voice.

[BigglesWatch]

@jemb2000. You are absolutely correct, my apologies. I saw the original London cast and the take overs. Gray was far better in my opinion.

[BigglesWatch]

She played Carlotta in the London production at the Shaftesbury Theatre, she took over from Eartha Kitt who was in the original cast.

[jemb2000]

@BigglesWatch Actually, the reverse is true. Dolores Gray originated the role in the London production. Eartha Kitt succeeded Gray in the role.

[beaverdctor]

I am amazed :'D

[alovespellster]

Wow the power of her voice blows me away! Thanks for posting!

[TonyDale]

If you hate backphrasing, you will loathe what Elaine Paige does to this nightly in the 2011 revival. . .

[darwinplanet]

@TonyDale I just saw the 2011 revival yesterday. Elaine Paige was the weakest in an otherwise flawless production. She lost the irony of the song because of her phrasing.

[tightlygagged]

@TonyDale How right you are. There is a clip on YouTube of her destroying the song utterly, with four pages of fawning imbecilities about 'how great she is.' she's the worst I've ever heard in it. EVERYONE else sings it better, technically AND esthetically (Paige is so out of tune throughout it is not at all amusing; this isn't one of the funny songs in Follies), and she is utterly clueless about the character as well. There is not one other performance (de Carlo, Burnett, Gray, Morrow...)

[Dianaemanuel]

@tightlygagged i can't speak about Paige's performance on Broadway. I did see her in Piaf and Sunset Boulevard however and she was extraordinary. The Piaf performance was, quite simply, the most powerful one woman tour de force I've ever seen. I saw both Gray and Kitt in Follies in the West End and they were both good in their own very unique ways. But from what I've seen (on Youtube) of Paige in Follies I think she does a good job (although I would have preferred her as Sally).

[tightlygagged]

@TonyDale which is not infinitely better, more honest, and less hideously mannered. Was Paige ever acceptable in ANYTHING?!

[adiiustar]

The fabulous Delores Gray xx Fantastic xx

[TheWhistler3]

This is a Royal Variety Performance, which is why she bows to the royal box at the end.

[jjweho]

is this clip from a British show?



[jjweho]

Does anybody know- what production she played Carlotta?

I saw her in the London production in the late eighties, but I cannot find what BWay production. . .

[jemb2000]

@jjweho Dolores Gray never played Carlotta on Broadway.

[ravnquest1]

I. Hate. Backphrasing.

[jonthesYT]

Funny how she sings very off the beat except the refrain; I was hoping she didn't modulate it down as on the cast recording, but maybe her top notes weren't there. Still very expressive, and loose.

[mitchellivers]

Did you speed this up? Or is that other video slowed down?