Carrie Underwood - Hello Young Lovers

[YELLOW42758]

Original Artist is actually Gertrude Lawrence.

[LuvWebber]

PLA! Way to ruin the song, Carry. Way to ruin the song.

[FaithMusical]

No. This does not work. Ew. It just keeps getting worse.

[612Matthew]

What the heck?

[lorrainewands]

One word: metronome!

[ztmiller80]

This sucks.

[TheShockaholic]

It's just not the same as the original, Carrie Underwood's voice is too country for this song, maybe if they'd the guitar out of the instumental group.....but still, original is better

[danielkolodkinrulz]

This song requires a certain...Dynamic range, a power. Some have it...She doesent.

[flamnredhead]

It's just too "screamy" for such a delicate song. I love Carrie, but this is not her song.

[lorrainewands]

@flamnredhead somebody gets it!

[iowastate]

I rather like it and she is not pretending to be a British Nanny looking down on the Siamese concubines like in the movie which adds something extra to her rendition.

It does not have the White Man's burden of the original.

[Tiduscanfly]

I love Carrie to death, but I really don't like her rendition of this. It completely lacks the emotional quality of the song...

[Jussayindonthate]

She's just so friggin amazing!!!

[GospelAccording2ME]

Incredible! Each time I view this performance I just want to smack her! She sings the hell out of this tune...and the climb to the last note is stellar. Truly one of the best voices to step out of Idol. Bravo to Carrie for opening up her mouth and letting us have it!

[shejean]

Vseflian: In the intro you wrote 'Original artist: Deborah Kerr'---Ms. Kerr's singing was dubbed! She was not a singer; just a wonderful actress!! Marni Nixon, who also dubbed Natalie Wood's singing voice in West Side Story and Audrey Heburn's singing voice in My Fair Lady, dubbed Deborah's singing voice!! 

[pinksparklypig]

I like Carrie enough, but I can't stand what she did to this song :( tsk

[pengubaby]

I think I actually like this more than the original.

[jake072003]

hmm I liked it.. I've never seen the king and I so I don't really know the "real" meaning behind this song... but maybe she wanted it to not be about losing love.. idk to someone who has never heard the original I think it's pretty good

[ChristineScholz]

mmm.. no..

its too belty.

i think shes good kinda but.

no...

[PeterIllini85]

@ChristineScholz Keep in mind that Carrie had 1 week to prepare for performing this song. Also, she has not even seen a musical before, and that she was 21 years-old.  I think Carrie did an excellent rendition when considering all factors.

[teddypicker12345]

outta curiousity, can anyone please help tell me were the judges feedback?

[MusicalxMe001]

Ok Carrie Underwood is amazing, and I love her songs, but this just ISNT her song.....

[aLittleGleeky]

Eh, it was alright. Can't beat the classics. This is also so old that you can vote by using 'cingular' :)

[pokadots19]

If you want to hear the BEST version of this song, check out Bobby Darin's version. No one does it like Bobby.

[AlephZen]

@pokadots19 Absolutely! Bobby D! This also replies to Nuance5, below. As with other standards, Bobby takes it, makes it entirely his own, and slays it.

[krn4444]

this offends my ears

[AlephZen]

@krn4444 Yeah, it's pretty brutal.

[MusicallyUbiquitous]

AMAZING! 

[Nuance5]

The song was introduced in the 1951 Broadway production by Gertrude Lawrence. It is 72 measures long, and properly performed takes 3-4 minutes. American Idol's format cannot tolerate that long a song so they speeded it up to only 101 seconds. NO ONE can do it justice, sung that fast!

[ItaliaKat44]

Underwood is talented and has a lovely voice, but she butchered this song, whether it was her choice to butcher it or not.

[meggy1095]

@ItaliaKat44 shut it

[jake072003]

I personally like this a lot.. and a lot of you are saying " she just doesn't get this song" but maybe how she sang it is how she thought of the song. A lot of times i'll hear a song that has a totally different meaning than how I interpret it. I just like to interpret the songs that way cause it makes me feel better. So maybe this is how she interpreted the song because that's how she likes it.

[meggy1095]

@jake072003 amen to that!!

[13notes14]

idk it soundz terrible in my opinion

[theblueangel28]

horrors

or as we say in the south "hawruhs!"

[LUCountertenor]

I think this arrangement takes away from the beauty and the meaning of this piece.....definitely a DISLIKE!

[emmasmith173]

OMG I love that song and Carrie Underground sang it good XD

[meggy1095]

@emmasmith173 UNDERWOOD

[tigeramigos]

One of the few of hers I didn't like. What did the judges say?

[jake072003]

very pretty

[riddledevivre]

its an entertaining rendition but it seems to lacks the dreamy, bittersweet quality of the more traditional versions.

[Caram3lLov33]

@riddledevivre i agree she seemed to be missing the feeling from the song

[busterbobby]

Yup, Carrie has a big voice, but she just doesn't get the song. At all. I'd be willing to bet she didn't research it and thus didn't realize what it was about. Or else she just didn't care.

[sblxi]

totally. this is a bittersweet song about love lost. her rendition is too pageanty.

[cuddlyable3]

Oh dear. Her voice is a brass trumpet and the song needs a soulful violin. Come back young lady when you have A) taken some singing lessons, and B) some life lessons that (may) teach you how to be tender. Or just stick to torch songs.

[thesnakeofjune]

@cuddlyable3 She won the competition and is now an award winning vocalist. One does not need to learn life lessons to make a song tender. Why don't you go and sing tenderly.

[cuddlyable3]

@thesnakeofjune it's good for Carrie that she won the idol competition and I suppose that is what you mean by award winning. Life lessons should give some wisdom but that doesn't work for everyone. I do like to sing tenderly - you could be the judge of that, and thanks for the thought.

[vannaalovee]

we did the king and i for our marching show :D

[dolphinjjam]

yay marching band peopleee!! dont you just love carrie?? and the kind and i is amazing. i LOVE musicals. especially since this is an oscar and hammerstein musical! carrie and musicals. best of both worlds. (:

[TonnyCallea]

AMAZING!

[Elmhurstismylife]

Well i think that, that was amazing. I agree that the musical version is good, but i really love the modern or rock re-mixes because they're quirky!

[overlydramatic123]

Ehh, I didn't think that this performance was as good as the musical version.  Don't get me wrong, I think that Carrie Underwood has a spectacular singing voice. But musical songs are left to the musicals and the Broadway singers.

[GirlieRat]

I completely agree. I think the whole point to this song is that you should be singing it as if you are giving advice to someone. She's too much focused on belting out each note and not on the words so it's just not the same. Great singer, no question about that, but when it's not in the context of either a storyline or at least sang properly, it's just lost.

[cuddlyable3]

GirlieRat you are so right. One only has to hear the intro that Carrie DOESN'T sing to understand that this is a widow coming to terms with her loss. The line "I've had a love of my own" is not supposed to be a boast of a romantic conquest, as some singers seem to think.

[sexybanddork]

Actually Deborah Kerr didn't sing. Marni Nixon sang all of the songs.  She also sang the songs in the film versions of My Fair Lady and West Side Story.

[cserannie80]

and an Affair to remember :)

[GospelAccording2ME]

Regardless of how many times I view this, I still stand amazed at Carrie's delivery. The entire ascent 4:14 through finish is crazy. She opens that big mouth of hers and sings the hell out of that last note. People, she was born to be a star! Normal folks just cannot do that kind of crap. There are good singers that walk among us, but then there are God sent and anointed folk that were puthere only to sing. Underwood is one one. Don't mean to get all deep on your asses, jut my opinion.

[dolphinjjam]

very well put GospelAccording2ME! =D

[idolfan9495]

What a controlled performance. The song is old-fashioned, but Carrie gives a master class in singing.

A popular, well-known song can hide a lot flaws. Carrie proves that she can sing flawlessly (and I was never a big fan during her AI run).

[charles43110]

the song is written for an older man - best sung by Matt Monro, Andy Williams, Tony Bennet

[19michael55]

Actually, the song was written for a middle-aged woman singing about her dead lover (her husband) but singing the song to a young couple. It's from "The King and I"

But Carrie Underwood shows how she can make any song her own.

[19michael55]

I remember the night Carrie sang this on American Idol. It was incredible. THE BEST I had ever heard anyone sing this. And then Simon ruined it with a stupid question to Carrie. That season was the only time I ever voted for anyone on AI and I admit it - toward the end of the season I was speed-dialing like a demon.

Thanks, Carrie, for continuing to be so thrilling to listen to!!!

[GospelAccording2ME]

Great comment, Michael. Your info regarding this song is correct. Also, I agree with you that Carrie can own anything she sings...ANYTHING! I think it boils down to the fact that she's gifted and was put on this earth to sing. I, too, remember the very night this aired live. This performance marks the moment I felt she would win the competition.