Mario Lanza Serenade

[14551455]

almost forgot, Mario's singing in The Student Prince was beyond words. All the songs from SP were wonderful as was he.

[14551455]

lanza was around at that time, he shoud have performed in it. he was fabulous!

[Greatstuff365]

One of the greatest love songs of all time..sung by THEE Greatest Voice of all time

[pianist527]

It cannot exist a more beautiful timbre, perfect diction and amplitude of voice than his. It just is not possible. His voice has all the required ingredients to be qualified as the most perfect, in the true sense of the word, any great tenor would die for.

[crapfacejoe]

Lanza was a beast.

[tineagle3]

@crapfacejoe  Your user name is fitting.

[tineagle3]

@crapfacejoe You poor soul, having to revert to juvenile responses - I feel sorry for you

[crapfacejoe]

@tineagle3 Your mama is a beast

[crapfacejoe]

@124toeknee ur mama is good for me

[michaelsweeney100]

just great

[lukeyisno1]

the video is from student prince and the actor is Edmund Purdom but the voice is mario lanza thanks fro the comments

[bonesdoc11]

Absolutely fabulous.

[10nus58]

It's only the voice of Mario Lanza but the actor is somebody else.

[csnvinnie]

My favorite part is "O hear my serenade. . . " Good grief, man! You're Mario Lanza. The whole town can hear your serenade.

[HubSwitch]

This was one of the first records (78rpm) I ever played on my fathers gramaphone... (when he was out!)

I was about 6 years old, I found it just as wonderful then, as I do now, if not more.

[christina3041]

thank you dad for sitting me down to listen to this wonderfull music you had about 4 Lps of mario lanza music RIP dad miss you and are happy days golden days hey from your daughter christinaxxx

[christina3041]

my dad this on a LP i loved it thankyou dad for giving me the music i love rip to my dad this music will last with me all my life from your daughter christinaxxxx

[Hermandjoye]

Merveilleux passage du film "Le Prince Étudiant" joué par Edmond Purdum doublé pour la chanson par Maria Lanza. Film à voir pour le romantisme. Ady

[mariogantois1]

I don't recognize this singer as Mario Lanza but I can be wrong. But is a great voice.

[AegisNova]

@mariogantois1 Mario Lanza was supposed to star in "The Student Prince" but he had problems with his weight, which kept fluctuating. I have to remind myself that movies are rarely filmed in chronological sequence. The documentary I saw on Lanza showed him thin in one scene and heavy in the next, so the producers went with the actor Edward Purdom.

[mariogantois1]

@AegisNova  Thank you!

[billy2rivers1]

Purdom was a competent tenor in his own right but as mayor owned all the recordings of lanzas voice he used them as a slight at mario but in reality it backfired as it made lanza something of an enigma ,When in reality he was a heavy drinking bully and a bad ass womaniser ha ha have to say i bloody admire freddy a truck driver from philly who wowed the world with his beautiful voice the first rock star who lived hard and died young good on ya Mario .

[SHICOFF1]

They did a good job with Mario's voice and the British actor Purdom who is gone also. The sound of Lanza was never better then this. Bravo.

[JimMLINY]

No fucking way that is Mario in person, definately his voice!  Is that Milli Vanilli's dad there!!

[TheCelestial108]

That's hot. Gorgeous, gorgeous voice!

[Milordvega]

This is such an underrated movie musical.

[pianist527]

As someone wrote here sometime ago, his voice is so manly. Yes it is very true but is also extremely pure, clear and big and of such beauty that once you start listening to it you just cannot stop. Is like some sort of strong medicine, you just get addicted to it for ever, impossible not to.

Thank you for posting this gloriously beautiful Serenade which had desappeared from youtube for such a long time.

[cbak12sg]

My dear Mum loved Mario Lanza. I don't think she ever accepted Edmund Purdom.

This was one of three Mario Lanza recordings played at my Mum's funeral. It isn't easy to listen to this.............

[ndm707]

I love this version of Student Prince with Edmund Purdom & Ann Blyth. Edmund Purdom did a great lipsynching Mario Lanza's songs. What a great actor but underrated. Too bad. Rest in peace Edmond Purdom.

[gandysasha1]

Imagine, love and respect...imagination and magic. Guilt free expressions? Thank you

[yanie327]

The greatest voice in history. . . .

[johnnyzing]

@yanie327 I agree! ...yet Mario did not know how to live the regulated life.....too much self-indulgence and too much Hollywood.  A voice beyond voices yes, but not treated well by Mario himself. Alas. And there could of been a bit of hanky-panky concerning his death. He may of stepped on the wrong toes.

[lpvcrcd]

@Cetara86 You hit it right on the head ---WEIRD!!! Must be some excellent ganja you acquired! Please pass it down the aisle!

[arpeggio1358]

Lanza certainly had one of the most perfect voices ever. Thank you for posting!

[ndm707]

Mario Lanza sang this song the best, no one else could ever sing like him, full of feelings. Edmund Purdum did an excellent lip-synching. I love this movie because of the soundtrack & ofcourse because of Edmund Purdom & Ann Blyth.

[lkijju]

just been listening to the late great David Whitfield singing this. He was excellent, but not as good as Mario.

[bassfanne45]

How perfect Lanza's voice was. Having Edmund Purdom onscreen is a bit of a distraction though. i just don't look at the screen.

[stewdoran]

This is my favourite musical of all time. I watched this movie on TV when I was about 13 yrs. old and fell in love with the Mario Lanza music. They sure dont make movies like those anymore. Such a nice love story too. Thanks for posting.

[BaritoneCan1]

@stewdoran I fully agree - they certainly don't wrtie music like this any more (sigh!). Some may consider this shmaltzy and corny, but love songs, espcially beautiful ones like this, will NEVER be shmaltzy or corny. Bravo Sigmund Romberg! Bravo Mario Lanza!

[Bahamondes]

where can i these film download?!?!?!?!?!

[cassidy322]

Lovely.......God bless you both...............beautiful and moving song...how romantic xx

[halavey]

@rupepill My dad is 99! He is still well pretty much and heard many greats. My parents took me when I was 10 twice on one weekend to hear the great caruso film! by 10 I was a Lanza fan! Heard the Toast first when I was 9 but missed the midnight kiss till later. Lanza has a way of singing so round on the word YOU for instance that many could not manage. I could flame any tenor even my favorites and many get on posts just to flame a singer they never even heard live. They sit on their ears!

[halavey]

Well his wife was very Pretty and very small, and he seemed mentally much younger then his age, he was very thin but healthy looking, perhaps thats why he lived so long (and the wife) i liked him I was very young myself then, 29 years old!

[halavey]

The funny thing was this small man Rudolf Friml about Five Foot Five and lean had an old standard shift Mercedes and the car (when he brought in as a gift little cakes for the staff and left ) would not start, bad battery so two of us got behind it along with Friml and his wife steered and popped the clutch out and it started! Here you saw a 89 year old man puching a big Mercedes sedan! Along with two of us of course, he was a nice man, Bohemian born and every so often brought in pastry .

[rupepill]

@halavey

What a great story. I'll tell it to my Mother when I talk with her next (she's 97). No doubt the old gentleman would not have minded at all if someone had turned up then to give him the donkey serenade or more usefully in the circumstances a donkey to draw the car, while the three of you pushed.

Maybe keeping so active in his later years was what helped him to reach 92.

[halavey]

Romberg died in 1951, he was only 64 years old and his name was Suegmund Rosenberg a Hungarian Jew but you know when I worked at a classical radio station in calif. in 1969 Friml came in to be interviewed and I mentioned to Rudolf that I had the Vagabond king with THE LANZA RECORDING and he told me it was his favorite recording of his operetta -- he was then 89 and had a young Asian wife I remember and I have a picture with him at the radio station. He died just a few years later at age 92.

[halavey]

Thanks, yes Romberg did die long before it but when I first saw the film I was 13 years old and already had seen the great caruso when it came out in 1951- I was ten and the toast of new orleans the year before in 1950 and that made me an opera lover because of Lanza, later I got to know his parents in Calif. where I met many opera singers in my work and the top critic for the los angeles times Martin Bernheimer. He had a great natural voice and nobody can deny that unless they are nuts.

[halavey]

Edward P. the British actor did a good job though filling in the acting role for Lanza. He was handsome and the dubbing was good. Lanza voice wise is at his best and sings very well. 3:28 is an example of a golden note and not pushed or strained.

[halavey]

If I had to judge his voice by one recording this would be it, when he sings not even at full voice in high Forte notes it is just one of the most beautiful lyric tenor voices I ever heard even though I never heard him live in a concert hall. He sings so round on words like YOU, his voice here at an age 32 is at it's most lyric beautiful warm round best. Listen to that last note with not strain or hammy effect. Here he does a great job singing the song Serenade.

[rupepill]

@halavey

May I agree with everything you said, please?. What a glorious sound - this voice in this song. Romberg might have written it with this voice in mind. What a pity that the composer died before the film was released. At least, I think he did.

[goerizal]

wow! finally... the perfect song done so well by a perfect voice. i hope nobody will ever block this. thanks.

[suz208]

Mario's perfect voice gives me goose bumps each time I hear it. Too bad he wasn't cast in the lead and they just used his voice. Edmund Purdom was better in The Egyptian.

[bigttim1]

God thankyou for Mario but why did you take him back so young? God bless you Mario you were the Maestro. We will never forget you.

[maureen1938]

Thanks for posting this truly beautiful song sung by the one and only Mario Lanza. I love this.

[bigttim1]

@maureen1938 This man was the voice of God . He was truly perfection. The greatest voice in history.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

Probably the greatest aria and with the perfect man to sing it! I love this.

[tebaldicallas]

I love this song. Lanza is great.

[palmbyo2]

me too & from my favourite musical

[tebaldicallas]

Nobody sing this like him. He is the best.

I really enjoyed this.

[bigttim1]

@tebaldicallas Mario was without doubt the greast voice of alltime. A voice made in Heaven.

[tebaldicallas]

It is too bad he went to Hollywood -

He went were the money - he could have

sang in the opera house. Sad end.

[Clearhighlighter]

This song is physically impossible to sing. The guy's a GOD.

[garystokefc]

50yrs today we lost the voice rip

[tebaldicallas]

Such a beautiful song. Great Lanza.

[nancyfloressantos]

I always love this song.............thanks for sharing.

[Stoke55]

i love this song & the film, but would love 'Deep in my heart' to be re posted as that is my favourite song & scene in the film!!!!

[pianist527]

I forgot... God bless you for re-posting this unbielivably beautiful song

[pianist527]

Finally! Many thank yo for posting this incredibly vanished video many months ago for some strange reason. My goodness, this is one of the most beautiful of all the wonderful songs of this film. Thanks again

[12Fegens]

Five Stars! Terrific!

[nancyfloressantos]

There is an instrumental version of this song....have been searching for it.....

[edsnantonio]

a very big thank you for publising this!

[cordaleme]

Thank you for this. Once you have heard Lanza,

you never forget that voice, which is ageless.