1958 Windjammer: Kari Waits For Me

This is the clip of the beautiful song "Kari Waits For Me" taken from the 1958 spectacular "Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich", the first movie presentation in CINEMIRACLE. Cinemiracle was a widescreen cinema format competing with Cinerama developed in the 1950s. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with only a single film produced and released in the format. Like Cinerama it used 3 cameras to capture a 2.59:1 image. Cinemiracle used two mirrors to give the left and right cameras the same optical center as the middle camera.
This movie was a documentary film of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again. "Windjammer" was produced by Louis De Rochemont and directed by his son Louis De Rochemont III. The world premiere of both Windjammer and the Cinemiracle system was at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on 8 April 1958. The film ran for 36 weeks. Windjammer was later transferred to the Cinerama format, and even to Cinemascope.
The crew consisted of the captain Yngvar Kjelstrup, 16 officers, 42 teenage cadets and the mascot dog Stump. They traveled 17, 500 miles.
This is truly one of my favorite movies since I was a child. I grew up listening to the soundtrack of this movie and this had a great deal to do with my love for sea shanties, ships and the ocean.
"Kari Waits For Me" is my favorite song of the movie! It is sung by the great Norwegian actor and singer, Lars "Lasse" Kolstad.

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[TheKaiNormann]

Lasse Kolstad, the actor and singer, celebrated his 90th birthday on January 10, 2012, and he passed away on Saturday, January 14, 2012.

I was at the first showing of the movie Windjammer at the Colloseum Cinema in Oslo way back then at the age of 6, and I think that movie made me become a sailor later on.

memories, memories...

[LoreneFaith]

@TheKaiNormann I did not know that Lasse had recently passed away. RIP Lasse. I will forever love hearing you sing "Kari Waits For Me".

[LoreneFaith]

@TheKaiNormann RIP Lasse. We will always remember you and your beautiful song Kari.

[casinobowling]

We hear the famous conductor Øivind Bergh conduct The Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra And Choir!

[LoreneFaith]

@casinobowling What a wonderful concert that would have been.

[ireopor]

Kari is a Norwegian name. It was the famous singer Mr. Odd Wolstad (Norwegian) who song this first of all, on a singleplate. He got a voice who make goosehaut all over one, very much indeed.

Unfortunealy there is nothing to find about him in the archives, just a description of his career and his last restplace - a graveyard in Stavanger, Norway

[LoreneFaith]

@ireopor I love Kari and I love this song. I would love to have heard Mr. Odd Wolstad sing Kari. Thank you for sharing.

[ingerannasanga]

R.I.P. Lasse Kolstad.

[ZoneIII]

I always loved this song since seeing Windjammer as a boy and also from playing the album. I think I still have two LPs and, thanks to you, Lorene, I have the music on CD now. Because of this song, I always loved the name, Kari, and, if I had thought about it at the time, I probably would have named one of my daughters Kari but I didn't think of it. Maybe I will still name a pet Kari someday. :-)

[Msmothernature1]

Wonderful song!

This great Norwegian singer and actor died yesterday, 90 years old.