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Aw, Barbra. What can one say? Just 21 and singing with such incredible depth and maturity. Barbra had recently gone to singing in some (mostly) smaller night-clubs and now suddenly she's singing live on national television. How scary - and all at once exciting - it must have been! The happy stuff of dreams ;-)
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Classy gal:)
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Maravillosa, voz, me encanta su personalidad......y su voz, sin más que añadir......
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Talent to go!
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This is exactly as Barbra performed it- LIVE- that evening in 1963, 'Java'. I don't know if there WAS a "complete" rendition recorded during that afternoon's dress rehearsal...
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@fromthesidelines The full performance is on Barbra's Just For The Record Collection (if you want to hear it complete), so I think it's cut just for this video clip for some reason. I think she sang the whole song on that day in 1963, unless the recording on Babs' CD is a rehearsal.
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A verse is indeed missing from the song- probably because Ed told Barbra, before the show, that she'd have to "edit" her performance a bit. Because this was a LIVE program, and Sullivan was constantly shuffling the order and length of his headliners' perfromances right up to air time, he sometimes told them they'd have to "cut" some of their musical numbers, comedy routines, or animal acts for "time" {although a lion tamer once shot back, "Who's gonna tell the LION?"}.
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SENSATIONELL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Werner
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@wyomingmali She rather daringly blues it up and gave it a bit of very controlled raw edge that emotionally carries this very old twenties tune where it has NEVER been before. Your criteria are seriously screwed up on this one.
Wow! She really belted this one out of the ballpark! I think it's a better version than when she sang it on her TV special.
PJCoan 1 year ago 23
This is what the world had before Britney and Rihanna?
...I think I was born in the wrong decade.
Biskmut 2 years ago 12