I Have Dreamed from The King and I Original Broadway Cast

This is the song "I Have Dreamed" from the 1951 Broadway Musical "The King and I" starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner. The Song is sung by Larry Douglas who plays Lun Tha and Doretta Morrow who plays Tuptim. The song was cut from the movie however. The Music and Lyrics are by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

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Music

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• Have
• Dreamed
• King
• and
• Gertrude
• Lawrence
• Yul
• Brynner
• Doretta
• Morrow
• Larry
• Douglas
• Tuptim
• Lun
• Tha
• Original
• Broadway
• Cast
• Musical
• Rodgers
• Hammerstein

[elliotc02]

I would like to point out to those born after LPS disappeared that they didn't sound like this. They sounded just fine and everybody was very happy.

[moonlightorchid99]

I actually think this song is more beautiful and romantic than Shall We Dance ?, which I know is the star song and infamous enchanting melody most associated with the movie, but this is much deeper and more direct on the subject of love between the king and Anna. I think Shall we Dance? is nevertheless an enchanting allusion to their love but I definitely think this song deserved a spotlight of its own, along with Getting to Know You, in the movie and I think they were crazy to cut it.

[moonlightorchid99]

I actually think this song is more beautiful and romantic than Shall We Dance ?, which I know is the star song and infamous enchanting melody most associated with the movie, but this is much deeper and more direct on the subject of love between the king and Anna. I think Shall we Dance? is nevertheless an enchanting allusion to their love but I definitely think this song deserved a spotlight of its own, along with Getting to Know You, in the movie and I think they were crazy to cut it.

[TheStockwell]

@elliotc02 It's really important to point out things like that! This upload sounds like an Edison cylinder from 1908! What's the point of uploading something that sounds this bad? YIKES!

[steph42uk]

Dorretta Morrow had such a wonderful beautiful voice so sad she died at only 40 in 1968. At the first rehersals of The King and I Richard Rodgers asked Doretta Morrow to sing Gertrude Lawrence's songs so she could hear them for herself, Lawrence never forgave him because Doretta had such a beauitful voice compared to Gertrude who was already dying of cancer, but no one knew. She refused to even speak to the composer for sometime after that!

[JohnnyGNV]

Larry Douglas was wonderful - I have a rare LP he did on the old Design record label. How far did his broadway and recording career take him?

[FRANKHODGES39]

Thanks for the memory! Gertrude Lawrence was the original!

[ADagDaAvenger]

@skiff315 They're meaning that the main characters in the Broadway overall is starring Gertrude Lawrence, it's not related to the song. If you read on after the first sentence, it stated:

"The Song is sung by Larry Douglas who plays Lun Tha and Doretta Morrow who plays Tuptim."

[skiff315]

That's Doretta Morrow not Gertrude Lawrence.

[cannedpoo]

OMG and WOW

[14mathurin]

listening to gertrude lawrence takes me back to the misty english countryside in 1953 - such a romantic song