What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's"Bewitched..."
What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's"Bewitched..."
#1What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's"Bewitched..."
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:05pmAfter loving Stockard's interpretation of "Bewitched" and listening to Jane Froman's from the 1952 Pal Joey cast recording, I was wondering if folks could share their favorite version of the song. I just love the song and would love to check out other versions. I am sure their are many covers on various albums that I am unaware of. Thanks.
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#2re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:07pm
Lena Horne, from The Lady and Her Music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TotSnSmKmtg
#2re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:11pmI loved Patti's version in the Encore production.
#3re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:18pmPJ, I loved that Lena version. :) I will have to listen to Patti's encores version too.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
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#5re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:47pm
Marin Mazzie did a killer interpretation. Its on youtube and its amazing.
Updated On: 2/2/09 at 02:47 PM
#6re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:48pmMy vote is for Marin as well.
#7re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:50pm
Stockard Channing's is by far the best version of the song ever. Her voice is just so glorious. I really hope this production of PAL JOEY is recorded.
(my real answer is Patti LuPone)
Updated On: 2/2/09 at 02:50 PM
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Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:51pm
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#9re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:56pm
Ella Fitzgerald, on her "Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook" album.
Updated On: 2/2/09 at 02:56 PM
#10re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:58pm
This is great. Thanks everyone! I am enjoying these other versions. Keep them coming if you have them. Of course, WAT had to get a snark in about Stockard.
You're lucky I like you.
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"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
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#11re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:03pmI'm with Reginald Tresilian - Barbra's!
#12re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:17pmSian Phillips does a great one on "The Musicality of Rodgers and Hart" album
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#13re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:25pmAnother vote for Patti LuPone's. (She's the sun, the moon and the stars!)
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#14re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:29pmI love Sinead O'Connor's version.
#15re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:31pmI also vote for Barbra and Ella and Patti. But seeing Lena do that live was one of those astonishing moments when you watch a singer turn a song into a life statement.
#16re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:42pmPJ, I agree that Lena version sounds like she is singing from experience and the song is in her bones, like she's channeling something. That is why I enjoyed Stockard's version-I got the sense that something was resonating for her and she broke my heart. There was something behind the simple delivery of the lyrics.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
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#17re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:08pmRosemary Clooney and Ella Fitzgerald.
#18re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:18pm
Here's Ella singing it on the Nat King Cole Show, around the time of the release of her Rodgers and Hart Songbook.
She doesn't have the interpretative powers of Lena or Rosemary or Patti or Barbra, but hers is the standard against which all others can be measured: She lets the song do the work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UbVbNqRSE
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Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:24pmElla's version is gorgeous too and each version so different.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#20re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:24pmThough it's not really a faithful rendition, whenever I hear that song, my mind always turns to Maureen O'Sullivan in Hannah and Her Sisters. God, I love that movie.
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#21re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:55pm
My husband likes to make me CDs with nothing else on them but different versions of the same song. A couple years ago, I was waxing effusive about the song "BB&B" so he surprised me with a CD of about 15 different artists performing the song. I haven't listened to it in a while, but when I get home tonight I will. Then I'll report back! 
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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#22re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:03pmPatti's, of course.
#23re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:18pm
My favorite recorded version of “Bewitched” is by Jo Ann Greer, who dubbed Rita Hayworth on the sound track in the otherwise lackluster 1957 film of PAL JOEY. Although Hayworth provides the sexy visuals that accompany the song on film, Greer’s vocal by itself on the Capitol Records sound track album is the sexiest, most alluring rendition of the song I have ever heard. Even though a couple of Hart’s alternate “cleaner” lyrics are substituted in this version, Greer nails this song’s meaning to perfection.
Here is a link to a clip of the song as it appears in the film but unfortunately it begins leaving out the additional lyrics leading in to the number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz8qRsqoBLc
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#24re: What's Your Favorite Version of Pal Joey's'Bewitched...'
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:28pmMister Matt, I love that movie (and that scene) too!
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