Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
#1Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 3:34pm
Quiet, please. There's a lady on stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TrPkz4XnHE
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#2re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 4:35pm
Actually, I don't like her take on this at all.
She's NOT "still here" when she lags behind the tempo on every single friggin' phrase. She's "back there."
It goes way beyond "artistic interpretation" and lands squarely in the realm of "annoying."
I have loved Dolores on many occasions... but I felt like buying her a metronome through this whole song.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#3re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 4:59pmSomeone needs to dub in Merm's voice with shouts of "you're behind honey, catch up! catch up!".
#4re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:19pmWho is that cow? Is that from the recent concert?
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#5re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:29pm
The tempo is waaaaaaay slow but no one has ever played the "Was I depressed? Nowhere near" as well--and connected it to "I met a big financier."
And no one has played the despair of "Reno and Beverly Hills" as deeply.
#6re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:30pmDolores didn't need a metronome. She ate metronomes for breakfast.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#7re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:47pm
She looks and sounds fantastic, but I agree, not my favorite. Just a little too fresh, if you know what I mean.
PS Ivan, get a life and do some research before you make your idiotic comments. Google. Use it.
PEACE.
#8re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 6:03pm
Andy Hardy and I saw her as Carlotta on stage in London.
I'm at work with no sound. Does she 'live through Shirley Temple"?
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#9re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 6:16pmNot a fan, sorry.
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
#10re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 7:20pmYes--Sondheim inexplicably rewrote the lyric to Shirley Temple.
#11re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:12pmMaybe the line made sense to Brits?
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#12re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:43pm
As for the "Shirley Temple" rewrite, most Americans don't remember who Brenda Frazier is.
And, yes, Delores is singing it too slow, but, she's fabulous. They do not make performers like her anymore!!!
Here's a clip of her performing "Here's That Rainy Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d49AETet70&mode=related&search=
Enjoy!
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
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"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#13re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 4/12/08 at 7:33pm
I wasn't familiar with Dolores Gray until being introduced to her by PalJoey through this board. I've recently purchased this CD of hers, and I am ADDICTED to it!
#14re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 4/12/08 at 7:38pm
Dolores 101:
The iconic "Thanks a Lot but No Thanks" from It's Always Fair Weather, in which she kills all the chorus boys to Jack Cole choreography:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGBOVV1Gdo
Dolores (with MORE chorus boys) doing her thing to Judy Garland's "Mack the Black":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khuXBoBNtqw
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#15re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 4/12/08 at 7:41pm
Ah, yes - the chorus boys in leather.
That had NOTHING to do with me looking into her further . . .
BkCollector
Broadway Star Joined: 2/6/08
#16re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:52pmDolores Gray is an INCREDIBLE voice. I listen to her sing "Not Since Nineveh" at least once a day. My bf is enthralled with her.
#17re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:24amI'm thinking I saw her in 42'nd Street and she was fabulous! Am I wrong?
#18re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 4/13/08 at 4:42amThanks PJ for the great clips! I got my first exposure to her through Kismet, and I've been hooked ever since. I agree Bk that "Not Since Nineveh" is AMAZING! Destry Rides Again is a favorite cast recording of mine because it is one Dolores Gray number after another.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#19re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 4/13/08 at 4:46pm
She may be off the beat and too slow here but she wasn't in the actual show.
She was hugely popular with British theatregoers of her own generation when she came over with a number of Broadway musicals in the 1950s, and so she was ideal casting when Follies opened in London (although there were reported difficulties with negotiations and Chita Rivera was also being courted for the role).
And, yes, we don't know who Brenda Frazier is. Should I look her up on TouTube?
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#20re: Dolores Gray Sings 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 4/13/08 at 4:54pmDolores Gray was a star. Period.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
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