Patti LuPone sings Memory

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 2:31am

Came across this on youtube. Here is Patti singing Memory from Cats


Memoryyy Updated On: 4/16/13 at 02:31 AM

[all that jazz]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 6:57am

Patti could be an interesting Grizabella, I'd love to see her in the role. This was not Miss LuPone's best performance, though. I think she could actually do WAY more with this song.

[JRybka1611]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 10:14am

I don't believe that is Patti. That sounds way too much like Laurie Beechman.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 10:18am

That is not Patti LuPone.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 10:58am

Yes, it's her circa 1991. She stepped in for Michael Crawford in the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber tour. I believe I've heard a similar-quality recording of her singing Tell Me On a Sunday.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 11:52am

Maybe now we can hear Betty Buckley sing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"? Imagine that in your mind. from RC in Austin, Texas

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 11:57am

This doesn't sound like patti.

[LALALand]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 11:59am

That sounds like someone trying to sing LIKE Patti LuPone.

[sassylash3s]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 11:59am

I'm really confused by all the naysayers--this sounds quite distinctly like Patti to me.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 12:01pm

It sounds like someone trying to Impersonate her vocal tone. I highly doubt this is her.

[sparepart973]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 12:08pm

I say it's her.

[chinto1984]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 6:48pm

When it first started, it did not sound like her at all. But the end sounds so Patti.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/16/13 at 6:53pm

It sounds exactly like Patti LuPone.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 1:17am

A) That is unquestionably Patti LuPone. It just is.

B) Anyone who says it isn't doesn't know what they're talking about.

C) She is A-MAH-ZING. She out Betty Buckleys Betty Buckley if you ask me.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 1:46am

I wonder if this was before or after she asked Betty to stop singing Meadowlark.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 1:53am

Why do people INSIST upon making up lies about Patti? She never asked Betty to stop singing Meadowlark.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 1:59am

Take it up with Betty. She's the one who said it.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 2:04am

I don't want to fight with you Phyl- I don't have to.

Fact is, it was an argument over who Stephen Schwartz wrote the song for. Not over singing it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 2:07am

k

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 2:08am

lmao

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 6:15am

Betty Buckley mentioned the Meadowlark story in an interview with Seth Rudetsky. from RC in Austin, Texas

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 1:13pm

Don't tell lovebwy!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 2:53pm

Yes, it's Patti on the tape.

And while it wouldn't surprise me to hear that the story has evolved in Betty's mind into Patti telling her she's not allowed to sing "Meadowlark," I'm pretty sure lovebwy is correct (at least from what I've been told by a close friend of Patti's): LuPone asked--okay, demanded--that Buckley stop saying in concert that Schwartz wrote the song for Betty.

I'm actually not certain Betty ever said that. I've been told that she said he rewrote a certain passage (maybe skipping Patti's high note, which Buckley doesn't sing?) for her.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 3:47pm

That sounds nothing like LuPone.

It sounds like Beechman, slightly sped up.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/17/13 at 3:52pm

It's sped up, yes, but I can't see how you can't hear LuPone, particularly after the song gets going.