Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage — Page 2

Yes A-M does a fantastic version. Thanks for that link Will42. I remember it as if it were yesterday watching her perform it. I was seated pretty close to ringside...she is just an amazing performer on every conceivable level. Mesmerizing.

I never read the review comparing A-M to Garland, but BBB director George Sidney in a Look magazine article stated, 'We certainly didn't know that we were going to get the greatest potential musical star this business will ever have....

Sorry for the minor thread jack....

She would have been as big as Betty Grable

As big as Betty Grable? As Cole Porter wrote:

"Let's write a tune that's play-able,
A ditty swing-and-sway-able,
Or say whatever's say-able
About the Tower of Ba-able,
Let's cheer for the career
Of itty-bitty Betty Gra-able,
But let's not talk about love!"

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I first saw Peter Allen perform this song at the Boarding House in San Francisco, somewhere around 1977. In those days it was pretty much Peter and the piano (he may have had a back-up musician or two, I don't remember). Anyway, he performed 'Quiet Please' while seated at the piano. The number started off slowly, then built and built, getting louder and faster, the audience clapping along joyously, while the spotlight slowly grew smaller and smaller, until it was just lighting Peter's face. All of a sudden the microphone went dead, but Peter kept singing and smiling, the spotlight still focused on him, seemingly unaware that nobody could hear him. Then the spotlight went dead and the theater was plunged into darkness. For a second the audience was dumbfounded into silence. Then the theater burst into thunderous applause and cheers. One of the most effective and moving numbers I've ever seen.

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PalJoey, Lovely. Thank you.

hushpuppy, I echo PJ's Wow!

JoeKv99, *bronx cheer*

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Sorry to go off track from the original topic, but just had to add, this song was another highlight of all his shows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjSWZQNXLU

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