I've always loved Bernadette Peters, with her stunning beauty and awesome talent... Just wonderful.

Spine tingling-- i replayed it 4 times back-to-back. Such control, such diction,such elocution and the voice just soars...and she looks so damn good too!

“Except when she sings this song” I’m gutted. Thank You Bernadette

super!!!

It's curious how in this day and age people get so caught up in somebody owning a song. This was a rarity when the song was written. This is a SINATRA song first and foremost (he co-wrote it and the '51 version is definitive) but that takes nothing away from Lady Day on her final album. All of that said, Bernadette does an incredible job on this song, it's what truly GREAT songs and truly GREAT artists are all about.

Jeez. Yes, Billie Holliday sang a beautiful, gut-wrenching rendition of this song. Personally, I think that it will never be topped. But that doesn't change the fact that Bernadette sang it beautifully. Singers interpret pieces differently, that's what makes music interesting.

This song, along with "This Love of Mine," are two of the most covered Frank Sinatra songs (aside from "My Way" and "NY, NY," of course), but they are special because both were co-written by Sinatra himself. Most of the covers were done in the 50's and 60s, and it's fairly rare nowadays to hear someone sing "I'm a Fool to Want You." Billie Holiday, Linda Ronstadt, Shirley Bassey, Jack Jones and others did it in the past, but I'd love to hear Harry Connick, Jr. or Michael Buble or Josh Groban sing it.

love this interpretation! notice the woman next to quincy jones as she cuts him a look at 4:11...it's as if she annoyed that he's too enraptured by the sultry & wonderful bernadette

If you think that was something extraordinary - you should look up "Later - Bernadette Peters In Concert" there are some operatic notes in that and she completely nails them!

daaaayaaammm OPRAH

@TheMomokofuma that is not an opera voice she is using. Each artist has there own interpretation of songs. This happens to be how she wanted to sing it and it was very effective.

amazing! can someone just please tell me where is this clip from?

There's a song Miss Peters sang, something like "What would I do if you're apart of me... but I have no further information. Does someone kow this song or the play Miss Peters sang it?

She's been there. ;)

this is slim Oprah!

terrific!!!....only billie holiday could sing this great song.

can this girl sing ! i was in the cottage for late lunch with wife and two friends when she appeared outside with her dog who was out of control. so i went out and got the dog under control and talked to her for awhile, giving her some career advice ! a few weeks later we met a producer at lincoln center who knew her and said she had a sister who looks like her. there are some songs she does like no other singer. hey, that's a little new york memory.

What's this from?

@joeA2000 any irony in that?

that would be like saying a lisp has nothing to do with oral communication and if you were an actor your speech impairment wouldn't allow you to perform pieces that were dramatic because the lisp would take away form the dialogue. YES vibrato has much to do with lyrical connection and execution and can hurt lyrics if its overdone. However, to each his own and my opinion obviously contrasts yours that doesn't make it incorrect.

Bernadette is wonderful , the horns & percussion are too hot (loud)

..its..notlike billies!

she needs to lay off on her vibrato a bit it really distracts me from the connection with the lyrics

This is not a freakin opera piece where is the jazz she sounds sooo white... like a disney princess singing ........... not for this piece

Horrible rendition of this song. She is off key and is shouting instead of singing.