Julie Andrews (Aged 13) Sings for King George VI (1948)

Julie Andrews (Aged 13) Sings for King George VI (1948) | British Pathé

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A 13-year-old Julie Andrews ('Mary Poppins', 'The Sound of Music') sings the British National Anthem in the presence of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) at the 1948 Royal Command Performance at London's Palladium.
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Julie Andrews (Aged 13) Sings for King George VI in 1948 [HD]. Julie Andrews sings the British National Anthem at the 1948 Royal Command Performance at London's Palladium. She runs on in front of Danny Kaye wearing a white A-frame dress and begins to sing, the audience join in.
This was the 1st November 1948, the evening was held in the presence of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother). The show was presented by Val Parnell.
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@tc2334 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Julie Andrews is one of the few people who spent her childhood singing 'God Save the King' and is still around to be able to sing it again.

@JimiBegbaaji Жыл бұрын

She got to sing it to 2 kings and 1 queen.

@lucieirl Жыл бұрын

That’s actually wild. I think it’s easy to forget our older generations are “living history” sometimes!

@kerensabirch5214 Жыл бұрын

I doubt if she'd want to, though.

@tc2334 Жыл бұрын

@@kerensabirch5214 That remains to be seen, I suppose.

@jillohara3121 Жыл бұрын

She can no longer sing in the higher ranges because of surgery on her vocal cords a few years ago

@user-lr7li1ik3b 3 жыл бұрын

Julie age 13 : sings beautifully Me age 13: trying to close the fridge slowly to see if the lights go off

@endangtrimartini2582 3 жыл бұрын

Ppp

@isabellavetere9098 3 жыл бұрын

Why'd you have to call me out like that, like wtf come on man.....😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

@annaquillfeldt5598 3 жыл бұрын

It does :)

@mintburnett16 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@jangtheconqueror 3 жыл бұрын

There's a switch on the doorframe, I found it when trying to see the lights go off lmao

@karenvincent5202 3 жыл бұрын

I just read her autobiography. She was supporting her family even at this young age. Never really had a childhood and yet she has a sunny outlook on life.

@Farrah300 3 жыл бұрын

I like a person who has a good attitude.

@eleanorevery 3 жыл бұрын

She’s incredible!!

@robertnielsen2461 3 жыл бұрын

Singing has very positive effect on a persons attitude,if your blessed as she has been even more so.

@karenvincent5202 3 жыл бұрын

@her parents split up when she was quite young. Her mother's second husband was in vaudeville and he was the one who started her performing. Her mother was not very stable and her stepfather was an alcoholic. She said that even when she was twelve she often had to travel to jobs alone and was very lonely staying in a strange hotel by herself. If anyone did that with a child today they would get into big trouble. As time went on she became the only breadwinner and even after she was married and was no longer at home she continued to support her parents and her siblings.

3 жыл бұрын

Karen Vincent Wow! That is astonishing. She always seemed to be so genuine and happy not to mention beautiful and talented. Thank you so much!!

@rgracia633 8 жыл бұрын

Julie Andrews, even at that age was amazing. What a career, what a voice, what a lady..

@chewie2055 5 жыл бұрын

Ralph Rivera ......what a dame

@chocolatesouljah 5 жыл бұрын

Clipgatherer After giving over 1,000 performances as ELiza! In recent years she said she’s made her peace with that she said it would’ve been nice Record the role on film but after all if she had taken on Eliza Doolittle she couldn’t have been Mary Poppins. Don’t get me wrong I grew up listening to the cast album of my for a lady with Julie Andrews. I basically can’t bear the film because of that. And in my opinion no matter what people say it’s just not a great film where is Mary Poppins actually is. So more power to Julie for where feet took her. She was very deserving!

@tamorap1614 4 жыл бұрын

What a life!!

@joshuajohnson1798 4 жыл бұрын

13 years old hit the high note "QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN" at the end. Unbelievable!!!!!

@cynthiaburrus3901 4 жыл бұрын

@@Clipgatherer I'm glad she didn't. THAT MOVIE BELONGED to Hepburn even if she couldn't sing.

@cherylclair 8 жыл бұрын

Goodness, I was not aware that she had been a child star.

@Shamsithaca 8 жыл бұрын

She was a child prodigy, an operatic singing sensation, had an entire career before doing My Fair Lady on Broadway and a career that continues today!

@emcanet 5 жыл бұрын

I found her autobiography in a used book store. Can not wait to learn more about her. Big fan.

@sixchiensblancs 5 жыл бұрын

@@emcanet She is amazing, so talented, and funny... Too bad that throat surgery was botched a few years back... It must have been frightening for her!!! I LOVE her work, like Victor/Victoria, simple little movie, but so funny!!! And all the rest of course, including the Sound of Music...

@arx754 5 жыл бұрын

I understand her parents were in vaudeville, so she got her start on stage REALLY early once they heard her sing.

@indirap.gungadin2239 4 жыл бұрын

@@emcanet I'm listening to her audiobook called: Home. It is so interesting!

@jhibbitt1 9 жыл бұрын

wow she really has lived quite a life hasn't she

@shaunwilson7148 5 жыл бұрын

And she still has more to live

@mkx1987 5 жыл бұрын

she was born to be a legend XD

@Jenna-lo1yp 4 жыл бұрын

@@shaunwilson7148 what?

@gillianlandry283 4 жыл бұрын

One of the most angelic voices in the world. Such a shame that surgeon who operated on her ruined her vocal chords!!!

@joyk2327 4 жыл бұрын

@@zyxw2024 The doctor gave to her a wrong diagnosis and also made serious mistakes during the surgery. She took a risk but based on a misdiagnosis.

@millers3888 10 жыл бұрын

That high note at the end is Julie. Very talented little girl.

@PCCphoenix 5 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed, that descant line was all hers!!!

@brookeggleston9314 5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if I was the only one who heard it! You must all be old choristers, like myself!!!

@trashpanda9357 5 жыл бұрын

I heard it too ^^ Damn, she could sing that little girl

@cynthiacorcoran9389 5 жыл бұрын

Cynthia me hit the highest note or any note in this catagory in my generation. The one and only to hit it. It was training from birth!

@unseelie63 5 жыл бұрын

I read that she had an adult larynx as a girl,which gave her a lot of power and control.

@peterd788 4 жыл бұрын

It's difficult to believe this was nearly 72 years ago.

@ceciliapreziose3783 3 жыл бұрын

wow, now 73 :(

@fitzgeraldparchment4480 2 жыл бұрын

74 now

@KingJackson11355 Жыл бұрын

And now we are back to this anthem. Rest in paradise queen ❤

@kelseymathias3881 Жыл бұрын

@@fitzgeraldparchment4480 and now things are changing by at least a year each month...and not for the better.

@ertfgghhhh Жыл бұрын

......it's not hard to believe

@kadenmarshall7122 Жыл бұрын

It’s blows my mind that someone who sang this to the king only 3 years after WWII is still alive to sing it to another king in 2023!

@seagerseager5174 4 ай бұрын

I wonder if she would be asked to sing again for the King 👑

@jctresham4592 3 жыл бұрын

Did not realise that Julie was that old but she is. She’s 85.

@user-uc3ld1zj3g 3 жыл бұрын

That ain't old

@lainierehn5202 3 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭

@AmaraJordanMusic 3 жыл бұрын

I know! Only 2% of the world’s population existed before the current Queen of England ascended. It’s really wild to think about.

@haroldlawson8771 3 жыл бұрын

@@AmaraJordanMusic queen of the United kingdom*

@KingJackson11355 2 жыл бұрын

Their are some people who are alive much older then the queen still. Like Kane takana In Japan who’s 119.

@margaretross9150 4 жыл бұрын

I'm currently reading the first of Julie's two autobiographies and now admire her even more. She didn't have an easy childhood and worked very hard to help her family.

@milacruz3970 4 жыл бұрын

What are they called? I'd love to read them!

@margaretross9150 4 жыл бұрын

@@milacruz3970 Hello! The first is "Home: A Memoir of My Early Years" and the second is "Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years".

@SpeccyMan 4 жыл бұрын

@@margaretross9150 Must get both of those. Always admired her since I saw Mary Poppins as a child.

@betinablueyes 3 жыл бұрын

The times were tough, my Grandmother also worked as a child picking berries, and paid by the pint. Labor laws have helped kids not have to go through such, but alas that didn't prevent the children from working the family farms. Builds character.

@PitiMiami 3 жыл бұрын

@@margaretross9150 Thank you 😊

@sarahbrighteyes 6 жыл бұрын

How did I not know about this gem of a video before now?? I mean Julie Andrews, King George VI, and Danny Kaye (whom nobody seems to notice)! This is legendary!

@brookeggleston9314 5 жыл бұрын

Not to mention Churchill!!!

@AnjiKnutsen 5 жыл бұрын

I spotted Danny Kaye!! I recognised some of the faces at the end, but can't remember their names.

@jennyq4979 5 жыл бұрын

I noticed Danny Kaye too - loved him!

@janinesundberg4999 5 жыл бұрын

Noticed Danny Kaye there too. Such a funny, talented guy.

@domainofthesun4400 5 жыл бұрын

Is the front row a who's who of the musical stage at the time?

@allanmoore4353 Жыл бұрын

Her voice even at that age was recognizable as Julie Andrews. Wonderful video.

@Robin.Tussin Жыл бұрын

It's the same person? 😒

@PhineasFerb001 Жыл бұрын

@@Robin.Tussin you sound different when you’re younger, as you age your voice matures

@Robin.Tussin Жыл бұрын

@@PhineasFerb001 That may be, but you don't sound like a completely different person at the end of it - you just sound older. The query here was someone making it seem remarkable that she is recognisable as Julie Andrews: well, of course she's recognisable as Julie Andrews, she's Julie Andrews - just, aged 13.

@PhineasFerb001 Жыл бұрын

@@Robin.Tussin I think if I wasn’t told this was Julie Andrew’s I would have never guessed it

@Robin.Tussin Жыл бұрын

@@PhineasFerb001 That's nothing to do with anything? I tried to communicate this before: the query herr surrounds the fact that it sounds just like Julie Andrew - not that it doesn't sound like Julie Andrews. Do you understand what you're replying to?

@skeeterradar 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! just listen to her voice soar into the stratosphere on that final note with such power that she overshadows an entire choir and orchestra.

@carmenm9068 Жыл бұрын

Try looking up her singing the Polonaise at 13. Towards the end she goes incredibly high and pure.

@lordkalvan816 Жыл бұрын

I agree with you about that final note - it's beautiful and pure and powerful. I feel I should point out, however, that one soprano singing a high note is much easier to pick out against an entire 100 voice choir than 10 people singing at lower pitches.

@deriter64 10 жыл бұрын

Figures that a gracious, beautiful woman like Julie Andrews would have been a charming adolescent with an already budding talent.

@Cassxowary 5 жыл бұрын

deriter64 not just talent but training too

@wandajames6234 4 жыл бұрын

I think it was a bit more than "budding"

@Catubrannos 4 жыл бұрын

@@wandajames6234 That was top level singing. I suspect her budding talent likely happened during the war. I'm sure she was a great morale booster wherever she was.

@IsyanaArslan Жыл бұрын

It's beautiful that at 13 Julie Andrews sang "God Save The King." Now at almost 87 years old she can sing that again.

@EYE_GOTCHA Жыл бұрын

She is able to sing again? I didn't know. That's fabulous.

@PJ-Sparkles Жыл бұрын

Sadly, she can’t. Her vocal chords are done. No more singing.

@carolharris2357 Жыл бұрын

@@PJ-Sparkles she had an operation for nodes and never regained her singing voice.

@robertandhollyscorpiofan2697 Жыл бұрын

@@carolharris2357 she can’t sing the way she used to, but she can sing.

@veecee3669 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness, Julie Andrew's voice was astounding even at 13 years old!

@karenvincent5202 3 жыл бұрын

I just read her autobiography. She started supporting her family at the age of 12. No real childhood, but still a sunny outlook on life.

@efrosynihobbs4741 2 жыл бұрын

I've always admired Julie Andrews. She's beautiful, multi-talented, a wonderful actor, singer, dancer and a thoroughly decent human being! I wish there were more Julie Andrews in the world!

@julieandrews7558 Жыл бұрын

Quite a few of us actually ;)

@Woozler554 Жыл бұрын

Me too.

@daisydaisy1034 Жыл бұрын

A pure voice of a 13 year old, not pretentious. One of the best child voices I've ever heard. Some kids are always trying to sound like some artist or sound a lot of older than they are, manipulating their voice.

@snowysnowyriver Жыл бұрын

My God! Thirteen years old and a voice like that...... incredible!!!!

@Quaker-tc8ue Ай бұрын

She was born with an adult larynx.

@kateg7298 Жыл бұрын

Even at 13 she had the most amazing voice! Such a rich tone and resonance. She's simply amazing.

@SnarkierThan-U-R 3 жыл бұрын

She was put on earth to sing, such a tragedy she lost that gift.

@allenjones3130 Жыл бұрын

It is indeed saddening that JA isn't able to sing like she used to, but even if she'd never had that surgery, it's possible that she still might not be able to sing like she once did; she turns 87 years of age on October 1st, 2022.

@charliekane135 Жыл бұрын

Everyone loses 'that gift' eventually. Vocal chords are muscles they age just like the rest of the body

@winnievanorden1 5 жыл бұрын

Julie Andrews...perfect in every way.

@starcorder 5 жыл бұрын

winnievanorden1 practically!

@winnievanorden1 5 жыл бұрын

@@starcorder exactly!!!

@joshuajohnson1798 4 жыл бұрын

@@winnievanorden1 1935 till now. She is 84 this year, next year she'll be 85.

@deanbowen3271 4 жыл бұрын

Except her filthy mouth!

@angel.. 4 жыл бұрын

@@deanbowen3271 ?

@juststardust8103 5 жыл бұрын

Her handclap is so cute!

@lisaerl 5 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. I would loved to seen a close up of her face while she sung. She's a really refined, classy beauty.

@rexdby2984 4 жыл бұрын

The clapping is incredibly enthusiastic! The passion and energy of youth combined with love of country.

@typingcat 4 жыл бұрын

@@rexdby2984 People loved royalties back then?

@zyxw2024 4 жыл бұрын

@@typingcat I'm still receiving my royaltie$. lol

@ElusiveTy 3 жыл бұрын

@@typingcat You obviously meant to say "royals" and yes, people adored the royals back then, a lot more than today and that goes for all of the monarchies that existed and still exist. People still adore the royals, albeit less so overall and with less general support. They are dignified symbols of their countries like any other. Where the world thinks of Trump when they think of the US... The world thinks of The Queen who can do no wrong, when they think of the UK.

@adeleweiss8130 Жыл бұрын

What a privilege for George to have the amazingly talented Julie Andrews singing for him!

@sherryhall6946 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve never seen her this young. I love the enthusiasm in the crowd. Very patriotic people.

@Maya-bu2rf 2 жыл бұрын

Probably because it was just a couple of years after WWII

@mogznwaz Жыл бұрын

I miss it

@barney6888 Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. After what they'd been through and the way HM King George VI gave them the right words at the right time shows that triumph is always possible, even during the darkest of days.

@binaway 5 жыл бұрын

Just Prior to becoming famous Julie Andrews accompanied her mother and step father on the theater circuit across the UK. In Manchester they stayed a digs run by my grandmothers sister. After they left she found a box of empty food cans under the bed, which must have been eaten cold, and one of Julies shoes. Mr great aunt loved theater people and if she had known how hard up they were she would have fed them for free. She wrote a letter to their next digs regarding the shoe and they wrote back asking her to keep it and they would collect it next year. Julie appeared as a star on the West End the next year and my great aunt kept the shoe as a memento. It had belonged to Julie Andrews.

@arnoldamaral7406 5 жыл бұрын

binaway What a beautiful story. Where is the shoe now my friend? 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇸🇫🇷 I'm 15% British Isles. According to my DNA test. My mom is 30%. The rest is French Spanish Portuguese & Eastern Europen. My Great Grand Parents came to America around 1820 from western Europe Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral take care my friend. 🌍🌏🌎👱🌿

@connoroleary591 4 жыл бұрын

@@arnoldamaral7406 greetings to you Mr Amaral from the UK. Do pay a visit some day.

@titania145 3 жыл бұрын

It will be worth a lot, especially if she kept the notes written back 👍

@binaway 3 жыл бұрын

@@arnoldamaral7406 We emigrated and dads family lost contact over the decades.

@abdiver12 3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful story. It would be so cool if you could find a way to reunite that shoe with Julie today. I'm sure she'd be thrilled to see it.

@alexandrinaarabella334 Жыл бұрын

What a precious child Julie Andrews was... Look at her clapping her hands with such delight.

@patriciahill4492 Жыл бұрын

Isn't she precious. 13 yrs old with that beautiful voice. And she's still with us in 2022. Amazing. 👏 Her enthusiasm at the end clapping for the King 🤴 so excited. I've always liked her. 🥰 💖

@allenjones3130 Жыл бұрын

J.A. began her vocal life as a lyric/coloratura soprano with a range of 4 octaves. During the 50s, her voice deepend and she became a mezzo-soprano with a very strong upper register.

@dianaaljadeff2983 Жыл бұрын

Allen Jones Julie Andrews was a soprano not a mezzo soprano. Just listen her West Side Story duet with Carol Burnett. Only in the eighties she started to sing with lower keys but she was always a soprano she started as a coloratura soprano and in the seventies and eighties her voice deepened and she became a second soprano but never a mezzo.The singer who sang in Mary Poppins and The Sound of music was a lyric soprano with high notes Allen Jones never a mezzo. .A mezzo was Judy Garland a mezzo was Marilyn Horne a mezzo was Mary Martin never Julie Andrews.

@60sto80s2 Жыл бұрын

I love how enthusiastic she as a kid they way she ran in and the clapping at the end she was really enjoying herself

@CatherineZhang-kq2cm 11 ай бұрын

I love that very much, too✨!!!

@vinadamswood586 Жыл бұрын

Just writing this the day after our Queen has passed away. We must now start getting used to singing God Save The... KING. And here is the best clip I know. This is very moving. When the audience left the theatre that night of November 1st 1948, they will have had to pass rubble everywhere left by the Luftwaffe blitz and still far from being totally cleared. Interestingly there was still another 13 days before the birth of the now King Charles lll. Watch this clip to the very end. Julie Andrews will be 87 on 1st October 2022, and here she was exactly one month over 13... and a very young 13 at that. How great she is here. In her dazzling career, she never bettered this moment. The Royal Command Performance is over. The 52 year old King George Vl had less than four years to live... the stresses of the Second World War had exacerbated health problems already existing, and within months of this concert, a planned tour of Australia and New Zealand was postponed after an arterial blockage needed a lumbar sympathectomy just four months later in March 1948. And watch the audience at the very end as they look up at the Royal Box. One can sense their concerned affection. And Julie, from the moment when you excitedly run on to deliver the showpiece to the whole evening, to that top note you deliver at the very end, you made me proud to be British. Loved the way (Sir Thomas Beecham?) the conductor slowed down the opening lines for you to deliver as a solo, and then watch the brio of the conductor as he asks the massed singers to give the rest of the anthem their maximum volume. Startling to think that the odds are that Julie is the only single one of those assembled on stage and in the orchestra pit who is still alive as I write this. A great clip. Made even greater for me by seeing my boyhood hero Danny Kaye standing immediately behind Julie... and joining in the joke conga exit with Crazy Gang members (the King’s favourite comedians). - David 'Dai' Woosnam, Grimsby, UK - born 20/7/47

@postscript67 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the information. I think the conductor is actually Henry Hall, of BBC Dance Orchestra fame. Certainly he is listed as the musical director for the performance.

@carmenm9068 Жыл бұрын

I don't think I'll be getting used to it. I couldn't care less about him or his paramour.

@918Venice Жыл бұрын

Wonderful post, thanks!

@fussyrenovator7551 Жыл бұрын

@@carmenm9068 Snarky!

@amyaldrich780 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, Vin!

@freedomartwork6950 Жыл бұрын

The way she scampers onto the stage at the beginning is so adorable. And that voice!!!

@harlickgirl389 10 жыл бұрын

So well trained and talented. Pure vocals. Yes, it is Julie Andrews.

@debrazawlocki3975 Жыл бұрын

Years ago, my mom worked for ABC in Indy. Whenever celebrities were in town, she would take me with her so I might have an opportunity to meet them. I will never forget meeting Julie Andrews. She came to town to tape a promotional for Indy's traditional replay of "Sound of Music" on Christmas evening. She probably met millions of "everyday people" yet she made eye contact, shook hands, and left everyone with the impression that she was thankful to have met them. What a lovely lady!

@truvi2461 3 жыл бұрын

I think there are not many people who saw the King and are still alive. 😳 Very cool, Julie!!! 😃👍

@KingJackson11355 Жыл бұрын

And now we are back to this anthem. Rest In Peace queen ❤

@adelucas4824 Жыл бұрын

My next door neighbour is 89 so has now seen three monarchs. In the future, barring an unfortunate circumstance when the monarch dies early, we won't see the likes of Elizabeth again and many people will see three or maybe even 4 over their lifetime.

@truvi2461 Жыл бұрын

@@KingJackson11355 Yes. 😭

@truvi2461 Жыл бұрын

@@adelucas4824 Yes, that's true. 🥺

@sandraolson1022 Жыл бұрын

Love the way she was so enthusiasticly clapping, she was clearly enjoying herself!

@janeclarkson8471 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful, dignified, talented actress and wonderful voice, charming, without the dreaded ego and a real lady! Love her. At 13 she had a lovely voice and she was clapping with such glee after the National Anthem! Bravo Julie ❤️❤️👌🤗🤗😘😘 👏👏💐💐

@shirleyandrews1152 Жыл бұрын

Julie is a favorite of our family. She’s so talented. My boys remember her from Mary Poppins❤️

@deed468 3 жыл бұрын

What an incredible honour for the King!

@piacolada206 Жыл бұрын

Watching this makes me feel nostalgic and happy and sad at the same time even if I wasn’t alive then. What a beautiful memory captured in film. Thank God for filmmakers ❤

@vickihandel3620 Жыл бұрын

Julie Andrews is such a kind individual! She’s never been ugly about the fact she was the major bread winner for her step father , mother and siblings! Even as a child she had such Grace and talents ❤

@thelaughingtiger146 3 жыл бұрын

She's adorable! I wish the sound quality was better. I love to see history alive in these films. What a treat, not to be dismissed lightly. Thank you uploaders!

@emotionallychargedtowel Жыл бұрын

Holy... many of us only ever knew the Queen. Imagine Julie Andrews singing God save the King at 13 and for it to come full circle now.

@aftersexhighfives Жыл бұрын

I cry watching princess diaries 2 when she sings. She really tries and hides it very well but the surgery to remove a non cancerous growth on her vocal chords really stole her voice. It's heartbreaking. How wonderful to get to enjoy her voice when it was so young. She's an amazing lady.

@tituscaesar 4 жыл бұрын

wow She's practically "pitch" perfect in every way :) wonderful

@bluesky4491 Жыл бұрын

Even at a young age Julie Andrews continues to amaze me with her talent! We are blessed to hear her sing .

@44032 6 жыл бұрын

Julie was really into it. Look at her clapping afterwards. First horizontal, then vertical then back again. (from 1:12)

@shendaraalshedir1933 Жыл бұрын

Wow....unfrigginbelievable... WHAT an *AMAZING* piece of footage to have! At 62 Elizabeth was the only Monarch l had known my entire life. I hope Julie will be there May 6, 2023 to do a repeat performance for our wonderful new King. God Save The Queen, Long Live The King!👍🏻💖🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦

@chrisnorton4382 5 жыл бұрын

A remarkable vote of confidence from the organisers of the evening's Command Performance to entrust young Julie with leading the ensemble for the anthem. A superstar in the bud as someone said.

@violapowell9549 Жыл бұрын

She always had such a pure voice! I believe she had perfect pitch as well.

@madhatter909 8 жыл бұрын

thank you for this lovely piece of history. I feel so honored to have watched this.

@jeanneratterman Жыл бұрын

I had never heard this before. Wow! Her child voice is so mature and beautiful. Well done…all her life!

@timheavrin2253 Жыл бұрын

Only one word for Julie. WOW! What a human being too! Voice of an angel!

@SquaddieSoul Жыл бұрын

The passion that everyone conveys singing the Anthem is so rousing. That's how it should sung.

@arkadeepghosh4020 2 жыл бұрын

Even after encountering such barriers of problems at such a young age,her smiling face is great.

@ameliabousman1553 3 жыл бұрын

Even as a child Julie Andrews possessed a beautiful voice. Could listen to her all day. ❤

@G6JPG Жыл бұрын

I sometimes do 🙂

@sebastianbache8862 Жыл бұрын

I love their wholesome silliness at the end

@redsoxu571 Жыл бұрын

She also had the best clapping of all those on stage!

@joeburinskas8672 Жыл бұрын

What a voice and you can see the resemblance even at that age.

@pienpakvis6118 5 жыл бұрын

I had no idea, that she started out so young, and so spectacularly...Amazing!!

@johnlowdon5809 4 жыл бұрын

We all started out young.

@MandeeSparkle 12 жыл бұрын

After studying in England for a year, I came home to America, and went to a festival for 4th of July. When they started "My Country Tis of Thee" for the audience to sing, I went into autopilot and started singing God Save the Queen. Everyone turned and looked at me, while my whole family burst out into laughter.

@amyschneidhorst1384 Жыл бұрын

Long ago when I studied in England for graduate school I did the same! At the time I felt embarrassed, but in hind-sight it could have been a good opportunity to talk about how many English tunes were adopted and are still sung and played today in the United States.

@lisadominguez3457 Жыл бұрын

That’s hilarious. I’ve done the same, singing with an award winning high school choir in America. We used to sing for retired military in nursing homes. It was one of the songs we would perform on request. It brought many a tear to the WWII elderly and their spouses.

@tmf866 Жыл бұрын

Heh. I had to recite "the pledge of allegiance" every day in German class (and as a senior we had to say it in German because we weren't allowed to speak English in class), and then just after I graduated my (WWII era) grandmother took me to a public function where they said it, and on autopilot I started reciting it in German. (Ich schwere meine Loyalitaet zu der Fahne) The glare she gave me...

@paanne1013 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@RainbowBrite80 Жыл бұрын

I never knew they stole the tune from England! So I'm watching this and thinking 🤔 that sounds like 1 of our songs lol.

@MyPatch2 3 жыл бұрын

This gives me goosebumps - in a good way. Julie Andrews' talent shows here,, even at her tender age. Thanks for uploading this, British Pathé

@berlynify Жыл бұрын

.. love how 13 yr old Julie, runs delicately to the mic, receives her note & 'nightingale time'. What can be said? The Sound of Music is my all time favourite 'flic' ❤ 🇨🇦 p.s. also love her enthusiastic clapping at the end ..

@neydajuliaguerrapadilla4032 Жыл бұрын

Incredible! Julie Andrews singing for King George VI, woooww. She always had a beautiful voice and was very cute as a child. This is a historical archive.

@mlchc9004 7 жыл бұрын

Blown away by Julie Andrews! I wish I can see her onstage performing! Thank God for video posts! Her movies am watching on Anazon, Netflix ! My heart feels heavy thinking what joy she could have continued to give the world if it were not for those horrible doctors! God loves her ! To this day she's still using her VOICE for great causes! Despite everything, she continues to shine & inspire! She is the most loved artist in the world! Thank you for all your awesome uploads!

@saflynn14 3 жыл бұрын

Ok.... who the heck can put a thumbs down on this?! Who cannot like a Julie Andrews in general? She is so talented, classy and beautiful!!! Shame on those trolls!!!!

@MegaSnow121 3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful, clear voice she had even at that young age!

@stevewallschlaeger1379 Жыл бұрын

Dame...Julie Andrews...and a rightful title so beloved.

@KK-eh2gm Жыл бұрын

Such an amazing voice, presence & talent. We have been blessed to share her skills

@Basauri48970 3 жыл бұрын

KZfaq's algorithm suggests this video once a year and I click everytime. No regrets. She's truly one of the greatest artists of all time.

@joyciejd9673 3 жыл бұрын

I love this woman. Listening to her biography “Home” now. She was talking about this performance and I decided to see if it was on KZfaq. Here it is! Awesome and thank you for uploading it! (And hear her voice soar above the rest….at 13! Genius)

@dabzprincess92 Жыл бұрын

What a phenomenal piece of History

@lightowl4345 5 жыл бұрын

Great footage! I didn't know she started so young. What an amazing voice!

@willawallace2090 3 жыл бұрын

How wonderful, that this talented lady has given so many years of joy to so many, through the beauty of her voice! One of my happy childhood memories is watching The Sound of Music every year with my siblings and mother, and now I do the same with my own children.

@jadimkaim2034 5 жыл бұрын

Its a great thing to see such rare videos. Its good that they found her at that age

@thepressgirl Жыл бұрын

This is amazing. Her singing for King George VI. Such beautiful voice she has.

@ruthgunneson-poling1571 2 жыл бұрын

She's practically perfect in every way 😍 Danny Kaye was one of my favorite actors.

@stephengraham1153 Жыл бұрын

I also spotted Ted Ray and Arthur Askey.

@ole340 Жыл бұрын

Yes it's in his biography, this time at the Palladium!

@belindapearson4091 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful voice.

@marenmichelsen3084 10 жыл бұрын

look at her clapping

@slobama 6 жыл бұрын

she claps like a seal

@anacletwilliams8315 5 жыл бұрын

She was very excited. Quite understandably!

@collinhunter9792 5 жыл бұрын

@@slobama piss off michael m and Maren rae, like Ancalet says, she was very excited. they were all showing their appreciation for the king and queen mother, for wat they did in the war, etc. obviously not british are you. yes im pissed off

@tacey4278 5 жыл бұрын

Collin Hunter Maybe he didn’t mean any harm! Her clapping was very adorable, besides in my opinion there’s nothing wrong with clapping like a seal :) No need to act to furious towards other fellow humans, it’s no use!

@jucavinanli 5 жыл бұрын

Tacey He sounds pathetic ignorant & hostile, but thanks for trying. 😉

@wardkendall7095 3 жыл бұрын

*Julie Andrews, still alive as of March, 2021.*

@wandawoman8392 Жыл бұрын

Your point?

@Callie369 9 жыл бұрын

The Sound of Music, imho, is the best movie ever filmed. Julie Andrews is truly incomparable among actresses. And Christopher Plummer was one handsome dude!!!!! I fell in love with him and never fell out of it in the 50 plus years since. Julie losing her voice was a loss for everyone.

@joalexsg9741 6 жыл бұрын

Speak for yourself, buggeroff! The movie became iconic decades ago and is still deemed by millions as a classic and so do I!!!

@OofusTwillip 5 жыл бұрын

Christopher Plummer is still a magnificent actor, but was a bit of a character in his youth. Max Ferguson's book "And Now, Here's Max" includes tales of some of Christopher's pranks when he was a young actor.

@hettydriessen2782 5 жыл бұрын

@buggeroff Any more rubbish than all the violence on TV and video games? Come-on.

@James-mw7zv 5 жыл бұрын

Definitely the most watched movie ever!

@vrai6219 4 жыл бұрын

Most of the actors are still alive from this movie, so I've never understood why a modern follow up to the movie has never been made. It doesn't have to be a musical, just a family drama showing all of their lives.

@rayarena879 7 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that Julie Andrews had been a child actress. It's great to see an actress that wasn't ruined in childhood and that has a career that spans into adulthood.

@chrisnorton4382 7 жыл бұрын

Rayarena - a child singer, not an actress at that time.

@shelbeepollino6025 Жыл бұрын

Queen of Genovia, Lady Whistledown, Mary Poppins, Maria…I adore her! Such a wonderful, classy lady always.

@DesignerGoat 11 жыл бұрын

Even the way she claps her hands at the end is distinctly Julie Andrews. I just love her!

@Edits-with-Niko Жыл бұрын

This is probably one of the most glorious versions EVER. Bravo for her!

@margotcogan815 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the Sergio Franchi videos. They are a bright and beautiful spot in what can be long and dreary days and nights,and I am very grateful!

@PetroicaRodinogaster264 3 жыл бұрын

Several things come to mind watching this. 1. what a sweet voice Julie had. 2. girls in those days were not trying to be grown up before their time...imagine a girl that age dressing like that now. 3. The sentiments of the national anthem on that occasion were not heeded by the so called god... The King failed to recover from a lung operation, and died in his sleep on 6 February 1952; he was aged only 56. As this concert was 1/11/48, less than 4 yrs later he was gone. At least he got to hear Julie's voice though he never knew what fame she achieved. The concert was on my mothers birthday and I was born the year the ming died.

@ngdc4754 4 жыл бұрын

beautiful talented young girl 🌸 she's always had such warmth, charm and this elegant form of exuberance 🌠

@kathleenwilliams7927 5 жыл бұрын

This is how respectful people were then compared to now.

@sharonalbanese8084 Жыл бұрын

incredible. the Sound of Music was the first movie I ever saw in a cinema and I fell in love with it. I think I was about 8 or so. An amazing talent with a beautiful voice.

@thisbushnell2012 5 жыл бұрын

And Danny Kaye! I miss him.

@finolaomurchu8217 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my God, Danny Kaye yes. What a man.

@susanphillips2221 3 жыл бұрын

So handsome and funny

@evamarek5205 3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@mlchc9004 7 жыл бұрын

Pure delight Julie Andrews was as a child & even more amazing to the whole world now

@elviramcintosh9878 3 жыл бұрын

What enthusiasm! And the smile that lit the world later is there! Thanks for sharing.

@foreverme3078 Жыл бұрын

What a gem of a find! Thank you for posting it!

@ItsIdaho 5 жыл бұрын

In my Opinion is Julie Andrews a Woman with High Class and Respect. I just love her.

@ngdc4754 4 жыл бұрын

She really is royalty and so above today's standard hollywood level. Its clear she was beautiful super talented young girl 🌸 she's always had such warmth, charm and this elegant form of exuberance 🌠 Nowadays actors get oscars for only 5 or 6 lines of substance in a film and most aspects around them are cgi'd. But looking at the best of the best from screen's golden era (James Stewart, Julie Andrews) they worked very hard, speaking rich dialogue, doing lots of physical movement, lots of skill, and singing, dancing, riding horses, pitching baseball. They performed with body, soul & mind.