Robert Young introduces Lainie Kazan who recreates her audition for "Funny Girl" on the Bell Telephone Hour, November 24, 1964.
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@Jonathanbroder Жыл бұрын
The amazing gift of KZfaq: the fact that these incredibly rare clips are available for eternity to be seen. What a thrill.
@brianoneil66594 ай бұрын
Yes! I remember seeing this as a kid. I never thought I'd see it again.
@DanAhlin6 жыл бұрын
My mother was a fan of Lainie's singing and had 3 of her early recordings from the mid-late 1960's. I grew up listening to them--and fell in love with her voice. Later, in 1973 when I was living in Boston, I went to NYC to visit a close friend. While there, Lainie was appearing at the "Rainbow Room" at "Top of the Sixes". My friend took me to hear her. She mesmerizing, and her voice was still stunning. My friend and I had our pic taken together at our table, and Lainie was kind enough to autograph for me. She was very gracious. A bit later, she sang a medley of tunes made famous by Judy Garland, which were terrific. After the medley, she asked the audience if there was anything they would like her to sing. A lady in the back of the room asked Lainie to sing "My Man" from "Funny Girl." Lainie, without hesitating responded: "I couldn't possibly sing 'My Man,'---it belongs to BS." The room broke out in uproarious laughter!! I'll never forget that special evening 45 years ago. Lainie, thank you for sharing your many gifts as an actress and singer. Only a handful have accomplished what you have!! You're very special! :)
@bingovegas48672 жыл бұрын
For me this wonderful actress can be anyone...Irish, Italian, Jewish, and the best of mothers, Greek. She's so talented.
@theodorasingeractor8 ай бұрын
What a voice. A superb rendition of this song
@showtunestarpower8 жыл бұрын
I have never fully appreciated Lainie Kazan until seeing her do such a wonderful job with this great Merrill/Styne song. Classic song, classic performance. And then, as I watched the video further, I had no idea that there would be a tribute to one of my favorite of all musicals: BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS. Robert Young does a great job with it!
@kennethgamblin77623 жыл бұрын
Lanie is not Barbara and Barbara is not Lainie . What a wonderful lady, Awesome 👏 👏👏👏👏
@bingovegas48672 жыл бұрын
And you are not a Streisand fan when you can't even spell B A R B R A .
@bingovegas48672 жыл бұрын
LAINIE!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU MAN?
@captainnice96983 жыл бұрын
Lainie Kazan is a beautiful woman...and talented
@Heyjay4542 жыл бұрын
The current producers should revisit this.
@allenn.39092 жыл бұрын
Lainie and Mimi Hines clearly illustrate that this standard is attainable without needing to be Barbra
@morganafan8 жыл бұрын
I Just Love Her!
@keithbrooks34068 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this. Please post more of the early work of the great Lainie Kazan.
@susanmema77382 жыл бұрын
She was always a great choice. She has a great voice
@Mr.Rocklight4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful Voice..Love you Lainne..Star Producer
@chuckpeterson3262 Жыл бұрын
I would have gone with Lainie any day of the week!!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚
@bigmouth334 жыл бұрын
She could really sing. I don't know why she wasn't a bigger star.
@DDumbrille3 жыл бұрын
Because she couldn't sing well enough. Plus she gained 200 lbs.
@zazuzazz54192 жыл бұрын
She’s had a wonderful career doing exactly what she wanted with the gifts she has. And she still brings honest pleasure to her audience. And she has a buoyant sense of humor, which shines through each and every performance. Lainie Kazan is a true American Master. Not everyone gets to be a superstar. Nor do they wanna be.
@skydiamond87052 жыл бұрын
She didn't become big because at the time Barbara and her where both joining into Movie and Music she did became famous for while but she wasn't pushing it like Barbara was
@Melancholie892 жыл бұрын
she did Playboy in 1970, broke her leg during the shoot, got fat and never lost it. she wasn't superstar-material since then.
@skydiamond87052 жыл бұрын
@@Melancholie89 Lainie Kazan Interview. In show business, you don't say “good luck,” you say “break a leg.” But one day, when Lainie Kazan was running along the beach with her dog, while taping a TV show, she literally fell and broke her leg.
@xhaxha10283 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, lovely and unique
@AbrahamDiner8 жыл бұрын
great show. wish to see more of it. thanks for uploading it
@Paddy8182 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous voice!
@aivalistavro9 ай бұрын
I didn't realize Lainie sang so well. This is lovely.
@orlandocordova4381 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the posting!
@polyprinz5 жыл бұрын
She is so beautiful, and talented. AMAZING!!!!
@edwardnashen59602 жыл бұрын
She was wonderful and classy. Perfect to do Funny Girl. Hard shoes to fill and she could! Her own talent! Her own voice!
@Itstonytime772 жыл бұрын
I think all of the women who covered Barbra or did the show on the road sound really good, nice warm tones none of that nasal sound that a lot of the new girls on Broadway sing with. Can we go back to this style of singing please.
@user-nz9pv1zx2d3 ай бұрын
Wow, I’m shocked. Period. Next to Streisand that’s the best rendition of people I’ve ever heard. What a magnificent voice.
@antonmarino65682 жыл бұрын
Very talented lady
@josephrocha1422 жыл бұрын
Beautiful singing!
@MissPerriwinkle Жыл бұрын
yay lanie ! i admire u so.....
@larrydirtybird11 ай бұрын
I wish Lainie could have been teleported to the present day to star as Fannie in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl. What a beautiful rendition of People.
@davefuller33118 жыл бұрын
Bravo Lainie! Still wish I knew why they let you go from See Saw and opened with Michelle Lee instead. It should have been you.
@delphi2020027 жыл бұрын
i wish Lainie did more poetry like "Night Song" or "Song Without Words"
@dianavictoriaaljadeff53028 жыл бұрын
There are songs from Funny Girl and another 1964 musicals likeGolden Boy(Sammy Davis),Ben\Franklyn inParis(Robert Preston),Something more (Barbara Cook) and the success Fiddler on the roof Robert Young introduced th eshow and also sang but not only Lennie Kazan.
@jeugenet5 жыл бұрын
dianavictoria Aljadeff Mm
@Weesperbuurt9 ай бұрын
Ironic that although Lainie was Barbra’s understudy in Funny Girl on Broadway, Mimi Hines replaced Barbra when she left the production in December 1965. Mimi played the role for a year and a half until the show closed in July 1967.
@brianoneil66594 ай бұрын
That's right! Mimi is one of my clisest friends. Wonderful lady!!
@nicklindsley78663 ай бұрын
It's a waste of time comparing LK to BS. Both are total gems.
@LuLu-nw6bi4 жыл бұрын
She's also very good!
@brianc4949 Жыл бұрын
I liked her song on the King of Queens "You can lick that lollipop mister but you can't lick me".
@LuisRodriguez-bo4xg2 жыл бұрын
Lanie had such control and really was a more personal rendition. Strong vibrato, but i love the color of her voice. And she was and still is a looker. Bravo! The only time she went on for Babs->she called the press to come watch. she got such great reviews that "someone" got her fired. Lanie: I would have done the same thing!
@jeffreynelson59813 жыл бұрын
Beaches!
@teeniebeenie87746 жыл бұрын
GEORGOUOS VOICE
@arturolujanii Жыл бұрын
Barbara should have let her have her moment
@leighewinson94732 жыл бұрын
Lainie is a very good singer...but Barbra gift is that her singing "seems" effortless.
@nonenoneonenonenone3 жыл бұрын
I didn't know the Bergmans wrote a musical on Broadway!
@Tjay56794 жыл бұрын
Lainie may have been Streisand's understudy.... I love some Ava St. Claire 😍
@eoghanfehr77193 жыл бұрын
Actually she was !
@zazuzazz54193 жыл бұрын
🎵You can lick my lollipop 🍭 Mister - But ya can’t lick me!🎵
@MikeA152065 ай бұрын
Babs was right to be intimidated by her.
@MikeA152062 жыл бұрын
Why didn't she take over for Striesand when she left the original Broadway cast? Does anyone know?
@taddyd1 Жыл бұрын
She got notoriety from her one performance when Babs was sick so she took advantage of other lucrative offers.
@kirkreid7432 жыл бұрын
Lainie has a warmer personality than Barbra. I suppose Streisand is technically a superior vocalist, but Lainie is a far more likeable actress.
@chrisn72592 жыл бұрын
You suppose?
@DeanLeonard12 жыл бұрын
Don't agree.
@zayvier692 жыл бұрын
Who’s the guy at 5:59?
@laurencebarton276 Жыл бұрын
Robert Young introduction? Where is thus from?
@gregsheridan4978 Жыл бұрын
She’s ALWAYS had a beautiful voice ❤
@liesljones59878 жыл бұрын
Talk about theater obscurity: understudy Lainie Kazan singing "People" -which she would do for exactly ONE performance when "the star" was finally "out" -15 months ithe run. Lainie went into Eve Harrington mode and made sure members of the press were there. However, unlike Eve, poor Lainie was sacked -by order of "the star."
@mannail8888 жыл бұрын
That's so not true. "The Star" might be described as a extremely power mad ruthless stop-at-nothing-to-get-what-she-wants monster over the years by the press. But to suggest that in the early sixties she could exercise this kind of clout is simply absurd.
@mannail8887 жыл бұрын
That's so not true. Almost everything you, "Michael Pantyhose", wrote was fabricated: Kazan was two yrs Streisand senior, so the likelihood of them getting familiar with each other back at Erasmus hall was slim, thus "they were high school classmates and competitive even then" was totally made up. Another such is Streisand used her clout to have Frances' screen time in FUNNY GIRL butchered: Streisand was too much of a neophyte in Hollywood when she made her first movie. She didn't know a single thing about movie-making, she didn't have any experience before and behind the camera, she didn't have a clue as to what worked and what didn't. More than anything, the moguls in Tinseltown was trepidatious about Streisand's power in drawing people into the cinemas: No matter how able she had been in packing arenas, stadiums in the concert circuit, how highly regarded a Broadway star, how her records had been selling like hotcake, how her TV specials vaulted to the top of the rating, Streisand was still untried merchandise in the movie business. The basket case of Liberace was still too ingrained in memory to forget.
@connorbasilomar51277 жыл бұрын
Utter nonsense, propagated and perpetuated by hateful, fabricated gossip. Do some factual, actual research. These silly stories have long since been debunked. Lainie is a talented performer. Despite all the anti-Streisand babble, she had some great opportunities to prove it. And she did. Neither of these two women stood in each other's way. And each created the level of success and recognition that their own individual talent and style deserved.
@SnowCoveredKK2 жыл бұрын
She went on for 2 shows. The Wednesday Matt and the Wednesday evening and then gave her 3 weeks notice.
@taddyd1 Жыл бұрын
Not true
@tomservo569548 жыл бұрын
Saucy vixen...
@rr7firefly4 жыл бұрын
I remember finding my father's stash of Playboy magazines. Lainie was featured in one issue. Dare I say it -- she made a big impression.
@ktswaz8 жыл бұрын
She's technically wonderfully, but lacks the...don't know...pizazz that Barbra Streisand had at that moment!
@KingTriton18375 жыл бұрын
Kate Johnson I strongly disagree. If anything, she had more than Miss Streisand. Streisand had a better publicist and promoter.
@chrisn72594 жыл бұрын
@@KingTriton1837 That's like saying the Beatles had a better publicist and promoter than The Dave Clark Five. Streisand had a more unique talent, more unique voice and more unique looks. She was destined for immortality. If anyone didn't need help getting publicity in the sixties, it was Barbra.
@Ninafan684 жыл бұрын
@@KingTriton1837 I disagree. Streisand is an original, a talent that comes once in many genrations. She would have succeed no matter what, a voice like hers couldn't be denied. Lainie's singing is great. But there is something ethereal about Barbra's singing that is so natural, un-manufactered, real that's set her apart from everybody else. And she never worked on her voice, it's totally natural. The girl didn't even want to become a singer! Even though I don't believe in God, she has a God given gift.
@mzmiller523 жыл бұрын
She’s pretty good. Styled right after Streisand’s. The real shame is streisand abandoned what made her a legend by 1968.
@BamaFan-vc4gn3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree, I detest Barbra as a person.
@nonenoneonenonenone3 жыл бұрын
Superior to Streisand in so many ways.
@BamaFan-vc4gn3 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but not hardly.
@jeffrey38952 жыл бұрын
Singers seem to 'own' certain songs. Lainie's rendition of 'A house is not a home' is simply the best. But then there is Barbra singing 'The kind of man a woman needs'. Who else would even try. Just superb.
@francisalanwormald63286 жыл бұрын
QUITE THE TALENT!....WHERE DID SHE GO? AT LEAST TO ME....
@davanmani5564 жыл бұрын
My Big Fat Greek Wedding and that Adam Sandler movie?
@Bobbybabybobbybubbie4 жыл бұрын
She was in a well-written but unsuccessful sitcom with Dan Laroquette in the 90s (80s?).