Not A Day Goes By by Bernadette Peters

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Not A Day Goes By by Bernadette Peters

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16 жыл бұрын

Bernadette Peters's version of Not A Day Goes By from Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim live from Royal Festival Hall London.
A classic! - I love the glimmer of hope that happens at 3:32.

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@mrb4nks620 2 жыл бұрын

For anyone who's lost someone; Stephen Sondheim wrote your feelings and Bernadette Peters sang them. RIP Stephen Sondheim

@PhantomDawg594 14 жыл бұрын

This is just one of the greatest performances of one of Sondheim's most achingly beautiful songs. No one can do this song like Bernadette, it's as simple as that. God, it just kills me every time.

@zolluuu 7 жыл бұрын

This is a really good example of what it takes to sing Sondheim. It's not enough to have a good voice. You have to be a good actor. Sondheim's best songs are essentially sung monologues. Sondheim himself often said that he'd much rather cast actors who sing than singers who act.

@MsEustaciaVye 7 жыл бұрын

Sondheim also said, " I'd rather chew on a rat's ball than allow any oll slapper sing this song" This was just after the Albert Hall concert

@thomasbeck7387 4 жыл бұрын

He has also said that he can't just sit down and write a song, that it has to be for a specific moment in the show. He wrote "Send in the Clowns" because Hal Prince told him Glynis Johns didn't have a second-act song and needed one. He suggested the scene, and Sondheim said he couldn't write a song because it wasn't Desiree's scene. Prince said he would direct it to make it her scene. Sondheim then wrote the song that, as he says, became his biggest mainstream hit!

@alistairgordon2479 3 жыл бұрын

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@annesimmering1732 2 жыл бұрын

yes

@antonyb8026 3 жыл бұрын

I've never been a fan of musical theater because of the use of character voices. As a trained opera singer, the vocal manipulation always bothered me. Bernadette was always an exception because she did full throated singing. I stumbled upon this today and can't get enough. It is just so stunningly rendered. Wow! Just wow!

@billyflood2430 2 жыл бұрын

Bernadette is everything. I will hear no one else sing this song. Retire it. Perfection. A masterclass in ACTING A LYRIC.

@ffandbffan 13 жыл бұрын

This song clearly overwhelms her with emotion. After every other performance during the concert, she's quickly out of character once the applause starts. Here, the Bernadette Peters smile is absent, only given half-heartedly a few moments after she finishes singing. I think she feels this song on a personal level more than any other song in the concert, and it shows on her face and in her actions.

@lynnlRDR-RDR2 4 жыл бұрын

We never know what one is thinking while singing expecially B does here.

@4octaverealredhead 4 жыл бұрын

I've sung since very young. It's very difficult to sing a song like this bc Often it will remind you of someone you've lost. It'll get you when you least expect it. I've had many losses so I know! Who knows what Bernadette was thinking, feeling? God bless her.

@lynnlRDR-RDR2 4 жыл бұрын

I always wonder also what she was thinking, maybe she was just playing her role I do notice she usually only does that with this song.

@susansaban4570 3 жыл бұрын

@@lynnlRDR-RDR2 Her husband died just a few years before this performance.

@lynnlRDR-RDR2 3 жыл бұрын

@@susansaban4570 no I know 🙂

@broadwayfan66 12 жыл бұрын

I love how genuine the emotion is in this performance. It doesn't feel like she's pretending or even acting. At 2:25 you can just feel how real this is for her. I don't really know too much about her life story, but I feel like she's singing this to her late husband, and it shows how raw and true her emotion and love is. Purely amazing and touching.

@yana-perrault 10 жыл бұрын

Damnit, Burnadette!! Makes me cry every damn time.

@oofahman 9 жыл бұрын

Christiana Elizabeth TRUTH!!! :)

@spunkypunk100 5 жыл бұрын

Go Bernadette, you kill this song!

@kempedkemp 10 жыл бұрын

I love Bernadette Peters. I cry every time I play or hear this song. It is hell living without the people you love and those who have loved you.

@simonmcclure85 5 ай бұрын

How beautiful you put those words together. I lost my beautiful wife 3 years ago. My harts breaks every time I hear her sing it. You can tell by her performance this song brings pure emotion out of her. Grief is awful.

@chazdemor6236 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite performance of Sondheim ever. Hits more with his passing.

@cjjude0666 8 жыл бұрын

Sometimes something reaches into your soul and yes Bernadette reached into that moment of perfection

@MsEustaciaVye 7 жыл бұрын

pretty corny rendition...Nice voice.

@MrBobaloo22 7 жыл бұрын

imho, it is SO difficult, when making music, to allow your emotional raggedness in full bloom, WHILE STILL MAINTAINING the ability to deliver the song with the intonation and physical support that great singing requires, AND YET not hold anything in reserve -- to allow the rest of the world to briefly live in the darkest saddest places in your soul -- and yet not collapse into a puddle of tears, BECAUSE YOU STILL HAVE TO SING AN AMAZING SONG -- and THIS version is the best (that I have heard) of ALL her renditions of this song -- it stuns me EVERY TIME I SIT BACK AND LET IT WASH OVER ME. The process is amazing!!! I do love her as she makes music. "Ain't it amazing when God makes you a musician."!!! :)

@wpdremak6896 5 жыл бұрын

you see it too. She sings it of her personal loss and I know just how she feels when she sings it...the anger and grief, the desolation, and the inevitable realization that there is only Death to end the mourning!

@ionthemark 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. This version is simply astonishing. The best of any other version I have heard her or anyone else sing.

@9raider 12 жыл бұрын

This is the most beautiful performance I have ever seen. Bernadette Peters is the epitome of class.

@iamafraa 4 жыл бұрын

Not a day goes by Not a single day But you're somewhere a part of my life And it looks like you'll stay As the days go by I keep thinking when does it end Where's the day I'll have started forgetting But I just go on thinking and sweating And cursing and crying And turning and reaching And waking and dying And no, not a day goes by Not a blessed day But you're still somehow part of my life And you won't go away So there's hell to pay And until I die I'll die Day after day After day after day After day after day after day Till the days go by Till the days go by Till the days go by

@nevada531 6 жыл бұрын

A flawlessly brilliant performance.... and totally gut wrenching.

@Celtokee 10 жыл бұрын

Eric, I cannot thank you enough. I would've given my left kidney to have seen this live.

@bazandpete 11 жыл бұрын

She really knows how to interpret a (any) Sondheim song. Lives and breathes it utterly. What an amazing and well deserved career she has. I could listen to her all day :)

@carolchristen922 9 жыл бұрын

The musical barely survived Previews, but this song has haunted my mind for decades. Thank you Eric for posting.

@uckbee 4 жыл бұрын

Frank Rich wrote in the New York *Times* when 'Merrily' first opened: "Mr. Sondheim has given the evening a half dozen songs that are crushing and beautiful, that soar and linger and hurt. However, the show that contains them is a shambles." Whatever the initial glitches, I consider the songs from 'Merrily' to be among Sondheim's best, and this one is perhaps his mourning masterpiece.

@leeirvine6051 4 жыл бұрын

Play her songs many times for many years,what a voice

@LL-bl8hd 3 жыл бұрын

I was in a student production of this show in college--not a great show IMO. Never transcends the gimmick (reverse chronological order). But this song... this song is a masterpiece!

@airira 2 жыл бұрын

I highly recommend the West End production from several years ago. Definitive.

@theatrechick288 11 жыл бұрын

I am crying like a baby right now. Don't know why I keep watching this. It's just so amazing.

@mariaelenaaguilar8340 Жыл бұрын

The beauty of Bernadette Peters voice always moves me. She put such feeling into her interpretation of songs.

@ritamorris2352 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Bernadette, for this beautiful song and the feeling you put into it. There is only one you!

@dennismorris7573 Жыл бұрын

So very true.

@pjwatt1 10 жыл бұрын

Probably the greatest rendition of the greatest Sondheim song.

@ronjenkins1688 8 жыл бұрын

Nobody sings that song any better, beautiful and the emotion you feel from her make you linger on every note and word. The time she takes with each phrase make it all the better, I feel the raw emotion in me every time. Congrats Ms. Peters you have my heart

@jeriusrobinson983 4 жыл бұрын

Gfidkr

@elainelotcpeich 13 жыл бұрын

This performance by Ms. Peters is brilliant! Perfection. Musical theater at it's best!

@jasonbarney28 14 жыл бұрын

My eyes pour out tears every time I watch this......She goes to such a dark place and shows us how terrible it is to lose somone you love. You can see at the end she has to come back and it takes a minute.......I love this performance!!

@kristinz2749 9 жыл бұрын

she is truly remarkable. I am in awe of her talent and raw emotion.

@kathleenstewart409 6 жыл бұрын

Does anyone see the pain in her eyes? Thank you for posting. Very beautiful.

@jiraiyaaddams7592 5 жыл бұрын

This clip was my constant companion for about 18 months. I watched/listened to it multiple times daily, and sang it aloud or in my head dozens of times beyond that. it was a safety valve that kept me sane and from self-destructive behavior. Even now (right now,in fact) I tune in once in a while just to remember 'that period' of my life.

@cherievivian9830 9 ай бұрын

Bernadette owns this song. Her interpretation is flawless, A sublime rendition ! 🌹

@rickg39180 8 жыл бұрын

This brings me to tears Every. Damn. Time. And I'm talking about the choking kind.

@musicalmaid86 15 жыл бұрын

This song (and many others) shows why Bernadette is such a goddess of the Broadway stage! What an incredible job. Her technique is good, but her emotion is so heartbreaking. A truly consummate performer. I would be honoured to be half as good!

@sonnygoff 10 жыл бұрын

oh my dear David....not a day goes by........I love you, want you, need you and miss you.....now the tears wash your pillow and my arms need to hold you......please kiss my sorrow laden brow.....

@Caroux84 12 жыл бұрын

This is by far the benchmark performance of this song. Very few performers make be believe the feelings being expressed by the song. She makes you cry with her. You feel the pain that she feels. It's just striking.

@lakewobegonboy74 5 жыл бұрын

this is my absolute favorite recording of this song, bar none! This was not just acting. This was pure emotion!

@rayolivarez3106 4 жыл бұрын

Yesss! Pure & Raw emotion indeed! She's almost crying as she's singing...

@petradonovan5161 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Don't listen to this if you miss anyone that you have ever loved...or better still do... as you will love them and miss them even more...

@janknuckey 12 жыл бұрын

To the fools who go on the Voice and X Factor and all the other trash, THIS is real singing, invested with emotional bravery that only a great artist can imbue: it may not be always pretty or "showy" but it is raw, pure passion.

@nicholass.zotovich3858 10 жыл бұрын

The definitive version of this masterpiece. Hats off!

@donaldsteiner9695 9 жыл бұрын

such a haunting song. I am recently widowed and it describes that unbearable grief and loneliness of the first few months

@debradorfman1232 7 жыл бұрын

Donald Steiner. It's been 12 years since my husband died suddenly . Not a day goes by for me, and I talk to him. I have to stay angry at him, otherwise I will kill myself.

@davidstevens7602 6 жыл бұрын

1 and a half years since my husband passed so hard

@wpdremak6896 5 жыл бұрын

I have news for you...it ain't just mere months! When you least expect it...WHAM! There you are again.

@janroberts6632 4 жыл бұрын

@@wpdremak6896 Oh yes, this is so hard and so true.

@EllenMartinNYC 2 жыл бұрын

I lost my brilliant musician/composer husband, Jim Marentic, 3 years ago,this night. He loved and admired and was inspired by Sondheim's gifts. I have long loved his music.The grief and lonliness has not left me. I cry when I hear this song, as I miss Jim so, and npw am saddened I did not get tthe chance to meet Stephen Sondheim and sing for him and now he has passed away today. I have done two of his shows and have sung much of his music. Just the other day, i was singing "With So Little to be Sure Of" to myself as I was walking down the street. As the lyric goes: "Thanks for everything we did", We are grateful for your life Mr, Sondheim and for creating and giving so much brilliantly beautiful and divine music to the world.I am certain that you and Jim have met npw.

@Jaiwanful 11 жыл бұрын

God... She's amazing... All the feelings... It tore me up. It's frustrating that here in France, people like her are underated. She's a real performer

@fastfreddie1290 6 жыл бұрын

Debbie ...it's been 42 years now...I thought it would get easier but it hasn't ...in my dreams day and night...not a God dam day goes by...all my love !

@norajohnson3325 9 жыл бұрын

Gut-wrenching song,by one of our best singers of Broadway show tunes!

@ianaldrich 5 жыл бұрын

My goodness ....20 years ago. I was in the audience that night. The whole evening was just magical!

@joelweisberg 15 жыл бұрын

God what a talented woman she is. I've watched this video many times and cry my ass off when I do. Just heavenly!!!

@HotDogLA 8 жыл бұрын

the best birthday gift was attending this concert.

@mjgovednik 8 жыл бұрын

Always have loved her. This rendition where it is obvious she is thinking about her husband and you feel the grief, loss, sadness, and anger and at the end....acceptance. Beautiful.

@nickbb19970 7 жыл бұрын

Actually... her husband died in 2005 and this concert was in 1998... :/

@mjgovednik 7 жыл бұрын

you don't forget *S*

@MsEustaciaVye 7 жыл бұрын

Right on !!!!

@fablanta 5 жыл бұрын

@@nickbb19970 Never let the truth get in the way of a good story :)

@candismith2447 4 жыл бұрын

He is not dead.

@amourah2003 15 жыл бұрын

As close to perfection as any singer can get. Just sublime. Bernadette Peters understands Sondheim. I bow to her.

@YettaT1 Жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful song, sung by a magnificent singer. This is the truth of loss

@lidojessie 12 жыл бұрын

Watching this is so agonizingly beautiful. It's heartbreaking. Bernadette Peters is just pure brilliance.

@user-ib6fu5jb8x 9 ай бұрын

Reading through the other comments, I can only agree that I think this is one of the most amazing song performances ever, and one of Sondheim's most moving songs. I keep playing day after day after day!!

@maureenmiller7669 Жыл бұрын

No one can tear your heart out with singing like Bernadette can.

@RegoParkpoet 9 жыл бұрын

Wonderful- just tears at my heart- makes me cry every time- just remarkable- so sad but one of all time favorites- I play it over and over

@EllenMartinNYC 2 жыл бұрын

Bernadette is feeling the loss of her husband as she sings this, I am saddened that Stephen Sondheim passed away today.Sondheim was brilliantlly creative and gifted us with his beautiful music. I've had the joy of singing his music and doing some of his shows. .My husband and musical partner, Jim Marentic,composer, passed away 3 years ago on this day, We both loved , admired and were inspired by Sondheim's music.This song's for you Jim ,such a beautiful song that resonates with me and the deep pain of no longer having you. here with me. Yet I also feel you near.and I am somehow consoled by the thought that you and Stephen Sondheim may be together in the non- physical world and are now creating even more divine music.

@theresearcher7400 3 жыл бұрын

A brilliant performance that brings you in to her pain and resignation. What an interpretation.

@sinfullheart37 12 жыл бұрын

I agree. Her voice is far above many I have heard. She never fails to amaze me.

@douglasficocelli9753 7 жыл бұрын

Sublime. Just a reminder that Sondheim has set out on the table of all our lives to show us that we are in some ways all very much alike. How vulnerable she is. Beautiful. Brava!

@Feathersandploom 16 жыл бұрын

Bernadette is one of my idols. She is so very fantastic. Each time I see her perform I become even more inspired.

@laurenschannel8735 9 жыл бұрын

We miss you Michael - I know she sang this for you ;) keep watching over Mark and your family. Big hugs....Lauren aka Rock Star!

@QueenLanaParrilla 11 жыл бұрын

This brought tears to my eyes. This woman is so wonderfully talented and beautiful! She is a true inspiration.

@oofahman 10 жыл бұрын

Just amazing...I am so glad I fell in love with Broadway music and this lady is one of the reasons! BRAVA!!!!!!!!!!!

@amr11989 15 жыл бұрын

She looks bloody brilliant considering she's 61 Truly, one of the most amazing musical theatre stars ever

@kelsek29 14 жыл бұрын

such a beautiful, emotional performance. absolutely moved me to tears.

@jeanettesprague1780 11 жыл бұрын

Goosebumps from head to toe!

@Moundfreek 14 жыл бұрын

A very meaningful song that touches anyone who's felt the sting of loss

@craigkier 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Mr. S. Thank you for decades of pure unabashed enjoyment.

@mortyfromc 12 жыл бұрын

There used to be a category of music known as Torch Songs, that were very emotional songs about loves lost. Bernadette Peters is a throw back to those type of singers that could envelope the listener into the story and all of its emotion so that they felt all of it too. She has always been able to get me every time she sings such a song.. What a talent.

@shawnaball1469 3 жыл бұрын

I have never heard her sing. So much power fueled by emotion you can feel it.

@onitasanders7403 Жыл бұрын

Love her rendition. I can not help but think of her late husband, Michael Wittenberg, so tragically dying in a helicopter crash along with three other souls on September 27, 2005, in Montenegro. When I hear and most importantly, see her sing this song, I am so deeply, deeply touched. Especially when she sings, “day after day, after day, etc. Wish I could “turn back time” for her when I think, feel and hear her loss. The five stages of grief, as developed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler, of GRIEF, DENIAL, ANGER, BARGAINING, DEPRESSION, and finally, ACCEPTANCE can be seen here as Bernadette pours her heart out.

@BigBirdy100 16 жыл бұрын

I think she was visibly shaken by that song and rightly so...it's a very emotional song. Not a day goes by that we don't think about someone we loved that is no longer in our life. Thanks for the song Bernadette.

@steviel6345 9 жыл бұрын

Still singing...and looking great. Truly, not a day goes by.

@terrywestbrook-lienert2296 10 жыл бұрын

Bernadette Peters singing her heart out. Happy Birthday, Broadway girl.

@themusicguy6885 10 жыл бұрын

BERNADETTE PETERS! I have watch this performance many times. Bernadette sings this with such passion that it is amazing. You almost feel that she has lived through the pain that she is singing about. By the way that could be true! No matter she's an amazing singer!

@wpdremak6896 5 жыл бұрын

yes, it is true, and I weep for her loss everytime she sings it. And I join her grief that goes on day after day!

@pinseychristensen1490 9 жыл бұрын

I love her. Such a magnificent voice.......... the best ever.

@sumame47 2 жыл бұрын

I believe this was filmed after her husband unexpectedly died. This song can be felt by all of us who have lost a loved one. Sondheim was the greatest and he will be missed.

@jaxlaxsurprise Жыл бұрын

This was actually in 1998.

@1010divajap 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this. The way she feels and builds this song is just sublime. There is no one else, for me, with this song. Her voice is like a pearl and her acting is just as outstanding. Yes, that glimmer of hope.

@oofahman 9 жыл бұрын

Every freakin' time I think i can hear this beautiful song by her without crying, i can't do it! THank you Bernadette...You are amazing :)

@josephthomaswhiting8417 7 жыл бұрын

In terms of performing, Miss Peters is my favorite. The way she incorporates storytelling and singing into one performance is unparalleled in my opinion, as is seen here. I can just feel the emotions and it wrecks my heart every time. Breathtaking.

@mroneoftheguys 15 жыл бұрын

Nicely done Ms. Peters...Not a day goes by...a wonderful lost love.....you are right Mom...I do miss you now that you are gone.

@DanielWSonntag Жыл бұрын

I met her once backstage after a show. She was so lovely 😍🌹

@luannecrawfordtv 10 жыл бұрын

You're amazing, Bernadette. How you contain, yet express your emotions with impeccable vocal technique. Such a strong artist. We're trying to get your teacher, Adrienne out here to LA - would be great if she could give a master class. And every time you're performing, my family and I come out - to Northridge, or Thousand Oaks when you're nearby. Love you dear ~ you're a one and only. Keep on singing please.

@luannecrawfordtv 8 жыл бұрын

Her teacher is Adrienne Angel, a wonderful teacher! I love her FB posts: facebook.com/Adrienne-Angel-175344265951650/?fref=ts Thank you for bringing me back to this post. Bernadette Peters is so captivating.

@wild9286 10 жыл бұрын

I don't know enough of her life to make assumptions about what is in her head but it broke my heart to watch her. Not every performer has the power to do that. AMAZING performance

@wpdremak6896 5 жыл бұрын

what is in her head is that she waited for so long to accept love and then she had to learn what it is to LOSE it all too soon,as with her Michael! I always tremble for her when she chooses to sing the damned song...it hurts her and I too hurt so much just to go through it all again!

@tracyroweauthor 5 жыл бұрын

@@wpdremak6896 nope. This concert was in 1998. Her husband died in 2005

@feathersforfun 4 жыл бұрын

She& this song grow better year by year, Ive seen multiple versions with her& this is so far the best

@user-qv1tv4yi8x Жыл бұрын

Beautiful...it captures how one can love so deeply...and, yet, the other is incapable of such feelings...

@crazedwolfe 9 жыл бұрын

Damn! I'm crying. She is so awesome... Pure magic.

@NellmonsterRAWR 12 жыл бұрын

I love this so much. It's so amazing and anyone can connect to it, and Bernadette just makes it even better. 3

@jeannievidoni6002 6 жыл бұрын

Goodness Bernadette- you are extraordinary. You have my heart, as well.💖

@Jmillzx 15 жыл бұрын

Best performance of this song ever.

@movieguyq 9 жыл бұрын

MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when i try to sing sondheim ballads i usually cry. this is the magic i felt as a kid and lately i feel again.

@TheMingow 13 жыл бұрын

This is so enchanting, Cannot believe it. :]

@priyac7054 3 жыл бұрын

The pain this song gave me is physical. Like my migraine triggered with physical manifestation of feeling this song.

@sallyforth2769 11 жыл бұрын

not an accident to come across this beautiful song and Miss Peters rendition of it at a time when my widowhood has me reliving and cementing the memories of my beloved husband who died unexpectedly...who filled my days and always will

@meritofapproval 4 жыл бұрын

🌻

@16toulousse 4 жыл бұрын

So blessed to have seen Bernadette Peters in gypsy on Broadway and concert in my country Australia.

@MrMcMusic01 7 жыл бұрын

NO ONE sings this song like Bernadette. She owns it and it's glorious.

@lsblatt1 13 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to this video. No one sings Soundheim like Bernadette Peters. This performance is so moving- and yes clearly she is thinking of someone,

@BNMadman 14 жыл бұрын

I literally cannot watch this without crying. Yet I keep coming back. SImply incredible.

@ShangayLily 14 жыл бұрын

Shes the supreme queen. What a talent. She has made this and other songs her's. i love you bernardette. thank you

@davidnash8586 4 жыл бұрын

I am the same age as Bernadette and I only discovered her yesterday completely by chance and now I'm completely hooked by her brilliance !

@uckbee 4 жыл бұрын

Also the same age (b. 1948) and was lucky enough to discover her at the time of 'Sunday in the Park.' No wonder Steve S. adores her as he does (and she him).

@giuliocarmassi 15 жыл бұрын

Sondheim is an enormous lyricist. maybe his music can be repetitive, but he's an incredibly passionate and inventive lyricist. then if it doesn't resonate with you, that's good and all, but he's good, very good at what he's done. period. the fact that this many people still die over him of course goes to show that it stood the test of time, independently from whoever was his contemporary at the time.