Victor Borge plays happy birthday in the style of different classical composers. From 1951.
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@renaissongsman11 жыл бұрын
Borge was a Danish immigrant escaping when the Nazis occupied the country & ending up in the US. He taught himself English by listening to the radio, etc. & used language as a platform for humor for the rest of his life. "It's your language, I'm just trying to use it", he often said. These little jokes were a constant feature of his comedic work; he could get away with it because the audience understood this, & also because he could turn right around & play the living heck outta Tchaikovsky.
@ruthsalgado67753 жыл бұрын
Interesting!
@circlenostar8 жыл бұрын
Pure genius. The world needs to always remember this unique brilliant talent.
@rafaelbarron5048 жыл бұрын
Where candonwload the sheets of these funny songs???
@misstary134 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and bring it back somehow
@mathewfranco32112 жыл бұрын
Took the words right out of my mouth. Totally agree ✅
@roynewman35127 ай бұрын
@@rafaelbarron504⁸8ⁿ p😊
@normanbyng35153 жыл бұрын
Was ready to go out for the evening,when this act appeared on the tv....1962/3.... with no video or modern gizmos I realised if I didn’t see this,I would never get another chance! Stayed in and enjoyed his music and humour,been a fan ever since! Still watching, lol
@PBMusiko9 жыл бұрын
That Shostakovich one was pure comedy gold. XD
@thisiszaphod5 жыл бұрын
I've never heard Shostakovich, but I think I trod in some once.
@Checkmate11384 жыл бұрын
Its actually pretty spot on for Shostakovich haha
@petrus79773 жыл бұрын
It sounded JUST as Shostakovich also
@blonda.bacoviana2 жыл бұрын
I'd watch it 100 times and still laugh!
@blackmage1276 Жыл бұрын
Very Shostakovich lmao
@BravoSusan12 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this as a child. Sooooooooooooooo funny!! What a genius he was. In his later life, he toured and came to my city. The auditorium was only about half full. He looked around and said, 'if I had known there would be so few of you, we could have done this in my hotel room' and brought the house down with laughter. I still miss him.
@historiclift276 жыл бұрын
I saw Victor Borge live in Galveston on his 90th birthday tour. He did a variation of this routine only the story he told was different. He dreamed he went to heaven and each composer gave him their masterpiece. I remember it took me a while to realize that Happy Birthday was so cleverly hidden in each piece. I laughed so hard at that performance it hurt. Never before or since have I encountered anything or anyone that funny.
@johndenicola61735 жыл бұрын
historiclift27 yes, Victor Borge was a genuous, and his comedy is timeless. And let us not forget he was the recipient of the Nobel Peace prize !
@jrexx28413 жыл бұрын
What year?
@annek12262 жыл бұрын
He received the award in 1942.
@dorindraghici3482 жыл бұрын
@@annek1226 That's not correct, 1940 to 1942 Nobel Prizes were cancelled due to World War II
@dorindraghici3482 жыл бұрын
@@johndenicola6173 Found no refernce about it anywhere.
@misstary134 жыл бұрын
If victor lived in our day, he'd be one popular KZfaqr and musical comic
@annek12262 жыл бұрын
Despite the fact that he has passed, he still is a UTube star!
@geraldhood536710 жыл бұрын
He was the funniest comedian ever and he could PLAY the piano
@realityhitsmehardbro11 жыл бұрын
The last 16 seconds of this is priceless.
@TomBarrister10 жыл бұрын
This is from Borge's short-lived TV show. Unfortunately, much of the audience in the studio wasn't musically savvy and didn't understand most of the jokes. Borge had much better success (over 75 years worth) in concert, where most of the audience was familiar with the composers and music and thus better understood and appreciated the parodies.
@peace-now4 жыл бұрын
People thought it was funny, even though they didn't understand the subtleties. I saw Victor on the telly as a child, and really enjoyed it.
@victorosunbunmi11794 жыл бұрын
You need to be musically inclined to appreciate his jokes.. More reason sometimes they should laugh or jeer, there will be silence.. Ignorance
@alysmarcus77473 жыл бұрын
@@peace-now i did know about music - a thirst for all i could learn from as early as possible - my Grandmother took me to see him in concert in Ottawa when i was young - we met - very very nice man - talked to me for a while and signed my album
@peace-now3 жыл бұрын
@@alysmarcus7747 Great story. It is a lesson to all young children that these meetings are important. It connects us through the ages. As an exampled, my dad was taught by a nun who actually knew and spoke to Bernadette!
@quattro6109 жыл бұрын
It is rare that a person comes along and displays such a talent and takes what he knows and loves and makes something unique. I cannot think of another performer that used something and turned it in such a craft , such and art to entertain. there are so many wonderful artists, singers , bands etc but what Victor Borge did was truly magical and unique. a delight and joy to watch him perform. He had true talent.
@user-tp8gv3or1j6 жыл бұрын
Here is another performer - Dudley Moore kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtJjm9RlrJfNeKc.html
@samhawkins49523 жыл бұрын
He reminds me a little of Austrian composer and comedian Georg Kreisler who could also play the piano beautifully. He made amazing but morbid dark humorous songs and was way ahead of his time.
@royandjacqueline12943 жыл бұрын
@@user-tp8gv3or1j We love Dudley Moore. He is a master at the piano and so very CUTE. You will also love this Absolutely fantastic! Nicole Pesce, 2011. Comedienne pianist. How to play Happy Birthday like Beethoven Chopin Mozart Bach Liszt... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hceKqch5x96liac.html Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Erin go Bragh 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 🥰🇯🇲🏴🕊️🔥✝️
@bonitobonita92632 жыл бұрын
I think you might love Tom Lehrer too
@erikingmundson12 жыл бұрын
I bet Mozart would have loved it. He probably could have written several of his own versions on the spot.
@imdeaded7 ай бұрын
So glad we can enjoy this performer for generations to come.
@ceceliahayslip56 Жыл бұрын
I grew up listening to Victor Borge, pure genius. Such talent, sublime performer.
@asinicw99066 жыл бұрын
why doesn't this have.. like, 5 million views?
@mckavitt134 ай бұрын
Take out the "like"... unnecessary & irritating as all get out.
@redrose3712812 жыл бұрын
I listen to this every year on my birthday! I miss him so much!
@csmihaly6 жыл бұрын
I'm late from work, watching this... Unbelievable genius.
@kyawkyawwin14 жыл бұрын
The word genius is overused, but this gentleman truly was one.
@1stapproach2 жыл бұрын
70 years after the recording, this still makes me laugh!!
@rebekahhesketh12203 ай бұрын
I sadly never got to see this musical genius live, but I have the DVD collection! Love him!
@shanekearns59117 жыл бұрын
If anyone needs a good "belly laugh", Victor Borge. Absolute brilliance!!
@wesleybuckwalter2558 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. He offers entertainment to those who know the artists and to those who don't with the worlswide familiar tune of, "Happy Birthday." It's not often you see such incredible classically trained talent reach a general audience
@mariaruskova60548 ай бұрын
Genious! I love gargles like this with the pianoл
@lisakirk6055 ай бұрын
Havent seen Mr. Borge since I was a little girl !!! SOHHHHHHHHH hilarious & brilliant & versatile & unique ! 😂😂😂❤
@roxroe67313 жыл бұрын
His ingenuity sure is a treasure. Have not seen a comedian that can actually play the piano and on top of it, can improvise from different known composers style. Love the mozart variation.
@georgeisaak53216 жыл бұрын
even when he is acting with "funny ways" his fingers make miracles . You can only admire such a talent !
@mckavitt134 ай бұрын
Agreed, but isn't it rather his mind which makes those miracles?
@Alu1000015 жыл бұрын
Borge = GENIUS
@iartistdotme Жыл бұрын
I'm 76 and enjoyed watching him on TV as a child. I most remember when a dog came on stage while he was playing and peed on the piano leg. Still seems funny to me. He was a musical genius!
@CahillandDelene7 жыл бұрын
I've always LOVED Victor Borge! I had the pleasure of seeing him in concert in about 1972! He is STILL brilliant to all of us!
@chrispbaconburger7 жыл бұрын
CahillandDelene that must have been quite impressive and special :)
@HuangShang0106 жыл бұрын
You are so lucky,that year i didn't even exist...
@csutak405 жыл бұрын
I can not believe, but there are people who have never heard of him! I once shared a video of his on FB and a friend asked "he is quite good! Relative of yours?"
@CziffraTheThird6 жыл бұрын
Its almost frightening how high of a virtuoso caliber this man was actually on. Incredible. If you are one also seriously pursuing the instrument you would really understand.
@luisgomez71734 жыл бұрын
This to me is where KZfaq is great! When I was growing up I would see him on PBS specials for the most part but he was always with gray hair. Now I get to see mr. Borga at his prime.
@LPtxgranna4 жыл бұрын
His brilliance is incomparable!
@BartBassist15 жыл бұрын
In order- Tchaikovsky Piano Conc No 1; Chopin Polonaise 'Military' (Op.40); Brahms Lullaby; generic Wagner (possibly Ring Cycle); Beethoven Moonlight Sonata; Strauss- Blue Danube; generic fiddly Mozart Sonata (compare Sonata in C, K.330, 1st movt); Irving Berlin- Alexander's Ragtime Band; generic Shostakovitch
@robertstorlind23026 жыл бұрын
James Bartholomew I'd say the Wagner parody is based on Tannhäuser
@benji66286 жыл бұрын
James Bartholomew what about the Bach one, I can't find it's name.
@nathanfrancisco69746 жыл бұрын
There isn't a Bach one, just a joke about Johann Strauss. Because of the old recording quality and the fact that he says Sebastian in between Johann and Strauss as a joke, it sounds like he might mean Bach.
@TomBarrister4 жыл бұрын
@@robertstorlind2302 Yes, it's from Tannhäuser.
@jeviljuice16332 жыл бұрын
The charisma on this man is astronomical
@refich Жыл бұрын
Always a favorite of my mother and me. She could play the piano, too, and once made a living by demonstrating sheet music in a department store back when that was a thing.
@blackmage1276 Жыл бұрын
These were spot on
@MozartianObsessor11 жыл бұрын
I really like the Beethoven version! It's quite beautiful
@diogovicente277011 жыл бұрын
Mozart, perfect, just perfect!!
@FootloosePresents12 жыл бұрын
thanks for this...am sending to my little sister for her birthday...i was her twinkletoes and she my accompanist and we loved borge. so funny i fell off my chair. ma
@hsab59275 жыл бұрын
2019 watching and enjoying... nothing can compare to him!
@SELMER19473 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal pianist, humorist, artist !!!!!!
@AaronHahnStudios4 жыл бұрын
Of all the Hearts to have beaten in Earths history, THIS Gentleman's heart beat well.
@ninohideki10 жыл бұрын
That variation on the theme of Mozart RULESSSS!!!! LOL! Made my dae!
@JossRoss16 жыл бұрын
What a master. Not only a great pianist tecnically but also a great composer. A complete musician, and a brilliant humorist
@David-R.2 жыл бұрын
I HATE that he passed!!! He was a genius, a great comedian and musician!!
@Lau812 жыл бұрын
I LOVE VICTOR BORGE!!! ♥ Victor is the best artist!!
@Alu1000013 жыл бұрын
The Shostakovich version made me fall from the chair
@ElisabettaVS11 жыл бұрын
Looooved the Schostakovich one!
@Laudon12286 жыл бұрын
A few weeks ago I came upon a YT video of a woman pianist playing in Arizona, doing basically this same thing. I should have know Borge did it first. Though she put a spin on the end of her version that was really quite delightful.
@Laudon12286 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZ1lmryZtKq3YIE.html
@karenpeterson26983 жыл бұрын
Yes, Nicole Pesce who does her own thing with Happy Birthdays.
@royandjacqueline12943 жыл бұрын
@@karenpeterson2698 We've been enjoying her today. She is top class. 2011. Comedienne pianist. How to play Happy Birthday like Beethoven Chopin Mozart Bach Liszt... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hceKqch5x96liac.html Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Erin go Bragh 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 🥰🇯🇲🏴🕊️🔥✝️
@kenzeier29434 жыл бұрын
He’d have been the hit of any house party
@XlovesR8 жыл бұрын
What a genius! Extremely musical and knowledgable for a comedian. Wonderful improvisation of the birthday song and the works of Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Brahmas, Wagner, Beethoven, Strauss, Mozart, Irving Berlin, and Shostakovich. I enjoy Beethoven and Shostakovich the best! (Guess he did not really like Wagner)
@jeddonaghey37138 жыл бұрын
Probably didn't like Wagner because he was Hitler's favourite composer
@HallieB8 жыл бұрын
+Xue Li He was a child prodigy and concert pianist before he turned to comedy. He said he was too nervous on stage to continue as a strictly serious musician.
@CraigSutMusic6 жыл бұрын
This is just wonderful, incredible and so funny. It’s something I imagine Mozart would have done to other composers in his day. Victor Borge is a genuine funny guy and so very talented.
@G6JPG2 жыл бұрын
It _was_ done - sort of, and I'm not sure of the era. Some chap wrote a little theme, and sent it to various composers around in his day, asking them to arrange it at send it back. Several did (including one who sent back lots!). I think he might have been called Goldberg - certainly the Goldberg variations are a known thing in one composers oeuvre. Of course, without the Borge humour. (Do look out the Pesce version, too - she has a twist in the tail - the _very_ drunk Mozart version - that Borge does not!)
@the3filmers393 Жыл бұрын
I guess, Miles Forman, who directed Amadeus the movie in 1984, got the inspiration for the main character by this Victor Borge.
@mckavitt134 ай бұрын
He probably did!
@FlamingCockatiel5 жыл бұрын
Just put this on a friend's timeline for a birthday. I wish the volume were higher, because this is great stuff. Chopin and Shostakovich both tops.
@katherinewang89956 жыл бұрын
That's the best way to play the piano!!!
@KKumokun13 жыл бұрын
He's an adorably, funny genius at any age!
@chrisvoiceactingvoiceover14316 жыл бұрын
Magnificent pianist....
@beatrizcosta19110 жыл бұрын
magnifico!!!
@user-wb7ez9ud4p2 жыл бұрын
Perfect skill + perfect stage performance, bravo.
@ClipontheEar3 жыл бұрын
If only he had included his J.S. Bach ‘Happy Birthday’ parody in this wonderful performance. I once spent some hours transcribing the recording see how he did it.
@rikidik53522 жыл бұрын
Love this, Thanks for sharing 👍!
@d0minicting11 жыл бұрын
when he did mozart. am i the only one who got chills cause he imitates perfectly the one in Amadeus filmed several years later
@Be.fair.to.all.people_4 жыл бұрын
d0minicting it is the other way round. Amadeus copied Borge
@MooPotPie3 жыл бұрын
33 years later
@pikarissima12 жыл бұрын
he's soooooo f***** awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@vesteel7 жыл бұрын
I want the Shostakovich one to be longer
@dodik17052 жыл бұрын
מושלם, ואפשר להקשיב לזה כל היום
@zzausel10 жыл бұрын
8.18 made my day.
@JoseAntonio-ww3qi5 ай бұрын
Simplemente genial, maravilloso. Gracias Dios por esta maravillosa persona que mandaste a este mundo.
@ricarleite11 жыл бұрын
I want the Philip Glass version. Ha. Ha. Happy. Happy. Bir. Bir. Birthday. One. Two. One. Two.
@velimirakaraspasova63762 ай бұрын
Respect ❤
@ninijaparidze6 жыл бұрын
unforgettable man!!!
@rawpotatofella96547 жыл бұрын
Pure genius. Perfect
@MozartianObsessor11 жыл бұрын
Mozart version is fun too! Love it!
@GothicKin10 жыл бұрын
I can't thank you enough, I fell in love with this piece. Pollini, nice choice ;)
@gcp46711 жыл бұрын
beautiful!! what talent!! AND FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!
@dianadomingues92853 жыл бұрын
Simply Brilliant
@treblec4me7109 жыл бұрын
Stellar ! ☆ Thx for the EPIC u.l. ( :
@joshuapianist11 жыл бұрын
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICTOR BORGE!
@PeCisMGF11 жыл бұрын
I was finding this answer for years, thank you so much ^^
@oliverr.51676 жыл бұрын
amazing,bravo.... wooow
@ElisabettaVS14 жыл бұрын
That's absolutely great!!! Haha! He's a genius!
@ashbridgeindustries3805 жыл бұрын
Absolutely nailed the Shostakovich version!
@brookebodden62485 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@frigoh13 жыл бұрын
BRILLIANT!!
@taniaiorio8 жыл бұрын
Grande!!!!
@MrRobertZ16 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Borge is a legend.
@tiborbakti915510 жыл бұрын
This man was brilliant!
@290wayne3 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@ggatakki5 жыл бұрын
Вдохновенно!!!
@PeCisMGF11 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much ^^
@yxnone97712 жыл бұрын
My favourite the Chopin and especially his Mozart version...!
@sebastianboeddinghaus35053 жыл бұрын
This is how to bring classical music to the kids
@MsBoldur4 жыл бұрын
Incredible.
@chutdigadut14 жыл бұрын
o my freakin gosh this guys was a genius
@andreacroci84053 жыл бұрын
Pure genius!
@mameylayalawson92403 жыл бұрын
Realmente um gênio!! Infelizmente que "l'art longa vita brevis" e não o temos mais nesse plano físico. Porém, creio, fulge entre pleades de orbes distantes, alegrando e divirtindo a outros seres.
@swaroov92363 жыл бұрын
The first meme creator
@cowzilla812 жыл бұрын
As funny as this may seem, this is also GENIUS!!!
@unknownchannel31413 жыл бұрын
Ah, finally a civilized audience.
@Kinor714 жыл бұрын
GENIOUS!
@mozartsmusicblog13 жыл бұрын
This is great. Victor Borge was such a genius. My favorites are Mozart and Shostakovich...add scales and trills and it's Mozart...and his Shostakovich is simply perfect! :-D