it has just surpassed "Advantages to Floating in the Middle of the Sea" as my current favorite Sondheim song. I love this song! I never fully appreciated it until i heard Patti sing it during Wall to Wall.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Bernadette's version does it for me. What an amazing amazing song.
"I hope you're all happy, keeping Alan off the team. Couldn't you, for once, open your minds and hearts and hear something that he couldn't see? I, for one, am glad that Alan is blind, so he can't see what, I am so sad to say, you can't hear." -Jerri Blank
my jaw dropped, i mean, i had never heard the song sung with so much...gusto? it was breathtaking.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
I've been meaning to get that Sondheim at Carnegie Hall CD for quite some time now--just to hear Patti sing that song. I too absolutely love this song. Fantastic lyrics. Bernadette does a fine job with it on her Carnegie Hall CD.
Anything from Company is a favorite of mine. I have to say my favorite version of Being Alive is Patti's though. She gave me chills when she sang it at Wall to Wall. After Wall to Wall I had to go rush to my Sondheim Collection Box Set DVDs I got for Christmas and put in the Sondheim Carnegie Hall DVD and watch Patti sing the hell out of that song!
You're always sorry,
You're always grateful,
You hold her, thinking:
"I'm not alone."
You're still alone.
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company
Sondheim Celebration at Carnegie Hall is fantastic! Lucky you MEF, to have seen it live. So many goodies that night. Ballad of Booth, Not Getting Married Today, Back in Business, Sooner or Later, Children Will Listen and yes - Being Alive. So glad I have it on video.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."