CATS Memory Performance - 1983 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

[@maureen669]

This is my NYC. The Thanksgiving Parade was a celebration, not an ad festival. I was blessed to see this original cast on Broadway. New York City Forever.

[@mikegarcia7986]

No one does it like Betty!!!! GOOSEBUMPS

[@YoursTrulyThe1Pony]

yes

[@fatherbewithme]

Her vibrato is pure perfection lol I could nvr

[@jerseygirlpetdoc]

No one compares to Betty! No one! The singing, the acting, simply incomparable. Purrfect performance! She is Grizabella! The most powerful voice that effortlessly belts out to your soul. Not an easy task to do starting from a crouched position. How fantastic as part of the macys Thanksgiving parade! ❤

[@amywiedeman9716]

Whenever I think of this beautiful song, I want to hear Betty Buckley sing it. She has ruined me forever on anyone else singing it. Fantastic!

[@fatherbewithme]

Yes I do adore Hether Headley's rendition and Nicole's version from the Pussy Cat Dolls

[@brendahanson6711]

As many times as I've seen this, I still get goosebumps every time. I saw her in this role in 1984 and it is one of the most precious memories I've ever had.

[@PaulMcElveen]

The very pretty and extremely talented singer, actress, dancer and performer Betty Buckley is the best and the one and only Grizabella ever! Brilliant performance of her signature song "Memory" at the 1983 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! I love it! Betty Buckley received the Tony Award for best actress in a Broadway musical in 1983 for Cats! I love it! I was born in the very late fall of 1978. I saw Betty Buckley in the National tour of Hello, Dolly at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville, Kentucky! She was the best Dolly ever! Thank you for posting and sharing this classic performance!

[@firecriss1392]

Remember watching this when it originally aired---couldnt believe it was Abby from Eight is Enough. Mesmerizing.

[@tomgallowitz]

This is actually better than the movie version with having the Cats pop up around the city

[@mikegarcia7986]

it IS cool!!

[@YoursTrulyThe1Pony]

Awe-inspiring

[@SunBunz]

4:19 always has been my favorite. She belts it like no other, imo.

[@RandomLuminosity]

cant believe they actually let them get thru the whole thing. These days they would have shushed them along for one of the 10000 commercial breaks they need to fit in before the marching band that traveled 2000 miles gets to be on screen for 30 seconds

[@ashleyallensworth5646]

Listening to this one and to the Tony awards performance are both so striking. Her makeup changed slightly and they gave Victoria Jemima's part of Daylight.

[@janhoke7796]

Betty Buckley…so dear to our heart! Thank you! ♥️Xxxooo

[@lindaberg1695]

This is fantastic! I've listened to every version of Memory by every artist who has performed it and Betty Buckley knocks each one out of the park....Fantastic Performance, just the best!

[@KK-le9qy]

Betty Buckley was the best. Stunning voice touched people’s heart ❤

[@PaulMcElveen]

Betty Buckley is the beat and the one and only Grizabella!

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

This was the very first thing my grandmother ever recorded on her new VCR, the day after she bought it and was trying to stop being afraid of it. I watched that ancient tape for this scene a dozen times. It was lost in a move, so thank you so much for this. Great to see it again. Never take it down!

[@PaulMcElveen]

Betty Buckley is best Grizabella Ever!

[@swaingles]

Thank you all who have posted their feelings towards this exceptional unmatched woman singing a most beautiful song in this awesome performance: you have made me realize that I am not crazy at all

[@christophermarzian6608]

Best Broadway show tune ever. Hands down.

[@PappyOdaniel669]

You don’t have to choose one btw, you can love the Elaine and Betty versions without dissing the other

[@ghostrider-ek8gu]

A most amazing voice. Thank you, Betty Buckley, for sharing your beautiful gift with the world.

[@omophagia]

I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS

[@jumpforjoy6]

Damn u old

[@DemonQueen1988]

Betty makes belting look so easy.

[@PaulMcElveen]

Betty Buckley is Perfect!

[@jayalanchristianson7070]

BB IS the Empress of this song.

[@mst3kanita]

Thanks for uploading this. I kept meaning to, and never got it off my other computer.

[@mst3kanita]

Bryant Gumbel totally called this in. The whole parade. 😹. I forgot to mention how much I love seeing Marlene Danielle as Demeter in this clip!

[@bookboybrs90]

thanks keep Cats coming

[@kareno8873]

Betty is unreal

[@ptg01]

Ah... Betty Buckley... THE BEST !

[@JuanGonzalez-rp5go]

❤❤

[@christophermarzian6608]

I saw it with Liz Calloway as Grizabella and she knocked it out of the park and beyond.

[@MahoganyCrafter]

Did they really just stick Skimbleshanks in the sewer?

[@Xushish]

Yeee

[@MondoMiami]

He’s very nimble.

[@Dim4323]

Now if they did a cats live like that it would've been great.

[@Ahuntsicspotter]

Broadway production.

[@ElizabethHurtado-py8ur]

🦃

[@ПавелЗдоров-т6ь]

Dark elk 84

[@ErableBleu]

Worst musical EVER, saved by this BRILLIANT song! I remember watching this performance LIVE on TV. Thanks for taking me back in time.

[@Xushish]

Worst? Nah man if you think it’s a bad one then complain to T.S Eliot the one who made the cats and their songs but he’s dead so oof

[@MahoganyCrafter]

How can you say that when Be More Chill exists?

[@02887727356]

no argument one song one show

[@mikegarcia7986]

Seven Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL…Ran for 18+ years and STILL sells out around the world…if this is the “WORSE” musical ever, i have a bridge to sell you. 🙄

[@ErableBleu]

ABSOLUTE worse. « Titanic » was a hit film and yet, horrible. Stupid and gullible people buy the hype. As for always being « sold out » that too is a lie. In London the guide told us back in 1993 that rich theatre patrons buy up all the tickets so they can boast it keeps selling out, but look around at all the EMPTY SEATS!!! ZERO plot! « I’m a cat and I’m singing! Meow, meow! » « I’m another cat and I’m singing too! Meow, meow! » This is the song that saves this crap heap.

[@jerryryan3703]

How on earth did this newscaster ever make it? ?? Bryan-something and he's the most boring person on this planet.