Mad Men - David Carbonara - The Carousel

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Enjoy!

[@stephenmontgomery5925]

This song has haunted/enchanted me for so many years. Truly one of the best moments in television history. I’m 46, I’ve lived a rich though sometimes difficult life, and there are so many places I ache to go again. This song is an absolute masterpiece for bringing that all to the fore, and it’s comforting to see that there are so many out there who are touched by it too.

[@Marilyn88-]

❤

[@paulculver2235]

❤ Couldn’t agree more. I’ve rewatched that scene dozens of times and it never fails to floor me. Having Harry Crane quietly walking out in tears made it even more amazing.

[@DoodlePoodle199]

I’m glad to know that so many others are impacted by this scene and song - the song really grabs your attention and sucks you in. Every part of the song is so touching with different emotions attached. Sadness and nostalgia being the foremost dominant ones. In my opinion…

[@sebastianblack6506]

4:21 is where it's at. Entire piece is beautiful, but the way Carbonera brings the theme back is the feels.

[@DoodlePoodle199]

When I first watched this episode when it originally aired, this song in particular stuck with me for a long time. Now, several years later, I'm starting the series over and heard this again. Then searched like mad to find it. I'm so shocked to have discovered it! What great music - and to go along with such a powerful scene. It's almost too perfect.

[@RtripleA]

Yep, I cna totally relate. that's exactly what happend to me! This is beyond beautiful.

[@trescinc]

Same here!

[@danieljgavigan]

Exact same here, especially the harp part about a minute and half in

[@ishtiaquehossain6350]

The soundtrack keeps appearing from time to time (especially in scenes with Don/Betty) up until Season 3 if I’m not wrong

[@DoodlePoodle199]

@@ishtiaquehossain6350It does!

[@beanutgames]

1:30 perfectly encapsulates the wistful feeling of nostalgia looking back on childhood.

[@michaelluciano1980]

Very much so ❤️

[@InsaneIltis]

Always makes me think of the scene they used this bit for: Don falling for the school teacher who is dancing with the kids. And him touching the grass. Beautiful scene...

[@ladyreverie7027]

God I love Mad Men. Before I watched it when people talked about it I had this idea it was just this drama about the 60s, but it's so DEEP and human. One of my absolute favourite series ever. Deserved every Emmy it was ever nominated for. My favourite episode is the one with the Cuban Missile Crisis and everyone thinks they're going to die.

[@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025]

I suppose my favorite scene is when Don and Pete Campbell went to Los Angeles, and the part at the scene where that girl Don meets right before he ends up getting in her car.... I don't think I was ever so BREATHLESS and captivated by beauty by when she started walking up to him and smiling. The fight between Campbell and the British guy was a good scene, and the secretary dying at her desk was good for some serious laughs. But Madmen was a show that kicked some serious intellectual and entertainment ass as a series.

[@MinamuTV]

Beautiful. One of the best scores for any TV show I've ever heard.

[@TheStuport]

We had A Carousel and every Holiday Dad would cart it out of the closet and we as a family would sit around and relive our memories laughing and smiling and even shedding a few tears for those who had already left to go to Heaven....when I saw this scene in "Mad Men" my heart swelled with Love....I shall forever be grateful ....Cheers Everyone

[@amyhaleeb5527]

Wow that must have been such a beautiful moment I can imagine. God bless you x

[@SaharMoradian-mt9om]

❤️

[@omkarCHALKE1992]

Best scene in the whole series...

[@patrickibrahim971]

legit. true.

[@triciapuzio281]

It hits me every time I watch it. The quote (In Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound.) sets the stage and the music and pictures do the rest.

[@buddypowe]

which scene?

[@syriana9575]

@@buddypowe the carousel scene ep 13

[@DoodlePoodle199]

I had a notification on my other comment that I made 4 years ago, so I went to this video. I hadn’t thought of this song at all since then - so I listened to it again and read the comments. Wow, it put me to tears again! What a moving, powerful song/scene. Makes me want to re-watch the series again now.

[@patriciaprimakov1807]

Incredibly moving scene. "In Greek, Nostalgia means the pain from an old wound..."

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

3:29 Been looking for this part on all the Mad Men Soundtracks. The bells are beautifully haunting. Love David Carbonara

[@XiangYu94]

Came here for boozy, 50's style advertising agency inspiration music... Came out with an Don Draper-level existential crisis

[@BlazeEst]

🤣

[@ge.bottaro]

Absolutelly mesmerising. One of the best scenes of all the series i've ever watched.

[@tonimoroni742]

Not wishing to sound ghoulish, but I'd have this played at my funeral ... it feels like a lifetime encapsulated in a single piece of music. It's quite lovely.

[@bpetrushev]

3:47 destroys me every time...

[@Marilyn88-]

bpetrushev - me too. There is something about the ending that resonates with me 😌. I get emo 4:40 for me

[@saurabhsharma8752]

is it possible to get just that piece..

[@legendmir1]

2:40 for me

[@ignaciocrea6808]

Incredible. That scene represents Don's entire travel... He breaks into a thousand pieces ..

[@RupertPupkinComedy]

@@saurabhsharma8752 there's a long version like that at the start of "mad men suite"

[@tharkun21280]

I taught an English Composition course a few months ago, and I asked my students to take a position on which of two authors captured nostalgia more effectively in their short stories. I opened the class with this scene from Mad Men. The question turned into a paper assignment for them; since then, however, I have listened to this track every day before my class comes into the room. It's wonderful.

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

tharkun21280 Was the other composer Ennio Morriccone? So many of his works over the years involve the theme of nostalgia. His film scores for Once Upon a Time in the West (and America), Duck you Sucker, and Days of Heaven are some of my favorite.

[@tharkun21280]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I didn't have the students write about composers' approximation of nostalgia through music; rather, I chose two short stories, and the students had to argue which one suggested nostalgia more effectively. I used the clip from "The Wheel" as an opener for the discussion.

[@diosantana2659]

Passion

[@rishirajmukherjee6894]

@@tharkun21280 what were the short stories?

[@tharkun21280]

@@rishirajmukherjee6894 wow, no one ever asked me that. Pamplona in July - Hemingway Knoxville Summer of 1915 - Agee Once More to the Lake - White The Way to Rainy Mountain - Momaday The Solace of Open Spaces - Ehrlich They All Just Went Away - Oates

[@jaydesigns1236]

A place, where we ache to go again.

[@LepeczynLCN]

It would be so perfect to end the series with this song.

[@soapmeridius]

timetravelprimer the show really should have ended with the end of season 6 imho.

[@njoYYY]

If you think it should've ended at season 6, you didnt understand the whole show at all.

[@timsterk89]

it should have ended at season 4

[@chaaaargh]

there really is something almost haunting but enchanting about this song. i've just started watching mad men after hearing about it for many years (the jury is still out on if i love it yet lol), but this song and especially the scene it plays in was very beautiful. what a shame this isn't on spotify.

[@SickTwistedQueen]

Don Draper's speech about the Carousel made me cry. This song makes me think of moving to a new house with my family on a summer day, to a beautiful one that looks like a miniature castle made of wood. The house has no furniture, but it is filled with the sunlight flooding in from large windows that show a view of flowery hills as the backyard. Then the rain begins to fall, but is beautiful... Also, 1:38 - 2:10 reminds me of that Silent Hill song, "Promise (Reprise)" somehow.

[@onurdegirmencitv]

Beautifully described.. I see you wrote that 7 years ago. How are you doing? I hope you’ve fulfilled what you’ve described Zhenya

[@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025]

Yes, one of the more moving scenes in the series. But the Bert Cooper song and dance came to a very close second as to be just about tied.) Third place definitely goes to the end! (If you want to count fourth place---the song and dance of his second wife at that party.)

[@rivers118]

@@onurdegirmencitv they hardly ever do

[@King_Nero_1]

The closing music to one of the best episodes(To those who think young S2 ep1) in one of the best series in television history.

[@adiblima]

King Nero one of best episodes of the show. He says to Peggy to let it go and left all behind.

[@maxeyre2024]

Didn’t it also close out Meditiations in an Emergency S2E13

[@zidanecristianoaveiro]

One of the best shows I've ever seen

[@asterio8405]

The 1:39 minute is what you are looking for, but give the whole song a shot...it's awesome.

[@ruisilva9100]

I really enjoy the first part tbh quite dark

[@nashidwaters1045]

Facts!!! The best part!!!

[@emilliofayad3088]

Crazy how we all love that part

[@cooliostarstache5474]

I'm here for 3:47

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

@@cooliostarstache5474same 3:30 ish)

[@robertcosta6967]

Best 4 minutes in TV history....

[@lakerspackers11]

Great scene. Great show. Great contemplative music.

[@zidanecristianoaveiro]

just finished mad men what a show what a great sum of characters

[@lakerspackers11]

i like this over the scene when don's shaving with sally in the room and cant bare to even look at himself in the mirror

[@grahammcdonald]

Without doubt the defining music of the series. A1

[@seaque.]

Mad Men Suite for me

[@Originalcopy20]

@@seaque. How about Carbonara's version of ''Indian song''

[@seaque.]

@@Originalcopy20 that one is great too. But Mad Men suite gives me a strong feeling of nostalgia, and it's even better when you think it was not used after Season 3. With the 1960's death, new generation started to take control.

[@sherry2836]

This was my favorite episode where Don was "performing" his pitch. From what we already learned about him, I would have to say this poignant and powerful pitch showed what a masterful salesman he was to anyone involved with him. My absolute favorite series and music as well!

[@donjohnson2003]

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

[@ladyreverie7027]

That could have been written for Don Draper. Fantastic poem.

[@cooladi002]

I cry everytime. I wonder though how many more good songs are there which I haven't heard. makes me real sad. :'(

[@donnamarie3930]

With one episode remaining, I realize how this WOULD be the perfect ending credits song. I will be crying like a baby when it's over.

[@alanadrian5929]

Nostalgia...

[@adrianreilly3361]

+Alan Adrian ..ain't what it used to be

[@ge.bottaro]

it's delicate, but potent

[@RcTvcjr]

The pain of an old wound...

[@yalmproduction7519]

This helps me a lot when im depressed

[@alienalex1426]

Thomas Newman vibes af!

[@patricksweeney5141]

!

[@jazzytds]

I think it made anyone with a heart cry. He spoke from his heart. He could sell you the moon because like a good salesman he has conviction and he believes in what he is selling, he also was selling a piece of his soul with that presentation. That role was meant for no one but Jon Hamm, he is eloquent and an excellent actor, and coming from a high powered position, I knew so many Dons, but they are special because they literally are a genius. Yess, this song was perfect...Weiner is good.

[@onurdegirmencitv]

“He was selling a piece of his soul with that presentation”.. so beautifully said man. He really was, and that’s why it was such a success. It was not simply a pitch, it had a much deeper meaning. One of the best TV shows ever, if not the best imo

[@dkiperman]

"Good luck at your next meeting."

[@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025]

Wow! This comment makes me want to cry....What a beautiful "punchline" to such a scene eh??

[@theogoldberg8919]

Absolute goose bumps everytime listening.

[@dand777]

The pain from an old wound

[@LJChibueze]

3:30 was what I was looking for in that Don Draper scene

[@deeplybrown]

This is so beautiful. Been searching for this song for years. Thanks for posting.

[@deeplybrown]

***** This song was featured in an episode of Mad Men back in 2007. That is now a long time ago :)

[@hometownhero2500]

@@deeplybrown even longer now 😳

[@XiangYu94]

1:30 - me lying in bed during quarantine, reminiscing about the summer of 2019 and realizing how I took it all for granted.

[@shoazdon7000]

Now the summer of 2020 was beautiful in hindsight compared to how dark everything is now

[@alestar22]

You know , after that scene I was expecting that the series will be full of that kind of these "awesome ad speeches". And I was kind of sad that I was watching the series and I couldn't see a similar one for many many episodes. But now I saw the end, I realized why. It was that Don had the very best of his ideas for the end.

[@brainchild2197]

I still wish they would have brought back that song though

[@capecod12345]

My Grandfathers cousin is David Carbonara :P Its really cool, but Ive never spoken a word to this guy. Apparently he doesn't produce the music, he just decides what instruments go in at certain parts, organizing the musicians etc. Pretty cool though nonetheless, maybe he can help me with connections for my future films ! :D

[@Mary-tc2cr]

capecod12345 David is my cousin, my mother Pauline Carbonara is David's father sister. He is a awesome composer!!!

[@capecod12345]

Do you know my grandfather John Lombardi?

[@Mary-tc2cr]

Of course, he's also my cousin! :-)

[@TwentyTwenty90]

capecod12345 That would make him an arranger as opposed to composer. But still, this piece of music is beautiful so credit all round :-)

[@capecod12345]

Haha its such a sweet piece for sure!

[@ieylull]

oh this soundtrack its beautiful and pure

[@65g4]

great music

[@philkelly8261]

Sad, mystical and yet one is left feeling strangely hungry!

[@Wallula]

Kodak was fortunate to have Don Draper (Dick Whitman) as their advertising partner. What a great name for a slide-show viewer.

[@grimson]

I wish I could loop this for an hour.

[@cooladi002]

The song begins and I dont understand whats happening, this is not the song.. and then the ending comes and my heart aches :') . John Hamm won my heart

[@lahMcee3]

+ded gaem Jon Hamm played an excellent Don Draper - couldn't have pictured anyone else in the same role

[@venusiandream]

+ded gaem At approx 3:35, this is where it begins when he says "it's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone,,". Lord who wrote that. Genius.

[@Marilyn88-]

This track is not available on itunes. What a shame!

[@IllyrianPrince14]

Wow such emotion

[@katiaclaro5149]

Lindíssima como a cena em que foi inspirada❣️💐👏🏻👏🏻

[@ahmetcelik3248]

What a masterpiece...

[@diosantana2659]

3:41 - what you were waiting for...

[@ambrosiusrex]

Absolutely love this part - beautiful.

[@ODPTV1]

Great composition

[@Wallula]

Season 2 Episode 1. Heartfelt.

[@marmaladesamwich]

How to describe this song? Subtle... but potent.

[@dantesy9215]

I love this song

[@youstolemydog]

Haunting

[@sicodhelico]

This song makes me feel so lost

[@Wallula]

Have a blessed Easter 🐣

[@violence1429]

4:31 The most iconic

[@alexandraavice2055]

Good luck at your next meeting!

[@Wallula]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️

[@Dr.Kananga]

thank you!

[@djamotube]

Once it hits 3:55, it almost reminds me of when 3:55 hits on Pink Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond 💎

[@jasrajsinghbhinder5033]

I just listened to both.. And yes! You are quite right!

[@sebastianblack6506]

Which version of Shine on? There's the side 1 version, then the side two version.

[@zerotoux]

Almost sounds like something from Assassin's creed II

[@kraftp]

Please upload this in a 10 hour version

[@kawtharbakhach5848]

something about this reminds me of the harry hermione theme

[@ignaciocrea6808]

This scene represents Don's entire travel... He breaks into a thousand pieces ..Here begins his path of redemption

[@antonioramirez9079]

I prefer the piano at 0:18 minute, it appears at the end of episode 6, season 2.

[@jennicariasavellano2566]

for me it's 4:22 that gave me the chills

[@midnightperfectworld]

Theres another version of this song that is used at the end credits of S1E10 Does anyone know that name of it?? Or where I can find it.

[@ImagesAR]

How did you get this? I cannot seem to find it on iTunes!

[@3.14name]

If anybody here knows which one they play during Betty s letter to Sally, please let me know

[@Palavrum]

03:38 ❤️

[@vinicius2uiciniv]

What's the name of the sax song played at the end of S01E12 (Nixon vs. Kennedy)?

[@harley_yelrah9429]

Damn KZbin hitting me with a saint judes ad right when the song ends

[@colinlucas7662]

Sounds like Moonlight sonata

[@gustavodutra8578]

This music gave me depression.

[@davepodolske5646]

"Good luck at your next meeting..."

[@_BusterHighmen]

3:30 you’re looking for this part

[@carcar4425]

4:37

[@conradknightsocksknight1590]

Good luck at your next meeting.

[@Rich72James]

Its 3:49 that is the most moving part.

[@jaydesigns1236]

Adam...

[@ambrosiusrex]

😢

[@isobelmacleod1925]

betty

[@cooliostarstache5474]

3:47 and 4:22

[@elvinrzazade]

Hande seni çok özledim.

[@kylepetrie6952]

2:30

[@batuhanayar8737]

3:16