Ethel Merman receives a Special Tony Award | 1972 Tony Awards

[@95KIPPIE]

There will never be another one! No one will ever top this woman, she is classic, she is a legend! She should’ve had many more Tonys, losing the gypsy Tony was a big slap in the face!! As well as the movie!

[@scottmiller6495]

The Greatest Broadway singer and performer of all time ! Ethel Merman needs to be recognized now more than ever. She is still sadly missed !!!!!!

[@19gregske55]

Think of all of the composers and writers that sat and wrote plays and musical numbers with Ethel Merman, specifically in mind. There will never be another Ethel Merman.

[@MarkWerderitsch-k9v]

I spam sorry that they did not record cast albums for Girl Crazy and Anything Goes back when she was in her prime. By the time she was in Gypsy, her voice had begun to fail, but she continued to sing. I saw her singing I Get a Kick.. in a program recorded within six months of her death in 1984. It was in listenable and she was many years past the time when she should have stopped and retired.

[@filmmekker]

@@MarkWerderitsch-k9vShe never lost her pitch or voice. Her vibrato just slowed down. She was a showstopper until the end!

[@asteverino8569]

Ms Merman is an icon. At least to me. 😘

[@markwhitman9029]

Love the Merm and damn few can top her "Everything's Coming up Roses" she is a theatre legend!!

[@rexlex1736]

The Great Ethel Merman!

[@glgree1]

Wow! She really had to work for that Tony that night! :-)

[@Riva2025]

So great, I'm in tears...

[@BTURNER1961]

An astounding career. Everyone wanted to work on a Merman show. From the composers/lyricists to the directors, to the dancers, the entire backstage crew, the front of the house as well. Damn rare on Broadway to be able to relax for awhile about those rent checks, the child support, the water and garbage bill, and still be able to afford Christmas or buy school clothes at the end of summer. But if you got work in a Merman Show, you knew you had a sure paycheck for longer than just about anybody else. With her on the Marquee, you would not need to come up with new excuses for long time.

[@tbec3011]

Unlike Life with Lucy.

[@allancuseo7431]

Love her ...Love her...Love her

[@showtunestarpower]

Highlights from this appearance have been posted before - but here we see the whole wonderful Merman presentation with Larry Blyden and Hal Lyndon as her two terrific chorus boys. Again and again she scores in ballads, rhythm songs, comedy numbers, and thrilling anthems. She was a phenomenon who continues to have a lasting influence on today's up and coming Broadway performers. Thank goodness television and sites like this keeps alive Merman's divine legacy.

[@danielpruna9884]

I'm a huge Merman fan. Amazing video. I love it. Thanks so much from my heart.

[@Mrmagic441]

This is incredible. Thank you:)

[@micdom43]

This is a treat to see complete segment

[@fordclinic]

GLORIOUS to see the full segment!! Thank you Matt for posting!

[@MattHagmeierCurtis]

A labor of love, my friend! Thanks for watching!

[@williamdonahue6617]

And to think that The Merm was 64 when this was recorded!

[@BarbaraPineda-v9p]

Miss elthle merman, was the queens of Broadway, also she's can still sings for a aging, singer's, other's grps, can't touched this woman, she's a divas n... her's primed,

[@19gregske55]

Rewind to "Airplane"...Dexter, the pilot, is in hospital, lamenting his shared accommodation..."Ya see that guy? He thinks he's Ethel Merman". Rewind to "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 🌎 ". Watching her bully and boss Ernest Borgnine is a high point in the movie!

[@MarkWerderitsch-k9v]

The two men were Larry Boy den and Hal Linden, who had the long hair and beard because he was still appearing in The Rothschilds

[@neilwilburn6848]

Great job putting this together from clips of varying quality. One question: why does "leave out the cherry" get a laugh? (from Panama Hattie).

[@BTURNER1961]

Poor Larry Blyden trying to sing that duet which was originally written to showcase Ethel . . he's a trooper but you can barely hear him. He's just a prop, like that gun was.

[@steveb1164]

This was at least partially the result of Merman publicly complaining that she had never won a Tony, even though she had in fact won Best Actress in a Musical for "Call Me Madam".

[@micdom43]

Can't they revitalize the whole presentation instead of 3 clips

[@seventiesmemories5116]

Funny that after years of not getting a Tony - they finally give her one - but she had to sing a medley first! On Broadway, clearly, you have to sing for your supper. But she's clearly enjoying herself, in great voice in her early 60's.. Maybe one day someone will post the full better video instead of these pieces sewn together.

[@frederickcombs8661]

The person that made her dress should have been arrested.

[@19gregske55]

I think that the dress was flattering, memorable and very suitable for Miss Merman, 64 years of age.

[@BarbaraPineda-v9p]

I heard rumors a nother artisited had chatted abouts, ethle merman, Tommy devito, former lead man's, the fours seasons, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, and other's one's, I forgotten his names, he's had passed died the yrs, 1980s not should maybe I mistaken, r.p.n. Mr Tommy devito, I heard yous had passed died also its'nt was'nt died, he's had said she's can still hold high note of falsetto, and he's was so surprised that's, this aging artisited can still sings, but not many can hold up that's, longs for many yrs, there's other's, artisited miss Brenda Lee, had a voicals its a climatic that's can push individ... off the cliff, and it's a higher falsetto, she's, a younger ages, 10s yrs, old or 11s yrs. Old also when she's, had ages, 40s yrs, old she's no longers, can sings that's well, maybe becuz... her's 🫁 lungs its exhausted, and dry too 😮😢😅❤❤ also should've relaxed for whiles, for fives day's and exercises, too also I knew she's no longer hves $14,0000, dollar's, she's not a greatest singers, either that's a blows why's she's not, other's artisited former singers, Michael Jackson, have's nothing on the former artisited miss Brenda Lee, as far as a singers, I'm no experts prod...also mangr... either and other's artisited its'nt a greatest singer former grps, the buckingham's, leads man, Mr dennis taufano, its'nt all that's either, he's have's nothing on other's artisited Freddy mercury, leads singers, of grps, queens, he's a greatest, singer's, his primed yrs, 1970s yrs,1980s

[@micdom43]

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[@Engelhafen]

I never thought she had a good voice - it’s too unmodulated and brassy

[@19gregske55]

But that is her inimitable style. Cole Porter wrote some of his best songs, with Ethel Merman in his mind. This is rather heady stuff.