My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies - If He Walked Into My Life (Official)

[@DanFeinman-xd2uf]

Jennifer puts her thrilling "stamp" on this classic, knocking it out of the park. She made it her own and was in beautiful voice, using soft tones, her miraculous range and power. A true showcase for her gifts as an artist.

[@hillbaby02]

I hate that she is never given the credit she deserves. She can sing any genres of music, and this proves it. Love this.

[@Mike-fp5rc]

Never got credit? Oh henny, she's widely considered one of the Broadway greats and a queen among female vocalists.

[@hillbaby02]

@@Mike-fp5rc Only for And I am Telling and maybe I Am Changing. I'm saying she can sing beyond Broadway and has.

[@Mike-fp5rc]

@@hillbaby02 Hold up now, what about "I am Love". No matter what she still better than the other Jennifer H who stole her name! Don't get me all riled now.

[@hillbaby02]

@@Mike-fp5rc I know those songs, but the general public doesn't.

[@Mike-fp5rc]

@@hillbaby02 Well the general public are generally stupid people right? So maybe they just don't recognize her with her tremendous weight loss. Again, SHE should have been paid to do Weight Watchers, not that clone wannabe!

[@CarmenZynger]

Miss Holliday can do it all. This rendition, she's capturing being a big band singer. A chanteuse. Love it! Thank you for posting.

[@johnfong2817]

Miss Holliday sings this song in her own interpretation as the artist that she is. She isn't trying to be anybody but herself. Wish we saw more of her!

[@CarmenZynger]

Gorgeous phrasing. Lovely voice. Jennifer owns this song!

[@peterclark498]

an amazing job she does!!!...but Edyie Gorme owns it!!

[@Ed-iz4wm]

Ms. Jennifer just took us to church! Love her!

[@marypaquin9943]

As someone who played Vera Charles in MAME, and musically directed the entire show, my MAME, Gwendolyn Calloway, knocked this song out of the park!

[@alondramichellegarzamartin9868]

amazing i love her,jennifer holliday is my favorite singer

[@gmh952]

AMAZING performance!! Holliday does Jerry Herman proud, brava!

[@michaelhill7571]

I thought I had never heard this song before the other day. I realize now, that I had never heard this song from this realm of experience. She sings this song not from the actual perspective of Mame. She sings this song through the prism of a mother who has worked her whole life to raise a child to succeed and is rejected by him. A woman with a working class mindset keeping her child as safe as possible. Trying to make him the man she knew he could be and he leaves her behind with no illusions. Maybe, it speaks to me because of that. These are the wails I would have heard from my mother who always said, "I did not raise you to smile at you through bars!" I do not see being left unprepared for life as an advantage. I much prefer the way I was left.. This is the song of a mother who has lost a child that is not even her own. This is the song of every woman who has lost a child to the streets, or violence, or drugs. Is is the primordial roar of a parent.

[@saulramirez3056]

"This is the song of every woman who has lost a child to the streets, or violence, or drugs. Is is the primordial roar of a parent." MAAAAAN!!! That was so deep and 100% true. I now need to go hug my mother and tell her to please forgive me for everytime I failed her!

[@The.leatherlungs]

Incredible!!!!

[@harlemhomme]

thrilling version!

[@johnperry713]

Wow!!! She really made me feel the song!!!

[@vocesparacristo6966]

awesome jennifer holliday

[@zaneramjeawan8042]

wow just pure singing...wow

[@raydewey2001]

Killin' it girl!!! And THANK YOU for recording my song Magic Man (Ray Dewey, Jimmy George) which was placed in the Wayans movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Would LOVE to hear your complete version of it. I bet you tore that baby up!!!

[@edwinkorody4860]

She sang it as only she could have done. Love it!

[@RaymondNYC1]

OMG. W-O-W!

[@laurenceesposito3393]

So glad I saw her live in Dreamgirls. So exciting.

[@teddywells9960]

7th grade trip. Dreamgirls and Evita. I knew at once what I wanted to be when I grew up. A star! LMAO. It didn't matter that I never studied dance as a child, as one typically does. It was "too queer and expensive. " Dramatic classes came from watching Carol Burnett, the Dean Martin Roasts, and Dynasty. I could study music, if my absent father paid, which he did happily, but I was not allowed to practice at home because my mother hated my doing anything well or better than she. She was a monster. Envious and bitter, "Bye, Bye trumpet and alto sax." There already was a Paul Lynde so, I couldn't do that either. Never say never. After my military service, my sane, sobee-ish, and endlessly encouraging gal pals put me in drag. I COULD be a DRAG QUEEN! AND I DID BECOME A STAR! In fact, I became many stars. Celebrated as Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Bette Davis and more from Hollywood's HeyDays, I was a real live Las Vegas Showgirl for several years with my own show on the Las Vegas Strip, a rare honor, indeed. I did learn to sing. I did learn to dance. My body became my "instrument." And, according to my dear ol' friend, Rose Marie, who knew, loved, and worked with him, Paul Lynde himsrlf would have been very big fan, had he lived. "Oh he would have loved you." [Oh God! Did I ramble on and on?! I'm a little drunk.] Those women gave me my most beautiful dreams in a life filled with nightmares. Loretta Devinr, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Jennifer Holliday,,Patti LuPone. Jennifer took this song to Church!

[@luisitofundales3817]

Bravoooo!!!!

[@robertclatworthy1857]

This didn’t appear on the dvd . Well done

[@obiephillips9174]

Jennifer is a great vocalist BUT unfortunately people only want her to sing that 1 song from a certain Broadway show now movie. I love her album "I'm on Your Side".

[@charlesbarry2767]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE JENNIFER HOLLIDAY SHE HAS A VOICE AND THEN SOME, BUT NO ONE CAN SING THIS LIKE EYDIE GORME.

[@soyfreddypicasso]

Sencillamente GENIAL...!!!❤️

[@sidneytircuit7661]

Bravo Bravo

[@StevenLasher]

I COULD NOT FIND THIS EARLIER

[@tenorcandao]

Greatness.

[@timlester1867]

Was this one cut from the DVD? I've seen the DVD and don't remember this.

[@Usercantwelve]

👏👏👏👏👏👍🏼

[@aminsmith9657]

jennifer yessuh you betta sang that song now!!!!!

[@Imissingu2001]

Amin Smith Didn't she sang that?! Awesome!!

[@znmnky13]

Mmh mmh mmh, damn.

[@sidneytircuit7661]

sang Jennifer

[@charlesbarry2767]

I THINK ONE OF RU PAUL'S HAIRSTYLIST DID HER HAIR/WIG !

[@BaeLasso]

Fire the hairdresser please

[@SuperSmily20]

Edyie Gorme still the best version .

[@peterclark498]

you and me could be friends!

[@jrbflymeful]

Fabulous job, but sorry, Leslie Uggams did it way better! But I did enjoy this!

[@raymatthews7624]

Beautiful voices. But this song belongs to; Eydie Gorme and Nancy Wilson.

[@flyinghow]

Belong?

[@stevefreedman470]

...and Angela Lansbury

[@1868foxpoint]

And Leslie Uggams 👍🏻

[@nicermguy1]

She's very good but too bad the band is out of sync with her.

[@bigred8432]

At which point?

[@mmaybrown]

beginning, the band is all over the place.

[@grantc4516]

@@mmaybrown It's not. You're wrong.

[@kennetpon]

love her but don't fudge lyrics singing classic Broadway songs

[@TruthSerum101]

She didn't know the song well.

[@gildamarlowe5110]

she's ok-- but that wig--OMG

[@grantc4516]

She's more than okay.

[@shanedeleon5376]

Sorry Jennifer, this isn't my favorite interpretation of this song. A lot of belting without feeling; she's singing this song to showcase her voice, not to sing the song.

[@roycey32]

She's singing it for both....her phrasing is how SHE expresses the feeling.

[@zaneramjeawan2875]

@@roycey32 I disagree with you.. i feel everything..its great

[@roycey32]

@@zaneramjeawan2875 ok

[@gildamarlowe5110]

too much vibrato-- listen to Lansbury, Gorme, and Mazzie- no comparison at all

[@malcolmgrant2197]

I agree. It's a lament, not a torch song. It's also about Patrick not Mame. She's singing it as if she's the focus of the song, when it is all about him.

[@Imissingu2001]

Gilda Marlowe That's called soul singing...would not expect you to understand. :-)

[@Imissingu2001]

Malcolm Grant The dictionary defines "torch song" as "a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments.....LAMENTS a lost love. So try that again. :-) The focus of the song is her...her life...and what would become of it, if he walked into of HER life 'today'. Lol Again this is a soul version of the song and I know it is hard for you people to understand that.

[@vxhorusxv]

Malcolm Grant there is more than one way to interpret a character and a song. When an artist like Jennifer Holliday performs something, it’s because she wants to show you something. This is what she wanted to show us and really paying attention to it might let you see what she was trying to express. Her intentions seem perfectly clear - and awesome - to me. Every artist is different.

[@richardmayora1289]

Love her but this version is God awful. She has no idea what the song means. Stick to Leslie Uggams..the best version. Or Eydie Gorme, also fabulous.

[@janinejackson712]

Ok you

[@1868foxpoint]

Eydie Gorme won the Grammy for her rendition of this fabulous Jerry Herman composition 👍🏻

[@BalletBabyBoy]

She is Magnificent!