Rosemary Clooney - 1966 Torch Song Medley

Rosemary is introduced by Bing Crosby on an episode of the Hollywood Palace, 1966. Her medley includes "I Got A Right to Sing the Blues," "You Don't Know About Misery," and "Mood Indigo."

[@cplmackk1]

Rosemary was such a talented beautiful women. Theres an old saying that god doesn't give with both hands. But boy when he made her he made an exception to that rule. Her and Vera Allen were a great team. One could sing and the other could dance and both were great at acting. I would have loved to see them together in more movies.

[@his4evr2c]

Loved Rosemary Clooney

[@jillcampbell8019]

Wow! What a knockout she was. Having had five kids in five years too, she continued to look beautiful for years to come.

[@janetanderson1091]

the best, bar none. natural talent, wit, experience, respect for her music. phrasing, tone, diction, i could go on !

[@gabinadina]

Live performers with pure talent, fantastic. We took these people for granted.

[@wsidechris]

Rosemary had that rare combination of being a pitch-perfect singer who had that "edge" to cut right through you.

[@ThaOneChrisJONES]

What a voice... and ultra classy ! Beautiful !

[@TellMeTammy]

This is absolutely wonderful!!!!Her voice is just a gift!

[@judicorvette9457]

I would pit her talent up there with the best including Judy Garland. Different style but just as pure a voice as Judy!!! So miss this era .

[@jillcampbell8019]

Judi Corvette - I have to say I think she tops Judy.

[@jaytaylor7740]

@@jillcampbell8019 To each his or her own, but Judy is still the tops for me. Her own recording of "I Got A Right To Sing the Blues" is aces.

[@singe0diabolique]

It sickens me to think what Hollywood did to this amazing, talented woman!

[@nursegrace7492]

I don't think "Hollywood" did anything to her....she had a crappy husband, and a hard life on the road as a pre-teen Big Band singer.

[@standuckham3421]

Man to ani and his orchestra

[@his4evr2c]

I agree Wholeheartedly with You. Unfortunately

[@gxl5892]

That VOICE!!!!!! She looks amazing, especially like her in shorter hair.

[@baconbap]

I grew up with her brother Nick Clooney doing the evening weather report on the news in Los Angeles.

[@TheTransatlanticExchange]

Thank you for sharing such a soaring, amazing song from the late, great Rosemary Clooney. Apart from "White Christmas" and her very early and later-career performances, she is hardly ever presented looking and sounding so absolutely amazing in the mid-1960s. She certainly was one-of-a-kind. One only hopes the music pendulum will swing back toward an abundance of strong vocalists and wonderful, powerful melodies.

[@kdamude]

LOVE this! She was great👍

[@jothompson6531]

love this

[@liam9307]

I'd never seen her young before. Lovely.

[@戸原笙]

I just love love love her.

[@dianeogorzalek6986]

Wow!

[@戸原笙]

She is my goddess. She is so so unique.

[@jpnbronx323]

THANK YOU! Sorry for screaming but I've been "waiting" for this "forever"! Thanks!

[@akrenwinkle]

I know it's a bit "late" but I don't "understand" your "use" of "quotation marks."

[@rylandgroves]

love this , thanks for posting this gem

[@jaynyvek3014]

She has everything all great singers/artists have.. Not just a few things or wow she can really [whatever it is]. To have her gift. Blessing or curse?

[@1940smusicals]

Wonderful. Almost time to get out our White Christmas dvds again!

[@gleetwilightlover]

that was rele nice of bing to say... ( as friends ) they were very cute!

[@michaelmiller1215]

WOW

[@KentuckyJet]

why Columbia never teamed up Rosemary and Tony Bennett is beyond comprehension!

[@dei1]

Cuz that tired olde thang never could sing.

[@MichaelAuthorAllAges]

Wowwee. Gorgeous and gangbusters! :)

[@Seesfar1]

She was a torch singer herself and didn't know it. :)

[@bennyjazzful]

I agree 100%

[@jimrick6632]

LOOKING GREAT BUT THIS WAS A TOUGH TIME FOR ROSIE.....4 KIDS IN 4 YEARS FOLLOWED BY A DIVORCE FROM JOSE FERRER...THEN PILLS , ETC...SHE WAS NEVER AS THIN AS SHE IS HERE...BUT SHE SURVIVED...

[@nantucketjeep]

This live, or back track?

[@CarolAnnNapolitano]

Look at how thin she was here, I thought her face actually looks prettier when she gained a few lbs.

[@gymnastix]

Nice to see the aunt of that over-publicized, overrated left-wing actor George Clooney looking svelte and sounding svell, at probably the peak of her vocal talents here. Save for an occasional viewing of the film "White Christmas," I am more used to seeing Miss Clooney in film and video from her later years (post-Coronet bathroom tissue commercials), when she had ballooned up to quite an unattractive and unhealthy weight. But she never really lost her great singing voice, at least not from what I heard in television programs into the late 1990s. I remember her as a guest on Tom Snyder's "Late Late Show," and a concert she performed from New York's "Rainbow & Stars" venue, that was telecast on the Arts & Entertainment (A&E) channel, back when that cable TV entity still offered programming that was actually arts and entertainment-oriented. And by then Miss Clooney wisely remembered her main gift was her singing voice, not in the service of scripted Hollywood pap and propaganda (though she did appear in one last turn as an Alzheimer's patient, in an episode of the television series "ER" in which her nephew was a contract player). Miss Clooney's recordings of "Hey There" and "Come On-A My House" are classics of the jazz and popular music genres. Her smooth-as-silk vocal range could be counted upon to make even just a mediocre song sound more beautiful. I am aware Rosemary's politics were also decidedly left-of-center. But her passionate support of Senator Robert Kennedy for president doesn't, somehow, seem so perilous by comparison with the extremism of her nephew's politics (and partaking of the current Hollywood propaganda machine), which give comfort and support to the enemies of the United States and of freedom-loving citizens abroad. What was called "liberal" in the 1950s and '60s seems quite moderate by comparison with those who call themselves "liberal" today. The international socialist movement still exists, and the film-going public would do well to remember that before dolling out their hard-earned dollars in support of films in which George Clooney or his ilk (that includes such alleged talents as Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, etc.) have been hired to appear. There should be a revival of "Red Channels" and "Counterattack" today, as a public service for advertisers and consumers in helping them to be informed about which productions they choose to support or not, where the production investments and talents may identified as holding political views (such as pro-communist, pro-Islamofascist) with which a patron may disagree. My name is "gymnastix," and I paid (through my Internet Service Provider bill) for this message. And now a word from our alternate commercial sponsor-- "Extra value is what you get when you buy Cor-o-net." And tell them "Rosey" sent you.

[@chrisn7259]

+gymnastix You righties never miss an opportunity to be nasty. It's pathetic.

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