Scene: "You Light Up My Life 1977

Struggling songwriter Laurie (Didi Conn) gets a chance to sing for a movie crew.

[@lydiarodriguez4497]

I love this song so much. Makes me think of a friend that passed away at the age of 18 yrs old. He sang this song to me for my birthday. I love you Larry. R.I.P.

[@TheFachnir]

This is the original and best version of this song. Her wonderful dark voice fills the song with the spirit it needs. Thank you!

[@jamesfeeney3016]

Didi conn did not actually do the singing in this film! A voice over was used.

[@a.torres2176]

Knowing didi’s voice and how high it is, can you imagine how funny it would’ve been to hear her singing this song with the track? LOL!

[@Paws711]

Kasey Cisyk....The real voice behind the best version!!!! RIP

[@robertamirtha4242]

One wonders why they didn't just use Kasey Cisyk as the actress in this movie too. I think there's more to Hollywood than meets the eye, and it's not just a matter of talent or charisma that makes you successful.

[@RKDiamond]

In wandering around on KZbin, I discovered that Kasey died in 1998. Such a wonderful voice .. and IMHO the best version. RIP, Kasey .. and know that we will always enjoy this song as our memory of you

[@davidrice8823]

Oh, snap!! That IS Didi Conn!! Frenchie from Grease!!! I never knew that!! G+ brought me here!!

[@jennifercorly]

amen....kasey cisyk was the very best voice i've ever heard! without her it wouldn't be the same. rest in peace kasey!

[@jmsz1964]

this is how you film a musical segment - - - three minutes and 24 seconds of a single continuous take. absolutely wonderful.

[@jokerswildio]

How come we never hear this song on the radio as we do say The BeeGees or Donna Summer from this era. This was such a mega hit back then!!

[@Paws711]

Kasey Cisyk's rendition is the best of these.R.I.P., Kasey

[@theonlyonestanding8079]

I remember this song and movie when I was 9yrs old . 1977 ....This actress end up playing Frenchy on Grease 1978

[@rls0411]

Happy 60th Birthday Didi! 07/13/2011

[@sherrymurray5433]

Thank you to the friend that played this for me on the piano. you will always be in my heart.

[@markm921]

After all these years, I still love this movie.

[@Paws711]

Kasey Cisyk!! The BEST version!!

[@jennifercorly]

joseph brooks wrote it and won a grammy, academy award, people's choice and many other accolades. he was truly brilliant.

[@CindyPDX]

I saw this movie when it first came out with my first true love (may he RIP) Thank you for sharing this.

[@ralphcurrie5863]

Saw the movie when it came out in 1977. Loved it.! ....and love this song :)

[@jennifercorly]

actually the conductor is jerry keller and he had a hit song himself. he's very talented and has a featured role in "if ever i see you again" from joe brooks...1978.

[@user-er2bt1ek5i]

Україна завжди пам'ятатиме тебе ,Квітка !!!ТИ освітлюєш нам життя й даруєш надію ! З Наступаючим Новим 2018 Роком, Товариство ! Слава Україні ! Миру злагоди й тепла У наші чесні та нескорені серця !

[@oleksz660]

Beautiful voice. I will never forget. Rest in Peace...

[@tammymorrow6802]

This scene always tugs at my heart strings.

[@RickAiello]

I love this. Never seen it before. Her reaction when the strings start -- I know that feeling. I've sung with bands and orchestras and when you feel that energy coming from the instruments it's a HUGE RUSH. Didi portrays that feeling so beautifully here. This is also the first time I've heard Kasey Cisyk's version of "You Light Up My Life," and it's leaps and bounds better than Debby Boone's version. This version has raw emotion and so much more feeling. Debby's version sounds bland in comparison. It was, essentially, a copy of Kasey's version (I just learned the whole story behind that), so I'll let Boone slide in that she didn't have much control over what she could do with the song. But hearing other things she's done, she's not nearly as expressive a singer. I wish Kasey had a chance to build a career with her voice. It was truly lovely.

[@ronnykmarshall]

D Boone's version sounds like shit. She ripped Kasey off by re-recording this and releasing it. He putrid father ripped black artists in the 50's like Little Richard for re-recording his music with P Boone's bland white bread crap. Two vile musical sows, the Boone daughter and father.

[@nataliedeshow768]

That’s because Kasey had a much better voice than Debby Boone!! I saw this movie when I was around 17, it wasn’t that great but I loved Didi and the song.

[@anthonycaruso3688]

Debbie Boons much more soulful

[@jennifercorly]

"you light up my life" 1977...joe brooks did "if ever i see you again" in 1978 and its music is just as beautiful. he was a brilliant man and composer and he will be sorely missed.

[@jamesrose3395]

I agree, he was a musical genius. Too bad he was mentally ill and became a creep. Loved both movies.

[@jokerswildio]

I agree...the entire You Light Up My Life album is classic! My mom would play it on her turntable all the time while I was merely 4 or 5. So it's ingrained in me. Joe Brooks composed and produced most of it. Yeah he had sexual impulses that were inappropriate, but it was the 70s...when "free love and experimentation" reigned mostly guilt free and Aids free. No excuse...I believe most super talented and creative people suffer from social ineptitude and different of mental illness. RIP Joe..your music is timeless

[@nataliedeshow768]

@@jamesrose3395 he was a rapist who killed himself before he was sentenced so obviously a coward.

[@victoriaindigo]

Didi Conn is amazing in this scene

[@russlaw5596]

Went with my brother in 1977 to see spiderman in Croydon, and for some reason we had to watch this before the spidey film. I can tell you now, that a 9 year old and an 11 Year old boy were not particularly happy about this!! I lost my one and only, amazing brother tony 19 years ago. The film Sort of stuck with me. I had to look it up.

[@user-zd5gs6dm6c]

I sometimes think of it... Her appearance, voice, song, and atmosphere are all good. from S. korea

[@jwsf941]

Didi Conn, whom I remember from the 1980s ABC comedy Benson, is a great singer

[@newbegining4202]

I remember being a little kid watching this movie and crying at this song and had no idea why. I only watched it because Didi a.k.a. Frenchy was in it.

[@kemhayes6485]

I remember seeing the promos for this movie in 77. Never saw the movie then, but fell in love with Didi Conn's cuteness. I was 20 years old then. Flash forward to 2015. GET TV ran the movie and saw it for the first time, and now at 58 I'm still in love with Didi's off the scale cuteness. Yeah, movie was kinda sappy, but Didi portrayed her character well. I'm a rock/metal guy, but have to admit I like this song.

[@CrystalClearNews]

Oh, yes, I loved those promos on TV too! Didi Conn used to be on Match Game a lot. Huh, the ads spoiled the bit where she said, "I can't marry you." huh, considering that you'd think she meant the song for the love interest guy. I have to see the film again. I saw it in theaters back then.

[@gial.1854]

Kem Hayes I know,she is soooo cute.

[@joshgachette7728]

I've the biggest crush on her.

[@michaelhilber8284]

I went to see it at a drive-in. I would have been 17, and it was after midnight. I tried to watch it through, but dozed off. Maybe I saw half of it? Wasn't there a T-Bird driving on the freeway?

[@jamesrose3395]

@@michaelhilber8284 That was American Graffitti

[@Pingpong135]

Danke Dir für einen glücklichen Moment

[@isognix7320]

Genial... you.ligth up my live....ein Filmausschnitt mit Didi Conn aus dem Film Stern meines Lebens 1976/77 danke für den Upload...beste Wünsche

[@Illia1907]

Kacey Cisyk - ukrainian girl ! in 1978 she has got an Oscar ( Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song) for this song!!! proud of her!!!

[@MiddleOfTheDesert1]

She didn’t get the Oscar - the songwriter (Joe Brooks) did.

[@liliyavibla6085]

Kacey Cisyk-ukrainian girl ! In 1978she has got an Oskar ( Akademi Award for Best Music, Original Song) for this song!!! proud of her!!!

[@porflepopnecker4376]

@@liliyavibla6085 She didn't win an Oscar. The songwriter Joe Brooks won it.

[@AZ-qm4gz]

@@liliyavibla6085 Her parents were Nazi collaborators. Right?

[@user-tq7pz4ln1d]

@@AZ-qm4gz паскуда 💩

[@didiconnfan6514]

Didi Conn.....die beste...so schön.....mag mir diese Filmszene immer wieder sehr gern an schauen.....☆☆☆☆☆

[@phonegehackt2525]

+didi connfan Stimme beste Version 🎵🎶🎼🎶🎵

[@johnnybrighton9156]

Always makes me cry this scene. Well done Didi and Kacey. The rest of the movie's not bad either.

[@pamelacharbonneau3115]

And Jerry Keller as the conductor.

[@kimkanitz2175]

It's not Debbie Boone, the voice over singing for the movie was done by Kasey Cisyk. Debbie boone later released the cover we all know so well...

[@Earthlinked]

Awww Kvitka - we really miss you!!!!!

[@ClubPenguinVideo2009]

this was and always will be a great movie didi conn great job great plot music awesome i loved it when i first saw it in the seventies and i still love it wonderful story cant get better than this classic

[@enricopascual4990]

I was in my teens when i saw the 2 versions... I truly like this one with Didi, more soulful.

[@drizzt13dourden]

What a song...timeless...

[@classicmusic1965]

Kasey Cisyk is the original singer of this song

[@receivedSE]

Oh God...this song has a soul in it

[@jennifercorly]

sung by kasey cisyk....not didi conn! she died in 1998 from breast cancer...what a wonderful voice she had. thanks for everything kasey!!

[@nataliedeshow768]

Always thought her version was better than Debbie Boone’s!!

[@kikid9441]

Soooo schön. Und der Film war auch grandios!

[@diamondnynic]

I don't think Didi sang this but it sure sounds like her/even though her speaking voice is so different.. I love this version the best. Love Didi Conn!!! Think I said that already! OK so I'm repeating myself>LOL!

[@hsy91zzang]

Kasey Cisyk's voice... Wow...

[@luisazul]

I Love you diddi.

[@danafreddy]

I think it is every person's greatest fear to not to have been able to go back home to tell someone that you love them one last time. Here, the resolution of a present or future experience overrides the nostalgic, tragic past. - Frederic Kahler, Apalachicola

[@victorthorpe7675]

My god alot of people thought this movie was a bomb. I was 16 I loved it- I fell in lovre with Kacey

[@jennifercorly]

sung by the lovely kasey cisyk...her voice is so much more mature and refined than debby's inmho....rip kasey!

[@gial.1854]

Didi Conn is SO BEAUTIFUL

[@Boyonspace]

This should have waaaay more views :(

[@jennifercorly]

joe brooks wrote the most beautiful music ever and i miss him so very much.

[@darkangelmichael6148]

Did Conn and Kacey Cisyk...you couldn't ask for more. The fantasies. Wow.

[@lilipuduende3303]

The year of the fabulous Liza Minnelli's "New York, New York" and this song won instead!!!!!What a musical crime!!

[@jessicabamber6088]

I clicked on for Didi Anyone else?

[@omarizaguirre]

la vi cuando tenía como 17 años, lloré mucho con ella

[@andythvd3762]

Her Ukrainian name is Kvitka (Flower). We are very love her! Hugs to all bright people from Ukraine!

[@robertmorris8997]

When I saw this movie in the theater, the song was still number one on the charts.

[@ronmcelroy4662]

I was a young sailor away from my Mother for the first time, afraid didn't want to let anyone know it. this song and movie got me through this. I saw the movie many times, I had a crush on Didi that lasted five years

[@boobraschmidt2199]

I love didi

[@raymondfrankwick6965]

hearing broadcast radio after a season at Holden Village blacked out, this song on the air spiced that back to civilization feeling

[@Rampo1961]

I Love this Song ...

[@CarlTMontano]

Didi Conn Im amazed

[@chatanugadotorg]

Recently rediscovered this song, having heard it numerous times when I was a kid. Never knew it was from a movie. Hopefully I'll get a chance to see it.

[@valeriegomez1639]

AHHH I LOVE DIDI CONN

[@friscolane]

Difference between Cisyk and Boone is similar to Enrico Caruso and Beniamino Gigli. Cisyk and Caruso sing as if their life depends on every note. Gigli and Boone sing as if they could do it all day. Not a judgment. Just a choice.

[@jennifercorly]

you are correct...she was wonderful!

[@alanwells7379]

wish I could go back in time to be with the girl I took to see this movie with I missed a great chance

[@carlosbuscatore]

Wish I coukd go back in time to be with Didi Conn

[@gial.1854]

Alan Wells Awwwww💜🌷

[@jamesrose3395]

My girlfriend had broken up with me and I took another girl to see this movie. I really liked this new girl but the old girl realized she made a mistake and came back. We got married and broke up within a year. I still wonder what would have happened if I would have stayed with the new chick.

[@bellamayetheparanormalinve9150]

Look for her honey!!

[@mbriese_campt]

Good Job Didier, fantastic Song Kacey R.i.P.

[@trhansen3244]

I love that little moment at 1:35 where she turns her head to her left

[@dorothearing495]

Hard times around here.. and this is why I hear exactly this. Just try to make myself feel better with music.. It works..

[@jennifercorly]

yes very tragic indeed...but they both left us a legacy of beauty unparalleled to date!! we're lucky we had them for a little while anyway...true geniuses!

[@alonzo9772]

Oscar winning scene!

[@RobertoMarroquinmarroco]

esta es la esena original de la pelicula y la trama romantica de la pelicula te atrapa para los que nacimos con un corazon vijito por unos añitos como dice Roberto Carlos soy uno de esos amantes a la antigua .............. BOB su angelito delfin.

[@zzzxtreme]

this is such a good movie

[@leighwest5564]

You gotta love a man clothed entirely in denim 😂

[@gial.1854]

Leigh West Yes those denim jumpsuits😃

[@mthivier]

Hey, babe, mellow out..it’s a groovy, laid-back ‘70s kind of a thing.

[@Zeppolino100]

Did that much fashionably in front of my University class just last Wednesday!

[@anncosten7022]

Did, many a time, back in the day. Oh to be young again!

[@inkyguy]

@@gial.1854 , That’s not denim. It is a polyester jump suit. They were a thing for a while in the 1970’s.

[@angeladallimore8079]

Beautiful song

[@dennynewman7236]

this was a awesome movie awesome song ddi so beautiful wow great time the 70s early eighties

[@Kusal63]

Many Thanks Geneva Johnson. It relindles my memories back to early 1980s when I was just 18 years and enjoyed the cinema in Kolkata (India).

[@krickeprima157]

Immer wieder schõn zum anhören danke

[@Earthlinked]

This was very simply a fair movie - and a great song - and EVERYBODY knew it - and EVERYBODY wanted the song - and while they were fighting over it - Debbie Boone made a version that sacked them all!!!! However the Kasey Cisyk version (from the movie) is the one that most people fell in love with - so they went out and bought the one that was available the Debbie Boone version!!

[@RobertoMarroquinmarroco]

fantástica canción me gusta mucho desde que se estreno la película 1977 saludos BOB.

[@tomlaflamme6815]

Kacey Cisyk was the singer and actress Didi Conn lip-synced the song. Kacey thought the film would and was a flop so she walked away from it after she recorded it. Debby Boone was then brought in by Mike Curb to sing it and kind of promote the film although recording it was for her debut as a solo singer away from her sister act. Boone went on to win the 1978 Grammy for Best New Artist and Joe Brooks won the Oscar That year for Best Motion Picture Song of the year Note: Boone’s version is more polished and engineered

[@carlosalcasta]

en 1977 yo vivia en panama, tenia 10, y en esos tiempos mis papas se fueron a mexico por alguna razon, y mi abuela Lilia, Mama de mi papa, fue a cuidarnos. por esos dias, las peliculas chinas eran super populares en panama, y habia estrenos todas las semanas... entre mas kung fu hubiera, mejor... y todas las funciones eran dobles, (dos peliculas por un boleto =) habian actores que morian en la primera pelicula y salian vivos en la segunda, pero la gente les encantaba... el rollo esta que una tarde de domingo mi abuela nos llevo a ver el ataque del dragon 7, o como se llamara, y esta era la segunda pelicula dela funcion... NUNCA SE ME VA A OLVIDAR ... todo el chiquillero fue a ver los karatazos, y terminaron viendo una pelicula de "rabiblancos" (asi les dicen a los gueros riquillos en panama) jajajajajajaja y te voy a decir, que siempre que escucho esta cancion me acuerdo de ese dia. no sabia como se llamaba, ni quien la cantab pero me encontre una aplicacion que se llama MIDOMI ... tu le tarareas la rola, y te la busca, y te dice cual es la coincidencia... asi llegue a este video del youtube. True story.

[@andyharrod8787]

what a brilliant film and a fantastic music score

[@justintnc]

Best song !

[@sandyp.c.8613]

Me encanta esta canción es de mis favoritas en ingles, vi esta película en el 86 y se me quedo grabada la canción aunque en ese entonces no sabia lo que decía, pero después de un tiempo me puse a traducirla y fue cuando entendí el porque me encanto, en ese tiempo alguien estaba a mi lado y ese alguien... ILUMINABA MI VIDA.

[@SergiyYu]

Esta versión de la canción cantada Kasey Cisyk (Квітка Цісик)

[@CanalDrFonocaptor]

Que legal.. Assisti a esse filme quando eu tinha 8 anos de idade, nos anos 80, na televisão Bandeirantes (Band) aqui no Brasil. Claro, dublado em português.

[@Gamble661]

I was home from college when this was at the theatres in 1977, on a date with my high school GF before leaving to go back to school. We broke up about a month later so this was the last movie we saw together. This is the first time I've seen this scene since then and the first thing that came back to me wasn't seeing it with her, it was the orchestra leaders one-piece blue jump suit or whatever the hell it was. Even in 1977 that was not ok!

[@barrydouglasbutler8794]

Hey , I love you ... thank you !

[@user-pc7pl1yr5l]

この歌、大好きです。 ディディコンさんの演技素晴らしいです。 キャシーさんの歌声も大好き❤️🎶 指揮者の人、大柄だけど、繊細な指揮に好感をもちます。 みんなに、この映画を見て欲しいです。💓

[@suuzq35]

omg... that is Michael zaslow from the soap opera Guilding light at the end

[@pierreverschueren7495]

I love you Del xx

[@ramonjuarez3866]

esta cancion o esena de movi la estoy buscando hace 25 años creia que jamas la encontraria pero vivi para verla nuevamente gracias desde argentina

[@redfoxzorro]

einfach nur genial und schön

[@filmsternmeineslebens5971]

Dankeschön für dieses schöne Beitrag

[@mirandachan3240]

The background was reportedly the New York Philharmonic Orchestra playing.

[@denisaragao4094]

Beautiful

[@dalvarez6340]

es lo mas hermoso q he escuchado en mi vida...y la pureza de didi es tan bella como el alba