The Singing Nun (Sœur Sourire) "Alleluia" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[@edwardgrenke6417]

J'ai vu ça aussi ! J'ai été surpris d'avoir compris l'apprentissage du français ! I saw this too! I was surprise I understood learning French!

[@mga2899]

Got to love Sullivan...from four nuns to four Beatles in 30 days.

[@joehill8014]

Wow, 58 years ago, I was sitting in front of the family RCA Victor black and white TV watching this very same show. Now that was good fortune.

[@JennyWren333]

Let her be at peace and thank Sister for the beauty she gave to this earth.

[@afoolsuchasi]

Tears come to my eyes just listening to it

[@phillybadabing4278]

I remember the singing nuns on Ed Sullivan also. I was 9 years old and going to Catholic school in Brooklyn NY. East New York Brooklyn actually. Nuns taught us for 8 years at Loreto on Pacific and Sackman St. Those nuns could be mean as an ornery bull, but they were also very caring too. I get a bit nostalgic and teary eyed when I think of how hard they worked to give us a meanigful and great education! Miss those days for sure!

[@fiddleronthecube7835]

There's always room for songs that are gentle and soothing. Beautiful singing by the nuns.

[@toni4729]

Beautiful voices.

[@8mmfilmsmichigan174]

What an underrated voice and record ! - So pure, so beautiful. My grandmother used to have an old hi-fi record player that had sand in the legs to weight it down. When she played this record, all those acoustic sounds used to resonate down into the wood floors, which was where I was at! Much love ❤

[@sherrimcferran3641]

The Simple Voice Duet Lalalalalalala is so sweet @04:05

[@ramadevilingaraju5375]

Heavenly!

[@jillkjv3816]

I had the old LP and listened to it a lot. ❤️

[@lennybuttz2162]

I bought one of her CDs online and even though I can't understand the words the singing is beautiful.

[@cocoaorange1]

So did my mom.

[@KB-jz5rk]

I loved her album. Such a talent

[@steve-uq5tl]

Heavenly voices 😊

[@chrisfranco6603]

Beautiful

[@jesusapolicarpio-delacruz3851]

Much obliged for this rare clipping of The Real True Singing Nun...my first time to see her!!!

[@clicks59]

Beautiful song. That chorus is Heavenly...

[@tj921able]

Thank you for sharing this. It was beautiful and enthralling. God Bless all nuns.

[@haraldtrittner4396]

I really like it...it's nice and to me it sounds more important and lovely on our totally crazy, cruel human Planet goin' on in these days Thanx for sharing ⚘️..., Love,Peace&Respect counts only in our Lifetime!

[@lindalucas6318]

Well said, it's so simple and beautiful!

[@samfrancisco8095]

My family and I saw this show and shortly after my father bought their album. He spoke fluent French from his mother parents. I don't know what ever happened to the album. I used to play it on occasion.

[@SaraAppletonwastheQWERTYmail]

Always think of my cat when I hear this song. His ex-owner was Dominque. 🐱❤️🇺🇸

[@that70sgirl90]

Alleluia 🙏 How Beautiful was that?! May the peace of The Lord be with you all! 🕊 Happy Wednesday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[@haraldtrittner4396]

Yes Dearest...it's so beautiful and i think we all need a very deep Pray and Peace...our World Climate, Morality and Humanity is goin absolutely crazy and downhill! Love,Peace&Respect 😘

[@steve-uq5tl]

They harmonize so very very well

[@willrobinson1229]

Wow, so beautiful. I don't understand the French well enough, yet I understand Alleluia and the "tristesse" of the verses. Very moving.

[@gregoryhenderson2640]

Very beautiful voice. Very sad story. The greed of the record producer and allegedly the convent. It sounds like , after reading about her, she was a beautiful soul.

[@luistziboy8534]

Super chanson

[@ellenr3292]

another time...another world😢😢😢😢

[@becki4326]

Wundervoll! Es tut mir so leid, dass ihr Leben für sie am Ende nicht mehr lebenswert war. 🌹

[@shyman99]

Although I missed the Singing Nun era, I was front and center for Sister Janet Mead's moment of fame in 1974 and her brilliant recording of "The Lord's Prayer". Sadly, it's hard to imagine how recordings from nuns will ever gain mass attention again.

[@monical7145]

Same here and I use to love both the Singing Nun and Sister Janet Mead's The Lord's Prayer. We sung that in chapel in high school and our nuns even the old ones really got into singing it. My music teacher taught us Dominique and when we mastered it (even though most of us were only starting to learn french) when 2 of the other sisters came into class it was just heavenly. And then we sung Sister Janet Mead's The Lord's Prayer. And I then wanted to become a nun. Of course I never did... It is hard to imagine if nuns did record music again what it would be like. But there was that Italian Sister that was on one of the talent shows and she was awesome...

[@cledwynstafford4819]

...didnt a nun win the USA singing show.

[@shyman99]

@@cledwynstafford4819 - Maybe. But what does that have to with the statement, "it's hard to imagine how recordings from nuns will ever gain mass attention again"?

[@elzaaltmann]

My mom played this lp over and over since it came out😊

[@FemiNelson-sb1em]

Wow, I didn't realize the movie is based on this Sister. Bless her 🙏

[@MargueriteJoyce-vp1bs]

I love this song

[@cameronmccreary4758]

I remember her performance on the Sullivan show and it is a very beautiful song. Now watching her sing it is tainted by her suicide later in life. She and her partner were having financial difficulties and so she made the decision on 29 March 1985. Her partner also committed suicide with her. I've noticed throughout my life many entertainers and performers that have taken their own lives; it is very sad.

[@NeighborofKT]

Wasn’t she married?

[@lisaboban]

​@@NeighborofKT no she never married. It took her decades to come to terms with being a lesbian. Her story is incredibly tragic.

[@francinek4397]

I just read her story on Wikipedia. Such a tragedy. Thanks for the tip... I had no idea.

[@nibsvkh]

@@lisaboban Religion poisons everything!

[@allanramusiewicz996]

SO Very Very 😢 Sad Indeed ❤However as TRULY Tragic as This Was/Is There IS a “Lesson” for US from This; That Being even Those Who Dedicate Their LIVES to God are NOT Immune to the GREAT 👿 Evils That Especially NOW in 2022 ARE Battling for Our Eternal Souls !!! IF You are Old “Enough” as I AM, I Turned 70 on This Past Saturday 10/15/22, Then IF You Cannot Remember Simply WATCH a Classic TV Show or Better Yet a BIG Budget HOLLYWOOD Film from the 50’s or 60’s There Was NO Taking God’s Name in Vain, ANY Type of EXPLICIT Sexuality, But There WAS Many Wholesome Family Oriented Shows and Films 🎥 ! Now it’s “Nothing” to Pretty Much ADVOCATE Sinfulness to MIRROR Today’s Wretched Lifestyles and Attract Those Who BELIEVE Man is Their Own “god” 👿 THEN “Simply” WATCH the News for a Front Row Seat to SEE Most On Their Way to “Hell in a Hand Basket” ESPECIALLY After there HAS BEEN SO MANY PROVEN WARNINGS FROM HEAVEN ABOVE; I Know I USED to Be Among Those Who Took for Granted NOT Doing ALL That is Righteous and Instead Sought Earthly Pleasures 😢Which NEVER 👎🏿 Fill What Our Souls NEED; God, ✝️♥️♥️♥️🙏‼️

[@izabelacabanska3194]

Piękna pieśń i piękne głosy.

[@steve-uq5tl]

Two beautiful song birds

[@philmcevers3469]

I can’t thank you enough for this video I have been waiting for it for years. Now can you find the one where she sings Dominic 😍❤️😍❤️🙏❤️😍🙏

[@artheemisia]

My favorite song of hers is La pilule d’or (The Golden Pill) about how contraception is truly awesome!

[@DeweyLauridsen5000]

I am captivated!! I can't believe how beautiful they sing and the fullness and delicacy of her/their voices!! I may have listed 4 times in a row, just laying here soaking it in. 😎

[@Janeintheok]

A very talented and complex woman.

[@markadriansneydms]

Camping with a French guy in the Shetland Islands 😅 blasting this out 😂

[@phillipnoone8044]

Beautiful music

[@tommymas1]

And this poor sister was thrown out of the convent and she led a a very difficult life after that this. Look up her story. Truly tragic and sad indeed.

[@michelemarch8270]

Thank You❣️💖🙏🏻💖

[@blonieamw2998]

So dope love dis so much

[@DouglasGreenough-lc3rx]

❤ "i remember when radio played this song.

[@hugomunoz9494]

Dios está en lo bello que tiene lo simple...

[@cledwynstafford4819]

..lovely

[@AngelDiMauro1]

Happy Heavenly Birthday Jeanne. Thursday, October 17, 2024, AD, 9:08 pm, EST.

[@lonestarfriend]

The Singing and Guitar Playing Nun. 🙂

[@jazzpunk]

Some of her chord voicings are no joke...

[@lennybuttz2162]

How original, hope you didn't get a headache trying to come up with that.

[@aleksandarnikolic2743]

NICE!😇😃

[@steve-uq5tl]

Incredible voices, I wish they would smile😊

[@jesusapolicarpio-delacruz3851]

Very noticeable indeed, probably they!ve been trained to subdue smiling!!!

[@catherinehodges2018]

I was three days old when this came out.

[@johndavis3921]

Jan 5, 1964, 28 days later, the Beatles would shake NYC, the USA, and the rest of the Earth to its core.

[@DippyHippie]

Yep! I was 18! Geez,I’m old!

[@gentleoldmoviefan5680]

How many times did she appear on The Ed Sullivan Show? Twice? (Did Mr. Sullivan travel to go record her in a foreign country, for later broadcast on his regular show?) Did the "Singing Nun" and her accompany'ists ever specifically travel to New York, in order to be on his show in the more usual way? (That is to say, before a live audience.)

[@catalinamarquez6937]

Good morning ❤🌏

[@catalinamarquez6937]

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[@margaretdoupe7232]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@johnsain]

What the Beatles were competing with in when they arrived in the USA the next month....

[@recordguy4321]

Bug music won out, thank god

[@pamczech5984]

I have the movie of the singing nun it really is good I have it with other Christmas movies

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

The person it is about called it "fiction." Though there's nothing wrong with that, as long as you know it is fiction you are watching.

[@TheMistyonp4wz]

I felt so uneasy whatching this

[@christinopessoadossantosfi9866]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@CelesteAfonso-qx2uv]

Lindo, muito linda esta canção, uma combinação de vozes perfeita, foram muito desonestos com a madres, elas estarão bem financeiramente e se teria evitado o fim triste da madre

[@Melons-vg8dq]

Phillips really ripped her off

[@patrickgueguin792]

Sourire meams smile in French Famous with the hit Dominique nique nique

[@steve-uq5tl]

That’s so ironic because she doesn’t smile at all

[@patrickgueguin792]

@@steve-uq5tl clearly,and do you know what does nique mean?

[@christianiro1073]

❤

[@ac-bh8pj]

I remember finding the Singing Nun record at a thrift store. What a joy, I had no idea about her killing herself. That saddens me. I guess she just wanted to get to heaven a bit quicker. If only she knew how much she touched and helped people with her art. I guess life is a tragedy. Oh well.

[@GTMSGAMES]

Funny thing is though I guess not haha Funny she's going to hell for refusing gods gift of life

[@RosaCastellanos-xz6rz]

Megusta a mucho sor sonrisas me gustaría que la canción Dominique fuera en español gracias

[@ThomasPrior-wv6zn]

WOW T Y LORD

[@MRVISTA-wz7vj]

Very troubled young woman and fame probably was the worst thing that happened to her. Rip😢

[@socratesbandeira]

Did I hear the name of her guitar is... Adele?!

[@lennybuttz2162]

Yes you did. In the movie with Debbie Reynolds she called the guitar sister Adele but I don't know if that was true in real life. They took a lot of liberties with the movie.

[@texasflagfootball]

I was in Catholic school . Our local nuns went crazy over the song.

[@ribetmonique]

ALELUYA DIDIER

[@nateuhrich1527]

Can anyone help me out with the chords?

[@mikewilder6728]

The song "Dominique" was her biggest hit. Very catchy one, look it up.

[@patpeters6331]

It's on KZbin. Just listened to it.

[@lennybuttz2162]

Oh really? I would've never guessed that.

[@DouglasGreenough-bh5tc]

1:14 that's pretty funny🎶📻✝️🛐💟 🏞️📻🌅.

[@cocoaorange1]

Nice, I only knew "Dominique".

[@rikurodriguesneto6043]

stranger than fiction

[@nataliep.9047]

I really liked that cute TV show she had where the wind currents would cause her to fly.

[@patpeters6331]

Lol. That was the Flying Nun with Sally Field not this singing nun.

[@lennybuttz2162]

There's an old saying, "It's better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

[@5150Rockstar]

i'm terrified of nuns and clowns...

[@cameronmccreary4758]

Me too, especially clowns named John Wayne Gacy.

[@bubbaschwartz]

@5150Rockstar Poor little Woke

[@atis9061]

I’m a clown 🤡 and now I’m a highly insulted clown 👹

[@recordguy4321]

@@cameronmccreary4758 LMBO

[@JulianOrchardfan]

So a nun in a clown mask is not good for you im guessing lol

[@misshandwrist]

currently reading happening by annie ernaux. rip.

[@mrjohnstgeorge]

This is gone. This country has been destroyed.

[@DreamyElvis]

That it has.

[@greatunz67]

I was just flicking on tv and saw the old movie The Singing Nun from the 60's, and i thought to myself, yeah right, i bet the real nun wasn't good looking like the actress portraying her, so i looked her up here, suspicion confirmed.. LOL!

[@rabit818]

Not the Leonard Cohen version.

[@mayo9562]

Thumbnail looks like trixie Mattel out of drag

[@DOMINIQUE-l9l]

la pauvre , est morte ruinée et volée par le glerge belge

[@notinmyUSMC]

Another victim of the Sixties, Sister Deckers left the Church in 1966, became a lesbian and later committed suicide with her partner.

[@JulianOrchardfan]

Eh??? She did not become a lesbian she was one, nothing to do with the 60s

[@DippyHippie]

@@JulianOrchardfan 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻👏😂🌈🌈🌈

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

For what it's worth, she denied being lesbian: "People at my record company think that two women who live together must be lesbians. They assert even that nuns in convents are in love. I deny these rumors as I testify against every creepy spirit. The answer is still obvious that I am not homosexual. I am loyal and faithful to Annie, but that is a whole other love in the Lord. Anyone who cannot understand this can go to the devil!"

[@mlebron20]

“…became…”? Really?

[@sfappetrupavelandrei]

It is so sad how this woman allowed herself tricked by the devil and ended her life in such a horrible way. Probably all the nuns in that monastery who encouraged her with her artistic performance will face a harsh judgement by the Lord.

[@Melons-vg8dq]

The Belgian tax authorities

[@jesusapolicarpio-delacruz3851]

The Singing @ Guitar Playing Nun, what a Most Appropriate Monicker!!!

[@GTMSGAMES]

All Part of God's plan how weak

[@nickperos954]

What a total waste of a life and soul that this women commits suicide due to her singing of what is essentially a simple folk song. Nice voice but really, her recording was a novelty and it appears her pride led her to agree to it that ultimately led to her sin of suicide.

[@markrenton5791]

the one with guitar is a man

[@monical7145]

I went to a Catholic girls high school and the nuns there use to sing her songs to us in music class and we all learned both this one and Dominique. That was in 1973 when I was 12 yrs old. I have loved this and Dominique for all my life and I never knew what happened to her ( I will have to search her) I failed french but can still sing these songs and they bring a smile to my soul. I also remember singing Sister Janet Mead's The Lords Prayer.... RIP

[@ellenr3292]

❤😢😢

[@jeremyhughel3756]

Anyone know the other singer?

[@Scottwilkie18]

R i p

[@GnomicMaster]

She committed suicide.

[@ddbhai737]

Pop's extra wife

[@scottmcwave9479]

Pop’s?

[@xxrandmlinksxxbruh2419]

Pop’s?

[@sherirobinson6867]

Beautiful

[@nancybigger1670]

I love this song.