Betty Buckley from "Tender Mercies" singing "Over You"

[@leeoswald9799]

Tender Mercies is the best movie you haven't seen.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

I have seen it. It was very popular on its release.

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

the editing sucks

[@marymcleod8930]

If you have never seen this movie, you have missed one of my favorites. Very touching, Mary in Boone

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

don't need to, the editing sucks from I can tell, meaning how dare they cut away from the legendary singing....

[@HectorGarcia1]

I agree with the comments. This is one of my favorite songs and I hate that it wasn't shown in its entirety in this film. It is gorgeous and Betty sings it like no one else can.

[@richardsweeney3204]

Agree and you can’t find it on the soundtrack either.

[@flyinghow]

She does it on the Tonight Show on YT

[@vittoriaschweizer4385]

Betty Buckley fantastic performer and great voice!

[@janhoke7796]

1983 - Such a spectacular performance!! Treasure! Thsnk you Betty Buckley! ♥️Xxxooo

[@tomj47]

as Dixie, Betty does a stunning performance of 'Over You' ! This scene has more heart than I can describe with words - Thank you for posting this clip. tj

[@motherbug2001]

Oh my GOSH...where has this song been all my life????

[@49LivingtheDream]

Just borrowed this DVD from the library. Watching the movie took me back to 1983. Oh, I was so young then at 20. I gazed at the movie section paper ads from "Tender Mercies" beckoning me to the Plains, although I was in college in Virginia. The song allowed me to borrow a memory of Lane Brody singing this lovely song. How this wakes nostalgia, and reminds me of so many people I've known, loved and lost since that time.

[@TwoFourFixate]

an absolutely riveting, spine-tingling, goose-bump-inducing gift to this planet . . . that Bette's version from "Tender Mercies" is not available is a crime . . .

[@susansokoloski2233]

Betty recorded the song at least twice in her albums.

[@JaimeMesChiens]

Each time I hear this song, it’s like the first time. Betty Buckley is exquisite. Hard Stop.

[@karencharny1497]

Love all Robert Duval movies always

[@lindadowling1017]

Terrific singer..one of the most romantic songs ever❤️

[@dannyr58]

'Any fool can see that love is blind...' great song- one of my favorite songs in a movie- Robert Duvall and Betty Buckley were wonderful in this film- a special favorite. Thanks for posting this!

[@wickedfeylady]

I could listen to her voice forever

[@Javaisreve]

ahhh, I love Betty Buckley

[@kathybryant4185]

Beautiful voice, unlike any other I've ever heard!! She should have done more with it, Absolutely Beautiful!

[@murphicus]

How can you not fall for those amazing eyes & cheek bones - and then to hear what comes out..... sublime. The first time I hear Betty Buckley song was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, doing "Memory" - she floored me! Before that, all I knew her from was "Eight is Enough" An amazing performer.

[@Richard-xd5op]

Horton Foote, best screenwriter of all time.

[@mortygwhiz]

This is my favorite song from the movie.

[@ZZSmithReal]

I love this movie and remember the first time I saw it. In the beginning I thought it was going to be a movie about him getting sober. That was resolved pretty quickly. Then a van of guys showed up and I thought it was going to be he was running from something. Nope, not quite that either. Then I thought it was going to be about reconciling with his daughter. Nope, not quite that either. I can't recall another movie I've ever seen where it was truly a slice of life where you had no idea what was going to happen next.

[@jacksongondo4157]

Come here both at my lowest and at my best. I vow to finally give this song a full version one day. - Jackson

[@Usercantwelve]

Love you Betty ❤️ love the Song & movie 😊

[@joanl5600]

My favorite song. Why, why why why did she not make a recording of over you.??????? Lane Brody recorded it which I bought on Itunes, but it just isn’t Betty Buckley! ☹️What a voice, and the movie was outstanding. I am going to rent it for $3.99 to see it all over again. Robert Duvall won for best actor, and he deserved it.

[@josephbyrnhopf2481]

The interplay of this masterpiece ballad and the dialog outside the bar hits the mark for emotional conflict and brings the audience on board with the emotions of both characters. Remember, she sees Duvall leave the hall. He just can't take the pain of seeing and hearing her.... the longing, the memories.... and she continues the performance. This is the plot. I've tried my best to find a full cut of this performance which apparently does not exist.This arrangement is unmatched despite all other performances even by Buckley herself. Much has been lost because of the arrogance of this industry. Thank God Shirley Bassey's original "Goldfinger" didn't have the same fate. Although unlike, "Over You", many of Bassey's subsequent performances closely followed the original's pattern through the years. I'm grateful to have this much.

[@ImnotassweetasIusedtobe]

New video is being digitized daily, so I hope we get it sooner rather than later. It's just such a brilliant performance. My 2nd favorite is her on Carson singing this, the one where she's just singing this, without memory, but this performance is still the best.

[@janhoke7796]

God bless Betty Buckley! Xxxooo

[@cherylcallaway9663]

My Favorite Absolutely amazing 💖

[@nutorsam]

I was of the same mind. I tried to find out who sang it but to no avail. Thanks to KZbin. God bless those who came up with this.

[@10Cnote]

Love this movie, one of my all time favourites and love the music too.

[@LexeconKiddo]

Best. Voice. EVER!

[@pbamse]

"Over You" is a wonderful song. Betty Buckley's original take wasn't included in the soundtrack of the movie but Lane Brody's own version. Buckley recorded it many years later.

[@barbraseville8984]

She sang it for me as an encore at a concert years back. I brought her flowers as she bowed..and people started yelling songs. She took my flowers and asked what I wanted to hear. I said "Over You." She said I was way too young to know that song..asked her pianist if he could pick it up if she started. It was absolutely the coolest thing. She was like the most amazing story teller and artist.

[@pbamse]

@@barbraseville8984 The movie soundrack did not included the song because of copyright isues. Betty Buckley recorded live many years later.

[@reginaworthey1401]

She's the best. She sings it the best. You can listen to other versions on youtube, but they pail by comarisnon. It's not enough to merely have a good voice. You have to have something else. Betty has it.

[@jerrymcjunkin8398]

Awesome 👌 🆒️ 🙌

[@austinteutsch]

If Betty would marry me tomorrow, I'd do it. I've been in love with her through CATS 8 IS ENOUGH CARRIE and this gem of a movie. And she's a Texan like me!! Perfect!

[@Ninafan68]

For the general public, Betty Buckley has always been associated with Eight is enough but, for me, she will always be associated with my favorite movie, "Carrie"! What a voice, she can belt as high as she wants, what a range! And what an actress. I saw clips of her in "Sunset Boulevard" and she seems to have been the best Norma Desmond. I never understood why she never became a star of Genn Close's magnitude. Maybe she didn't have the chance of having her own "Fatal Attraction"? The industry is all about hits. If you don't have a hit, you will be stuck in obscurity, I guess. I love you Betty! For me, you are the best.

[@chrisb8655]

Completely agree. She's one of the most talented performers I've ever seen.

[@egglady]

Betty is considered an icon of Broadway. There aren’t many people who have pipes like her!

[@davidpellegrene1133]

An amazing talent.

[@spencerhensley5495]

Such an amazing and underrated movie. I know it may be too slow for some but this was a hidden gem. I encourage any film fanatic to see this wonderful movie Tender Mercies. Duvall gave better performances in Godfather 1 and 2, Apocalypse Now and Lonesome Dove but this is an amazing movie nonetheless and he deserved his Oscar.

[@msmithrandir561]

YEAH REALLY!!! GOD SHE'S GOOD!

[@theresabollman8061]

I was so upset watching the movie and we didn't get to hear Betty sing the entire song...I miss her.

[@oncnurse8709]

Isn't she magnificent! You miss her?? Where did she go??

[@theresabollman8061]

@@oncnurse8709 We used to see her a lot more on all the evening talk shows etc. Way back Johnny Carson adored her. And being a New Yorker we got to see her live. But we all get older and have to slow down. She's still a great lady, God bless her!

[@oncnurse8709]

@@theresabollman8061 - oh okay - I was gonna say - I saw her this past summer in Hello Dolly and just saw her at Subculture with Jason Robert Brown. She was spectacular... I can only pray I have half her energy and drive at 72 :)

[@theresabollman8061]

@@oncnurse8709 Yes, and all of her wonderful talent is still in tact. Thank God!

[@beegbolt]

Betty is always an actress who plays a person who is older than she really really is. That is so refreshing in show biz, where all the actors try to pretend to be younger. Betty was only 34 in this flick. She has a 18 year old daughter in T.Mercies!

[@rvcrvc2]

It's a real shame that this version doesn't seem to have ever been produced in its entirety. As good as the version on Johnny Carson is, this is better, her tone a bit lower. I just can't fathom, as an acadamy award contender, how this never made it even to the C & W charts.

[@susansokoloski2233]

It was not released in audio because Betty was not on the soundtrack album due to "movie studio beurocracy." She performed the song in the movie, promoted it for the studio but was cut out in the recording. Shame because the song wouldn't have been given and Academy nod if not for her.

[@geneward779]

Yet another amazing song written by Bobby Hart, one of the greatest pop music writers with too many amazing songs to list. Look them up - it’s amazing.

[@maureencrean]

Love love 💕 Robert Duvall

[@DuaneMThomas]

They wouldn't let her sing on the soundtrack, but they let him? No wonder it wasn't re-released!

[@bengrimm1015]

I want the head of whoever chose to jump cut away from Betty during this scene served to me on a silver platter. The full version should have been in the film, and on the album! Who needs the mumbled manly dialogue when Betty is singing like that? Criminal.

[@sethcole2333]

Really wish there was a full version of the best bedroom in town

[@themonaghans]

I agree. It's so frustrating when it cuts her off.

[@Timoeltejano]

It's a crime that they didn't use BB's version on the soundtrack and as the single. Lane Brody did an excellent job too but missed some of the emotion that Betty packed in in this shortened version. And Betty's voice is just... Better

[@themonaghans]

@angela8257 There is a video on KZbin of her sing the whole song on the Tonight Show in 1984. UNBELIEVABLE PERFORMANCE. As for CDs, unfortunately, they didn't have Betty Buckley perform Over You on the Tender Mercies soundtrack album. But she did record it for her London Concert CD. I don't think the London Concert version is as good as the soundtrack would have been, but it's better than nothing.

[@susansokoloski2233]

Two videos of her performing this on the Tonight show on two separate occasions. Both magnificent.

[@gloriarogers1087]

@@susansokoloski2233 thank you so much! I love that heartbroken of a song

[@puppylove2493]

never understood why they cut Betty's singing to go to the oatmeal man

[@lemmetellyousomething679]

🍾🍾🍾🍾❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@78kljk]

I still love you, Abigail. -John

[@GDEASTON123]

To LeeandTree: I agree that they should have finished this song. However, Wilford Brimley said, "It's the right thing to do." It turns out he was confused at the moment and thought he was doing a Quaker Oats Commerecial.

[@thewanksta36]

Sounds like a Juice Newton song, which is a good thing!

[@pbamse]

No. You're right. That's the only recording of the song and it isn't as touching as her performance in the movie.

[@angela8257]

where can i get the full version of the song by buckley?

[@oncnurse8709]

Did you ever find it? It's on her CD: Betty Buckley - 15th Anniversary. But there are several videos of her singing on the Johnny Carson show

[@ed7hanke]

Great film but director Bruce Beresford and his editor really botched this sequence. Dixie (Betty Buckley) should have sung the ballad FIRST in its entirety and appeared on camera for same with a few reaction shots, especially of Robert Duvall, interspersed. The uptempo number should have followed with the eventual cutting away...

[@rebeccalara6574]

Sucks that whole song’s not played!

[@lemmetellyousomething679]

What's the first song?

[@cocolu815]

Sounds like she took a cue from Dolly

[@migueleduardo6297]

whats the meaning of "over you"??

[@ucctgg]

"can't get over you" means "can't stop loving you"

[@fossefan]

Not to be a jerk, but are you for real, or making an in-joke over BB playing Abigail Adams in 1776?

[@oncnurse8709]

She played Martha Jefferson in "1776" on Broadway in 1969 - her Broadway debut - I believe she was 21 years old

[@78kljk]

For real. Mere coincidence she was in "1776." (But I wish I'd seen it).

[@susansokoloski2233]

Wtf? No coincidence at all. She worked and made her mark. Did you know, after 1776, she moved onto Pippin on Broadway and Promises, Promises in the West End before Carrie and Eight is Enough? A known commodity, both voice and acting, long before Tender Mercies.

[@jada6367]

Lany Brody fica melhor.🔥

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

worst editing ever in cinematic history!