I'm Still Here - Yvonne DeCarlo

[@michaelcornett444]

Sometimes, when life's ups and downs get to me, I play this for myself. Got fired? Broke as heck? Hey, I'm still here! And good times are coming...

[@carlosbeltran4532]

Perfect the song and the words for her. Not always there’s someone like her. Great Sondheim

[@showtunestarpower]

Many brilliant, wonderful star ladies have sung this song: Nancy Walker, Polly Bergen, Ann Miller, Dolores Gray, Carol Burnett, Elaine Stritch, Shirley Maclaine, Christine Baranski, Elaine Paige, etc. They have all brought their magic to this definitive Stephen Sondheim song. But when the dealer makes the call, I'll always put my last chip on Yvonne. How lucky I am to have seen her do the number in the original FOLLIES. Thank you for posting Yvonne at her best!

[@YoureGonnaLoveTomorrowChannel]

Star Sky Hope you've noticed the video quality is better than the ones previously posted on youtube. I love Yvonne's version but my favorite is without a doubt Milly's: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2rXdH-ooKaLhrc

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

Agreed...Yvonne's is the penultimate version. Somehow, you knew she'd lived it...really!

[@steffeng40]

Except that no one ever mistook her for a commie. ;-)

[@barbarajester3244]

Star Sky im so jealous that you got to see Yvonne do this in the Original Follies. I was only 4 at the time. I so missed out.

[@showtunestarpower]

@Tony Turner "Darling"?

[@lillianmunster4734]

Thanks Bunches for Posting Yvonne DaCarlo was a Beautiful and Very Talented LADY 🕊️❤️🕊️ 🌹⭐🌹👏👏 Missing Ya YVONNE DeCarlo ⭐

[@cacritic28]

Beautiful woman! Those lovely eyes, face, voice, and gestures! And I only knew her as Lily on The Munsters as a kid!

[@ghaus1961]

I concur

[@markjohnson4371]

Lily was a pretty fabulous character as far as I am concerned

[@angelman51266]

Love strong, mature women with a past behind them...Yvonne was a 40s Love Goddess who stayed tough and kept working.

[@calgarywino]

What great presence she had, and she just owns the song!

[@tonnyayers2409]

She’s so amazing! A true Hollywood legend! ❤

[@jordanhg]

Had the fortune to see her in the original during Boston try-outs .......... from Hal Prince's box !!!!

[@Seabasstien]

She looks Fabulous!!! And this is her song....drop the mic.

[@LisaHerman1963]

I will always love this woman. My cat is named DeCarlo after her.

[@bobbyboykin7137]

Ive seen interviews where she says the song was written for Carlotta, but it sure seems to me Sondheim wrote her lifes story in that incredible song.

[@Gary_Jaffe]

Sondheim loosely based the song on the career of Joan Crawford, stating "She [Crawford] started as a silent film-star, then she became a sound-star, and she eventually became superannuated and started to do camp movies [...] she became a joke on and of herself, but she survived."[5] This shows up in the line 'First you're another sloe-eyed vamp/ Then someone's mother/ then you're camp/ then you career from career to career/ I'm almost through my memoirs/ and I'm here!'

[@MbartM96]

@@Gary_Jaffe I’ve always thought it sounded like Crawford’s life in part.

[@Seabasstien]

This was a really cool performance to unveil the refurbished Hollywood sign. Really appropriate.

[@christinewells-leddon9287]

A brilliant actress. Thank you for posting this!

[@douglascollier7767]

Fantastic ❤

[@luizbettega6410]

Diva!

[@BoBo-ti6jh]

That was excellent!

[@lillianmunster4734]

I Agree 💯👍 Juan

[@hudsony777]

Better than her cast album recording.

[@gregglienna1442]

I know she wasn’t a singer but I’ve always thought the song was about Lucille Ball. From showgirl to sitcom star, called a pinko Commie tool… I would have liked to hear her talk her way through it

[@CarlosPerez-tc3vj]

❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

[@shannonlucas2980]

Was this performance contemporary w the Munsters?

[@Gary_Jaffe]

The Musters ran for two seasons, 1964-1966. FOLLIES ran on Broadway from 1971-1972 and Yvonne de Carlo was in it for the entire 15 month run. The video here appears to be a few years after the Broadway ran, perhaps mid 1970's.

[@markjohnson4371]

Lily Dracula Munster

[@sjmullen6691]

I'm thinking she was the original. But that's just me.

[@Gary_Jaffe]

She is the original Carlotta in FOLLIES and the first to perform this song.

[@wookinooki9023]

the key is wrong for her. she should have done it 1 tone higher.

[@wookinooki9023]

the audience is so out of it. LOL

[@wookinooki9023]

what was the context, the setting?

[@Muttonchop_USA]

Well, exhume Sondheim and tell him.

[@Muttonchop_USA]

​@wookinooki9023 In the musical FOLLIES, her character is the only former Follies girl who made it big, despite the ups and downs of her career.

[@Seabasstien]

This was a performance for the unveiling of the refurbished Hollywood sign. Really appropriate.