Yvonne De Carlo--I'm Still Here, Follies, 1984 Performance

Yvonne De Carlo recreates her original performance of Stephen Sondheim's "I'm Still Here," which she introduced in "Follies," in this 1984 concert appearance.

[@brucebrown3599]

There is her, then everyone else. ❤

[@shariblack4128]

OH MY LORD. . . GIVE IT UP FOR THE GAL, CARLOTTA OR YVONNE OR LILY, WHO ENJOYS FLAUNTING THOSE GORGEOUS GAMS . . . WHAT A CLASS ACT❣️❣️❣️❣️ HER SENSE OF HUMOR STEALS THE SHOW❤ So enjoyed this Sondheim ditty 😊

[@519forestmonk9]

Yvonne was such an underrated talent!

[@lillianmunster4734]

@@hudsony777 I AGREE 👍💯 Thanks Bunches

[@gregorybufkin890]

I AGREE!

[@programmingchicago]

You still had it Yvonne!

[@dougt3652]

Her De Carlo’s voice is perfect. Just the right amount of weight and brass to carry it off. Kudos of course to Sondheim who wrote it for her voice. Fits like a glove.

[@lillianmunster4734]

I couldn't have said it better. ❤️ Love Ya Yvonne DaCarlo 🕊️🌹🕊️

[@hansvonrittern9168]

Hers is the definitive version, hands down!!!!!

[@XNTN808]

As I get older its getting so much harder to miss these legends as much as I do....

[@jayhartbarger2793]

I saw her in Follies. She was a rare talent.

[@Jasper7182009]

Oh .. my ... goodness!!! I didn't know Ms De Carlo introduced this song. She's darn good!!! Elaine Stritch makes this song her clarion call but Ms De Carlo offers it as a personal testimonial. I prefer this performance. Bravo, Ms De Carlo!!!!

[@Scorchy666]

Sondheim wrote it based on conversations with Yvonne. It truly IS her personal testimonial.

[@andyvanm1]

Elaine Stritch was a dog even in youth , and never knew what being known for beauty ever was.. like.Yvonne lived.

[@lillianmunster4734]

Yessss Bravo 👏👏👏👏🌹🕊️🌹🕊️❤️

[@showtunestarpower]

Yvonne proves to us, once again, that NOBODY can top her on this song. I'll watch this video at least 10 more times - TODAY!

[@Scorchy666]

How true! She was so underrated,

[@mikegoupill7328]

I’ve seen some of the best actress’s/singers perform “I’m still here “ and they all did a credible job.But no one comes close to the lady who “owns “that song MS.DE CARLO

[@ericluriergo8251]

AGREED!!!!

[@lillianmunster4734]

@@mikegoupill7328 I AGREE 👍💯

[@feathersforfun]

she remembered all the lyrics, Brava to a true star

[@lillianmunster4734]

⭐👏👏🕊️❤️🕊️ Missing ya Yvonne 🌹

[@markschildberg1667]

Sondheim sat down with Yvonne and talked about her career. This masterpiece came out of that conversation.

[@hankaustin7091]

by God she could still belt a song with the best of 'em!! you go gurl!!

[@ericluriergo8251]

Hank Austin TOTALLY Underrated-Yvonne ROCK’D It!!-🤗🙌🏾❤️😝

[@jameshoover3558]

A class act. This is when Hollywood had talent.

[@gregorybufkin890]

And then the best she could find was being Lily Munster, which she did brilliantly, but it was far beneath her capacity level as one can see here. Hollywood didn't and doesn't like older actresses.

[@20alphabet]

A woman from an era of classy women.

[@Gods2ndFavoriteBassPlyr]

Mannnn... she could just do it ALL.. Such a lovely lady, and an amazing talent!

[@robertkahan3826]

Heard this song a million times and Ms. DeCarlo's is always the best. I was lucky enough to see her on Broadway in Follies way back when (thx, Mom!)

[@barbarajester3244]

Robert Kahan Sooooo jealous you saw her in Follies. I was only 4. If this was today. I would be front and center. Yvonne is my idol.

[@buffedtrainer1]

NO BODY sings this like Elaine Stretch

[@darreylhenderson702]

@@buffedtrainer1 She shouts it a little too much for my liking

[@tomtoland01]

Hers really is the best

[@Bpflughaupt]

Agreed!!!

[@johnwright2911]

She was a stunner and is a legend!

[@fundamentos3439]

She sure could sing. Thank you for sharing.

[@swingaleles]

Still belting it out at 62, her history is well worth a read. She worked so hard and did so much.

[@TheRavenal]

Best rendition of this song I've heard. Others are too intense and bitter, but Yvonne is smooth. Great legs.

[@momokoblue8032]

It was literally inspired by her. She lived those lyrics.

[@nickmunoz7523]

She's FABULOUS!!

[@MaxRyan777]

That was awesome!! How is the audience so subdued in their applause?! She was great!

[@hotspur98]

The stage mics were picking up the audience sound not house mics. That’s why the audience sounds so soft.

[@PaoloNYC]

Amazingly beautiful and talented lady. A wonderful actress, dancer, and singer. I wish I saw her do this on Broadway. I had no idea she was the original and that the song was written for her. She lived this song!

[@kjgammon1658]

A lot of famous people sang this song.. on or off Broadway or on TV or in Vegas, London , wherever.. but out of all of them Yvonne was the biggest star! As Barbra once said , "To be a star you have to be a movie star!" Name above the title, Yvonne carried her own pictures for many years. Remembered forever on TV.

[@KingD-light]

This lady was remarkable.

[@lloydkline3265]

Great Hollywood career butch Patrick said they were friends

[@waynetraube8299]

Watch The Munsters every night never miss an episode. Can't get enough of them. Such a good team that worked together. Miss them all

[@bradly2007]

OMG at sixty-something Yvonne DeCarlo still had it going on, Happy Heavenly Birthday great lady and thank you for decades of being best of the best...

[@nysavvy9241]

The wonderful, talented and beautiful Yvonne De Carlo.

[@znmnky13]

What a treasure.

[@snafu313]

She may not have had the greatest voice in world, but damn, could she ever sell as song...

[@davidhutchinson5233]

Still beautiful.....a stunner

[@johnjurkewicz9925]

Superstar a talent you will never hear again

[@Seabasstien]

Proud to say I got to see her in Follies on Broadway also thanks to Mom and Dad. Her version is indeed the best and you can still get the original cast recording. Yvonne also did her own singing in most of her films. Check out her version of Frankie and Johnny in Gal Who Took the West! It's brilliant.

[@clairevancleave1508]

Wonderful, believable and still lovely…

[@stevecarson3659]

I remember when the Broadway production occurred but I couldn't get to see it. We all listened to her on the album dozens of times. What a great talent. Luckily I got to see another production of this great show at Lincoln Center in NYC and a revival on Broadway. The other actress' could not hold a candle to her.

[@moisesgil3939]

A truly classy talented lady

[@JJ21210]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This has long been one of my favorite Sondheim songs, and now I really need to hear it (battling cancer -- and I'm still here). ETA: This is, to my mind, the best version -- no one can touch Yvonne DeCarlo.

[@DonoVideoProductions]

Fantastic. So much living in that voice and delivery.

[@erinmeggik391]

Such a charming lady. We no longer have such style in performing in 2022. I enjoyed her on the Munsters. Great post.

[@TheLaurel1971]

I love her!

[@dustrahne]

This is awesome! Most just know her as Lilly Munster. One of the great beauties of the silver screen. Singing her manifesto song in a '84 auditorium is very poetic. Glad this exists. Thank you for sharing it.

[@CarlosPerez-tc3vj]

Eternally Beautiful.

[@eb12b9]

Beautiful woman, performer, and soul! The only one who really does this song justice aside from Elaine Stritch, in my opinion. It’s 2020 and I’m finding I need some motivation to go on a lot of days, and I keep coming back to this song and Yvonne. I’m still here!

[@jamesharris-io3kz]

How about Polly Bergen

[@kala6665]

Karen Morrow...

[@MaryMartinez-ob2mk]

WHAT A LADY!!

[@lasuvidaboy]

What a lady. Brilliant!

[@ramona2400]

A Diva at work. R.I.P. my dear!!!

[@richardridge916]

The Original Carlotta ! The Greatest!

[@ciaohound]

Wonderful. A real performer who resonated beautifully with the material. Brava!

[@taylordowning2533]

Love this song!!

[@SleepyLestatSF]

Just amazing!! she was awesome!!!

[@maitland72]

Superb! HBD Ms De Carlo!!

[@deanguando1335]

Absolutely the best.

[@orion8835]

THE ORIGINAL. WELL SUNG AND ACTED. HILARIOUS.

[@agc2477]

Damn, that's one hell of a vibrato she had.

[@stuartbee5716]

1000 thanks for posting this!

[@ralphbenites1819]

Still beautiful after all these years kinnda sexy woman for her age R.I.P.yvonne de Carlo ❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@Engelhafen]

Wow what a talent - not a flaw in that performance

[@jennyl.2689]

Pretty and talented....love her voice

[@wayneoates8748]

Fantastic!!!

[@joeg2964]

True talent - amazing song!

[@tomatlanta2665]

Thank you! Thank you!

[@terencedove5047]

The very SAD thing about this is that the applause she received didn’t sound enthusiastic enough. She deserved far more than what was heard. People had - and have - to learn to look past ‘Lily Munster’ and truly see and hear Yvonne DeCarlo…

[@aeichler]

The audience wasn't miked.

[@DrewWasMe]

Just gorgeous from a woman who knew!

[@mickeyaugrec7560]

Some days you're jones-ing for Lily Munster - some days you're groovin' Morticia. Just being flippant; I love the way Yvonne wraps around this tune.

[@chocolatesouljah]

Hilarious and I agree!

[@lindaj2960]

I didn’t know she originated this song. She is great and still beautiful in this video.

[@barryrosen405]

wow she so good

[@larryblevins8078]

She's gorgeous an sounds Awesome 😎

[@maxlinder5262]

GREAT VOICE....& ... L E G S....

[@PatrickRyan150]

Very talented & beautiful

[@jettrink7510]

Yes classy lady... its what's up front that counts. Thank you

[@barbarajester3244]

Lovvvvvvvvvvve Her!!!!!!!

[@stuartlee6622]

You know, she owns the song.

[@Scorchy666]

Exactly. Sondheim met with her and she told him some of her life story. This song came from his conversations with her.

[@jillroberts7551]

I saw the original "Follies," and to hear this song for the first time is something that will stay with me forever. The great thing about De Carlo's performance was that she personified every lyric in the song because she was a genuine movie star, and you could believe she went through all the ups and downs. While others can certainly do justice to the song, they don't have the history that she had.

[@slipperyslope7970]

Awesome.

[@stephenacs]

I'll never forget meeting her mother at Disneyland (true story) when I was a kid. She told me that she had repeatedly told Yvonne as a teenager, "Ya gotta sing and dance if you wanna make it". Must have worked.

[@barbarajester3244]

Robert Stephen Browning Very cool story. Im assuming Yvonne was not with her mom at the time?

[@stephenacs]

No. She was not. Now that would have been a story!

[@barbarajester3244]

Robert Stephen Browning You are not kidding. Lol If you don't mind how did you realize it was her mom Marie?

[@stephenacs]

She noticed my sister who would have been around 14 or 15 at that time. She told her she was pretty. We were with our parents and she then launched into her daughter and the whole deal about having told her she needed to sing and dance if she wanted to be a star. She just seemed (even at my young age) as a little lonely lady who wanted to brag her her daughter. It was very sweet. It wasn't until she did Follies that my mom reminded me of the whole interchange but I do remember it. We were in a crowd and I think waiting for the parade to start

[@barbarajester3244]

Robert Stephen Browning What an awesome story. Thanks so much for sharing that. I read Yvonne's autobiography who talks alot about her mom Marie so very cool to hear from someone who actually met her. I'm not sure what year your story is from but my guess is that she was there with Yvonne's two boys. I'm a really big fan of Yvonne's so love hearing these stories. Thanks again.

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

She had pretty legs, and her voice remained remarkably intact.

[@daviddevine1030]

Great post 📯.

[@lewisdampeer3430]

Go Lilly Munster go I loved you then and even more now

[@keithforsay450]

She Could Indefintly Belt Out A Tune Yvonne Had A Pair Of Golden Pipes For Sure.

[@JJ21210]

You Don't Need to Capitalize Every Word. We don't do that in English.

[@mdtapilatu]

i love this woman, a real women..no feminist BS and still stand so strong in every men's heart 50s to 80s i'm 39 yo and loving her life lived..so real of a woman they dont make this kind anymore

[@JJ21210]

Oh ffs. A feminist is just someone who thinks that women should have equal rights. How do you not GET that, more than 50 years after the second wave of feminism? Or, how do you not SUPPORT that idea? If you're salivating over some quote she made about wifey putting on hubby's slippers and submitting to hubby-Boss, then you're stupidly overlooking reality: She had a career; she was financially independent; she spent most of her life WITHOUT a man in her life; and when her one husband was injured, she became the sole supporter of their family for years. Phuqq you, bigot -- lots and lots. Grow up. Face modernity.

[@bobbyortiz2041]

love it

[@lindagottschalk3830]

Wow!!!

[@jgsmile1331]

I like that dress. She looks and sounds good.

[@tonymegapowers2776]

Wow… 😊

[@nealevon4884]

Now thatsa Movie star

[@tifrice1683]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@zigman8550]

She is so HOT! ❣

[@tonyparadise7801]

I saw her in the original production. She still sounds great here, but it's too bad the song isn't the complete version.

[@sylviarackow4907]

didn't know she was a singer!

[@dankennedy8266]

It was written for her? I only thought of Eileen Stritch but Yvonne sells it better, as it should be. Eileen provides gravitas. Thank you!

[@andyvanm1]

The song is her

[@vcoaster]

20 years after The Munsters!

[@ReJoyce456]

✨I Remember Seeing Her Sing For The First Time on an Episode of The Munsters & How Beautifully She Sang & Played The Harp!✨💖✨

[@JJ21210]

You know, she was a movie star in the 1940s and 1950s -- her professional life didn't begin with The Munsters.

[@monkeygraborange]

If only she sang this dressed as Lily Munster!

[@gregorybufkin890]

Bahama Mama still had it!

[@Ksamp313]

She was not the greatest singer in the world (I think even Yvonne would have admitted that...), but damn she could sell a song.

[@KingD-light]

Keith Sampino you're right, but she still held a good tune tho. I love this performance.

[@snafu313]

@@KingD-light Agreed...

[@hudsony777]

Listen to the original Broadway cast album...she's good here but a little strained. Listen to the original, she's terrific. She really had it all.

[@GeorgeKenmore]

Asounding

[@trilby5546]

As good as original cast lp.

[@Kaname_TB]

The day she died i was born

[@steplumpkin5432]

NOT BAD!!!!!!!!!

[@optitom9033]

Such a class act the actors of today have ego issues and ignorant about politics so be quiet and work on your craft

[@itstheburnz]

It's a hare fast for me... but she's very solid! She could act!!