"All I ask of You" is, IMO, the most intensely emotional romantic duet since the days of N&J. There was an intensity, a sexuality, to their duets (best example "Wanting You" in New Moon) that has never been matched since.
Howard Keel and Katherine Grayson did duets together, but nothing on the level of what N&J did, and without the chemistry.
"All I ask of You" HAS that intense, rip your heart out kind of quality that hasn't really been done in 50 plus years.
I think that's it.
***"All I ask of You" HAS that intense, rip your heart out kind of quality that hasn't really been done in 50 plus years.
I think that's it.***
"By george, I think you have it!"
That's been bothering me for years. I couldn't really match the song up with any melody, but I felt a strong connection.
It's so nice to know I'm not alone in that feeling.
As Hollywood types go, their personal lives were pretty clean and upstanding, as well. Jeanette married a man, Gene Raymond, who, interestingly enough, looked a lot like Nelson. He was her only husband, and they were married for 28 years, until her death in 1965.
Nelson also had only one spouse, Ann Denitz Franklin, and they were married 28 years until his death in 1967.
That's a better way of saying how it affected me than any way I could have said it. To me, it felt anointed, which is an extraordinarily unusual thing for me to say about music outside the church, or music by what we would think of as secular artists. It didn't affect just my soul; it moved upon my spirit.
I just put a library hold on three Eddy-MacDonald movies: "Rose Marie," "Maytime," and "Phantom of the Opera."