You'll Never Walk Alone

You'll Never Walk Alone is the title of a piece of music by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II ( lyrics ) was composed in 1945 for the Broadway musical Carousel as a finale. The musical was first performed on 19 April 1945 at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway and clocked up 890 performances. Its premiere in London took place on June 7, 1950 held at the Drury Lane Theatre, and it reached 566 performances.

The song should not be confused with You never walk alone by Mathou, the title song of the TV series Friends for life.

First recording

The song had for many who were worried about relatives who fought on the front of the Second World War, an emotional impact. This was reinforced by the text because a pregnant woman is encouraged to overcome her husband's death. On 1 May 1945 Frank Sinatra was with the Orchestra Axel Stordahl in the recording studio and recorded their first single version of the song. She appeared in September 1945 on Columbia Records (# 36825 ) and peaked in the Billboard charts 9th place

Famous covers

In the UK, You'll Never Walk Alone reached three times # 1 in the charts. George produced with Gerry & the Pacemakers on July 2, 1963, the first cover version of the original that on October 4, 1963 came on the market ( List of number-one hits in the UK charts (1963 ) ). Pacemakers were from Liverpool and shared with the Beatles manager Brian Epstein and the producers George Martin. Both were from the hit potential of the song initially not convinced, because he was too slow. This is followed by The Crowd ( in January 1985) and Robson & Jerome as part of a medley ( in November 1996). In the version of the crowd was once again Gerry Marsden of Gerry & The Pacemakers lead singer.

Artists

The song was also used outside of the musical early age. Thus, there are versions of various artists such as The Adicts, Alkbottle, Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins, Shirley Bassey, The BossHoss, Chris de Burgh, Glen Campbell, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Perry Como, Ray Conniff, Michael Crawford, Doris Day, Plácido Domingo, Aretha Franklin, Judy Garland, Mahalia Jackson, Tom Jones, the Kelly Family, Cleo Laine, Mario Lanza, Jerry Lewis, Jim Nabors, Olivia Newton-John, the Oak Ridge Boys, Elvis Presley, Dr. ring Ding, the Righteous Brothers, Ryker's, Michael Sadler ( Saga ), Nina Simone, Barbra Streisand, Chris Thompson, Kiri Te Kanawa, Die Toten Hosen, Conway Twitty, Gene Vincent or Dionne Warwick.

Frank Sinatra, who interpreted this song already in the 1940s and several times later, it was also the one who has this song in a particularly solemn, " hymn-like " manner on the occasion of the inauguration of U.S. President George HW Bush presented.

In the early 1990s, the song was also recorded for an American anti-AIDS campaign by various musicians. Among other things, Marilyn Horne, Joan Baez and LaBelle.

The song in football

Worldwide famous song in football by Liverpool fan block, the Kop was This was based on the hit song by Gerry & the Pacemakers, who had played live since 1960 the title at Liverpool's Cavern Club. Already in the 1960s, the public was sonicated in England before each game, usually with current popular songs. These included from 1963 and the version of the musical songs You'll Never Walk Alone by Gerry & the Pacemakers. According to legend, fell before a game out of the sound system of the stadium at Anfield, while the song was on. Fan block intoned the song itself then since that day, the song closed intoned before the game in Liverpool from the audience, as a kind of anthem of the club. Other clubs followed suit, among other things, did the fans of Celtic Glasgow Liverpool's fans alike. Meanwhile, the anthem is also sung in many German football and ice hockey stadiums.

The football anthem was often reinterpreted, so among other things, Bela B. ( drummer of The Doctors ), FC St. Pauli, Lightning Seeds, The BossHoss (along with players of FC St. Pauli ), Die Toten Hosen, as well as the Philippine " singing prodigy " Charice Pempengco. Pink Floyd also used in the play Fearless on the album Meddle (1971), the Liverpool fan chants. In November 2009, the then 17 - year-old student Alina Schmidt sang the song at the memorial service for Robert Enke in the HDI - Arena in Hanover.

• Musical Song
• Number -one hit
• Football in Britain
• Sport ( Liverpool)
• Sports (Glasgow )
• Song 1945
• Oscar Hammerstein
• Song by Richard Rodgers