Howard Keel

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Bless Yore Beautiful Hide 00:00 Tools
Bless Your Beautiful Hide 02:01 Tools
The Girl That I Marry 02:36 Tools
Make Believe 00:00 Tools
Rose Marie 00:00 Tools
Higher Than A Hawk 00:00 Tools
Higher Than a Hawk (Deeper Than a Well) 00:00 Tools
When You're in Love (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Were Thine That Special Face 00:00 Tools
So In Love 00:00 Tools
Anything You Can Do 00:00 Tools
You Were Always On My Mind 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Sobbin' Women 00:00 Tools
Sobbin’ Women 00:00 Tools
There's No Business Like Show Business 00:00 Tools
Where Is The Life That Late I Led 04:17 Tools
Wunderbar 00:00 Tools
I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua 00:00 Tools
My Defences Are Down 03:24 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (From "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers") 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Some Enchanted Evening 00:00 Tools
You Are Love 00:00 Tools
My Defenses Are Down 00:00 Tools
And I Love You So 00:00 Tools
They Call The Wind Mariah 00:00 Tools
Kiss Me Kate 04:17 Tools
They Say It's Wonderful 00:00 Tools
When You're in Love 00:00 Tools
Send In The Clowns 00:00 Tools
This Nearly Was Mine 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You 00:00 Tools
Spring, Spring, Spring 00:00 Tools
I've Never Been To Me 00:00 Tools
Pagan Love Song 00:00 Tools
Rosemarie 00:00 Tools
When You're In Love (feat. Howard Keel) 00:00 Tools
Make Believe (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Oklahoma! 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Rehearsal Recording) 00:00 Tools
Softly as I Leave You 00:00 Tools
Tahiti 00:00 Tools
Annie get your gun medley 00:00 Tools
Make Believe (From "Show Boat") 00:00 Tools
The Right Place for a Girl 00:00 Tools
Showboat Medley 00:00 Tools
Why Is Love So Crazy 00:00 Tools
Where is the Life that Late I Led? (Kiss Me Kate - 1948) 00:00 Tools
Lovely To Look At 00:00 Tools
Fate 00:00 Tools
House of Singing Bamboo 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry (Annie Get Your Gun) 00:00 Tools
Anything You Can do (Annie Get Your Gun) 06:54 Tools
O What A Beautiful Mornin' 00:00 Tools
Where Is The Life That Late I Led? 00:00 Tools
I Won't Send Roses 00:00 Tools
The Surrey With the Fringe on Top 00:00 Tools
Ol' Man River 00:00 Tools
Lovely To Look At (from "Lovely To Look At") 00:00 Tools
Memory 03:56 Tools
You or No One 00:00 Tools
Where's the Mate for Me? (Gambler's Song) 00:00 Tools
Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' 00:00 Tools
The Olive Tree 00:00 Tools
My Defences are Down (Annie Get Your Gun) 00:00 Tools
Born Again 00:00 Tools
Stranger In Paradise 00:00 Tools
Old Man River 00:00 Tools
Colonel Buffalo Bill (Annie Get Your Gun) 00:00 Tools
They Say it's Wonderful (Annie Get Your Gun) 00:00 Tools
Young Folks Should Get Married 00:00 Tools
You're Devastating 00:00 Tools
Yesterday When I Was Young 00:00 Tools
Bless Your Beautiful Hide ['Seven Brides For Seven Brothers'] 00:00 Tools
When You’re In Love 00:00 Tools
Singing In The Sun 00:00 Tools
I Can Do Without You 00:00 Tools
Gesticulate 00:00 Tools
Lady 00:00 Tools
Sands of Time 00:00 Tools
So in Love (From "Kiss Me Kate") 00:00 Tools
Love Story 00:00 Tools
Prelude Into The Music Of The Night 00:00 Tools
I've Come to Wive it Wealthily In Padua - Reprise 00:00 Tools
And This Is My Beloved 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You? 00:00 Tools
There's No Business Like Show Business (From "Annie Get Your Gun") 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Reprise) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Mounties 00:00 Tools
Anything You Can Do (From "Annie Get Your Gun") 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry (from "Annie Get Your Gun") 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (From " Seven Brides for Seven Brothers") 00:00 Tools
They Say It's Wonderful (From "Annie Get Your Gun") 00:00 Tools
This Is All I Ask 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
My Defenses Are Down (From "Annie Get Your Gun") 00:00 Tools
Higher Than A Hawk (Deeper Than A Well) (from 'Calamity Jane') 00:00 Tools
Rahadlakum 00:00 Tools
If Ever I Would Leave You 00:00 Tools
Hello 00:00 Tools
The House Of Singing Bamboo 00:00 Tools
And There You Are [from I Love Melvin] 00:00 Tools
Sands Of Time / End Title (LP Soundtrack Version from 'Kismet') 00:00 Tools
Your Land and My Land 00:00 Tools
Bless Your Beautiful Hide (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers) 00:00 Tools
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 00:00 Tools
Bring Him Home 00:00 Tools
Were Thine That Special Face (LP Soundtrack/Stereo Version from 'Kiss Me Kate') 00:00 Tools
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers: Bless Yore Beautiful Hide 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry (Unused) (From Annie Get Your Gun Aborted Version To Star Judy Garland) (Howard Keel, vocals) 00:00 Tools
The Touch Of Your Hand 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry (From Annie Get Your Gun) 00:00 Tools
My Defences Are Down (From "Annie Get Your Gun") 00:00 Tools
Oklahoma 00:00 Tools
I’ve Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua 00:00 Tools
Make Believe (reprise) (Re-Released Album Version, stereo) 00:00 Tools
Whoa, Emma (from 'Texas Carnival') 00:00 Tools
Sobbin' Women (From "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers") 00:00 Tools
If 00:00 Tools
Macarthur Park 00:00 Tools
Annie Get Your Gun: There's No Business Like Show Business 00:00 Tools
Love Changes Everything 00:00 Tools
Where Is the Life That Late I Led? (From "Kiss Me Kate") 00:00 Tools
Fate (Reprise) (LP Soundtrack Version from 'Kismet') 00:00 Tools
And There You Are (outtake) 00:00 Tools
When You're in Love (From "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers") 00:00 Tools
The Most Exciting Night (Armful Of Trouble) (from "Lovely To Look At") 00:00 Tools
Bless Your Beautiful Hide (From Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) 00:00 Tools
Yesterday 00:00 Tools
And I Love Her So 00:00 Tools
Bless Your Beautiful Hide (From 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers') 00:00 Tools
When You Are In Love 00:00 Tools
Fate (Kismet) 00:00 Tools
The Olive Tree (LP Soundtrack Version from 'Kismet') 00:00 Tools
Colonel Buffalo Bill 00:00 Tools
Only Make Believe 00:00 Tools
Where's The Mate For Me? (Gambler's Song) (Re-Released Album Version, stereo) 00:00 Tools
Time in a Bottle 00:00 Tools
Oklahoma Medley 00:00 Tools
Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Oh What A Beautiful Morning 00:00 Tools
Just the Way You Are 00:00 Tools
When You're In Love (alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
The House of the Singing Bamboo 00:00 Tools
Sobbin Woman 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide [from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers] 00:00 Tools
Bless Your Beautiful Hide (from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers") 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide [Seven Brides for Seven Brothers] 00:00 Tools
Kiss Me Kate: Wunderbar 00:00 Tools
Once Upon A Time 00:00 Tools
If I Loved You 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You? (From "Show Boat") 00:00 Tools
Fate (LP Soundtrack Version from 'Kismet') 00:00 Tools
My Defenses Are Down (From Annie Get Your Gun) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Colonel Buffalo Bill (From "Annie Get Your Gun") 00:00 Tools
Where Is The Life That Late I Led (LP Soundtrack/Stereo Version from 'Kiss Me Kate') 00:00 Tools
Paint Your Wagon 00:00 Tools
Wind Beneath My Wings 00:00 Tools
My Defences Are Down (From Annie Get Your Gun) 00:00 Tools
I Can Do Without You (From 'Calamity Jane') 00:00 Tools
Pore Jud Is Daid 00:00 Tools
Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' / The Surrey With The Fringe On Top / People Will Say We're In Love / Oklahoma 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry (Unused) 00:00 Tools
The Last Farewell 00:00 Tools
We Open In Venice 00:00 Tools
Life That Late I Led 00:00 Tools
Were Thine That Special Face (From "Kiss Me Kate") 00:00 Tools
Pore Jud is Dead 00:00 Tools
You Are Love (From "Show Boat") 00:00 Tools
Spring, Spring, Spring (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers) 00:00 Tools
I Just Called To Say I Love You 00:00 Tools
You Needed Me 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry (From Annie Get Your Gun) (Howard Keel, vocals) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua (Kiss Me Kate) 00:00 Tools
When You're In Love - (Reprise) [Outtake] 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide {from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers} 00:00 Tools
To All The Girls I Loved Before 00:00 Tools
When You're in Love (Reprise) [Outtake] 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide - Reprise Album Version 00:00 Tools
Secret Love 00:00 Tools
And There You Are - from I Love Melvin 00:00 Tools
Oaklahoma Medley- Oh What A Be 00:00 Tools
The Touch of Your Hand (From "Lovely to Look At") 00:00 Tools
Yesterday/Something 00:00 Tools
Colours Of My Life 00:00 Tools
Where's The Mate for Me (Gambler's Song) 00:00 Tools
Bless YoreBeautiful Hide 00:00 Tools
Pagan Love Song (From "Pagan Love Song") 00:00 Tools
Make Believe (Showboat) 00:00 Tools
There's No Business Like Showbusiness 00:00 Tools
Young Folks Should Get Married (From "Texas Carnival") 00:00 Tools
I Can Do Without You (From "Calamity Jane") 00:00 Tools
The Black Hills Of Dakota 00:00 Tools
In Padua 00:00 Tools
Bless Your Beautiful Hide [from 'seven Brides for Seven Brothers'] 00:00 Tools
13. Higher Than a Hawk 00:00 Tools
Young Folks Should Get Maraud (recorded 27/04/1951) (from "Texas Carnival") 00:00 Tools
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 00:00 Tools
Where's The Mate For Me? 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry - From Annie Get Your Gun Howard Keel, vocals LP Version 00:00 Tools
Anything You Can Do (with Betty Hutton) 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide - (Rehearsal Recording) 00:00 Tools
Bless Your Beautiful Hide - From: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide - (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide - Reprise 00:00 Tools
I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua (From "Kiss Me Kate") 00:00 Tools
Wonderful, Wonderful Day 00:00 Tools
'Tis Harry I'm Planning To Marry 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry(Annie Get Your Gun) 00:00 Tools
To all the girls i've loved before 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You? (Showboat) 00:00 Tools
What I Did for Love 00:00 Tools
They Say it's Wonderful (From "Annie, Get Your Gun") 00:00 Tools
Come In From The Rain 00:00 Tools
When You're In Love - Reprise 00:00 Tools
When You're In Love - (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
It's Too Darn Hot (From "Kiss Me Kate") 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry [Unused] 00:00 Tools
Surrey With The Fringe On Top 00:00 Tools
Rose Marie (From 'Rose Marie') 00:00 Tools
Where's the Mate for Me? (From "Show Boat") 00:00 Tools
I've Come To Wive It Wealthy In Padua 00:00 Tools
Sobbin' Women (From " Seven Brides for Seven Brothers") 00:00 Tools
La Mancha Medley 00:00 Tools
Why Is Love so Crazy? (From "Pagan Love Song") 00:00 Tools
Kiss Me Kate (Kiss Me Kate) 00:00 Tools
Sobbin' Women (From Seven Brides For Seven Brothers) 00:00 Tools
House Of The Singing Bamboo 00:00 Tools
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers: Bless Your Beautiful Hide 00:00 Tools
The Girl That I Marry (Unused) [Aborted Version to Star Judy Garland] 00:00 Tools
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers: Sobbin' Women With The Brothers 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You?(From Showboat) 00:00 Tools
Where's the Mate for Me? (Gamblers Song) 00:00 Tools
Bring Hime Home 00:00 Tools
My Defenses Are Down - From Annie Get Your Gun LP Version 00:00 Tools
Both Sides Now 00:00 Tools
Kiss Me Kate (From "Kiss Me Kate") 00:00 Tools
Ther's no business like show business 00:00 Tools
Wunderbar (From "Kiss Me Kate") 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide [Rehearsal Recording] 00:00 Tools
What 50 Said 00:00 Tools
You're Devastating (From "Lovely to Look At") 00:00 Tools
Lafayette (From "Lovely to Look At") 00:00 Tools
The House of Singing Bamboo (From "Pagan Love Song") 00:00 Tools
Whoa, Emma! (From "Texas Carnival") 00:00 Tools
Anything You Can Do (feat. Howard Keel) 00:00 Tools
Why do You Love 00:00 Tools
Feelings 00:00 Tools
LaFayette 00:00 Tools
I’ve Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua (Kiss Me Kate) 00:00 Tools
Oklahoma! (Bonus Howard Keel Track from 'Show Boat') 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You? (From Showboat) 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide - Rehearsal Recording 00:00 Tools
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Rehearsal) 00:00 Tools
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Howard Keel, born Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004) was an American actor who starred in many of the classic film musicals of the 1950s. Born in Gillespie, Illinois, to Navyman-turned-coalminer Homer Keel and his wife, Grace Osterkamp Keel, young Harry spent his childhood in poverty. After his father's death in 1930, he and his mother moved to California, where he graduated from Fallbrook High School at the age of 17 and took various odd-jobs until finally settling at Douglas Aircraft Company, where he became a traveling representative. At the age of twenty, he was overheard singing by his landlady, Mom Rider, and was encouraged to take vocal lessons. One of his musical heroes was the great baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Howard would later say that finding out that his own voice was a basso cantante was one of the greatest disappointments of his life. Nevertheless, his first public performance came in the summer of 1941 when he played the role of Samuel the Prophet in Handel's oratorio Saul and David (singing a duet with bass-baritone George London). Just a couple years after this, in 1943, Harold met and married his first wife, actress Rosemary Cooper. In 1945 Harold briefly understudied for John Raitt in the Broadway hit Carousel, before being assigned to Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It was during this time, he accomplished a feat that has never been duplicated. He performed the leads in both shows on the same day. In 1947 Oklahoma! became the first American musical, post-war, to travel to London, England, and Harold went with it. Opening night , 30th April, at the Drury Lane Theatre, the capacity audience (which included the Queen) demanded fourteen encores. Harold Keel was hailed as the next great star and was the toast of the West End. During the London run, the marriage of Harold and Rosemary ended in divorce, and Harold fell in love with a young member of the show's chorus, dancer Helen Anderson. They married in January 1949 and, a year later, Harold - now called Howard - became a father for the first time to daughter Kaija. While living in London, Keel made his film debut as Howard Keel at the British Lion studio in Elstree, in The Small Voice (1948), released in the US as Hideout, playing an escaped convict, holding up a playwright and his wife in their English country cottage. Additional Broadway credits include Saratoga, No Strings, and Ambasador. He appeared at The Muny in St. Louis, MO as General Waverly in White Christmas (2000), Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1996); Emile de Becque in South Pacific (1992), and Adam in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1978). From London's West End, Howard ended up at MGM making his film musical debut as Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun. Howard's MGM career was to be a frustrating business. MGM never seemed to know quite what to do with him and, outside of plum roles in the films Show Boat, Kiss Me, Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, he was forced into a stream of worthless musicals and B-films. On loan-out at Warner Bros., he played Wild Bill Hickok in Calamity Jane, a highly popular, Oscar-winning musical filmed in 1953, starring Doris Day in one of her most famous screen roles. This was Warner's answer to Annie Get Your Gun, and the film that produced the smash hit number, "Secret Love". There were two more children born to Howard and Helen, daughter Kirstine in 1952 and son Gunnar in 1955. Soon after, Howard was released from his contract and returned to his first love, the stage. Sadly, as America's taste in entertainment changed, finding jobs became harder and harder for Howard. The 1960s held little chance for career advancement with a round of nightclub work, b-Westerns and summer stock. Under the strain, Howard began to drink heavily, and his marriage to Helen crumbled. They divorced in 1970. But 1970 proved to be fortuitous for Howard after all. He was set up on a blind date with airline stewardess Judy Magamoll who was twenty-five years his junior and had never even heard of him. They were married in December 1970 and his drinking problem soon ceased. By 1980 he had had enough of struggling to find work and he moved his family to Oklahoma, intending to join an oil company. They had barely settled there when Howard was called back to California to appear with Jane Powell on an episode of The Love Boat. While he was there, he was told that the producers of the smash hit television series Dallas wanted to talk to him. After several cameo appearances, Howard joined the show permanently as the dignified, if hot tempered, oil baron Clayton Farlow and his career reached heights it had never seen before. With his renewed fame, Howard began his first solo recording career at age sixty-four, as well as a wildly successful concert career in the UK. He released an album in 1984 called "With Love", that sold poorly, thus indicating that though the American public were happy to see him as a supporting actor on hit TV show, they were not prepared for a full resumption of his previous stardom. Even after Dallas he continued to sing, and kept his voice in remarkable shape. In 1994, he and Judy moved to Palm Desert, CA. The Keels were always active in charity events, helping their community and were well loved amongst the residents. In particular, Howard and Judy attended the annual Howard Keel Golf Classic at Mere Golf Club in Cheshire, England, which raised money for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). He attended for many years, up until the year of his death. Howard died at his home in Palm Desert on November 7, 2004, six weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer. He is survived by Judy, his wife of thirty-four years, his four children, ten grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. He was cremated and his ashes scattered at various favorite places including Mere Golf Club, Liverpool John Lennon Airport, and in Tuscany, Italy. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.