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Singer Robert Goulet Dies at 73
Fox News ^ | 10/30/07

Posted on 10/30/2007 4:45:21 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy

Edited on 10/30/2007 4:57:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

LOS ANGELES — Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in "Camelot" launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73.

The singer died Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles hospital while awaiting a lung transplant, said a Goulet spokesman in an e-mail.

He had been awaiting a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being diagnosed with a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis in September.


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To: potlatch

What a beautiful post. How fitting that Robert Goulet would be remembered by the song, “If Ever I Would Leave You.”


121 posted on 10/30/2007 9:24:54 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: ntnychik

Thank you nit, I’m glad you liked it.

I saw someone’s post early in the thread that said, “If Ever I Should Leave You”, it wouldn’t be in autumn. It kindof touched my heart.


122 posted on 10/30/2007 9:50:04 PM PDT by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: skeeter

It’s gonna be a scary time. We’ll be left wide open to a Mars Attack!


123 posted on 10/30/2007 10:05:43 PM PDT by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

124 posted on 10/30/2007 10:17:52 PM PDT by Main Street (Stuck in traffic)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

I did too. I was always Lancelot. He had the best songs. I will miss you, Robert Goulet. Rest in peace!


125 posted on 10/30/2007 10:38:43 PM PDT by carton253 (And if that time does come, then draw your swords and throw away the scabbards.)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; Seadog Bytes; Lady Jag

You know, it was confusing. I did a LOT of Google searching for posters of his Broadway shows. The one I turned up said that he was King Arthur and you note that he was way down in the list of names in that one.

I am in Texas and not familiar with what all he did on stage. Also, I believe the larger poster I found was on page 36 or somesuch on one of my Google searches or I’d find and post the link.

Lol, I just went with what I could find, and as you noted - it may be incorrect. I’m thinking he may have been in Camelot a number of times in various plays??

Heading for bed, night.


126 posted on 10/30/2007 10:48:35 PM PDT by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

Just dang! I loved those commercials for the nuts with him messing up peoples’ stuff in the office while they’re zoning out.


127 posted on 10/30/2007 11:04:56 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: potlatch
Oh you did just fine and it's understandable about the confusion. The fact that he got famous by doing the Lancelot role and singing the songs like "If Ever I Would Leave You" certainly did not preclude him from portraying King Arthur in later versions of the same play which he certainly did. I would have given my eyeteeth to see him doing either of these roles live and in person.

That being said, I am very appreciative of the fact that your link of him singing the song by far made me appreciate him now more than ever. He was one of the great singers on the American musical theater stage - make no bones about it.

128 posted on 10/31/2007 12:06:00 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: carton253

I was always Julie Andrews - in anything she did. She made it easy for someone like me to sing along. I modeled my own solo voice after hers. Some of the crispest diction ever delivered.


129 posted on 10/31/2007 12:07:18 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Controlling Legal Authority

As I recall, he didn’t have a lot of strong memories about it (it only ran about 13 episodes or so). I got much more material from the show’s creators, Larry Cohen and Walter Grauman.

Although the series as such has never been released on home video, this year Fox released the “I Deal in Danger” on DVD, which was the feature compiled from the story arc of the first three or four episodes.


130 posted on 10/31/2007 12:08:36 AM PDT by william clark (DH4WH08 - Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

Wow. Didn’t know he was ill. May he rest in peace.


131 posted on 10/31/2007 12:31:01 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: lysie

>Great voice! Funny, too!

>Robert Goulet Emerald nuts commercial

I think that has to be the funniest commercial I’ve ever seen and one of the very best all time Superbowl commercials. It’s sad to see him go, but maybe he’ll still be “messing with my stuff” from beyond!


132 posted on 10/31/2007 9:39:53 AM PDT by Ozone34
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To: Bender2

I haven’t heard that song in such a long time! First time I ever heard it was in the 80’s on a folk show on WHYY out of Philly. Whitaker’s voice is like silk.


133 posted on 10/31/2007 10:05:06 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

Thank you, I’m glad you got some enjoyment out of it and if you look you will see that I changed the wording on the one image, lol.

It’s magic!!


134 posted on 10/31/2007 1:19:03 PM PDT by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: MadelineZapeezda

Oh my goodness, I hadn’t heard about Deborah Kerr! Drat!
susie


135 posted on 11/02/2007 4:19:15 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: potlatch

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Very impressive!


136 posted on 11/13/2007 11:34:18 PM PST by devolve (---- -Secret_Asian_Man_&_Dr.No-No_Sorass_-)
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To: devolve

Thank you devolve. We are losing some of the good ones. That song is a lovely one too.


137 posted on 11/14/2007 1:53:14 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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