Let’s turn to something uplifting today. I think we need it in these times…
If you attended the Mosconi Cup, you heard this when the European team entered the arena and also on the last day when they won. The song has also been sung at Liverpool Football Club since the early 1960s. There are certainly lots of renditions of this song out there.
In my opinion, the best is the original Rodgers and Hammerstein one sung in Carousel. In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings “You’ll Never Walk Alone” to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery. It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julie’s daughter) is a member. The now invisible Billy, who has been granted the chance to return to Earth for one day in order to redeem himself, watches the ceremony and is able to silently motivate the unhappy Louise to join in the song.
But since a UK buddy of mine grew up as a neighbor of Gerry Marsden in Liverpool, I’m going to go with the Gerry and the Pacemakers version today. Crank it up!!
If you want to hear it sung by about 70,000 fans after Liverpool won the 2019 Champions Cup in Madrid, check this out:
Here’s the one from finale of Carousel…
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