Sarah Vaughan ft London Symphony Orchestra - Bali Ha'i (CBS Records 1986) скачать видео бесплатно

"Bali Ha'i", also spelled "Bali Hai", is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.

In the musical, Bali Ha'i is a volcanic island within sight of the island on which most of the action takes place. The troops think of Bali Ha'i as an exotic paradise, but it is off-limits -- except to officers. The matriarch of Bali Ha'i, Bloody Mary, does a lot of business with the troops, and she meets Lt. Joseph Cable right after he arrives. She sings her mysterious song that has a haunting choral accompaniment Bali Ha'i to him because she wants to entice him into visiting her island. She doesn't tell him that she wants him to meet, and fall in love with, her young daughter, Liat.

In 1949, Perry Como recorded the song as a single. Sergio Franchi included this song on his 1965 RCA Victor tribute to The Songs of Richard Rodgers. Andy Williams released a version on his 1958 album, Andy Williams Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Bali Ha'i was based on the real island of Ambae (formerly Aoba Island). Ambae is located in Vanuatu (known as New Hebrides at the time the song was written).

Ambae is visible on the horizon from Espiritu Santo island, where James A. Michener was stationed in World War II. Michener is the author of Tales of the South Pacific which is the basis for the musical South Pacific. The author used the tranquil, hazy image of the smoothly sloping island on the horizon to represent a not-so-distant but always unattainable place of innocence and happiness. Hence the longing nature of the song.

In his 1992 memoir, The World Is My Home, Michener writes of his time in the Treasury Islands: "On a rude signboard attached to a tree, someone had affixed a cardboard giving the settlement's name, and it was so completely different from ordinary names, so musical to my ear that I borrowed a pencil and in a soggy notebook jotted the name against the day when I might want to use if for some purpose I could not then envisage: Bali-ha'i."

Rodgers and Hammerstein were inspired by the way that James Michener described the island, so they wanted to include a song about it when they began work on the musical. When Richard Rodgers first read Oscar Hammerstein II's lyrics to this song over lunch with Joshua Logan, he "could hear the music to go with the words". He knew that this song should evoke a mystical, languorous, Oriental quality that the story called for. This can be seen in the many chromatic notes in the melody.

In the 1958 film version, Bali Ha'i is portrayed by the real-life island of Tioman in Malaysia. However, the scene[clarification needed] was filmed on the north shore of Kauaʻi and Mount Makana was used as Bali Hai which is still known as Bali Hai today. Tunnel's Beach is often referred to as "Nurses' Beach" and the scene where Bloody Mary sings of Bali Ha'i takes place on Hanalei Bay.

Sarah's accompanied by The London Symphony Orchestra. Recorded in London, England, January 27-31, 1986. (CBS Records)

Most people live on a lonely island,

Lost in the middle of a foggy sea.

Most people long for another island,

One where they know they would like to be.

Bali Ha'i

May call you,

Any night,

Any day.

In your heart

You'll hear it call you:

"Come away,

Come away."

Bali Ha'i

Will whisper

On the wind

Of the sea:

"Here am I,

Your special island!

Come to me,

Come to me."

Your own special hopes,

Your own special dreams,

Bloom on the hillside

And shine in the streams.

If you try,

You'll find me

Where the sky

Meets the sea;

"Here am I,

Your special island!

Come to me,

Come to me!"

Bali Ha'i,

Bali Ha'i,

Bali Ha'i.

"Someday you'll see me,

Floating in the sunshine,

My head sticking out

From a low-flying cloud;

You'll hear me call you,

Singing through the sunshine,

Sweet and clear as can be,

Come to me,

Here am I,

Come to me!"

If you try

If you try

You'll find me

Where the sky meets the sea

Here am I your special island

Come to me

Come to me

"Bali Ha'i,

Bali Ha'i,

Bali Ha'i."