SONGS FOR HOPE
INSPIRING TOPICS DEDICATED TO THE VICTIMS OF DANA IN SPAIN
YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
By Mahnuel Muñoz
The song was written in 1945 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the musical “Carousel“, released in March of the same year.
In the second act of the musical, the character Nettie Fowler (played by actress and singer Christine Johnson), cousin of the main character Julie Jordan, sings “You’ll Never Walk Alone” to comfort her when her husband Billy dies. It is later repeated in the final scene of the musical, to cheer up a graduating class of which Billy and Julie’s daughter Louise is now a member.
The lyrics are a song to encourage those who are facing a great personal challenge, and I want to dedicate it both to the victims of DANA in Spain and to the thousands of people who, through their work or out of pure solidarity, are helping to make life in the devastated areas can return to normal:
“When you walk through a storm
Keep your head up
And don’t be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
There is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark
Walk through the wind
Walk through the rain
Even if your dreams are shaken and blown away
Walk, walk
With hope in your heart
And you will never walk alone
You will never walk alone
Walk, walk
With hope in your heart
And you will never walk alone
“You will never walk alone“
Frank Sinatra was the first popular singer to cover this song; between May 1 and 2, 1945, following an arrangement by Axel Stordahl, and backed by the ten-voice choir The Ken Lane Singers immortalized his emotional performance for the enjoyment and inspiration of the world; Next, a multitude of musicians of all styles made their particular reading of the piece, counting to this day more than five hundred versions, among them those by Judy Garland, Louis Armstrong and Elvis Presley. The most famous is perhaps that of the British group Gerry And The Pacemakers, released in 1963 and which has become the anthem of the Liverpool FC soccer team.
Sinatra revisited the theme on February 19, 1963 with an extraordinary arrangement by Nelson Riddle for orchestra of fifty-six pieces. This version is included on the album “The Concert Sinatra” (1963).
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