How Liberace’s ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ made him the Queen of Las Vegas
Cher, Celine Dion and Lady Gaga this fall when she kicks off her Las Vegas residency at The Venetian’s Voltaire. But before she and all the other queens came to know Sin City as the place to make buckets of money without going on an exhaustive world tour, legendary pianist, singer and ostentatious Mr.
Showman Władziu Valentino Liberace was the queen of holding court in the desert. Beckoning audiences from around the world to the Silver State, Liberace made his self-referential rendition of “I’ll Be Seeing You” his calling card.
With a musical arrangement by legendary Broadway composer Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal, “I’ll Be Seeing You” instantly became a classic standard when it was released in 1938.
But it took some time to catch on. Did you know ‘Behind The Candelabra’ was filmed in Zsa Zsa Gabor’s home?The song heavily leans on the performer’s vocal skill to bring out the gravitas and grandiose of the melody, and more than a handful of singers put their spin on it.
