Skyliner (Charlie Barnet Montage)

[hellgate67]

Vintage Big Band!!!!! What a beautiful tune! I love the fast, energetic beat. I can imagine dancing to this song ("Skyliner" - Charlie Barnet).

To: MoleDFigg post: Thanks for sharing your memories of those days back in the WWII era.

Funny how I came to love The Big Band sound: it was when the haunting music played in the background of the movie, The Shining, with Jack Nicholson. Later, in the 1990s, I began listening to AM 880 KIXI (Seattle) and now online with that same radio station.

[abmrl14]

FANTASTIC COVER

[HarunConn]

nevertheless:great stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!One of the real Hits! Wer da nich mitswingt muß tot sein.

[prunellapussywuggums]

A WONDERFUL SONG--how can anyone sit still???? toe tappin has to be happenin.

[bushoisa]

Its a fucking good song!! I love it!

[mr40sfan]

I Love This Song! I only have the BBC Big Band version of it, but I listen to it all the time!

[MoleDFigg]

Many thanks!! This was playing on the P.A. system around the perimeter of the U.S.A.F. airbase near where I was evacuated from London in WWII, just as the first B.17's arrived.

We kids had not seen those beautiful silver birds, or heard this music before.

In my 80th. year, I cannot separate that sound from the image of the arrival of the U.S.A.F.

Thanks, again.

[chkjns]

@MoleDFigg - found the release date for this to be 1944 ! I am playlisting each of the past 100 years of music and 1950-1975 each play for an hour.

Artists like CB each have their own playlist as well, over 230 of them !

My channel is your portal to the beautiful music of any year you choose . . . . .

[rogerneilhogg]

I love this song, however the Doc Severinsen Sat Night Live one kicks, any idea of where a video is for this? Roj, ( Sax Man )

[KDoyle4]

Great Barnet tune. This is not the original hit recording on Decca though.

[glennmilleristhebest]

that's what i thought, but I wasn't quite sure, thanks

[rmayer821]

That is correct. Dodo Marmarosa is the pianist on the recording. This sounds like a post-war mono recording, with the drums using brushes as opposed to the original.

[firebluelily]

Charlie looks like a guy you can depend on, you know, a nice type of guy.

[martinimerlin]

There used to be a video up at You Tube of Barnet doing "Skyliner" from a movie.  Does anyone know if it's still around?

[mumumumusikman]

i´vr seen that movie around 1:17... IT´S AWESOME... AND HE´S AWESOME XD

[nezari40]

wow! I love the Jazz and swing, jajaja I have this song in another version but is great, with no doubts charlie barnet was a grear musician! Greetings from Mexico!

[geraldineamercuri]

¡Gracias!

[glennmilleristhebest]

denada (i hope i spelled that correctly, i take latin in school, my spanish is very minimal) i'm glad you like it

[martinimerlin]

The coronets rule..what a gold sound.

[Indubitablyme]

I just started playing in a band that plays this. I had never heard of it before. It is now one of my favorites. Thanks for posting this.

[fariethesun]

Sorry I have missed this. Wonderful music of Barnet... 5* + fav

Wish you a wonderful week.

[martinimerlin]

Thanks --- my favorite Barnet tune. He is underrated and forgotten as a big band.

[123BubberMiley]

Yeah, i love this tune too. You're right, he is almost forgotten completely, i only heard about him from reading Gunther Schuller's book "The Swing Era". Great stuff.

[sheikofaraby2]

This is an awesome song man.

[glennmilleristhebest]

Ya i like it. My fav of Barnet.

[martinimerlin]

Thanks!