Just learned that Harry Warren and Mack Gordon also wrote I Had the Craziest Dream with the same stunning results as with this song--listen to how well the tune and the lyrics fit together. I recommend the YouTube of it by "FallingRain123". Listen to how Helen Forrest's voice caresses and coaxes the feeling out of the melody. Don't miss it.
For the young teen posters who have found a taste for swing bands, I want to recommend these videos on Youtube: I Got a Gal In Kalamazoo from "cookiesden2", and Chatanooga Choo Choo from "jetiwarrior". And those hundreds of people danced during the number--not the jitterbug, but the foxtrot, which is an intoxicating dance because I'm holding her lightly in my arms smelling the perfume in her hair. Give it a try.
I read all these posts. I'm very impressed w Pat Friday's voice, full and secure with a supple vibrato. (That IS Payne's voice, tho not his piano.) Tune by the great Harry Warren(I Had the Craziest Dream, by Helen Forrest) words by Mack Gordon. Captures the wonder, joy and reticence of young love like no other song. Every young woman should have the chance to hear this song while a junior in high school. I would like to hear the Dick Haymes version, the best male pop singing voice, IMO.
Reminds me of my dad. 2nd Trumpet and sometimes vocalist, Alan Ayres Jazz Band, Birmingham University UK. R.I.P Phil Harrison 28th Nov 1920 - 7th Jan 2003.
It is important to recall that this is the voice of Pat Friday, covering for Lyn Bari, just as she did for her in " Orchestra Wives", singing " At Last", & " Serenade In Blue". Although Ms Bari had a good voice, it just wasn't up to GM's standards, & after auditioning, Pat Friday became Lyn's film voice. Wolfsky9
Yes, a small bit of movie trivia : this was the song the crew listened to for a few precious moments in the 1991 film, " Memphis Belle". The opening verse with the great Pat Friday & The Modernaires is what they play, & for years, I wondered if anyone else seeing that great film knew this musical masterpiece from Spring, Summer of '41. A stunning musical Tour De-Force!! Wolfsky9
Just stunningly beautiful!Some fabulous guys from our local silver band played this at my Nan's funeral in our church.She loved this song so much.Wonderful to hear it played for her loud and live!Thanks for posting x
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Another masterpiece in my opinion is Johnny Hartman singing 'Lush Life' with John Coltrane playing saxophone along with. Good years back then, great music...ahhhh, it just puts me IN THE MOOD :)
Composer was Harry Warren who also wrote other Miller's hits like Chattanooga Choo and At Last. In response to weightfeather, yes it was prerecorded, that's how musical movies are made.
This is beautiful! I'm so thankful to YouTube for allowing me to broaden my swing/big band music education. It just doesn't get better than this stuff. I'm so happy it's still around for us of the younger generations to explore and enjoy.
Such elegance and superb style! Back then people used to be polite and educated. The music was fantastic, I have no other words.. at least im happy to know im not the only one who likes it. Anne Shelton is very beautiful... it would be great if women were a little like her the way she is, and men were also be like the gentlaman on the piano.
@brad04970 Hi Brad you know I have always thought that all those young guys that died in all those missions whether in the air or on the ground were not wasted they hadn`t even lived ,so my way of thinking is that we may come back again .because of all things that you hear about it will always make you think who know ?
@sharkieballs Being a xbox 360 fan and playing every night online with games like Black Ops I just wish that the game`s ppl would make a game about the involvement with the British and American forces flying the aircrafts accross the channel and playing all this music sutch as Glenn Miller with a good story that has all the things that happened here
Glenn Miller brings back memories of the war years .My parents joined the Arm Forces and we kids were evacuated away from the bombing, mother went into the ATS and dad the Army and the only time you got to see our parents were when they were on leave. Then you came home to rationing those were the days sweet rationing OMG .Well im going to play some more music bye 4 now Ken
@sharkieballs I'm proud to be your friend. Your right Glen Miller will live foever. I read where England stood up to bombing raids for over 60 days. This is Deffinatally Courage Under-Fire.
Ken Sharman UK. I love this kind of music thanks to everybody for you post Im 76 now and grew up in the war years .Use to listen to the radio in bed at night to the American Forces Network or AFM to us then
You know it makes me think, all you youngsters that like this music have you lived before
@sharkieballs Hi Ken I woke up this moring singing White Cliffes of Dover. First of all i can't remember ever singing that, I must have heard it some place or some-where at sometime..
Thank you for posting all of these! ALL of the petty arguments aside about vocalists and such....like kurtenbach, I was born in 1956, and my Mother used to play Glenn Miller and Vaughn Monroe to get me and my siblings to go to sleep, on the old Sylvania HiFi...which I STILL have, along with the albums. My Mother just passed away March 6th, 2011.....and my appreciation of music is due to her influence. She worked in radio in the 40's in Philadelphia & got to meet all of the big band leaders.
they don't make em like this anymore!!!! born in 1956,i know this music because of my dad!!! lived through the 60's 70's 80's(2nd favororite era of music) 90's and now with today's JUNK!!! this music had feeling and emotion. made you feel strength, warmth,power. the words and music meant something!!!! anytime anyday bring it back!!!!
moloch49, No need to take umbrage, it was just a passing comment that in the 1940's many family's lives were devastated by the war. In other terms I agree with you, in many respects society was much better in the 1940's and indeed the 1950's when the war was over. This a great lyric from a gentler age, and an excellent foxtrot. The joy of this music is that every syllable can be heard
I heard all these songs when i was growing up and still love them. Got to see the Glenn Miller band last year it was great. i remember my parents would go out dancing on the weekends and the all got together for a drink at our house first and the ladies wore coktail dresses and the men wore suits and they actually danced touching each other it was a great erea
Isn't it amazing when you read all the posts on YouTube concerning this type of music, that many of today's teens love the old songs from the 30's and 40's. I'm so very glad. Let's hope that this big band music will never die.
При первых звуках этой песни вспоминаю старый,но любимый "Memphis Belle".Строй B-17 летит в Германию,радист ловит в эфире эту мелодию...Очень гармоничная картина.
Robins sing in December to help establish winter territories although they are not on their breeding grounds, these are wintering birds and need to protect their food source from other birds that may invite themselves to indulge.
@spindalis79 brilliant now please explain "why do fools fall in love?" "Where did our love go?" "Who put the bomp?" and "Why does love got to be so sad?"
@minitacomanofdoom this is pat friday voicing for lynn bari in the movie sun valley serenade with glenn miller, milton berle, figure skater sonja henie and john payne-tex beneke also songs a great chatanooga choo choo as well
This song is simply mind boggling in it's musical complexity. I kinow--I spent an entire semester dissecting it in my Senior year in college. If you could see what the sheet music looks like--well, let's just say it--Harry Warren was a true music genius. Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
This may very well be the most romantic song ever written IMHO. The music, the reeds, the vocal, the lyrics, it just all brings back those memories of WWII and the G.I. pining for his lady, or his lady pining for him....BTW Manhattan Transfer do a great cover of this tune...
This song brings me fond memories of the Museum of flying in Santa Monica airport where i got to visit all of the WW-2 aircraft Especailly a P-51 Mustang called Cottonmouth owned by David G Price.
Yes, co-star (and Fox contract player) John Payne sat in for the band's REAL pianist, John "Chummy" MacGregor, in the film. Later, he'd appear in "Miracle on 34th Street".
@fromthesidelines And, let's not forget, it was the great Pat Friday who actually sang for Lyn Bari, as she also did in " Orchestra Wives". Thank-you, & thanks to You Tube, for keeping this wonderful music alive--we'll not ever hear this again, but thankfully, we have it now. No, John Payne didn't play that piano, but who cared ?? Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
Music then was about real life things, not this made up bs in todays rubbish, it had no swearing or drug refrances and was made to be moral boosting, kids these don't know what morels are in todays world.
I've loved GM's music since I was a kid. They'll never be a perfectionist in the popular music business with such pretty music, as Glenn was, ever again.
Glad we had him for a short period of time. My Dad was in WWII and everytime I hear Glenn's music, I think of my Dad and all his 79th Infantry buddies sluggin it out with the Nazi's on the front lines in France til he was wounded in southern France in Sept of 44.
Pat Friday FTW! Yes that lovely female voice you here belongs to Pat Friday and not Lynn Bari. Lynn Bari is the actress doing the lip syncing in this clip. Pat was pretty in her own right but maybe not as talented as an actress. Who knows?
@Audacissimus I'm 68 and it gives me goosebumps to hear you say that. I was born 3 years before Glen Miller died but grew up through late childhood with his music and, of course, other great band leaders of the time.
My first transistor radio introduced me to big band music and to Glenn Miller. I would listen to it in my room after going to bed with the earphone so as not to disturb anyone else. Almost every Saturday night, late, a disc jockey on KMPC in Los Angeles would play old radio sound checks of the big bands. It was literally music to my ear and I have loved big band music ever since.
I listened to The Big Band Music because of my Father. Who grew up with all of them. He's in Heaven now and this was his Favorite. Thank You Daddy for Introducing me to the Greatest American Music. I Miss You So.
Love this tune! Listen to the Miller reed section which was his trademark. Most bands had trumpets as leads. This tune is also in "The Glenn Miller Story" I believe it's in the scen where "Harry James" hurts his lip.
For a modern version, true to the original, listen to Manhattan Transfer do the tune.. This is one darn good song.. Great arrangement including the key change. don't like Tex on the sax though. Notice the change to a major key when the piano player starts to sing. Interesting.
You feel connected to the music your parents came of age listening to. Moreover, our parents movies were shown on TV in the 1960s when we were growing up.
Do I miss those days? Actually, I don't. I lived through them, had a BALL and am too old to worry much about anything. I'll be staring up at the lid of a pine box before very much longer, but I'll go into the ground with Lynns' voice in my ear, a smile on my face and a picture in my mind; the swastika being blown off of the Reichstag, in '45. My generation did that, and we got things exactly right. The smartest of you already know that. The rest will figure it out, eventually.
I was born a bit later (1975) but I just wanted to commnet to you; someone who lived in these great times.
I can only imagine how much you've seen of generations, technology and space exploration, which has driven our modern planet today. Your generation, the pride and class that it's held will always be an inspiration.
I wish you the very best and MANY more years.
P.S. I know the majority of men served in these years and if you did, might I also say THANK YOU.
Me too, but not in my country (it's ravaged by the Japanese T_T) or in Europe since war rages on. Probably I'd spend it in the US. But I'd love to go to the US in the late 40s & early 50s since I'd love to see that homy 1950s atmosphere. If I were to go to Europe, it would be in the 30s plus I'd love to see Germany at that time too (except for the fact that Jews were being harassed, no offense).
@moloch49 indeed, much better than now, no chavs, no drugs, places to work, not so much pollution, nice cars, nice music and nice people and no tesco's!
@covladuk1985 If I may add...polite, well dressed and mannered, as well as respectful of each other and extremely patriotic. Plus life had a comfortable pace.
For starters: is living in the present any better than living in the past? At least then we had a flourishing economy, a fairly coherent society, and a sense of purpose; look at the intrinsic and extrinsic decay of
society now and tell me if it's any better.
And, although I would not have incurred any liability to serve then (being a female), I would have PROUDLY
served my country. My father fought in WWII, and my ancestors have served in every war back to the
I'm sure this song is in many movies, but relatively recent, it was in the movie "Memphis Belle." A story of a B-17 from WW II. The crew was able to pick up this song on the radio while flying a mission.
I sure don't write lyrics like this anymore. I love it. Beautiful poetry set to beautiful music. It's sad that it can't be done today. Most hit records nowadays are vulgar and accepted by the public. People will listen to anything nowadays. Sad to see how music today is.
i have been a miller band fan many years as well. i think it's one called ''sun valley serenade''. miller only made 2 movies before joining the army. he was almost 40 and was given the kid glove treatment for volunteering and b/c of his age. he was made a captain after o.c.s. and allowed to form his own band for the purposes of entertaining troops. he never saw combat, but did his patriotic duty. sadly, he was reported missing as his plane disappeared from paris to london for a concert in 1945.
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the country was much, much more together. our uninvited third world refugees hadn't arrived yet. strict immigration laws maintained the u.s. at around 90 white, or of european heritage. teddy kennedy got behind the bright liberal plan it would be a good idea to make the u.s. ''multicultural''. we are darkening in complexion and are more and more divided every boatload or truckload of lovely mud people we receive every day.
thank you, teddy. hopefully, you can't do any more damage 6 ft. under.
from the looks of things on your page, you're not very well liked.
as far as the history lesson, i thought i'd let other people - some of them quite young - on this board about how nice it was back then. our public schools were no.1 in the world in test score performance, a woman could take a walk alone in any city downtown at night with no fear, crime in cities was virtually non-existant. i know it's hard for you to believe. you're so brainwashed things are better now you're beyond help.
Some of what you say is sort of true--although grossly exaggerated. There was plenty of crime in the 40s. There were no "world test scores" for schools back then, BTW. As for how "nice" it was, what about institutional racism? Check out classified ads from that era where people renting apts. would specify "Christian only"...There was a lot of nastiness to life in those days too....
Well, I'll tell you something, Donny, boy. Back in the day when this song was recorded, white people used to go to Harlem, to the jazz clubs, drink ourselves blind, pile into cab sas the sun was coming up and get home to Forest Hills ALIVE! Trust me, I know. I DID this! Try it now. I won't say, "Get back to me on it", because you WON'T. But we DID. The world was a better, brighter place on the day that Lynn made this record.
Gee, I wonder what would have happened if a black man walked into a bar in Forest Hills back then and ordered a drink? Would he have gotten back to Harlem (he wouldn't have been allowed to buy or rent anywhere else) alive or at least with all his teeth? I wonder, I wonder...There aspects of our culture that were brutish in the 30s and 40s---your refusal to acknowledge it suggests you're looking back with a highly selective memory. Nostalgia tends to have that effect.
I know Forest Hills is in NYC---it's where they play the US Open tennis tournament...why would you think I didn't know where it was?? BTW, I suspect the drink would have ben served in the bottle across his forehead....
To VFA103JollyRogers, I truly commend you for having the taste/ maturity to appreciate this magnificent music. I'm 63 y/o, & it was my Parents & their passion for music, especially Glen Miller, that so influenced me growing up. My Dad always said this was THE song for that " last dance" at 2:00 AM . He loved it, & never, ever tired of singing along to Pat Friday's magnificent vocal. Wolfsky9
@VFA103JollyRogers Same Here, just that I'm 18 hehehe. This kind of music is really wonderful. I'd like to go back in time and listen on a live all this "old" songs.
@VFA103JollyRogers Sadly you are so right. This was the music of my Parents generation : WW-2, & the 40's. I grew up listening to all of it because of them. If you really are 17 y/o, may I also encourage you to listen to the wonderful music of the Forgotten 50's?? There was so much great, great music from that decade--the one I grew up in & I strongly encourage you to listen. The Late, Great Jo Stafford, & " You Belong To me", & " Teach Me Tonite", are 2 of her very best,. Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
Just learned that Harry Warren and Mack Gordon also wrote I Had the Craziest Dream with the same stunning results as with this song--listen to how well the tune and the lyrics fit together. I recommend the YouTube of it by "FallingRain123". Listen to how Helen Forrest's voice caresses and coaxes the feeling out of the melody. Don't miss it.
Framblott 2 days ago
For the young teen posters who have found a taste for swing bands, I want to recommend these videos on Youtube: I Got a Gal In Kalamazoo from "cookiesden2", and Chatanooga Choo Choo from "jetiwarrior". And those hundreds of people danced during the number--not the jitterbug, but the foxtrot, which is an intoxicating dance because I'm holding her lightly in my arms smelling the perfume in her hair. Give it a try.
Framblott 2 days ago
I read all these posts. I'm very impressed w Pat Friday's voice, full and secure with a supple vibrato. (That IS Payne's voice, tho not his piano.) Tune by the great Harry Warren(I Had the Craziest Dream, by Helen Forrest) words by Mack Gordon. Captures the wonder, joy and reticence of young love like no other song. Every young woman should have the chance to hear this song while a junior in high school. I would like to hear the Dick Haymes version, the best male pop singing voice, IMO.
Framblott 2 days ago
Reminds me of my dad. 2nd Trumpet and sometimes vocalist, Alan Ayres Jazz Band, Birmingham University UK. R.I.P Phil Harrison 28th Nov 1920 - 7th Jan 2003.
brummiejojo 2 weeks ago
I'm here because my wife has concluded that I was shot down over the Pacific in 1944 and prefer the distant music of those day.
boobookins 2 weeks ago
My Grandparents song, always makes me cry!
AinaBB 3 weeks ago
Surprising,I've never heard this one! (a Gift)
theearthslave 4 weeks ago
It is important to recall that this is the voice of Pat Friday, covering for Lyn Bari, just as she did for her in " Orchestra Wives", singing " At Last", & " Serenade In Blue". Although Ms Bari had a good voice, it just wasn't up to GM's standards, & after auditioning, Pat Friday became Lyn's film voice. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 month ago
3:55 LOL
leonor123456 1 month ago
Yes, a small bit of movie trivia : this was the song the crew listened to for a few precious moments in the 1991 film, " Memphis Belle". The opening verse with the great Pat Friday & The Modernaires is what they play, & for years, I wondered if anyone else seeing that great film knew this musical masterpiece from Spring, Summer of '41. A stunning musical Tour De-Force!! Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 month ago
Just stunningly beautiful!Some fabulous guys from our local silver band played this at my Nan's funeral in our church.She loved this song so much.Wonderful to hear it played for her loud and live!Thanks for posting x
No1ClashFan 1 month ago
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Another masterpiece in my opinion is Johnny Hartman singing 'Lush Life' with John Coltrane playing saxophone along with. Good years back then, great music...ahhhh, it just puts me IN THE MOOD :)
drummerjacob 1 month ago
this music is so great - i would take my chances in a bomber...
lewstone1934 2 months ago
iS THAT THE MODERNAIRES?
Hrd2fndmale7825 3 months ago
@Hrd2fndmale7825 Yes, without Paula Kelly.
Azishome 2 months ago
Classy woman.. and beautiful figure, she has! A LADY.
NaughtyBastardIsh 4 months ago
When music was more important than acting
grevatious 4 months ago 3
awesome tune. heard this song on the movie The Memphis Belle, now i cant stop listening to it :)
FeelinGipper 4 months ago 2
@FeelinGipper took me years to find this song as i heard it on the movie aswell.
pbrew85 4 months ago
@pbrew85 well,the movie is available on vhs,and maybe on dvd too
annanoli 1 month ago
@annanoli
You're right. The movie is available on DVD under the title SUN VALLEY SERENADE starring John Payne and Sonja Henie. Enjoy.
ForEverGilda 1 month ago
@weightfeather1 Kudos to you, that would be Uncle Milty with the first cigar!
trct633 5 months ago
@trct633 Milton Berle-- it's true.
therealjoebloggs 4 months ago
LSD?
ChuckOriley 5 months ago
@weightfeather1 Look again. They do move!
4205lr 5 months ago
Composer was Harry Warren who also wrote other Miller's hits like Chattanooga Choo and At Last. In response to weightfeather, yes it was prerecorded, that's how musical movies are made.
poncarful 6 months ago
Glenn Miller is a genius!! I love this tune!! Just listen to the arrangements!!
Major2219 6 months ago
Can you tell me who wrote this song?!
biscuit2boy 6 months ago
This is beautiful! I'm so thankful to YouTube for allowing me to broaden my swing/big band music education. It just doesn't get better than this stuff. I'm so happy it's still around for us of the younger generations to explore and enjoy.
Hevynly1 6 months ago
Such elegance and superb style! Back then people used to be polite and educated. The music was fantastic, I have no other words.. at least im happy to know im not the only one who likes it. Anne Shelton is very beautiful... it would be great if women were a little like her the way she is, and men were also be like the gentlaman on the piano.
juanpx8 7 months ago
Did you see?Women don't need to show their boobs...
Vinocaful 7 months ago 11
@Vinocaful Yeah, it's was a great time... not like today....
valskater 6 months ago
When i hear this, i can close my eyes and see myself inside the bellie of a B-17 on it;s way over the channel
brad04970 8 months ago
@brad04970 Hi Brad you know I have always thought that all those young guys that died in all those missions whether in the air or on the ground were not wasted they hadn`t even lived ,so my way of thinking is that we may come back again .because of all things that you hear about it will always make you think who know ?
sharkieballs 8 months ago
@sharkieballs Being a xbox 360 fan and playing every night online with games like Black Ops I just wish that the game`s ppl would make a game about the involvement with the British and American forces flying the aircrafts accross the channel and playing all this music sutch as Glenn Miller with a good story that has all the things that happened here
sharkieballs 8 months ago
Glenn Miller brings back memories of the war years .My parents joined the Arm Forces and we kids were evacuated away from the bombing, mother went into the ATS and dad the Army and the only time you got to see our parents were when they were on leave. Then you came home to rationing those were the days sweet rationing OMG .Well im going to play some more music bye 4 now Ken
sharkieballs 8 months ago
Just got the film that this song comes from its great "Sun Valley Serenade"
Just to say hi to a new buddy Call Sign BRAD04970
sharkieballs 8 months ago
@sharkieballs I'm proud to be your friend. Your right Glen Miller will live foever. I read where England stood up to bombing raids for over 60 days. This is Deffinatally Courage Under-Fire.
brad04970 8 months ago
Hi all couldn`t get on here because of sign in probs (now sorted) LoL
Ken
sharkieballs 8 months ago
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brad04970 8 months ago
Ken Sharman UK. I love this kind of music thanks to everybody for you post Im 76 now and grew up in the war years .Use to listen to the radio in bed at night to the American Forces Network or AFM to us then
You know it makes me think, all you youngsters that like this music have you lived before
sharkieballs 8 months ago
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brad04970 8 months ago
@sharkieballs Hi Ken I woke up this moring singing White Cliffes of Dover. First of all i can't remember ever singing that, I must have heard it some place or some-where at sometime..
brad04970 8 months ago
does anyone know what is the movie called? (I”m just crazy about Glenn Miller)
McJayJazz 9 months ago
@McJayJazz Sun Valley Serenade from 1941.
perpetual61 8 months ago
This song gives me a feeling of romance no modern song has ever achieved for me. This'd be one of my first choices for the first dance at my wedding.
PippinRally 9 months ago
So much class
brad5000 9 months ago
dat is scheene musik :)
TheFroen 9 months ago
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What film is this from?
AubynStafford 10 months ago
I'm 22 years old, and I'm addicted to swing music. esp Glenn Miller, his composition is always different, long live Major Alton Glenn Miller!
edwardconway27 10 months ago
Wow, this is in stereo - all my GM records are mono. Now I gotta go find them in stereo!
Zone1242 10 months ago
The beautiful and unforgettable music of Glenn Miller, we lost a treasure.
claytungsten 10 months ago
FANTASTIC the best RIP !!
Manitouelvis 10 months ago
Thank you for posting all of these! ALL of the petty arguments aside about vocalists and such....like kurtenbach, I was born in 1956, and my Mother used to play Glenn Miller and Vaughn Monroe to get me and my siblings to go to sleep, on the old Sylvania HiFi...which I STILL have, along with the albums. My Mother just passed away March 6th, 2011.....and my appreciation of music is due to her influence. She worked in radio in the 40's in Philadelphia & got to meet all of the big band leaders.
CJCowboyReese1 10 months ago
they don't make em like this anymore!!!! born in 1956,i know this music because of my dad!!! lived through the 60's 70's 80's(2nd favororite era of music) 90's and now with today's JUNK!!! this music had feeling and emotion. made you feel strength, warmth,power. the words and music meant something!!!! anytime anyday bring it back!!!!
kurtenbach25 10 months ago
I Love it :))
istanbulnights1970 10 months ago
brilliant
TheCrazyWelsh 11 months ago
the real Glenn Miller and his band!!!
MIGUEL2005LIMA 11 months ago
moloch49, No need to take umbrage, it was just a passing comment that in the 1940's many family's lives were devastated by the war. In other terms I agree with you, in many respects society was much better in the 1940's and indeed the 1950's when the war was over. This a great lyric from a gentler age, and an excellent foxtrot. The joy of this music is that every syllable can be heard
DevonDandy 11 months ago
The most beautiful song...EVER! Is Paula Kelly the singer here???
rodrigonavarrodiaz 11 months ago
@rodrigonavarrodiaz Hi Pat Friday was the voice for Lynn Bari-see the Glenn Miller Trust website
kurtenbach25 10 months ago
Very haunting, the music is sort of taking me back to a time of dreams and hopes......
NaughtyBastardIsh 11 months ago
I heard all these songs when i was growing up and still love them. Got to see the Glenn Miller band last year it was great. i remember my parents would go out dancing on the weekends and the all got together for a drink at our house first and the ladies wore coktail dresses and the men wore suits and they actually danced touching each other it was a great erea
petcherb 11 months ago
Unbelievable how they made such good music then!!! What's happening nowadays???
martingb66 11 months ago
Isn't it amazing when you read all the posts on YouTube concerning this type of music, that many of today's teens love the old songs from the 30's and 40's. I'm so very glad. Let's hope that this big band music will never die.
1casey234 1 year ago
При первых звуках этой песни вспоминаю старый,но любимый "Memphis Belle".Строй B-17 летит в Германию,радист ловит в эфире эту мелодию...Очень гармоничная картина.
askn68 1 year ago
ME!!
ottodasgrunt 1 year ago
Who's here because of Memphis Belle? :)
kweechy 1 year ago 4
These guys are the beezneeez!
santoc 1 year ago
Robins sing in December to help establish winter territories although they are not on their breeding grounds, these are wintering birds and need to protect their food source from other birds that may invite themselves to indulge.
spindalis79 1 year ago
@spindalis79 brilliant now please explain "why do fools fall in love?" "Where did our love go?" "Who put the bomp?" and "Why does love got to be so sad?"
brentenireland 1 year ago
Is this Paula Kelly?
minitacomanofdoom 1 year ago
@minitacomanofdoom this is pat friday voicing for lynn bari in the movie sun valley serenade with glenn miller, milton berle, figure skater sonja henie and john payne-tex beneke also songs a great chatanooga choo choo as well
kurtenbach25 10 months ago
This song is simply mind boggling in it's musical complexity. I kinow--I spent an entire semester dissecting it in my Senior year in college. If you could see what the sheet music looks like--well, let's just say it--Harry Warren was a true music genius. Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
Wolfsky9 1 year ago 7
Memories are made of this; dance darling?
Jennings03 1 year ago
thanks
beforeourveryeyes 1 year ago
This may very well be the most romantic song ever written IMHO. The music, the reeds, the vocal, the lyrics, it just all brings back those memories of WWII and the G.I. pining for his lady, or his lady pining for him....BTW Manhattan Transfer do a great cover of this tune...
loocee95 1 year ago
perfection , music will never be this good again so sad , i was born too late . magnificent AAAAAAAAAA++++++ THANK YOU
bearcub410 1 year ago
This song brings me fond memories of the Museum of flying in Santa Monica airport where i got to visit all of the WW-2 aircraft Especailly a P-51 Mustang called Cottonmouth owned by David G Price.
88mroux 1 year ago
In Germany it was legal to rape his wife till 1991. So not everything was better in the past. Love the music not the time!
schmeinel 1 year ago
Alguien que tenga canas ,.. como se llama la cantante ?
rlsaavor 1 year ago
@rlsaavor lynn bari
clinicadecolon 1 year ago
@rlsaavor no todos los que tienen canas tienen que saber como se llama la cantante
Chito3509 1 year ago
Yes, co-star (and Fox contract player) John Payne sat in for the band's REAL pianist, John "Chummy" MacGregor, in the film. Later, he'd appear in "Miracle on 34th Street".
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
@fromthesidelines And, let's not forget, it was the great Pat Friday who actually sang for Lyn Bari, as she also did in " Orchestra Wives". Thank-you, & thanks to You Tube, for keeping this wonderful music alive--we'll not ever hear this again, but thankfully, we have it now. No, John Payne didn't play that piano, but who cared ?? Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
The guy playing piano (or pretending to) -- "Miracle on 34th Street"?
bus114 1 year ago
@bus114 john payne
christopher9426 1 year ago
Music then was about real life things, not this made up bs in todays rubbish, it had no swearing or drug refrances and was made to be moral boosting, kids these don't know what morels are in todays world.
covladuk1985 1 year ago 3
I'd much prefer to listen to this rather than the crap playing on the radio now a days...
einKolner 1 year ago 54
@einKolner You got that right!
rhapsodyinblah 9 months ago
I've loved GM's music since I was a kid. They'll never be a perfectionist in the popular music business with such pretty music, as Glenn was, ever again.
Glad we had him for a short period of time. My Dad was in WWII and everytime I hear Glenn's music, I think of my Dad and all his 79th Infantry buddies sluggin it out with the Nazi's on the front lines in France til he was wounded in southern France in Sept of 44.
bearclaw46 1 year ago 3
Wish they found glenn miller :(
covladuk1985 1 year ago
I love this tune...with Pat Friday. Fine flic also...ski lodges not condos.
uslines 1 year ago
Pat Friday FTW! Yes that lovely female voice you here belongs to Pat Friday and not Lynn Bari. Lynn Bari is the actress doing the lip syncing in this clip. Pat was pretty in her own right but maybe not as talented as an actress. Who knows?
emerging2012 1 year ago
DOPE!!!!!!! This will be played at my wedding. Thank the lord for beautiful music! Men lighten their labors with song.
manettical23 1 year ago 2
Paula Kelly????
rodrigonavarrodiaz 1 year ago
I'm 15. Great to hear I'm not the only one.
Audacissimus 1 year ago 36
@Audacissimus I'm 68 and it gives me goosebumps to hear you say that. I was born 3 years before Glen Miller died but grew up through late childhood with his music and, of course, other great band leaders of the time.
charade97 1 year ago
@Audacissimus Incidentally, this movie is called 'Sun Valley Seranade' and is available on DVD.
charade97 1 year ago
@Audacissimus I've loved this music ever since I was a teenager. Glenn Miller forever! His music will live forever.
AngusTCat 1 year ago 2
@Audacissimus
you make me hopeful for the future friend! Spread the word... this is American heritage to be proud of.
BigJH37 9 months ago 2
@Audacissimus and I'm 16, also I love this music
Alsthom1975 4 months ago 2
My first transistor radio introduced me to big band music and to Glenn Miller. I would listen to it in my room after going to bed with the earphone so as not to disturb anyone else. Almost every Saturday night, late, a disc jockey on KMPC in Los Angeles would play old radio sound checks of the big bands. It was literally music to my ear and I have loved big band music ever since.
mortygwhiz 1 year ago
это вам не хит-хоп или репп! это не дебильные звёзды шоу-бизнеса и эвровидения!!Это музыка!!!! Высший класс!!
irakli220570 1 year ago
melts this 81 yr.old heart...10 times better than Plavix.
Jerry
canamger1 1 year ago
That's Lynn Bari on vocals and actor, John Payne (Miracle On 34th Street) at the piano.
rasrealtor 1 year ago
I listened to The Big Band Music because of my Father. Who grew up with all of them. He's in Heaven now and this was his Favorite. Thank You Daddy for Introducing me to the Greatest American Music. I Miss You So.
perpetual61 1 year ago
@perpetual61
I'm understanig you, very emotionel!!
abraxes23 1 year ago
Timeless wonderful so romantic WILL LIVE FORVER as long as people love good music. thanks for posting.
gf1001 1 year ago
love the song ,,, me and my mom were just watching it and she was wondering who the female singer is ??
jsemancik1 1 year ago
@jsemancik1 The actress is Lynn Bari. The voice is credited to Lorraine Elliot but it was,in fact, Pat Friday (Helen Patricia Freiday)
SuperAncientmariner 1 year ago
Прекрасная музыка, это было удивительное время, и музыка это показывает. Изумительно.
DeKirillyo 1 year ago
i need a time machine, i want to go back for this time and see them with my eyes and listen...fantastic performance and music.
59Putyin 1 year ago
...and John "Chummy" MacGregor, Miller's pianist, is actually playing for John Payne.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
The clothes, the sound, the hair, the makeup - a dream :)
NaughtyBastardIsh 1 year ago
Very classy.
tapmuroc 1 year ago
Another great old Harry Warren tune!!
revbeni 1 year ago
awesome :)
medvedof86 2 years ago
Love this tune! Listen to the Miller reed section which was his trademark. Most bands had trumpets as leads. This tune is also in "The Glenn Miller Story" I believe it's in the scen where "Harry James" hurts his lip.
For a modern version, true to the original, listen to Manhattan Transfer do the tune.. This is one darn good song.. Great arrangement including the key change. don't like Tex on the sax though. Notice the change to a major key when the piano player starts to sing. Interesting.
loocee95 2 years ago
Is this the music on the film memphis belle on the radio before the bomb run?
covladuk1985 2 years ago 2
Yes
mjygvcf 2 years ago
@covladuk1985 Yes, it is!
55westend 1 year ago
thanks for the info.
matuschkas 2 years ago
is that lynn bari singing,or is it someone else.thanks
matuschkas 2 years ago
Pat Friday is the singer.
4205lr 2 years ago
avoe!!!
irakli220570 2 years ago
to:dale1966gto
You feel connected to the music your parents came of age listening to. Moreover, our parents movies were shown on TV in the 1960s when we were growing up.
varietyguy 2 years ago
you took the words right out of my mouth
Mr101drill 2 years ago
This is from the film "Sun Valley Serenade" (Fox, 1942).
varietyguy 2 years ago
Do I miss those days? Actually, I don't. I lived through them, had a BALL and am too old to worry much about anything. I'll be staring up at the lid of a pine box before very much longer, but I'll go into the ground with Lynns' voice in my ear, a smile on my face and a picture in my mind; the swastika being blown off of the Reichstag, in '45. My generation did that, and we got things exactly right. The smartest of you already know that. The rest will figure it out, eventually.
theshadow1932 2 years ago 4
theshadow1932,
I was born a bit later (1975) but I just wanted to commnet to you; someone who lived in these great times.
I can only imagine how much you've seen of generations, technology and space exploration, which has driven our modern planet today. Your generation, the pride and class that it's held will always be an inspiration.
I wish you the very best and MANY more years.
P.S. I know the majority of men served in these years and if you did, might I also say THANK YOU.
pnktout 2 years ago
If there were such a thing as a time machine, I'd book a one-way trip back to the 40s...
moloch49 2 years ago 72
Me too, but not in my country (it's ravaged by the Japanese T_T) or in Europe since war rages on. Probably I'd spend it in the US. But I'd love to go to the US in the late 40s & early 50s since I'd love to see that homy 1950s atmosphere. If I were to go to Europe, it would be in the 30s plus I'd love to see Germany at that time too (except for the fact that Jews were being harassed, no offense).
jaguarjaguarjaguarja 2 years ago
I,ve often thought the same myself - I,d go back no question about it
moonfaeriemagick 2 years ago
@moloch49 indeed, much better than now, no chavs, no drugs, places to work, not so much pollution, nice cars, nice music and nice people and no tesco's!
covladuk1985 1 year ago
@covladuk1985 If I may add...polite, well dressed and mannered, as well as respectful of each other and extremely patriotic. Plus life had a comfortable pace.
pcimmino 1 year ago
@moloch49 And find out what happend to glen?
covladuk1985 1 year ago
@moloch49 so would i and i would stay there
tdqpatches 1 year ago
@moloch49 OMG me too! Everyday!
MousieButtons 1 year ago
@moloch49
I'll tag along. But we'd have to travel the "Chatanooga Choo-Choo".
What fabulous music in the 40's.
rasrealtor 1 year ago
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rasrealtor 1 year ago
@moloch49 Book me a seat too!
charade97 1 year ago
@moloch49 I like to go with you.
MrLostHorizons 1 year ago
@moloch49 ME TOO!!!!
sautee01 1 year ago
@moloch49: You read my mind exactly.
oldbanjoman 1 year ago
@moloch49 you might not if you landed up fighting in that war
DevonDandy 11 months ago
@DevonDandy
For starters: is living in the present any better than living in the past? At least then we had a flourishing economy, a fairly coherent society, and a sense of purpose; look at the intrinsic and extrinsic decay of
society now and tell me if it's any better.
And, although I would not have incurred any liability to serve then (being a female), I would have PROUDLY
served my country. My father fought in WWII, and my ancestors have served in every war back to the
Revolution.
moloch49 11 months ago
tjhig- were better 60 year ago. we are headed toward doom.
dale1966gto 2 years ago
What movie is this from?
AngryDragon22 2 years ago
I'm sure this song is in many movies, but relatively recent, it was in the movie "Memphis Belle." A story of a B-17 from WW II. The crew was able to pick up this song on the radio while flying a mission.
krygiert 2 years ago
Thanks for the history lesson Dale..... but I thought we were fighting against facism. Guess I was wrong...
djg4380 2 years ago
I sure don't write lyrics like this anymore. I love it. Beautiful poetry set to beautiful music. It's sad that it can't be done today. Most hit records nowadays are vulgar and accepted by the public. People will listen to anything nowadays. Sad to see how music today is.
reneecalling 2 years ago 2
What a men! So charmin`and elegants! And with music.... Real gentlemen....
leanvivi 2 years ago
I know what you mean. When I visited America, the men all spit. From what I understand, they didn't use to do that.
cenotosa1 2 years ago
thanx dale1966gt0 for telling me what the movie is called and im 14 and yes i really love and appreiciate this kinda music
mike83507 2 years ago
what movie is this scene from? becuase i like this music and im a fan of glenn miller
mike83507 2 years ago
i have been a miller band fan many years as well. i think it's one called ''sun valley serenade''. miller only made 2 movies before joining the army. he was almost 40 and was given the kid glove treatment for volunteering and b/c of his age. he was made a captain after o.c.s. and allowed to form his own band for the purposes of entertaining troops. he never saw combat, but did his patriotic duty. sadly, he was reported missing as his plane disappeared from paris to london for a concert in 1945.
dale1966gto 2 years ago
I love this song. It was time when people still appreciated listening to normal music and the world wasn't such a f--ked up place back then...
AsianLegion88 2 years ago
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the country was much, much more together. our uninvited third world refugees hadn't arrived yet. strict immigration laws maintained the u.s. at around 90 white, or of european heritage. teddy kennedy got behind the bright liberal plan it would be a good idea to make the u.s. ''multicultural''. we are darkening in complexion and are more and more divided every boatload or truckload of lovely mud people we receive every day.
thank you, teddy. hopefully, you can't do any more damage 6 ft. under.
dale1966gto 2 years ago
lol casual racism congrats on being such an awful person to shit up a comment thread about I Know Why
Syjefroi 2 years ago
from the looks of things on your page, you're not very well liked.
as far as the history lesson, i thought i'd let other people - some of them quite young - on this board about how nice it was back then. our public schools were no.1 in the world in test score performance, a woman could take a walk alone in any city downtown at night with no fear, crime in cities was virtually non-existant. i know it's hard for you to believe. you're so brainwashed things are better now you're beyond help.
dale1966gto 2 years ago
Some of what you say is sort of true--although grossly exaggerated. There was plenty of crime in the 40s. There were no "world test scores" for schools back then, BTW. As for how "nice" it was, what about institutional racism? Check out classified ads from that era where people renting apts. would specify "Christian only"...There was a lot of nastiness to life in those days too....
donwert 2 years ago
Well, I'll tell you something, Donny, boy. Back in the day when this song was recorded, white people used to go to Harlem, to the jazz clubs, drink ourselves blind, pile into cab sas the sun was coming up and get home to Forest Hills ALIVE! Trust me, I know. I DID this! Try it now. I won't say, "Get back to me on it", because you WON'T. But we DID. The world was a better, brighter place on the day that Lynn made this record.
theshadow1932 2 years ago
Gee, I wonder what would have happened if a black man walked into a bar in Forest Hills back then and ordered a drink? Would he have gotten back to Harlem (he wouldn't have been allowed to buy or rent anywhere else) alive or at least with all his teeth? I wonder, I wonder...There aspects of our culture that were brutish in the 30s and 40s---your refusal to acknowledge it suggests you're looking back with a highly selective memory. Nostalgia tends to have that effect.
donwert 2 years ago
@donwert In response to your question...He would have been served a drink. FYI Foreset Hills is in NYC
pcimmino 2 years ago
I know Forest Hills is in NYC---it's where they play the US Open tennis tournament...why would you think I didn't know where it was?? BTW, I suspect the drink would have ben served in the bottle across his forehead....
donwert 2 years ago
If this doesn't make you cry, then you ain't human!
Factnotfictionpeople 2 years ago 2
I am only 17 but I love this type of music, there will be nothing like this ever again
VFA103JollyRogers 2 years ago 39
To VFA103JollyRogers, I truly commend you for having the taste/ maturity to appreciate this magnificent music. I'm 63 y/o, & it was my Parents & their passion for music, especially Glen Miller, that so influenced me growing up. My Dad always said this was THE song for that " last dance" at 2:00 AM . He loved it, & never, ever tired of singing along to Pat Friday's magnificent vocal. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 2 years ago 2
sadly i fear you are correct I was in my early teen years and feel in love with pop music of the era.
Charliebear65 2 years ago
watch the movie memphis belle.
piperboy26 2 years ago
@VFA103JollyRogers Yeah there will ill bet you that it` s gonna make a come back
SuperScenter 1 year ago
@VFA103JollyRogers I am only 15 but I also love this type of musik
edthcz 1 year ago 4
@VFA103JollyRogers You're right, they don't know how to write music like this.
MrLostHorizons 1 year ago
@VFA103JollyRogers Same Here, just that I'm 18 hehehe. This kind of music is really wonderful. I'd like to go back in time and listen on a live all this "old" songs.
RevekaTakarai 1 year ago
@RevekaTakarai I am 18 now though (lol)
VFA103JollyRogers 1 year ago
@VFA103JollyRogers Sadly you are so right. This was the music of my Parents generation : WW-2, & the 40's. I grew up listening to all of it because of them. If you really are 17 y/o, may I also encourage you to listen to the wonderful music of the Forgotten 50's?? There was so much great, great music from that decade--the one I grew up in & I strongly encourage you to listen. The Late, Great Jo Stafford, & " You Belong To me", & " Teach Me Tonite", are 2 of her very best,. Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
@Wolfsky9 I'm 18 now and thanks for the list about the 50's
VFA103JollyRogers 1 year ago