I heard thede songs coverd but al IS the man . Wow moonlit night , slicked back hiar an old 40s mike and a tux with swooning women cooing ; hevan... Im in hevan...
This the first time I've heard of or heard Al Bowlly. Considering how crude recording was at that time he has a extraordinary voice. Thank you for the introduction
@SymphonieDerJugend Moonlight On The Highway // ............. Moonlight on the highway // Moonlight on the plain // Turn your light on my way // Through memory lane // .. Moonlight on the highway // Guide me while I roam // Shine upon each byway // That leads me to home // .. A place where roses remember // And folks forget me not // What else // Is worth dreaming of // .. From your silver skyway // Smiling up above // Moonlight on the highway // Please lead me to love // ..
In my opinion Al Bowlly really is the greatest singer of any kind who's ever lived. If anyone has him singing "I'm For You a Hundred Percent" please upload it. It is probably his best ever song, though most people think "The Very Thought of You" is.
We'll take Al anyway we can get him! What a shame both he and John Lennon - magically talented men - didn't live out their full life span. What a loss to the world of music .
I fell in love with this kind of music when I was in my late 20's (now 44) by accident. I was on vacation driving toward cape cod, Mass at night. There was a full moon, the air was fresh, the road was clear, and the sand dunes was picture perfect. Then Al Bowlly comes on singing "midnight, the stars and you". If more young people today had the same experience I had, I think this kind of music will be popular again.
Maybe in our Great Depression of 2010 we'll have a Al Bowlly. I'm so scared of what's going to happen to us in the next few months. At least in the last Depression, they had good music. Good luck everyone.
I'm 43, and when I was little, my Dad sometimes listened to evocative music like this. There's something lovely and sad about it that meanders through the senses, and I miss Al Bowlly though I only discovered him today. Finding these pieces on youtube is extraordinary!
im 16 , and am around a lot of the now generation music we have today, and when i hear this music, its weird to say but its like i go back in time to hear this kind of, music, it's simple but yet beautiful..I really think if more kids today heard this type of music, it would get more appreciation.
I discovered him 45 years ago when I moved to Chicago and spied an "Al Bowlly" section in Rose Records in the Loop. He became a part of the fabric of my life. There has never been another singer to surpass him. Just think what a career he would have enjoyed after the war and big band era.
ESPETACULAR!!! LINDO, MEIGO. TUDO DE BOM . CREIO SE PUDESSE ESCOLHER TERIA VIVIDO NAS DÉCADAS DE 30 até NO MAXIMO 45.TODOS TEM UMA EXPRESSÃO MAIS CALMA LEVANDO A PENSAR QUE TEM MAIS CALMA PARA APROVEITAR MAIS, VIVER MAIS, SEM ESTA CORRERIA DE HOJE.OBRIGADA POR POSTAR ESTE VÍDEO ENCANTADOR. MEGPESSOA.10/02/2010
The most amazing and charismatic singer I have ever heard. Since I first heard him sing his voice and musicality haunts me. I used to think I was living through one of the best periods of history, but our lives are so complicated with must have's and represive laws. Al Bowlly's music and video's conjours in my mind an era of simplicity and refinement and makes me realise how degraded our society has become. We called it progress but that was an illusion.
bit of a misconception concerning the times considering they had the Great Depression, mass unemployment, mass poverty, massive class barriers and far bigger gap between haves and have nots, mass anti-Semitism, fascists ruling most of Europe with genocide and war and repressive laws everywhere...plus Bowlly was killed in the Blitz and buried in a mass grave
This is a great song but too much dance band and not enough of Bowlly's vocals...
innit, that was the style back then in Britain. The dance band was the star, not so much the singer. But Al managed to make people realize what they were missing.
@dogmaticmart You are absolutely right.I mean we are so materialistic, constantly bombarded from birth with silly notions that we MUST HAVE unnecessary things like polio vaccinations and of course who hasn’t fallen victim to repressive laws such as the right for colored men look at a white woman without being lynched sans-trial. I say life would be much better if the world was like it was back then when you could die from the common cold. Do you REALLY think the world was better back then?
LOL - Ya gotta love coming to a YouTube link to hear peaceful vintage music and then all the posted comments below are all nice and positive as well. It's a rarity on here! Glad to see people still enjoy listening to the old old stuff! :-)
This is one of my Bowlly favourites, along with "Hang Out the Stars in Indiana" (which he recorded in 1931 with Ray Noble's orchestra). Such a shame he died at a comparatively young age.
I have been a Bowlly fan for 40 year or more but this is the 1st time I hear this song! Thank you John this is much appreciated, another lovely song from Al
There was a great documentary on Al Bowlly on BBC4 recently.
Its pity there is not more of Bowlly's vocals on this song, but it was from an era when the band was king rather than the singer. Bowlly was the first to later change that in the UK, and its been like that ever since.
He was unlucky to come against Bing Crosby, so never got the worldwide recognition.
Its a pity he lies in a communal grave in Hanwell, west London, after being killed in the blitz.
I grew up in Hanwell and used to visit the memorial in West Kensington Cemetery to read the inscription with Al's name and to remember his wonderful talent.
Absolutely fantastic...I am all a'quiver. I have searched and searched for this track on all Al Bowlly CD recordings and haven't found it. I only have it on a cassette that belonged to my father. Would love an MP3 version. Valpy do you know if this track features on any CD?
It is available from Vocalion - just do a search for the title 'Georgia's Got A Moon' with Lew Stone and you will find it there. The CD number is CDEA 6056.
I heard thede songs coverd but al IS the man . Wow moonlit night , slicked back hiar an old 40s mike and a tux with swooning women cooing ; hevan... Im in hevan...
Joebunkyss1 1 day ago
This the first time I've heard of or heard Al Bowlly. Considering how crude recording was at that time he has a extraordinary voice. Thank you for the introduction
kageees2276 3 months ago
thank you!
ebutuoy62 3 months ago
top choon, remember the Dennis Potter play
duffymoony 3 months ago
Wonderful in the 1930s and even more wonderful in 2011. Thank you for posting this amazing work. I'm now calm.
eric5906 5 months ago
Has anyone got the lyrics of this heavenlike song?
Please, I'm searchin' for them for so long.
Moonlight on the Highway is one of my absolutely faves. :)
Al Bowlly! ♥
SymphonieDerJugend 5 months ago
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poolkop7 4 months ago
poolkop7 4 months ago
@poolkop7 thank you so much! :) ♥
SymphonieDerJugend 4 months ago
This song sounds like just the straight dope..
missopan 6 months ago
There is at least one radio station that plays this specific genre': KSPC 88.7/Claremont, CA. On Sundays from 2-5 (sometimes 1-5), host Randy
Bryant features music from the 1920's-1950's (with an hour of vintage
radio shows in-between from 3-4). Not a powerful station, but well
worth searching out if you're somewhere east of L.A.
leftcoasttim 8 months ago
sincere and deep. it makes me want to be a better musician
brendenjparker 9 months ago
This guy is great! Thanks for taking the time to upload. He is the first crooner in front of Crosby.
fupdat 9 months ago
Hi. I love hearing good music here. I am 56 and born too late. Thank God for Youtube.
1shakeys 1 year ago
In my opinion Al Bowlly really is the greatest singer of any kind who's ever lived. If anyone has him singing "I'm For You a Hundred Percent" please upload it. It is probably his best ever song, though most people think "The Very Thought of You" is.
We'll take Al anyway we can get him! What a shame both he and John Lennon - magically talented men - didn't live out their full life span. What a loss to the world of music .
paulkate72 1 year ago
Thanks for more Al...can never have enough. And thanks to Dennis Potter, who did so much to keep his music alive.
roachy333 1 year ago
This gave me goosebumps. I love it when music does that!
notquiteastar 1 year ago
so romantic and refined..i love this music!
scarbo93 1 year ago
MOONIFICENT!
Elegant Al at his Best.
Thank you and
Thank you Fred for sharing.
A Gazillion STARS!
genia106 1 year ago
I fell in love with this kind of music when I was in my late 20's (now 44) by accident. I was on vacation driving toward cape cod, Mass at night. There was a full moon, the air was fresh, the road was clear, and the sand dunes was picture perfect. Then Al Bowlly comes on singing "midnight, the stars and you". If more young people today had the same experience I had, I think this kind of music will be popular again.
Khantikone123 1 year ago 3
This is so ROMANTIC!!! I just LOVE sweet Moon Songs from the 20s & 30s.
roybo1930 1 year ago
Maybe in our Great Depression of 2010 we'll have a Al Bowlly. I'm so scared of what's going to happen to us in the next few months. At least in the last Depression, they had good music. Good luck everyone.
eric5906 1 year ago 2
@eric5906 A-MEN!!! I`m scared also!!:O And it takes quite a lot to scare Me.
roybo1930 1 year ago
Have I died and gone to Heaven??? Tears of elegance......
Memusclebear 1 year ago
I'm 43, and when I was little, my Dad sometimes listened to evocative music like this. There's something lovely and sad about it that meanders through the senses, and I miss Al Bowlly though I only discovered him today. Finding these pieces on youtube is extraordinary!
annidez 1 year ago
im 16 , and am around a lot of the now generation music we have today, and when i hear this music, its weird to say but its like i go back in time to hear this kind of, music, it's simple but yet beautiful..I really think if more kids today heard this type of music, it would get more appreciation.
f0gell 1 year ago 7
@f0gell I agree, and I also believe that it is the job of people like you and I who must spread this great music to the masses.
Bloozboy91 1 year ago
@f0gell GOD BLESS YOU! Your comment just made My day!
roybo1930 1 year ago
it's not old stuff to me at all. I feel I lived this era, but am only 40.
sanger2005 1 year ago
Wonderful. Also It's such a relief to find a clip which has 5 pages of good comments..... -and not one person has used the inane word "awesome"!
incongra 1 year ago
this is so beautifully and effortlessly sung.. I can't find a recording of it anywhere.
ryugin511 1 year ago
He Was Such An Amazing Artist ...
... I Love Him !
Christlicious 1 year ago
....delightful...!
yedon68 1 year ago
I discovered him 45 years ago when I moved to Chicago and spied an "Al Bowlly" section in Rose Records in the Loop. He became a part of the fabric of my life. There has never been another singer to surpass him. Just think what a career he would have enjoyed after the war and big band era.
waynebrasler 1 year ago
ESPETACULAR!!! LINDO, MEIGO. TUDO DE BOM . CREIO SE PUDESSE ESCOLHER TERIA VIVIDO NAS DÉCADAS DE 30 até NO MAXIMO 45.TODOS TEM UMA EXPRESSÃO MAIS CALMA LEVANDO A PENSAR QUE TEM MAIS CALMA PARA APROVEITAR MAIS, VIVER MAIS, SEM ESTA CORRERIA DE HOJE.OBRIGADA POR POSTAR ESTE VÍDEO ENCANTADOR. MEGPESSOA.10/02/2010
MEGPESSOA 2 years ago
The most amazing and charismatic singer I have ever heard. Since I first heard him sing his voice and musicality haunts me. I used to think I was living through one of the best periods of history, but our lives are so complicated with must have's and represive laws. Al Bowlly's music and video's conjours in my mind an era of simplicity and refinement and makes me realise how degraded our society has become. We called it progress but that was an illusion.
dogmaticmart 2 years ago 43
bit of a misconception concerning the times considering they had the Great Depression, mass unemployment, mass poverty, massive class barriers and far bigger gap between haves and have nots, mass anti-Semitism, fascists ruling most of Europe with genocide and war and repressive laws everywhere...plus Bowlly was killed in the Blitz and buried in a mass grave
This is a great song but too much dance band and not enough of Bowlly's vocals...
innit27 2 years ago
innit, that was the style back then in Britain. The dance band was the star, not so much the singer. But Al managed to make people realize what they were missing.
daughterrevolution 2 years ago
@dogmaticmart I could not have said it any better!
roybo1930 1 year ago
@dogmaticmart You are absolutely right.I mean we are so materialistic, constantly bombarded from birth with silly notions that we MUST HAVE unnecessary things like polio vaccinations and of course who hasn’t fallen victim to repressive laws such as the right for colored men look at a white woman without being lynched sans-trial. I say life would be much better if the world was like it was back then when you could die from the common cold. Do you REALLY think the world was better back then?
kayEnt3rtainm3nt 1 year ago
Im 18 years old and I love this song
stylelix 2 years ago 5
LOL - Ya gotta love coming to a YouTube link to hear peaceful vintage music and then all the posted comments below are all nice and positive as well. It's a rarity on here! Glad to see people still enjoy listening to the old old stuff! :-)
MisterHuskey 2 years ago 35
Wonderful voice
palinlondon 2 years ago 3
Just lovely :)
paul45862 2 years ago 3
Sounds kinda like Song Of India, no?
redenamel 2 years ago 2
A bit like the opening of Jungle book perhaps ?
awol2602 2 years ago
Wow! Fantastic!
PopHorizonScanner 2 years ago 2
SEE THE MOON, PLEASE SEE THE MOON !!
frankbar007 2 years ago
Sigh...
pomeroy40144 2 years ago 5
where can i dl this?
tiberiusgun 2 years ago
Good Sir, you must mean where can i buy this?
wijse 2 years ago 2
He loves the moon ^^
HomeDoorPro 2 years ago
For popular singers Bowlly set a very high bar over which not even Sinatra was able to jump...great posting thanks!
jollywigs 3 years ago 14
He sure is something, isn't he? What a dream
charliebubblesoar 3 years ago 9
Lovely tribute to one of the nicest singers ever. Thank you
Livemobile 3 years ago 7
Troppo bello! Wonderful, Timeless, Romantic
cygnus011 3 years ago 3
amazing. goose bumps within first 5 seconds. it's a shame these days are gone.
ktizzler1973 3 years ago 6
brings a lump to my throat. great effort
johnadaro 3 years ago
Wow, very impressive!! Bowlly & Stone are real masters in the art of moving.
Masquerade03 3 years ago
This is one of my Bowlly favourites, along with "Hang Out the Stars in Indiana" (which he recorded in 1931 with Ray Noble's orchestra). Such a shame he died at a comparatively young age.
Linhombre69 3 years ago
Oo - nice typeface! What is it?
velvetviolette 3 years ago
Great video Valpy, got into Bowlly after the bbc 4 doc. Can't get enough of the master now
greenman64 3 years ago 2
I have been a Bowlly fan for 40 year or more but this is the 1st time I hear this song! Thank you John this is much appreciated, another lovely song from Al
Snorkymac 3 years ago 2
Great video,great song ,great singing! thank you
romanyman 4 years ago
yes i remember that it was good wasnt it
Artist3303 4 years ago
There was a great documentary on Al Bowlly on BBC4 recently.
Its pity there is not more of Bowlly's vocals on this song, but it was from an era when the band was king rather than the singer. Bowlly was the first to later change that in the UK, and its been like that ever since.
He was unlucky to come against Bing Crosby, so never got the worldwide recognition.
Its a pity he lies in a communal grave in Hanwell, west London, after being killed in the blitz.
innit27 4 years ago
I grew up in Hanwell and used to visit the memorial in West Kensington Cemetery to read the inscription with Al's name and to remember his wonderful talent.
fatsfan70 3 years ago 3
Great stuff. Bowlly at this best and tastefully selected pictures. Thanks a lot.
KnockelII 4 years ago
This guy is amazing!!
fenderwhammy 4 years ago 2
lovely song!
lalalasamburg 4 years ago
Sadly his life was taken at the prime of his career excellent singer much better than modern crap that is passed of as music
Artist3303 4 years ago 3
What a Great Recording by a Great singer.
whispperson 4 years ago
Absolutely fantastic...I am all a'quiver. I have searched and searched for this track on all Al Bowlly CD recordings and haven't found it. I only have it on a cassette that belonged to my father. Would love an MP3 version. Valpy do you know if this track features on any CD?
Frances1770 4 years ago 2
It is available from Vocalion - just do a search for the title 'Georgia's Got A Moon' with Lew Stone and you will find it there. The CD number is CDEA 6056.
ashbyjay 2 years ago
Excellent! I am just giddy (:
auldhat 4 years ago
Tremendous tribute to a great singer!!!Could you make Close Your Eyes with Al Bowlly/Ray Noble, a future project
collingsd1 4 years ago
A lovely tribute!
LKayL 4 years ago 2
Amazing recording, great presentation. Many thanks
hloandy 4 years ago
Wow!Thank you for sharing this with us!
johneddy5 4 years ago
A voice that gives you goosebumps. Beautifully done.
Steelstrung1 4 years ago 2
Gorgeous!! Now do 'Blue Moon' with Al Bowlly ;)
ashbyjay 4 years ago
Thanks for that - I enjoyed it.
stevedexteruk 4 years ago