JACKIE GLEASON and his ORCHESTRA "YOU'RE A HABIT.." "MELANCH

[countryboywis]

Well how about this? I'm 31 and have 7 Gleason LPs.. :)

[tallpaul521]

I have this LP..Music.Martinis and Memories. I'm 43 and I love the GREAT one. This song was first heard on film in the WB's "42nd Street"..indeed it's a song about cocaine, whiich was legal in the 1930'.

[TheIntrinsic]

@tallpaul521 It's not neccesarily a

[TheIntrinsic]

@tallpaul521 It's not neccesarily about cocaine, it's likely a simple love song where the songwriter gets fancy with the way hewrites the music. 

[Alicecbrown]

How can I find out which album "If I could Be Wtih You' by Jackie Gleason is on? Woody Allen features it in his last comedy with Larry David.

[davehanson11]

I am 40 and pretty much a music fanatic (guessing most that chyme in are as well ;). Wow.. what an incredible talent. Just read more on his career and bio on wikipedia. I remember seeing reruns of The Honeymooners and remembering as a kid how talented he was (not many film cuts and would have to act for several or more minutes, non-stop - that has got to be tough, esp as well as which they pulled it off). Anyway.. and the orchestra. Timeless. Nothing exists like this now imo

[adzug]

i like the mix of strings and horns and that its sad/sweet sounding.

[msdanford77]

I have an RCA player identical to this one.

I would send it off and have it restored if

I could be certain it would sound as good as this one does. The music is excellent by the way. Thanks!

[posaico]

the second is the superbeautiful melancholy rhapsody a melody from the great bands era, I have the tommy dorsey version, but in the fifties gleason made this better interpretation, more dramatic and tender; latter I like even more the king curtis's one

[VideoMusicManiac]

I'm a club dj, older now but I've always listened to this stuff to relax....

[spudnutsncoffee]

Awesome.

I am only 46, which means I was born in 1962, and that was quite some time after Jackie had become a huge star and big band leader. I love this sort of music. I sometimes wish I had been born in that era or the 30's and 40's. That was truly a golden time.

[hallnoats4ever]

i wish i were born before 1920, before durgs were illegal. In New Orleans you could buy a new paper and a days worth of cocain. Heroin was sold in the sear and robucks catalog. You could ask a cop to pull the belt around your arm as you shot up then do a line off the hood of his car. The golden day

[adzug]

@hallnoats4ever well that is freedom, and now pharm companys push drugs and somehow its ok.

[klavers]

Well, me too !am also 46....love this music!!!Have some on cd already....and

have bought a 4 cd box last friday....'' The Complete sessions with Bobby Hackett.

My ears will be pleased!

[heebieandjeebie]

@spudnutsncoffee  you sound exactly like me!!!!! I was born in 63...