Blessings to all who have been thanking me for WWII service. I was a pilot instructor and sent a lot of good guys into combat. I guess it took all kinds of us to do the job. Some of my friends became glider pilots and lost their lives dropping into the fighting. Glenn Miller was the ideal band leader, and we went through high school with his music and that continued on into the war years. jn major usaf retired.
This was the first version of "At Last" I ever heard and it was an immediate favorite. 20th Century movie sound tracks of Orchestra Wives and Sun Valley Serenade were the sources. The film soundtracks were very high quality for issue on recordings in the early 1960's. It couldn't have been very long after listening to this version of the song that Etta James' recording was released.
If this doesn't make you tear-up and long for a sadly long gone I'm sorry for you.Amazing that those microphones in the 30's and 40's managed to pick up the vocals without performing simulated oral sex on them as modern artists do while screaming into them.
...this song was probably the favorite of my dad, who would sing it to my mom even after she was in a home suffering from alzheimer's. he was with the 9th infantry division from 1940 on and saw plenty of action all through north africa, sicily, normandy, france & germany. he waited until after the war to marry and now are both 'at last' again in heaven.
@auggiedoggie1946 My respects to Etta's family. This is one of the 1st 45 RPMs I owned. BUT have you ever listened to a version of this song done by Glen Miller & His Orch. with singers Eberle and Lynn from 15+ years ealier, before the art of pop music started to deteriorate? Take a look at our true American music before you hoist Ms. James up too high.
Thanks for that Malloy - I was a bit weak on the detail there. Now I recall, Henry Potter was a cavalry man. Was one of his sayings 'Horsefeathers!' or something similar?
No, that was Maclean Stevenson who played that part. Col Blake was killed enroute to the States and wa replaced by Col henry potter, one Harry Morgan. he loved his his old mare. Harry Morgan quite youngish there.
IMHO, a music masterpiece, the likes of which we'll not see or hear, again. Thank-you, You Tube, for helping us to preserve treasures like this. Enjoy, Ladies & Gents! And yes, it's Pat Friday, singing for Ms Bari, as she did so wonderfully in this film & in Sun Valley Serenade, where she did " I Know Why "., with John Payne & The Modernaires, minus Paula Kelly. Wolfsky9
A brand new Bluebird record was 35 cents in 1939. It was one of the first new records that I bought. I was earning 45 cents an hour working for the Department of Agriculture as a runner, and a penny was worth a penny in those days
From the 1942 Orchestra Wives sheet music by 20th Century Fox and Leo Feist, these are the lyrics from the opening verse or preamble to "At Last", which are omitted from performances: "I was never spellbound by a starry sky/
What is there to moon glow, when love has passed you by/
Then there came a midnight and the world was new/
Now here am I so spellbound, darling/
Not by stars, but just by you." The lyrics are by Mack Gordon. The music is by Harry Warren ("I Only Have Eyes For You").
@geforceoc The movie was Orchestra Wives (1942) by 20th Century Fox starring George Montgomery (the husband of Dinah Shore) and Ann Rutherford (Scarlett Ohara's sister in Gone With the Wind) and Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. Jackie Gleason and Harry Morgan (Potter on M*A*S*H*) are also in it as is The Joker from the 1960s TV series Batman Cesar Romero. The movie is out on DVD. I would highly recommend this movie. It also features "Serenade in Blue", "Boom Shot", and "Kalamazoo".
@kingoma61 Sir, also recall that a very young Dale Evans is in this--see if you can recognize her!!--, & of course, that " All-Time Mystery Woman", the Total-knockout who smiles at Caesar Romero during " Serenade In Blue", & shows him her wedding ring ! Whoever she was---OMG, I get chest pain just watching that smile! ----OK,OK, Dale Evans is Ann Rutherfords GF at the Soda Fountain. It took me weeks to recognize who it was! Wolfsky9
Thanks for the compliment...It was the proper thing to do in 1942, our country needed help and three bad guys, Hitler, Hirohito, and Benito, all needed stopping. War was raw and rough and we lost 400,000 of our young generation in that war. Us survivors are thankful to be here, if not for long . I will be 90 next year.
@RobertMcNamara11 He died in 1944 flying to france to set up their appearane thierielane went dowm some over the engish channel,never to be heard again.WW2 vet.
@RobertMcNamara11 Glenn Miller died during WWII. He apparently joined the army (as he everyone did at the time)....before this film (thank god we are able to see Glenn at his awesome best....
I absolutely love the sound Glenn Millers orchestra produces, so pure and perfect and was the sound of its time but lives on and on, i am in my forties, and have loved glenn miller since i was a teenager. xxx
The trumpet solo is by Johnny Best, not Ray Anthony. Anthony was a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1941 but was not a member of the band in 1942 when "At Last" was recorded for the movie Orchestra Wives. Ray Anthony enlisted in the armed forces. He recorded his own hit version of the Glenn Miller classic in the early 1950s.
Speaking of World War Two, the country came together as perhaps never before; we were all united; there was a tremendous sense of supporting the troops, and helping the war effort in whatever way that one could.
For all of you who love this song--& the film, remember : in " O.W.'s ", there are also appearances by an impossibly young Harry Morgan, George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Ceasar Romero, Jackie GHleason, & the one I spent days trying to recognize, Dale Evans --& the " mystery " Drop-Dead Total Babe who smiles & winks at Mr Romero, shows him her ring & dances on--during Serenade In Blue. Wolfsky9
One of my fav movies...Ceasar Romero....Jackie Gleason....John Payne....Glenn Miller himself....Tex Harrison. They were all genius and sorely missed. God, to have been alive in this era...thank you for posting.
WOW And to think, these musicians didn't have mixers and modern sound equipment. From the conductor to the last chair in the band. Everyone was of amazing talent.
This song was originally meant to be in "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941) but was dropped. The soundtrack was recorded, however, and is available on various RCA Victor LP's and the old Reader's Digest Glenn Miller box set. In the "Sun Valley..." version, John Payne and Pat Friday sing the lyrics in a very different arrangement. As in "Orchestra Wives," Pat Friday's voice was used as Lynn Bari's singing voice.
I bought my first Glenn Miller record (Bluebird) for .35 cents. Had no electronics, but played it on a crank up Vilctrola. Was in the Air Force all through wwII and admired him for joining up. . Most of my squadron is gone now, but we all loved the music of Miller. I am 89 now and that Miller sound still sends shivers up my spine...
@thebuzzard577 thanks for the upload, and thanks so much for your service to the country. you guys are heroes. I was born in 1940 so too young to be in WW2, but read and study the war, the times, and the music. I feel sometimes like I was there, or at least should have been.) Those were the days and the apex of a great nation, I don't see the loyalty, the commitment, or even the concern of preserving what you guys achieved. Thanks so very much. Jim in Tennessee
@thebuzzard577 I love you man!! All my love from Italy!! My father introduced me to this lovely world of "swing" .. there's some magic in his and your words... I'd love I could live that magic with all the highs and lows of that time!!! At least I could have learned all what your generation tried to teach me and I've never been able to learn!! Love x
Thank you for all you did and my grandfather was a WWII Navy vet and he introduced me to this style of music and I am and always will be grateful to him for it.
@Freyja1133 Yes, this is a scene from the film Orchestra Wives. I'm sure others have already mentioned in the comments that Pat Friday is doing the singing for actress Lynn Bari. Ray Eberle of course does his own singing and he looks great, doesn't he?
Etta James has got more nerve than a bad tooth, calling this great song "her" song! It was, as we all know, written for Glenn Miller twenty or more years before she ever sang it.
I like how all there dressed for the occasion.....dresses, suits and ties, probably shined shoes...not like some of the sloppy attire they wear today, with their hats on sideways and pants falling off their rear ends. There seems to be no sense of decorum today.
Now hear this. Maybe the vocal part is old stylish,but note the perfect blends of the instruments. Nobody.i repeat nobody can play this way today. I'm a tenor sax player,i know exactly what i mean.Then again this movie was filmed in 1942,In 1947 Glenn Miller was dead since three years,serving his country in the Air force,conducting a big band for morale building purposes. Pick up the five best living saxophonist s and place the score in front of them. then we hear what they can do!
I like this better than Etta James' version. She's such a hypocrit for getting angry at Christina Aguilera for singing 'her' song when it wasn't even her's in the first place.
THIS is what is meant when the word, music, is spoken. Real, extremely talented, musicians and adult vocalists with beautiful voices combining to make poetry in sound.
Note future TV star Jackie Gleason was featured as bass fiddle player Ben Beck. You can see him in the video as the lead trumpeter, played by 20th Century-Fox leading man George Montgomery [and former husband of Dinah Shore] takes a seat.
Gleason is down to Montgomery's right... 'Orchestra Wives' was panned by critics and bombed at the box office. Miller's planned third movie 'Blind Date', set to be filmed in early 1943, was never cast.
Note future TV star Jackie Gleason was featured as bass fiddle player Ben Beck. You can see him in the video as the lead trumpeter, played by 20th Century-Fox leading man George Montgomery [and former husband of Dinah Shore] takes a seat.
@cme98 And black people (or light skinned) like Etta James steal white people's songs. Who woulda thunk it. A light-skinned singer steals a white song.
@BlacknesUnforgivable Dear Hate Monger, Really, Stolen? C'mon mannn. Music is to be shared and enjoyed. In speaking of Jazz... The musicians from the earliest times, black, white and mixed, got together for years at after hour jam sessions because of the love and joy they got from the music. I know that there has always been race issues in this country, but don't be a part of the venomous, problematic hate of fools. If Duke and Louis didn't make crazy and hateful accusations then nobody should.
@BluesElement No , im talking about the countless number of songs back in the 50's and 60's that were literally stolen from blacks, by whites and repackaged.Sorry but its the truth.
@BlacknesUnforgivable Most people, who follow music from a historical point, know that black artists were not given their credit for the Rock-n-Roll songs that were originally written by them in the 50's and 60's. It's no secret. Elvis was the biggest benefactor of that practice. However, that is not the case in Jazz or In the case of this song. So your comments make no sense. You were just trying to spew hate and anger or trying to portray yourself as "The One" who really knows the truth.
@BlacknesUnforgivable how does anyone know anything? I'll stand by an earlier comment that I wrote.
"If Duke and Louis didn't make crazy and hateful accusations then nobody should"
Also, remember that Jazz is an improvisational music. Two people can play the same song, but it is almost impossible to play it the exact same way. That's the point of Jazz, self expression. The greatest question in Jazz is, "How do you, play this song?" Songs have always been shared on purpose.
@Freyja1133 Give me an example with the facts and where to find the facts to support your claim; That white people stole Blues songs and claimed them as their own. Now, if you are saying that white owned record companies ripped off the blues artists of royalties and underpaid them for the rights to their songs I'll agree. But, that isn't exclusive to black artists or the 20's or the Blues. It is still happening right now to artists of all colors by companies run by all colors.
@slbunnies Face it , Etta James version is the most remembered for a reason.Nobody was checking for this version because its...well...BORING for one. Etta completely changed the arraignment ( to soul music) and thats why her version is the most memorable.Notice AFTER she did it, all these other versions (including Aguilera's) was basically a rip off of Etta's version?
People like different things in different decades. Who knows, maybe two decades from now someone will record a version that is similar to Glenn Miller's.
Hey!! Isn't that young guy with the gal at 0:18 "Colonel Potter" from "Mash"?? Anyway, I just love this music, and wish I had lived back then....I just love the old B/W movies and I just love the music.....There's something different about it...
It is "Colonel Potter" the actor Harry Morgan, an interesting tidbit is he also acted in the "Glen Miller Story", which stared Jimmy Stuart as Glen Miller (1954). Morgan played "Chummy McGreggor", Glen Millers pianist. I would have never guessed that was a young Dale Evens singing with Ray Eberle.
@MrStuPedaso Uh sir, that's NOT a young Dale Evens here: she's the GF in that opening Malt Shop scene, the one who says " Yoiu're gonna wear out that record". I know--it took me weeks to figure out just who that face belonged to! Yes, a young Dale Evans, with a young Harry Morgan, amng many other names. No, Lyn Bari acted, Pat Friday sang --her parts in both of GM's fims. Lyn later acknowledged Pat as her movie voice in song. No sir, THE great UNKNOWN MYSTERY is still : Wolfsky9
@MrStuPedaso Sir, THE GREAT MYSTERY, & no one seems to know--is WHO IS THE DROP DEAD BOMBSHELL in " Serenade In blue"--the one who dances by Caesar Romero, smiles & then shows him her ring??? NOW, THAT'S the mystery--no one still living knows who she is/was. What a total -Babe !!! Too bad--at least as H-Wood lore has it--that her attentions were wasted on Ceasar Romero--who could not have cared less. Oh well, that's show-biz, is it not??? Wolfsky9
It is "Colonel Potter" the actor Harry Morgan, an interesting tidbit is he also acted in the "Glen Miller Story", which stared Jimmy Stuart as Glen Miller (1954). Morgan played "Chummy McGreggor", Glen Millers pianist.
This is simply a vocal treasure, & Ray Eberle never, ever sounded better. He & Pat Friday were a perfect duo--& they made this all-time classic. --Now I KNOW Caesar Romero wasn't playing that piano, but he sure does look like it to me, every time I see this Vid. And George Montgomery worked for months to look realistic in his scenes! Great job to both men. Wolfsky9
Glenn Miller released "At Last" as a single in 1942. Etta James released her cover version in 1961. Glenn Miller reached no. 9 on Billboard. Etta James reached no. 47. There is no question that the Etta James cover version copies the arrangement of the Glenn Miller version, using an orchestra. So it can be argued that Etta James "stole" this song originally recorded by Glenn Miller. The Etta James version was, moreover, produced by Phil and Leonard Chess, who deserve the credit for its success.
@agentnw102008 Uh sir, I'[m so sorry you're so angry, but no--Ms James & The Chess Brothers " borrowed " Glenn's version, & adapted it to Etta's voice. True, & it's a shame you are so angry. Life's too short. Wolfsky9
Ray Anthony was a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1940 to 1941. He left the orchestra to join the U.S. Army once the U.S. entered World War II. He was not part of the Orchestra Wives sessions. Johnny Best played the trumpet parts for George Montgomery. Ray Anthony was in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade. Billy May was the other trumpet player who played on the Orchestra Wives sessions and co-wrote "Boom Shot" with Glenn Miller, the instrumental played at the outdoor concert.
The instrumental "Boom Shot" from Orchestra Wives, composed by Glenn Miller and Billy May, was arranged by George Williams, who co-wrote "It Must Be Jelly(Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)", a massive hit for Glenn Miller in 1944. "Boom Shot" is played on the jukebox in the soda shop where soda jerk Harry Morgan works. Then the instrumental is played at the outdoor concert. "Boom Shot" is available on Youtube in three clips. It is a fat groove and showed Glenn Miller could swing and jam.
@kingoma61 It's of course an interesting tid-bit of Trivia that drove me crazy until I realized who Ann Rutherford is talking to at the Fountain: a young Dale Evans--& of course, Harry Morgan. I knew--knew!!-- I knew that face, but could not think of it until one night, after 5 rewinds, it came to me! Must have been Pre-Roy Rogers?? Wolfsky9
"At last" was arranged by Jerry Gray and Bill Finegan. "Serenade in Blue" was arranged by Bill Finegan. "Kalamazoo" was arranged by Jerry Gray, who also arranged "Chattanooga Choo Choo" from Sun Valley Serenade in 1941.
@kingoma61 Thank-you so much--I so appreciate it. I've always wondered. And, THX for the correction on Ray Anthony. I knew it was he in Sun Valley, but I really had though he was George Montgomery's stand-in. They just don't make music like this anymore. Wolfsky9
Johnny Best played the trumpet parts for George Montgomery. John Chummy MacGregor played the piano parts for Cesar Romero. The bass player was Doc Goldberg for the Jackie Gleason parts. Goldberg acted as a technical advisor for Gleason. Pat Friday did the vocals for Lynn Bari. This is not a live performance of the Glenn Miller Orchestra but a lip-synched movie performance of the Gene Morrison Orchestra.
@kingoma61 Oh, yes--it's been a long time--yes, Johnny Best. Just a superlative sound--I had forgotten his name (terrible thing!!). Correct me if I'm wrong--I think the arrangement was by Jerry Gray. This is a very nice, thoughful, arrangement--very simple in color choice and counterpoint--and generally in the way the lines voicelead through the harmonies, but none the less elegant throughout. I think that in many ways Gray excelled in fairly spartan arrangements, yet always effective.
@kingoma61 Sir, Mack Gordon / Harry Warren created this masterpiece--who arranged it ? Do you know? And, you're sure it's not Ray Anthony on that Trumpet, for Mr. Montgomery?? Ray Eberle sure didn't need any help, did he? What a perfect duet. We'll not see the likes of this--ever again. Wolfsky9 , 64 y/o
Ann Rutherford, whom 'Inthach' thought looked like "Katy Perry", is the one in the crowd giving George Montgomery "moon-eyed" stares during his trumpet solos [her character, in fact, marries him, forming the basis of the entire film]. Vivian Blaine was "too brassy" to play that kind of woman, 'charade'. Lynn Bari is the "vocalist'.
I agree that although Gleason could not read or write music in the accepted sense, he had great taste and put together ideas that resulted in the Honeymooner's theme. I don't think it really matters whether you refer to Glenn's organization as a band or orchestra. He produced great music of which I have been a fan for nearly 60 years!
That's Ann Rutherford, 'InthachBigStar', the female star of this picture. She was around before Katy (and you and I, and everyone else) was, especially since this was filmed in 1942.
@charade97 Ann Rutherford is the girl with the impossibly young Harry Morgan. The vocal was dubbed by Lyn Bari while it was Pat Friday who covered for her in both of GM's films. Ray Eberle needed no such help--what a voice he had. This is THE definitive version--period. Note also Jackie Gleason, Caesar Romero, & Dale Evens all make appearances in this 1942 classic. Sadly, it was also the last time we ever saw the original Modernaires. Wolfsky9
@Wolfsky9 Thank you very much. I am sure I saw her in 'Sun Valley Seranade' with Sonia Henie and John Payne with the 'Glenn Miller band.' Ah, I jave just checked and it is indeed Lynn Bari who plays Vivian dawn (not Blane)
Vocal perfection from the Great Ray Eberle & Pat Friday. It simply does not--has not ever--been better than this. Thank-you You Tube, for helping to keep the memories alive. This was my Parent's music, but I was raised on it. Masterful. Wolfsky9
i'm 19 and i love this music more than i like the music now and days i often think i was born in the wrong era lol but if i had been there are alot of songs i would have missed out on i love all music Classical, Jazz, Doo Wop, some Rap, some Pop, Punk, even Heavy Metal, and whaterver else i missed music is a way of life for me
The people at the "concert" are also actors and extras on a movie set. George Montgomery is not a trumpet player in the Glenn Miller Orchestra. LOL. Montgomery is an actor playing a role in a movie. Moreover, he is not playing the trumpet. He is "acting". Johnny Best is actually playing the trumpet. They are all lip-synching. This is a movie not a live concert. Harry Morgan is not a soda jerk but an actor. He is playing a soda jerk in the movie. LOL. ;)
It is true that Jackie Gleason had his "orchestra" in the 1950s which was very successful. He also wrote the theme music to his show in the 1950s. But Jackie Gleason was first an actor and a comedian. That was his day job. Music was an avocation or hobby. At any rate, this would be taking events out of context. Gleason was never a musician in a big band. He was an actor. The music he did in the 1950s was just something he did for fun. But that was never his day job.
You are mixing up reality and what is in a movie. My grandmother did that too. She could never understand that these were actors playing parts. Jackie Gleason is playing Ben Beck, a bass player in the Gene Morrison Orchestra. This is what I said in my comment. You said that Jackie Gleason was not a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. But why should he be? Do you see my point? Your comment does not make any sense at all. Do you know that this is a movie from 1942, not a Glenn Miller concert?
Have always loved GM!
FYI
Lynn Bari's vocals were dubbed by Pat Friday and George Montgomery's trumpet solo's were dubbed by GM trumpet man Johnny Best.
A shame he only got to make just two Movies, 'Sun Valley Serenade' and 'Orchestra Wives'.
Good thing they recorded the music on 35mm film and in stereo, a much better recording medium than those scratchy 78's.
Both films were released on Laserdisc but so far only 'Orchestra Wives' is on DVD.
e104st 19 hours ago
Blessings to all who have been thanking me for WWII service. I was a pilot instructor and sent a lot of good guys into combat. I guess it took all kinds of us to do the job. Some of my friends became glider pilots and lost their lives dropping into the fighting. Glenn Miller was the ideal band leader, and we went through high school with his music and that continued on into the war years. jn major usaf retired.
thebuzzard577 2 days ago
Etta James said that was HER song. AS IF! Maybe Glenn Miller's whoopin her ASS in the afterlife!
Gregiebear 2 days ago
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Hey I've uploaded a video of myself doing a cover of this song, please watch it and let me know what you think :)
star15615 4 days ago
This was the first version of "At Last" I ever heard and it was an immediate favorite. 20th Century movie sound tracks of Orchestra Wives and Sun Valley Serenade were the sources. The film soundtracks were very high quality for issue on recordings in the early 1960's. It couldn't have been very long after listening to this version of the song that Etta James' recording was released.
mortyfromc 5 days ago
This is the best version
ogenuk 5 days ago
I always thought that Etta James was the first one to sing this song. She did a beautiful version of it, but this is also very pretty.
7shannonmarie 5 days ago
I first heard Glenn Millers Orchestra when I was 12 years. Now I am 30 and I still love this music
ogenuk 6 days ago
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Check out an uncredited Jackie Gleason pretending to play bass at 0:35.
mondofzz 6 days ago
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mondofzz 6 days ago
at the time of innocence were manufactured heroes
TheJoerocknroll 6 days ago
If this doesn't make you tear-up and long for a sadly long gone I'm sorry for you.Amazing that those microphones in the 30's and 40's managed to pick up the vocals without performing simulated oral sex on them as modern artists do while screaming into them.
leeenfieldsmle 1 week ago
Glenn wrote it years before Etta made a hit out of it.
jess06 1 week ago
...this song was probably the favorite of my dad, who would sing it to my mom even after she was in a home suffering from alzheimer's. he was with the 9th infantry division from 1940 on and saw plenty of action all through north africa, sicily, normandy, france & germany. he waited until after the war to marry and now are both 'at last' again in heaven.
auggiedoggie1946 1 week ago 2
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@auggiedoggie1946 My respects to Etta's family. This is one of the 1st 45 RPMs I owned. BUT have you ever listened to a version of this song done by Glen Miller & His Orch. with singers Eberle and Lynn from 15+ years ealier, before the art of pop music started to deteriorate? Take a look at our true American music before you hoist Ms. James up too high.
DickWhittington1000 5 days ago
Thanks for that Malloy - I was a bit weak on the detail there. Now I recall, Henry Potter was a cavalry man. Was one of his sayings 'Horsefeathers!' or something similar?
RogerjTurner 1 week ago
Why is that tempo intoxicating??
Malloyism 1 week ago
Is that Lt.Col. Henry Blake from the TV series M.A.S.H. watching the trumpeter at the beginning? Sorry if anyone else has already pointed it out.
RogerjTurner 2 weeks ago
No, that was Maclean Stevenson who played that part. Col Blake was killed enroute to the States and wa replaced by Col henry potter, one Harry Morgan. he loved his his old mare. Harry Morgan quite youngish there.
Malloyism 1 week ago
@RogerjTurner Yes sir, that is in fact Harry Morgan.
missyinacage 1 week ago
This is magic, pure magic. Thank you, Miller.
NaughtyBastardIsh 2 weeks ago
IMHO, a music masterpiece, the likes of which we'll not see or hear, again. Thank-you, You Tube, for helping us to preserve treasures like this. Enjoy, Ladies & Gents! And yes, it's Pat Friday, singing for Ms Bari, as she did so wonderfully in this film & in Sun Valley Serenade, where she did " I Know Why "., with John Payne & The Modernaires, minus Paula Kelly. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 month ago
Get goose bumps when I hear this....70 years old and still awesome...
fjbutch 1 month ago
Of course, Lynn Bari was dubbed by Pat Friday.
youyong28 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
A brand new Bluebird record was 35 cents in 1939. It was one of the first new records that I bought. I was earning 45 cents an hour working for the Department of Agriculture as a runner, and a penny was worth a penny in those days
thebuzzard577 1 month ago
those amazing Trrombones that note at 1:04
Malloyism 2 months ago
From the 1942 Orchestra Wives sheet music by 20th Century Fox and Leo Feist, these are the lyrics from the opening verse or preamble to "At Last", which are omitted from performances: "I was never spellbound by a starry sky/
What is there to moon glow, when love has passed you by/
Then there came a midnight and the world was new/
Now here am I so spellbound, darling/
Not by stars, but just by you." The lyrics are by Mack Gordon. The music is by Harry Warren ("I Only Have Eyes For You").
kingoma61 2 months ago
What movie is this from? Thanks for sharing the video. I love his music. =D
geforceoc 2 months ago in playlist geforceoc's favorites
@geforceoc The movie was Orchestra Wives (1942) by 20th Century Fox starring George Montgomery (the husband of Dinah Shore) and Ann Rutherford (Scarlett Ohara's sister in Gone With the Wind) and Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. Jackie Gleason and Harry Morgan (Potter on M*A*S*H*) are also in it as is The Joker from the 1960s TV series Batman Cesar Romero. The movie is out on DVD. I would highly recommend this movie. It also features "Serenade in Blue", "Boom Shot", and "Kalamazoo".
kingoma61 2 months ago
@kingoma61 Sir, also recall that a very young Dale Evans is in this--see if you can recognize her!!--, & of course, that " All-Time Mystery Woman", the Total-knockout who smiles at Caesar Romero during " Serenade In Blue", & shows him her wedding ring ! Whoever she was---OMG, I get chest pain just watching that smile! ----OK,OK, Dale Evans is Ann Rutherfords GF at the Soda Fountain. It took me weeks to recognize who it was! Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 month ago
Thanks for the compliment...It was the proper thing to do in 1942, our country needed help and three bad guys, Hitler, Hirohito, and Benito, all needed stopping. War was raw and rough and we lost 400,000 of our young generation in that war. Us survivors are thankful to be here, if not for long . I will be 90 next year.
thebuzzard577 2 months ago
5 people know jack about good music.
camidawg1 2 months ago in playlist Glenn Miller
@RobertMcNamara11 He died in 1944 flying to france to set up their appearane thierielane went dowm some over the engish channel,never to be heard again.WW2 vet.
perhapsable 2 months ago in playlist big Band
@RobertMcNamara11 Glenn Miller died during WWII. He apparently joined the army (as he everyone did at the time)....before this film (thank god we are able to see Glenn at his awesome best....
histre101 3 months ago
I absolutely love the sound Glenn Millers orchestra produces, so pure and perfect and was the sound of its time but lives on and on, i am in my forties, and have loved glenn miller since i was a teenager. xxx
eppingperson 3 months ago
Glenn Miller attended the University of Colorado. My alma mater. Thanks, Glenn
Whudt 3 months ago in playlist Whudt's favorites
The trumpet solo is by Johnny Best, not Ray Anthony. Anthony was a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1941 but was not a member of the band in 1942 when "At Last" was recorded for the movie Orchestra Wives. Ray Anthony enlisted in the armed forces. He recorded his own hit version of the Glenn Miller classic in the early 1950s.
kingoma61 3 months ago
@RobertMcNamara11 December 15, 1944. Look up "Glenn Miller wikipedia" for a bunch of organized information on him.
brianprogresses 3 months ago
nothing better!!!!!!!!!!!
ukcatfan36 4 months ago
O trompetista seria o Ray Anthony?
1970Durval 4 months ago
¡¡¡Sublime!!!
HUGO19591000 4 months ago
@Arschlekker.......bist du dummmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!! Hau ab!!!!
albertje001 5 months ago
Timeless.
shoutinghorse 5 months ago
is it the music from the simpsons?
ArschlekkerTheOnly 5 months ago
Just as Janice Joplin ruined the song Me And Bobbie McGee, and just as the Righteous Brothers ruined the song, Unchained Melody, so Etta James ruined
this song with her jive interpretation.
paperboxcutter 5 months ago
@paperboxcutter YOU ARE SOOOOO RIGHT.
acfinney1 5 months ago
Speaking of World War Two, the country came together as perhaps never before; we were all united; there was a tremendous sense of supporting the troops, and helping the war effort in whatever way that one could.
Roger Plafkin-Plafkin Farms, Ada, Michigan
plafkinfarms 5 months ago
For all of you who love this song--& the film, remember : in " O.W.'s ", there are also appearances by an impossibly young Harry Morgan, George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Ceasar Romero, Jackie GHleason, & the one I spent days trying to recognize, Dale Evans --& the " mystery " Drop-Dead Total Babe who smiles & winks at Mr Romero, shows him her ring & dances on--during Serenade In Blue. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 6 months ago
One of my fav movies...Ceasar Romero....Jackie Gleason....John Payne....Glenn Miller himself....Tex Harrison. They were all genius and sorely missed. God, to have been alive in this era...thank you for posting.
4mySweetheart369 6 months ago
Tex Beneke, sorry! lol
4mySweetheart369 6 months ago
beautiful music thanks
happymimi16 6 months ago
For some reason I think this version sounds better than the 78 rpm issue on Victor record.
rudiherold84 6 months ago
WOW And to think, these musicians didn't have mixers and modern sound equipment. From the conductor to the last chair in the band. Everyone was of amazing talent.
timvic84 7 months ago
This song was originally meant to be in "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941) but was dropped. The soundtrack was recorded, however, and is available on various RCA Victor LP's and the old Reader's Digest Glenn Miller box set. In the "Sun Valley..." version, John Payne and Pat Friday sing the lyrics in a very different arrangement. As in "Orchestra Wives," Pat Friday's voice was used as Lynn Bari's singing voice.
RickC50 7 months ago
Beyonce doesnt sing crap just because this is good doesnt mean you shouldnt like her type of songs.. is a new generation
My Opinion
NaomiPookieBear1 7 months ago
This is beautiful music that will never die... This is true romantic music !!!
qbanmanny3 7 months ago 3
2:30 she looks like Thalia
JudeSantana 7 months ago
This type of music will have its time again.
lordtednfs 8 months ago
@lordtednfs God, do I hope so!
73SuperDuty455Red 8 months ago
This is the real deal - beautiful. Not like that barf-ola crap that Beyonce tried to sing!
FatManDoubleZero 8 months ago 4
Compare this to the garbage we have today.
vpo2g2 8 months ago 32
I bought my first Glenn Miller record (Bluebird) for .35 cents. Had no electronics, but played it on a crank up Vilctrola. Was in the Air Force all through wwII and admired him for joining up. . Most of my squadron is gone now, but we all loved the music of Miller. I am 89 now and that Miller sound still sends shivers up my spine...
thebuzzard577 8 months ago 74
@thebuzzard577 god bless you.cheers!
arrant972 8 months ago
@thebuzzard577 Thank you :)
ooonurse33 7 months ago
@thebuzzard577 thanks for the upload, and thanks so much for your service to the country. you guys are heroes. I was born in 1940 so too young to be in WW2, but read and study the war, the times, and the music. I feel sometimes like I was there, or at least should have been.) Those were the days and the apex of a great nation, I don't see the loyalty, the commitment, or even the concern of preserving what you guys achieved. Thanks so very much. Jim in Tennessee
MrJimpeggy 2 months ago
@thebuzzard577 good man im 63 wasnt in any wars but you are appreciated and this music is great
whittyman2 2 months ago
@thebuzzard577 u bought it for 35 cents or .35 cents?
01rai01 1 month ago
@thebuzzard577 And knowing the sacrifices you and my grandfather's generation made sends shivers up my spine, buzzard.
RRKelley1 3 weeks ago 5
@thebuzzard577 I love you man!! All my love from Italy!! My father introduced me to this lovely world of "swing" .. there's some magic in his and your words... I'd love I could live that magic with all the highs and lows of that time!!! At least I could have learned all what your generation tried to teach me and I've never been able to learn!! Love x
bimbafly 3 weeks ago
@thebuzzard577 may the notes rest easy on you, sir...
MrThomasMick 1 week ago
@thebuzzard577
Thank you for all you did and my grandfather was a WWII Navy vet and he introduced me to this style of music and I am and always will be grateful to him for it.
ccm42281 4 days ago 3
@thebuzzard577 Thank you for your service sir.
sharksharkco 2 days ago
@thebuzzard577 God Bless you for your service to this country!
daddyben11 21 hours ago in playlist Big Band
There is also a version of this song with Ray only and it is even better. No video though, it was done in the studio.
kchaney56 8 months ago
There is also a version of this song with Ray only and it is even better.
kchaney56 8 months ago
@ambersue922 This was NOT the 30's. You should know your stuff!
kchaney56 8 months ago
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@ambersue922
Ooops!
Sorry, things can certainly get confusing here...
Lovely, lovely sounds...
Apologies!
Nice weekend!
Cheers, etc.
Doug --
CurzonRoad 8 months ago
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CurzonRoad 8 months ago
I hear that Mickey Rourke's character in ANGEL HEART was based on Ray Eberle...
goback3spaces 9 months ago
@ambersue922
Sorry, friend, the Etta James version came nearly two decades after this film (Orchestra Wives) with Glenn Miller and his Orchestra.
CurzonRoad 9 months ago
Wasn't this song performed i the movie Orchestra wives?
Freyja1133 9 months ago
@Freyja1133 Yes, this is a scene from the film Orchestra Wives. I'm sure others have already mentioned in the comments that Pat Friday is doing the singing for actress Lynn Bari. Ray Eberle of course does his own singing and he looks great, doesn't he?
perpieta 9 months ago
@perpieta Yes,Mr Eberly looks great... he also is my favorite band singer from that era
Freyja1133 9 months ago
Here's to my grandparents...I know they are dancing in heaven today, their 78th anniversary.
11sunnywing 9 months ago 2
This clip is from the movie Orchestra Wives I believe?
Crockerish 9 months ago
Etta James has got more nerve than a bad tooth, calling this great song "her" song! It was, as we all know, written for Glenn Miller twenty or more years before she ever sang it.
ir1956ish 10 months ago
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I like how all there dressed for the occasion.....dresses, suits and ties, probably shined shoes...not like some of the sloppy attire they wear today, with their hats on sideways and pants falling off their rear ends. There seems to be no sense of decorum today.
KLOKFXR 10 months ago
this music takes ya back to a cool era. there's an L.A. band -- an octet -- that is bringing back this style. ck them out. search cinnamon doll jazz
enjoy!
videomania100 10 months ago
Love Glenn Miller's music!! The best!!!
countessyasmin 10 months ago 2
Me too..,. he´s music is fantastic
Andruloff 9 months ago
Now hear this. Maybe the vocal part is old stylish,but note the perfect blends of the instruments. Nobody.i repeat nobody can play this way today. I'm a tenor sax player,i know exactly what i mean.Then again this movie was filmed in 1942,In 1947 Glenn Miller was dead since three years,serving his country in the Air force,conducting a big band for morale building purposes. Pick up the five best living saxophonist s and place the score in front of them. then we hear what they can do!
annanoli 10 months ago
I like this better than Etta James' version. She's such a hypocrit for getting angry at Christina Aguilera for singing 'her' song when it wasn't even her's in the first place.
slbunnies 11 months ago
@slbunnies It was Beyonce...
Dysis23 11 months ago
Happy Birthday Glenn Miller (March 1st) Wherever you are...
SuperRod88 11 months ago
What a voice Lynn has. Such a beautiful alto. ^__^
EmiChan0 11 months ago
@EmiChan0 Pat Friday was the singer Lynn mimed to.
4205lr 11 months ago
@4205lr Oh..well then Pat Friday is a beautiful alto! -__^
EmiChan0 11 months ago
Great camera movement in this film. The camera operator/director made you feel like you were there.
spactick 11 months ago
THIS is what is meant when the word, music, is spoken. Real, extremely talented, musicians and adult vocalists with beautiful voices combining to make poetry in sound.
Halo101st 11 months ago 5
why is everyone getting flushed at agentnw?
come now, he obviously did it 4 teh lulz...
redshark618 11 months ago
Note future TV star Jackie Gleason was featured as bass fiddle player Ben Beck. You can see him in the video as the lead trumpeter, played by 20th Century-Fox leading man George Montgomery [and former husband of Dinah Shore] takes a seat.
Gleason is down to Montgomery's right... 'Orchestra Wives' was panned by critics and bombed at the box office. Miller's planned third movie 'Blind Date', set to be filmed in early 1943, was never cast.
madcitymcflyer 11 months ago
Note future TV star Jackie Gleason was featured as bass fiddle player Ben Beck. You can see him in the video as the lead trumpeter, played by 20th Century-Fox leading man George Montgomery [and former husband of Dinah Shore] takes a seat.
Gleason is down to Montgomery's right...
madcitymcflyer 11 months ago
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!!!
martingb66 11 months ago
Chillsss....
TheRollerdisco 1 year ago
So glad you posted this....... I am sittin in just a wonderful daze....... singing along... this IS music......
Thank you Mary !
Hooperstube 1 year ago 2
So glad you posted this....... I am sittin in just a wonderful daze....... singing along... this IS music......
Hooperstube 1 year ago 2
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It's a VERY rare situation where a remake or "cover" is better than the original. This is a good example.
MasterTeacher3391 1 year ago
It's a VERY rare situation where a remake or cover is better than the original. This is a good example.
MasterTeacher3391 1 year ago
...and here's something to think about.
First, that's GLENN MILLER in the white coat on stage. That's not Jimmy Stewart, that's Glenn Miller.
Second, Glenn Miller was 11 years OLDER than Harry Morgan throughout his whole lifetime.
Imagine what he would have looked like when M*A*S*H ended if he was still alive at that time.
r5t6y12 1 year ago
Absolutely love this song!!!
Tbone0565 1 year ago
omg, white people sing.
cme98 1 year ago
@cme98 And black people (or light skinned) like Etta James steal white people's songs. Who woulda thunk it. A light-skinned singer steals a white song.
kingoma61 1 year ago
@kingoma61 you got that right!
cme98 1 year ago
@kingoma61 whites are the ultimate thief's
BlacknesUnforgivable 11 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable Etta stole the song from Glenn Miller - This was done in like 1947 and Etta did hers in 1960.
slbunnies 11 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable Etta sang the song about 12 years after Glenn Miller. It was his song first.
slbunnies 11 months ago 2
@slbunnies Compare that to the countless number of white musicians who have stolen black songs/music genres (jazz,doo wop,rock,etc)?
no comparison lol
BlacknesUnforgivable 11 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable Dear Hate Monger, Really, Stolen? C'mon mannn. Music is to be shared and enjoyed. In speaking of Jazz... The musicians from the earliest times, black, white and mixed, got together for years at after hour jam sessions because of the love and joy they got from the music. I know that there has always been race issues in this country, but don't be a part of the venomous, problematic hate of fools. If Duke and Louis didn't make crazy and hateful accusations then nobody should.
BluesElement 10 months ago
@BluesElement No , im talking about the countless number of songs back in the 50's and 60's that were literally stolen from blacks, by whites and repackaged.Sorry but its the truth.
BlacknesUnforgivable 10 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable Most people, who follow music from a historical point, know that black artists were not given their credit for the Rock-n-Roll songs that were originally written by them in the 50's and 60's. It's no secret. Elvis was the biggest benefactor of that practice. However, that is not the case in Jazz or In the case of this song. So your comments make no sense. You were just trying to spew hate and anger or trying to portray yourself as "The One" who really knows the truth.
BluesElement 10 months ago
@BluesElement "However, that is not the case in Jazz"
How do you knw?
BlacknesUnforgivable 10 months ago
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@BlacknesUnforgivable how does anyone know anything? I'll stand by an earlier comment that I wrote.
"If Duke and Louis didn't make crazy and hateful accusations then nobody should"
Also, remember that Jazz is an improvisational music. Two people can play the same song, but it is almost impossible to play it the exact same way. That's the point of Jazz, self expression. The greatest question in Jazz is, "How do you, play this song?" Songs have always been shared on purpose.
BluesElement 10 months ago
@BluesElement try going to the bluesmen of the 20s my friend.... but it's happened trough the decades
Freyja1133 9 months ago
@Freyja1133 Give me an example with the facts and where to find the facts to support your claim; That white people stole Blues songs and claimed them as their own. Now, if you are saying that white owned record companies ripped off the blues artists of royalties and underpaid them for the rights to their songs I'll agree. But, that isn't exclusive to black artists or the 20's or the Blues. It is still happening right now to artists of all colors by companies run by all colors.
BluesElement 9 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable NO ONE SHOULD EVEN QUALIFY YOUR BASELESS POST. MUSIC HAS NO COLOR LINES. NUFF SAID.
LIN11831 9 months ago
@slbunnies Face it , Etta James version is the most remembered for a reason.Nobody was checking for this version because its...well...BORING for one. Etta completely changed the arraignment ( to soul music) and thats why her version is the most memorable.Notice AFTER she did it, all these other versions (including Aguilera's) was basically a rip off of Etta's version?
BlacknesUnforgivable 11 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable yeahh,
so if this version is so damn boring, why do you keep repeatedly returning here to comment on it?
redshark618 11 months ago
to BlacknesUnforgivable:
People like different things in different decades. Who knows, maybe two decades from now someone will record a version that is similar to Glenn Miller's.
Stefan990 1 week ago
Hey!! Isn't that young guy with the gal at 0:18 "Colonel Potter" from "Mash"?? Anyway, I just love this music, and wish I had lived back then....I just love the old B/W movies and I just love the music.....There's something different about it...
macarthur261 1 year ago
@macarthur261
It is "Colonel Potter" the actor Harry Morgan, an interesting tidbit is he also acted in the "Glen Miller Story", which stared Jimmy Stuart as Glen Miller (1954). Morgan played "Chummy McGreggor", Glen Millers pianist. I would have never guessed that was a young Dale Evens singing with Ray Eberle.
MrStuPedaso 1 year ago
@MrStuPedaso Uh sir, that's NOT a young Dale Evens here: she's the GF in that opening Malt Shop scene, the one who says " Yoiu're gonna wear out that record". I know--it took me weeks to figure out just who that face belonged to! Yes, a young Dale Evans, with a young Harry Morgan, amng many other names. No, Lyn Bari acted, Pat Friday sang --her parts in both of GM's fims. Lyn later acknowledged Pat as her movie voice in song. No sir, THE great UNKNOWN MYSTERY is still : Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
@MrStuPedaso Sir, THE GREAT MYSTERY, & no one seems to know--is WHO IS THE DROP DEAD BOMBSHELL in " Serenade In blue"--the one who dances by Caesar Romero, smiles & then shows him her ring??? NOW, THAT'S the mystery--no one still living knows who she is/was. What a total -Babe !!! Too bad--at least as H-Wood lore has it--that her attentions were wasted on Ceasar Romero--who could not have cared less. Oh well, that's show-biz, is it not??? Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
@macarthur261
It is "Colonel Potter" the actor Harry Morgan, an interesting tidbit is he also acted in the "Glen Miller Story", which stared Jimmy Stuart as Glen Miller (1954). Morgan played "Chummy McGreggor", Glen Millers pianist.
MrStuPedaso 1 year ago
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi didn't like this video
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Abbielacy 1 year ago
The Greatest Generation of Music
Gurugriff1000 1 year ago
Ray had such an AMAZING VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SomewhereInTime52 1 year ago
lynn bari was singing with him bob eberle and later he got in a fight with glenn and quit. see him bio
TheLanabear 1 year ago
This is simply a vocal treasure, & Ray Eberle never, ever sounded better. He & Pat Friday were a perfect duo--& they made this all-time classic. --Now I KNOW Caesar Romero wasn't playing that piano, but he sure does look like it to me, every time I see this Vid. And George Montgomery worked for months to look realistic in his scenes! Great job to both men. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
Glenn Miller released "At Last" as a single in 1942. Etta James released her cover version in 1961. Glenn Miller reached no. 9 on Billboard. Etta James reached no. 47. There is no question that the Etta James cover version copies the arrangement of the Glenn Miller version, using an orchestra. So it can be argued that Etta James "stole" this song originally recorded by Glenn Miller. The Etta James version was, moreover, produced by Phil and Leonard Chess, who deserve the credit for its success.
kingoma61 1 year ago
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DIS GUY STOLE ETTA JAMES SONG OMG FKN WHITE PEOPLE!!!! KMT!!!
agentnw102008 1 year ago
@agentnw102008 Uh sir, I'[m so sorry you're so angry, but no--Ms James & The Chess Brothers " borrowed " Glenn's version, & adapted it to Etta's voice. True, & it's a shame you are so angry. Life's too short. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago 34
@Wolfsky9 I perfer this rendition to Miss james'
Freyja1133 9 months ago
@Wolfsky9 I love to hear different versions of songs. They are all enlightening. I had never heard this version. What movie is this from?
gjford1951 6 months ago
Ray Anthony was a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1940 to 1941. He left the orchestra to join the U.S. Army once the U.S. entered World War II. He was not part of the Orchestra Wives sessions. Johnny Best played the trumpet parts for George Montgomery. Ray Anthony was in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade. Billy May was the other trumpet player who played on the Orchestra Wives sessions and co-wrote "Boom Shot" with Glenn Miller, the instrumental played at the outdoor concert.
kingoma61 1 year ago
The instrumental "Boom Shot" from Orchestra Wives, composed by Glenn Miller and Billy May, was arranged by George Williams, who co-wrote "It Must Be Jelly(Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)", a massive hit for Glenn Miller in 1944. "Boom Shot" is played on the jukebox in the soda shop where soda jerk Harry Morgan works. Then the instrumental is played at the outdoor concert. "Boom Shot" is available on Youtube in three clips. It is a fat groove and showed Glenn Miller could swing and jam.
kingoma61 1 year ago
@kingoma61 It's of course an interesting tid-bit of Trivia that drove me crazy until I realized who Ann Rutherford is talking to at the Fountain: a young Dale Evans--& of course, Harry Morgan. I knew--knew!!-- I knew that face, but could not think of it until one night, after 5 rewinds, it came to me! Must have been Pre-Roy Rogers?? Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
@Wolfsky9 this movie dates back to 1941!
annanoli 1 year ago
"At last" was arranged by Jerry Gray and Bill Finegan. "Serenade in Blue" was arranged by Bill Finegan. "Kalamazoo" was arranged by Jerry Gray, who also arranged "Chattanooga Choo Choo" from Sun Valley Serenade in 1941.
kingoma61 1 year ago
@kingoma61 Thank-you so much--I so appreciate it. I've always wondered. And, THX for the correction on Ray Anthony. I knew it was he in Sun Valley, but I really had though he was George Montgomery's stand-in. They just don't make music like this anymore. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
Johnny Best played the trumpet parts for George Montgomery. John Chummy MacGregor played the piano parts for Cesar Romero. The bass player was Doc Goldberg for the Jackie Gleason parts. Goldberg acted as a technical advisor for Gleason. Pat Friday did the vocals for Lynn Bari. This is not a live performance of the Glenn Miller Orchestra but a lip-synched movie performance of the Gene Morrison Orchestra.
kingoma61 1 year ago
@kingoma61 Oh, yes--it's been a long time--yes, Johnny Best. Just a superlative sound--I had forgotten his name (terrible thing!!). Correct me if I'm wrong--I think the arrangement was by Jerry Gray. This is a very nice, thoughful, arrangement--very simple in color choice and counterpoint--and generally in the way the lines voicelead through the harmonies, but none the less elegant throughout. I think that in many ways Gray excelled in fairly spartan arrangements, yet always effective.
callmeBe 1 year ago
@kingoma61 Sir, Mack Gordon / Harry Warren created this masterpiece--who arranged it ? Do you know? And, you're sure it's not Ray Anthony on that Trumpet, for Mr. Montgomery?? Ray Eberle sure didn't need any help, did he? What a perfect duet. We'll not see the likes of this--ever again. Wolfsky9 , 64 y/o
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
Ann Rutherford, whom 'Inthach' thought looked like "Katy Perry", is the one in the crowd giving George Montgomery "moon-eyed" stares during his trumpet solos [her character, in fact, marries him, forming the basis of the entire film]. Vivian Blaine was "too brassy" to play that kind of woman, 'charade'. Lynn Bari is the "vocalist'.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Simply Great!!!!
vennom43 1 year ago
I agree that although Gleason could not read or write music in the accepted sense, he had great taste and put together ideas that resulted in the Honeymooner's theme. I don't think it really matters whether you refer to Glenn's organization as a band or orchestra. He produced great music of which I have been a fan for nearly 60 years!
4205lr 1 year ago
wished i was living in that time.
Gabester64 1 year ago
@Gabester64 Me too!
SamhainBe 1 year ago
I'm glad Colonel Potter got a chance to catch this performance.
goback3spaces 1 year ago
That's Ann Rutherford, 'InthachBigStar', the female star of this picture. She was around before Katy (and you and I, and everyone else) was, especially since this was filmed in 1942.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
@fromthesidelines Who's Ann Rutherford? Do you mean the singer? I thought that was Vivienne Blain.
charade97 1 year ago
@charade97 Ann Rutherford is the girl with the impossibly young Harry Morgan. The vocal was dubbed by Lyn Bari while it was Pat Friday who covered for her in both of GM's films. Ray Eberle needed no such help--what a voice he had. This is THE definitive version--period. Note also Jackie Gleason, Caesar Romero, & Dale Evens all make appearances in this 1942 classic. Sadly, it was also the last time we ever saw the original Modernaires. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
@Wolfsky9 Thank you very much. I am sure I saw her in 'Sun Valley Seranade' with Sonia Henie and John Payne with the 'Glenn Miller band.' Ah, I jave just checked and it is indeed Lynn Bari who plays Vivian dawn (not Blane)
charade97 1 year ago
Vocal perfection from the Great Ray Eberle & Pat Friday. It simply does not--has not ever--been better than this. Thank-you You Tube, for helping to keep the memories alive. This was my Parent's music, but I was raised on it. Masterful. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
Bellisimo, muchas gracias por compartirlo.
sirjuandabicho 1 year ago
wonderful song <3
dakevinc 1 year ago
thanks a lot for this music from the heart.
my lonely days went over when My Beautiful Chiquita came to my life three and a bit years ago...
BAKERAGUSTINIANO 1 year ago
i'm 19 and i love this music more than i like the music now and days i often think i was born in the wrong era lol but if i had been there are alot of songs i would have missed out on i love all music Classical, Jazz, Doo Wop, some Rap, some Pop, Punk, even Heavy Metal, and whaterver else i missed music is a way of life for me
booboobitxch666 1 year ago
The people at the "concert" are also actors and extras on a movie set. George Montgomery is not a trumpet player in the Glenn Miller Orchestra. LOL. Montgomery is an actor playing a role in a movie. Moreover, he is not playing the trumpet. He is "acting". Johnny Best is actually playing the trumpet. They are all lip-synching. This is a movie not a live concert. Harry Morgan is not a soda jerk but an actor. He is playing a soda jerk in the movie. LOL. ;)
kingoma61 1 year ago
It is true that Jackie Gleason had his "orchestra" in the 1950s which was very successful. He also wrote the theme music to his show in the 1950s. But Jackie Gleason was first an actor and a comedian. That was his day job. Music was an avocation or hobby. At any rate, this would be taking events out of context. Gleason was never a musician in a big band. He was an actor. The music he did in the 1950s was just something he did for fun. But that was never his day job.
kingoma61 1 year ago
@kingoma61 sorry I'd disagree......it's the other way around...being an actor and comedian came later when teleivision came around.
histre101 1 year ago
You are mixing up reality and what is in a movie. My grandmother did that too. She could never understand that these were actors playing parts. Jackie Gleason is playing Ben Beck, a bass player in the Gene Morrison Orchestra. This is what I said in my comment. You said that Jackie Gleason was not a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. But why should he be? Do you see my point? Your comment does not make any sense at all. Do you know that this is a movie from 1942, not a Glenn Miller concert?
kingoma61 1 year ago
FYI: This is from the movie "Orchestra Wives" -- available streaming if you have Netflix. Cute movie, great music!!
gdangful 1 year ago
I can hear Etta James singing while I listen to this. What a beautiful song.
AzucaNegra16 1 year ago
@AzucaNegra16 yea, she did it in the 1960's terrific cover....
histre101 1 year ago