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  • Please, i whant "Tonight", theme from west side story. Tank you!

  • i love this version better than all the other ones on you tube

  • Is this the original version?

  • @Ginnyconejita wiki says It was recorded in 1927 by Gene Austin, although the first ever recording was by Irving Kaufman in 1926 on Banner Records. check it out

  • @RTEareSOMEshower Thank you so much.

  • this is toattly troy and bryans theme from ahs

  • I'm here because of AHS tbh...

  • I only know about this from American Horror Story and i really liked it. And i only remembered it cause i think of it as Troy and Bryan's theme song ;)

  • I still watch That Lawrence Welk Show, with the Lennon Sisters, Them re-runs from the 50's get me everytime! Awesome!

  • This was uploaded on my birthday ewqbjfiwbeouef YES! I love the 50s <3

  • White people built beauty.

  • Am I the only one who thinks the little one's jaw looks swollen? D:

  • I love the girl on the right. She's so pretty C:

  • Has anyone else noticed that Diane keeps looking up during this number? I counted her doing it 5 times. I didn't notice that on any of their numbers.

  • once the world was a beautiful place... Now? fuck this shittt

  • i found a dead cat on the side of the road, so i took it home and put some honey on it, and i cooked it and then i ate it is that bad du du du duu

  • i dont think the little girl is singing at all. i think she is only lip singing

  • @koolbrick ..Oh BS....watch them singing "Melodie D'Amour" when she was about 12 or so and you can clearly see that she DOES sing. incidentally, the word you were looking for is "lip-syncing"

  • A lil scandalous, the lyrics: "I know with the dawn you'll be gone, but tonight you belong to me."  A simpler version of "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (" I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand. Let the devil take tomorrow. Lord, tonight I need a friend."). Of course, the Lennon Sisters make it sound fun, wholesome, and harmless, and entirely pull it off, being the good Roman Catholics they are (this is how their folks had 12 kids!).

  • A wannaful a wannaful.

  • Eu procuro TONIGHT - Obrigado

    Y whant TONIGHT - Tank you

  • Awe, this is so pretty.

  • yeah it is sweet and innocent - maybe those days were better - i just keep getting images of the lennon sisters dad putting on his K.K.K uniform...sorry but 50s america creeps me out

  • Eddie Vedder...get lost. These girls just schooled you.

  • Serious problems in everytime period just now we cry about anything

  • Um, yeah, the music was innocent, sweet, and so full of promise.. But only if you were a white man. I mean, it's fine to want to go back because the music and TV was so great, but there were some SERIOUS problems back than.. Like, serious.

  • I just don't belong to these times.

  • It was a MUCH BETTER world back then.. innocent, sweet and so full of promise.

  • @singinjohnny.. you said it about going back. Book me on the first Time Tunnel.. one way ticket please NONSTOP!!

  • Creepy.

  • This hit by Lawrence Welk with The Lennon Sisters hit #15 on the Top 40 charts and finished 1956 at #96. On July 9, 1955, Bill Haley and His Comets hit #1 with Rock Around the Clock, signifying the start of the Rock Era. In 1956, a black haired boy from Tupelo, Mississippi named Elvis Presley hit #1 with Heartbreak Hotel, shooting this new sound into the stratosphere.

  • Lawrence Welk = Original Gangsta

  • Lawerence Welk - "You belong to me-uh"

  • Why do people try to make something nasty of this song ! It is about a girl having a dream,.... that's ALL !!!

  • Kind of skanky to have a young girl sing that.

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  • @tobefranklin You idiot! There was no such thing as auto-tuning when this was recorded !!!

  • that small girl is eddie vedder when he was young

  • lol

    

  • the version from The Jerk is where i heard this. i like this version.

  • This song is about adultery

  • Loved it! Thanks for posting this video!

  • hey everybodye, check me and my sister singing this music in a duet... =)

    /watch?v=pZ6R6m-Y1qw

  • @ivanovisk yup she seems to be pretty hot :)

  • the Honeys did a great job of covering this song.

  • I can't quit listening to this and Odd Future. LOL, seriously though. This is wonderful and addictive.

  • Beutiful

  • The Lennon Sisters are from a large family where the majority of them sing...and have talent.

  • It sounds gorgeous, but they are definitely lip syncing...

  • @freylauren In an interview posted on here, one of the Lennons said that they had to pre-record the songs because the overhead boom mic couldn't pic up all four voices equally because each girl was at a different height.

  • @Drillin4Oil Nope...they prerecorded for mix-placement. I would bet my career on it ;-)

    It's excellent singing, but there is no way they could get the vocals centered (in the mix) without the microphone covering up the girls faces. Omnidirectional mic technology just wasn't up to snuff.

  • Awesome harmony, I just discovered the Lennon Sisters.... and I'm black too

  • take it away navin johnson!

  • it break tears to my eyes ! ~!

  • I love it, too sweet for words.

  • Delightful!

  • The hit version of this by Patience and Prudence is pretty tough to beat. But true to form, Cathy, Diane, Janet and Peggy give them a run for their money with those impeccable vocal harmonies. Love it!

  • @MikeBlitzMag I was just listening to Patience and Prudence...you're right. I'm tempted to put them both on my play list.

  • I dream of being in a quartet like this.

  • At 1:50 the hot one on the right gives a wink to the camera.. So hot lol

  • @guitarshredder920 Looks to me like she just got some dust in her eye.

  • These comments are creepin' me OUT! "THIS one's hotter!" "THAT one's hotter!"  How old are they, 8 - 14 ?!! Then on the other side of the fence are the prudes who are arguing this song has no double intendre... Oh, Come ON!! America is a nation of 12 year olds. Half the population wants to be grown up too fast and can't get their minds out of their underwear; the other half are little children stopping their ears to whatever they don't want to hear, yelling "nyah nyah". Grow up already!

  • @nauort23 14 was the 21 back then so its all good xDD

  • It doesn't make sense. The one in the back is the hottest by far.

  • @deadapostle I 100% agree with you!

  • Steve Martin and whatsher name same this in 'The Jerk'. This family was/is very talented. Wunerful Wunerful Thkque Boyza !!

  • 100% American beauty and innocence

  • pedobear seal of approval

  • I wish I lived in this time. Too bad I was born in 1979.

  • Are these Johns sisters?

  • @dipbait Absolutely not , these are American girls, John was British !!!

  • Diane, Kathy, Peggy and Janet !  Great girls.

  • When I was little, maybe three or four, I always thought "The Lawrence Welk Show" was called "Dance Party" and I watched the re-runs every Saturday at seven on channel four. It really helped develop my love of music.

  • This is the simplest of songs and look at how much they with it, particularly the perfectly executed harmonies. At some points it sounds like eight voices.

  • ++++++!!!!!!

  • The Lennon Sisters will be appearing this Monday (September 27) on The Today Show on NBC.

  • If I had a time machine. Id get stuck in those times.

  • @franesBlamescheezytv If i came with you, They'd turn me into a slave for being coloured O_O but I'd still be singing this song ^_^

  • @Yanerocksbebo Lol i dont think they had slaves during those times. But singing this tune of course.

  • Sweet, beautiful, innocent, and real. I forgot just how well these girls sang. It's a testimony of where we were back then and where we are now. I would happily go back if only I could. Thanks so much for posting this.

  • @singinjohnny do you really have any grasp of reality back then in the birth of television? you want to go back to the days of apartheid and and the most painfully racist depictions of blacks? And then you claim this is "real" like music isn't real today? again do you have any grasp of the creation and process of these programs back in the day OR music as it stands today? You'd be surprised how much music out there you just may like. Just a '20 year old' giving his opinion, love this song:)

  • @TikTakSambo Thirty years from now, people will be looking back to these days and saying "Can you believe they really did/thought that?" about something we take for granted. Every era has its blind spots.

    As for music - I am 64 & I love music of many different styles & periods, and to my ear, few things in the last 20 years are worth anything. I have stopped listening to current music because it is simply not enjoyable.

  • @AnglicanXn Of course! Racism + horrible things are being done everywhere in this world. But on music your comments couldn't be further from false. I believe it's mostly due to the fact taste is a psychological reaction to whats known, and that just as we get older things in this world become more foreign to us in varying degrees. Who knows how confused I'll be in 2060. But I assure you theres music you'd like, the process of finding it is just not your forte. Try watch?v=eRfBqoGVFXc for me

  • @TikTakSambo I expect that there is good, current music out there now, but almost all popular music is sung by people who could not hold a steady note if their lives depended on it, and many lyrics have no scansion. A huge percentage of music seems to depend entirely on technology not simply to record it but as part of the music itself - masking the skills (if any) of the musician.

    I did not understand the link you gave; I would follow it if I could.

  • @AnglicanXn I'm gonna just send you a message, they don't let us encode comments with videos so I just placed the end of the HTML(look at your address bar) but don't worry I'll use the message to explain myself more clearly and post a ~couple~ songs of the modern day.

  • @AnglicanXn ...Whooeeeeeee  "scansion" a $25 dollar word to describe a musical passage. lol

  • @FlierFrank172 Lyrics are poetry, and "scansion" is the meter of a poem - how many syllables per line, the rhythm of the lines. Music has meter, and the beat of the lyrics should match the beat of the music. Most songs up until the last few decades did that.

  • @TikTakSambo I in no way meant that there is no good music to be heard nowadays. There are plenty of very talented musicians today as well as some great music. The comment was a nostalgic sentiment perhaps coming from reflecting on my childhood back then. The world was certainly in much turmoil back then as it is now. When a person gets to be my age, they become disenchanted and nostalgic. Times aren't any better now than they were then, just different.

  • @TikTakSambo And it's sad because back then we were optimistic and hoping that things would get even better than ever as time went by.

  • @singinjohnny well said

  • @TikTakSambo Thank you. I miss being 20. Enjoy your life to the fullest, my friend...

  • @TikTakSambo I've been trying for years myself. All I can say is that it's better to try than not to. Exactly how we do it is something we have to try and figure out on our own since we all have different ideas of just what living life to the fullest is.

  • My new favorite singers are quality.

  • @SonjaTalton wow angry at the changing world much?

  • These girls all remind me of the Peanuts girls with the exception of Peppermint Patty and Marcie.

  • @SonjaTalton I agree with ya all the way. These girls were so genuine and cute and they are much more beautiful than girls these days.

  • @Heegoop today we got some skank nasty excuses for females that sure. but in fairness they do go well with the "music' of today. roflmfao

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  • @midniteblue36 Obviously you don't know these girls ! The answer to your statement is "NOPE" .....

  • @TheHayterThree get your head out of the gutter. Its about them having a dream, nothing more.

  • well i probabaly dress like what you would describe as slutty

    but thats me.

    and I like it!

  • @TheHayterThree So you "dress like a slut" and you "like dressing like a slut". How's your "sluttiness" my problem?

  • @MissLilNova

    well the pont im tryin to make

    is your tryin to amke otu that these girls are all sweet and feminine, and that is what thesong is about, on the surface, but the song is about someone sleepin with someone elses girlfriend

    so its not exactly sweet or feminine is it really

    'i know you belong to somebody new

    but tonight you belong to me'

    so tahts sleeping out of wedlock

    a bit provacative isn't it?

  • @TheHayterThree Get you mind out of the gutter! This song is not about sleeping with anybody ! It is about a girl dreaming about a former boyfriend...... Nothing else !!!

  • @TheHayterThree People didnt jump into illicit sex until just the past 20 years about. Pull it out of the gutter.

  • @SonjaTalton I think you are politically a right-wing RACIST just for using the words"UGLY ghouls" as these two words were used to label most non-whites and all african-americans which is why whites are the weathiest race while African-americans are along the poorest race in America and Halloween and horror movies must be outlawed as they teach and encourage racism and satanism to our young chiuldern.

  • Whatever happened to being elegant, smart and classy? Why 99% of the girls today have to look like sluts or transvestite? Look at how they used to dress and look at us now.

  • @MissLilNova What's wrong with transvestites? Too much competition for ya?

  • @Michaeldair lol Nothing wrong with them, and they could be a competition, I mean why not? But they are already transvestites, it's just the way they are and it does suit them. I'm talking about normal girls who're going to the extremes by wearing this really heavy make-up, dressing like sluts and acting so. Sorry if I offended you.

  • @MissLilNova Boy you're just full of hate first it's the Transvestites, and now it's the Sluts. What the heck is wrong with sluts??? Sluttyness has nothing to do with bad taste, "loss morals yes," but not the inability to apply makeup in a moderate fashion. A better comparison would be Emit Kelly. ; )

  • @Michaeldair I'm not full of hate. I was just pointing out what's obvious. Girls nowadays do dress like sluts and you cannot deny it. Morals has nothing to do with that...I mean, you can see many well-mannered young ladies dressing up provocatively and were their makeup like Mr. Kelly :) and they are NOT sluts, they just dress up like ones.

  • @MissLilNova

    well i probabaly dress like what you would describe as slutty

    but thats me.

    and I like it!

    oh and the irony is, is thatyour talking about

    sweet smiles and feminine hairdos, and all that innocence. but the song thye are singing is about someone who's sleeping with someone elses boyfriend 'i know you belong tosomebody knew' but 'tonight you belong to me'

  • @Michaeldair

    you're totally right

    well i probabaly dress like what you would describe as slutty

    but thats me.

    and I like it!

    oh and the irony is, is what theyare talking about

    sweet smiles and feminine hairdos, and all that innocence. but the song thye are singing is about someone who's sleeping with someone elses boyfriend 'i know you belong tosomebody knew' but 'tonight you belong to me'

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  • @benoni45 Apparently not as much as you do :)

  • @SonjaTalton what a mean spirited comment

  • Every aspect of the performance has to do with what is on the surface, from the set, to the clothing and hairdos. notice the posture and the variations on the theme of smile all the time. Part of the fascination is catching a break in character

  • What the fuck is sonjatalton on about?

  • I like the patience and prudence version better!

  • Is it just me or does the host seem unusually nervous? He's rocking and stumbling in his introduction. I think he almost said "lovely little lemon girls" and he awkwardly pronounces the song title "tonight you belong to me on"?

  • You are right, he seems a little nervous, but you should read his biography. Welk was born in USA, but his parents came from Alsace, which was German in these days. Today it belongs to France. He was never able to speak english fluently, cause ´till his 21 birthday he only spoke german (i think a kind of german dialect). I like his funny kind of pronouncation, you should watch the clip "Bugle call Polka", and hear how he pronounces the word "Polka"

  • @michaelxmas Right! Part of the wonder was that so stiff a personality could even get on TV

  • "has anybody really figured out what this song means? i mean if you let your imagination go, it's pretty risque"

    ==

    SO is music in general these days. Then again it's a lot more overt these days.

    There's no patience or prudence in delivering the sexual innuendo either (pun obviously intended)

  • It is about her dreaming about a former sweetheart, nothing more !!!

  • @boatracer39 I'm glad somebody finally said that. Thank you!

  • That little one isn't singing, is she? But they're charming. I love this song. :)

  • They are really charming, I could listen to them all day. Thanks for sharing this!

  • The girl on the right looks like a young Diane Wiest

  • That would br Peggy-- Sorry I don't know who Diane Wiest is ?

  • Your right and the Lennons had a lot to do with getting them on that show!!

  • I remember Janet and Lawrence welk would dance at the end of the show.

    Does anyone remember the Osmond boys when they were young? They got their early exposure in the same way. Only on the Andy Williams show.

  • My husband played with them in Branson, Mo last year!

  • Awesome I love lawrence Welk have loved the show since i was little and i'm only 18

  • Too bad they haven't got any decent singers like these sisters to listen to anymore

  • This is exactly what I needed to lift my spirit to nirvana... Wrangling with work all day really makes me seek out this uplifting gem

  • that was beautifulllll thankyouuuuuuuuuu

  • Wow...Perfection!

  • M,ore than perfection,sweet bliss

  • They are LOVELY GIRLS.......NOTHING SHORT OF THAT

  • So sweet & beautiful & such lovely Angelic voices.What more could anyone desire is a total mystery to me? ? ? i love them all

  • I appreciate that but for the most part they played well. I do imagine they had time to rehearse at some point also.

    Either way may comment only highlight my own personal preference :o)

  • Nice rendition - however the orchestra is far too overpowering at times.

  • You must remember this was done live and not in a recording studio..

  • Who here asked why this is only sung by little girls? First time I ever heard this, it was sung by the Mills Brothers, who were neither girls, nor little (especially Herbert!) For years, it was the only version I'd ever heard, until my local radio station started playing the Lennon sisters' version a lot. Apparently, Gene Austin, Irving Kaufman, and later, Frankie Laine all recorded it, but I've never heard those.

  • I can believe I can sit down and front of my computer and see stuff like this! What a treat!

  • i think this is the best version of this song out there!

  • Did the lennon sisters beat the crap out of patience and prudence! Maybe prudence took out two of them but the bloodlust was in thier eyes and the result was foregone.

  • They are so happy. Its starting to annoy me :P

  • As much as I love this song AND the Lennon Sisters... WHY is this song always sung by little girls? Listen to the lyrics...

  • Well, except for the little one in front, the rest of them are not really little girls, more like teenagers. And the lyrics don't have to mean what you're saying they mean. It was a more innocent time then in many ways. Nowadays of course our minds all go there.

  • And what, exactly, was I "saying they mean"? I did no such thing. It seems you're speaking for all of us when you say, "Nowadays of course our minds all go there..." Where, exactly, did MY mind go, since you credit yourself with such powers? This is a song about a lost romantic love, Period--and, I maintain, an odd choice to be sung by girls or pubescent young women--especially in the 1950's. Let's not put words in other people's mouths.

  • I don't think teenagers singing about romantic love is that odd. Singing about a sexual evening together would be inappropriate for these girls to sing about, which is what I assumed you meant. Obviously you didn't. But you have to agree that most people who grew up in the 60's and later would think of the sexual aspect when hearing this song, but I guess I could be wrong.

  • Exactly what I was thinking. Someone's missed something here, haven't they? I don't wish to rant or rave, which I don't tend to do normally,but I think you are right in what you are assuming, actually.

    Thank you for showing such an intellectual outlook upon this matter.

    Thank you.

    5*****.

  • You're welcome.

  • Thank you.