Bobby Hackett & Eddie Condon's Orchestra - When Your Lover Has Gone, 1944

[judikbelle]

I love this video; Bobby Hackett is everyone's favorite; so much love going in and through that trumpet. sigh.

[Corrie121]

One word sums this post up: "BRILLIANT".

Thank yo for sharing.

[kcuhca1953]

you can't beat this one--can't even match it!!!!!! those horns must be made of silk!

[ErnieHollerhagen]

@danilogiotto: E un po' strano che Hackett a suonato come une reincarnazione die Bix, ma era un ardente ammiratore di Armstrong.

[1920sbuff]

An outstanding, lusciously orchestrated version, thank you!

[merrihew]

One of your best. A great version of one of my favorite songs and wonderful images. Gene Austin did a decent version of this song too. If it hasn't been posted, perhaps I shall.

[barbcard]

@240252 Thanks for the idea! I'm exploring some possibilities for an absurdist piece on a meeting of some of those Hopper ladies, who demonstrate for freedom from their canvases. (Nothing to do with current world events :))

[danilogiotto]

non avrebbe potuto suonare con Louis Armstrong il 20/02/1948 alla Town Hall di NY in quel memorabile concerto:

[240252]

@13421JLUJ Thank you :-) 

[tango3721]

Hello Grzegorz - frame 1:37 is enrmously evocative. James Dean's life was short, intense, self-destructive but tons of fun. I guess we pay dearly for reckless fun. Rudolph Valentino also had a short life even if it was full of wild highs and lows.

The slow swing can be a good rhytm to execute some cool moves, dips and fancy leans! Thanks for this video and have a great Sunday!!!

[240252]

@tango3721 He was self destructive, even a slightly masochistic type. Allen Ginsberg, whose friend I used to be before his death, knew James Dean personally and he talked about poor James' self destructive acts.e.g, burning his own body with cigareettes etc. Therefore, a car accident that killed him could have not been purely a crash, at all. In a way, it was a suicidal act, even if based upon a subconscious trendency

[AdorableFlapper36]

I saw James Dean as the thumbnail in my subscriptions and clicked it immediately lol. Very beautiful song! (This was James Dean's favorite song).I also like the pictures you chose to go along with it. You always have a way of choosing pictures that fit flawlessly to the song!! :)

[240252]

@AdorableFlapper36 James Dean and that trumpet - what a perfect couple! Hadn't he been an actor, he ought to have became a lonely trumpet player... Thanks :-)

[bill3murr]

you have captured and expressed so well the uncontrollable desolation of the loss of a loved one....time can only give a slight partial ease to such a loss. thank you.

[240252]

@bill3murr As always, your sensitive soul digs everything, behind words. Thank you, Bill.

[enigmamelodies]

I have always loved to hear Frank Sinatra sing this song since I was a child. And here, Bobby Hackett, the finest trumpet player in all this world or the next with a tone from heaven. I am sure that all of the Eddie Condon (who had the taste to assemble these musicians) players are still jamming somewhere in that great orchestra in the sky. Jack Teagarden was beyond a musician, he speaks directly to the heart. Your images are, as always, gorgeous, fitting and simply exquisite. 

[240252]

@enigmamelodies Thank you for your enthusiastic words. I second each of them! I listen to this tune at nights when I'm a little sad and very tired and just ready to move for a few hours into the "land of nowhere". And this music becomes a perfect yellow brick road for my ruby shoes

[danilogiotto]

l'entrata di Teagarden e Hakett è f e n o m e n a l e ...

[240252]

@danilogiotto Hackett - probably the best trumpet player ever living on face of this Earth. And what a masterly couple he made with Teagarden's trombone, indeed! Mille gazie!

[Trombonology]

Yet another favorite record of mine. All those faces, as well as the stances, communicate the song title and speak of those "lonely hours" in the lyrics. Wonderful shot of beautiful Coop. ... Masterful!

[240252]

@Trombonology Thanks, it's my friend's death from a couple of days ago, that still dwells in me and that finally brought me to that record. It's exacly a kind of music, my soul needed.

[LevkoDor]

Чудово!

[240252]

@LevkoDor Spasiba, drug :-)

[amarys2art]

Thank you!

[fredjmp]

Que maravilha!! How beautiful!!

[240252]

@fredjmp Gracias, Fred. The beauty is so often connected with sadness. Or even - I would say - an inevitable part of beauty must be sadness

[fredjmp]

@240252 I agree with you. Beauty is everywhere. I found the music beautiful but the feeling makes the feel more intensely. Chopin perfectly reflected this in their beautiful music.

[barbcard]

Magnifique, both erotic and sad at the same time. I once wrote a poem

about that forlorn usherette in the Hopper painting, imagining she was enceinte and had been jilted by the "father." The old-fashioned movie theater is the perfect setting. I'm sure this resonates with all of us who have lost friends, family, and lovers, and at least in East Coast American Time are spending this late winter Saturday night watching YT.

[240252]

@barbcard That's an interesting idea - to write a short story about that usherette!!! Or - just imagine! - the whole book of tales that would tell the life stories of the Hopper's heroes! The Nighthawks, the Usherette, or that aging lady left alone is a cheap hotel's lobby... Wow...

[genia106]

Grzegorz My Darling,

YOU have just driven me MAD!

Set them up Joe , have I got a story to tell....

I am at 2:25 and I feel as if all my Lovers...Rudy, Jimmy, Gary & Jude have gone.

WOW!!! This is one of your most BRILLIANT posts.. The song is the BEST version I have ever heard and that Hopper at the end was PERFECT.

I must have an extra dry double martini immediately.

I am giving you another Oscar for your mantel..

Merci mon cher. Bisous

Genia

[240252]

@genia106 Of thank you for all these words, you make me ashamed, indeed. As for Jimmy - please read what I just wrote in my answer to Lana. There's some little yet very interesting detail about that poor good guy he was. I heard a lot about him from Ginsberg

[MustacheVerra]

Nice!

Thanks.

[240252]

@MustacheVerra Thanks a lot!

[gfks11]

Fantastic post once more!!!

[240252]

@gfks11 Thank you :-))