Luv it. This is my all-time favorite Big Band record. If Artie Shaw cut it in 1949 I was 13 years old at the time and just beginning to appreciate real music. A few years later big band music was passe and rock and roll had taken over radio and records That ended the era of of real music as far as I'm concerned. I don't bother listening to the junk that most people today call music. It's not music at all, it's just mindless noise made by mindless noisemakers for mindless people.
In 1980 my mother had a big band station on her am car radio, which I used to make deliveries. "Begin the Beguine" by Artie Shaw is THE song that launched me into Big Band Music. I kept hearing this music over and over. My Rock and Roll mind rebelled. I finally surrendered. I ran an antenna all around my house trying to get that West Covina station. So, thanks KGRB, KPCC and Canterbury Records. But, as much as I love Artie Shaw, all roads still lead to Frank Sinatra.
@njchrissiface No- I mean Lana! But they also had Ava in common. Lana dumped Peter Lawford for Frank before his marriage to Ava. And Lana and Ava were best friends. I made the A&E Biography of the Rat Pack and the TCM bio of Lana Turner. They are uploaded to my channel page.
This version was recorded in '68 by a group of all-stars assembled by Shaw. We were told that these players were used (by memory): Walt Levinski(clarinet), Al Klink and Billy Slapin on tenors, Buddy Morrow (tb), Toots Mondello (lead), Don Lamond (dr), Bernie Leighton (p), Al Davis and Bernie Privin (trps). The total individual personnel was NEVER given (now that would take some research - besides you have me to set you straight). Artie conducted, and the product is really quite excellent.
@rmayer821 Since you seem to have unearthed a lot of information about this recording, were you able to find out how to get this it on iTunes or some other venue? Thanks.
@TheBellwood1000 Certainly. It was one of the first Lps I got as a clarinetist at age 13. It was produced by Capitol (in those days). Bernie Privin is in the video in the middle of the trumpets. Al Klink (ex-Glenn Miller) plays the Pastor solos and Slapin the Auld solos on the LP. These were top-notch NYC guys as opposed to Shaw's later Dick Johnson band. Google it under Artie Shaw's Great 1938 band. It's Capitol ST something. As I said, there's little I don't know about Shaw!
OK - I've done some listening to my copy of LEnoch Light and continue to be confident that this is his from the 1970s. He may have recorded other versions of this song but this is the one I'm familiar with. Some folks credited Jerry Gray with this arrangement. Gray was great but this ain't Gray's arrangement. It's Light's arrangement inspired by Artie Shaw. If it isn't a "carbon copy" of Shaw, it's very close, a little mellower than the original Shaw recording but very close.
Pretty sure this is audio is Enoch Light and the Light Brigade from the Album - Big Band Hits of the '30s. It's too bad it's not credited properly. This is a great album from a great series of recordings reprising the Big Band hits of the swing era with faithful arrangements. Very high quality recordings from the 1970s made mostly by musicians who came of age during the music's peak.
This recording is a sham..i.e..it is NOT Artie Shaw on the clarinet. It is the original Jerry Gray "arrangement"...and I should know, i've played it myself dozens of times. Several others have pointed out this fake (e.g. annouli, shaunsstuff79, and most recently ARTMARSHAL) I wish bossoundmoticuco would do one of two things: 1) admit he has posted a sham or 2) post the original recording. RickBusciglio also posted a fake Shaw recording of "Temptation".
Artie shaw was once playing at a dance venue that had Benny Goodman in the audience. As Goddman and his dance partner reached the stage, he looked up at Artie Shaw and said "If you wore glasses, people would thing you were Benny Goodman". Artie Shaw replied "If you could play the clarinet, people would think you were Artie Shaw".
With all due respect but this is not Artie Shaw himself playing; Shaw's sound was no so round as the sound of this player. Shaw had other qualities; a very secure high register .It's a remake of a fine tune in a polished up arrangement. The movie has been synchronised with the tempo, or the other way around Also the Tony Pastor sax player has a different sound. The trombones in bars 93 through 95 sound better than in the original; the swing guitar beat has been brought to the fore.
@euphemism63 Thanks so much for the confirmation on that. This (the '38 version at least) was my grandparents' song when they first got together and I used the version here in a memorial video for my grandmother's funeral. Dour note, but I know she wanted people dancing and happy, and this one would do it for sure!
@LEXI0N The arrangement of the song is from Artie Shaw in 1938 but this isn't the 1938 recording. I don't know what year this is from, but if it's Artie Shaw still on the clarinet I think he re-recorded this song in 1949 and it could be that version. (It's definitely not the 1970s Enoch Light version as someone claims way back in the comments.)
I like thank Bossoundmotituco for uploading this wonderful music of all time for us to enjoy. I can listen to it over and over again, there is nothing like it anymore. The audio is great but the video not so good . It is fantastic to watch Artie Shaws band plying. Would it be possible to upgrade the image ?
This music brings back so many memories, my eyes get wet, it touches deeply into one's soul. There is nothing like it nowadays. These impresive bands are gone forever, nothing like the good old days !
this song never fails to bring me to tears both of joy (it's dam good) and sorrow for these days are surely gone for ever. On the other hand we can go back if only for a dance with the one we love while you tube plays thank you bosssoundmoticuco
well done boss! you put it together like clock work. the audio is by Enoch Light and his Orchestra recorded in 1974. The album is a must have for all big band fans.
This music was playing in the 40's over the radio, so in 1947 we have the first Alien crash in Roswell, so they must have heard it millions of miles away and knew it was coming from the litle blue planet and started coming here to enjoy it, don't you think?
@joevet66 do you think this one was still played (regularly) on the radio still in 47'? may be it wasn't already, it was 12-14 years old by then. But hey, I wouldn't blame them for coming to enjoy it ;)
Currently playing lead alto and clarinet in a swing band. I've done Goodman, Herman, and Shaw charts and this is one of my favorites. BG was so good technically, it's hard to emulate a lot of his licks (listen to Sing, Sing, Sing, Part 2 sometime); Woody is a little too avant garde sometimes (listen to almost anything other than Woodchopper's Ball), but Shawis just good smooth clarinet work. I'm doing the Al Gray arrangement of this one and Moonglow on our next gig. Going to be fun.
Somewhere I heard Artie's version of Begin the Beguine (at least it was the Shaw/Gray arrangement) with a male vocal, Mel Torme or someone, and perdition catch me if I can find the recording.
@Ghislaine483 - Quand je ferme mes yeux, je m'imagine dans les années 1950. Quand mes grandparents se sont mariées, ils ont dansé a cette chanson, et quand je ferme les yeux, j'imagine que je les vois sur la piste à danser, tous jeunes et contents...
@Ghislaine483- Quand je ferme les yeux, je m'imagine l' année 1950, l'an quand mes grandarents se sont mariés. Quand je joue cette chanson, j'imagine le jour qu'ils se sont mariés. Ce jour là, ils ont dansé cette chanson, et maintenant que je ferme mes yeux, je les vois, tous jeunes et contenents. Merci pour les beux souvenirs...
Why don't people want to dance to this music anymore? I did some foxtrot lessons some time ago and most of the women were over 60! And yes I AM A MAN (40 years old) so it's the women letting us down here! Forget the bloody pub ladies and trying to drink like men. All this equlity shite has gone too far! Time to go back to the old ways. Learn how to foxtrot and a whole new world will be opened up to you!
Astral composición de Cole Porter (USA) concebida en el hotel Ritz de París en 1935 inspirado en un ritmo de Martinica. Inmortalizada por el arreglo de Artie Shaw y su compositor-arreglista Jerry Gray. Es uno de los principales himnos del swim. Una obra de arte para la posteridad.
Is it true that Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman were so great with the clarinet because of the influence of Klezmer music in their early lives? I sure can hear the influence, along with black music!
I listen to this talented man's music all the time, it's either going round in my head or on my phone or MP3 player. No matter what the weather, or life itself brings, this man's music makes my day wonderful
and still this song fills dancefloors at vintage dances everyweekend, awesome tune...... but shaw hated playing it didnt he?? same way woody herman hated woodchoppers ball???
I just watched an Artie Shaw hour long interview on the David Susskind show. It aired on Dec. 24, 1984. Shaw talked about Jerry Gray and the arrangement of this great song.
This is music at it's finest, played by the master of Big Band Artie Shaw. They don't make music like this any more. Great arrangement by Jerry Gray..wow.
I am very happy to know about that your father arranged this song. This spectacular song reminded my daddy, who died more than 30 years ago. He loves to listen beautiful music.
in the mid 70's i believe a record company found some lost masters of jerry gray done in the mid 50's. at the time this rerelease was the best recording of the big band sound ever. i would blast this in between some rolling stones. anyway great music from some great americans . thanks.
555agray: Al, your father was an awsome arranger, great talent. I know he arranged for Miller, but I think Shaw's band was his favorite. Did Miller pay him well for his great arrangements? I play trumpet, and jazz /swing are my favorites, especially Shaw and Miller.
God,I love this man and his song....wish I had met him..this so stirs my soul and being that I could listen to him forever!!A master,a pro, the best...nothing to touch it today..nor the man!!!I am over the moon Artie with you and your "song!!"
Does anyone know where I can found the music arranged by Jerry Gray, which were always the most beautiful versions (begin the beguine, American patrol ...) ?
@555agray Wow so cool - well then, props to your dad! Love the arrangement of this song! Obviously Cole Porter wrote a brilliant classic, but the arrangement of the song that Artie Shaw played is also brilliant. Really makes it wonderful.
I know you're very proud of your Dad. This song made Artie famous, along with his band. I know because my Dad (Les Robinson) was lead alto on this recording. Jerry was a great talent, as my Dad knew.
@555agray I'll tell you what, I am a dancer and when I die, if they play this song at my funeral, I will get out of that box and dance it one more time. This has been my song since the first day I heard it.
What a song! Jerry Gray is great name in music . Thanks for adding the personal touch. Thanks to him and others, my deceased Mother used to say she would rather dance than eat!
@555agray This was the recording that turned me on to the big bands back in the early '60s - I love this arrangement and all the Glenn Miller arrangements he did, Thanks.
@555agray That is so cool. You were linked to greatness. I just watched the Suskind interview & I think he mentioned your dad. These old cats were really something.
@555agray : It's absolutely beautiful> You must be proud of your father's work! My dad was 17 when he played the clarinet in his uncle'sband in dance band in Chi Town. Da was out of school and needed a job.So...his uncle hired him for the summer. Da was really good...I only heard him paly one time and was at my wedding reception in 1980. He played his clarinet along with this a recording. I'll never forget it!!
Awesome! I've loved this song ever since I first heard it on a Time-Life demo sheet (one of these little freebie paper thin vinyl record samplers they used to send out as teasers) way back in 1965. Recorded music and video are so great to preserve these great artists. I like the drummer.
The music being played does not go with the video portion. The sound is stereo. Back when video was made, they did not even have HiFi let alone stereo.
Que bien que has subido nuevamente este video. Por supuesto la interpretacion de Artie Shaw es unica e inigualable, pero verle a el dirigiendo a su orquesta hacia la experiencia mas intima. Muchas gracias ;)
Not sure what folks are referring to as "original", but this is undoubtedly a modern recording of the classic hit.
artbeau 2 hours ago
Fantastic!
Clairsigne 1 week ago
I would love to know where to get a copy of this arrangement. Does anyone know who made this recording. It's not Artie Shaw.
MrJovila1234 3 weeks ago
Awesome.!!! song written by Cole Porter.
pieronicolosi 3 weeks ago
Luv it. This is my all-time favorite Big Band record. If Artie Shaw cut it in 1949 I was 13 years old at the time and just beginning to appreciate real music. A few years later big band music was passe and rock and roll had taken over radio and records That ended the era of of real music as far as I'm concerned. I don't bother listening to the junk that most people today call music. It's not music at all, it's just mindless noise made by mindless noisemakers for mindless people.
minralb 1 month ago 2
If it doesn't sound like this - you're doing it wrong.
saxguy1 1 month ago
Me encanta. También me recuerda que en los 60 la oía en la radio.
conchitahernandez47 1 month ago
Una hermosa melodia, una ejecicion impecable, al escucharla nos transporta a otra dimension
jezugalve 1 month ago
In 1980 my mother had a big band station on her am car radio, which I used to make deliveries. "Begin the Beguine" by Artie Shaw is THE song that launched me into Big Band Music. I kept hearing this music over and over. My Rock and Roll mind rebelled. I finally surrendered. I ran an antenna all around my house trying to get that West Covina station. So, thanks KGRB, KPCC and Canterbury Records. But, as much as I love Artie Shaw, all roads still lead to Frank Sinatra.
DefenderofPepperland 1 month ago
@DefenderofPepperland YES YES YES! And Artie and Frank had a little something in common- LANA TURNER!
soapbxprod 1 month ago
@soapbxprod You mean Ava Gardner
njchrissiface 4 weeks ago
@njchrissiface No- I mean Lana! But they also had Ava in common. Lana dumped Peter Lawford for Frank before his marriage to Ava. And Lana and Ava were best friends. I made the A&E Biography of the Rat Pack and the TCM bio of Lana Turner. They are uploaded to my channel page.
soapbxprod 4 weeks ago
I love this music, artie was and is one
Of the all time greats. Hard to believe thus was a B side record
Thanks Cole porter
yogamantra 2 months ago
This ain't 1949, nor Enoch Light. See below.
rmayer821 2 months ago
nice tenor saxophone solo
pecas20101 2 months ago
goddamn this song is so amazing. I could listen to it for ever and it wouldn't get old
directfader 2 months ago
I have the original, on an album, from the 40's it's a very sharp production, my opinion the best ,i think he oringinaly releashed it in late 30's
12pwalnuts 3 months ago
Benny eat your heart out...
Leftysdaughter 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Where can you get a copy because it is tremendous? Did they record others or just this one?
mdough7766 3 months ago
This version was recorded in '68 by a group of all-stars assembled by Shaw. We were told that these players were used (by memory): Walt Levinski(clarinet), Al Klink and Billy Slapin on tenors, Buddy Morrow (tb), Toots Mondello (lead), Don Lamond (dr), Bernie Leighton (p), Al Davis and Bernie Privin (trps). The total individual personnel was NEVER given (now that would take some research - besides you have me to set you straight). Artie conducted, and the product is really quite excellent.
rmayer821 3 months ago
@rmayer821 Since you seem to have unearthed a lot of information about this recording, were you able to find out how to get this it on iTunes or some other venue? Thanks.
TheBellwood1000 2 months ago
@TheBellwood1000 Certainly. It was one of the first Lps I got as a clarinetist at age 13. It was produced by Capitol (in those days). Bernie Privin is in the video in the middle of the trumpets. Al Klink (ex-Glenn Miller) plays the Pastor solos and Slapin the Auld solos on the LP. These were top-notch NYC guys as opposed to Shaw's later Dick Johnson band. Google it under Artie Shaw's Great 1938 band. It's Capitol ST something. As I said, there's little I don't know about Shaw!
rmayer821 2 months ago
OK - I've done some listening to my copy of LEnoch Light and continue to be confident that this is his from the 1970s. He may have recorded other versions of this song but this is the one I'm familiar with. Some folks credited Jerry Gray with this arrangement. Gray was great but this ain't Gray's arrangement. It's Light's arrangement inspired by Artie Shaw. If it isn't a "carbon copy" of Shaw, it's very close, a little mellower than the original Shaw recording but very close.
mdough7766 3 months ago
Pretty sure this is audio is Enoch Light and the Light Brigade from the Album - Big Band Hits of the '30s. It's too bad it's not credited properly. This is a great album from a great series of recordings reprising the Big Band hits of the swing era with faithful arrangements. Very high quality recordings from the 1970s made mostly by musicians who came of age during the music's peak.
mdough7766 3 months ago
nice saxophone solo
pecas20101 3 months ago
Amazing Thank You :)
Sunlightphil 3 months ago
This recording is a sham..i.e..it is NOT Artie Shaw on the clarinet. It is the original Jerry Gray "arrangement"...and I should know, i've played it myself dozens of times. Several others have pointed out this fake (e.g. annouli, shaunsstuff79, and most recently ARTMARSHAL) I wish bossoundmoticuco would do one of two things: 1) admit he has posted a sham or 2) post the original recording. RickBusciglio also posted a fake Shaw recording of "Temptation".
jim30bell 4 months ago 2
The best music survives and this is surviving. Just like some of the Beatles music, e.g. Yesterday
AlienTexas 5 months ago
Dude you are soo on point with that comment. Who cares for people that do not LISTEN. I don't . Period!!!!
007fiber007 5 months ago
3 people who didn't like this must be deaf.....
FrancisJoseph76 5 months ago
Just awesome. 35 yrs old and up against any genre. Makes me have goosebumps. No doubt!!!!!
007fiber007 5 months ago
Artie shaw was once playing at a dance venue that had Benny Goodman in the audience. As Goddman and his dance partner reached the stage, he looked up at Artie Shaw and said "If you wore glasses, people would thing you were Benny Goodman". Artie Shaw replied "If you could play the clarinet, people would think you were Artie Shaw".
stracepipe 5 months ago 2
With all due respect but this is not Artie Shaw himself playing; Shaw's sound was no so round as the sound of this player. Shaw had other qualities; a very secure high register .It's a remake of a fine tune in a polished up arrangement. The movie has been synchronised with the tempo, or the other way around Also the Tony Pastor sax player has a different sound. The trombones in bars 93 through 95 sound better than in the original; the swing guitar beat has been brought to the fore.
ARTMARSHALL1 5 months ago
IMPECCABLE, such as Artie ever was - a PURE joy to later generations - true genious !!!
dickcummings 5 months ago
@dickcummings except this isn't Artie
cdfoxx 3 months ago
To dance to this with the one you love. MAGIC.
BLUEBELL258 6 months ago
Ken Burns sent me here ; )
TeddyCool23 6 months ago
@javyjavyjavyjavy -Yup, this is the '49 version. Best EVAH!! :)
euphemism63 6 months ago 4
@euphemism63 Thanks so much for the confirmation on that. This (the '38 version at least) was my grandparents' song when they first got together and I used the version here in a memorial video for my grandmother's funeral. Dour note, but I know she wanted people dancing and happy, and this one would do it for sure!
javyjavyjavyjavy 5 months ago
To Penny.
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
J. K. Rowling Quotes
One of my all time favorites and part of the reason I learned to play the clarinet.
lindagrace1223 7 months ago
What year is this from?
LEXI0N 7 months ago
@LEXI0N 1940 aprox
pecas20101 7 months ago
@LEXI0N The arrangement of the song is from Artie Shaw in 1938 but this isn't the 1938 recording. I don't know what year this is from, but if it's Artie Shaw still on the clarinet I think he re-recorded this song in 1949 and it could be that version. (It's definitely not the 1970s Enoch Light version as someone claims way back in the comments.)
javyjavyjavyjavy 7 months ago
I like thank Bossoundmotituco for uploading this wonderful music of all time for us to enjoy. I can listen to it over and over again, there is nothing like it anymore. The audio is great but the video not so good . It is fantastic to watch Artie Shaws band plying. Would it be possible to upgrade the image ?
elsupercanario1 7 months ago
This music brings back so many memories, my eyes get wet, it touches deeply into one's soul. There is nothing like it nowadays. These impresive bands are gone forever, nothing like the good old days !
elsupercanario1 7 months ago
Music at it's best, not the tripe their playing on the radio today
bluebunny1968 7 months ago
What was the name of the bassist with Shaw's orchestra?
edzell3 7 months ago
Amy Winehouse was better
consequentialistic 7 months ago
@consequentialistic Amy Winehouse was something but she was no Jo Stafford
happydave56 6 months ago
@consequentialistic I think you mean "bitter"
kcmt01 4 months ago
In those days you could listen and dance to live dream orchestras, most days of the week.
Today you pay a small fortune for some "freak show" in a football stadium.
What would you rather choose?.
RudySunseeker 7 months ago
this song never fails to bring me to tears both of joy (it's dam good) and sorrow for these days are surely gone for ever. On the other hand we can go back if only for a dance with the one we love while you tube plays thank you bosssoundmoticuco
MrReloboy 7 months ago
Damn, I will never stop saying I was born in the wrong era.
aetherJade 8 months ago 3
@aetherJade have you seen midnight in paris? good movie
disctheory 8 months ago
@disctheory No, I haven't. Is this song in it?
aetherJade 8 months ago
@aetherJade me to
MrReloboy 7 months ago
Respond to this video... me too
MrReloboy 7 months ago
nice
distantvoid 8 months ago
The first record I remember when I was a toddler (in 1949!) it's still great!
Fringedbenefit 8 months ago
Great sound! Thanks!
BlueBoyAlone 8 months ago
What a talent and what an AMAZING arrangement! Yay Al Gray's Dad, Jerry Gray. Great legacies are a wonderful thing.
ssalstrom 8 months ago
La mejor interpretacion de b
camaronpadilla 9 months ago
This is the best record ever made of this song, and one of the best records of all time.
GHAriana 9 months ago 3
Does anyone know where I can purchase this Jerry Gray arrangement for clarinet? I have searched online and cannot find it anywhere.
JerryForsyth1 10 months ago
and no artie did not have a tv show in the 50s !! he was alltogether out of music by 1955 !!
shaunsstuff79 10 months ago
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shaunsstuff79 10 months ago
well done boss! you put it together like clock work. the audio is by Enoch Light and his Orchestra recorded in 1974. The album is a must have for all big band fans.
frankenzie 10 months ago
That's Gus Bivona on clarinet, a 1950s recreation. The drummer is Nick Fatool.
rsalvucc 10 months ago
@rsalvucc Or maybe not....but it isn't Shaw
rsalvucc 10 months ago
Original or not, it is a fantastic rendition.
OldDogNewTrick 10 months ago 14
@OldDogNewTrick true, except this isn't Artie
cdfoxx 3 months ago
This song is a timeless classic. My grandparents danced to this at their wedding, as did my parents. Hopefully, someday I will at my wedding too.
lamp3996 10 months ago
2 folks clicks on the wrong button
Jamarone 10 months ago
this aint even artie shaw ppl !! its a re-creation !!
shaunsstuff79 11 months ago
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TheNickelfire 10 months ago
nice sax section sound
thatsaxfellow 11 months ago
Nice sax section s.
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thatsaxfellow 11 months ago
me hace recordar a mi papá (q.e.p.d. ) le gustaba mucho esta canción
raguilar08mx 11 months ago 3
This isn't Shaw. A remake. Good, but not the original. Not nearly as good as the original. Sorry...
DeweyMaxx 11 months ago
This music was playing in the 40's over the radio, so in 1947 we have the first Alien crash in Roswell, so they must have heard it millions of miles away and knew it was coming from the litle blue planet and started coming here to enjoy it, don't you think?
joevet66 11 months ago
@joevet66 I think you you're right!
aviator408 11 months ago
@joevet66 do you think this one was still played (regularly) on the radio still in 47'? may be it wasn't already, it was 12-14 years old by then. But hey, I wouldn't blame them for coming to enjoy it ;)
GekkoKamen 11 months ago
I've just listed some Artie Shaw and other swing clarinet sheet music on Etsy.
etsy.com/shop/lauraslastditch?section_id=7952918
lauraandcalin 11 months ago
Currently playing lead alto and clarinet in a swing band. I've done Goodman, Herman, and Shaw charts and this is one of my favorites. BG was so good technically, it's hard to emulate a lot of his licks (listen to Sing, Sing, Sing, Part 2 sometime); Woody is a little too avant garde sometimes (listen to almost anything other than Woodchopper's Ball), but Shawis just good smooth clarinet work. I'm doing the Al Gray arrangement of this one and Moonglow on our next gig. Going to be fun.
jazzbo48 11 months ago
marks used clarinet artie shaw?
pecas20101 11 months ago
From 1:52 on was my answering machine cue for over 12 years. People loved it.
alpha18412 11 months ago
this has nothing to do with Artie Shaw's original sound. Why haven't you left the original soundtrack,which was a never heard version?
annanoli 1 year ago
great, 5stars or 10/10.
mackinl 1 year ago 7
The definative version
alanthedrum 1 year ago 5
Knocks spots off Glenn Miller's version. Absolutely addictive....keeps going round in your head all day!
Jer1967 1 year ago
the quality of the musicians of the time
pecas20101 1 year ago
Somewhere I heard Artie's version of Begin the Beguine (at least it was the Shaw/Gray arrangement) with a male vocal, Mel Torme or someone, and perdition catch me if I can find the recording.
AllBobsAllTheTime 1 year ago
congrats on the incredibly good quality of this video...it sounds as tho as youre standing in the orchestra pit and listening
undclassof80 1 year ago
Ça représente de très beaux souvenirs que ce morceau de musique. Je ne m'en lasse pas de l'entendre....Merci de nous le faire partager.
Ghislaine483 1 year ago 2
@Ghislaine483 - Quand je ferme mes yeux, je m'imagine dans les années 1950. Quand mes grandparents se sont mariées, ils ont dansé a cette chanson, et quand je ferme les yeux, j'imagine que je les vois sur la piste à danser, tous jeunes et contents...
-Le 26 mai, 1950
lamp3996 1 year ago
@Ghislaine483- Quand je ferme les yeux, je m'imagine l' année 1950, l'an quand mes grandarents se sont mariés. Quand je joue cette chanson, j'imagine le jour qu'ils se sont mariés. Ce jour là, ils ont dansé cette chanson, et maintenant que je ferme mes yeux, je les vois, tous jeunes et contenents. Merci pour les beux souvenirs...
lamp3996 1 year ago
Why don't people want to dance to this music anymore? I did some foxtrot lessons some time ago and most of the women were over 60! And yes I AM A MAN (40 years old) so it's the women letting us down here! Forget the bloody pub ladies and trying to drink like men. All this equlity shite has gone too far! Time to go back to the old ways. Learn how to foxtrot and a whole new world will be opened up to you!
rigel5 1 year ago 2
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tunesmith09 1 year ago
artie shaw at its best, i could hear this kind of music without being sasiated.
llanto75 1 year ago
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i will not got sasiated listening to this music ,period.
llanto75 1 year ago
i will got sasiated listening to this music ,period.
llanto75 1 year ago
Astral composición de Cole Porter (USA) concebida en el hotel Ritz de París en 1935 inspirado en un ritmo de Martinica. Inmortalizada por el arreglo de Artie Shaw y su compositor-arreglista Jerry Gray. Es uno de los principales himnos del swim. Una obra de arte para la posteridad.
miloara55 1 year ago 2
Is it true that Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman were so great with the clarinet because of the influence of Klezmer music in their early lives? I sure can hear the influence, along with black music!
pataphysician66 1 year ago
Arguably,the best big band recording of all time.
litvak36 1 year ago 17
Fantastic, incredible, I listened to this music as a kid, I appreciate it more now.
grgluppe 1 year ago
I listen to this talented man's music all the time, it's either going round in my head or on my phone or MP3 player. No matter what the weather, or life itself brings, this man's music makes my day wonderful
cliffb43 1 year ago
This is such a great compilation!! Nothing like big band era! Thanks for putting these together for us the music lovers.
gabby27051 1 year ago
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Wow, what a wonderful piece. I wish I could play like that.
belin93 1 year ago
wow! incredible. i wish i could play like that!
belin93 1 year ago
brilliant arrangement by one of the most talented band learder... i could hear this music every our and will not be sasaiated
llanto75 1 year ago 2
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artieshawnoway 1 year ago
and still this song fills dancefloors at vintage dances everyweekend, awesome tune...... but shaw hated playing it didnt he?? same way woody herman hated woodchoppers ball???
timboswingdancer 1 year ago
The Jerry Gray arrangements belong to the best of the Big Band Era !
ouest55 1 year ago
I just watched an Artie Shaw hour long interview on the David Susskind show. It aired on Dec. 24, 1984. Shaw talked about Jerry Gray and the arrangement of this great song.
1944Rosi 1 year ago
This is music at it's finest, played by the master of Big Band Artie Shaw. They don't make music like this any more. Great arrangement by Jerry Gray..wow.
oceanairman 1 year ago
I am very happy to know about that your father arranged this song. This spectacular song reminded my daddy, who died more than 30 years ago. He loves to listen beautiful music.
costamaria62 1 year ago
in the mid 70's i believe a record company found some lost masters of jerry gray done in the mid 50's. at the time this rerelease was the best recording of the big band sound ever. i would blast this in between some rolling stones. anyway great music from some great americans . thanks.
jackrabitcafe 1 year ago 2
If you can remain motionless during this you won 't fog a mirror. I'll be humming this all day now.
darkangels3000 1 year ago
555agray: Al, your father was an awsome arranger, great talent. I know he arranged for Miller, but I think Shaw's band was his favorite. Did Miller pay him well for his great arrangements? I play trumpet, and jazz /swing are my favorites, especially Shaw and Miller.
rgnsparks 1 year ago
why are there 2 dislikes?
saxophonehero 1 year ago 2
forever beautiful,it even gets better.
llanto75 1 year ago 22
goosebumps every time
farfanugenmaster 1 year ago
One of the most perfect dance tunes ever written. Great lyrics too!
jrh707 1 year ago
Perfect music
Ezrateach 1 year ago 2
I'm 19 years old but i really love his music
jackrabbitslims74 1 year ago
@jackrabbitslims74 so what im 13
whywuduc4r3 1 year ago
Amazing Sound!!... Thanks for Upload!!
scalajazz 1 year ago
The record doesn't fit with the video. but nevertheless a great performance.
many thanks for posting..we love this song. listening live to it , it is one of the greatest things ever heard. Thank you...
kopy567 1 year ago
What a fantastic clip and the audio is wonderful! Thanks for posting!
jakfak 1 year ago
Fantastic! Thanks for this.:)
lindyms 1 year ago
This is my favourite song of all time. I never tire of listening to it ....
MRSDOOW 1 year ago 3
God,I love this man and his song....wish I had met him..this so stirs my soul and being that I could listen to him forever!!A master,a pro, the best...nothing to touch it today..nor the man!!!I am over the moon Artie with you and your "song!!"
12fullofmirth 1 year ago
this song keeps me going in the hardest of times.
DOMORCIDEA 1 year ago
This recording went to number one on the charts the first week in November 1938 (based on record sales, juke box plays and radio station requests).
PublicRadioWorldWide 1 year ago
My understanding is "Indian Love Call" was the A side.
Very clever dubbing of the song to video. Bet they couldn't do it with "Non-Stop Flight"!
gyocomgd 1 year ago
I'd like to speak with Jerry grey's son
richwrice 2 years ago
Not Artie !!!
robertk1968 2 years ago
this recording is by Enoch Light and The Light Brigade from his 1974 2 record album Big Band Hits of the 30's 40's and 50's. love the video too!
frankenzie 2 years ago 3
This was the first song by father arranged for Artie Shaw..that was Jerry Gray. He was my Dad. Thanks Al Gray
555agray 2 years ago 60
@555agray
Does anyone know where I can found the music arranged by Jerry Gray, which were always the most beautiful versions (begin the beguine, American patrol ...) ?
ouest55 2 years ago
@555agray Wow so cool - well then, props to your dad! Love the arrangement of this song! Obviously Cole Porter wrote a brilliant classic, but the arrangement of the song that Artie Shaw played is also brilliant. Really makes it wonderful.
TumblingDice66 2 years ago
@555agray This arrangement by your father was the most beautiful thing I hear in the time of big bands and the music is so great ! Carlos, Brazil.
abreuferreira1 1 year ago
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@555agray
Al,
I know you're very proud of your Dad. This song made Artie famous, along with his band. I know because my Dad (Les Robinson) was lead alto on this recording. Jerry was a great talent, as my Dad knew.
regards - Gary
garyrob58 1 year ago
@555agray I'll tell you what, I am a dancer and when I die, if they play this song at my funeral, I will get out of that box and dance it one more time. This has been my song since the first day I heard it.
bebidance 1 year ago
@555agray
What a song! Jerry Gray is great name in music . Thanks for adding the personal touch. Thanks to him and others, my deceased Mother used to say she would rather dance than eat!
KLSIndiana 1 year ago
@555agray This was the recording that turned me on to the big bands back in the early '60s - I love this arrangement and all the Glenn Miller arrangements he did, Thanks.
daiblair 1 year ago
@555agray What year is this recording ? Awsome
Jazzyhorn111 1 year ago
@555agray if true (I'm not doubting you) I'd enjoy hearing any stories about your dad and Artie Shaw and other bands he used to arrange for. Tnx.
profitleads 1 year ago
@555agray That is so cool. You were linked to greatness. I just watched the Suskind interview & I think he mentioned your dad. These old cats were really something.
greatvanzinni 11 months ago
@555agray : It's absolutely beautiful> You must be proud of your father's work! My dad was 17 when he played the clarinet in his uncle'sband in dance band in Chi Town. Da was out of school and needed a job.So...his uncle hired him for the summer. Da was really good...I only heard him paly one time and was at my wedding reception in 1980. He played his clarinet along with this a recording. I'll never forget it!!
irishtaz44017 10 months ago
@555agray Your father wisely arranged it in the key of E flat, much swingier than Cole's original version for Jubilee.
margotdarby 10 months ago
@555agray That sir, is quite a heritage.
profitleads 9 months ago
@555agray Your father was Jerry Gray? The great Jerry Gray, who went on to arrange for Glenn Miller's Army Air Corps Orchestra? I can't believe it!
How do you do, Mr. Gray? Who would have dreamed...? YouTube is amazing!!!
GHAriana 9 months ago
Awesome! I've loved this song ever since I first heard it on a Time-Life demo sheet (one of these little freebie paper thin vinyl record samplers they used to send out as teasers) way back in 1965. Recorded music and video are so great to preserve these great artists. I like the drummer.
TheLarryBrown 2 years ago
Best record ever
njchrissiface 2 years ago 115
@njchrissiface FALSE! East St Louis Blues Toodle-oo by Duke Ellington is!
PsychItsMike 1 year ago
The music being played does not go with the video portion. The sound is stereo. Back when video was made, they did not even have HiFi let alone stereo.
rdadal 2 years ago
Where could I find a recording of this version of this piece?
MrMrClarinet 2 years ago
Me and the love of my life , danced thisone
CHIQUITA8432 2 years ago
thank you so much for posting this...my grandpa's favorite...i know he is listening to Artie up there now...
kzeoli01 2 years ago
Somehow, when I hear this I can't help but picture a flight of F4U Corsairs somewhere over New Guinea...
routan1 2 years ago
this is by far the best audio sound ,Awesome!!!
nitro6787 2 years ago
musico fantastico!!
atconsult 2 years ago
1938 his biggest recording ...Was actually on the B side of the 78 and Carrioca was side A......Ironic huh?
Truly the best in small big band of that time
MrHydra19 2 years ago
A true classic..thx so much for posting.
TonyLow3 2 years ago
Que bien que has subido nuevamente este video. Por supuesto la interpretacion de Artie Shaw es unica e inigualable, pero verle a el dirigiendo a su orquesta hacia la experiencia mas intima. Muchas gracias ;)
marusolis 2 years ago