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  • Sang baritone in a quarted in the ninety's and this was one of our favorite arrangements. Great tune, harmonies, and message. Wonderful to hear it again. Thanks

  • It's good to see that folks are still viewing this video after three years. I first saw it two years go and still go back to it every now and then. Just goes to show that people still like good close harmony.

    vinm2371

  • Sea of Dreams...

  • @djtomfinn I thought I was the only one who realized how voices disappear

  • I play this everyday as a warmup in jazz band :)

  • It`s Called "The Great American Song Book", Not Swing nor Jazz just REAL Singing tune`s w/ a MELODY & NOT SCREAMING @ the Top of ur Lung`s. OH LOOK No Microphone gee

  • great music, is this jazz or what is it?

    

  • Timeless. 

  • I suggest to search for italian Quartetto Cetra. a famous group from '50s until '90s. look for a song named I ricordi della sera. Manhattan transfer pay a tribute to this group

  • This vocal style, has gone far away, because nobody can sing it anymore, and many, many have tried. It's called vocalise and, it's a lost art. The note are so tightly blended that you can't pick out a single singer's note.

    Manhattan Transfer tried but they can't quite get it. It's gone, real gone.

  • @djtomfinn

    Very good barbershop quartets can blend like that, too.

  • People can not sing like this any more. The discipline required to do it is off the page.

    The block harmony is so tight that only a person with a perfect pitch and harmony training can decipher it.

  • my jam. born in 69. about 40 years too late.

  • Bioshock get me to know this fantastic music so full of emotions :)

  • This song fits so well in Bioshock 2. The developers must have designed the game with classic in mind. This performance is 60 years old today!

  • look what bioshock and fallout done to me what amazing classic music brilliant songs i loved it i thought classic music was rubbish but this is amazing. wow 100 stars

  • To a heart so kind, this song enchants and leaves me in a bliss of a better yesterday.

  • Back when such a thing like love and romance existed

  • Ha, I didn't even know this song was in Bioshock. I was just looking for Pied Pipers w/ Jo Stafford. Pretty cool to see so many people turned on to great music thanks to videogames, helps keep it alive

  • @teemell19 Exactly what i was thinking

  • Es inmensamente preciosa esta cancion gracias por recordar mi juventud

  • Everytime I hear this song I stop what I'm doing, close my eyes, and listen. It brings tears to my eyes just to hear it. It's so beautiful!

  • It's great how many teenagers put games like bioshock in their senior days :D But I love this music too (and I don't feel old)

  • Thanks pop!

  • I've never been a fan of Fallout 3.

    However, everyone seems to be speaking about it on these sweet oldie videos. (I got here Thanks to BIoShock 2.)

    Will play that game, see if it has the same spirit, the same intelligent Story Telling, the same beautiful backgroud...

  • @BluelightSpike Fallout 2 and Bioshock are like completely different so don't try it lol. It's just that Fallout 3 has a radio station you listen to in the game that plays oldie music, as well as the opening cutscene and the trailer. I'm a fan of Fallout and Bioshock both, but just letting you know they're not alike in atmosphere or storytelling or spirit or anything.

  • @BloodySerpent

    I see.

    Will try it anyway, seems like a good game...

  • @BluelightSpike oops I meant Fallout 3 my bad

  • Dear Lord above: PLEASE let us be hearing this kind of music again. If not us, the the kids 2 day

  • There's no better version than this, by the original four!

  • I love this song.

  • such a song guys!!!

  • love the song but who died?

  • 2 people cant dream

  • This is called TIGHT singing. Anita Kerr singers sing like this and the Manhattan Transfers. Isn't it wonderful?

  • wonder whats the matter with them 2 dudes who dont like this???

  • Thanks, Hugh Hefner for indicating me this beautiful song! I can understand why you said that's your favorite song...

  • Just makes U Wanna cry :')

  • MY PARTENTE WERE SO LUCKY AND YET VERY TOUGH TO LIVE THRU THE THIME WHEN THIS SOUND WAS SO POPULAR, THEY HAD A DEPRESSION AND RAISING US BUT MADE THRU AND GHOT TO ENJOY BIGT BAND SOUNDS CAUSE THEY STOOD SHOULDER TO SHOPULDEER , MAYB A LESSON FOR TODAYS CPLS, AND SONGS LIKE THIS HELPED AS YOU WANT SOMEONE CLOSE WHEN YOU HEAR IT THX FOR THE POSTING,GIVES MT MANY MEMORIES OF TWO GTREAT PEOLPE WHO ARE MISSED EVER DAY

  • @gunner16ga Sometimes my Caps Lock gets stuCK TOO. My brain's spelling mechanism ceases to function correctly occasionally as well.

  • WHAT AN INCREDIBLE HARMONY, BEAUTIFUL AND WOW!

  • Seriously, I don't see how anyone can thumbs this down. How is it even possible? I mean, I can't even find the dislike button with this video. Where is it? It's like it's invisible or something.

  • faszinierend, was für eine perfekte Qualität vor einem halben Jahrhundert produziert worden ist, und wie man mit nur drei Musikern fast einen kompletten Miller-Sound erzeugen kann. Hier wurde noch Musik von Hand gemacht. Die Pied Pipers höre ich immer wieder gern

  • isso eu posso dizer que é musica

  • Thanks for posting. I have heard this many times over the radio many years ago, but have never seen it performed until now.

  • 2 people cant dream.

  • This is almost, but not quite the tune of , "I'll be home for Christmas" by Al Kent ." I can't find where anyone has noticed this connection before. Amazing.

  • Wow, das ist wundervoll! :)

    Besten Dank für's Hochladen.

    Grüßchen,

    Lilly

  • I think it's great that something so new and cutting edge like video games have actually turned some of us on to such classic music. It's like we've come full circle!

  • BIOSHOCK omg.

  • I quite like this one, but prefer Candy, ( with or without Johnny Mercer)

  • I love stuff like this! none of that auto-tuned crap... like most singers use -_-

  • Beautiful

  • I think this song is great. I have a live recording taken from the Johnny Mercer Music Shop radio show recorded in 1944 and is a nice early recording of the song. The Pied Pipers were a great ensomble sadly overlooked today.

  • This is lovely. It has a soothing, yet sort of creepy (I blame bioshock!) element to it.

    And it is amazing.

  • @DeathGodTuska What's creepy about it, because you can UNDERSTAND their WORDS, There isn't some Baboon Jumping around in it?

    Maybe if the Volume was shaking the room your in you would like it?.

    I bet you would like some Michael Jackson better,Kayne West?,this music is for REFINED FOLKS

  • @2bwhiteproud no he finds it creepy because of bioshock. he's not saying anything bad about it in fact he likes it and so do i -.-;

  • Does anyone know if Louanne Hogan is actually singing in this video -I don't think she actually recorded this song with the Pied Pipers and just wondered if this was really them singing. Ms. Hogan has a fascinating story. I'm originally from MN as she was and she was in between the ages of my Mom and uncle. Thanks for the video!

  • @dmag10 Hi, this is a recurring question. I compared the video with pictures of Louanne Hogan and believe it's indeed her singing. Also, there's now a link in the video description to a site with photos of all their main formations, check it out!

  • @dmag10 PBS has a bit about the Big Band Era - and they showed this piece. They said that the singer in the video and the recording is Connie Haines.

  • 70,000 view woot! Awsome song BTW.

  • Sublime... s-o-o-o-o-o wonderful... thank you!

  • @CurzonRoad Indeed it is. A different, simpler era, wouldn't you say? Thanks for sending, and thanks to bettyafeia for the post!

  • GREAT TO LISTEN TO, ALL QUARTETS SHOULD SOUND LIKE THIS! WHAT KIND AND MAKE IS THE ACCORDION AND CLARINET>?

  • just wonderful, a time of music, love ,harmony, all enjoying simpler times

  • Beautiful harmony-beautiful song. Johnny Mercer is one of my favorite composers. Thanks for sharing with Us.  Lorraine

  • 3:18

    they all burst into flames

  • I love music like this and i love Henrey Halls music

  • Louanne Hogan was the singing voice for Jeanne Crain in 1945's 'State Fair'..what a voice

  • "Dream" was my introduction to Johnny Mercer when we sang this song in high school choir, a lifetime ago. Since then, my admiration and respect for this truly great man continued to grow as I discovered more of his songs, his recordings and learned more about his remarkable life. Thank you for posting this gentle and tasteful coda to Mr. Mercer, his life and works.

  • I prefer listening to this more often than those worthless poser garbage artists make nowadays.

  • not the truth,rude words in english,and lieds

  • 0:26 is amazing - a clarinet and accordion can sound like the entire Glenn Miller sax section.

  • I'm very suprised at how of these grate oldes are here on youtube... I love it , thanks

  • I mixed the sound for that show.

  • is this bioshock in real life

  • Beautiful, simply beautiful !!!

  • It's Beautiful, it remind me .... Rapture....Sea of Dream

  • I actually saw a special on PBS called The Big Band Years hosted by Peter Marshall who went into great discussion about how this is Connie Haines. Since he was from the era and hosts Music Of Your Life I would think he's right, and that it is Connie Haines.

  • I saw that show too, and apparently Marshall was wrong on this. I found Hogan to be a member of The Pied Pipers in 51.  I also searched for images of Hogan and Haines on Yahoo and Google. Haines is not the woman in this video Hogan is the woman in this video.

  • @GiacomoC Really? I can't believe the producers of that show would let it air knowing that Peter Marshall made such a huge mistake in naming the wrong singer. I know I have been under the impression that is was Connie Haines only because of Marshall's comments.

    The song is still lovely, I love clips like these.

  • @Jesshart6 I find no indication that Haines was ever with the group which suggests to me that Marshall simply misspoke and there was no one around with enough knowledge on the subject to correct him.

  • @GiacomoC Wow that's odd because Connie Haines' name is listed on The Pied Pipers album covers Dream with The Pied Pipers and Dreams from the Sunny Side of the Street.

  • @Jesshart6 Haines sang in those albums but NOT in the song "Dreams". Haines was a member of Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra at the same time the Pied Pipers and Frank Sinatra were members. Frank Sinatra is listed on those album covers too. Sinatra was not a member of the Pied Pipers either, but he sang with them...as did Haines.

  • That is Terry Haggerty's dad on guitar

    (th from sons of champlain)

  • Bioshock! :D

  • Very cool. I love older songs (not old to me!) Easy listening music from times long ago. Makes me remember old friends, and family.

  • God I love this song

  • Johnny Mercer was the best!!

  • BIOSHOCK.

  • annette hanshaw :D did that song

  • dis is actully preety good but who made the song daddy daddy will you please come home?ibv bioshock

  • I absolutely LOVE that Bioshock and Fallout 3 turned me onto these oldie classics. They're very good amongst the crap you hear on the radio these days!

  • Bioshock and Fallout 3 also got me hooked on to 1940's and 50s music.

  • Yeah same :)

  • Same again :D

  • @pgeske Me too :D

  • @pgeske We should all get together and have an awesome NYE party next year! A masquerade party.....at an aquarium. I will provide the 40s music. Just make sure to bring your own adam and med-x.

  • you are absolutly right

  • @Chief70

    Try The Saboteur. You will get a similar feeling, just more Euro inspired. :)

  • @Chief70 same

  • @Chief70 Video games win again! Whether it's turning me into a stem research advocate, sociable pacifist, or just onto some good tunes. ^_^

  • thank you bioshock for putting this song in the game, i was hoping it was in fallout 3 but its all good!!

  • I feel so serene listening to this.

  • nice. This is in the new Bioshock trailer

  • I just posted a video response that I hope will be approved by bettyafeia. It was my first attempt at making a multi-track recording and I sang the Pied Pipers' harmonies "by ear". This has always been one of my favorite songs...by one of my favorite groups.

  • I from mexico I like salsa and jazz but this music is best of the best is beatiful

  • What a Gem this is. A thousand thanks. I am transported back as a young man again in the early 1950s.

  • If anyone has 'Dream' in an instrumental version by Paul Weston, would they post it please. Fine sax work at the break. Thank You.

  • Thank you for posting. Several of our family members were trying to get the harmony down on Christmas Day. We'll keep trying.

  • Please tell us if you succeed! Their voices are so melted together that it's hard to tell who's singing what :)

  • Thanks bettyafeia for the encouragement. We do a pretty good job, but my brother in law who tries to do the arranging thinks it's not good enough. But since we're just homestyle singers I'll try to record us when we do.

  • @bettyafeia If we ever get it together, I'll try to get it on video....good luck to us.

  • @bettyafeia Thank you for posting this. I always loved hearing the Pied Pipers sing Dream, and it is really neat to see them singing it.

  • @dwtslvr One of the tricks in the harmony is that the second voice is from time to time only a second (whole step) away from the highest voice. Most of the harmonies are major 6th chords. Each harmonic line has a nice flow to it. The Four Freshmen sing a great arrangement of this song with a different set of harmonies that you may enjoy as well.

  • i wish i grew up in the time were people actually had talent

    :(

  • @REZAandfriends Me too, me too. All it is today is auto tune. If you look good or are popular, You can be a singer. Ridiculous really. Back then It was about real talent. Its a shame that today any talent is washed away with lip syncing and voice edits.

  • How beautiful!

  • I love this song. It's so enchanting, I'm not even kidding. By the way, it's great to meet another fellow Betty fan. :D

  • How could you not love this?

  • Yeah!

  • Indeed! Beautiful! Ahhh, for the days when people could actually sing!

  • Your very right about loving this BUT NOW Music has to be Dirty suggestive lyrics played so loud it shakes the walls or how about these Cars that do nothing but BOOM BOOM?,no Music,Just BOOMING,Restaurants are the same way Loud Music you can barley talk to someone in a restaurant anymore for blaring so called Music of course real Music is almost a thing of the past, all of us Oldsters will be gone then I guess they'll learn sign language after their hearing is gone?,That is if they don't starve

  • im gonna keep singing alive if i have to it myself, im a 15 -yearold boy and love playing music, i sing in a choir and love almost all types of music includeing this kind. I can promise you that true music wont die while im around :)

  • Another great work of art by the one and only hitmaker Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers- with or without Jo Stafford they could make you float. With or without Tex Beneke they could make you feel . Still looking for three little fishy's though LOL

  • This has to be the best, even as young in the late fifties I liked older music.

    I first saw this on PBS and never tought I could get it in you tube.

  • Awesome! Could this be the first ever Music Video?

  • no. "music videos" have been around since the 20's and (as part of movies) were extremely common in the 40's.

    watch?v=eb36JID2jRA&feature=re­lated

    this isnt the first but just an example.

  • im only 17 and im into my heavy metal and dirty electronic music, however i can appericiate this music! gonna do a remix of it infact

  • I would enjoy a Cover  of this song ! ;-)

  • This song is unmatched. I love it.

  • I have been a pro musician for twenty five plus years and I am always impressed with what Felice got out of his wonderful little quartet and the Pipers were just better than anybody else. Too bad that music like this is ignored today. We'd play it every weekend if we could!

  • BioShock 2 teaser!

  • i love the old big band style...very nice

  • I still think it's Connie Haines, although I have a little more doubt now. Interestingly they both lived and died around the same exact times, both sang with the Pied Pipers, and both even looked very similar. Maybe somebody else has more info to confirm.

  • Hi Mr Eric, I've just done a google search for pictures of both ladies, and although they do look similar, if you concentrate on their eyes you'll see all the difference. Louanne Hogan had this very peculiar look that only confirms it's her on the video.

  • Thanks for posting this great video, about Louanne vs Connie I kinda believe you sort of, like 50 percent! I'll try the eyes thing.

  • love this song!!

  • BIOSHOCK 2

  • I heard this on the bioshock 2 trailer

  • Just fantastic. have to set the record straight though, the female singer 2nd from the left is actually Connie Haines.

  • Sorry ( Eric ) but you are mistaken and the poster of this video is correct. The female singer is indeed Louanne Hogan. Although Connie Haines was indeed a singer of the same era, she usually performed solo and occasionally with a fellow artist, however she was not affiliated with this group.. Google will show you a photo of both--This is Louanne!!

  • Do you know the name of the clarinet player?

  • I believe the clarinetist is Dick Anderson, but I'm not sure. Dick played the clarinet in a 1949 recording of the quartet.

  • Betty,

    You sent me an email asking to have my father (Ernie Felice - Accordion) confirm the players in his group. They are: Dick Anderson on Clarinet, my dad on Accordion, Rolly Bundock on Bass and Dick Fisher on Guitar.  Since my dad had a record contract at this time with Capitol, his group could not appear in the same scene with the Pied Pipers because Johnny Mercer had them on another label, so the music and singing were done separately.

  • Wow Dan, thank you SO much for replying with all this first-hand info! Please tell your father that I've become a big fan of his music and voice!

  • EXCELLENT

  • RIP Michael

  • i wish i was born into this era too i think the movies and times werent great but i think that the music wouldve more than made up for it

    the industry fucked up but look now frank Sinatra is dead along with the swing era rip all great artist of the 40's-50's

  • where did music go wrong ..

    i love this music ..

    if only i was born in this music era ...

    oh how i would love it ...

  • i know rite!

    i wanted 2 go back 2 my grandma times and feel d 60's times :3

  • Oww the good old times

    When everithing was more peacefull and we just wanted to dream

  • yes i juz wish 2day music would b like dis like a Christmas song ^^

  • Great music - and that's the Ernie Filice Quartet playing the backing they used to back June Christie ! those were great times.

  • Oh, thank you for the information about the Ernie Filice Quartet!

    Those were great times indeed.

  • look my channel for nat king cole lovely songs!!!!

  • epic song. They don't do stuff like this these days...

  • because rap and death metal practically raped real music and replaced it with black steroetypes and kids who think they're "pimpin" or emo. but at least ppl like bettyafeia were nice enough to save the good stuff for us=D 5/5 for this song

  • You hit it right that time George. What is even sadder is the fact there are the kids/punks/? whatever society is calling them nowadays, that buy and support the rap & shit they call music!!! God how I've prayed it would DIE.... Disco wasn't too bad, but it eventually died out, and the fact that rap crap has lasted longer..I'm a little concerned as to what that is saying about... Well I don't know..do you?

  • i agree, the rap stuff has been going for almost 20yrs plus if u count blondies attempt at it, a hoped it would die out but it seems to be going on and on, and its full of such angst.....this music is so timeless for my generation, i loved it in highschool when disco was king...

  • The info says that the female singer is Louanne Hogan. Glenn Miller and the Modernaires could never have performed "Dream" because the song is from 1944-45, and the Miller band broke up in 1942.

  • Our Mom wanted this played as her casket came out of the church. We did. It was a beautiful song to remember a beautiful lady. It made everyone smile to hear it and know our Mom could sing it! :-) Go out with a song!

  • BIOSHOCK 2! :D

  • Am I wrong or is that Connie Haines sitting in for Jo Stafford here? I think she fits in better than Jo's eventualy replacements don't you?

  • Ah, no. It's Louanne Hogan. She actually got on film this time, instead of voicing over some superstar who couldn't sing. Kinda looks like Ms. Haines don't she?

  • I have loved this song ever since I heard it while watching the movie "Daddy long legs" as a kid. I Just thought it was beautiful and I still do. I just saw the move again and it still is a Good movie

  • bioshock!

  • If you like this version, listen to Sinatra's version on the Nice N' Easy CD...by the way, Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics AND the music for this great song.

  • Someone told me this was also recorded by "The Modernaires" w/ Glenn Miller Orchestra. Does anyone have that? Or where can I look it up? Thanks so much for posting this. My cousins and I are trying to to the 4 part harmony.

  • Sure, look it up on YouTube of course! Coincidentally, I'm sitting here in my livingroom listening to PBS and rigt now there is a program on the Big Band Era. Heard Dream and was compelled to come on here to see if I could find it and lo and behold; here it is!!!

  • Me too.

    That was a great special. I never knew how much of that music we hear in everyday life, and don't even think about it.

    Hell, I probably know about half a dozen Glenn Miller songs, and had never even heard of him before this.

  • I love this song but i cant find it anywhere. So can someone give me the website to get it please.

  • this would be a nice song to die to, im not saying i wanna die or anything.its just so peacefull.its like theres no worries in the world.i wish i lived in that time.i feel kinda left out at the fact i was born in the 90's :/

  • I danced to this at the height of it's popularity. Wow, that was a heck of a long time ago!

  • how where u an how old are u know

    no direspect but jus curious

  • I'm all of 75 and looks like it's going last for a long time to come (I hope). Cheers.

  • this is so beautiful. i mean, from the standpoint of someone who loves music like i do, u could see the emotions in their faces and their voices complement the instrumentation. Im in love with this song. lol.