Smoke rings - The Mills Brothers

[WDarKHawKW]

not bad :)

[mijebra1]

This is cool, but I feel Sam Cookes version elevates the song to another level. 

[alestercane]

man....I don't like smoking....but I apsolutely adore this song

[Elghast]

Goodbye Captain :')

[Lohan42]

@Omnicron777 Well, it was before the 60ies, so probably cigarettes

[lionelvisbi]

i love this sound (;

[ChickenHawkin247]

Any1 who clicked dislije on this video is a phuck3n r3tarded and has no good taste in music!

[shadowknight539]

its a good song but i kinda think they're talking a little about weed

[slmorganwalker]

@shadowknight539 Absolutely they were, legendary tokers! Although I am not in any way qualified to make that statement.

[Moonles665]

reminds me of fallout 3.

[shadowknight539]

@Moonles665 dont blame ya, the song in fallout by inkspots and mills brother were both in the 50's i believe so naturally they would have a similar genre

[VonSpiegel]

@Moonles665 Me too!! =)

[pianoCiD]

@Moonles665 i thank fallout and bioshock for showing me this lost wonderful music XD

[ahaffzilla]

looove this song

[Glaskruset]

ive listened to this song so many times when sparking a joint

[crabolsky]

This track is outstanding! I love the tempo change, but what's more amazing is that everything but the guitar was created by their voices.

[everybodylovesmybaby]

Absolutely love it!

[TheMCPPants]

{~_~}FO TWENY TIME{~_~}

[mrlz28]

lovely

[Oriedo]

This is a good video foreal.''The Mills Brothers''.

[manwhassup1]

Thank you and props to whoever posted this. Ah, the days when smoking was glamorous. Beautiful song.

[0BLOKKMONSTA0]

how anybody can dislike this? may theyve full tampons in the ears

[JohnnyDreamboat]

@0BLOKKMONSTA0 poetic

[Rhademanthus]

why does this song make me tear up?

[rossman4eva96]

do you have a good quality version of I wonder who's kissing her now by billy murray?

[born4computer]

amazing nap time song

[madamewho]

Thank you Thank you for smoking for this wonderful song! :)

[Magnus10117]

This used to be a song me and my girlfriend enjoyed together.

Our relationship went down in flames and, for while couldn't listen to this song.

Then I realized what the fuck I was missing and let that crazy bitch go lol

Best song ever. Chills me out no matter whats going on.

[Glaskruset]

man im out of weed now, i just wanna listen to all the mills brothers and play fallout all night

[PowerfulDragon]

naptime rag.

[aaronwa92]

moar this less tupac

[KillerD1017]

best song

[captincaveman89]

Fifty million dolla-ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKIN MIND?!

[skillage444]

@captincaveman89 Thank you for smoking lol

[studboy66]

Thumbs up for Nigga's in suits

[Libervurto]

@studboy66

Those aren't niggas.

[509734]

@Libervurto These guys ARE blacks, blacks with 3 dozen awards and 50 million record sales

[Libervurto]

@509734

I know they are black, I said they're not niggas ffs!

[jebril]

Who is the one motherfucker who disliked it? Really man!? Prob an accidental click.

[martin43427]

for some reason this reminds me the opening song from Shawshank Redemption. its that sound of those old songs.

[strtvndl3]

155 people have great taste in music.

[CyberNeticRodent]

@strtvndl3 156...

[XxXShaggsXxX]

love toking to this song

[CyberNeticRodent]

@XxXShaggsXxX exactly what im doing right now.. :)

its a 1930's themed evening..

[temptstress666]

i love me some nigga musix

[kojinbo]

@temptstress666 HAHAHAHHAHAHA

[504Boxer]

@temptstress666 FUCK U CRACKER

[MrLOLSUPUMAD]

@504Boxer thats racist

[MightyNonsenseMaker]

love it :D

[NekitGR]

makes me wanna smoke

[captincaveman89]

Long live the captain!

[fernmusic]

If anyone could hook me up with a good tab(not chords) or atleast point me in the right direction I would be forever grateful

[dimlyenlightened]

this song was awesome on Thank You for Smoking

[Marysia1989]

puffpuffpuff night and day

[lalaboopable]

I really like this, but anyone have a good version of KD Lang to post? love her version on the album Drag.

[RiulDoamnei]

i've just added one to my channel, take a look

[saintpistolsburg]

@lalaboopable WHAT A TERRIFIC ALBUM

[plajerone]

great one, I've herd it in Thank you for smoking for the first time. It's really gr8 1!

[avichaiY]

This was also on Mad man...

[bigburrit0]

Herd this song on the movie thank you for smoking ...its very good :D

[hartshornguy]

love this song, loved it when i heard it in thank you for smoking. speaking of that thank for you posting lol

[who0oam1]

love this song

[gregormchugh]

I <3 this tune

[doksaus88]

Puur goud!!!!

[HelderAMN]

great song

[oldschoolHalen]

eddie and the cruisers <3

[crabolsky]

I love this song! I found out about this song via a MPC remix here on YouTube. Iam looking forward to checking out some more of their stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[supaflysudowoodo]

LOL me too

[goldenman212]

same LOL

[Samueln8er]

yeah thats i found the song too! haha the mpc remix by cpepe15 lol

theres heaps of versions tho... do u kno if this is the 1 he uses? i lookin for it so i can sample it on my mpc 2

cheers

[GraffitiFreak23]

yup same here

[goldenman212]

same :D

[mrshojoji]

The mills brothers were simply incredible, and its good to know John Mills (son, grandson, nephew) is carrying on their legacy. I would love to catch them if i was in the states. But anyhow, check out "A Kid Named Joe" by the Mills Brothers. Probably one of my favourites. Great post by the way! Music is meant to be shared!

[irowlan]

where do they go, these smoke rings i blow each night

[mrex13black]

this song just makes me smile

[newkbean]

mrf150150150

Agree!

I love it to cofferson !!

[busessuck1]

Is this the same guy who sings on a coupla duke ellington songs?

[cofferson]

Where do they go, those smoke rings i blow each night? Oh, what do they do, those circles of blue and white? Why do they seem, to picture a dream of golden? Why do they fade, that phantom parade, of love? Puff, puff, puff, puff your cares away. Puff, puff, puff, night and day. Blow, blow them into air, silky little rings. Blow, blow them everywhere, give your troubles wings. Oh, little smoke rings i love. Please take me above. Take me with you.

[busessuck1]

How do you know the songs on bioshock 2 anyway?

[Sierra026]

Good song to listen to whenever.

[mrf150150150]

smoke rings take me above all of these petty pointless arguments on youtube,take me away from the sadness i get in knowing that people have so much pent up anger that they have to release it in a pointless vulgarities to people that they dont even know. insult me,i dare you, i wont even read your comments, or even better i'll insult myself in the same stupid manner you insult each other"IM AN INSECURE MORON WHO HAS CUM IN MY ASSHOLE". How could you be so angry listening to this beautiful tune?

[AgBorragh]

@mrf150150150 Peace my friend, I hear you ;)

[387523294]

Thank you for smoking:P

[Wills666]

Thanks for posting man, i always enjoy hearing this tune

[Zorlockian]

Haha, what a terrible come back to that annihilation of an insult you were just handed CUM scrubber.... haha, and i thought I was bad at this shit.....

[flip103333]

hey at least my mom can support a family

yours probably is too gross to suck dick for a living and too dumb to get a job

i give her pity sex cuz i feel bad for her (she pays me for lessons)

[flip103333]

dont kid your self your parents dont love you

you were adopted

[Tobacc0]

Hahahaa... some these comments are so retarded they're genuinely amusing. People venting their last electronic scream before disappearing into anonymity...

[Zorlockian]

Haha!!!! Sooooo true. What losers... Oh wait, i do that all the time.... hmmmm

[flip103333]

yea if my pinky is attached above my balls and is over a foot long

btw you just called your mom a whore hahahaha XD

ill bet she's proud of you

[Wiltothemax]

It's easy to ignore the comments below when you're listening to a song like this, falling into a peaceful lull.

People can say whatever they want to me right now and I'll be sleeping like a baby while listening to Mills Brothers.

Good find. Wonderful music.

[Tobacc0]

Not your fault!

The "reply below" becoming a new message is a bug in YouTube. If you inline reply and hit refresh it screws up and becomes a new message.

After you hit "Post Comment" you must immediately go "Back" on the browser or close the page and when you return to it, it will be listed properly as a reply.

It's been like this for 6+ months but YouTube never fix this bug.

[Zorlockian]

pwnt

[lostbluegreener]

So why do you people have to ruin a good site? This is a great band - great music - great harmonies. Good find.

[flip103333]

your mom sucks my dick :O

[flip103333]

I LOVE CHERIOS!!!!

=]

[00JackAss001]

your mom is a redneck who fucks her kids

[BenAssfleck]

yes yes, but nothing hits the spot quite like a good ol fashioned chum scrubbin

[00JackAss001]

WHite people suck

[BenAssfleck]

that was directed towards protagFUBAR123. nice screename by the way, i could use a good scrubbing of the chum.

[protagFUBAR123]

coorsnpizza is so fucking retarded it is hard to comprehend ...coors sucks by the way

[BenAssfleck]

hey go fuck your self nigger butt face

[00JackAss001]

do you have fuckin fucking your redneck white trash sister in her ass?

[Zorlockian]

Engrish?

[coorsNpizza]

this song is sick when youre stoned

[fukmehard2]

Hahaha ! yeah man omg this is fuxin awesome!!

[coorsNpizza]

As a matter of fact, I think this song is about smoking weed. They're all black and seeing what decade it came from, censorship was much more enforced than in music today.

[kamalalalala]

you dumarse mofo, weed had hardly been discovered by th 40s they're talking about tobacco. so.. As a matter of fact, I think you're a stupid fuckin stoner.

[Tobacc0]

Well yeah, he IS a stoner, obviously. And this song IS pretty obviously about just tobacco. Back in the day before TV, listening to radio people where much more reflective than now.

But if you read Malcom X's autobiography you see that reefers were an integral part of "Negro" culture at the time (40's on) and a lot of the black songs of the day were subversive comments on weed culture that the white folks didn't get...

[coorsNpizza]

weed hasnt been discovered yet. ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED?!! cavemen we're smoking weed before they could even communicate through speech. why else would they invent fire?

[fukmehard2]

I believe the same, listen to the lyrics, its the most perfect but kinda sad lyrics you can hear when youre just smokin your J, hehe thank god i can smoke weed legally ^^

[LeStudenti]

I think this song is sick all the time. I don't think it is about smoking weed or tobacco. It is just about smoking. And weed was widely used before 1940. You should take a history class or read a book maybe, kamalalalala.

[Bigband78]

I just posted the same song off Brunswick 6525 -78rpm."My Honey's Lovin' Arms on the flip side".

[Bigband78]

My version is from Jan-.1933 and I posted a video response.Glen Gray's version is from March 1932

[LVblz702]

awesome song to blaze to

[awesomejennifer]

so I REALLY like these kinds of music but I never know what category of music they fit in so that I can find more. can anyone help me out?

[tigerprince]

As for category im not sure. The old rythem and blues proly? also check out (if you dont know already) billie holiday or roy brown and also the ink spots. VERY good bands haha

[Zorlockian]

Why do they fade, that phantom parade of love?

[kamikazeboi2]

thank you for posting this song it is amazing.

[pympmypig]

They all have really strange noses. Check it out, I just cant get over the noses

[bobtassoni]

I know! Like Jimmy Durante.

Ha cha cha cha cha!

[tastysalad]

afroman of the last century??

[shadowz116]

LMAO Dan..

[busessuck1]

My dad heard this song and asked in all seriousness:

''do balck people really smoke?''

[jordythebest]

simply great

[Lordofthedonut]

these guys are amazing

thank god for Thank You for Smoking otherwise i would have missed this!

[Nigghay]

Beautiful, peaceful, simply classic.

[kurtc0841n]

btw do you think this was a scam from the cigarette comapnes to get people to smoke it really sounds like to it if you listen to the lyrics

[kurtc0841n]

awesome thanks for posting! :)

[LilGherkin]

It's the song that always runs through my head when something bad happens.

[thegunner666]

haha so great

[oldschoolHalen]

those smoke rings of white and blue

they set my state of mood :]

[BBBoggs]

Thanks for posting. Best song to get high with.

[kurtc0841n]

hehe too true

[SyberkaPL]

This is second version of this song! From very late 30's. Very rare!!!

[kurtc0841n]

who did the orginal? do you know?

[SyberkaPL]

First version is from 1933 and second version (this song) is from 1939.

[mpolzkill]

No, this is the 1933 version. Great channel, btw

[SyberkaPL]

No! This is version from 1939!

[mpolzkill]

I don't think it's a crime since they're 69 & 75 years old, so if you PM me your email address I'll send you both versions in mp3. You'll know the '33 because it's superior. Cheers.

[mpolzkill]

Please tell me how you know it's the '39 version.

[SyberkaPL]

I know the Mills Bros so good that i recognize versions when i listen song. I have a lot of their song and i have '33 version and this '39 version.

[mpolzkill]

Let's exchange email & get to the bottom of this, haha.

[mpolzkill]

You ARE good, kid. I considered the fact that this or another could be an alternate take, but I couldn't find any info on it. I had never heard the version that you sent me:

watch?v=D_5lnuGkQFU&feature=re­lated

They are incredibly similar takes. Incredibly close for one afternoon, let alone for two takes seperated by 6 years & the Atlantic Ocean. I have the 1939 recording they did in London. It's a completely different arrangment with a much slower tempo. I'll send it to you if you want.

[SyberkaPL]

I have a lot of recordings from 1939: Jeepers Creepers, FDR Jones, Shine without Crosby, Mulberry Bush, Stardust etc. Do you mean this songs?

[mpolzkill]

I know your English is far better than my Polish, so you get a lot of latitude. I have the Mills Brothers' 1939 version, do you want me to send it to you?

[SyberkaPL]

Yes, I'll check it. I'll give you email on message. I hope that you will not any problems because last time i had some errors with email.

[mpolzkill]

You know what alternate takes are, right? This version or the one in the video you sent me; one of these is a 1933 alternate take. Just because they are different takes, that doesn't make this one the '39. You've got a great ear, so when you hear the version I have, you'll know.

[mpolzkill]

It was reportedly written by the Casa Loma Orchestra's arranger. I think they did the first recording of it in 1932, although the Mills Blue Rhythm Band also did one in '32. This might be the original with lyrics, I'm not sure. Close enough though, haha.

[Kayndar]

Love this song.