Swinging London: Ambrose & His Orch. - Too Many Tears, 1932

[syncopeter]

Ambrose was hired for an even bigger fee to play in Monte Carlo and St. Tropez during the summer season. With him being a compulsive better (and losing loads of money), hiring him was quite a profitable business. Sam Browne was infected with the betting virus and ended up in jail for cheating on his bookmaker boss.

[alekscooper]

I'm from Russia, so I first heard this song in a movie by somewhat art-house Russian film director Alexei Balabanov 'Days of Happiness'. It's a great song!

[syncopeter]

Ammy in the one of his two best periods.: the HMV years and later the Sid Phillips era. Both characterized by loads of solos and wonderfully swinging arrangements.

[MonteMelkonyan]

Легкая и незатейливая песня, но слушать ее хочется снова и снова! Супер!

[alekscooper]

@MonteMelkonyan Посмотри "Cчастливые дни" Балабанова. Там она звучит, там я её впервые и услышал. Даже если Балабанова не любишь - это его первый фильм, там он другой совсем.

[6silhouette5]

This is Sam Browne singing------as if you didn't know. Hot-cha-cha!

[NERO1256]

Какая красота,просто нет слов!!!

[vonstollzenberg]

good...

[carovictrix]

Woww, excelente trabajo de orquestación, armonizaciones espléndidas, Bert Ambrose talentosísimo director . Los ejecutantes hacen "hablar" a los instrumentos, cuánto virtuosismo. No me canso de escuchar esta interpretación, creo que más de 200s.

[mamzilla]

i love this song ! i heard this song 15 years ago and still in love with it

[MissGraceyBlue]

Heey... My name is Bonnie Ambrose...Bert Ambrose (Ambrose Orchestra) is my Great Great Grandad! To be honest this is the first song i've heard from him...but im proud of him! xxx

[ramosmanos]

@MissGraceyBlue Are there any single photos of your relative?))

[bonnieblue112]

@ramosmanos heey, sorry it took a while to get back to you:) i made a new youtube account as i forgot my other password, but anyway, yes i do think i have some:) my grandma is most likely to have them, but i do have some pictures:)

[indigorenk]

lovely pictures also.

nostalgia

[boringalias]

i first heard this played by Sidney Torch on the Marble Arch theatre organ (a recording)

[paulkate72]

@boringalias - great music from those days! And Ambrose with Sam Browne was amongst its very best. In my view only Al Bowlly and Ray Noble or Al with Lew Stone was better. It's not like that today.

[sak010538]

Мелодия моего детства и школьных лет

[Corrie121]

Great !. I love the structure of this song, and this Ambrose version is first class.

Thank you for sharing.

[hep2jive]

oh boy watch out for that ending!

[augustomariante]

I am not a masochist but I love early depression days' tunes. Dick powell was great. This simple european jazz is awesome! Music to forget you could be homeless and in line waiting for bread and soup... Brother, can you spare a dime? Antonio Augusto from Brazil!

[meredith218461]

1930s chic typified through great swing.

[billycassion]

so this is what my GIRL JOAN CRAWFORD was dancing too. COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bloozmonkey111]

I get a kick out of the Al Kemp version but this is just as good! Lew Stone sure knew how to record em..Thank you for posting this!

[yeahsee33]

Thank you for sharing. You are showing me songs I have been wanting to hear for years, but just could never find. This has an intense feel of the era to it. Love it!

[davidglow3]

Ambrose,bored one evening at the Mayfair,was asked by a very wealthy women to play a certain song and as a bribe put a £5 note into his pocket (a huge amount of money)Ambrose said of course madam,and at the same time slipped a £10 note into the top of her dress

[RRaquello]

This is from a great film of around 1932 "Blessed Event" where Lee Tracy does a take off of Walter Winchell and this song is done by Dick Powell, who I think was spoofing Rudy Vallee. I believe it was his first film. Everyone needs to watch that film, especially if you're into the pop culture of the early depression days.

[pahoboye]

great stuff!

[gf1001]

So Catchy really swinges love it thanks for posting.

[cvwtzhaar]

Ambrose is one of my favorite orchestras.

[durbinrus]

I have this song on 33 rpm Melodia (USSR) collection of old recordings but my Polish UNITRA is about 10 years as dead and I can't listen some of my wonderful records. This was one of the best.

[tlt1536]

wow...great song...great arrangement!

[silentfilmlegend]

Its of of course not Dick Powell (plenty of singers covered this song - for example it's not Guy Lombardo's 1932 version either!) Thanks so much for this excellent tune - it's new to me and already a new favourite! I tip my hat...

[LewStone07]

Is this track on a CD? I'd love to get my hands on it

[loris711]

There's an awfully good Lew Stone cover with Sam Browne again as vocalist available on the Living Era label. Might be worth investigating, but perhaps you're already aware of this!

[LewStone07]

Superb song, superb video, and it most certainly is the great Sam Browne

[henry814]

If I were you I'd question your sources - as far as I know, Powell NEVER sang with any British dance bands, while Browne delivered the vocals on almost every early-30's Ambrose recording. If you still think this is Powell, I'm afraid I can't help you there.

[henry814]

And it wasn't me who posted this version -- 240252 did. It's quite possible that Powell may have recorded a version of this song at some point, but it should be obvious this isn't it. (Question: did Powell, a New Yorker, have a British accent? No...)

[funkyfiddl]

Here is one of many posts from Google:

"Too Many Tears"

Performer: Dick Powell

Music: Harry Warren

Year: 1932

Original publisher: M.Witmark & Sons

But I don't want to dispute any more.

Chiefly, the both of singers are the outstanding performers!

[phredl]

This is Definitely Sam Browne recording with The Bert Ambrose Orchestra on June 2, 1932. Lew Stone never recorded the song and as far as I can research it, neither did Dick Powell.

[loris711]

Lew Stone recorded Too Many Tears (his arrangement) combined with When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba in June 1932. The record was a shellac coated cardboard disc: E 1072-C Durium EN 23. This info comes from the liner notes of Living Era's Sam Browne, Oh, What a Night for Romance. Does that help?

[phredl]

I decided to do a little checking on my Durium records and guess what? I have the record itself. Will play it after dinner. Fred

[phredl]

Nice job Loris, I should have researched a bit further. It was recorded as the "Durium Dance Band". I assume there was no label credit to Stone. Fred

[funkyfiddl]

It's YOUR version. But all the internet, Google etc. say definitely: the singer here is not Sam Browne, but VERY VERY clearly Dick Powell.

Don't be so self-assumed!

Best regards.

[funkyfiddl]

Singer is Dick Powell. Very nice!

[henry814]

Um, nope - the singer here is VERY clearly Sam Browne!

[85scampi]

1932 PERFECTION!!!

[henry814]

Also, the photos that you've found for this are incredible! Could the 2nd one (Ambrose and his orchestra at the Mayfair hotel, 1932) be a still taken from a newsreel?

[henry814]

Such an excellent orchestra! Unfortunately, the May Fair Hotel was recently subjected to a multi-million-pound remodeling job that effectively stripped the interior of all its 1920's charm - it's now decorated in a ludicrously tasteless modern style that already looks dated. I'm all for aesthetically competent restorations of grand old hotels (case in point, the George V in Paris), but what they did to the May Fair is unforgivable. That certainly brings tears to my eyes!

[85scampi]

Typical isn't it?. Not only has music lost the plot these days so have the venues too!!.

[mic33george]

It was on the news recently that there was a sale of the fittings from the Savoy Hotel due to a major refit.I was shocked at that but to hear they have ruined the Mayfair due to a modernisation too is awful.

[dzheger]

Wonderful tune and fine orchestration indeed. I nearly had tears in my eyes walking by the Mayfair Hotel on the way to my cheap hotel in Bloomsbury...

[genia106]

I can't believe this, I was a guest at that hotel .... not in the 30's ... When I was there, there were no tears even though the concierge did keep a watchful eye on us.:) Nice peppy tune and arrangement and who cares if Ambrose was the son of a rag and bone man, he certainly showed those stuffed shirts how to enjoy themselves and have a great time. :)))