Chet Baker - I've Never Been In Love Before

[bramblecino]

This is awesome, pure nostalgia. This was a simpler time. Chet was and is amazing. Thanks for the great footage and putting it together my friend. Cheers

[sukini3]

this song is so endearing :)

[edchaves]

Those were THE days!

[jttrumpet55]

Great footage, great song, great performance by one of my all time favorite musicians. Thanks for sharing. JT.

[Victor1930]

I always gotta plug the composer... Ladies and Gents, this gem both music and lyrics by the one and only Frank Loesser from his score for the near-perfect musical, Guys and Dolls!!

Go, Broadway!

[duqmiguel]

Watching over the ear and the eye, and presiding. There behind the touch, and taste, and smell, he is also . . Within the mind: he enjoys and suffers of the senses.

[joemplascencia]

Bell,CA? Oh boy it looks nice!

[germanwatcheskorea]

HOW SWEET?

[ThenewDelmoniaco]

its all in the hands of the devil these days...

[VoodooPolitico]

"City of Maywood Drag Wagons Car Club". WOW..that really had to have been years before Maywood turned into a dump.

Now Maywood is operated like its Tijuana by dirtbags just as corrupt as those in Tijuana. Its a horrible nasty little place.

Southern Cali had to be like HEAVEN in the 50's and early 60's.

[jasonschrik]

GENIUS

!!!!

[CHETACHEEZSQR]

My name is Chet too.. my music alot different but so are the times.. check me out seach cheta cheez.. thx

[MorganHillChristine]

Wish i had lived in that innocence and simplicity.

[TheDp321]

@MorganHillChristine innocence and simplicity my ass there was still alot of racism going on and the mob was huge during this time

[Diogenes1360]

We often borrow from our tomorrows to pay our debts to our yesterdays.

[chenarch]

Such a wonderful combination of music and images... bravo!!!!

[WithLoveFromKay]

oh my lord.

I wish to have a man like Chet.

<3 <3

[DajaWaja]

@WithLoveFromKay heroin addiction included?

[WithLoveFromKay]

@DajaWaja

eh. i'd make him quit ahaha

[shipcomesin]

oh God what a lovely beautiful melody .. .

[par3caddy]

These cars have suburbs of Los Angeles, CA written on them. I am curious as to where this footage is from. 'Very interesting!

[ninjasuzuki]

Chet Baker=cool

[OriginalSensationMR]

sometimes this bores me.... then i think of the beautiful art it is...... then i love it again.

it all depends on my mood.

[silviuil12]

Awesome.

[carolinaswede]

He is amazing.........no one like him.



[alshouse]

The way Chet sings this, the emotion in this song comes pouring out in a way that Robert Alda's original doesn't come close to matching :)

[indilwen8]

i fall in love to easily and ive never been in love before sums up my life.

[EsKiMozPiE]

@indilwen8 Ditto

[madchops82]

@indilwen8 Somehow that makes sense to me. 

[GaySingleMulatto]

Sweet. Men. Chet. Sweet.

[MicrophoneFarmer]

This is probably my favorite Chet Baker song. It fits his voice so well.

[artsyone1]

This is just crazy cool. Incredibly great video. Thanks!

[jeffgua]

...francoisli..i thought my heart was safe and I thought I knew the score..but i've never been in love before..until i met you...

[Misscrazyace]

a bottle of wine, dark lighting, someone pretty sitting across from you. deal breaker.

[beats1969]

@Misscrazyace what ? this is for crack and red bull !! fly me to the moon !!

[paulostroff99]

Awesome

[milltown420]

simply perfect. wonderful video. you handled a wonderful song with kid gloves. its just wonderful. thank you.

[fagaret]

Beautiful :)

[thersily]

now im sleepy -_- hahah, s0o calming!

[detectmendacity]

Lovelovelovelove...

I have heard this song butchered too many times before, and you have restored my faith in its beauty. Frank Loesser sure knew what he was doing when he wrote it.

[sakkydane1]

Loving !!

[njanaki]

god the 50s just seemed....so easy and fun....

[TheSushiQueen85]

This is such a beautiful song...

[alshouse]

@jyeon92 um, no LOL ;)

[TiaB99]

such a beautiful voice

love the song too

[CheckMate657879]

This "video" is -

off the Richter -

pinnacle of nostalgia.

Is this real footage from the era? Everything looks so authentic.

I love it!

Thanks - for putting it together.

[terr0rkitten]

Yes, the footage is authentic.

Cheers, Phil

[451mnu]

@CheckMate657879 great comments ... chet could really rock even better than Iggy Pop :-) He had soft power and lot of soul - may he rest in peace while his music lives on.

[blackmondae]

This is my first time listening to Chet Baker and I find his song very soothing!

Thanks for the upload!

[kenbrookes]

Thanks for the lyrics man.

[jasonlloyd33]

Chet is amazing!!!!!!!!!!  This music breaks your heart!

[daveyork0]

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr

American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer.

Born December 23, 1929. Yale, Oklahoma.

Lost to us May 13, 1988.

[MattieSongbird]

Love it.

[Hesante]

Could I ask, what movie are these scenes from, if they're from a movie?

[terr0rkitten]

If my memory serves me right this is Mobil gas-sponsored "economy run", in about 1954 - just documentary footage.

[Hesante]

ah I see... I do love how it fits in with the tone of the song in general, that's why I was interested...

[terr0rkitten]

I'm glad you asked - I do need to keep a note of where I obtain my footage and indeed what it is!

[jfv65]

@terr0rkitten economy run using V8 and big6 cilinder cars, gotta love it! ;-)

[edchaves]

@jfv65 Gasoline started to become EXPENSIVE 20 years later. Video is GREAT! So is the song. Thanks for posting. Regards from Brazil.

[666sunburn]

Can´t tell you why, but I love it. :-)

[nixjag1]

Phil, please understand that I wasn't

badrapping the song/video. It's well done and a groove to sit back & watch.

[terr0rkitten]

Mitchie, I really didn't take it that way. It was a perfectly reasonable question to ask. I do try to make the video relevant in some way, but, mostly I'm just trying to match the mood as I feel it - thanks for taking the trouble to comment and respond.

Phil

[nixjag1]

Dig Chet Baker, like the song and the

video is kind of kool in a retro sort of way,

but I just don't understand the tie between the two. Any explanation, or should I just

forget about it and ejoy what I'm hearing

and seeing?

[terr0rkitten]

There is no tie between tune and footage, I was just looking for something that complimented the mood of the tune.

[javahippo]

ILY

[erm0n]

Gorgeous!

[ludovan76]

great peace... i love Chet.

[musictranscription]

I love to transcribe music

[guatay]

Nice. Good vid too.

[antonioagujar]

really great, so sad he has to leave early, wish he's still around

[prometheusmars]

I love this ..video and music go perfectly together...

[erman3155]

sublime

[daeviydt]

something about his way of singing things, so deep and knowing and calm and clear and precise... so amazingly musical and sensitive... always touches me to the core... and then there's that soulful horn playin'!!!

[EsKiMozPiE]

@daeviydt Amen to that! Love Chet and his delivery.

[Yolandaria]

Beautiful song .... thanks:))

[gabygoodtrip]

Bela canção *-*

[seandranzo]

Nothing.

Which is why the world needs less people like you, because there's no point trying to explain to you what's so beautiful about this music.

It would lose its meaning, like a joke. Wouldn't it?

:)

[justviewingvideos]

I like your statement!

[vincent4492]

Lets start with the trumpet, then the idea of the song, then his voice??!!

[fluidjazz]

weezism its clear you have no musical soul, and a basic lack of your nations musical heritage, if you dismiss this so flipently.

[jernfuglen]

Well, it really touches something inside me. (Not literally) The calm voice and the realxed music is in my opinion a very good combination.

But as with every kind of music, not every one can get excited about the same music.

[restlesspride666]

Such a great man indeed.

[leesterg]

Chet is one of the all time greats; the video clips of early Los Angeles and adjacent cities such as Maywood, Compton, and Gardena are priceless. L.A. native here. Thanks for this post!

[peteywhtstrw]

The Man's horn had much lyricism. Chet had Soul, period.

[EmiliaTytto]

When I listen this I feel like sleeping - not because this would be boring - chet just gets me relaxed

[bartlettbooks]

Terrific, terrific music and a great video too. Those cars bring back memories.

[lediangel1]

The talented was Man......

[themtb2003]

I really Really love this guy's music. I ran into him listening to a PBS commercial, and found him here. He's unsung . I must admit, I really wish my people could look back at this wonderful time in music,cars, etc and think "good old days" They really did look wonderful, and relaxed. But we were chased by Cops, KKk, and told not to drink out the same water fountains. So I see those pics with envy wishing we were included, and anger that we were not. We have no innocent past to look back at.

[themtb2003]

WOW... HE IS GREAT! What a smooth voice and a great musician on trumpet. He's Like nat cole to me, also a great pianist and easy going voice. I wonder are his children musicians. What a voice.

those beautiful cars. Im torn. Usually i see those same cars in past stories of 60s civil rights fighters who were followed in such cars and Murdered. I get so angry. Such nice cars. Smiling people.Yet I cant help but wonder are they one of the ones in the "other" videos protesting desegregation. Im torn

[JazzLegacy]

I wish more white people could understand what you're saying themtb2003. I feel you.

[urbaandiultra]

Don't worry too much about it man. Those racists are burning in hell right now. You can't get into heaven with hate in your heart.

[thersily]

NICE! :) and im only 17 yrs.old HEHE.. :))

[themtb2003]

THIS MAN is close to the best voice I have ever heard in jazz. Even nat cole sang songs that I thought were not well done. I have yet to hear ONE bad song from this man. Only person close to that is tony bennett, but he doent play. And I see a commercial element to him pandering to record sales..BUT THIS DUDE is honest, talented, And Just all around OUTSTANDING!

[Al1dus]

Agreed.

[SMGJohn]

50s - 60s best year ever been!

[gdmadix]

Thank goodness. The torch will be carried forward by lovers of good music of all generations.

[dutchdreams831]

Jesus h. Rip my heart out 4 fuks sakes.....

[bigsmokeDmeng]

those cars are almost as beautifull as baker's singing!

[gdmadix]

Hey, I am not a musician but I certainly appreciate them. I remember Troup very well. I think he was married to Julie London. When will the kids nowadays "discover" real music.

[lookscudkill]

Hey I'm in my 20s and I only appreciate, choose and listen to music from the 80s and before that, especially the music from the 50s-60s. Jazz, big band, standards, rock n roll, folk, easy listening orchestra, etc. I admit though, I am very musical and my family has musical roots in us.

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

Flow or sway, whatever you like ... nobody did it better. A dream.

For more splendid jazz, feel free to drop by my blog (link in profile).

Thanks for the fantastic upload & All best,

Bruno "Brew" Leicht

[jefgain]

I like Chet Baker's singing!!!

[pescitheman]

Ahhh....the good ol' days.

[sparkleucutiepie]

....beautiful, so relaxing :)

[niatarshe]

... beautiful . . .(:

[RememberMe1003]

Thank you for this. This is my favorite Chet Baker song...no one can do it like him.

[logansGT]

Thanks for the vid, kitten.....great to hear Baker and seeing those '50s cars.

Not exactly the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, though.....lol (*_~)

R.I.P. Chet

[5023849465]

Dear God, what a great talent. There aren't many who can sing and play an instrument with such emotion. I wonder if the United States ever really appreciated Chet. I hope so. Thanks for this. It gives me hope that real music might return to the forefront someday.l

[ccaammiiittoo]

Yes, Baker had "hip" America singing his praises! Please give praise to his contemporary Bobby Troup, who was so hip he was never an old man, even at 80. Both are coming along at a time when jazz is not mainstream in America. It might be argued that Baker's legacy is more alive in Europe than in the U.S. You're right, though, a lighthouse in the world of jazz!

[ccaammiiittoo]

If ever I could've produced a movie, it would've been the life of Chet Baker starring Chris Walken. Walken would do justice by the role.

[frenchsk8]

i would watch you movie for sure. but Chris Walken looks pretty old, maybe too old.. but i don't habe better idea for an actor ^^

[ccaammiiittoo]

So glad you agree. And, yes, I meant a young Chris Walken. Maybe you know this already, Walken is a fantastic dancer, right up there with Astaire, Davis, Dailey, and the Nicholas Bros. Oh, yes, he can burn up some shoes! And you know what, I kinda think he and Baker would've been great friends.

[tapyenreit]

Have you seen "Let's Get Lost"?! It's a beautifully done documentary of Baker by Bruce Weber. It's not even hurt by the presence in the film of Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and other hipster gadflies.

[ccaammiiittoo]

No, I haven't, but I would certainly like to. Anything about Baker puts a spell over me!

[lorgui73]

Bellissima

[dugsdale]

Wow--Packards, Nashes, Henry-J's, Dodges, and Studebakers, oh my! I'm guessing the footage is of a SoCal car club engaged in a Mobilgas-sponsored "economy run", circa 1954, all of which is as antiquated as the rotary-dial telephone. Chet Baker, however, is timeless.

[jlmzone]

i love this song!!!

[rodrigopardob]

Chet Baker!!! ... King of Romance!

I'm a huge Chet fan too!

[DareDarlington]

Awesome!! I'm a huge Chet fan! He Rules!! Thanks!!

[BrokenBananaPhones]

Sorry "him" being my Grandfather.

[BrokenBananaPhones]

My grandparents had several Chet Baker albums and I also used to hear his music and others coming from the lounge in the local Moose lodge when I was a kid back in the 70's. This song and video remind me alot of him and the people who raised me. i know I'm sort of odd but I really do enjoy your collection. It helps me remember times that I may not have exactly been in but had a feeling for none the less.

[tapyenreit]

That's interesting, I find the fraternal lodges of the past don't cotton to cool jazz or cool jazz singers. I always heard Glen Miller, Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong in lodges. Especially in the Seventies with so many WWII Folks and Vets still around. They loved the songs of their teen years (Thirties/Forties) Chet would've been called a dirty beatnik.

[BrokenBananaPhones]

My Grandparents were teens in the 1920's. My grandfather was a huge fan of Johnny Cash. He was too old to join the armed forces or to be drafted by the time WW2 came around. He had some Chet Baker albums. I remember seeing them. I'm sure big band was very popular in there too but I thought I heard some crooners and cool jazz as well. I don't think my grandfather was very popular with the Nixon crowd back then. Maybe my memory is a little fuzzy on where I heard it played. It reminds me of him.

[tapyenreit]

Chet Baker would've been in high school near my home in los Angles just after WWII out and went in the service after the war

during the Korean Conflict but went AWOL from Fort Ord(I believe) in California, so he would've been about your dad's age, which makes sense. The big divide is between pre-war melodic popular swing music and revolutionary, Post-War Be Bop music, which most of Chet's recording are. The vocals which are so popular now were just a minority of his output.

[BrokenBananaPhones]

In fact... As I look back at some of the things that were done and said. It seems as if alot of the members of my family were treated in a blackballed sort of way. Why they let him be part of their organization is beyond me. They do seem to enjoy keeping at least one whipping boy around just for kicks. I remember my grandfather arguing with people from time to time. I remember my stunning cousin loosing a beauty contest there to an ugly hook nosed girl with the personality of a rabid baracuda.

[BrokenBananaPhones]

So tapyenreit, call me a liar, beat me, never let me rest or feel like I have even 1 true fucking friend in this shit box of a world. Hell! I'm used to it! I should love it by now but I don't! I should be a violent columnbine school masacre kind of guy but I'm not! I should have no love or compassion for anyone in this world but I do! Just kill me already and put me out of my GD missery why don't you? I won't fight back.. By the way. I think those gadfly 90's hipster penis floppers suck too.

[cioxx86]

A handfull of roses to you for this great upload! Great song and a perfect video for it :)