STANDING ON THE CORNER by The Four Lads 1956

[travis7310]

I'm watching the "I Love Lucy" episode where they go to see "The Most Happy Fella", and this song was in it. I had to find it on YouTube, and I'm glad I did. :)

[mbabist01]

Ernie Kovacs as the German DJ Wolfgang Saurbrauten introduced this as "Gestanden on der Korner Vatching alles der Girls Go Goosestepping By" - then played it played a version played on an accordian!

[jensmom604]

Love this song, but "watching all the girls go by" now is sexual harrassment and stalking! Ha ha , how times have changed.

[ShrimpPalooza]

LIKE IF YOU'RE LISTENING IN 2012

[lovesmusic36]

Thank you for posting this one! I was only 6 when this came out! Even then I could recognize great music! Still one of my favourites and The Four Lads a fabulous group, from Toronto I'm proud to say! Again my thanks for including this!

[Chewitdude64]

Who's the one Justin Bieber fag who just had to dislike this.

[leizersword18]

like if you listened to it in 2011 haha

[WannaJoinMyWolfpack]

Brother I tell ya, this takes me back to my childhood. Palling around at the burger joints, when a quarter got you a burger, coke, and bus fare home. Ladies wore skirts and kept their hair neat, men wore leather jackets and slicked their hair back. Men worked hard and women ironed, and if you helped your ma with the ironing you got to stay up to watch the Ricardos and Mertzes weasel their way out of yet another jail sentence... oh wait nevermind, I was born in 1990.

[luma2822]

I think Guy Mitchell also recorded this song too.

[SeriouslyPissedOff]

Hahahah this song is funny because it's exactly the same lyric ideas as rap and hip hop but instead in a totally different genre

[CrispinRobles]

It's impossible to dislike this song.

[locoforCOCOZ]

My guy Men's choir sang this song, it was pretty hilarious, XD

[AFGSANFORD2]

I really like this song. I used to sing this every afternoon with two other co workers; one of them got his binoculars out and looked for women.

[wartornz11]

I ALSO WAS 16 WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT...THE ELEVENTH GRADE.

SUCH A TIME.

[leushy]

I have a compliation cd that has this sung by The King Brothers, but can't find that version anywhere... is this the original?

[Grroocx]

Hey, boys and girls! Take a look at that record. Know what it is?

(Everybody over a certain age knows the answer without even thinking about it.)

—It's a 78 rpm, spinning at 78 revolutions per minute. Very fast, compared to the smaller 45s and the bigger 33s. These 78s were the standard of the industry for a whole generation of us. Er—don't drop it, okay?—'cause it will break, like a china dish!

[TheFacelessActivist]

If this song was written in modern day context, it would more be:

"Sitting in the office, watching all the girls undress.".

[bemdafis]

from the musical "Most Happy Fella"

[mitchcapone]

Thanks, Does anyone know any other artists that have done this?

Apart from Dino..

Cheers

[MrTravJohn]

Loved to listen to this song with my Grandpa. The original "Lady Killer"....lol!

!

[PillsKillsKIlls]

first time i heard this was from Dean Martin i love this song thanks for posting it!!

[GordyLake]

I've been in love with this since I was ten ... and I'm sixteen now.

Not a very big fanbase for these guys, eh XD

[tesshib]

sweet video, thanks this reminds me of my dad...

[cmanmark]

this song was sampled by Spit Sic( a rap group from Woodland, Ca)

in case you didnt know haha

[catman03]

Girl-watching: far and away the best thing about malls!

[lnefouse]

This is for my boyhood chum Joe Reiswerg. RIP peace my friend..we had great times in our childhood....we didn't know we had no money..but we had step baseball, Fall Creek and PS76....we did ok.....and this song was part of our life...along with those other 50's songs we listened to...We lost Joey 2 weeks ago...he always had a way of beating the odds..his heart just couldn't take any more....

[lovelypinkflower]

Found this song in one of my parents CDs. I love it.

[SuliemanTheGreat]

Didn't the Four Lads do "If You Will Marry Me"?

[cdbpdx]

@SuliemanTheGreat

Yep. I have posted that song, though it is titled The Bus Stop Song since it was used in the 1956 Marilyn Monroe movie 'Bus Stop'.

[SuliemanTheGreat]

@cdbpdx Bless you! I've been searching for that piece for a long time. I'll check for it again now that I know the title. Thank you.

[vinylsingleman]

Could anyone post "Blue Tattoo", the flip side of the Lads' hit "There's Only One Of You"?

[GregDad100]

From the Broadway musical, "A Most Happy Fella," as also used in car commerical ("Standin' on the corner watchin' all the Fords go by .... ") at the time.

[BlackCowboyBrett1953]

I was only three when this classic came out,but it's one of the ALL-TIMERS in rock/pop history,plus this 57-year-old black Canadian lad ALWAYS takes my fellow

Maple Leaf men's advice and ogles the chesty chicks as they bounce by all summer

(which,unfortunately,has ended here in Windsor,Ont.,Can.!!!)

[kpz1234]

"Brother you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or for that woo look in your eye!" - Yes, today you can!!! Is it bad that I want to go into a time machine back to the 50's?

[sparwood8]

Lord, please grant us boomers the following wishes:

Kill the gangster rap music, bring back the Vinyls (they sound much better), and then please revive this nation. We try and it only gets worse

[TeaBag43]

From my chilhood also..enjoying it myself also..

[pmurray62]

I used to take voice lessons from James Arnold before he passed away in Sacramento, CA!

[pjezierski]

I was only 4.

[legodude107]

I'm only 12, but this music is one of my favorite things to listen to when I'm down, or bored. While I can't claim as much nostalgia as some of you guys, it was still about 3,4 years ago I first heard it on my mum's old transistor radio. Thanks for posting!!!

[IrisRose315]

This song cracks me up!!! I remember listening to it on my friend's grandpa's tape deck. I laughed then, I'll laugh now. :)

[freakingsunshinee]

I'm 15 now and I absolutely love this song and I'm in love with The Four Lads!

[MrBillgreaves]

I was driving thro the hills of Donegal this afto when this song suddenly sprang into me head . . . not heard it for 50 years ! ! Any way , I got home ,put in into You tube and HEY PRESTO ! Gonna sing it sat night at a gig for a laf . . .thanks 4 postin 'it !

[chuckiejay]

Excellent number!! Why isn't music this good anymore? The Four Lads were great singers with great songs. Thanks for posting this, cdbpdx!!

[surfside48]

Is that A 78rpm record???? Great song! #3 Billboards hit from March 1956. The Four Lads were A White vocal group from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Benard Torrish, James Arnold, Frank Busseri, and Connie Codarini. This song came from the Broadway musical "The Most Happy Fella" starring Robert Weede.

[PasserbyGuy]

Ah, so nostalgic...

Wait a minute, I wasn't around in the 50s!

[dagund]

jimmy arnald in my uncle now past away

[xxlos3rkidxx]

celtic thunder did a cover thats pretty good.

[414rainbow]

I got to see a fellow named Jerry recently who sang a lot of these 4 Lads favorites......he carries on their popularity with flair!!! Thanks Jerry!!!

[rapunzel152]

I'm only 17 and heard this song for the first time today - I love it! It's so funny!

[lnefouse]

they made a commercial for Ford...Standing on the Corner watching all the Fords go by...remember the Edsel??

[Juliaflo]

I certainly remember that commercial.

I won't tell my age, but my birthday is March 30. (Uh-uh, you won't get the year, LOLOL).

[orwellson]

the shift from the major to minor key in this song is so awesome, with those horns introducing that proto-james bond riff. I'm only 26 but this song's been a favorite of mine for as long as I can remember...

[east215]

my dad loves this, but i first heard it on "I Love Lucy", when the saw "The Most Happy Fella". They only saw half the show. Lucy screwed up the tickets. I Love Lucy anyway - lol, but Ethel stole the show in this episode.

[StoneyEnd444]

my grandpa sings this every dayyyyyyy

[johnbresnik]

I was 16 when this came out -- was a big hit then and one of my favorites at the time. Also, they had a big hit called " Istanbul (not Constantinople)" -- The Four Lads -- very popular in the 50s.

[cdbpdx]

Yep, Istanbul is one of my favorites. Got that on here somewhere, too. CDB

[SaweetTooth]

@johnbresnik A band named "They might be giants" covered it

[Swingguido]

I got the same machine with magnetic cartridge combined with an italien ! tube console from the late fifties with 2 giant dinosaurier tubes 6v6gt, a great sond, in mint condition.

[cdbpdx]

Mine plugs straight into the computer for recording.

[Swingguido]

This song is really great, i only knew the dickie valentine version from UK.......

And this record machine is great as well, the legendary Garrard 4HF !!

Thanks a lot from Germany.

[cdbpdx]

Thank you for the kind comments. I got this turntable specifically to play 16" radio transcriptions, but now I use it for all my 78 rpm recording. Includes an old GE VR II cartridge, top of the line for 1954 for monaural playback.

[sparwood8]

@Swingguido Dual 1219. Shure Mag cartridge. Panasonic Auto Rev tape deck and that filter that goes between the t.table and receiver. Yamaha speakers (now 35 yrs old and not one poihole) and yamaha Receiver. 80 w/ch good enough 4 me. I bought that one 5 yrs ago when my old Y'ha CR 860 bit the dust, well it was on it's way out. Hope this one lasts as good as that one did. Young People today have never heard good sound

[bigremixer9000]

oh shit i have this for mens choir here at santa ana valley high school fuck im shocked

[southernsmoke84]

look up big boi (from outkast) "last call"

[usaboy52]

I remember that song being on tv back in the 60's I would have been about 9 or 10 at the time.

[monarch1957]

I heard this song at karaoke last evening. Brings back memories.

[heavymetalrulz123]

Love this old classic, clean music!

[1MichaelGravino1]

I think this is from "The Most Happy Fella".

[smwca123]

Yes, it is; MHF was a 1956 Frank Loesser musical. I've never seen it, and there never was a movie version. While widely considered a girl-watchers' anthem, it's really a song of frustration; The singers are 4 guys whose love lives amount to little more than...standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by.

[Juliaflo]

Another one of the showstoppers from The Most Happy Fella is 'Big D'.

[pudd750]

thanks - i never heard all the words in this, just the main title words -- i was 2 years old in 1956, but they still made girls the same way back then- curvy- thanks again

[samarroon]

"they can't putcha in jail for what you're thinkin'!!"

[mdumas43073]

I'm only 36, and I love this type of group-harmony sound. Four Lads, Four Aces, Ames Brothers, Crew Cuts, etc. Sometimes I think I was just born too damn late.

Note the label credit: "Herman and the Boys Sing: Standing On the Corner". That's a reference to the characters in the Broadway show "The Most Happy Fella", where this song originated.

[sparwood8]

@mdumas43073 search the 4 Preps. 'Big Man' You will love it

[chkjns]

@mdumas43073 I got to meet Ed Ames last month! Still singing at 83 & he signed my vinyl album cover! Need a favor - my March feature is by Stu Phillips, the SAME producer & arranger as the Marcels 'Blue Moon'. Please respond to one of my comments & give me your opinion. I think it's a KNOCKOUT, can't get it out of my head the last few days. An amazing score behind the singer! Thanks. chuck

[paulostroff99]

Memories of my teens in the fifties.

Bravo! TY.

[blueblazer68]

Must have been 50 years ago, but seems like just the other day. I still watch those girls go by.

[ImayStalkU]

pedophile.

[misocutee]

if he's a pedophile, then what does that make you? look at your name!

[ImayStalkU]

LOL come on, that name's funny. I'm acctually 15, I heard this song in a restraunt and I wanted to see if it was on youtube.

[misocutee]

we're the same age haha.

[kernow1953]

Thanks. I havn't heard this for years.