Frances Langford sings Cole Porter - Easy To Love, 1936

[paulj0557]

Love it, but it's as close to the forties I'd want to come...I love 20's and 30's music. This is ahead of it's time really.

[ivebeenthere1]

love this.....truly timeless :--)

[LylythTV]

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Magnifique... Mmm... 

[aherna9557]

Love the song and the singer, My daughter will be playing her in an up coming tribute show. The second photo is a young Betty Grable, the fourth photo that's David Niven in the center with her. the fifth photo second girl the blonde is Alice Faye.

loved it. keep posting.

Sally in California

[ppkwalter1]

Agradeceré siempre a quienes nos permiten disfrutar de los mejores interpretes, sean baladas, tangos , óperas , boleros , etc. Todo lo bueno a un click de dis-

tancia.

[paulwien65]

wonderful.................time­less

[mpbliesener]

Artists back then had class and respect. The so-called "artists" of today don't even know the meanings of the words, let alone how to put them into practice.

[gersondha]

Wow!! smooth voice, what a classic!

[BabyJanexo]

I want this on my itunes! How can I make that happen?? I can't find it anywhere..

[predlycon]

you have frances singing I'm in the Mood for Love?

[SandyBurnell]

Thank you for posting this.

[MARKSVIGIL]

They don't write songs like this anymore!

I time long ago in place far and away!.

Today songs about love include lyrics like, "Slap my b!tch up" and refer to the act of love making as,"Let's Hit It!" Whatever.

Thanks for posting this video with the ever gorgeous vioce of Frances Langford along with the music of the irrepressible Cole Porter.

[nmbookie]

The sexiest voice and one of the loveliest ladies of the greatest era of American music.

[threadgillb]

I did not know this great lady was a Florida native. Thank you for posting this.

[iheartadamo]

my friend and i are singing this song as a duet for show choir, as part of our Classic Cole Porter medley. It's so fun!

[sophiah88]

She was a very rare  talent in an era of great talents. Memories abound.

[williamteomi]

Frances was my father's 2nd cousin. One correction. Her middle name, in spite of the info box on this video wasn't "Newbern." Newbern was her mother's maiden name. Frances Langford was a real gem.

[BankersAreAssassins]

thank you

[SigP229R]

I have only this to say; Frances and all the other greats of that era had more to do with america winning the war than they will ever be given credit for. They were the glue that held our nation and our armed forces together during those troubled and trying times and I have nothing but the utmost respect for them all.Not to mention they were some of the greatest talent this country has ever known.

[charade97]

Even though I am not an American I heartily agree with you!

[SzokePeter66]

@SigP229R I agree. I am Hungarian, born in 1966. I did not see WWII but my parents did. They both loved American popular music from the 1930s onwards until the 1960s. Throughout the dark years of the war and the almost equally dark era of Communism, Jazz was a symbol for elegance and freedom. It stood for moral resistence. The later products were despised by them as bad taste, sign of a sharp decline in America's cultural appeal.

[CarloQuinto]

A classic version of a classic. Frances Langford had it all. Voice quality, diction, perfection of pitch, interpretation. When Frances sang a song, she really sang it. She left nothing in the dressing room. She knew just how much emotion and feeling to put into a song without going over the top. Fantastic! Thank you for posting this!

[cnc66]

what a beautiful lady. I had the pleasure to know her here in Jensen. Because of Frances there is a place called Florida Oceanographic Society, a place of learning for us and our children. Elegant, and kind, she was an extraordinary host, friend and neighbor. She is missed... .

[ccaammiiittoo]

This is about as fine as it gets. Langford was quite a singer. I remember getting in bed with Langford coming through on that old RCA radio (the one with the dog looking into it), and it was an experience listening to her on radio. By the way, wasn't she at one time married to Jon Hall, he of the sarong?

[leesterg]

True! She was married to cool adventure star JH.

[youkali22]

just listen to her improv on the second chorus!

[royalprotector]

Frances Langford was my father's second cousin.

I'll share something with all of you that I'm doubtful you'd ever discover. (This is aimed primarily at Shurayuki18481 since you want to know as much as possible about Frances.)

Her father was Vasco Langford. Her mother was Anna Rhea Newbern Langford. Her grandfather was Leroy Langford. Her grandmother was Roena Hightower Langford. And finally, her great grandmother was Harriet Hightower.

[jo1526]

I'm in love with Frances Langford.

[Lengo67]

I saw her first! 8-)

[Shurayuki18481]

Oh I've always loved Frances Langford, her voice is so heavenly. At the moment I'm trying to know everything I can about her, she was such a great woman and such a beautiful singer, her voice is so pure it just brightens up the room.

[dzheger]

It's so easy to love anything by Cole Porter!

[betteroffsingle]

Oh btw ... with regard to the Bickersons ...

for you younger guys who might remember Gleason's The Honeymooners .... well guess what? Yeah .... The Bickersons were the influence and were funnier on radio.

Nothing's new folks. Not knocking Gleason who had a different take and a successful one. But it was after all visual.

[betteroffsingle]

Sad story here on a great lady who did comedy you youngsters can't imagine.

She and Don Amache did a short as part of another program and were so popular they had their own radio program called, "The Bickersons." THE FUNNIEST SHOW IN RADIO, EVER! She was really very pretty abd you'd never know it by the voice she used as the nagging wife on that program. Oh gosh ... if any of you reading this can get hold of The Bickersons, do so. Non-stop laffs. And Amache was never better.

[UncleCharlieOakley]

Who is "Don Amache"?

Any relation to Don Ameche?