The Mills Brothers "Nevertheless" 1981

[zodiacBomb]

This is the way the song is meant to be sung. Much better than that Frank Sinatra version. I love Frank but the Mills Bros murdered this song.

[wurly1100]

Link for "Live at Tivoli Gardens 1967 and 1981 audio files now in the description. Mp3 format transferred from LP's.

Thanks for all the comments,

Enjoy!

[icujts]

they sound every bit as good some 50 years after they started in the late 20's! Incredible!

[connopv]

One of my favorite YouTube videos.

[19Chuck80]

Beautiful, love seeing this most recent clip of some of the last perfromances together

[RAMLIA1]

Love love love!

[kovaxtromb]

very nice !

[Hardtimes64able]

Man what a classic performance , i really feel so lucky to have listened to these guys with my Dad. Now i just sit and sometimes get sad ,because Dad is gone and so are the great mills brothers ; But thanks to you folks for posting this stuff,im able to have many nice thoughts and nights listening to them.

[ZAPDUNGAA]

Harry (on the right) was blind and very thin and so sick with diabetes..and would die in a few months after this show.......He was my favorite

[rrbnsngs]

This is so lovely and touchingly beautiful. As someone mentioned I think about their live "Don't Blame Me" performance (another great one to check out), look at how they regard each other. Here Harry can't communicate visually with his brothers, but look at how they love him, how he loves them, supporting each other in musical perfection! It's just the best.......

[simba30]

They put Class in the Class never to be seen again. God Bless RIP

[chungchongyu]

What you have here is the 1950's version of Jonas Brohters xD

[joe1blue]

CLASS CLASS CLASS 

[JPOberg1]

Unbelievable.

[alfiesgirluk]

Poor Harry looks a shadow of himself and I had to Google to check but yes he is almost blind here from diabetes. His lovely happy demenour is not diminished and his voice is still just the same and velvety smooth as ever. I have to say Donald is my favourite vocalist but as the song says Nevertheless they are all wonderful and proof that family rules. Gorgeous to listen to.

[mrmanoli]

Awsome!

[felion4]

Simply a class act and can teach these clowns today how it is done I just discovered these guys last year and I am already in luv!

[BruceWLA]

Donald looks cool with the beard!

[earlowink]

They all performed right up to the very end. What a great group of guys.

[BiffaBacon]

54 years into their careers and still top class. Bravo gents !!!!!!!!!!!!

[crusher1944]

I was very lucky to see them live in Long Island that year.

[altarbaz]

This is more evidence of why Dean Martin called Harry Mills the best singer on the planet!!

[joe1blue]

The Best Of The Best .  Just plain CLASS.

[MichaelResEvil]

Вообще молодцы!

[HoundmanV]

their hay day was a bit before my time, but I still enjoyed when I heard them.

[eva9655]

Wow!! So Great!!

[shanna1950]

beautiful

[vladazarian]

Fantastic. Great song and graet artists!

[Rickamortus]

The Mills Bros. are such great singers and had such great song selections - it's sad to think they were considered uncle Toms by the Soul Music crowd. :-(

[bluefandango]

@Rickamortus if so, then the "Soul Music crowd" doesn't have to be considered at all.

[Roger79924]

"nevetheless" A great song-sung by the Mills Brothers,quite simply the greatest.

[Ikkotsjebekvol]

Simply amazing... After all those years they're still pulling it off.

The Mills Brothers are indeed the best.

[dtmfr]

You can tell Harry is really having trouble with seeing. Not sure he isn't blind during this performance. He had diabetes. Passed away in 1982. I always notice Herbert in their later years holding on to the microphone stand till Harry gets situated.

[loboscar57]

The Mills Brothers have been in my life the last 37 years. I'm 52 years old and nevertheless I love the music of these great masters.

[StuartLou]

The BEST- No one ever could match them!! Harry (on the right) was blind here. He was always the fat, jolly guy with the dynamic personality. Hate seeing him like this but also glad it didn't stop him........and, he still sounded great.

[biden1]

after more 53 years they were still amazing! luv the mills brothers :D

[ggggonzalez]

I know I will meet them one day. Till Then I'll just listen.

WOW all I can say is WOW

[matwil1]

they are god's gift .... such rapture in harmony

[djebat88]

These guys are forever young!

[joe1blue]

This is the Best of the Best.

[bdzmusicprod]

This has got to be my favorite Mills Brother arrangement. Simply sublime!

[mrniceguy00987]

I cant stop watch and listening to this video.......I grew up around their music and feel that was a real blessing......Such beautiful melodies and harmony....just love it!!!! signed, an appreciative fan

[denise25denise]

@mrniceguy00987 .........me too............I listen to them every day on wonderful YouTube.......and this particular song over and over........always makes me smile.........

[SublimeStuff]

PERFECT!

[scylark]

It's wonderful having this group on video. I was shocked to see Harry looking so ill which of course he was. They certainly brought me lots of happiness and still do thanks to these videos. Thanks!!

[Yngland]

Fantastic!!

Do you have more of it? I will be happy to see more.

Thank you

[keoki9]

Wow, so smooth, such talent

[TheSophian]

*melt* wow love this song, and i play the 20th century present the best of album every day loll

[whynot12970]

They have such a timeless sound! Harry looks pretty rough in this video. But I could listen all night!!

[joe1blue]

Class Class Class Can you get any better????

[bryanweil]

I love the Mills Brothers.  When i buried my Grandmother I buried her with a Mill Brothers album

[jonasbrothermusic5]

i was born in 1967. i love the 70s the most for music but the mills brothers are probably my favorite singers. my 14 year son and girlfriends 9 year like them too. they are awwsome!!!!!!

[MonkEjoey]

holy crap 1981?! thats amazeing!!

[azuremusical]

I can't get enough of these guys........I play this every day.........can't tell you how glad I am to see as well as hear them perform.........thanks SO much for posting.......wonderful memories

[CarlDuke]

Thanks for this posting. Ostensibly Harry looks great, having lost about 100 pounds which it looks like he gave to brother Herbert. Harry had been the leader and personality guy of the group, but sadly he had lost his sight as a complication of diabetes and would not live more than a number of months.

[Chimbo65]

thats true.

Harry Mills died a month after this.

The clip is from Tivoli Gardens in

Copenhagen December 1981.

[orangeymi]

what nice song...how smooth their voices are.

[spurtfather]

how long did these boys go on for?? and at the top of their game the whole way through! just the best. seriously.

[BiffaBacon]

Class act technically excellent singers and real gentlemen

[jerrybodie]

saw them in the 80"s as the opening act for Eddy Arnold, and I think I was the youngest and the one who knew all the words, and had no idea Harry had lost his site from Diabettes in the 70's....they were incredible

[tocho23]

I remember dancing this very romantic music with my girlfriend of 1944 and we both fell in love verrrry strongly. Who could resist these incredible guys? this was in buenos aires, argentina.

[mexben86]

This is the best singing i've ever heard.........

[joe1blue]

This is what you call GREAT TALENT

[mrniceguy00987]

I remember my parents singing and dancing to this music and ofcourse I would sing along too. They make my heart happy, love that music, beautiful melody, great lyrics, and a wonderful blend of voices...... They were something!! and we will never see that talent and music again.... How said for this new generation.

[thevoiceisbydon]

these guys were great - i think the one on the right was blind by this time...

[Chimbo65]

Yes,thats Harry Mills.

He died a month after this show in Tivoli

Copenhagen in December 1981.

[judyjudymyrna]

My favorite Mills Brothers tune and simple arrangement. Thanks for the posting.

[faithlaurie]

They were great To bad we don't have people or hero like them today. they were the true entertainers. We should find peace and comformer inpeople like them instead of what we have today.

[trooperman100]

they r old but sing perfectly they r astonishing!! :P

[spannerworks1]

I have come across a box set of their songs and what a find !

Now I can see them in the flesh

Richard :)

[methu124]

These guys are my musical heros. Toward the end of their career, they used to perform annually in my home town (New Orleans). One year they wore the blue tuxes shown in this video, and I gambled that when they returned the following year they'd wear the same outfits. I was ready with my blue tux and bow tie . . . and it paid off. I took a photo with them dressed and posing like a Mills Brother. What priceless memories!

[sololakeli43]

Man, I envy you. Do you know that back in the obscure Soviet Ubion we had a Mills Brothers Lovers Club? We, in Tbilisi, Georgia can also harmonize. Just type Trio Tbilisi in the serach window. I guarantee, you won't regret it. Many thanks.

[bdzmusicprod]

One of my favorite Mills Brother's arrangements.

[slatsp1]

They sang almost their entire career into 1 microphone. They did not have all of the electronic gizmos & mixing board when they started. I remember seeing them on a talk show in the 70's explaining they mixed by ear. You can see them stepping in & out, even when all 3 are singing---adjusting the blend. Real talent, not studio phonies.

[bdzmusicprod]

I agree. I wonder how many of today's popular singers could get away with just standing at a microphone and entertain an audience without having all of the commotion going on behind them in the way of flashing lights and other stage gimics? I dare say very few.

[Cricketboy1200]

its sad in the fact harry would have died fairly soon after this

[bdzmusicprod]

Not many people realized that Harry was blind at this point as a result of diabetes. He had also lost a lot of weight. He died in June of 1982. This is one group I would loved to have seen perform live. They were fabulous entertainers who truly enjoyed their craft.

[JFUNK128]

oh my god.. Forget about the lost weight... He's nearly unrecognizable without the naughty little smile and the twinkle in his eye he always sported. What a shame. At least he died after doing something he loved for over 50 years

[Atomicflash500]

THat was so good ...its hard to believe they are singing live into one microphone.

[millsbrothers]

LISTEN TO THEM BLEND!!!

[KARAOKERAT]

Blend only BEGINS to describe the talent AND skill these music icons displayed! Present "singers", male and female, take note: ONE mike, minimal musical accompaniment(for a long time just Norman Brown on guitar), a simple LYRICAL song lasting no more than 4 minutes at the MOST=50-plus year career! Most singers/groups stop becoming relative after only a 1/4 of that time. When this performance was done, Herb was 69, Don 66, and Harry, nearly blind w/diabetes, 68!

[KARAOKERAT]

Yet, they continued to tour most of the year. What also amazes me is that they were brothers who truly loved to perform TOGETHER and their chemistry onstage was always evident. These icons are missed. Thank God that their recordings remain and YT videos exist for our continued enjoyment. TY for the post!