Love Is The Sweetest Thing

[Joebunkyss1]

@husamai find a LIBRARY,they say its the next big thing.

[husamla]

i hop if i born in 1950 or 1960 because its was a good days and nice days

[ArtDecoDevotee]

I love this song. Its absolutley beautifull. I always get a bit of a lump in my throat whenever i hear it.

[Mario44250]

I really want to go back and live in that year from 1920-1940. That was the time for living. I was born 1994, but i really want to go back in that golden period of the world. Greeting from Serbia!

[ReadingNinja]

"Memusclebear" is there room for me on that time machine?

[XieYali]

I wonder if this song inspired Randy Newman for one of he songs in James and the Giant Peach.

[barbrasgirl8]

Up there with the best such as Russ Columbo and Nelson Eddy. Should never be forgotten and aired more on the radio.

[MrDaiseymay]

I noticed that their are a lot of young/younger people commenting favourably here ,about these REAL songs and singers. It's as though it is a real revelation to them. Older people like me grew up out of this period and into the present, slowly absorbing ALL the changes. Whereas, they--pour things, have only been subjected to ever declining junk music. I blame the media, especially the BBC--who gratuitously abandoned OUR musical heritage to history, by sucking up to so-called trendy idiots.

[MrKeswick20]

You can hear EVERY word he sings.

[lilpandaXD]

I'm a 15 year old and I would much rather listen to amazing music like this then all the plastic music on the radio today, what has music become?

[jemwopia]

Is this the greatest voice ever?

[paulkate72]

@jemwopia - I believe so.

[paulkate72]

Lots of people have commented here. The music of the 1930s was special and Al Bowlly and the bands he recorded with Ray Noble, Lew Stone and Roy Fox were extra special. That seems to be why so many evergreens are still with us from those days.

But lots of bad things happened too in the 30s. On balance, it seems that the times were more elegant and stylish, but only the wealthy could afford them - and then only if the 1929 market crash didn't wipe them out!!!

[reubenroo]

Yes please. Can we go now? :-)

[Philpotts24]

Quite wonderful! Simples :p

[colinwells4]

What can i say ; this is thousands of times better than todays pop cancer.

[kamilla1960]

The solution? Bring back the good things about the past, while recognizing that we no longer want the things that were not so good.

[nicholsjoshua15]

Dose anyone else think it's funny that this came up right after A Perfect Circle "Passive" ?

[pukalapop]

Thank goodness I can listen to music from the 20's and 30's....really is the greatest thing!

[celesteh77]

My late father-in-law Pat Harrington, Sr. (his son is Pat Harrington, "Schneider" of One Day at a Time..) had the exact same voice as Al Bowlly. Exactly!! So much so, my husband and I flew to London and bought out every album Al Bowlly made. We transposed some of those songs and mailed them to Pat, Jr. He called us and said, "Where did you get these recordings of Dad!!".

[MANFROMMARS46]

It's lovely jubbly.

[Gavestonful]

The very last performance Al Bowlly ever made was in High Wycombe on 15 April 1941. He was very tired when he got back to his flat in Jermyn Street, close to Piccadilly in central London late that evening; he did not bother to go down to the air raid shelter when the sirens sounded - instead he lay on his bed reading a cowboy book as the Nazi German bombs began to fall. He died instantly when a landmine exploded outside the flat and was killed by the blast with no outward signs of injury. RIP

[Rena1934]

perfect, like all he sings

[panchopuskas1]

Perfect.

Simply perfect.

[getyoursfree]

O tempora, O mores. Beautiful.

[MulBerrie]

I adore this song. Its so sweet and romantic and of its time - It always makes me smile :-)

[smlsax99]

Surely, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever recorded ?

[sonicstefan1991]

I think this kind of music is much more decent than the ones from today. It just makes you drift to another world when everything was so much simpler.

[AnarAtragin]

appreciate the upload, but for some strange reason I preferred the other one with that weird, violent video (titled as ray noble's song)

[mepsib]

@AnarAtragin I actually understand what you mean - it's a strange video, but I like it.

[cindiip21]

@mepsib what video? D: i wan't to see it please

[mepsib]

@cindiip21 If you search the song title on youtube, the second result is the song accompanied by a strange black and white video.

[Woodlander65]

This song gives me a very rare exquisite feeling inside whenever i hear it. I love it, takes me to another time and another place.

[SJW439]

This song was placed at number 33 in the 20th century chart of popular songs by the BBC. It even beat some of the Rolling Stones best. Good on you Al ...

He was killed in a Luftwaffe air raid in London during the war.

[Memusclebear]

Does anyone want to back with me on my time machine???? When life was elegant and mannerful?

[mepsib]

@Memusclebear Yes please. Just to the nice parts though :)

[inzen1909]

@Memusclebear o yes please the music of that time sounds so good it give hope and thus joy just wonderful yah wunderschön

[jeanius2]

@Memusclebear ...yes please...any part will do for me x

[Christlicious]

@Memusclebear Oh you're so right!

[Eddy2730]

@Memusclebear Is there a reason why I wouldn't?

[thexjokerx2]

@Memusclebear so not true the rich and powerful only could enjoy this back then...+ i am asian WTF men they would kill me in that time but still..thank god i am not white...:P

[loonylinda]

@Memusclebear me please...

[banzostrummer]

@Memusclebear

sure! life was elegant and "mannerful" back then....

the great depression, massive unemployment, nazism, communism, fascism, no civil rights, no welfare, rich people were really rich, and poor ones were really poor....aaaah! memorable years

[miffy1950]

@Memusclebear

I should LOVE to~!!!

[XxFugufishXx]

@Memusclebear You have no idea how much i would pay you.

[ShutThatDoor]

@Memusclebear Please save me a seat on that time machine, I hate the modern world and how quick and impersonal and nasty so much of it is. Love today is just a cheap sentiment, to Mr Bowlly and his generation, it was the very best of intentions and the most noble.

[rimfa123]

@Memusclebear Oh, if you're going could you bring me back an Austin 7? Many thanks...

[jasonpfinch]

@Memusclebear life was crap back then. That's why they had to listen to stuff like this, in the vain hope of cheering themselves up.

[Meanman332]

@Memusclebear It's 'mannerly', for future.

[throovest]

Absolutely fabulous. Great Al Bowlly classic

[1912cunard]

love it. bring back the 1930s

[gambit160774]

Al Bowlly is my dads favourite artist,,,i got so used to listening to his songs that i even sang it walking to school...

[toloene]

real classic,i didn't know this song until i watched Poirot: Death On The Nile(when the drunk actress was singing the song)and now here i am.

[Memusclebear]

I'm enchanted...to tears...omg...how sweet!!!

[ro141]

I have always thought that this was Al’s best ever recording. So why did I never notice before that he actually gets the lyric wrong, singing “the strongest thing” instead of “the greatest thing”, which must be correct since it rhymes with “the latest thing”.

[tampanuccia]

Meraviglioso....Semplicemente perfetto

[kieran196]

Timeless classic!

[crazycraiky]

lovely song. thanks

[charliemctruth]

Jee...

xx

[vevejay]

Ray Noble orchestra Al Bowlly voice a match made in heaven

[cultofmao]

That is so nice.

[SeanTerrell]

OH MY GOODNESS! Bowlly's voice is GOLD

[jh8856]

Al - just the best.

[SarahRyan2002]

Brilliant, thank you.

[branter2]

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful song. It was the first song we danced to when we got married, just perfect!

[10SERENDIPITY66]

Simply wonderful, I just adore that tempo from the golden age of modern music

[j0andc0]

Wonderful feel good song.

[DocGeorge4U]

Gorgeous!

[Corrie121]

This is lovely. I take it that the orchestra is that of Ray Noble. Great post.

Thank you for sharing.

[mepsib]

Yes, that is the Ray Noble orchestra. Thanks for your comment :)

[sessnazx]

How True

Thank You So Much

[MichaellaNG94]

I <3 this song :)

[JohnnyWykes]

So evocative!