@g0dzillaman Lena Horne was in the sequence that preceded this section and is on one of the platforms. This film was a tribute to Jerome Kern, the composer. The fact that Sinatra is singing it in the film's finally is because they wanted a really big name at the time. The song is sang earlier in the film as it is sang in the original musical.
But of course he is singing it higher, he had to adjust it to his own range like any good singer would do, isn't it so? that doesn't make his performance less worthy. He gave his own twist to it and it's working, at least it is for me. Very good version indeed!
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1:41 to 1:55 that killer modulation has never been done by any singers. In between notes and down to the last, he sang perfectly without recession. What a voice.
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La voz y la interpretación perfectas y la orquestación tambien ... pero, esta es la cuestión ¿por que tanto blanco si se trata de una canción de negros rivereños, esclavos cragadores de los blancos? ... Con esta coreografía tipicamente yanqui, ridícula, ordinaria y ostentosa mataron el verdadero sentido dado por Gershwing a su gran canción, admirada y respetada en todo el mundo.
Wonderful moment. It's said that he learned his breathing technique by watching Tommy Dorsey on the bandstand. On this you can see him take in huge breaths in between phrasing. This is what Frank Sinatra is all about - the man used his voice, in fact his whole body, as a well tuned musical instrument.
Our Great Singer-composer-lyricist - writer-producer-director BHUPEN HAZARIKA created a soul stirring song based on this wonderful missisipi song titled GANGA BEHTI HO KYON in Hindi with earlier versions in Bengali and Assamese. What a great genius and what a marvelouus creation by MUSICIAN OF THE WORLD or should I say UNIVERSE!!!
Got to say this and Paul Robeson had the best two versions. I prefer the latter of the two but not many people see that too because of politics but what can you do. still, excellent rendition by sinatra.
Wow! I've never had a song give me so many goosebumps in my life! (And I get them EVERY time I watch this video.) What a treasure! Frank Sinatra is amazing!!! What a genius! The Voice, indeed!
Sinatra's version is WAY BETTER than ANY other version of this song that I have heard. THIS is the BEST VERSION of "Ol' Man River", and the funny thing is that Sinatra was not even black! HAAAH! That says a LOT about how you DONT have to belong to a certain race to actually sing a song that is MEANT for people of that race.
R you people crazy he song this song Absolutely beautifully he braught me to tears with every note he was a blessing to the world a total gift vocally and socially he stood up for african americans in a time when they werent even considered human beings and his showing of support for them couldve ruined his career but he didnt care because his heart was to big and knew what was right in a time when it seemd very cloudy god bless you frank and thanks from the bottom of my heart Rest in heaven
A note to Mookiemanable: If you have time look at the origins "Old Man River." Like you, at one time in my life I assumed that "Old Man River" was a Negro work song. Instead if was written by an urban, Jewish-American composer.
Paul Robeson will always be Ol' Man River, BUT... Thank God for Sinatra. Such a homage, so powerful, so moving... I don't descredit this version at all.
OMG! I can't believe that he was such a DICK! He let black people write him his songs and then he is singing THIS song! And then he also fucks it up! -.-
@yourassassin64 Yeah, but Sinatra videos on Youtube STILL have a cancer: people saying ''Im only 18 and I love this" and this kind of bull. This needs to stop.
@DaniloCamargo I imagine it comes from parents who brag on their children in front of them, or shower them with praise (also those who get over-excited at young people bragging). If you're going to be proud of your kids as a parent and you want to let them know that you're proud, go ahead, but also instill in your kids a sense of humility and the knowledge that no one wants to hear him/her brag about him/herself.
Enjoyed that!! DonDadda, first time viewer. Frank, here at a young age decided to sing he apparently enjoyed reading, as much as he enjoyed singing it. 'Cause Frank sang the hell, outta that. With the held notes, and that borderline monotone note he and Paul Robeson both are great. This ain't Kareoke, to be just as good as Paul you'd have to sing just like him.
@DylanZombies stole from the black man? A song written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (two white men) and sung by Sinatra (in a tribute film toward Jerome Kern) was stolen from the black man? Are you joking or being serious?
i LOVE this vidoe of Frank.he looks so handsome i wish the style of those days were to come back again a man looks looks so nice in a suit classy.my fav song,
Frank Sinatra was paying homage to the African Americans. In fact, many stars have sung this. It's a lovely, moving song that needs to be appreciated. Frank Sinatra was a huge supporter of African American rights. He moved Lena Horne to another hotel when the manager of the Sands drained the pool after her daughter swam in it, and threatened to cancel every performance of his if Sammy Davis, jr. couldn't make an appearance. Frank deserves nothing but praise for his numerous acts of kindess. :)
If only I owned a Time machine ... I would go back to the fifties, drive my dad's 1956 Chevy and wish for everyday to be groundhog's day so that time would never pass or change ... Whisper ...
Wow, that was Frank Sinatra in his prime. What a beautiful voice he had, and his early singing voice was drastically different from his later singing voice.
Not the same as Robeson. Kinda moronic that Sinatra sang this. Don't get me wrong, Sinatra has a good voice, but this song is about slavery. When did Sinatra ever do hard labor in his life with those "ol' blue eyes?" Plus, he doesn't have the bass range to properly do this song justice. Sinatra's a tenor, not the low bass of Paul Robeson. This misses the whole purpose of the song. This is a disgrace to Kern and Hammerstein.
@disneyfan715 He does it when he's older and hits one of the lowest notes I ever heard a baritone hit. Frank grew up poor during the depression and with a lot of racism because he was Italian.Yeah back then Italians were discriminated against.The largest lynching in history was done to italians.If you want a real life slave to sing this song well they were probably all dead by then. To call this a disgrace is just your jelousey comming out cause your pissed he does this song better then anybody.
This version completely misses the point of the classic song by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II and is so wrong for many reasons. Are we to believe this white guy standing on a plinth on an extremely expensive set, immaculately dressed & surrounded by a full orchestra actually picked cotton? Proceeds from this dreadful version should go to the victims of Katrina.
@MCchampers So because he's a white guy he don't know nothin about plantin cotton. NEITHER DID ANY BLACKS BY THEN UNLESS THEY WERE OLD AS HELL(TO OLD TO SING). Sinatra grew up in poverty shit head and He's got a notionality and that's Italian. You are only against it because Sinatra's "white?".. But you see there in the heavens. What it's sayin is what is right and wrong. And the good side with the message of the song. Igonrant as hell.
@MCchampers That comment refers to you, you old dusty biggit. You're pissed that Sinatra does this song better then anybody. Which I understand cause it is an African American song and he is Italian and nails it better then anybosy, especially the older version. Don't hate.
So wrong and stupid in so many ways. I love Frank, but come on...him singing this song, especially at his age in this, with the idiotic setting...it's simply got to be one of the low points of his wonderful resume.
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@viv3147 I don't care if he let MLK date his daughter Nancy. This is such a horrible version of the song, sung by some young white guy from New Jersey, in his tux and with the backdrop, that's it's idiotic.
@57ccsantana Sinatra tackled this song in later decades. Look for the version he did on "The Concert Sinatra" album. 1963, I think. By then, his voice was deeper and not as "boy band.." By then, he'd gotten involved with the civil rights movement, and had sung the song at fundraisers with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the audience. 20 years later, the song meant more to him. He was 30 when he did "Till the Clouds Roll By." The prettiness of his voice was gradually replaced by power. It got better.
I think it's funny how you guys bash on him for "doing" this song when this clip is actually the finale of a film made in 1946, entitled "'Til the Clouds Roll By." Several 40's artists are in the movie, Sinatra happens to sing this song. Someone obviously knew what they were doing when their inspiration for Sinatra singing this song came to be, and it's absolutely beautiful.
Leave it to the people who think they have the highest moral peak in 2011 to criticize...
Just FYI, you don't have to state that you "don't own the rights" to this scene because this is from "Till the Clouds Role By" which is in the Public Domain. So you actually do have the the right to show this.
This video is pretty awesome. Fucking 1946!!! Wow. Frank Sinatra's awesome. Who cares if he sang a "black" song, the whole race thing is a huge delusion anyway. Songs are for all people because we're all the same human race.
I love me some Frank Sinatra, but hearing this confirms that there is only one man who was ever worthy to sing this song, and that man is Paul Robeson
A lot of the comments I'm seeing are well-intended but slightly ignorant in that being color-blind is in itself a mild form of racism because it refuses to acknowledge that there are cultural differences that extend deeper than the skin. This song was written and intended for a black person to sing, but having said that, Frank Sinatra does a remarkable job, and reaffirms that he's a consummate artist capable of making each song his own. Proof that he was the coolest white man who ever lived.
Being colorblind means that you don't allow a persons race effect your opinion of them. You can be colorblind and still acknowledge the cultural differences of the different races.
Good for him. Maybe he should have rewritten the song to put that bit in... Ya get's a little horny and ya lands in jail... Oh that's right, you don't have to have done something to sing a song about it.
Frank Sinatra did a lot to advance the cause of African-Americans. He once sang this song with Martin Luther King Jr in the audience, and it brought him to tears. Frank raised a lot of money for MLK. Frank always used Count Basie as his pianist in his glory years. Frank, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, the Dorsey brothers, Glenn Miller, can never be topped in any era. I'm glad I was born in 1955 and had an introduction to these people.
@xxxkessonxxx That shit sucks? First of all, a little respect for The Voice, and second thing, if you think its a shit, go fuck off a little bit and don't comment, ok? Thanks ;)
@xxxkessonxxx Can you sing? What was that? No? Oh! Well how do you know if this sucks? If it did that is, however I know your type. You only enjoy hearing about people who where born in the 'ghetto', when you probably never been there, talking about how they fuck bitches everyday while making there 'money rain on them' and talking about there 'high life smoking bud and drinking hard liquor'. Sorry that real music is from the soul and sorry you're too narrow minded to see that.
@xxxkessonxxx In retrospect, it would have been better to let either Louis Armstrong, Paul Robeson, or Ray Charles sing it. It's just hard to imagine an Italian city-boy from NYC singing about pickin' cotton, toatin' and liftin' barges and bales.
@baddogonline Paul Robeson was educated middle class with a law degree. Sinatra didn't even finish high school and his mother supported him through the depression by performing illegal abortions. If you are going to start insisting that people need to have had a sufficiently tough life to qualify them to sing certain songs, why would Paul Robeson qualify over Sinatra. What do you think the criteria should be in order to sing this song? Sinatra was arrested in his youth, but Robeson never was.
There is nothing wrong with not liking the song but at least say why you don't like it. You come across as an ignorant idiot with your spelling of 'sucks' and your overuse of the exclamation mark
@xxxkessonxxx Your name alone shows that you have no class and bad taste. Another nasty ass who has sex with everybody for the attention of men. I'm sure you take it in the ass on a daily basis. Then accepted the fact that you're a ho and now represent it proudly. Just because you changed your perspective of how you look at who you are doesn't change that you're nasty and have little quality. Yeah people like you have less quality then people who respect themselves.
@BigPappaDL Learn to accept that different people have different taste. Till then keep your ignorant comments to yourself. ps : cursing only makes you look immature.
maybe you should try reading a bio about him. I just did and it was done very well. you would find that he had to work hard for what he wanted in life. I was a bit surprised myself about how imperfect his life really was.
I'm so tired of people who never had anything done to them blame people who never did anything to anyone. Does anyone understand how twisted this attitude is? If you can blame someone else you don't have to look at shortcomings that are in yourself. Just enjoy the song for it is beautiful.
They used to lynch Italian Americans in the south, black people weren't the only people on earth who experienced racism or oppression. Up until the late 19th century Italy wasn't even a unified country and the immigrants that poured out of that country into America were, for the most part, dirt covered, impoverished peasants. What they were welcomed with was sweatshop labor, vermin infested, cramped tenements, and on top of that racism and seething hatred.
@eric090909 AND Sinatra worked to end segregation in Las Vegas. The way he saw it, if Sammy Davis Jr. wasn't allowed to stay in the hotels the Rat Pack drew the crowds to, then no Rat Pack. Sinatra walked the walk. P.S.: On "The Concert Sinatra" album he REALLY nails this song. By then, his voice could really do the song justice. This 1946 version is just a hint of what he was eventually able to do to this - or any - song that meant something to him.
@FredeGF He doesn't have that southern sound but it's beautiful none the less. Just different. Frank was one of a kind never to be replaced. The southern sound is what is missing, it's to produced and Hollywood styled. That is my humble opinion.
some may think he shouldn't have touched this song because he's white--the song was written by Jerome Kern- a white man. Some may think he shouldn't have touched the song and thought the scenery and dancers were out of place,--this clip was taken from a movie-a biopic about the composer (this is the last scene). Pretty sure Mr. Sinatra didn't have much control over the set.
This guy shouldn't have even touched this song. Completly took the scenery out of place and the added dancers were totally unnecessary. Paul Robeson took the songs true meaning to heart where this guy used it to improve his ratings.
@Mopz0r yepp and with racism and intolerance :D but u know, each decade has some shit going on and i guess that todays bullshit is more disgusting. :P
@ Devon31415 You are completely dumb. If u knew anythang about history u would know that immigrants were tested just as bad as blacks maby not whipped but most of that was gone by the time they moved but they were still hung blacks,Italians,irish. Every one who moved so until u learn more about ur history the u SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! O
And I'm only 15 so that's how I know i just went over that section in school have a good day u fucking dick
Love how this is a song about poor black patriotism and is completely performed by white people dressed in white rich a** finery. Hypocritical. "you and me, we sweat and strain" Sir, you have NOT sweat or strained in you entire life. STFU, my freind
I really enjoy this version by Sinatra, but I really think it is simply performed better by a large booming voice. The best I've ever heard it was by Kevin Thompson with the American Spiritual Ensemble.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. shoo bee doo.
rgaleny 1 hour ago
Paul Robeson is way better, the original.
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Need some colored folk dancing for money, shining some shoes etc.
DickCabeza123 2 weeks ago
Too many white people...
g0dzillaman 3 weeks ago
@g0dzillaman Lena Horne was in the sequence that preceded this section and is on one of the platforms. This film was a tribute to Jerome Kern, the composer. The fact that Sinatra is singing it in the film's finally is because they wanted a really big name at the time. The song is sang earlier in the film as it is sang in the original musical.
wintereis57 6 days ago
But of course he is singing it higher, he had to adjust it to his own range like any good singer would do, isn't it so? that doesn't make his performance less worthy. He gave his own twist to it and it's working, at least it is for me. Very good version indeed!
DelightfulDelirium 3 weeks ago
Sorry Mr. Sinatra, but you are about 5 octaves to high. :)
tromuniapp 3 weeks ago
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jaromsmiss 2 weeks ago
@jaromsmiss Did you see my smiley face? I was joking :)
tromuniapp 2 weeks ago
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OldManRiver1776 4 weeks ago
I am really amazed by his voice. And the control he has over it. Simply amazing!
Kiddowesth 4 weeks ago
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StupidLamb251 1 month ago
@youngian "Till The Clouds Roll By" (1946)
StupidLamb251 1 month ago
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broadwaysteve55 1 month ago
i think i am going to stay on this side of youtube from now on. and Frank Sinatra is one of the best male singers of all time
TheatreGeekish 1 month ago
1:41 to 1:55 that killer modulation has never been done by any singers. In between notes and down to the last, he sang perfectly without recession. What a voice.
paeng46 1 month ago
I'm on the classy side of Youtube... nice to know that.
immakickyourass 1 month ago 3
this man was gorgeous when he was young...jeez and the voice tops it off.
latoyagemini 1 month ago
Old man river, he don't do nothin. He just keeps rollin, he just keeps rollin.
CaptainCoffeeMcIce 1 month ago
Was Frank ever this young? We forget how great he was even then. Please check out my performance of this song inspired and dedicated to Mr. Sinatra. - Jersey Guy @ CBSEye
CBSEye 1 month ago
I've never seen Frank Sinatra too young like in this video
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DanErik74 1 month ago
Anyone know what film this clip is from?
youngian 1 month ago
oh my god this is just awesome.
ToriRocksAmos 1 month ago
La voz y la interpretación perfectas y la orquestación tambien ... pero, esta es la cuestión ¿por que tanto blanco si se trata de una canción de negros rivereños, esclavos cragadores de los blancos? ... Con esta coreografía tipicamente yanqui, ridícula, ordinaria y ostentosa mataron el verdadero sentido dado por Gershwing a su gran canción, admirada y respetada en todo el mundo.
MoragaTito 1 month ago
One of the best vocals he ever produced.
Amazing singer til the day he passed.
SuPeRoDeY 1 month ago
Wonderful moment. It's said that he learned his breathing technique by watching Tommy Dorsey on the bandstand. On this you can see him take in huge breaths in between phrasing. This is what Frank Sinatra is all about - the man used his voice, in fact his whole body, as a well tuned musical instrument.
Webresuk 1 month ago
This is THE BEST VERSION of "Ol' Man River" I have EVER HEARD!
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satinderbroca 1 month ago
this reminds me of myself :)
Sebbyd12 2 months ago
Sinatra is in heaven teaching god how to sing the blues.
Baker603 2 months ago
Got to say this and Paul Robeson had the best two versions. I prefer the latter of the two but not many people see that too because of politics but what can you do. still, excellent rendition by sinatra.
thedailyblazer 2 months ago 2
lol this guy is great... my teacher said frank sinatra was the jb of her generation meaning hes the guy all the girls had a crush on lol
kingnings 2 months ago
Wow! I've never had a song give me so many goosebumps in my life! (And I get them EVERY time I watch this video.) What a treasure! Frank Sinatra is amazing!!! What a genius! The Voice, indeed!
Guitarzan921 2 months ago
still prefer Sam Cooke's version :)
PaulXPZ 3 months ago
I fully agree with users who say Blue Eyes was best. He is sorely missed, but his music is very much alive for all fans... :-)
henrikblunck 3 months ago
I actually prefer Frank's younger version. He sings it with an amazing amount of maturity.
PaperGrape 3 months ago
Sinatra's version is WAY BETTER than ANY other version of this song that I have heard. THIS is the BEST VERSION of "Ol' Man River", and the funny thing is that Sinatra was not even black! HAAAH! That says a LOT about how you DONT have to belong to a certain race to actually sing a song that is MEANT for people of that race.
elementu2011 3 months ago
@elementu2011 Most of all this song was writen by a white man.. LOL people just don't know.. I agree Sinatra sang the best version.
VinceTheInstructer50 3 months ago
R you people crazy he song this song Absolutely beautifully he braught me to tears with every note he was a blessing to the world a total gift vocally and socially he stood up for african americans in a time when they werent even considered human beings and his showing of support for them couldve ruined his career but he didnt care because his heart was to big and knew what was right in a time when it seemd very cloudy god bless you frank and thanks from the bottom of my heart Rest in heaven
sarafranco100 3 months ago
esse é o comentário de um brasileiro : muito bom .
louis3903 4 months ago
I refer to a guy I work with as Old Man River because of a reference in an Adam Sandler movie. Now I finally know the song.
birdmantd 4 months ago
A note to Mookiemanable: If you have time look at the origins "Old Man River." Like you, at one time in my life I assumed that "Old Man River" was a Negro work song. Instead if was written by an urban, Jewish-American composer.
hourlynewscaster 4 months ago
Paul Robeson will always be Ol' Man River, BUT... Thank God for Sinatra. Such a homage, so powerful, so moving... I don't descredit this version at all.
Long live the great musicians of freedom!
ohmss069 4 months ago
OMG! I can't believe that he was such a DICK! He let black people write him his songs and then he is singing THIS song! And then he also fucks it up! -.-
Mookiemanable 4 months ago
@Mookiemanable What you said is wrong in every possible sense. Look up who wrote the song.
Teacherman2000 4 months ago
@Mookiemanable you're a "fuck up"
barf245 4 months ago
@Mookiemanable Kern and Hammerstein were black? Wow, could've fooled me.
snoopyflick 3 months ago
@Mookiemanable Fucks it up? Lol okay you try and hold that note at 2:16 and we'll see how you do.
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Mookiemanable 4 months ago
Wow? a very high high high quality in 1946 Cant believe it
francesjay120 4 months ago
@bubblyleilei i thought a black man wrote it fkn calm down
DylanZombies 4 months ago
you know you're on the intelligent side of youtube when the comments are longer than half a line and people use correct grammar.
yourassassin64 4 months ago 38
@yourassassin64 Yeah, but Sinatra videos on Youtube STILL have a cancer: people saying ''Im only 18 and I love this" and this kind of bull. This needs to stop.
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@DaniloCamargo I imagine it comes from parents who brag on their children in front of them, or shower them with praise (also those who get over-excited at young people bragging). If you're going to be proud of your kids as a parent and you want to let them know that you're proud, go ahead, but also instill in your kids a sense of humility and the knowledge that no one wants to hear him/her brag about him/herself.
ZillahLewis 2 months ago
Er, yourass, wadda you say?
hendersonjerry 2 months ago
Enjoyed that!! DonDadda, first time viewer. Frank, here at a young age decided to sing he apparently enjoyed reading, as much as he enjoyed singing it. 'Cause Frank sang the hell, outta that. With the held notes, and that borderline monotone note he and Paul Robeson both are great. This ain't Kareoke, to be just as good as Paul you'd have to sing just like him.
WoahDon 5 months ago
So...
Italians are white, and I'm Italian -.-...
But it dosnt matter about race lol... It just sucks compared to Pauls version
DanteG9298 5 months ago
Just will never sound right sung by a white man
tom36450 5 months ago
@tom36450 He's Italian though
TheHuMoCa 5 months ago
@TheHuMoCa So your telling me he isn't white?
tom36450 5 months ago
Of course they are all wearing white tuxedos.
SamJendo1 5 months ago
Why exactly is Frank Sinatra singing this song?
SamJendo1 5 months ago
@me323 its a joke mate but i thought a black man wrote it
DylanZombies 5 months ago
yet another thing stole from the black man
DylanZombies 5 months ago
@DylanZombies stole from the black man? A song written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (two white men) and sung by Sinatra (in a tribute film toward Jerome Kern) was stolen from the black man? Are you joking or being serious?
me323 5 months ago
@DylanZombies Frank Sinatra worked all his life to help black people achieve equal rights. Don't talk shit about stuff you don't know about.
BubblyLeiLei 4 months ago
El video en el que Frank Sinatra sale mas joven que he podido ver hasta ahora, gracias.
bosco022 5 months ago
Check out Frank holding that note at 2:17!
bettyfelon1 5 months ago
i LOVE this vidoe of Frank.he looks so handsome i wish the style of those days were to come back again a man looks looks so nice in a suit classy.my fav song,
olivia25406 5 months ago
Frank Sinatra was paying homage to the African Americans. In fact, many stars have sung this. It's a lovely, moving song that needs to be appreciated. Frank Sinatra was a huge supporter of African American rights. He moved Lena Horne to another hotel when the manager of the Sands drained the pool after her daughter swam in it, and threatened to cancel every performance of his if Sammy Davis, jr. couldn't make an appearance. Frank deserves nothing but praise for his numerous acts of kindess. :)
StupidLamb251 5 months ago 64
@StupidLamb251 fuck niggers, look what these apes are doing now with all their rights, they are doing nothing except crimes
vidukas111 1 month ago
send me back! Please!
Gill601 5 months ago
Oh wow......back to the days when music was music and not just screaming and shouting with no meaning in the words...........
ROCHELLE542 5 months ago
If only I owned a Time machine ... I would go back to the fifties, drive my dad's 1956 Chevy and wish for everyday to be groundhog's day so that time would never pass or change ... Whisper ...
koutio62 5 months ago
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I'll say it again.
WOW...
fauxgrace 5 months ago
THAT's talent...
And that's REAL SHOW BIZ!
fauxgrace 5 months ago
Thanks for adding this video!
simonsadman 5 months ago
Wow, that was Frank Sinatra in his prime. What a beautiful voice he had, and his early singing voice was drastically different from his later singing voice.
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KPP2008A 5 months ago
wow this is the first time I've seen "young Frank" thank you :)
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Better be listening that german born Yvan Rebroff's version of it !
sacha193 5 months ago
that shit is amazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!!!!
boolicky 5 months ago
Not the same as Robeson. Kinda moronic that Sinatra sang this. Don't get me wrong, Sinatra has a good voice, but this song is about slavery. When did Sinatra ever do hard labor in his life with those "ol' blue eyes?" Plus, he doesn't have the bass range to properly do this song justice. Sinatra's a tenor, not the low bass of Paul Robeson. This misses the whole purpose of the song. This is a disgrace to Kern and Hammerstein.
disneyfan715 6 months ago
@disneyfan715 Sinatra's a baritone. He could have sung it in the original key but didn't.
jmichael415 6 months ago
@disneyfan715 He does it when he's older and hits one of the lowest notes I ever heard a baritone hit. Frank grew up poor during the depression and with a lot of racism because he was Italian.Yeah back then Italians were discriminated against.The largest lynching in history was done to italians.If you want a real life slave to sing this song well they were probably all dead by then. To call this a disgrace is just your jelousey comming out cause your pissed he does this song better then anybody.
Johndough1957 5 months ago
This version completely misses the point of the classic song by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II and is so wrong for many reasons. Are we to believe this white guy standing on a plinth on an extremely expensive set, immaculately dressed & surrounded by a full orchestra actually picked cotton? Proceeds from this dreadful version should go to the victims of Katrina.
MCchampers 6 months ago
@MCchampers So because he's a white guy he don't know nothin about plantin cotton. NEITHER DID ANY BLACKS BY THEN UNLESS THEY WERE OLD AS HELL(TO OLD TO SING). Sinatra grew up in poverty shit head and He's got a notionality and that's Italian. You are only against it because Sinatra's "white?".. But you see there in the heavens. What it's sayin is what is right and wrong. And the good side with the message of the song. Igonrant as hell.
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MCchampers 5 months ago
@Johndough1957 You signed your illiterate statement correctly (Ignorant as hell).
MCchampers 5 months ago
@MCchampers That comment refers to you, you old dusty biggit. You're pissed that Sinatra does this song better then anybody. Which I understand cause it is an African American song and he is Italian and nails it better then anybosy, especially the older version. Don't hate.
Johndough1957 5 months ago
This song was written by Two WHITE JEWS. ITS NOT YOUR SONG
Jefferson1942 6 months ago
So wrong and stupid in so many ways. I love Frank, but come on...him singing this song, especially at his age in this, with the idiotic setting...it's simply got to be one of the low points of his wonderful resume.
TiminPhoenix 6 months ago
@TiminPhoenix if you knew anything of sinatra, he was a huge supporter of african americans and sang this to support them and equal rights.
viv3147 5 months ago
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@viv3147 I don't care if he let MLK date his daughter Nancy. This is such a horrible version of the song, sung by some young white guy from New Jersey, in his tux and with the backdrop, that's it's idiotic.
TiminPhoenix 5 months ago
The one issue i have with this is not racial, but that his voice isnt particularly low
57ccsantana 6 months ago
@57ccsantana Sinatra tackled this song in later decades. Look for the version he did on "The Concert Sinatra" album. 1963, I think. By then, his voice was deeper and not as "boy band.." By then, he'd gotten involved with the civil rights movement, and had sung the song at fundraisers with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the audience. 20 years later, the song meant more to him. He was 30 when he did "Till the Clouds Roll By." The prettiness of his voice was gradually replaced by power. It got better.
TheStockwell 3 months ago
I think it's funny how you guys bash on him for "doing" this song when this clip is actually the finale of a film made in 1946, entitled "'Til the Clouds Roll By." Several 40's artists are in the movie, Sinatra happens to sing this song. Someone obviously knew what they were doing when their inspiration for Sinatra singing this song came to be, and it's absolutely beautiful.
Leave it to the people who think they have the highest moral peak in 2011 to criticize...
Shaderem 6 months ago
Great voice
sporeman2678 6 months ago
The decor of the stage doesn't match the song at all. I don't care that he's white.
Edustin 6 months ago
@Edustin The stage is the frosting in this shit cake.
TiminPhoenix 6 months ago
BOOOOOOOOO
tasting 6 months ago
Just FYI, you don't have to state that you "don't own the rights" to this scene because this is from "Till the Clouds Role By" which is in the Public Domain. So you actually do have the the right to show this.
MacNair 6 months ago
This video is pretty awesome. Fucking 1946!!! Wow. Frank Sinatra's awesome. Who cares if he sang a "black" song, the whole race thing is a huge delusion anyway. Songs are for all people because we're all the same human race.
starvetodeath123 6 months ago
I love me some Frank Sinatra, but hearing this confirms that there is only one man who was ever worthy to sing this song, and that man is Paul Robeson
Cagedguitarist401 6 months ago
Okay, this gave me goosebumps. Frank Sinatra is absolutely wonderful.
Alyg8tr42 6 months ago
I think it's beautiful that a white man sung this black song.
KlingongBane 6 months ago
This is the first time I saw Frank Sinatra at such a young age....I wasn't even born yet when this video was taken!
iamalwaysawoman 6 months ago
@iamalwaysawoman They didn't have video then. It was film. But thanks for the smile.
ThomasCovenent 6 months ago
@ThomasCovenent Great film! Thanks for reminding about the video not being invented yet during that time. Ha ha ha!
iamalwaysawoman 6 months ago
A lot of the comments I'm seeing are well-intended but slightly ignorant in that being color-blind is in itself a mild form of racism because it refuses to acknowledge that there are cultural differences that extend deeper than the skin. This song was written and intended for a black person to sing, but having said that, Frank Sinatra does a remarkable job, and reaffirms that he's a consummate artist capable of making each song his own. Proof that he was the coolest white man who ever lived.
chimpiki 6 months ago
Being colorblind means that you don't allow a persons race effect your opinion of them. You can be colorblind and still acknowledge the cultural differences of the different races.
RaidenTheAlmighty 6 months ago
@RaidenTheAlmighty We have differing definitions of colour blind.
chimpiki 6 months ago
Good for him. Maybe he should have rewritten the song to put that bit in... Ya get's a little horny and ya lands in jail... Oh that's right, you don't have to have done something to sing a song about it.
djt20 6 months ago
wow....is there any doubt that this guy was the chairman....
....what talent...
....that voice is magic...
MESAVELLA 6 months ago
Frank Sinatra did a lot to advance the cause of African-Americans. He once sang this song with Martin Luther King Jr in the audience, and it brought him to tears. Frank raised a lot of money for MLK. Frank always used Count Basie as his pianist in his glory years. Frank, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, the Dorsey brothers, Glenn Miller, can never be topped in any era. I'm glad I was born in 1955 and had an introduction to these people.
2spinner2 6 months ago 14
Frank could realy sing but this song is best heard sung by paul robeson
sebbbe9308 6 months ago
i genuinely have goosebumps
Burtybearr 6 months ago
I have never seen anyone sing this song as Sinatra!!!
daverolo87 6 months ago
2:16 is one the longest notes I've heard, damn, what a talent!
PopCultureSucks 6 months ago
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That shit sux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xxxkessonxxx 7 months ago
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@xxxkessonxxx That shit sucks? First of all, a little respect for The Voice, and second thing, if you think its a shit, go fuck off a little bit and don't comment, ok? Thanks ;)
WayfarerGirl 6 months ago 27
@WayfarerGirl um xxxkessonxxx goes around saying almost every song of sinatra's suck just thought i would tell and btw u tell him
g4kid7 6 months ago
@WayfarerGirl Why he can't express his opinion, even if it's that agressive?
Torghest666 6 months ago
@xxxkessonxxx Can you sing? What was that? No? Oh! Well how do you know if this sucks? If it did that is, however I know your type. You only enjoy hearing about people who where born in the 'ghetto', when you probably never been there, talking about how they fuck bitches everyday while making there 'money rain on them' and talking about there 'high life smoking bud and drinking hard liquor'. Sorry that real music is from the soul and sorry you're too narrow minded to see that.
DJSallyKat 6 months ago
@xxxkessonxxx In retrospect, it would have been better to let either Louis Armstrong, Paul Robeson, or Ray Charles sing it. It's just hard to imagine an Italian city-boy from NYC singing about pickin' cotton, toatin' and liftin' barges and bales.
baddogonline 6 months ago
@baddogonline Paul Robeson was educated middle class with a law degree. Sinatra didn't even finish high school and his mother supported him through the depression by performing illegal abortions. If you are going to start insisting that people need to have had a sufficiently tough life to qualify them to sing certain songs, why would Paul Robeson qualify over Sinatra. What do you think the criteria should be in order to sing this song? Sinatra was arrested in his youth, but Robeson never was.
djt20 6 months ago
Maybe Robeson should just sing the bit about being black, and Sinatra should sing the bit about being arrested.
djt20 6 months ago
@djt20 Arrested! Now, that's funny. You know he got arrested as a juvenile for having sex with an older married woman... XD
baddogonline 6 months ago
@djt20 He was actually arrested for 'seduction!'
1915fas 3 months ago
@xxxkessonxxx
There is nothing wrong with not liking the song but at least say why you don't like it. You come across as an ignorant idiot with your spelling of 'sucks' and your overuse of the exclamation mark
katemahalhk 6 months ago
@xxxkessonxxx Your name alone shows that you have no class and bad taste. Another nasty ass who has sex with everybody for the attention of men. I'm sure you take it in the ass on a daily basis. Then accepted the fact that you're a ho and now represent it proudly. Just because you changed your perspective of how you look at who you are doesn't change that you're nasty and have little quality. Yeah people like you have less quality then people who respect themselves.
Johndough1957 5 months ago
Way to take all the groove out of this song.
saemj 7 months ago
@saemj Go learn what music is about, then come back. Until then keep your ignorant ass comments to yourself.
BigPappaDL 7 months ago
@BigPappaDL Learn to accept that different people have different taste. Till then keep your ignorant comments to yourself. ps : cursing only makes you look immature.
saemj 7 months ago
I would do almost anything to let sinatra bang me lawl.
LaJavanaise94 7 months ago
@rocknrollfanatic96
yeah! I love the book. is there really going to be a part two?!
bugsbunnybuddy 7 months ago
Beautiful!
SESSIPOCO 7 months ago
I DIDN'T KNOW THE SITUATION COULD SING!
AnalogPirate 7 months ago
@devon31415
maybe you should try reading a bio about him. I just did and it was done very well. you would find that he had to work hard for what he wanted in life. I was a bit surprised myself about how imperfect his life really was.
bugsbunnybuddy 7 months ago
@bugsbunnybuddy Did you read "Frank: The Voice"? Because that bio is the best I have read thus far. Can't wait for part two.
rocknrollfanatic96 7 months ago
I'm so tired of people who never had anything done to them blame people who never did anything to anyone. Does anyone understand how twisted this attitude is? If you can blame someone else you don't have to look at shortcomings that are in yourself. Just enjoy the song for it is beautiful.
dizwiz96 7 months ago
They used to lynch Italian Americans in the south, black people weren't the only people on earth who experienced racism or oppression. Up until the late 19th century Italy wasn't even a unified country and the immigrants that poured out of that country into America were, for the most part, dirt covered, impoverished peasants. What they were welcomed with was sweatshop labor, vermin infested, cramped tenements, and on top of that racism and seething hatred.
Sshelly34213 7 months ago 2
So young look like them kids on the jersey shore show on mtv lok
jsimone1320 7 months ago
@eric090909 AND Sinatra worked to end segregation in Las Vegas. The way he saw it, if Sammy Davis Jr. wasn't allowed to stay in the hotels the Rat Pack drew the crowds to, then no Rat Pack. Sinatra walked the walk. P.S.: On "The Concert Sinatra" album he REALLY nails this song. By then, his voice could really do the song justice. This 1946 version is just a hint of what he was eventually able to do to this - or any - song that meant something to him.
TheStockwell 7 months ago
Im a Sinatra fan however I think his voice isnt right for this song. Its to gentle or something I cant put my finger on it.
jgar6 7 months ago
Press 8
FredeGF 7 months ago
@FredeGF He doesn't have that southern sound but it's beautiful none the less. Just different. Frank was one of a kind never to be replaced. The southern sound is what is missing, it's to produced and Hollywood styled. That is my humble opinion.
dizwiz96 7 months ago
some may think he shouldn't have touched this song because he's white--the song was written by Jerome Kern- a white man. Some may think he shouldn't have touched the song and thought the scenery and dancers were out of place,--this clip was taken from a movie-a biopic about the composer (this is the last scene). Pretty sure Mr. Sinatra didn't have much control over the set.
Angel44381 7 months ago 2
Usually hear Sinatra singing like hes talking. It was interesting to see him do something a bit more operatic.
LBNANY 8 months ago
This guy shouldn't have even touched this song. Completly took the scenery out of place and the added dancers were totally unnecessary. Paul Robeson took the songs true meaning to heart where this guy used it to improve his ratings.
wingzero7X 8 months ago
@wingzero7X do you know who this is? haha
desmondmyers 7 months ago
2:15 Sinatra owned that note
tylerneier 8 months ago
paul robeson is best w/ tis song =)
daclly 8 months ago
i would sell my soul to live back in the 50s.
MOESEWICHt1 8 months ago 54
@MOESEWICHt1 i'm sure it was a lot of fun with the cold war and threat of nuclear weapons looming over everything ^^
but the music was good i won't deny that
Mopz0r 7 months ago
@Mopz0r yepp and with racism and intolerance :D but u know, each decade has some shit going on and i guess that todays bullshit is more disgusting. :P
MOESEWICHt1 7 months ago
@MOESEWICHt1 If you're watching this...don't you mean forties?
rocknrollfanatic96 7 months ago
@MOESEWICHt1
what does this have to do with the 50s
WonderBread006 7 months ago
@WonderBread006
oh my god, why are ppl complaining about each little thing in the world. what's wrong with you. listen to the song and don't bother me.
MOESEWICHt1 7 months ago
@MOESEWICHt1 all the freaking music is here, why would you want to live back then with all the problems.
LambChowder1 7 months ago
@MOESEWICHt1 This song was recorded in the 1940's.
Jefferson1942 7 months ago
@MOESEWICHt1 I lived in the 50s. b. 1950
alanjknig 6 months ago
@MOESEWICHt1 You do notice that those where the 40s ;) but I totally agree with you ;)
decca003 6 months ago
@MOESEWICHt1 except for the begginning of the cold war and fear of communism
spoon149 5 months ago
@ Devon31415 You are completely dumb. If u knew anythang about history u would know that immigrants were tested just as bad as blacks maby not whipped but most of that was gone by the time they moved but they were still hung blacks,Italians,irish. Every one who moved so until u learn more about ur history the u SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! O
And I'm only 15 so that's how I know i just went over that section in school have a good day u fucking dick
kiscroney 8 months ago
@kiscroney You certainly show your age. Stay in school.
datdamonfoo 8 months ago
Every time I hear this I instantly think of the original willy wonka movie.
He sounds exactly like Gene Wilder.
Owner2105 8 months ago
This has Busby Berkeley written all over it... :)
fivepoints 8 months ago
Love how this is a song about poor black patriotism and is completely performed by white people dressed in white rich a** finery. Hypocritical. "you and me, we sweat and strain" Sir, you have NOT sweat or strained in you entire life. STFU, my freind
devon31415 8 months ago
@devon31415 bullshit !? do you even know frank sintras life ? his upbringing he grew up in a rough area.....
dcdude171 8 months ago
@devon31415 he also tried to commit sucide numerous times
dcdude171 8 months ago
@devon31415 Do you, kind sir, know Sinatra held a concert in Carnegie hall, oh, the great Carnegie hall for ?
Martin Luther King Jr. Music is music. If the song's is sang with appropriate emotion, it should be sang. AND LOUD!
Strategoose 8 months ago
@devon31415 and yet the song was written by two white guys.
musicaltheatergeek79 8 months ago
It's ok, WayfarerGirl, there are no copyrights to be worried about with this one – it's from "'Til The Clouds Roll By," an old film in Public Domain.
fosterlaff 9 months ago
whites do it better :)
Liekkek 9 months ago
I really enjoy this version by Sinatra, but I really think it is simply performed better by a large booming voice. The best I've ever heard it was by Kevin Thompson with the American Spiritual Ensemble.
nr1341 9 months ago