This will be still wonderful a hundred years from now, if we're still hear to enjoy it.
Most of the crap today is totally forgettable by talent-less ass shakers with nothing but hype and the dumbed down behind them. No substance, nothing lasting.
Cole Porter and Artie Shaw. Couldn't get any better.
When my older brother was away serving in WWII, we just about wore out this recording - a 78 rpm, played on a wind-up Victrola. Oh, the memories! Thanks, Larry, wherever you are!
Women in beautiful outfits, men in evening wear, champagne and dancing. I sometimes feel cheated that I did have a chance to enjoy the supper club scene. I love the romance in this kind of music....
@windstorm1000 That might make three of us I'd almost be will ing to kill to find a club that played this music! Sadly the days of the Metropole and Birdland are long gone!
Met Artie Shaw when I was in radio in the 70's....he was a remarkable man, who, did not care for "That Song" after awhile. It made him and RCA Bluebird Records a lot of cash over the years! Artie, sleep well my friend.
Oddly enough, this was the "B" side of the record; the "A" side which the executives would hoping would be the "real" hit was "Indian Cradle Love Song."
The song is 108 bars, rather than the 32 bars of a more standard song; record executives thought that such a long song couldn't be learned well enough by the average record buyer to be popular.
@waitzsauce Yes, but there is only two or three in the area of which I live in that are good. The rest is not my taste. Most of the local stations play country, rap, hip hop.
Do you think some day 100 years from now our kids,great- grandkids will be hearing this music a million miles from earth? Sure why not in honor of us and our grandparents.
Fuck,i didnt know his a white guy!!!!!I first got to know him from lady day's memoir,lady sings the blues.In that book she wrote bout how great he was always covering billie holiday when she got bullied being called nigger and stuff.May god bless him.R.I.P!!!!
Thank you for posting this incredible music. i have been listening to this version of the Beguine from a Cole Porter cd but it didn't list all the artists- as soon as I heard the Artie Shaw arrangement I was in heaven! Such a beautiful song and such a luscious arrangement. Who can resist that clarinet? glad to see that I'm not the only one playing this instrumental version over and over.
Is there anything more beautiful than this piece of music? Love love love it I could listen to it all day and never tire of it Man oh man what a great melody and the clarinet is SO SO great Thank you Cole Porter
I love Artie Shaw! I think he was one of the greatest artists of the big band era. I haven't been a fan of this type of music (swing and jazz) for very long, but I adore it. I just wish my grandpa could've seen me listening to all these songs <3
Cant find the post,but someone who said he was a clarinet teacher said Arties technique was not all that great,slipping and sliding his notes, but I would love to see his bank balance compared with Arties.
@joeasmythe It’s not in the top comments anymore only because it is an older comment. YouTube puts comments with a lot of thumbs up in the “top comments” section at the top, but after a while, if there are new comments that receive a decent number of thumbs up, the older comments are removed and replaced by the new comments (even if the new comments don’t have as many thumbs up).
my grandpa introduced me to artie shaw's music after i told him i liked glenn miller and benny goodman. this became my favorite song soon after, and i didn't know until my dad told me after i was listening to it after my grandpa's funeral this past january, but this was also his favorite song too.
Believe this or not During World War2 i was evacuated to Wales one night mum took us to the cinema and although i must have only been 8or9 i remember this being played in the interval not sure about artist but what a song i,ve loved it all my life i,m 77 now Cole Porter what a composer !!
Thank God for people like you on YT keep these classics alive....Love your channel
cream of the crop here....Don't know why YT wont let me save this to my fav.Keeps saying reached my limit didn't think there was a limit on what you save...Anyhoo
REMEMBER FRIENDS, THIS IS WHERE TODAY,S MUSIC CAME FROM..AFTER THIS CAME ROCK AND ROLL..WHAT,S NEXT?, WHO KNOWS..HOPE NOT THE GHETTO GARBAGE THEY,RE TRYING TO FORCE FEED US NOW..LET US PRAY...
People today do not know what good music is today they have been like me when I was youger(I am 50 years old now) have beed indoctrinated by the all the garbage Rock music.This is my Father's music and so is the Easy Listening.When I was a kid I loved Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd,The Who, Zappa and others and hated this music and now I love this music as the Easy Listening.I find this music better than Rock Music.
Where IS my time machine? I have to escape this no talent period of time and dash back to the 30's and 40's and STAY THERE!! This is music NOT the noise and crap they try and pass off today as entertainment.
@2144badd I wish more people now acknowledged his genius. Whenever you look at a list of the greatest songwriters of all time he isn't even in there. Really sad.
Artie Shaw was a narsisistic ego maniac who trashed the folk who made him a milionaire. I'll bet that probably no one here ever heard the Henry Busse version.
@phredl Artie was a perfectionist and was not hard to work for according to his band members. Bennie Goodman was hard to work with but not Artie. Artie was the ultimate perfectionist like Ted Williams & Bobby Knight and had a personality that hated anything but perfection. George Burns who hired Artie for his radio program had a different perspective. He started modern orchestration and this song is the cornerstone to modern Big Band music. It was the main piece for the first million $ musical.
@sirigi22 He was not nice to 8 wives and admitted it. He was much easier though to work for. He claimed he was cursed because of his perfection. Indeed he was. Only when he got old did he figure out what he did and why. However; because of his perfection modern orchestration occurred. He persisted( Louis Meyer) in doing Begin The Beguine which was a disaster in the musical Jubilee. When Artie played it Big Band music entered the modern day era. Others versions would never have been possible.
@phredl Read my piece from 5 months earlier you will know that Artie persisted in pursueing this song. He met with stern resistance. It is almost as complex as Putting On The Ritz and Cole Porter could not remember it all. ONLY Artie could have pulled it off. It was a failure until he got it. I wrote comedy for George Burns who knew Artie quite well from his radio days since Artie was the band leader during the war. George had good things to say about Artie and worked around his perfectionism.
why do all of my fellow old music lovers feel the need to trash "new music" when they post comments of approval about oldies and American Standards and "Timeless Classicas such as this??
WTHeck?
Would Satch or helen Forrest care about who just won AI or any other TV talent contest?? So why should we bother to comment about any bad mucic made nowdays in reference to Benny G or the other great Big Bands. "let the unacceptable candidates s worry about themself"
@DianaElizabeth515, that is a pretty story, I wish the same romance for you! My Dad and Mom shared a similar joi de vive (sp) although she died yong in 74 and Dad was around until 1998!!
This was my mother and father's favorite. I used to love to see them dance to this. they are both gone now and on July 27, they would have celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary. Happy anniversary mom and dad. God bless you both. I love you and I miss you both.
Not only was the incomparable Artie Shaw the greatest clarinetist of all time, no other musician coud possibly play any instrument any better than Artie played the clarinet..
Though the song was a flop in the musical Jubilee, Artie Shaw took it over and claimed as his own. It was the START of modern orchestration and music would never be the same again! So popular was this song it was featured by the queen of tap, the greatest dancer of all Eleanor Powell and the king of tap Fred Astaire in the infamous movie Broadway Melody of 1940. It was the 1st ever million $ production. Artie earned an amazing $60,000 a week at his pinnacle. Simply put he was the very best.
Genial .... me hace recordad a mi papa q.e.p.d era su preferida por un programa que salia en la radio en Mexico ( charla amena ) con el historiador Jacobo Moret
Going to see EMIL STUCCHIO & The Classics in Normandy Park, Middletown, NJ on Thursday night 24 June 2010......you wanna hear a singer do this chestnut supreme justice? Come on an' check him out! ES does Artie Shaw AND Cole Porter abso-tively SWELL! <> Statte Vicino A'Mme...
At the start I'm drumming my fingers, 10 seconds in I'm tapping my feet, 1.00 in..................I'm swaying to the MUSIC !!........1.55.....WOW.bloody eck............2.23 in.....I'm solid gone, by the end of the tune I'm somebody else. Now thats what i call music!!!!
Ohhh yes! I went to a concert last night to see Tad Calcara and Herb Jeffries, and this song was played and I fell in love. This is my favorite type of music ever, and oh ya, I'm 14. I'd pick this music over anything else any day.
The Beguine, what is or was it? It's a dance similar to a slow rumba that was very modestly popular in the 1930's. It came from the islands of Guadelpupe and Martinique, the Martinique beguine is a slow, close dance with a roll of the hips. It was featured in the 2008 movie "Australia."
I wrote an arrangement in high school for this song of a clarinet quintuplet. I was so proud of it...I wish I could find my sheet music for that...I lost it!
@garyrob58 Wow !! You must be really proud of your Dad. Great record. Love All big band/swing music, remember it from my teens here in the UK !!! A couple of my grandchildren are also fans.
I'm proud to say I own a 78 copy of the original Bluebird pressing. I have it in a 50s Wurlitzer jukebox and with that high powered amp and cobra cartridge, I swear it sound just like what I just listened to. Strange that it was the "B" side of the record; Indian Love Call is the "A" side.
This song was the pinnacle scene for the musical Broadway Melody Of 1940. The great Fred Astaire and the even more talented Eleanor Powel l( Fred's words- he was in awe of her) used this for the grand finale. It was the first $1,000,000 musical ever while the Begin the Beguine number is generally considered the greatest dance scene skill wise ( most expensive ever also) ever. Probably Fred and Ellie were the only ones who could have pulled it off because of its complexity and unusual tempo.
It can never be overstated the contribution of this song to big band music. The music was so complex that Cole Porter could not remember it from start to finish without looking at the music sheet. It was ONLY because of a persistent Artie Shaw it was ever rerecorded . Bluebird records had it and it went nowhere. Artie changed studios and once again it met with stern resistance. No record of this complexity ever succeeded. The rest though is history. It was the cornerstone of big band music.
It's great seeing my Dad (Les Robinson_ play lead alto in the clip....way back in '40. Great music will always live on. Thanks Artie for the music. Gary
Ive been musically 'held hostage' by this tune by Mr Shaw ever since I was 13. This is an example of why some music will never fade away - like Old Soldiers.
When "Begin the Beguine" debuted in Cole Porters musical comedy Jubilee in 1935, it was the longest popular song ever written at 108 bars. The conventional length for a song is 32 bars. Moss Hart wrote the book for Jubilee, and on hearing the extraordinarily long song for the first time, said "I thought it had ended when he was halfway through." The beguine of the title refers to a dance that was developed on the islands of Martinique, Cuba, and Guadeloupe in the 1930s.
This was the biggest hit of 1938 - 6 weeks at #1. Why is "Begin the Beguine" one of the best records of the Swing Era? Because it is simply one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded. Its the perfectly sculpted fox trot tempo that coaxed people on the dance floor. Its also the crisp call and response between the reeds and horns and Shaws sublime solo. In short, this song sums up all that was great about the Swing Era, and it wasnt even supposed to be a big hit, it was a 'B' side.
I heard this record recently and immediately fell in love-with the song ,the band, the arrangement, and Artie. Can't stop playing this record and a whole bunch of other Artie Shaw records I bought on ebay.
I have listened to this for over 60 years - and my spine still chills when I hear it. Wish other Artie Shaw music would be released - especially on DVDs - but I would accept the CDs
The amazing things is that the lyrics to this song are as great as the music. Both by the great Cole Porter. After listening to Artie Shaw's instrumental I recommend you listen to Jo Stafford's vocal.
100 years from now this music will still be around, you bet it will, and maybe in some spacecraft millions of miles from Earth, played by our great, great, grand children!
My grandmother and grandfather dancing this song in thirthies Spain partys!!!! The best!!!
bull10651 2 days ago
Ah what pleasure these great artists gave.I now wallow in superb nostalgia of the era of big band sounds.They were outstanding players.
rondalagos 1 week ago
Classic for all time.
This will be still wonderful a hundred years from now, if we're still hear to enjoy it.
Most of the crap today is totally forgettable by talent-less ass shakers with nothing but hype and the dumbed down behind them. No substance, nothing lasting.
Cole Porter and Artie Shaw. Couldn't get any better.
Thanks
-Bill
baghend 1 week ago in playlist 30's 2
ahhh swing it! his best song, i think.
CaptJackSpeed 1 week ago
When my older brother was away serving in WWII, we just about wore out this recording - a 78 rpm, played on a wind-up Victrola. Oh, the memories! Thanks, Larry, wherever you are!
petepits47 1 week ago
Love❤
anialek36 1 week ago
I get to play the tenor solo <3
xbanginbananax 2 weeks ago
To Carl and Hazel ,two Great people ,this was their song ,Greatly missed
erniesmallwood1 3 weeks ago
3:05 , that is so beutifle part :)
m2tt7 3 weeks ago
LA MEJOR VERSIÓN.
VIC100891 1 month ago
the most beaufful song by Cole Porter.
pieronicolosi 1 month ago
that picture is actualy really creepy...
impaintingrainbows 1 month ago
Dad this is yours you taught to my brothers, sisters & me to love this music.
thanks and happy birthday wherever you are
Esoiral 1 month ago
thankyou God for YouTube! Needed a quick pick-me-up, now Im up and ready to go!!
annielouism 1 month ago
My all-time FAVORITE song :) :) :) ! ! !
jansoars1981 1 month ago
wonderful absolutely magical
jacquesbrelfan 1 month ago
never begin a beguine your not prepared to finnish!
ratmaninof 1 month ago 2
a classic
windstorm1000 2 months ago
middlesex!!
waitzsauce 2 months ago
Such a wonderful, all-time classic. Thanks for sharing this great tune!
diamondclaire007 2 months ago
This beauty was recorded back in the halcyon days of America. Just look at us now, Hopefully, change is coming next year.
joeasmythe 2 months ago
Thanks for uploading the first version Shaw recorded, still stands as the best!
fishstory 2 months ago
At one time -- and it still might be -- this was the most-often played song in the history of the juke box in taverns and restaurants.
hourlynewscaster 2 months ago
Cole Porter, the greatest of all songwriters.
Beeman2144 2 months ago
Women in beautiful outfits, men in evening wear, champagne and dancing. I sometimes feel cheated that I did have a chance to enjoy the supper club scene. I love the romance in this kind of music....
MrFallguy21 2 months ago 5
@MrFallguy21 u and me both --where r nightclubs like these???
windstorm1000 2 months ago
@windstorm1000 That might make three of us I'd almost be will ing to kill to find a club that played this music! Sadly the days of the Metropole and Birdland are long gone!
BrickPa 1 month ago in playlist Ella F.
Id so love to dance to this, Would be so romantic. Wonderful melody.
missjacko1 3 months ago
Can you imagine the world without music? I can't.
joevet66 3 months ago
The music of the late sixties was great, but this record by Artie Shaw is my all time favorite.
mhamilton1225 3 months ago 4
Met Artie Shaw when I was in radio in the 70's....he was a remarkable man, who, did not care for "That Song" after awhile. It made him and RCA Bluebird Records a lot of cash over the years! Artie, sleep well my friend.
secondborn 3 months ago 2
smooth...an American Classic. Such a joy to hear a real musician!
annielouism 3 months ago
The greatest single big band record of the twentieth century
yachtguy358 3 months ago
Oddly enough, this was the "B" side of the record; the "A" side which the executives would hoping would be the "real" hit was "Indian Cradle Love Song."
The song is 108 bars, rather than the 32 bars of a more standard song; record executives thought that such a long song couldn't be learned well enough by the average record buyer to be popular.
SatchmoSings 3 months ago
Avitar Meher Baba's favorite song.
c2bandb 3 months ago
Better then the crap that is pumped through the radio these days.
recordnerd21 4 months ago 26
@recordnerd21 you know you can choose whatever radio station you want to listen to these days...
waitzsauce 2 months ago
@waitzsauce Yes, but there is only two or three in the area of which I live in that are good. The rest is not my taste. Most of the local stations play country, rap, hip hop.
recordnerd21 2 months ago
@recordnerd21 Agreed, m8....
BadNews88 2 months ago
That is just great, timeless, just timeless,,, thank you for sharing this with us...
BigWheelHawaii 4 months ago 2
remember time life THE SWING ERA? remake?
MichaelHansenFUN 4 months ago
A blessing comparing to the music nowadays
Masewii 4 months ago 2
@Masewii u r right
i am a 38 year old rock fan who loves this stuff...
MichaelHansenFUN 4 months ago
I was shocked to know that he's white!What he did to billie holiday was really remarkable!Hope to meet u in heaven sir soon sir....
gshockaddict 4 months ago
Do you think some day 100 years from now our kids,great- grandkids will be hearing this music a million miles from earth? Sure why not in honor of us and our grandparents.
joevet66 4 months ago
why would somebody dislike this ?!!? This is one of the best renditions!
plantgurl1 4 months ago
wow how can anyone dislike this song its the effing best
ThePacheco1004 4 months ago
this music sets the soul on fire give me the big bands of 40 and 50' any day.
woody6039 4 months ago
Thank you!
StCroiux 5 months ago
just sublime....
monchandclaxbach 5 months ago
Olha que beleza!
verleunLH 5 months ago in playlist classicmodern
SOUNDS GREAT
Tomsouthrock 5 months ago
Fuck,i didnt know his a white guy!!!!!I first got to know him from lady day's memoir,lady sings the blues.In that book she wrote bout how great he was always covering billie holiday when she got bullied being called nigger and stuff.May god bless him.R.I.P!!!!
gshockaddict 5 months ago
Thank you for posting this incredible music. i have been listening to this version of the Beguine from a Cole Porter cd but it didn't list all the artists- as soon as I heard the Artie Shaw arrangement I was in heaven! Such a beautiful song and such a luscious arrangement. Who can resist that clarinet? glad to see that I'm not the only one playing this instrumental version over and over.
mamasgame 5 months ago 2
2:23 is the best musical phrase of all time. Hands down.
ClearVision727 5 months ago
@ClearVision727 i completely agree
pienahpull 5 months ago
@ClearVision727
You should listen to some Oscar Peterson and some Bill Evans...and maybe some Cannonball Adderley.
sclogse1 5 months ago
Clarinet at its best - Arty Shaw was the forerunner to Jazz Clarinet worldwide
TeKarauria 5 months ago
Is there anything more beautiful than this piece of music? Love love love it I could listen to it all day and never tire of it Man oh man what a great melody and the clarinet is SO SO great Thank you Cole Porter
BlastHomeWhy 6 months ago 2
I love Artie Shaw! I think he was one of the greatest artists of the big band era. I haven't been a fan of this type of music (swing and jazz) for very long, but I adore it. I just wish my grandpa could've seen me listening to all these songs <3
dani9714 6 months ago 2
- Could listen to this music all day-
purclassic1 6 months ago 2
Cant find the post,but someone who said he was a clarinet teacher said Arties technique was not all that great,slipping and sliding his notes, but I would love to see his bank balance compared with Arties.
adoreslaurel 7 months ago
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joeasmythe 7 months ago
@joeasmythe What's up.y commenr got 46 thumbs up, why isn;t it in the top comments ????
joeasmythe 7 months ago
@joeasmythe It’s not in the top comments anymore only because it is an older comment. YouTube puts comments with a lot of thumbs up in the “top comments” section at the top, but after a while, if there are new comments that receive a decent number of thumbs up, the older comments are removed and replaced by the new comments (even if the new comments don’t have as many thumbs up).
MusicFanOnline 7 months ago
@MusicFanOnline .. Thabks for the info, didn't know that.
joeasmythe 7 months ago
Southpark Season 10 Episode 02
styzoom 7 months ago
my grandpa introduced me to artie shaw's music after i told him i liked glenn miller and benny goodman. this became my favorite song soon after, and i didn't know until my dad told me after i was listening to it after my grandpa's funeral this past january, but this was also his favorite song too.
soldier716 8 months ago 2
Believe this or not During World War2 i was evacuated to Wales one night mum took us to the cinema and although i must have only been 8or9 i remember this being played in the interval not sure about artist but what a song i,ve loved it all my life i,m 77 now Cole Porter what a composer !!
homeypalone 8 months ago 2
@homeypalone That's very cool. Do you remember which movie it was? Was it Broadway Melody of 1940 with Fred Astaire?
GamingJesters 7 months ago
Thank God for people like you on YT keep these classics alive....Love your channel
cream of the crop here....Don't know why YT wont let me save this to my fav.Keeps saying reached my limit didn't think there was a limit on what you save...Anyhoo
loving my listen ..Cheers...Maggs
kywoman1950 8 months ago
My parents first fell in love dancing to that song...
PhilippeRR1 8 months ago 2
REMEMBER FRIENDS, THIS IS WHERE TODAY,S MUSIC CAME FROM..AFTER THIS CAME ROCK AND ROLL..WHAT,S NEXT?, WHO KNOWS..HOPE NOT THE GHETTO GARBAGE THEY,RE TRYING TO FORCE FEED US NOW..LET US PRAY...
djbillygee 10 months ago 2
Somebody actually disliked this. Sad.
txndwa 10 months ago 36
@txndwa : don't worry...Artie would've understood...what an intellect...............
kevinherbert 9 months ago
@txndwa ,
People today do not know what good music is today they have been like me when I was youger(I am 50 years old now) have beed indoctrinated by the all the garbage Rock music.This is my Father's music and so is the Easy Listening.When I was a kid I loved Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd,The Who, Zappa and others and hated this music and now I love this music as the Easy Listening.I find this music better than Rock Music.
1223jamez 3 months ago
I was born in 1964, grew up with this music. This was MUSIC to my ears. Thank you.
awhileonthenile 1 year ago
Where IS my time machine? I have to escape this no talent period of time and dash back to the 30's and 40's and STAY THERE!! This is music NOT the noise and crap they try and pass off today as entertainment.
SonofGospa 1 year ago
Written by the genius...Cole Porter.
2144badd 1 year ago
@2144badd I wish more people now acknowledged his genius. Whenever you look at a list of the greatest songwriters of all time he isn't even in there. Really sad.
GamingJesters 7 months ago
Artie Shaw was a narsisistic ego maniac who trashed the folk who made him a milionaire. I'll bet that probably no one here ever heard the Henry Busse version.
phredl 1 year ago
@phredl Artie was a perfectionist and was not hard to work for according to his band members. Bennie Goodman was hard to work with but not Artie. Artie was the ultimate perfectionist like Ted Williams & Bobby Knight and had a personality that hated anything but perfection. George Burns who hired Artie for his radio program had a different perspective. He started modern orchestration and this song is the cornerstone to modern Big Band music. It was the main piece for the first million $ musical.
hajune 1 year ago
@hajune he wasn`t very nice to Ava Gardner,when she was his wife,though.
sirigi22 1 year ago
@sirigi22 He was not nice to 8 wives and admitted it. He was much easier though to work for. He claimed he was cursed because of his perfection. Indeed he was. Only when he got old did he figure out what he did and why. However; because of his perfection modern orchestration occurred. He persisted( Louis Meyer) in doing Begin The Beguine which was a disaster in the musical Jubilee. When Artie played it Big Band music entered the modern day era. Others versions would never have been possible.
hajune 1 year ago
@phredl Read my piece from 5 months earlier you will know that Artie persisted in pursueing this song. He met with stern resistance. It is almost as complex as Putting On The Ritz and Cole Porter could not remember it all. ONLY Artie could have pulled it off. It was a failure until he got it. I wrote comedy for George Burns who knew Artie quite well from his radio days since Artie was the band leader during the war. George had good things to say about Artie and worked around his perfectionism.
hajune 1 year ago
@phredl now, now
windstorm1000 2 months ago
Great Music!!!
confederateowl 1 year ago
In my opinion, Artie had the best version of this song.
RavenclawEspioXV 1 year ago
why do all of my fellow old music lovers feel the need to trash "new music" when they post comments of approval about oldies and American Standards and "Timeless Classicas such as this??
WTHeck?
Would Satch or helen Forrest care about who just won AI or any other TV talent contest?? So why should we bother to comment about any bad mucic made nowdays in reference to Benny G or the other great Big Bands. "let the unacceptable candidates s worry about themself"
oldbearswitch 1 year ago 2
@DianaElizabeth515, that is a pretty story, I wish the same romance for you! My Dad and Mom shared a similar joi de vive (sp) although she died yong in 74 and Dad was around until 1998!!
oldbearswitch 1 year ago
This was my mother and father's favorite. I used to love to see them dance to this. they are both gone now and on July 27, they would have celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary. Happy anniversary mom and dad. God bless you both. I love you and I miss you both.
DianaElizabeth515 1 year ago 2
Wonderful.
nytwings 1 year ago
Not only was the incomparable Artie Shaw the greatest clarinetist of all time, no other musician coud possibly play any instrument any better than Artie played the clarinet..
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boywunder343 1 year ago
Though the song was a flop in the musical Jubilee, Artie Shaw took it over and claimed as his own. It was the START of modern orchestration and music would never be the same again! So popular was this song it was featured by the queen of tap, the greatest dancer of all Eleanor Powell and the king of tap Fred Astaire in the infamous movie Broadway Melody of 1940. It was the 1st ever million $ production. Artie earned an amazing $60,000 a week at his pinnacle. Simply put he was the very best.
hajune 1 year ago
may you live forever Artie
krob57 1 year ago
Genial .... me hace recordad a mi papa q.e.p.d era su preferida por un programa que salia en la radio en Mexico ( charla amena ) con el historiador Jacobo Moret
Saludos
raguilar08mx 1 year ago
Does it get any better than this??
pattigeeful 1 year ago
@pattigeeful I`m 17, and I don`t think so!
sirigi22 1 year ago
why couldn't we play something like this when I was in band?!
GeneralRazor 1 year ago
priceless...
knafaint 1 year ago
I love this music...timeless ! just listening to it makes anyone feeling "romantic."..if there is still such a word these days...
7000miriam 1 year ago
en que año se gravo esto???? please..ED
jorgue71 1 year ago
@jorgue71
1938
Gracie0935 1 year ago
@Gracie0935 thanks,Ed.....Artie..a master
jorgue71 1 year ago
@jorgue71
That he was.
Gracie0935 1 year ago
dit was pure muziek zonder electronica en zo mooi!!!!!
eden081039 1 year ago
what a wonderful arrangement !superb.
RATCRAB 1 year ago
wonderful,,,,
drspatt 1 year ago
You can't help but tap your feet, beautiful, what a creative mind Shaw had.
toshyist 1 year ago
The obvious choice for a instrumental version.Chic Henderson with Joe Loss Orc. For the vocal.Both versions out on their own.
billboy508 1 year ago
excellent!
abogadoesful 1 year ago
love it :-))))
dohertykaki 1 year ago
Going to see EMIL STUCCHIO & The Classics in Normandy Park, Middletown, NJ on Thursday night 24 June 2010......you wanna hear a singer do this chestnut supreme justice? Come on an' check him out! ES does Artie Shaw AND Cole Porter abso-tively SWELL! <> Statte Vicino A'Mme...
BigIronOnHipMan2 1 year ago
I may start playing begin the beguine... it's hairy, scary, creep-pay, crawly, HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!
g4thz 1 year ago
At the start I'm drumming my fingers, 10 seconds in I'm tapping my feet, 1.00 in..................I'm swaying to the MUSIC !!........1.55.....WOW.bloody eck............2.23 in.....I'm solid gone, by the end of the tune I'm somebody else. Now thats what i call music!!!!
happychappy12 1 year ago 2
@happychappy12 nice
beagleman123456789 1 year ago
Ohhh yes! I went to a concert last night to see Tad Calcara and Herb Jeffries, and this song was played and I fell in love. This is my favorite type of music ever, and oh ya, I'm 14. I'd pick this music over anything else any day.
RoscoCinemas 1 year ago 4
Classic Americana.
I play it over and over, and never get tired of it.........
pensacola321 1 year ago 2
word
ocaj32 1 year ago
thanks zhsimko, sounds like you know your stuff, too!
patjack1956 1 year ago
@conyelp - np, I love a well informed info-packed comment! Cheers!
MurnoGladst 1 year ago
The greatest recording ever made by the incomparable Artie Shaw.
patjack1956 1 year ago 19
@patjack1956 couldnt agree more, you really know your stuff!
zhsimko88 1 year ago
best dance music ever Al Calo
alcalo6813 1 year ago
The best music to dance with not what they are playing these days...Love It..Al Calo
alcalo6813 1 year ago 2
The Beguine, what is or was it? It's a dance similar to a slow rumba that was very modestly popular in the 1930's. It came from the islands of Guadelpupe and Martinique, the Martinique beguine is a slow, close dance with a roll of the hips. It was featured in the 2008 movie "Australia."
conyelp 1 year ago
@conyelp You're awesome
MurnoGladst 1 year ago
@MurnoGladst WOW!! Thanks.
conyelp 1 year ago
Had this song in my head for twenty years (still sane). Believe it or don't it was those friggin chickens that got me hooked on swing.
alpha18412 1 year ago
I wrote an arrangement in high school for this song of a clarinet quintuplet. I was so proud of it...I wish I could find my sheet music for that...I lost it!
meebee2beebee 1 year ago
im playing this at my school!!!! such a fun chart. man if artie shaw were still around i would still buy his records
LORD he was amazing
johnythanj 1 year ago
Perchè la musica non esiste più?
TheBubimesch 1 year ago
great clarinet.
comedykid129 1 year ago
If you don't want to get up and dance around the room right now, have someone check your pulse.
Gracie0935 1 year ago 25
This song is so grand and classy. Such nice music. I can really dig this!
psychedelicinvasion 1 year ago 4
This song is so grand and classy. Such nice music. I can really dig this!
psychedelicinvasion 1 year ago
FANTASTIC ! love it :)
rob262 1 year ago
One of the greatest endings of a song of all time!
courthouse96 1 year ago 2
Great music played by terrific musicians.
This will live forever.
cakeyspig 1 year ago 3
@cakeyspig - Thanks ! My dad played lead Alto on this recording and all of Artie's recordings in the late 30's.
Regards, Gary R
garyrob58 1 year ago
@garyrob58 Wow !! You must be really proud of your Dad. Great record. Love All big band/swing music, remember it from my teens here in the UK !!! A couple of my grandchildren are also fans.
pamelasmith223 1 year ago
My mother and I and Eleanor - my Landlady and comptroller, always loved artie and this classic.
You have some COOOOOL videos-just for easy listenin'
Stan Getz too
fondly
MHP
nice to know you are here!
mhowardONE 1 year ago
American music at its finest this tune was the big one for 1938. AS the best by far. 5 stars
fordroad 1 year ago 5
This is way better than the music my friends at high school listen to!
panzersRULE 1 year ago 4
I'm proud to say I own a 78 copy of the original Bluebird pressing. I have it in a 50s Wurlitzer jukebox and with that high powered amp and cobra cartridge, I swear it sound just like what I just listened to. Strange that it was the "B" side of the record; Indian Love Call is the "A" side.
JbrickM100A 1 year ago
Nice to hear such a fresh, clean copy of this song that is, as others have said, a landmark in music of the last century.
hourlynewscaster 1 year ago 5
This song was the pinnacle scene for the musical Broadway Melody Of 1940. The great Fred Astaire and the even more talented Eleanor Powel l( Fred's words- he was in awe of her) used this for the grand finale. It was the first $1,000,000 musical ever while the Begin the Beguine number is generally considered the greatest dance scene skill wise ( most expensive ever also) ever. Probably Fred and Ellie were the only ones who could have pulled it off because of its complexity and unusual tempo.
hajune 2 years ago
It can never be overstated the contribution of this song to big band music. The music was so complex that Cole Porter could not remember it from start to finish without looking at the music sheet. It was ONLY because of a persistent Artie Shaw it was ever rerecorded . Bluebird records had it and it went nowhere. Artie changed studios and once again it met with stern resistance. No record of this complexity ever succeeded. The rest though is history. It was the cornerstone of big band music.
hajune 2 years ago
I remember they played this on an episode of South Park when they covered Prius cars.
johnyzero2000 2 years ago
It's great seeing my Dad (Les Robinson_ play lead alto in the clip....way back in '40. Great music will always live on. Thanks Artie for the music. Gary
garyrob58 2 years ago
for me it has like amphetamines effect. i love it...
llanto75 2 years ago 2
No matter how many times I listen I still believe this to be one of the great tracks of the 20th Century
jh8856 2 years ago 5
Amazing,uplifting,makes you so happy.I remember how my parents loved this.Keep playing it to my 25 +20 year olds.I agree-pass it on.
matera55 2 years ago
Best record EVER! Artie was amazing. He had everything-- looks ,talent, and intelligence.
njchrissiface 2 years ago
As you go through life you will see that some things are kept alive to keep on giving. This music is sure one of them.
joevet66 2 years ago
Ive been musically 'held hostage' by this tune by Mr Shaw ever since I was 13. This is an example of why some music will never fade away - like Old Soldiers.
anton36 2 years ago
When "Begin the Beguine" debuted in Cole Porters musical comedy Jubilee in 1935, it was the longest popular song ever written at 108 bars. The conventional length for a song is 32 bars. Moss Hart wrote the book for Jubilee, and on hearing the extraordinarily long song for the first time, said "I thought it had ended when he was halfway through." The beguine of the title refers to a dance that was developed on the islands of Martinique, Cuba, and Guadeloupe in the 1930s.
chkjns 2 years ago 2
This was the biggest hit of 1938 - 6 weeks at #1. Why is "Begin the Beguine" one of the best records of the Swing Era? Because it is simply one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded. Its the perfectly sculpted fox trot tempo that coaxed people on the dance floor. Its also the crisp call and response between the reeds and horns and Shaws sublime solo. In short, this song sums up all that was great about the Swing Era, and it wasnt even supposed to be a big hit, it was a 'B' side.
chkjns 2 years ago 4
One of the coolest pieces of music ever played....
priapus56 2 years ago
After listening to this recording, I think everyone should check out Time Life's recreation of this on my channel.
THIS IS NOT SPAM
deathray393 2 years ago
I heard this record recently and immediately fell in love-with the song ,the band, the arrangement, and Artie. Can't stop playing this record and a whole bunch of other Artie Shaw records I bought on ebay.
njchrissiface 2 years ago
I have listened to this for over 60 years - and my spine still chills when I hear it. Wish other Artie Shaw music would be released - especially on DVDs - but I would accept the CDs
hommefriday 2 years ago
The amazing things is that the lyrics to this song are as great as the music. Both by the great Cole Porter. After listening to Artie Shaw's instrumental I recommend you listen to Jo Stafford's vocal.
trajan75 2 years ago 3
100 years from now this music will still be around, you bet it will, and maybe in some spacecraft millions of miles from Earth, played by our great, great, grand children!
joevet66 2 years ago 37