"LEAP FROG" BY LES BROWN

Released in February of 1945, this song became a late war hit

Category:

Music

Tags:

• LEAP
• FROG
• BY
• LES
• BROWN
• AND
• HIS
• BAND
• OF
• RENOWN
• world
• war
• ww2
• jazz
• swing
• big
• band

[crf450ish]

I'm 24 and kinda wish I would have been 24 back in the late 30's or early 40's. Life just seemed so much easier and pure. Not the rat race it is today...I think this music is pretty cool. Not many 24 year olds would ever say that.

[Alicechange]

Love it the sax is just awesome.

[HardKnocks60]

Very upbeat-sounding, and a real toe-tapper, that's for sure!! I've heard that this was released at the time when the end of the war was in sight.

Being a 'baby boomer', this DOES remind me of a certain segment of the 1963 movie "The Nutty Professor."

[kantfinaname]

why do i think of jerry lewis when i hear this? i heard it at work and it gave me a flash bad to watching his movies with my mom when i was little

[vanessamcqueen11]

Cooking! I love this, a brilliant era for music.

[TheVetusMores]

That's more gratifying for some of us than you can imagine, crl450ish. Just when we begin to lose hope, comes along the likes of you. This is a tad before my time as well, even though I grew up on it. And you're right about another thing: Many of of us pine for some earlier era, knowing quite often that it was rather different than the one in which we find ourselves. See also "Midnight in Paris" -- now at a Redbox near you -- for further details. :) The music was great though, wasn't it?

[Customgamer9]

I don't give a rats ass how life would of been, i'd go back just for swing

[MegaZombieglitcher]

If you were 24 back then many things would be segregated so life wouldn't be amazing but still good.

[flyinmonkeyhunter]

@crf450ish You got it right, sir!

[Brunosgirl]

Love this! Thanks for posting!! My ultimate favorite memory of this song is, of course, Jerry Lewis' Nutty Professor "toe-tapping" away in his white tuxedo jacket and having the time of his life to this swinging tune! Mr. Lewis always appreciated the big band sound; he usually presented one or many artists of this genre in his comedies. Zip and I'm gone!