The Hi-lo's - Goody, Goody

The Hi-lo's live with the Benny Goodman orchestra

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[dorfnack]

You people that are putting the Hi-Lo's down should try and open your mind about these incredible performers.

Pay attention to the blend and perfection of every single note these guys sang, there was no Autotune or Protools to fix them back then, it's all real singing and real talent!!

[caraphyllis]

Since it seems to matter to some people, let's set the record straight. This song is a true "oldie." It was written by two white guys, Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Matty Malneck (music) in 1936. There's a great recording of it from the late 30's or early 40's by Ella Fitzgerald that I used to listen to as a kid. Everybody and their mother/father/brother has recorded it. Franklie Lymon was one of those people. The Hi-Lo's were a major, influential vocal group. Facts are a wonderful thing.

[LOMBARDISPACKERS1]

THIS IS MUSIC !

[minpinned]

The Hi-Los were a vocal jazz ensemble as we've come to know it. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross were another kind of vocal jazz ensemble that didn't catch on as much, but both were innovators in distinct traditions. Hi-Los, close-harmony tradition: harmonic virtuosity and precision; LHR, bebop tradition: musical freedom, lyrical creativity and melodic spontaneity in the bebop tradition.

[jibcraip]

@RIMSHOTSON2AND4 Nice catch !! haha Love their smile just after that "incident" lol

[prezglick4]

I have listened to just about every vocal group ,from the Boswell Sisters to Take 6,and almost everyone in between. The Hi Lo's are the greatest. Never before or since have 4 people stood together before a mic, open their months,and produced such beautiful music. The Hi Lo's are a group of 4 musicians that had such a sound that we will never experience again live. Thank god they have left us some great documents to hear them. And their arrangements were VERY hard. True genius.

[NormDoneg5]

EVERY BODY FOR GETS ABOUT THE GROUP CALLED, LAMBERT HENDRICKS &

ROSS. THERE WERE ONLY THREE OF THEM AND THEY WERE STRONG.

[esroberto1]

@tuzwol The Mills Brothers sang. The Hi-Lo's, specfically Gene Puerling, INVENTED. In terms of the sheer difficulty of that kind of singing, arranging, and pulling off harmonies that are next to impossible, the Mills Brothers aren't even a blip on the radar. This is not an opinion -- the Hi-Lo's are to the Mills Brothers what the internet is to a chalkboard. Maybe you like chalk dust. Maybe nothing replaces the 'clack' of a piece of chalk on a board in your world, I dunno, and I don't care.

[Abillywoprocker]

Foda essa versão 40's !

[tuzwol]

@esroberto1 ,the fact is the Mills Brothers came before,so it cant be said that they did this before everybody,Mills Brothers are great singers,arguably better than the Hi Lo's,but its a matter of opinion.as for the comparison it should probably be flipped around,but personally they were both great groups

[esroberto1]

@tuzwol So? The Mills Brothers were to the Hi-Lo's what Lady Gaga is to Ella Fitzgerald -- ok singers with decent schtick, but nowhere near the same class of talent.

[RIMSHOTSON2AND4]

Anybody else catch Clark Burroughs' little error at 1:10...he sings "Goody, Goody f..." I'm guessing he was only supposed to sing "Goody, Goody for Me" with Bob Morse as an answer to Gene Puerling and Bob Strasen's "Goody, Goody for Him"