I'm in the Mood for Love - Frances Langford

Frances Langford sings her signature song, "i'm in the mood for love"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• frances langford
• love
• bob hope
• radio
• uso
• 1940
• will i ever know

[jaytlr9]

I'm struck by her vocal strength, in addition to all her other wonderful qualities. I wonder that she might have been a great opera singer, had she chosen that route.

[CarloQuinto]

@jaytlr9 She did study opera as a teenager being a coloratura soprano but undergoing a tonsilectomy, the doctor snipped something he shouldn't have and it dropped her voice to a contralto. it's that contralto like sound that gives her that 'sultry' tone while still being able to do those heavenly pianissimo's. You hit the nail on the head with 'vocal strength' That she had!

[CarloQuinto]

@franniejane63 Welcome to the Club! it's nice to meet another Frances! A magical name if there ever was one.. The club is growing as people begin to realize what a glorious artist Frances is. If you want to have some fun with Frances Langford, I have written a time travel novel about her called 'WILL I EVER KNOW' A man in the present hears Frances on a CD, falls in love with her voice and manages to time travel back to 1945 to meet her. A nice companion to all her videos on youtube.

[fasbc]

Frances was a beautiful lady and a wonderful singer. She was also a great american.

[SandViolet]

One day, way back in '60/'61 when the Shirelles, Brenda Lee and Bobby Darin (to mention my favorites) ruled the top 40s, by best friend in boarding school asked me out of the blue: "What do you think of Frances Langford? Don't you just love 'I'm in the Mood for Love'?" My friend Lenny W. was only 15 but he had the innate good taste, so rare in the that era, of caring passionately for the great American songbook.

[CnocnaHare]

Great rendition of this 'classic'. 

[TheSilvergold45]

Frances Langford was a wonderful  singer..

[jaytlr9]

@CarloQuinto Thanks for this information; very interesting. Do you .kno

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Thanks for this information. I imagine it must have been quite a shock when she found out that she could no longer sing opera. But then, another door was about to be opened for her...and for her fans.

[rsalvucc]

Unlike a lot of "band singers," she could carry a tune. And I mean that as a complement.

[jaytlr9]

@CaptRhett1 This is so nice to hear. I knew nothing about her other than her singing, but this is the impression I got *from* her singing. Thanks for sharing your memories.

[1905compton]

@CarloQuinto

I have ordered "Lost in the Spell", I am sure it will put me in the MOOD.

How does one go about getting a autograph copy of both of these books.