Frances Langford sings Cole Porter - Easy To Love, 1936

Frances Newbern LANGFORD (b. 1913, Lakeland, Florida -- d. 2005, Jensen Beach, Florida) was an American singer and entertainer popular during the Golden Age of Radio and also made film appearances over two decades. She trained as an opera singer. While a young girl she required surgery on her throat, and as a result, she was forced to change her vocal style to a more contemporary big band style. While singing for radio during the early 1930s, she was heard by Rudy Vallee, who invited her to become a regular on his radio show. From 1935 until 1938 she was a regular guest in Dick Powell's radio show. With her film debut in Every Night at Eight (1935) she introduced what became her signature song: "I'm In The Mood for Love". She then began appearing in films such as Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), Born to Dance (1936) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney, in which she performed the popular song "Over There." From 1941 she worked on Bob Hope's radio show and during WWII she performed with Hope's entertaining programs for the Army.




Her first husband (1934) was Jon Hall. Twenty years later she married Outboard Marine Corporation President Ralph Evinrude. They lived on her estate in Jensen Beach, Florida and opened a resort they named The Outrigger, where Langford frequently performed. He died in 1986, in 1994 she married Harold Stuart, who had been an assistant secretary of the United States Air Force under President Harry Truman.

Recording:
Frances Langford (vocal), Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - Easy To Love (Cole Porter), Decca 1936

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jazz
• Age
• white
• singer
• 1930s
• Thirties
• America
• film
• Hollywood
• 78s

[SigP229R]

I have only this to say; Frances and all the other greats of that era had more to do with america winning the war than they will ever be given credit for. They were the glue that held our nation and our armed forces together during those troubled and trying times and I have nothing but the utmost respect for them all.Not to mention they were some of the greatest talent this country has ever known.

[nmbookie]

The sexiest voice and one of the loveliest ladies of the greatest era of American music.

[dibbledob2]

@mpbliesener I agree; today's bunch having had it so easy from birth, they are bankrupt of *character-building*, and personality-stamina; this eviincing an object-lesson in progress - the onward march of human destiny - that so many who insisted on fighting the last destructive and otherwise avoidable World War, wanted to accelerate in their dubiously-rooted New World Order...with its attendant drugs, drink, permissiveness, shoddy materialism, and cheap-and-cheerful, down-dressed inevitability.

[SzokePeter66]

@SigP229R I agree. I am Hungarian, born in 1966. I did not see WWII but my parents did. They both loved American popular music from the 1930s onwards until the 1960s. Throughout the dark years of the war and the almost equally dark era of Communism, Jazz was a symbol for elegance and freedom. It stood for moral resistence. The later products were despised by them as bad taste, sign of a sharp decline in America's cultural appeal.

[paulj0557]

Love it, but it's as close to the forties I'd want to come...I love 20's and 30's music. This is ahead of it's time really.

[ivebeenthere1]

love this.....truly timeless :--)

[LylythTV]

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Magnifique... Mmm...

[aherna9557]

Love the song and the singer, My daughter will be playing her in an up coming tribute show. The second photo is a young Betty Grable, the fourth photo that's David Niven in the center with her. the fifth photo second girl the blonde is Alice Faye.

loved it. keep posting.

Sally in California

[ppkwalter1]

Agradeceré siempre a quienes nos permiten disfrutar de los mejores interpretes, sean baladas, tangos , óperas , boleros , etc. Todo lo bueno a un click de dis-

tancia.

[paulwien65]

wonderful.................time­less

[mpbliesener]

Artists back then had class and respect. The so-called "artists" of today don't even know the meanings of the words, let alone how to put them into practice.

[gersondha]

Wow!! smooth voice, what a classic!