Swingtime ! (31) In the Chapel in the moonlight - Victor Silvester & the RMS Queen Mary (1937)

Please activate the HD function(720p) before watching the video or watch it with a larger type player in 480p! This in order to avoid serious sound distortion (as YT has reduced sound quality and does not activate HD or HQ playback automatically).

"In the chapel in the moonlight" was a massive hit of the 1936/37 season so - obviously - many recorded versions exist from Gracie Fields to Dean Martin. In France the song became tremendously popular as "La chapelle au clair de lune" - originally sung by Assia de Busny but made famous by Léo Marjane, the legendary French female crooner.

The version presented in this video was recorded by the orchestra of Victor Silvester (1900-78). Silvester was world champion balllroom dancer who founded his own orchestra in 1935 because he felt there were no adequate records for dancing.... He went on to sell more than 75 million records throughout his career.
More info on Victor Silvester can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Silvester

The video features another English legend : the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary - who made her maiden trip in 1936 and remained a fovourite with the travelling public until her retirement in 1967. The video shows her leaving on her maiden voyage as well as her conversion to a troop ship during the Second World War. Being a museum as well as a hotel, she is now berthed in Long Beach, California.
More info on this great ocean liner can be found here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary

About the record :

Odeon (French)
279.256 / mx. Ce.8009
(Parlophone matrix)

London
1937

Record in excellent condition

This record was trasferred using the Ortofon Om78 cartridge and stylus. It was re-equalized to undo the modern RIAA equalization and get an acceptable 78rpm equalization!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ln the chapel in the moonlight
• Victor
• Silvester
• Ballroom
• dancing
• Slowfox
• slow
• Foxtrot
• RMS
• Queen
• Mary
• Oceanliner
• La chapelle au clair de lune
• Léo Marjane
• London
• 1937
• Odeon
• Parlophone
• 78rpm
• Schellackplatte
• 1930s Music
• 1930s Fashion
• New
• York
• Statue
• of
• Liberty

[tukilala]

Bravo por el Video !!!! Magnifica Musica !!!

[MrSwingtime]

Wunderschön und sehr einfühlsam. Wie immer ein Highlight der Swingtime

perfekt inszeniert. Schön, dass es diese Seite gibt. Herzlichen Dank!

[TheArtloving]

bei all diesen Videos muß ich immer an meinen Vater denken, dem diese Musik in der Kriegszeit als Pilot so viel gegeben hat. das berührt mich sehr!

[camille885]

Chouette version! Peu d'instruments, c'est simple mais efficace (surtout la petite intro au piano.) Merci!

[Deutschlandsender]

Herrlicher Slowfox. Danke.