I’m an aging widower of 87, had the pleasure of hearing Benny Goodman in live concert back in the 1950s. Wish the big band era were still with us today.
I can picture my late parents dancing to this. Dad looking smart in his dark blue suit, white shirt, dark blue tie and dancing pumps. Mum in a lovely cream silk blouse, black pleated skirt. Black stocking and black dancing shoes. Both are young, healthy and happy. Life is good for them!
This is one of my favorite still photo videos & recordings. I was born in 1948 and am now 75 but my father raised me on just about all of the big bands and helped cultivate , encourage & manage my interests in music. I have played the Tenner Sax for the last 60 years & the Alto Sax 3 years before that. In addition I performed in numerous bands & fronted my own group. To me this recording showed the beauty of a young Helen Forest with a lovely voice to match her beauty along with the great sound of the celebrated sound of Benny Goodman. I have often wished that I wasn't so young and could have played in one Big Band Great Orchestras. Thank you for letting me see this again.
Helen has the type of voice from the 1940s that makes singing sound so easy and understandable without the yelling or high pitched shrieks heard nowadays. What a perfect recording from the big band era. 👍🥳😜
“Perfidia” has stood as one of the most cherished and enduring songs in the Latin American songbook. Composed more than 80 years ago by Mexico’s Alberto Dominguez, it is enshrined as one of those timeless standards that continues to inspire artists and resonate with music lovers, young and old.
I was born in '59, and therefore was too young to be in on the age of swing. However - as a child - many radio stations still played a LOT of big band, which I loved. I slept in the lower unit of a bunk-bed, and would strap my tiny transistor radio to the spring of the upper and play big band very low at bed time. If I fell asleep before turning in off, my batteries would be dead in the morning!
Just turned 69 yr old and always felt I was born a generation to late. Great times for music. I love the Big Band music, and am very glad mom introduced me to it. I sing in a Barbershop Chorus and Quartet, and we have a WW2 set with a lot of these songs. That generation loves the songs..
The perfect sounds of a better world. I remember as a schoolboy playing the big bands on my uncle's 78 rpm wind up gramophone. I'm almost 82 and still enjoy some of the greatest sounds ever! Lifts the soul. Great times, great memories. Cheers
I’m now 63, love music of all genres and decided to try listening to tunes from my Dad’s era. He was an excellent drummer and played in a band in the 1930s. I really love the purity of this type of music and wished I had listened to it with him when he was still alive.
Helen and I were very close friends for more than 25 years. Of course I am prejudiced--but virtually all the notable writers and critics of era consider her the greatest of all the band singers--a moniker she often regarded with ambivalence in her later years. Knowing her as intimately as I did I'm certain she was unaware of the true extent of her talent and the impact she had on her listeners. Artie Shaw--a man not known for his compliments--who was the 1st of her three big band leaders said: "I love the way Helen interprets any song...she never got the credit she deserved".
I’m an aging widower of 87, had the pleasure of hearing Benny Goodman in live concert back in the 1950s. Wish the big band era were still with us today.
I can picture my late parents dancing to this. Dad looking smart in his dark blue suit, white shirt, dark blue tie and dancing pumps. Mum in a lovely cream silk blouse, black pleated skirt. Black stocking and black dancing shoes. Both are young, healthy and happy. Life is good for them!
This is one of my favorite still photo videos & recordings. I was born in 1948 and am now 75 but my father raised me on just about all of the big bands and helped cultivate , encourage & manage my interests in music. I have played the Tenner Sax for the last 60 years & the Alto Sax 3 years before that. In addition I performed in numerous bands & fronted my own group. To me this recording showed the beauty of a young Helen Forest with a lovely voice to match her beauty along with the great sound of the celebrated sound of Benny Goodman. I have often wished that I wasn't so young and could have played in one Big Band Great Orchestras. Thank you for letting me see this again.
Helen has the type of voice from the 1940s that makes singing sound so easy and understandable without the yelling or high pitched shrieks heard nowadays. What a perfect recording from the big band era. 👍🥳😜
I am 68 and I am Russian, and I awfully envy you the fact that you saw and heard it live!
Helen dated my dad, but married the drummer...dated Harry James...married a Dr.
“Perfidia” has stood as one of the most cherished and enduring songs in the Latin American songbook. Composed more than 80 years ago by Mexico’s Alberto Dominguez, it is enshrined as one of those timeless standards that continues to inspire artists and resonate with music lovers, young and old.
Love Helen Forest's voice - no need for gimmicks or hollering like many women singers today. Just a beautiful voice that knows how to sing
The 2 Helens,Forrest and O'Connell were the best girl Big Band singers,no doubt.
Don't you just LOVE this? I know I do! What a band, what a voice!
I am a young 67, love Big Band music, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rock n' Roll.
I'm 69. I wept the day he died. Helen is my favorite big band vocalist. And, a selection there is!
I was born in '59, and therefore was too young to be in on the age of swing. However - as a child - many radio stations still played a LOT of big band, which I loved. I slept in the lower unit of a bunk-bed, and would strap my tiny transistor radio to the spring of the upper and play big band very low at bed time. If I fell asleep before turning in off, my batteries would be dead in the morning!
Helen forest was really underrated and a great singer
Fantastic and now nearly 80 years since recorded. Today's rubbish won't last.
Just turned 69 yr old and always felt I was born a generation to late. Great times for music. I love the Big Band music, and am very glad mom introduced me to it. I sing in a Barbershop Chorus and Quartet, and we have a WW2 set with a lot of these songs. That generation loves the songs..
This song and this arrangement, Helen, Benny.......EVERYTHING about that era is TIMELESS!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The perfect sounds of a better world. I remember as a schoolboy playing the big bands on my uncle's 78 rpm wind up gramophone. I'm almost 82 and still enjoy some of the greatest sounds ever! Lifts the soul. Great times, great memories. Cheers
I’m now 63, love music of all genres and decided to try listening to tunes from my Dad’s era. He was an excellent drummer and played in a band in the 1930s. I really love the purity of this type of music and wished I had listened to it with him when he was still alive.
Helen and I were very close friends for more than 25 years. Of course I am prejudiced--but virtually all the notable writers and critics of era consider her the greatest of all the band singers--a moniker she often regarded with ambivalence in her later years. Knowing her as intimately as I did I'm certain she was unaware of the true extent of her talent and the impact she had on her listeners. Artie Shaw--a man not known for his compliments--who was the 1st of her three big band leaders said: "I love the way Helen interprets any song...she never got the credit she deserved".