My dad grew up in the big band era I was taught to appreciate the music and I love doris day,Helen Forrest,the Andrew sister's,my favorite band was a cross between Glenn Miller,Harry James,les brown,benny goodman,the Dorsey brothers just to name a few
Being of the Beatles/Led Zeplin generation, but having a broad range of music appreciation. I will say, in the realm of popular music, that was the best era. Music, clothes, manners. Classy, polished, confident, and optimistic. Big bands were the best.
That music was "pure class"! Mom and Dad were in the WW II generation, and as a kid about 5-10 years old, I heard this music. Dad had a 12 in. woofer speaker in our heating air ducts in the attic. He had a 78 RPM record player in Mom's utility room, where the washer & dryer were. They would play all this World War II music, and dance to it in the living room. That's how I found out what "real love" was all about. Thanks Betty & Dwayne! I was born 1951. RD Rumpff, Celina, Ohio USA.
This absolutely grabs my heart each time I hear it because I am immediately swept back to the days when I was in my late husband's arms dancing together. Those years are now over 70 plus ago and I still grieve over the loss of him. I fell in love with him when I was 16 years old, he was 23. He was forever my heart and forever will be. The moment lost him after almost 48 years of marriage was the moment my life changed completely never ever to be the same. I can only say to those who still have their loved ones with them don't let the time slip by without telling that person what they are to you at that moment.
God bless you Kay, what a wonderful love story you have had to fall in love with your perfect soul-mate, especially at such a tender age, but it must be emotionally devastating to lose your life partner after all those years together, maybe you can take some solace from the fact that many people search all their lives, and are never lucky enough to find the one they can love, but you and your husband found each other and shared a happy life together, and you will always have those treasured memories, we should all heed your advice though, and tell our partners how much they mean to us while still together because we all have a use by date, and unfortunately that will come around sooner or later, so we really should be kind to each other in the meantime. 💕 This song link below says it all for you Kay and your husband: ruclips.net/video/YsIL07eOqOU/видео.html
This was my moms song. She was very excited every time she heard it. What a pitty she had died in the mid of 2000; just on the threshold of the 21 century. She had missed internet and RUclips. She could enjoy not only the music of Harry James, but also a video with the whole band and Helen Forrest.
Although late but I just your post. I just want to say I'm very sorry for loss! I can definitely relate when I lost my dear mom! I can only hope our beloved are waiting for us!
Memories like yours sustain us through our twilight years. I can relate to what you wrote. My wife and I are both in our 70s, too young to have grown up with this music but old enough to treasure what we have now, knowing that in a few short years, one or both of us will be gone. When you reach a certain age, embrace the moment becomes a type of rallying cry as you see the years rushing by, seemingly faster than they did when you were decades younger.
Makes me cry. I lost my wife after 64 years together - the 1940's and 1950's shaped our lives. My tribute to the love of my life can be seen on youtube - judyv4 - a wonderful world then, so relatively innocent .
This reminds me of my wonderful mum. She knew all the songs from the 1940s. She was a WAFF during the 2nd World War and danced to Glen Miller orchestra when he visited U.K. So many memories.
I’m a young 62 years of age and was blessed with parents that loved music..I grew up listening to rock n roll. But thru all my years I loved the oldies more. Why does no one play beautiful music like this any more?
No one has good taste anymore, the children seem to not like it anymore, I am one out of 26 kids in my class who likes music like this, everyone else just says it’s garbage. But I know this isn’t garbage it’s a masterpiece!
@@Cheddar199 The "music" kids listen to nowadays is trash. I attended a wedding last year. The music was nothing but loud base and dancing was jumping up and down.😒
Helen Forrest really made this song. Her delivery, her phrasing, she is just one extraordinary vocalist. I am so lucky that I was able to hear this amazing talent. Happy International Women's Day! Hats off to Helen!
Born in 1966, I used to think I was a soul from a bygone era as anything 1940s would give me goosebumps and burst into tears for no reason.. but the pureness, the challenges that decade went through, the music, style etc etc just touched me greatly. I used to be a member of the 1940s Society; I worked for an organisation that produced 1940s military aviation art and met some of the veteran pilots from that time; at 18 I was dressing and wearing 1940s style, Glen Miller was on my stereo, swing music playing night and day.. I was nostalgic for an era I had never been part of. Today at 56, I may dress differently but the effect is the same. Harry James was a legend; Helen Forrest one of the many singers of this infamous song.. love Al Jolson's and Judy Garland's versions too.
You were alive during the '40s in a previous life, possibly even as a woman, and died young by the mid-'60s. Then you were born into your current body in '66.
Peter Shaw: I'm with you on this one. I grew up from an early age listening to this music from a toddler on up. Each rendition has its beauty and its charm. Judy Garland's version was a stunner and she was years younger than Helen Forrest. I'm sorry to bore you. You probably already know this.
I remember seeing my parents dancing like that at weddings. I was memorized. Never forget it. I'm 66 now still miss them. When I saw them dance, I knew they lived each other more than I knew
Doctors say that most patients with dementia absolutely respond to music especially those songs of their young childhood, adulthood. How wonderful for people to see the light shining in loved ones eyes when they hear these songs.
Your Mom was part of "The Greatest Generation." May she rest in peace. That would likely mean you're part of "The Silent Generation." I admire both groups.
My Mom grew up in this era and would always sing these great old songs in the kitchen when I was a kid. That's how I got to know all of them. She was a really good singer, too! These era songs always remind me of a much saner, happier time.
My Mom sang too..dishes, cooking, kniting, what ever. That's where I also learned alot of songs & the words. Dad played a variety of different horns( sax,trombone,trumpet) that helped too!! Of course they were WW2.
@@shirleybalinski4535 My mom sounded much like Jo Stafford, looked a bit like her too. "You Belong To Me" was another one I learned from her "Kitchen" renditions.
I wasn´t even born during this video. I don´t care what people say, nobody will ever be able to make music like they used to. Romance, finesse and beauty and gentleness was everything. What happened to mankind, please do tell.
+Roenie that would be a brilliant hypotheses if it weren't for the fact that Capitalism in America was by the time of this recording already pretty long in the tooth. so, PORTES PORTES' question really boils down to this: why is it that mankind -- not merely here and there, but across a broad spectrum -- cannot seem to avoid being corrupted today when they seemed to be able to manage pretty well and maintain a life-affirming culture in which talent was respected more than gimmicks and "edge" (a nice word for crassness) when this recording was new? Capitalism hasn't changed. Clearly, people have. in fact, to make reference to the "humanity" of the population, it was always true that the "rich" tended to lord it over the poor, but today even the middle-class does so -- the great masses seem to have decided they don't want to be associated with the poor, but rather with the well-off, with the unavoidable result that the wide breadth of middle-class spend so much of their money at big-box stores and other outlets, buying stuff that's made like crap but LOOKS high-end: so they can pretend to be "better" (at least what is now in their minds better) than they are. in fact, what seems so obvious today is that the greatest block of the demographic now professes to love "humanity" just as much as we used to, but now in practice actually hates (or at least disdains) actual individual humans. it wasn't Capitalism that spoiled the party, but the party-goers. the fault, my friend, lies not in our wallets, but in our selves.
Gerard Cordelli Forgive me for being helpless romantic. Yes, I am quite aware how capitalism has destroyed everything. In terms of music and culture the destruction started back at the beginning of the 19 century. Sad isn´t it. I agree with you 100 percent; my question is what are we going to do to change this. I am trying to do my part; how about you.
+PORTES PORTES alas, you may be "quite aware" of this, but i can't join you in any sob story regarding Capitalism as the destroyer of anything. i'm not a "helpless romantic", but rather driven to assess things logically whether i like where the logic leads or not. people used to be able to handle the responsibilities of Capitalism -- and thrive within it -- but today people seem to have lost sight of their place in the world, don't seem inclined to handle responsibility, and the other side of that coin i believe is they no longer demand much from anyone else either -- including (but not limited to) what they look to for entertainment. cute kitten videos, crappy music that sounds "edgy" but is actually vacuous and banal, cable tv that boasts titillation as its draw but is actually merely boorish, and a blogosphere that claims to expose ideas and ideals across the planet but which mostly airs childish nonsense. and all the while people are applauding -- because they've lost the ability to tell worthwhile from worthless, art from trash, eloquence from profanity. meanwhile, they are following the same trend as their entertainment, lowering their expectations of themselves as they do of their entertainers, and increasingly giving crap in exchange for the crap they are increasingly willing to accept. in the face of it all, they look for someone or something else to blame: Politicians, The Top 1%, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Corporations in general, or the catch-all of Capitalism as an economic system -- but the simple fact is that everyone of these things is simply a collection or people or a system of interaction between people. people are different now. they weren't ruined by any of the things they want to blame; they ruined themselves. and they don't want to be LIKE the people who listened to Harry James or watched Fred Astaire, so they don't GET a Harry James or Fred Astaire; they get Miley Cyrus and Lady GaGa gyrating in a "meat dress" -- entertainment that's a good as its consumers.
IT CERTAINLY WAS THE GOLDEN ERA OF BIG BANDS. MUST HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL TO HAVE SEEN THESE BANDS LIVE. NEVER BE THIS AMOUNT OF TALENT & SWEET MUSIC AROUND AGAIN,I THINK WELL DONE
Happy 91st Birthday to my beloved Dad, who died last year. His favorite artist ever was Harry James and in the latter day, Herb Alpert. Thanks to Dad, I gained my lifelong love of horns from him.
My grandma’s favourite song. She used to sing it to me when I was a kid. What a character she was. And this is a sublime version of it. From James’s beautiful tone and phrasing to the incomparable Miss Forrest. Perfection.
My Mother and Father who were Both WWII vets introduced me to "their" music some time ago, and I have always loved it. Wonderful to hear this and so much more from the "Greatest Generation" that ever was. As my Mom lay dying 5 and half years ago, our family played tunes such as this for her in her room when she was in a coma. We know she could hear the music she loved. I miss you Mom and Dad R.I.P.
In a way, I did grow up with it...parents did, Dad was in the War and Dear Mama was waiting with heart in hand...he made it home from Iwo. So thankful. My Brother and I had wonderful life, not in the way of greenbacks, but LOVE! Now my daughter knows this music, thank You So Much!!! I guess that's part of where we get our Morals and Patriotism from...GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THOSE THAT SACRIFICED FOR OUR FREEDOM!!! PLEADING - DONT CHANGE IT🙏🇺🇲
Sitting on the sofa chilling and browsing you tube for these wonderful old tunes and the hours have just flown by. Brought up in the sixties on three tv channels and always loved the old movies with real stars who could act sing and dance. Still lucky enough to have my dear 94 year old dad with me and though he had many hardships in his life I envy him going to the movies and dances and living in such innocent and simple times
My Grandmother used to listen to Helen Forest, I had allot of my musical influence from Her - Such beautiful music, such beautiful times - So much more innocent & pure back then, the songs wreak of such beauty & warmth of the heart..almost brings tears to the eyes, What an amazing time to be alive..People actually talked to each other back then & families spent time together.
This comment cannot even begin to describe the beauty and gentleness of this song and other songs within this era... Who sings like this anymore? Enjoy this music and just hear the emotion and passion in it and that's the amazing part
To Pearl Grey: I played during the big band area, so I can agree with your comments. It is refreshing for me when a young person can enjoy this music. People who wrote the words to these songs were lyricists. That is not true with today's songs. I hope you continue to enjoy this music.
you don't need to be born at the time these great songs came about to feel em....it's as if they blew in on the breeze...and everyone can feel the breeze.
Wonderful 3:21 minutes that felt like 30 seconds, i could spend all day enjoying this beautiful music! I really feel every note as if I was born to listen to these artists, even though I was born in 1999.
Although I was born several years after this era, to me it's the greatest music of all and I envy my siblings and parents who were able to listen to this music when it was live. I would have loved to have met Helen, she's just the best.
Yes, a magical combination. Such a sweet song, performed by the sweetest voice and the sweetest trumpet playing. They don't write 'em like that anymore, nor perform 'em like that anymore. (sigh)
I listen to Pandora a lot in my truck. I primarily use the shuffle option and among my various channels I have a Helen Forrest channel. One night I was bringing my wife home from her job and a Helen Forrest number came up. About a quarter way into the song right when Helen begins singing, my wife starts talking. "How dare you interrupt the great Helen Forrest," I exclaimed. My wife gave me that 'excuse me look and replied, "Oh she sounds like every other female singer of the 40s." "Not so," came my retort. "Every other female singer of the 40's TRIED to sound like Helen Forrest!"
Those were the days of music and dancing. Real music and dancing. None of this baring of the body, women left their clothes on. And music that you could dance to with a partner. My Grams used to tell me about it. She had her 78s. She taught her children to dance, my daddy taught me. Those were the days I tell you.
Emmy I just read your comment and was blown away, I couldn't agree more. My uncle was a veteran of ww2 and saw much combat in the P.I and New Guinea . He met my aunt Polly during this time and this music reminds me of them so much. They would still listen to this music later in their life (records) and when I hear it it takes me back to the time spent with him and all the stories. America was diff then and im afraid for our future, but I know that Warren and Polly are in that ballroom in the sky and this music plays forever.
Helen Forrest has the voice of an Angel, just melts me every time..RIP Grandma thank you for sharing & getting me into this kind of music..This is real music, not the garbage you hear today. BTW who are the creeps that gave this video a thumbs down, WHAT ??
I was probably still in my father's loins when this was popular I'm certain my mom and dad danced to this when they were young. What a treasure thanks for sharing.
I developed a love for the big band music through my father who played trumpet in the British army. The music now could never compare to the singers of that Era, you had to be able to carry a mote ,my mother used to say nowadays you just have to open your mouth and grunt. This music is timeless and I sometimes wonder what it was like to live in those times.
Romance has never been a dirty word and I disagree that it's hard to find nowadays. We all see what we want to see. If you're only focusing on the negative, the uninspiring and the selfish greed then that's all you're going to see.
My goodness, seeing and hearing Harry James play again always touches my heart! He came to our school many years ago, and I was chosen to accompany him on a number he played for an occasion in our auditorium. I don't remember the details anymore, but I sure do remember his playing, he's been a favorite horn player of mine every since. He was a true treasure!
Look at what you had. Couples in gentle union, moving in harmony and grace to the music. Somewhere around 1960 you lost it. Now there's only these clips to show what was lost and will never return. As someone in his twenties at that time, let me tell you, it was awesome.
Really enjoyed Harry James at our ship dance in 1944. Also was able to see Kitty Kallen while my ship was anchored in Long Beach after a long service in the Pacific.
+Ernest Curtis I'm reading about the Pacific campaign now (Ian Toll). All honor to all who served there. Brutal time but you did have the best music in those days!!
You made me love you I didn't want to do it I didn't want to do it You made me want you And all the time you knew it I guess you always knew it You made me happy sometimes You made me glad But there were times You made me feel so bad You made me cry for I didn't want to tell you I didn't want to tell you I want some love that's true Yes, I do, 'deed I do You know I do Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme what I cry for You know you've got the brand of kisses That I'd die for You know you made me love you You made me cry for I didn't want to tell you I didn't want to tell you I want some love that's true Yes, I do, 'deed I do You know I do Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme what I cry for You know you've got the brand of kisses That I'd die for You know you made me love you
I'm living in this period of time now and I am grateful, but I could so appreciate this past era of elegance. Where people actually dressed up nicely to go out socializing, dining and dancing looking like a million bucks. Whereas now...going out to a club or dance hall, now seems to entail no etiquette, minimal clothing, watching x-rated behavior right before your eyes and any assemblance of dignity flies right out the window!
Another hit from the Harry James organization. Helen had such a warm, sweet voice. She really helped to round out Harry's orchestra. Helen really enhanced any band she appeared with. For a brief period of time in the early 40's she was considered the most popular singer in the US.
Bom dia. Na década de 1960, eu o uvia muito, Benny Goodman, entre outros, no Rio de Janeiro-RJ. Enquanto eu brincava, ouvia-se essas lindas melodias. Que tempo. Outro nível.
lldeu Silva, Sorry for the late reply, Helen Forrest did it for me with her voice even in the early 1970's. Elis Regina always & everyday! Greetings from the U.S.
An era gone--These Golden hits and magnificent orchestras will survive the test of time. Although I was only a very young boy during this period I came away with an enduring love of truly great music No t v. no internet only imagination to fuel inspiration brought by RADIO broadcast. The very significant shortcoming of this time was the tragedy of WW-2 and the shroud of calamity and death, that it cast upon everyone. Bittersweet but also a momentous era which brought about World change and we lost loved ones, friends.
Judy Fielding I’m 83 and simply love this music it brings back so many happy memories, it touches the heart. How marvellous to hear lyrics that tell a story and say what people cannot sometimes convey to those they are falling in love with.
+Ed McDowell Best of the field. That phrasing she puts on "I've never made love by lantern shine" from I'm Beginning to See the Light gets me every time.
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September 2024. I’m 52 now but I adore these bands and tunes of yesteryear!
Real musicians and real voices. Unlike today’s rubbish.
My parents floated over the dance floor. Two wonderful smiles. R.I.P.
I am. 95 grew up on these bands. WWII flew B25's. Kept up morale.
Thanks for your service Jack.
Currently parked at the former
WURSMITH AFB
Uh oh. he's either 101 or I'm alone again
I am 84 and i flew in Constellations
God bless you and thank you for your service.
I'm singing this to my wife while listening and we've been married 59 years. Thank you whoever......?
Sweet!
Congratulations for your romance men
My dad grew up in the big band era I was taught to appreciate the music and I love doris day,Helen Forrest,the Andrew sister's,my favorite band was a cross between Glenn Miller,Harry James,les brown,benny goodman,the Dorsey brothers just to name a few
Ralph Gooding don’t forget my girl kitty kallen!
Me and my wife just 52. But how sweet they've been.
Back when dancing cheek to cheek was the way romances started.
Being of the Beatles/Led Zeplin generation, but having a broad range of music appreciation. I will say, in the realm of popular music, that was the best era. Music, clothes, manners. Classy, polished, confident, and optimistic. Big bands were the best.
That music was "pure class"! Mom and Dad were in the WW II generation, and as a kid about 5-10 years old, I heard this music. Dad had a 12 in. woofer speaker in our heating air ducts in the attic. He had a 78 RPM record player in Mom's utility room, where the washer & dryer were. They would play all this World War II music, and dance to it in the living room. That's how I found out what "real love" was all about. Thanks Betty & Dwayne! I was born 1951. RD Rumpff, Celina, Ohio USA.
This absolutely grabs my heart each time I hear it because I am immediately swept back to the days when I was in my late husband's arms dancing together. Those years are now over 70 plus ago and I still grieve over the loss of him. I fell in love with him when I was 16 years old, he was 23. He was forever my heart and forever will be. The moment lost him after almost 48 years of marriage was the moment my life changed completely never ever to be the same. I can only say to those who still have their loved ones with them don't let the time slip by without telling that person what they are to you at that moment.
Thank you for that, ma'am
God bless you Kay, what a wonderful love story you have had to fall in love with your perfect soul-mate, especially at such a tender age, but it must be emotionally devastating to lose your life partner after all those years together, maybe you can take some solace from the fact that many people search all their lives, and are never lucky enough to find the one they can love, but you and your husband found each other and shared a happy life together, and you will always have those treasured memories, we should all heed your advice though, and tell our partners how much they mean to us while still together because we all have a use by date, and unfortunately that will come around sooner or later, so we really should be kind to each other in the meantime. 💕
This song link below says it all for you Kay and your husband:
ruclips.net/video/YsIL07eOqOU/видео.html
This was my moms song. She was very excited every time she heard it. What a pitty she had died in the mid of 2000; just on the threshold of the 21 century. She had missed internet and RUclips. She could enjoy not only the music of Harry James, but also a video with the whole band and Helen Forrest.
Although late but I just your post. I just want to say I'm very sorry for loss! I can definitely relate when I lost my dear mom! I can only hope our beloved are waiting for us!
Memories like yours sustain us through our twilight years. I can relate to what you wrote. My wife and I are both in our 70s, too young to have grown up with this music but old enough to treasure what we have now, knowing that in a few short years, one or both of us will be gone. When you reach a certain age, embrace the moment becomes a type of rallying cry as you see the years rushing by, seemingly faster than they did when you were decades younger.
I wonder why 274 poor demented souls gave this lovely old clip a thumbs down...well thumbs down to them. 👎
Because it wasn't long enough!
Lovely dance music he was great ...to bad there wasn't more like him and his Band....
They are high on drugs most likely
I've loved this song my whole life
I'm 64 born 1960 and I adore this song and Glen Miller Moonlight Serenade❤❤ love the big band swing era
Big band singers were always so good!
Such superb musical chops on display here....
Music back then was so wonderful and pure. Helen's voice is so beautiful, full of charm and purity 🥰
This performance was in 1942 and 41 years later in 1983 Hellen's final record album, "Now and Forever, " was released at age 66 and it's really good.
Makes me cry. I lost my wife after 64 years together - the 1940's and 1950's shaped our lives. My tribute to the love of my life can be seen on youtube - judyv4 - a wonderful world then, so relatively innocent .
Real people playing instruments and people had to be able to sing, no autotune in those days
@@davidfletcher452 pure amazing talent 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Si excelente Helen Forrest
Fabulous Harry. Still remembeered with love. England, February, 2024.
I would love to go back in that era and write music... 💖 👌🏼 🎶
This reminds me of my wonderful mum. She knew all the songs from the 1940s. She was a WAFF during the 2nd World War and danced to Glen Miller orchestra when he visited U.K. So many memories.
Trumpet playing Harry James then the voice just so easy listening ❤remembered still ber
Helen Forrest and the HJ orchestra were wonderful. RIP Hellen Forrest 1917- 1999. RIP Harry James 1916- 1983.
WWII parents. Big band radio music were my lullabies. Know all the words & magical music.
Same here. I grew up listening to that wonderful music.
I’m a young 62 years of age and was blessed with parents that loved music..I grew up listening to rock n roll. But thru all my years I loved the oldies more. Why does no one play beautiful music like this any more?
No one has good taste anymore, the children seem to not like it anymore, I am one out of 26 kids in my class who likes music like this, everyone else just says it’s garbage. But I know this isn’t garbage it’s a masterpiece!
@@Cheddar199
The "music" kids listen to nowadays is trash. I attended a wedding last year. The music was nothing but loud base and dancing was jumping up and down.😒
Helen Forrest - my favourite female singer of the Big Band era. Yes, she pulls the heartstrings.
never get tired of hearing Helen singing
@@pattiehernandez769 LOVE HER...!!!!
@@pattiehernandez769 she was the best one only an original form and
Any1 here in may 2021 listening to this ageless golden music?!
Hells yeah.
Yup in 2024!!
No auto-tune, no overdubbing, no digital manipulation. Just great musianship.
the drummer is my uncle micky Scrima from Pittsburgh.What a pleasure to see him after all these yearsHe was with harry james from the 30 to early 40s.
Chuck L has to take me to get some food
That's so cool I am from Pittsburgh too and I love all this music all of it!
bravo sir. you should be very proud...
FARRR OUT..!!!! 🍭😉🎸
Thank you so much for sharing! I hope someone recorded your family story.
Great real music with real instruments how awesome was that
This is just hypnotic. What an era that was.
Don't you wish you could take your best gal to a place and hear this type of music and do some serious dancing/romancing. Yeah brother!!!!!!
Hachinohehorse I know bring back the romance not the skanky music
Hachinohehorse YES YES YES I do.
black iiuuugumichelle pepper 🌶 and the new queen I love you so cute I can't
endgame. nuff said.
Only works back then lol nobody likes this type of music nowadays but I do
Helen Forrest really made this song. Her delivery, her phrasing, she is just one extraordinary vocalist. I am so lucky that I was able to hear this amazing talent. Happy International Women's Day! Hats off to Helen!
Hello Sandra, how are you doing?
Hard to believe that James thrw her over for Betty Grable - what was he thinking!?
@@clyneheretic Agreed! I think Betty Grable tried to sing a little. Wasn't too successful.
Born in 1966, I used to think I was a soul from a bygone era as anything 1940s would give me goosebumps and burst into tears for no reason.. but the pureness, the challenges that decade went through, the music, style etc etc just touched me greatly. I used to be a member of the 1940s Society; I worked for an organisation that produced 1940s military aviation art and met some of the veteran pilots from that time; at 18 I was dressing and wearing 1940s style, Glen Miller was on my stereo, swing music playing night and day.. I was nostalgic for an era I had never been part of. Today at 56, I may dress differently but the effect is the same. Harry James was a legend; Helen Forrest one of the many singers of this infamous song.. love Al Jolson's and Judy Garland's versions too.
You were alive during the '40s in a previous life, possibly even as a woman, and died young by the mid-'60s. Then you were born into your current body in '66.
Sometimes I think I was born at the wrong time. Have always loved Big Band music.
I am 74 years old and this stuff is before my time but I had good parents who taught me how to love this stuff. And I learned. Boy did I learn.
Peter Shaw Ditto!!
Only 2 years before you were born - so not so much before your time! :-)
@@gadola100 im 19 years old and i love this music
Esteban tr: I'm so happy for you! Never stop listening!!
Peter Shaw: I'm with you on this one. I grew up from an early age listening to this music from a toddler on up. Each rendition has its beauty and its charm. Judy Garland's version was a stunner and she was years younger than Helen Forrest. I'm sorry to bore you. You probably already know this.
I remember seeing my parents dancing like that at weddings. I was memorized. Never forget it. I'm 66 now still miss them. When I saw them dance, I knew they lived each other more than I knew
Same here
I'm 64, same here.
Doctors say that most patients with dementia absolutely respond to music especially those songs of their young childhood, adulthood. How wonderful for people to see the light shining in loved ones eyes when they hear these songs.
Hello Kate, How are you doing?
Music is one of humanity's most special gifts. It's truly magical how much we all sparkle with music's grace...
I can confirm that
My mom was born in 1915. She had a little radio in the kitchen and she played this music and sang along. She died in 2015 when she was 100 years old.
Your Mom was part of "The Greatest Generation." May she rest in peace. That would likely mean you're part of "The Silent Generation." I admire both groups.
I always said I was born 1 generation to late. This is when music was music, and entertainers entertained..
My Mom grew up in this era and would always sing these great old songs in the kitchen when I was a kid. That's how I got to know all of them. She was a really good singer, too! These era songs always remind me of a much saner, happier time.
My Mother did exactly the same thing and this was one her ' greatest hits'...
My Mom sang too..dishes, cooking, kniting, what ever. That's where I also learned alot of songs & the words. Dad played a variety of different horns( sax,trombone,trumpet) that helped too!! Of course they were WW2.
@@shirleybalinski4535 My mom sounded much like Jo Stafford, looked a bit like her too. "You Belong To Me" was another one I learned from her "Kitchen" renditions.
I grew up then too. Love the music of 20s, 30s, 40s & most of 50s
I remember taking a date in 1949, We were in high school t see Harry James at
the Walled Lake Casino. I love the Big Bands.
I wasn´t even born during this video. I don´t care what people say, nobody will ever be able to make music like they used to. Romance, finesse and beauty and gentleness was everything. What happened to mankind, please do tell.
+Roenie that would be a brilliant hypotheses if it weren't for the fact that Capitalism in America was by the time of this recording already pretty long in the tooth. so, PORTES PORTES' question really boils down to this: why is it that mankind -- not merely here and there, but across a broad spectrum -- cannot seem to avoid being corrupted today when they seemed to be able to manage pretty well and maintain a life-affirming culture in which talent was respected more than gimmicks and "edge" (a nice word for crassness) when this recording was new? Capitalism hasn't changed. Clearly, people have. in fact, to make reference to the "humanity" of the population, it was always true that the "rich" tended to lord it over the poor, but today even the middle-class does so -- the great masses seem to have decided they don't want to be associated with the poor, but rather with the well-off, with the unavoidable result that the wide breadth of middle-class spend so much of their money at big-box stores and other outlets, buying stuff that's made like crap but LOOKS high-end: so they can pretend to be "better" (at least what is now in their minds better) than they are. in fact, what seems so obvious today is that the greatest block of the demographic now professes to love "humanity" just as much as we used to, but now in practice actually hates (or at least disdains) actual individual humans. it wasn't Capitalism that spoiled the party, but the party-goers. the fault, my friend, lies not in our wallets, but in our selves.
Gerard Cordelli Forgive me for being helpless romantic. Yes, I am quite aware how capitalism has destroyed everything. In terms of music and culture the destruction started back at the beginning of the 19 century. Sad isn´t it. I agree with you 100 percent; my question is what are we going to do to change this. I am trying to do my part; how about you.
+PORTES PORTES alas, you may be "quite aware" of this, but i can't join you in any sob story regarding Capitalism as the destroyer of anything. i'm not a "helpless romantic", but rather driven to assess things logically whether i like where the logic leads or not. people used to be able to handle the responsibilities of Capitalism -- and thrive within it -- but today people seem to have lost sight of their place in the world, don't seem inclined to handle responsibility, and the other side of that coin i believe is they no longer demand much from anyone else either -- including (but not limited to) what they look to for entertainment. cute kitten videos, crappy music that sounds "edgy" but is actually vacuous and banal, cable tv that boasts titillation as its draw but is actually merely boorish, and a blogosphere that claims to expose ideas and ideals across the planet but which mostly airs childish nonsense. and all the while people are applauding -- because they've lost the ability to tell worthwhile from worthless, art from trash, eloquence from profanity. meanwhile, they are following the same trend as their entertainment, lowering their expectations of themselves as they do of their entertainers, and increasingly giving crap in exchange for the crap they are increasingly willing to accept. in the face of it all, they look for someone or something else to blame: Politicians, The Top 1%, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Corporations in general, or the catch-all of Capitalism as an economic system -- but the simple fact is that everyone of these things is simply a collection or people or a system of interaction between people. people are different now. they weren't ruined by any of the things they want to blame; they ruined themselves. and they don't want to be LIKE the people who listened to Harry James or watched Fred Astaire, so they don't GET a Harry James or Fred Astaire; they get Miley Cyrus and Lady GaGa gyrating in a "meat dress" -- entertainment that's a good as its consumers.
+PORTES PORTES It's not capitalism, it's greed there is a difference.
greed and capitalism are natural bedfellows. Always have been and always will be. There's no trying to rescue the one from the other.
Wonderful song--trumpet and voice. I am honored to have met and chatted with Ms. Forrest in the 1990's.
I was born 20 years too late --------------I never, ever tire of this music.--------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
This is it, folks. It doesn't get any better than this. Nothing and no one will ever surpass The Maestro, Harry James.
Harry & Helen in their prime. Hard to beat this.
IT CERTAINLY WAS THE GOLDEN ERA OF BIG BANDS.
MUST HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL TO HAVE SEEN THESE BANDS LIVE.
NEVER BE THIS AMOUNT OF TALENT & SWEET MUSIC AROUND AGAIN,I THINK
WELL DONE
JUST LOVED HIS MUSIC….sorry he is GONE NOW!!!!!
Happy 91st Birthday to my beloved Dad, who died last year. His favorite artist ever was Harry James and in the latter day, Herb Alpert. Thanks to Dad, I gained my lifelong love of horns from him.
Condolences m8
My grandma’s favourite song. She used to sing it to me when I was a kid. What a character she was. And this is a sublime version of it. From James’s beautiful tone and phrasing to the incomparable Miss Forrest. Perfection.
My Mother and Father who were Both WWII vets introduced me to "their" music some time ago, and I have always loved it. Wonderful to hear this and so much more from the "Greatest Generation" that ever was. As my Mom lay dying 5 and half years ago, our family played tunes such as this for her in her room when she was in a coma. We know she could hear the music she loved. I miss you Mom and Dad R.I.P.
In a way, I did grow up with it...parents did, Dad was in the War and Dear Mama was waiting with heart in hand...he made it home from Iwo. So thankful. My Brother and I had wonderful life, not in the way of greenbacks, but LOVE! Now my daughter knows this music, thank You So Much!!! I guess that's part of where we get our Morals and Patriotism from...GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THOSE THAT SACRIFICED FOR OUR FREEDOM!!! PLEADING - DONT CHANGE IT🙏🇺🇲
Sitting on the sofa chilling and browsing you tube for these wonderful old tunes and the hours have just flown by.
Brought up in the sixties on three tv channels and always loved the old movies with real stars who could act sing and dance.
Still lucky enough to have my dear 94 year old dad with me and though he had many hardships in his life I envy him going to the movies and dances and living in such innocent and simple times
My Grandmother used to listen to Helen Forest, I had allot of my musical influence from Her - Such beautiful music, such beautiful times - So much more innocent & pure back then, the songs wreak of such beauty & warmth of the heart..almost brings tears to the eyes, What an amazing time to be alive..People actually talked to each other back then & families spent time together.
SO TRUE...THINGS HAVE CHANGED SO MUCH AND NOT FOR THE BETTER !!
This comment cannot even begin to describe the beauty and gentleness of this song and other songs within this era... Who sings like this anymore? Enjoy this music and just hear the emotion and passion in it and that's the amazing part
To Pearl Grey: I played during the big band area, so I can agree with your comments. It is refreshing for me when a young person can enjoy this music. People who wrote the words to these songs were lyricists. That is not true with today's songs. I hope you continue to enjoy this music.
This is the only music I love the 20s 30s 40s
you don't need to be born at the time these great songs came about to feel em....it's as if they blew in on the breeze...and everyone can feel the breeze.
Oh for the romance of that era to return to this crazy world
Hello Carolyn, How are you doing?
Wonderful 3:21 minutes that felt like 30 seconds, i could spend all day enjoying this beautiful music! I really feel every note as if I was born to listen to these artists, even though I was born in 1999.
Aquele tipo de canção que te transporta pra uma época que você não viveu, mas que parece que fez parte da sua vida mesmo assim.
Indeed they do
avec les classiques ont est transportés dans un autre temps et c'est beau c"est la nostalgie ❤
Everything about this clip is class . I love that Helen walks on 1.30 min into the song .
Although I was born several years after this era, to me it's the greatest music of all and I envy my siblings and parents who were able to listen to this music when it was live. I would have loved to have met Helen, she's just the best.
The voice of Helen Forrest and trumpet of Harry James, it doesn't get much better than that!
Yes, a magical combination. Such a sweet song, performed by the sweetest voice and the sweetest trumpet playing. They don't write 'em like that anymore, nor perform 'em like that anymore. (sigh)
I listen to Pandora a lot in my truck. I primarily use the shuffle option and among my various channels I have a Helen Forrest channel.
One night I was bringing my wife home from her job and a Helen Forrest number came up.
About a quarter way into the song right when Helen begins singing, my wife starts talking.
"How dare you interrupt the great Helen Forrest," I exclaimed.
My wife gave me that 'excuse me look and replied, "Oh she sounds like every other female singer of the 40s."
"Not so," came my retort.
"Every other female singer of the 40's TRIED to sound like Helen Forrest!"
Those were the days of music and dancing. Real music and dancing. None of this baring of the body, women left their clothes on. And music that you could dance to with a partner. My Grams used to tell me about it. She had her 78s. She taught her children to dance, my daddy taught me. Those were the days I tell you.
They don't make it like that anymore
Oh what bliss. The wonderful Harry James, plus his orchestra, and the delectable Helen Forrest.
I so love this era of music and even the life-style. More difficult? YES. But so much simpler.
Emmy I just read your comment and was blown away, I couldn't agree more. My uncle was a veteran of ww2 and saw much combat in the P.I and New Guinea . He met my aunt Polly during this time and this music reminds me of them so much. They would still listen to this music later in their life (records) and when I hear it it takes me back to the time spent with him and all the stories. America was diff then and im afraid for our future, but I know that Warren and Polly are in that ballroom in the sky and this music plays forever.
Helen Forrest has the voice of an Angel, just melts me every time..RIP Grandma thank you for sharing & getting me into this kind of music..This is real music, not the garbage you hear today. BTW who are the creeps that gave this video a thumbs down, WHAT ??
Her voice is like the finest velvet, you can't imagine how it could be purer.
I was probably still in my father's loins when this was popular I'm certain my mom and dad danced to this when they were young. What a treasure thanks for sharing.
Harry Burke Remember the eggs that made us all possible; thus we tip our non existent hats to the age of woman.
I developed a love for the big band music through my father who played trumpet in the British army. The music now could never compare to the singers of that Era, you had to be able to carry a mote ,my mother used to say nowadays you just have to open your mouth and grunt. This music is timeless and I sometimes wonder what it was like to live in those times.
This was the time when "romance" was not a dirty word !!
Sometimes I wish, I could travel back in time...
You betcha. It wasn't my era but I sure love the romance back then. Rare today. Very hard to find.
Romance has never been a dirty word and I disagree that it's hard to find nowadays. We all see what we want to see. If you're only focusing on the negative, the uninspiring and the selfish greed then that's all you're going to see.
It’s never been a dirty word.
When has it ever been a dirty word
Had forgotten Helen Forrest, One of the best.
*Harry* *James* and *Glen* *Miller* are one of my favorites to listen to on my lazy Sunday. Pure gold 💛💛
A beautiful song sang by the very talented Helen Forest,modern music has lost the Passion that these singers used to put into their songs.Outstanding!
My goodness, seeing and hearing Harry James play again always touches my heart! He came to our school many years ago, and I was chosen to accompany him on a number he played for an occasion in our auditorium. I don't remember the details anymore, but I sure do remember his playing, he's been a favorite horn player of mine every since. He was a true treasure!
Look at what you had. Couples in gentle union, moving in harmony and grace to the music. Somewhere around 1960 you lost it. Now there's only these clips to show what was lost and will never return. As someone in his twenties at that time, let me tell you, it was awesome.
What a superb singer Helen Forrest was
Absolutely fabulous..this was the music of my parents era..they were so fortunate to be able to enjoy such talented artists. 🎤🎺🎭
Really enjoyed Harry James at our ship dance in 1944. Also was able to see Kitty Kallen while my ship was anchored in Long Beach after a long service in the Pacific.
+Ernest Curtis I'm reading about the Pacific campaign now (Ian Toll). All honor to all who served there. Brutal time but you did have the best music in those days!!
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This was my Mom & Dad's song. They used to love to dance to this tune. I'm sure they are dancing to this very tune in heaven now.
Only old souls can listen this song!
You made me love you
I didn't want to do it
I didn't want to do it
You made me want you
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it
You made me happy sometimes
You made me glad
But there were times
You made me feel so bad
You made me cry for
I didn't want to tell you
I didn't want to tell you
I want some love that's true
Yes, I do, 'deed I do
You know I do
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme what I cry for
You know you've got the brand of kisses
That I'd die for
You know you made me love you
You made me cry for
I didn't want to tell you
I didn't want to tell you
I want some love that's true
Yes, I do, 'deed I do
You know I do
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme what I cry for
You know you've got the brand of kisses
That I'd die for
You know you made me love you
@Darla H Thank you for sharing the Lyrics. Muchly appreciated.
I’m 70+ and this before my time, but my 20 year older brother and sister sure did. Before auto tune and they actually play an instrument.
She is one great singer.
I'm living in this period of time now and I am grateful, but I could so appreciate this past era of elegance. Where people actually dressed up nicely to go out socializing, dining and dancing looking like a million bucks. Whereas now...going out to a club or dance hall, now seems to entail no etiquette, minimal clothing, watching x-rated behavior right before your eyes and any assemblance of dignity flies right out the window!
Another hit from the Harry James organization. Helen had such a warm, sweet voice. She really helped to round out Harry's orchestra. Helen really enhanced any band she appeared with. For a brief period of time in the early 40's she was considered the most popular singer in the US.
Oh Helen......you made ME love YOU, Dear.............thanks for all the beautiful music...
A true class performance by Harry James the trumpet player and Helen Forrest.
Bom dia.
Na década de 1960, eu o uvia muito, Benny Goodman, entre outros, no Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
Enquanto eu brincava, ouvia-se essas lindas melodias.
Que tempo.
Outro nível.
Better music was never made, you can see she really did love Harry James. This is musical perfection ❤ oh to have lived then..........
Caramba que magníficas personas que comparten esta bella música con todo el mundo merecen el cielo. Felicidades
my Mom used to sing this (she'll be 95 in 2015) and many other oldies while playing the piano....these are my thoughts of her forever.
God Bless her!
June Ahern - Guess we had the same kind of beautiful Mom. Cheers!
June Ahern is this her favorite song? And also I know this an old comment
Goodness!!!! Helen Forrest was/is such a perfect vocalist!!!!
Check out Jo Stafford
Helen Forrest was great Her music will live forever.
I Love this music 😍❤️ Adorable ❤️💙 Greetings from New York 🗽🌹😘💕🎶
Harry James and Helen Forrest. Voice of angel,just beautiful ! Tank you for the good memories.
greetings from Brazil.
Ildeu Silva was it a :dream
Was it a dream
lldeu Silva, Sorry for the late reply, Helen Forrest did it for me with her voice even in the early 1970's. Elis Regina always & everyday! Greetings from the U.S.
I can remember dancing like that . Why was it always anti-clockwise
Greetings from Brazil 2018 !? 😍❤
An era gone--These Golden hits and magnificent orchestras will survive the test of time. Although I was only a very young boy during this period I came away with an enduring love of truly great music No t v. no internet only imagination to fuel inspiration brought by RADIO broadcast. The very significant shortcoming of this time was the tragedy of WW-2 and the shroud of calamity and death, that it cast upon everyone. Bittersweet but also a momentous era which brought about World change and we lost loved ones, friends.
Discovered this great song on December 7,1991.Will never forget it
generationll December 7th, 1991, a date that will swing in blissful harmony
Judy Fielding
I’m 83 and simply love this music it brings back so many happy memories, it touches the heart. How marvellous to hear lyrics that tell a story and say what people cannot sometimes convey to those they are falling in love with.
Brings me back, even though I'm 24..
The beauty of song, music and the American Song Book!!!!!!!
Queen of the band singers.. luv ya Helen.
+Ed McDowell Best of the field. That phrasing she puts on "I've never made love by lantern shine" from I'm Beginning to See the Light gets me every time.
Ed McDowell no