I'm blown away. Lost for words. That song was written the year I was born. Eighty four years later this group makes we want to live another eighty four years when there are groups like this bringing the songs of my youth back to life. God bless you guys and gals.
Well, it's not completely unknown. And, let's face it ... "the masses" generally don't have discerning tastes, which this group definitely requires. That said, it would be good, particularly for the members of the group, if more people were aware of how infinitely good they are.
I know this comment will probably get buried, but I just wanted to let yall know that you just made my night. I've smiled unlike I have in a long while
Hey, cdmjazz. It isn’t often you read about the 4Freshman and the HiLo’s. I just turned 90, so that means I was a jazz a cappella fan way back when. I even sang in a quartet while at Washington University back in the early 50’s in a competition which for years was barber shop renditions. We won it two years running with 4Freshman songs. I have loved jazz for most of my life which means I was listening to the big bands, especially Basie. Love Manhattan Transfer. Now I listen to Pentatonix, Quad and now these guys. A cappella is alive and well!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻
It's hardly the "elevator music" of jazz. It's the Schubert, Beethoven, and Ella Fitzgerald of jazz. It's the very essence of jazz, the very essence of music. Whether it's jazz or not jazz, however you want to categorize it, it's world-class magnificent!
I'm delighted by discovering this group. This is a gorgeous rendition of a gorgeous classic. Reminds me of The Manhattan Transfer's Nightingale Sang... but with your own unique talents. Magnificent.
The bridge in this four years later still just instantly brings tears to my eyes. Music is so powerful, and you guys exhibit that power well. Love the dissonance coming out of the bridge into the final section of the tune
As a long-time fan of the Freshmen, the HiLos, Singers Unlimited and New York Voices, I am truly impressed! Your intonation and handling of close voicings is impeccable and the diction is marvelous. Hoping to hear more from you. That last chord resolution was amazing! Thank you for your artistry.
Goose Bumps!!!!!! That was AWESOME!!!!! I.m a big band buff and Love groups of "The Moderates" and others!!! Your close harmonies is spot on!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!
Either my drink of water is too cold or you guys are sending chills up my spine!! Your sounds move me. Thank you for finding each other and playing together.
This song has always been a favorite of mine and I’ve heard many artist’s rendition of this over the years but this is by far in a unique class of its own. The vocal arrangement is first class. If I may I would just like you to consider an idea I have for that climatic tag ending you do so flawlessly well. At 3:47 when you guys sustain the word “night”, I think it would have an even more dramatic effect if the female lead singer “waits” a little and render “the nearness of you” rubato style instead of coming in too early. Other than that, Mr Hoagy Carmichael must smiling from ear to ear after listening to you guys perform this classic, historic and beautiful song. Keep up your magnificent work! ☮️🙏🎵🌺
OK, I will admit nothing thrills me more than great acapella, but this group and this song just blows me away. Tears to my eyes and chills up and down my spine. I’m apparently a bit late to the party here, but glad I found the door as I searched out inspiration for my own keyboard arrangement for a vocalist accompaniment. Amazing performance from incredible talent that spills forth from this group.
Love this! This was my wife’s and my wedding song 30 years ago. We just celebrated our anniversary and I recorded it for her as a surprise...me and piano accompaniment. Your version is stunning. I absolutely loved it. Thank you for posting it and having such heavenly voices that perfectly blend together. Bravo!!
So I think the very definition of creativity is taking something that everyone has access to (in this case a voice and four friends) and with the application of talent, commitment and time… turn something so mundane into something so magical and astounding. My God you guys are wonderful, off to see if I can find more stuff from Highline! Hoagy would be proud.
yesssssssssssssssssss A magnificent arrangement, exciting and sensitive execution, and technically excellent performance! I loved you guys! Jazzy greetings from São Paulo, Brazil :)
impressed beyond words (and yet i'll type a few ;p) I feel, frankly, genuinely blessed to have found you. Your music will move people. Move people I hope into (as John Cusack said this fall in a live appearance I attended) giving up the political party of republican or democrat, and just being an active, compassionate member of 'party humanity.' Leave resentment, hate, skepticism, sarcasm, judgement and just be in the moment with our fellow citizens of earth and enjoy this life we've been given. Your music will spread good will, please never give up doing what you do!! It will inspire!
I'm blown away. Lost for words. That song was written the year I was born. Eighty four years later this group makes we want to live another eighty four years when there are groups like this bringing the songs of my youth back to life. God bless you guys and gals.
I absolutely agree. Their voices are like fine-tuned instruments in concert!
Yeah ! Eighty more years, Two more World Wars, another financial crisis, and the climate mess.
I've been involved in acappella for decades, and this is one of the best arrangements I've ever heard -- ever.
Can you believe that talent like this exists and is unknown to the masses? This group should be doing super bowl national anthems.
Well, it's not completely unknown. And, let's face it ... "the masses" generally don't have discerning tastes, which this group definitely requires. That said, it would be good, particularly for the members of the group, if more people were aware of how infinitely good they are.
I know this comment will probably get buried, but I just wanted to let yall know that you just made my night. I've smiled unlike I have in a long while
2024, listening, sound beautifully
One of the tightest jazz vocals I've ever heard. Wonderful arrangement , Jared.
Bravo bravo bravo
Y'all going straight to heaven. If y'all sing this song to God he would cry. 🫶
Thank You Lord Jesus Christ for music ✝️😭🙏
This is beautiful 🇿🇦
Hey, cdmjazz. It isn’t often you read about the 4Freshman and the HiLo’s. I just turned 90, so that means I was a jazz a cappella fan way back when. I even sang in a quartet while at Washington University back in the early 50’s in a competition which for years was barber shop renditions. We won it two years running with 4Freshman songs. I have loved jazz for most of my life which means I was listening to the big bands, especially Basie. Love Manhattan Transfer. Now I listen to Pentatonix, Quad and now these guys. A cappella is alive and well!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻
So beautiful❤
Wonderful voices! 🎶🎼🎵🌟💯🌟💯🌟💯💎💎💎💎💎😉🙏🇧🇷
One of my favorite songs. Thank you! 💖💖💖
What a delightful surprise to happen across your channel while randomly surfing RUclips music. Outstanding!
A cappella !!!! This is the true way to sing a great ballad !!! Fantastic job you guys !!! Wonderful harmony !!!!!
Demasiado bello...en todos los sentidos...
Claro que si!
Eso hizo estremecer a mi corazon.
Just gorgeous. Great song to start with, in an incisive arrangement, and done with precision by five superb singers.
It's hardly the "elevator music" of jazz. It's the Schubert, Beethoven, and Ella Fitzgerald of jazz. It's the very essence of jazz, the very essence of music. Whether it's jazz or not jazz, however you want to categorize it, it's world-class magnificent!
One of my all-time favorite songs - and you do it beautifully! Gorgeous arrangement! So glad to hear vocal jazz doing well in younger lives.
This group is SERIOUSLY good.
@Gary Schneider: Yes, it is!
I'm delighted by discovering this group. This is a gorgeous rendition of a gorgeous classic. Reminds me of The Manhattan Transfer's Nightingale Sang... but with your own unique talents.
Magnificent.
I'm in tears !!!! Makes me think of All of my grand parents!!!
Simply exquisite and flawless. Makes me cry and smile in equal measure. Congrats and thank you.
The bridge in this four years later still just instantly brings tears to my eyes. Music is so powerful, and you guys exhibit that power well. Love the dissonance coming out of the bridge into the final section of the tune
Glorious.
Wow! Your blended voices are spectacularly accurate and on note! What a complex arrangement, and how beautifully presented!
Another level .. Wow !
Wow wow wow wow fabulous
You guys are stupendous, a real delight to listen to. Thank you so much for such a delightful presentation !! Out of sight!!!
I mean, I've listened to this over and over. It's just ridiculously good. There are so many delectable moments, shadings...Jesus.
Well, THIS... is fairly sublime !
this is one of the best vocal arrangements that exists!
I wholeheartedly agree!
Brings back memories. My marriage theme song.
It does not get any better than this. This is perfection. As good as the King's Singers. Stunning.
This is the most amazing arrangement!!! And beautifully executed!
Wow... years late to the party, but that was stellar. Bravo!
Boys and girls, you are great!!!
Wow beatifully shocking! Inpressive
As a long-time fan of the Freshmen, the HiLos, Singers Unlimited and New York Voices, I am truly impressed! Your intonation and handling of close voicings is impeccable and the diction is marvelous. Hoping to hear more from you.
That last chord resolution was amazing! Thank you for your artistry.
Agree
Add Anita Kerr to the list. Beautiful, guys.
now my favorite vocal ensemble group
Fantástico,no hay nada mas hermoso wue la voz humana,este grupo te sube al cielo.
Goose Bumps!!!!!! That was AWESOME!!!!! I.m a big band buff and Love groups of "The Moderates" and others!!! Your close harmonies is spot on!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!
Nonstop chills! So great, the intonation is so on point! Such rich harmony, lush!
Either my drink of water is too cold or you guys are sending chills up my spine!! Your sounds move me. Thank you for finding each other and playing together.
Absolutely wonderful rendition of this great song.
Love the use of cluster chords, and the occasional flatted 7th. What really strikes me, though is the complete understanding of the song.
It sucks that I can't like this video more than once!! I want to like it every time I replay it 😭😭🙆🏽♀️❤
Lovely! Too beautiful for words!
Some angels sing jazz
This song has always been a favorite of mine and I’ve heard many artist’s rendition of this over the years but this is by far in a unique class of its own. The vocal arrangement is first class. If I may I would just like you to consider an idea I have for that climatic tag ending you do so flawlessly well. At 3:47 when you guys sustain the word “night”, I think it would have an even more dramatic effect if the female lead singer “waits” a little and render “the nearness of you” rubato style instead of coming in too early. Other than that, Mr Hoagy Carmichael must smiling from ear to ear after listening to you guys perform this classic, historic and beautiful song. Keep up your magnificent work! ☮️🙏🎵🌺
OK, I will admit nothing thrills me more than great acapella, but this group and this song just blows me away. Tears to my eyes and chills up and down my spine. I’m apparently a bit late to the party here, but glad I found the door as I searched out inspiration for my own keyboard arrangement for a vocalist accompaniment. Amazing performance from incredible talent that spills forth from this group.
Absolutely world class.
WOW, JUST WOW!
Absolutely the best…!!
Congratulations..🎯
Love this! This was my wife’s and my wedding song 30 years ago. We just celebrated our anniversary and I recorded it for her as a surprise...me and piano accompaniment. Your version is stunning. I absolutely loved it. Thank you for posting it and having such heavenly voices that perfectly blend together. Bravo!!
no vibrato forces you to sing on pitch and this group has mastered it
Oh, that vocal space!
This group is absolutely wonderful to listen to. Great harmony!!
Utterly beautiful. So exact. Thank you so much.
Holy s..t! God bless you!
Can’t get enough of your unreal harmony.You are the best of all!
Lindo demais. Saudações de Campinas/São Paulo/Brasil.
Wow wow wow!
A delight to the ears
SUPERB. We need more of your beautiful vocals!!!
Absolutely awsome!! Thank you
Sublime and powerful!
change is the only constant...Plz God..grant these guyz an exemption..
Just...wow.
It is wonderful.
Jesus that was gorgeous.
Hope this channel can grow up fast
That was sublime! You are the next generation Manhattan Transfer! Can't wait to hear more of your music!
BRAVII!!!!! WHOOOHHHH
Clear and Crisp, great acupella with Harmony!
Just...in tears. Thank you
Reminiscent of the fantastic Hi Los. Marvelous!
This arrangement crushes. Well done!
優しいハーモニーが大好きです🌼🌷
何度も聴いています。
divine, magic
HARMONY IS THE VOICE OF GOD!! Already donated this year.
Very pretty. The part towards the end when everyone went full voice. Soaring.
LOVE THIS!!!
Holy cow...that is absolutely enchanting. Never heard anything better in my life.
Can’t get enough of you!Simply fantastic!
love this song, love this arrangement, and would love to hear more news from you guys! 🥲 greetings from argentina! 👋
I'm floored, choked up. Dazzling singing and arrangement -- just beautiful.
Damnn this is underrated! You guys nailed it!
So I think the very definition of creativity is taking something that everyone has access to (in this case a voice and four friends) and with the application of talent, commitment and time… turn something so mundane into something so magical and astounding. My God you guys are wonderful, off to see if I can find more stuff from Highline! Hoagy would be proud.
Wonderfully .. seriously.. great performance .. Lap It up.. Keep It up ❗
yesssssssssssssssssss
A magnificent arrangement, exciting and sensitive execution, and technically excellent performance!
I loved you guys!
Jazzy greetings from São Paulo, Brazil :)
My GOD!!! Wonderful
I love this so very much! 😊❤️
impressed beyond words (and yet i'll type a few ;p) I feel, frankly, genuinely blessed to have found you. Your music will move people. Move people I hope into (as John Cusack said this fall in a live appearance I attended) giving up the political party of republican or democrat, and just being an active, compassionate member of 'party humanity.' Leave resentment, hate, skepticism, sarcasm, judgement and just be in the moment with our fellow citizens of earth and enjoy this life we've been given. Your music will spread good will, please never give up doing what you do!! It will inspire!
PHENOMENAL GROUP !!!
I'm shook by the voicings on that last verse. This is incredible guys!
Unbelievable...
For real though. Heart skipped a beat.
Excelentes voces. Son muy buenos
What a magnificent way to end an already royal day!
Magical!