Thanks for the memory - Shirley Ross & Bob Hope (The Big Broadcast of 38)
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- Опубликовано: 18 авг 2011
- There are many lyrics available to this song. It seems that no singer repeated the same lyrics twice.
Here is one of the results I found on Internet.
Note: Not the same words that they say on this video.
Thanks for the memory (Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger) - Shirley Ross and Bob Hope (The Big Broadcast of 38)
Thanks for the memory
Of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes
And motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes
How lovely it was!
Thanks for the memory
Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine
The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line
How lovely it was!
Many's the time that we feasted
And many's the time that we fasted
Oh, well, it was swell while it lasted
We did have fun and no harm done
And thanks for the memory
Of sunburns at the shore, nights in Singapore
You might have been a headache but you never were a bore
So thank you so much.
Thanks for the memory
Of sentimental verse, nothing in my purse
And chuckles when the preacher said "For better or for worse"
How lovely it was
Thanks for the memory
Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case
And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace
How lovely it was!
We said goodbye with a highball
Then I got as "high" as a steeple
But we were intelligent people
No tears, no fuss, Hooray! For us
So, thanks for the memory
And strictly entre-nous, darling how are you?
And how are all the little dreams that never did come true?
Aw'flly glad I met you, cheerio, and toodle-oo
And thank you so much. 
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For some reason, when Shirley Ross sings "awfully glad I met you" very near the end of the song, that's when the tear ducts open up for me. Anyone else feel the same way?
I work at a small town movie theater as a side job. Due to the recent CoVid-19 outbreak, a lot of small town businesses are going out. Our theater was one of them.
Our general manager came in one day, shut down all the projectors and audio equipment, returned all the hard drives containing movies and trailers, and put "Thanks for the memories- Bob Hope" on our theater marquee. I didn't understand the reference, so he sent me this video. Such a beautiful and emotional scene.
I was there for almost 10 years, ever since I was 17.
Oh well. Thanks for the memories.
So, it's like 1981 and I'm new to New York, and I see Leo Robin do Lyrics and Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y. He's very old and frail, but he's all there, and toward the end of the evening he tells this story: He and Ralph Rainger are working on The Big Broadcast of 1938 at Paramount, and the producer tells them, you have to write this duet, it's for a sophisticated New York couple who still love each other but broke up, and it has to have lots of jokes but still be touching... They wonder, how are we going to do this, but they go to their office and write this, and come back and audition it, and the producer, who's going through a divorce, starts weeping. So they figure, we guess we did this right. Then they get an Oscar. Then Mr. Robin sings the whole thing, in a whisper, and by the time he gets to So strictly entre nous, Darling, how are you, and how are all those little dreams that never did come true, I'm a puddle. And I think, yes, this is why I came to New York.
Talk about thanks for the memories ! Thanks for that memory !
A great story. Thanks
Cool story.
My wife of 44 years just passed away. This song brings back good thoughts. Thank you for the great song
God bless!
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I'm so sorry for your loss.
I don't know why Shirley Ross wasn't a bigger star - she certainly gives a wonderful performance here.
To say this is nostalgia at its peak is an understatement. My late wife and I shared most everyone of these memories, just missed out on Singapore, the Great Wall of China and lipstick on my tie. They’re my memories now. Nice to hear them set to beautiful music and think back on a life well lived. My dreams did come true, but still, I thank her for the memories.
Just listened again to this poignant song so beautifully sung and wanted to add that these memories came from a life in grand magnificent New York City and summers in France. Lucky us.
I'm 56. Bob was in the middle/late range of his career when I was a child. So I did pick up through childhood osmosis that there was some "Thanks for the Memories" part of his identity/history. This is the first time I found out why.
Favorite line: "You might have been a headache/But you never were a bore..."
My ex's favorite line about me
I'm going to have this on my tombstone... and Thanks for the Memory.
@@booobbo9 More or less the best thing you can say to any departing lover...or anyone else, really!
This wasn’t just singing it was a complete performance. How I wish Bob Hope had been paired in more films with Shirley Ross
i absolutely love "Thanks for the Memories"...always have. My dad had this song sung at my Mother's Funeral in 1991. Every time I hear it, it does something to me. Thanks Bob and Daddy.
Wow
Can never see this w/out tearing up. A masterpiece. Mitch Leisen told Robin & Rainger, "Well, it's not what I expected...but we can use it."
How lovely it was.
This is exquisitely heartbreaking.
There are so many classic scenes in movies but imho this is one of the very best. The song itself, so full of images, the way they sing it, their reactions to the lyrics and their emotions are just perfect. And it seems spontaneous, like it was never even rehearsed, not even once. Just beautiful.
Damn, he sung this for well over 50 years.
This is truly when you "nail it". It looks like they got it perfect on the first take. Consummate professionals, and it still makes your eyes water.
Don't forget the camera work. When he says "and no harm done," she looks at him, and it's pretty clear there was some kind of harm done. Emotional, I mean.
"Apparently, director Mitchell Leisen was having trouble setting the right tone for a scene between the amicably divorced couple Bob Hope and Shirley Ross; Robin and Rainger attempted to convey that the two were still in love without saying so, while maintaining a light tone.
When Leisen heard 'Thanks for the Memory' he pronounced it unfunny, but he was so moved he knew he had to use it. Staff composer Freddy Hollander broke down when he heard it. Shirley Ross sang it, and it was all she could do to keep from crying on camera."
From the book 'Hollywood Rhapsody, Movie Music and its Makers 1900-1975' by Gary Marmorstein.
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This is actually a really heart-breaking song. Or at least this one between Hope and Shirley Ross. She made this movie for me. And Hope is always awesome!
I watch them every couple of months. Just to renew my faith in love and life. I always tear up, and I'm glad i do.
One of my favorite songs. The old music is way better. I’m only 26
So many people from my generation never realized that this song began life as a duet between a divorced couple remembering their marraige
❤ The movies we grew up on can never be replaced. We all came in the time we were suppose too, Thank You Lord.
Beautiful beautiful lyrics, every single word, beautifully rendered......and Shirley’s necklace is stunning! This song was of my parent’s era, and touches my heart very deeply. ❤️🐈
Great acting and singing -- and really good direction. You don't see this quality as much anymore.
I love this song and I've listened to this performance many times.
The sheer professionalism of these two artists can take your breath
away and always bring tears to my eyes. If you want to watch love
at work, the joys and the pain of lost love, watch this. Just say'n.
This reminds me of my folks, born in the 20's, who went through the great depression, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf war, and a billion heart breaks, trials and tribulations. Today we have no idea how hard life can be, but I believe we are about to find out .
They were already old by the Vietnam and gulf war.
WOW! I stumbled on this video accidentally and I think it's become my all time favourite!! Just the song, and the acting, and the glances... oh :')
this is very well done nice to see this
This is such a touching song. I've just heard it for the first time. So grateful for these wonderful performers, and for the internet keeping record.
When I think about this song, it has so much that I am thankful for, because the tears sliding down my face say it all, each & everytime I see this clip.
THE SONGS BRING BACK MEMORIES OF BETTER TIMES
love this song.
Thank you for this Memory Miss Ross and Mr Hope ❤
This is certainly the video (here or posted by someone else) I've watched more often than any other on RUclips and I still tear up at the end.
I thought this song was meant to be bitter until I saw them do it. It's heartbreaking.
Yes, how lovely it was
Reflecting on my life and this song came to mind.
A beautifully sad commentary on an attempted marriage. My parents' generation seemed to have perfected noble failure: lyrical, poetic, heartbreaking.
These hats!! Those were the times when the crazy things were ABOVE girls' heads.
How good is this. Bob and Shirley remained good friends throughout their lives. Shirley should have been a much bigger star later in her career. Loved the video.
This Song is the Life...................................Great...Great...Memorys..................
Just a Golden Age Performance from one of the Royal Family of Entertainment! A great tune and all the lyrics, no matter how many there are, sheer genius! Timeless! Thanks for the Memory(s) Bob!
Thanks for watching my vídeos!
@Charles...Amen. A deserved tribute.
How beautiful a scene how beautiful a song how beautiful a time!!
The saddest part of the film clip is that Shirley Ross wasn't a bigger star. She should have been a superstar :-(
Boy That carries a wallop of a happy/ sad/ sad / happy feeling.
Lovely, effortless, heartfelt. Thank you.
Anytime I want to feel close to my departed parents, I play this video and get a warm, tender feeling of years long ago. ❤🤗😇 Love you mom+dad...Always!!!! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 🌹
Music was great then. They had such chemistry and two sleepy people.
The ideal sophisticates in 1938: "We were intelligent people/No tears, no fuss/Hooray for us!" i Have an affair and move on without regrets. But the ultimate triumph of their humanity: "Thanks for the memory," i.e. We actually do care and are deeply moved.
I want "Might've been a headache but you never were a bore" on my headstone if I ever die
That's how you do it! Well done!
Omg I cried
Bob Hope sang it on his show with lyrics about his guests and I found it annoying until I heard the original, which may be the most touching song in movies. The title, though, is "Thanks for the Memory," singular.
Love Bob, great watch, 🕵💪👍.. love this song 💙💕..
A classic, by any measure. Small wonder this would go on to become Bob Hope's signature song. Thank you for posting this video.
I could do without her hat ... but everything else in this scene is spot on. An impressive intro for Bob into the big time movie spotlight.
I first saw this on Houston late night Tv before I had made some memories. Bittersweet !
Life is for the living.
Beautiful... so sad, and I've never even seen the film!
... I bought the film just to watch this scene. Lousy film, but they get back together at the end.
A perfect duo. They had hit songs in each of their films together--"Two Sleepy People" and "The Lady's in Love With You."
What a beautiful through simple song. The video is cool too. And what I like of the video is the spontaneity with which the actors do their roles. There are so many things one remembers of earlier life when one hears songs like this one and has the chance to thank GOD for all those happy moments one has had.
OK, but sorry, there is no gray beard guy in the sky.
@@emjayay HE IS GOD AND SHOULD WANT TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM HE DEFINITELY WANTS TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU HE LOVES YOU.
yup thanx for the memories :)
Back before alcohol was deemed addictive.
I enjoy watching the ole movies from that era. This is one of my favorite songs from all those movies. Its just catchy.
Stockings in a basin when a fella needs a shave 👍
Such a wonderful song and song lyrics. "We were intelligent people," is in it's own way, about the sexual revolution, i.e. we could have an affair without making a fuss--or alternately--we could get a divorce and move on with out lives. Both are about not being sentimental about sex/romance. But of course, the song is saying: We only think we can be unsentimental: Love hurts when it ends!
I'm from Singapore:)
I just read his biography. I'm so glad I could find this. Thank you
I just heard this on the Netflix series Legacies and stop the film to go to the song 🤩😍
Bob's theme song is very similar in theme to Fred Astaire's "They can't take that away from me."
Shirley Ross should have been a huge star. So sad :-(
Why didn't she become one?
@Areeg Gad. This is the best I could come up with. I guess you could say that her material failed her as studio interest in singing musicals declined. Hollywood could be mean spirited when it came to profit and loss.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ross
i think she is wonderful
Actually she was offered the lead female role in Guys and Dolls, but declined it to spend time raising her own kids. She could’ve had a big life of stardom but she chose family, and I admire her for it.
When Bob sings "That weekend in Niagara when we hardly saw the falls," the original lyrics were "That weekend in Niagara when we didn't see the falls." The censors thought that too risque, so the one word was changed.
An era of good taste long gone.
Is there anything that is not communicated in this scene that could have been by having looser standards? I don't think so ... we feel every inch of their romance without seeing or hearing anything rude.
Awe my aunt linda ill love you forever. I wish you were here. Ill meet you again i promise
"Thanks for the Medicare" The Golden Girls
Lol for blue cross and blue shield....for a hip that finally healed... lol!!
This is the way it was..............
"Thanks for the memories
Of crab games on the floor...
Nights in Singapore.....
You may have been a headache....
But you never were a bore...." :-D
I like the vision of crab games on the floor, kind of like the crab race on field day.
That's "crap games". It means 'dice'.
Amazing. To think, it became a heart felt message to our Troops. I think I watched every televised broadcast. I set time aside for it. You?
Inappropriate but real in any time line.
Magic.
Oh, yes it is.........
@TheMilagros59 Thanks. Their rendition of this song is superb.
These are great lyrics, telling the whole story. Did anyone else get the "subtext": "Letters with sweet little secrets/That couldn't be put in a daywire"/"Too bad it all had to go haywire. . . ", then at the end, "And how are all those little dreams that never did come true?"One wonders what the sweet little secrets were.
I would say children.
I'm 80 years old and today I was responding to very nice email and on the Subject line I just typed, Thanks for the memory. I then I remembered a song. So I went Youtubing like you guys, but I teared up . . . .
Definitely the children they never had.
@@Jenonymouse The censors would have quibbled if they had spelled it out, but this was such a sweet, melancholy way to describe their grief and pain for what never was. I can't help but see the "sweet little secrets" as her telling him she was pregnant. "How are all those little dreams" reminds me of the old saying, "May all your troubles be little ones" (babies).
beauty story, actors and situation....
Luv the Hat !
You know she sleeps in those pajamas.
Saddest thing I've seen in a while
"Thanks for the memory
Of China's funny wall, transatlantic calls
That weekend in Niagra where we hardly saw the falls
How lovely THAT was..."
The original lyric was "...we never saw the Falls." It was thought to be too risque!
…and Hope replies, “You’re WELcome….” 😂
My birthday twin Bob Hope may Allah be pleased with Brother Hope
Thanks for the medicare
Good.
Mr saleri sends his regards....
And the day you Trumped my one and only ace..
So are we Donne?
Best Original Song of 1938.
Put on your thinking caps and name the song that won the Best Original Song one year later. Good luck.
I had to look it up and saw that it was from The wizard of Oz, 'Somewhere over the rainbow"
I took a stab in the dark and thought maybe it was Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, but that was later.
dank
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I knew that Song with the Platters.
Brice Taylor : Thanks for the memories.
Ross and Hope were paired in 3 movies, the big broadcast, the movie thanks for the memories, and another movie called some like it hot/rhythm romance. My question is, does anyone have access to the third film, and if so, could they post it in it’s entirety on RUclips or something else?
sweeeeeeeeeeert
Niagara falls.
The movie was awful and absolutely stank according to the critics then and viewers like me now. But this song with Hope and Shirley Ross went gangbusters. It was acclaimed by the critics as being really special and became Bob Hope’s life-long theme song - as we;l it should.
It was a movie with several high points but very little holding them together. "Thanks For The Memories" is a great scene ... Mr. Fields had a some funny spots, Martha Raye is fun to watch .......... but you fall asleep in between the good moments. Those star packed spectaculars often fell flat.
Please, does anyone know a good, truly good, instrumental version that I can use for a very special project I want to make? Thank you so much in advance... this is really important to me. It's for something very special that I'm very passionate about.
What is the title of this movie? Thank you.
It's called: "The Big Broadcast Of 1938"
Paramount did series of star studded 'Big Broadcast" films ... this was the last one as it fell a bit flat with the public and critics. It had stars but lacked any real cohesive quality.