Nice to hear he is still remembered. He had a fabulous voice. I never met such a sweet and loving man ( my father-in-law). His son Bob Jr. had a lovely baritone voice (a little deeper then his Dad). I miss them both.
I'm 60 years 🧓 old MY Dad And His Buddies Would Listen 👂 to All These wonderful songs. I'm From East Boston. They would All Sing Along IN A social club In Maverick Square. Most of Them Were ww2 Veterans. And Long shore Men. AND MERCHANTS MARINES. GOD I LOVED EVERYONE OF THEM GUYS .THEY WERE THE GREATEST GENERATION. BY FAR.THANKYOU GOD FOR LETTING ME GET TO KNOW THEM.
It amazes me how the younger American generations are so ignorant of such beautiful music like this and all the Big Band Era's great melodies and songs. They have no idea what they are missing. SUCH BEAUTY ! 🥲
Good morning: I never reply to any comments but I am compelled to do so with yours: I was a high school history teacher for 35 years and I used all kinds of music to "teach" my students depending on the era, etc...yes, it is certainly sad that our youth has no appreciation for this wonderful music, but in my classes and when I played this music, the response was amazing. Over the years I accumulated thousands of original songs, artists, etc...and now I go around and entertain seniors with what I accumulated. I could go on, but you are totally "right -on" (expression from my time). Besides, Helen O'Connell...what a "dish!" I've had a crush on her since I discovered her. I spend hours on RUclips searching for clips, songs, etc... you'd be surprised if you saw how many of our young people love this music if it is exposed to them in the correct context. Music is the poetry of our souls.
Actually, you can thank video games for getting the younger generation back into this music. While satellite radio got me started into it, a couple of very popular video games got even more kids into it. If this were on the radio more where I live, I’d listen to it consistently.
IMO Helen O'Connell was one of the prettiest singers of the era. I saw her when she was about 70 and she still had a lot of that wonderful girl-next-door appearance. Sadly she passed away not long afterwards. Such a loss.
This is an example of Dorsey's classic: (1) First, Eberly sings it soft and smooth, (2) next, instrumental by Dorsey...gettting a little jazzy...and (3) then a big fanfare...and (4) out comes the blond bombshell...with the strong voice. LOVE IT!!! Love them all.
Same generation as you and I discovered this music in my teens. Orchestra music (like the Tonight Show Band) was still around in the 60s, and we really weren't very far past the Big Bands. My parents caught the tail end of the Big Band era in the early to mid 50s and they talked to me about it.
This is one of the reasons Jimmy Dorsey was the Best selling recording artist of 1941... Not even the Great Glenn Miller, or his more Famous brother Tommy Dorsey or anyone else out sold this Great band in 41. Bob Eberly had a total of more than 12 number one singles with the Jimmy Dorsey Band. This band are True Legends of their era. Respect
Oh my gosh. i love it when the main guy leaves and everyone goes from classic to party time, the 1940s music and style is so much better than what we see today!
Bob Eberly grew up in Hoosick Falls, NY and my grandparents loved his music and were good friends with his brother Al Eberly and his wife Anne. Bob's niece Joanne is a friend of my mother and went to school together at Hoosick Fall Central School. Bob returned to Hoosick Falls in 1977 for a homecoming concert at St. Mary's school. My grandparents sat with the Eberly family and Bob came over to where they were sitting and talked with them at the end of the concert. It was very memorable for my grandparents.
Love the Big Band Era - it brought us fabulous lyrics and melodies and stars like fabulous Doris Day, the absolutely incomprable Ella Fitzgerald together with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Vera Lynn etc. What a time!
I was born in 1982, and I absolutely love this song. I thank my mom for introducing me to Big Band music. Tangerine is my absolute Favorite of all time. But I love the old music from long ago. Music is such a wonderful gift to share with our young. Granted there is music today that is complete garbage. It has nothing to offer our young. I am glad my mom introduced me to the greats like Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and many of the greats of yesteryear. I will pick the oldies over trash they have now.
Just one of many songs (including "Green Eyes" and "Amapola") featuring the great singing of Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell. Great memories from the Big Band Era.
When I was a little girl I would watch movies on TV with all this wonderful music & my mother listened to music all the time. So glad I was gifted with a love of beautiful music from all genres & eras.
I keep coming back to this video, it's just so great to hear and see classy people like Helen and Bob, nothing like the crapola that passes for music nowadays.
I'm so proud to call bob eberly my great grandfather! I wish I could have met him but my mother was close with him so I get to hear all her storys of him. from what I've heard he was the most selfless man!
WISH I COULD HAVE MET YOU, MARIE ELISE, AND HEARD YOU SPEAK OF THEM, I AM AN OLD VETERAN , OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, U.K. AND I FEEL WITH EMOTION WHEN I HEAR THEIR MUSIC, , THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, :):)
I grew up in the 70s listening to Big Bands. Bob had an incredible voice and I am surprised he wasn't more famous than Frank Sinatra. Both were outstanding singers, but Bob had the looks and the personality. Keep your memories close.
In addition to the singing, I admire the vocalists' stage presence. Their facial expressions and body movements are an important part of their communication with the audience.
Wow, I love that Tangerine song! Those singers were just kids then and the dancers looked so young. I respect that and their Pearl Harbour generaton. They all had hopes and dreams. God Bless America!
I am going to be 61 years old in March I'm going up with R&B classic rock punk rock NuWave yet when I hear swing jazz or bebop music not only do I love it the style the fashion how everything was just so down-to-earth but it creates a hunger in me four more of it when I get disgusted with today's music I run to this!!!
being a rocker at heart, this stuff is way before my time, but it is all class. amazing song, arrangement, vocals- pure magic. just goes to show that excellence never goes out of style...
What an era the 40s were for music! That these songs have endured shows that people are romantics at heart. I say Bring Back Romance! Even young adults today enjoy and appreciate this music. Thanks for this upload. I lived through that era and what a ride!
Bob Eberly was probably one of the best male vocalists of the "Big Band Era". Others that come to mind are Dick Haymes, Art Lund, Harry Babbitt, & Buddy Clark. Little Miss Dimples, Helen O'Connell, was knock-out gorgeous and great to look at !
On this day in 1942 {May 9th} "Tangerine" by Jimmy Dorsey peaked at #1 {for 6 weeks} on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and stay on the charts for 15 weeks... Thirty four years later in 1976 the Salsoul Orchestra covered it; their version reached #18 and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100... R.I.P. Mr. Dorsey {1904 - 1957}
This was my Mom 's signature song when she sang for the USO and the local Watertown NY radio station. Some may laugh now, but that was a pretty big deal in the day. She taught me to love big band music.
What a great song and arrangement. That was a great period in America, when life was simpler and classy. The great Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, there is nothing today that can match that.
Not so! There are numerous "Repertory Bands" here in the USA that still play those charts. You got to look for them, though. At least six in the metro DC region. Unions are tough on amateur bands, though . . .
My uncle William Berryman played with Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra...I was blessed to have known him when I was young. He would play for me...but had to retire from music due to Parkinson's Disease..he's buried in Western NY .
Bob Eberly was known as "the singer's singer", the guy that the likes of Sinatra went to see in concert and often imitate. He and his brother, Ray, never got the backing they needed to escape the big bands.
William Humenansky very ture because he was to selfless to go further because he didn't need to reach the top.. he was happy where he was. frank was his friend and at his death bed frank was there for him and payed most his hopstial bills before he died. btw I'm his great granddaughter... just so you know.
This is great! My 89 year old mother-in-law will love this. The 1940's big band era was amazing. Notice how everyone stops dancing when a HOT singer steps up!
This was my late father's favourite number. I am in Kampala, Uganda, and with the help of Skype I have just played it to my 92-year-old mother in London. Many thanks for posting.
I really beleive I was born 15 years too late. Born in ';46, I missed the best of this great, great music. My Dad & Mom loved it, & I grew up to it. -----------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o
Don't worry, some of us have our children listen to all of it...tell them how our parents loved it and their parents too...if they hear that, then they take to it better...start young and they will love it all...I have a 17 year old who LOVE LOVES swing music...Like my mother...But IM 57, so we have to make sure it goes on...after we ...are swinging to a new tune. Don't leave this earth thinking you didn't make a difference. where would they be without us...and how are we surviving without all the wonderful people who colored our lives.... XOXO
Bob Eberle. What a natural voice and smooth showmanship. As an erstwhile jazz singer I loved Helen O'connell. Nice to hear this stuff again. Dad was piano for big bands so I followed with the love.
Thank God we can still see and play these wonderful songs. I am watching him right now on a repeat of The Joe Franklin Show 1976and he is 61. Very handsome and nice.
Bob Eberle starts it out, subtle, almost conversational. A sweet voice. You just kind of mellow out... Then out jumps Helen O'Connell. She makes your heart start to be a little faster, a grin suddenly appears and you don't even know it's there. What a marvelous time. Thanks so much for the share.
This brings back memories for me from WW11 - Wonderful to see this - It boosted our morale at the time. Everything from the US was so exciting to us in the UK.
The lyrics were different here than how I've heard this song other places. I've always heard it go, "And I've seen toasts to Tangerine raised in every bar across the Argentine..."
Twenty-five years later. I was a high school kid working as a bus boy at a new hot local supper club. He was at the end of his career and was the very first entertainer at this club. One of those things you just never forget. Bob Eberly.
I love the big bands and their vocalists. I didn't become acquainted with the Dorseys until I was a child in the 1950's and Helen O'connel was co-hosting the Today show with Dave Garroway. Tangerine has been a real favorite of mine for a long time. Thanks for this posting.
as a child born before the war I grew up listenting to these wonderful romantic songs - it left an indelible mark on me and shaped my music tastes - there was other music of that time great tenors and sopranos - do miss it all but great to be able to replay on disc or youtube
Marie Elise, I am so delighted that I am able to watch your wonderful great grandfather sing a most famous song..!! A song introduced to me by my wonderful Mother during my childhood. I am fascinated by your Great Grandfather's voice...Absolutely beautiful. Marilyn.
I’m Marie’s mama and Bobs Grand daughter. He is so missed and cherish even after all these years. His daughter Florine ( my mom) died and both my brothers. I miss them All!!
Love this arrangement. The winning combination for the Jimmy Dorsey/Bob Eberly/Helen O'Connell was generally the following: First Bob would come out and sing the song nice and slow and deep; then Jimmy Dorsey would jazz it up with a syncopated arrangement, playing the same tune on his clarinet; and finally, there would be a drum roll...and the beautiful Helen O'Connell would walk out onto the stage with a climatic, strong rendition of the song. The threesome followed this 3-step arrangement with many of their songs--especially when performed live before an audience. Love Helen O'Connell's facial expressions in this film clip, which I think was part of the movie "The Fleet's In..." All of them--the whole Jimmy Dorsey band--were wonderfully talented musicians and performers. Boy....could Dorsey play the clarinet!
Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell were an artistically perfect team and had a great friendship. I saw both perform at the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago in the 1980s I suppose and they were still at the top of their game. Helen was a smart and clever lady who knew her own talent and accomplishments. She was a realist and so thrived and survived in a tough business,
I had the wonderful experience of seeing Bob Eberle with the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1971. A great singer and a great person. Thanks for bringing back a wonderful musical era in this country when it was fighting a terrible war....I think the music had a way of making us stronger and helped us win the war.
Nice to hear he is still remembered. He had a fabulous voice. I never met such a sweet and loving man ( my father-in-law). His son Bob Jr. had a lovely baritone voice (a little deeper then his Dad). I miss them both.
His voice was superb
Sweet that his legacy lives on RUclips and lovely to hear from actual relatives of the great entertainers of yore preserving their memory
May 9 anniversary of 1942 when it hit #1 :)
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How are you doing
I'm 60 years 🧓 old MY Dad And His Buddies Would Listen 👂 to All These wonderful songs. I'm From East Boston. They would All Sing Along IN A social club In Maverick Square. Most of Them Were ww2 Veterans. And Long shore Men. AND MERCHANTS MARINES. GOD I LOVED EVERYONE OF THEM GUYS .THEY WERE THE GREATEST GENERATION. BY FAR.THANKYOU GOD FOR LETTING ME GET TO KNOW THEM.
Always in your memory. I'm fortunate to know of such people you speak of, who are now gone.
It amazes me how the younger American generations are so ignorant of such beautiful music like this and all the Big Band Era's great melodies and songs. They have no idea what they are missing. SUCH BEAUTY ! 🥲
Good morning: I never reply to any comments but I am compelled to do so with yours: I was a high school history teacher for 35 years and I used all kinds of music to "teach" my students depending on the era, etc...yes, it is certainly sad that our youth has no appreciation for this wonderful music, but in my classes and when I played this music, the response was amazing. Over the years I accumulated thousands of original songs, artists, etc...and now I go around and entertain seniors with what I accumulated. I could go on, but you are totally "right -on" (expression from my time). Besides, Helen O'Connell...what a "dish!" I've had a crush on her since I discovered her. I spend hours on RUclips searching for clips, songs, etc... you'd be surprised if you saw how many of our young people love this music if it is exposed to them in the correct context. Music is the poetry of our souls.
This cuts two ways. The younger generation thinks the same of us (I am 900.
Oh my. Older than Methuselah. Congrats. You got me beat by 818 years!
Actually, you can thank video games for getting the younger generation back into this music. While satellite radio got me started into it, a couple of very popular video games got even more kids into it.
If this were on the radio more where I live, I’d listen to it consistently.
Archie Bunker sings this song when meathead offers him money
IMO Helen O'Connell was one of the prettiest singers of the era. I saw her when she was about 70 and she still had a lot of that wonderful girl-next-door appearance. Sadly she passed away not long afterwards. Such a loss.
This is an example of Dorsey's classic: (1) First, Eberly sings it soft and smooth, (2) next, instrumental by Dorsey...gettting a little jazzy...and (3) then a big fanfare...and (4) out comes the blond bombshell...with the strong voice. LOVE IT!!! Love them all.
Hello Pamela how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family
That, as you say, Blond Bombshell was Helen O’Connell (sp). Great duet.
I was born in 59 and love this song 🎵❤
Such a beautiful classic song 🎵
Same generation as you and I discovered this music in my teens. Orchestra music (like the Tonight Show Band) was still around in the 60s, and we really weren't very far past the Big Bands. My parents caught the tail end of the Big Band era in the early to mid 50s and they talked to me about it.
Golden era of music. Classic, elegant, fancy, majestic.
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My Grandpa was amazingly Talented!! I have his Banjo and I know he's my Guardian Angel. Love the comments from everyone. Thank you and God Bless
This is one of the reasons Jimmy Dorsey was the Best selling recording artist of 1941... Not even the Great Glenn Miller, or his more Famous brother Tommy Dorsey or anyone else out sold this Great band in 41. Bob Eberly had a total of more than 12 number one singles with the Jimmy Dorsey Band. This band are True Legends of their era. Respect
Oh my gosh. i love it when the main guy leaves and everyone goes from classic to party time, the 1940s music and style is so much better than what we see today!
I gotta agree with you there!!!!
excellent music
Bob Eberly grew up in Hoosick Falls, NY and my grandparents loved his music and were good friends with his brother Al Eberly and his wife Anne. Bob's niece Joanne is a friend of my mother and went to school together at Hoosick Fall Central School. Bob returned to Hoosick Falls in 1977 for a homecoming concert at St. Mary's school. My grandparents sat with the Eberly family and Bob came over to where they were sitting and talked with them at the end of the concert. It was very memorable for my grandparents.
That’s awesome! My grandpa Bob took me to hoo sick falls that years. I had a blast running through the corn fields!!
My all time favorite is Glenn Miller, but this is darn
Helen O'Connell has the most beautiful face shape and the filmography really makes her skin look so silky and sleak. Amazing beauty.
Love the Big Band Era - it brought us fabulous lyrics and melodies and stars like fabulous Doris Day, the absolutely incomprable Ella Fitzgerald together with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Vera Lynn etc. What a time!
You got that right.
When music was special. Came out almost 30 years before I was born but I could listen to this forever
I was born in 1982, and I absolutely love this song. I thank my mom for introducing me to Big Band music. Tangerine is my absolute Favorite of all time. But I love the old music from long ago. Music is such a wonderful gift to share with our young. Granted there is music today that is complete garbage. It has nothing to offer our young. I am glad my mom introduced me to the greats like Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and many of the greats of yesteryear. I will pick the oldies over trash they have now.
Kinda fun imagining living during the 40's. At least it is for me. I always come back to this kinda stuff. No wonder I love TCM.
Just one of many songs (including "Green Eyes" and "Amapola") featuring the great singing of Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell. Great memories from the Big Band Era.
When I was a little girl I would watch movies on TV with all this wonderful music & my mother listened to music all the time. So glad I was gifted with a love of beautiful music from all genres & eras.
I always enjoyed the music in the 40s, since I was born in1933.
What a beautiful performance of this nice song. Those were the days ...
Helen and Bob were pure magic, the sound of the greatest generation.
I grew up listening to my parent's music. What a marvellous era, what a voice! Lovely to be able to reminisce.
Can you imagine being there yourself?
I keep coming back to this video, it's just so great to hear and see classy people like Helen and Bob, nothing like the crapola that passes for music nowadays.
11 years , i cannot believe , Unbelieveable 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Wonderful! Bob Eberly, what a silky voice! Wow!
Simply beautiful! I've loved this song since a little kid in the 50's.
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Bob Eberly can sing! And that's all that needs to be said!
I'm so proud to call bob eberly my great grandfather! I wish I could have met him but my mother was close with him so I get to hear all her storys of him. from what I've heard he was the most selfless man!
WOW! Your great-grandpa had a gorgeously smooth voice. And what a cutie! Bless.
WISH I COULD HAVE MET YOU, MARIE ELISE, AND HEARD YOU SPEAK OF THEM, I AM AN OLD VETERAN , OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, U.K. AND I FEEL WITH EMOTION WHEN I HEAR THEIR MUSIC, , THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, :):)
Marie Elise Oh wow!! what a wonderful comment. I would feel proud too. He sang so beautiful
this is my great grandfather as well..
Without a credit like that - granddaugher to grandfather - too often these recordings go without any mention of the singer
A wonderful jazz music comin' fm fifty's with a romantic n very smart singer.
I grew up in the 70s listening to Big Bands. Bob had an incredible voice and I am surprised he wasn't more famous than Frank Sinatra. Both were outstanding singers, but Bob had the looks and the personality. Keep your memories close.
And Helen O'Connell is GORGEOUS. Makes me think THAT is what Tangerine looks like. Bob Eberly was smooth as silk with that voice
In addition to the singing, I admire the vocalists' stage presence. Their facial expressions and body movements are an important part of their communication with the audience.
Wow, I love that Tangerine song! Those singers were just kids then and the dancers looked so young. I respect that and their Pearl Harbour generaton. They all had hopes and dreams. God Bless America!
I so remember my mother singing this song to me. I listened to the big band music with her. Then on 40’s on 4 after she passed
one of my favorites. jimmy dorsey's "so rare". produced just before his passing.
What a song! From crooner to belter, it works on so many levels.
Helen came out and I felt like I was just transported to a bandstand on Venus. ❤❤❤
Wow what a voice what a band what a time in history absolutely incredible. It don't get better than this
I love this kind of music I only wish it would comed back. the kids of today don't know what they are missing
I can see why you say that
I do now, this stuff rocks!! Today's music lacks talent like this
I love this music 🎶too
Is it possible to have this much talent on one stage?
Those were the days. Was not even thought of at that time.
What a dreamy voice Bob had.
I am going to be 61 years old in March I'm going up with R&B classic rock punk rock NuWave yet when I hear swing jazz or bebop music not only do I love it the style the fashion how everything was just so down-to-earth but it creates a hunger in me four more of it when I get disgusted with today's music I run to this!!!
Great song, well done. A classy era.
being a rocker at heart, this stuff is way before my time, but it is all class. amazing song, arrangement, vocals- pure magic. just goes to show that excellence never goes out of style...
What an era the 40s were for music! That these songs have endured shows that people are romantics at heart. I say Bring Back Romance! Even young adults today enjoy and appreciate this music. Thanks for this upload. I lived through that era and what a ride!
Bob Eberly was probably one of the best male vocalists of the "Big Band Era". Others that come to mind are Dick Haymes, Art Lund, Harry Babbitt, & Buddy Clark. Little Miss Dimples, Helen O'Connell, was knock-out gorgeous and great to look at !
On this day in 1942 {May 9th} "Tangerine" by Jimmy Dorsey peaked at #1 {for 6 weeks} on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and stay on the charts for 15 weeks...
Thirty four years later in 1976 the Salsoul Orchestra covered it; their version reached #18 and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
R.I.P. Mr. Dorsey {1904 - 1957}
BOB EBERLY = BIG SINGER,
ELEGANT, BRILLIANT
This was my Mom 's signature song when she sang for the USO and the local Watertown NY radio station. Some may laugh now, but that was a pretty big deal in the day. She taught me to love big band music.
@amyd2560 I like your story thank you very much.
What a great song and arrangement. That was a great period in America, when life was simpler and classy. The great Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, there is nothing today that can match that.
Not so! There are numerous "Repertory Bands" here in the USA that still play those charts. You got to look for them, though. At least six in the metro DC region. Unions are tough on amateur bands, though . . .
My uncle William Berryman played with Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra...I was blessed to have known him when I was young. He would play for me...but had to retire from music due to Parkinson's Disease..he's buried in Western NY .
Hello Laura how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family
Elegant man with amazingly smooth and rich voice.
Omg Helen is STUNNING LOOK AT HER!!!!!
Just love this song. Love the colour as well
What a period of time in the whole world dancing at this song! My goodness my heart beating like a crazy!
Bob Eberly was known as "the singer's singer", the guy that the likes of Sinatra went to see in concert and often imitate. He and his brother, Ray, never got the backing they needed to escape the big bands.
William Humenansky very ture because he was to selfless to go further because he didn't need to reach the top.. he was happy where he was. frank was his friend and at his death bed frank was there for him and payed most his hopstial bills before he died. btw I'm his great granddaughter... just so you know.
i have an emotional pain that life/talent is temporary. I love these people and their talent,
This is great! My 89 year old mother-in-law will love this. The 1940's big band era was amazing. Notice how everyone stops dancing when a HOT singer steps up!
This was my late father's favourite number. I am in Kampala, Uganda, and with the help of Skype I have just played it to my 92-year-old mother in London. Many thanks for posting.
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My mom's favorite song. What a classy rendition. The days of orchestras like this one seem sadly gone.
I think he was among the best male vocalists of the Big Band era. The music seems to flow so effortlessly from his vocal chords.
I really beleive I was born 15 years too late. Born in ';46, I missed the best of this great, great music. My Dad & Mom loved it, & I grew up to it. -----------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o
I love his voice so much
Don't worry, some of us have our children listen to all of it...tell them how our parents loved it and their parents too...if they hear that, then they take to it better...start young and they will love it all...I have a 17 year old who LOVE LOVES swing music...Like my mother...But IM 57, so we have to make sure it goes on...after we ...are swinging to a new tune. Don't leave this earth thinking you didn't make a difference. where would they be without us...and how are we surviving without all the wonderful people who colored our lives.... XOXO
Bob Eberle. What a natural voice and smooth showmanship. As an erstwhile jazz singer I loved Helen O'connell. Nice to hear this stuff again. Dad was piano for big bands so I followed with the love.
I am so enamored with this music! I personally feel this is some of the most emotional, exciting, calming, and interesting music of all the eras.
Class! :)
I can see why Bird loved Jimmy's sax playing so much. What lovely tone and technique.
Truly a great song with a great band, and two real singers.
Beautiful. Brings tears to me
One of my late mothers favorite songs ! great singers , and bands from a golden era of music , talent that has gone for ever !
Got to see Helen O'Connell live back in the early 80s here in Cleveland and she could still belt out a tune
Helen O'Connell, Eddie Fisher, and The boys from Philly at the Front Row. I was there, too!
Thank God we can still see and play these wonderful songs. I am watching him right now on a repeat of The Joe Franklin Show 1976and he is 61. Very handsome and nice.
This is one of the songs my dear late Mom used to sign while cooking. I imagine she and Dad dancing in the ballroom.😊
His voice just makes you melt. Sing me to sleep absolutely love his voice.
Bob Eberle starts it out, subtle, almost conversational. A sweet voice. You just kind of mellow out... Then out jumps Helen O'Connell. She makes your heart start to be a little faster, a grin suddenly appears and you don't even know it's there. What a marvelous time. Thanks so much for the share.
He has the best voices I like very much.
They both were great it brings back a lot of memories to me tham
Oh my goodness. This is gorgeous... I just don't get how any human could not be in love with this. It's absolutely, breathtakingly, beautiful. (:
I love it when Helen O'Connell hits that final note!
This brings back memories for me from
WW11 - Wonderful to see this - It boosted
our morale at the time. Everything from the
US was so exciting to us in the UK.
Helen turned my dad on who born in 1928, sad he didn't live without Vascular Dementia to love this video. Anyway, I too loved her.
Great vocal voice by all time greats.
The lyrics were different here than how I've heard this song other places. I've always heard it go, "And I've seen toasts to Tangerine raised in every bar across the Argentine..."
What a great voice. This is being cool in the 1940s!
I wish I was born in my grandparents generation, just so my childhood could be filled with such tasteful music. :)
BEAUTIFUL, JUST BEAUTIFUL... I ADORE THIS MUSIC and JIMMY DORSEY....
Hello dear
great song and what a super band with the best boy singer/girl singer combination of any of the big bands..thanks for posting
Twenty-five years later. I was a high school kid working as a bus boy at a new hot local supper club. He was at the end of his career and was the very first entertainer at this club. One of those things you just never forget. Bob Eberly.
I love the big bands and their vocalists. I didn't become acquainted with the Dorseys until I was a child in the 1950's and Helen O'connel was co-hosting the Today show with Dave Garroway. Tangerine has been a real favorite of mine for a long time. Thanks for this posting.
as a child born before the war I grew up listenting to these wonderful romantic songs - it left an indelible mark on me and shaped my music tastes - there was other music of that time great tenors and sopranos - do miss it all but great to be able to replay on disc or youtube
It is such beautiful music
Marie Elise, I am so delighted that I am able to watch your wonderful great grandfather sing a most famous song..!! A song introduced to me by my wonderful Mother during my childhood. I am fascinated by your Great Grandfather's voice...Absolutely beautiful. Marilyn.
Hello Marilyn how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family 😊
I’m Marie’s mama and Bobs Grand daughter. He is so missed and cherish even after all these years. His daughter Florine ( my mom) died and both my brothers. I miss them All!!
Love this arrangement. The winning combination for the Jimmy Dorsey/Bob Eberly/Helen O'Connell was generally the following: First Bob would come out and sing the song nice and slow and deep; then Jimmy Dorsey would jazz it up with a syncopated arrangement, playing the same tune on his clarinet; and finally, there would be a drum roll...and the beautiful Helen O'Connell would walk out onto the stage with a climatic, strong rendition of the song. The threesome followed this 3-step arrangement with many of their songs--especially when performed live before an audience. Love Helen O'Connell's facial expressions in this film clip, which I think was part of the movie "The Fleet's In..." All of them--the whole Jimmy Dorsey band--were wonderfully talented musicians and performers. Boy....could Dorsey play the clarinet!
Love this! great singers, great performers and the big band era was the greatest of our American music.
Incomparable. The only way I can describe them is .... swell.... That was the word back then. You have great taste in music, "Dame"
Love the lyrics..smooth style....Helen and Bob were a wonderful team...........
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Hello dear
How are you doing
By Johnny Mercer
Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell were an artistically perfect team and had a great friendship. I saw both perform at the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago in the 1980s I suppose and they were still at the top of their game. Helen was a smart and clever lady who knew her own talent and accomplishments. She was a realist and so thrived and survived in a tough business,
I had the wonderful experience of seeing Bob Eberle with the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1971. A great singer and a great person. Thanks for bringing back a wonderful musical era in this country when it was fighting a terrible war....I think the music had a way of making us stronger and helped us win the war.
Totally agree!
I’m bobs grand daughter and I just want to say thank you for those very kind words.♥️
What a beautiful song
Del tiempo en que la música ¡era música!; con lindas voces y músicos de verdad.