Harry James & Helen Forrest I've Heard That Song Before

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  • Опубликовано: 12 авг 2013
  • I have tried to make video clips fit the song instead of just pictures, therefore it is not always quite in sync. However the recorded music is worth a listen.
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  • @edludwig1337
    @edludwig1337 Месяц назад +1

    78rpm records of these songs still out there and or cds still available...buy em,play em, i do,to hell with today's music.

  • @richarduhlman7245
    @richarduhlman7245 3 года назад +17

    This Grandfather still loves this song - Harry & Helen can't be beat,,

    • @DerrickWindsor
      @DerrickWindsor 3 месяца назад +2

      No screeching and screaming - just melody and charm!

  • @loiswinters8779
    @loiswinters8779 2 года назад +18

    Now, I am approaching my 90th and I remember jitterbugging to this in high school. Loved the Harry James trumpet.

    • @tuffyrhodes3830
      @tuffyrhodes3830 2 года назад +1

      I'm 62 and just discovered Harry James and Helen Forest a couple years ago. Modern music has truly digressed and going back in time and discovering treasures like this well.... that's entertainment!

    • @rosa7236
      @rosa7236 Год назад

      I bet you could really cut that rug Lois!

  • @geraldjampol3120
    @geraldjampol3120 4 года назад +15

    Songs like this are no longer written. Music today has to be atonal and raucous to appeal to younger listeners. We're fortunate to live in an age when there are quality recordings of melodious tunes and pleasant voices from the distant past. A hundred years from now these songs will still be played. I can't say the same for most of today's music.

    • @roykaneshiro8583
      @roykaneshiro8583 2 года назад +2

      This melody, I can't or I just won't let it leave my mind and heart. What is it about a tune that reaches way down into your soul and makes you melt. It brings tears to my eyes. I'm 80 and a veteran.

    • @trc3675
      @trc3675 Год назад +2

      @@roykaneshiro8583 Hi Roy, yes that's the only way I can describe certain music too. It reaches the soul where our intellect, emotions, and spirit are all at. What a wonderful and mysterious realm! Well goodbye and thank you for serving our great country!

    • @kathleenmckeithen118
      @kathleenmckeithen118 5 месяцев назад +1

      Music today is outright garbage.

    • @geraldjampol3120
      @geraldjampol3120 5 месяцев назад

      Calling it music is too much of a compliment. I fear we'll never again see the likes of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, The Gershwin brothers and the other superstars of that era.

  • @jeromewhelan6723
    @jeromewhelan6723 3 года назад +27

    Approaching 73 years old here and this is the music I learned to love while growing up
    , listening to it as my parents played it. for me, this was the height of appreciable music; the melodies smooth and pleasurable, the lyrics clear and understandable.

  • @paulphelps7809
    @paulphelps7809 3 года назад +21

    Fabulous music. Harry James --what a treasure.

  • @FelicityAnn
    @FelicityAnn 9 лет назад +50

    The #1 song on Tuesday, April 6th 1943 was: I've Heard That Song Before by Harry James and His Orchestra
    This is the day I was born...

    • @veejean4149
      @veejean4149 9 лет назад +6

      I was born July the same year nice to know this was the music at that time.

  • @David-sv7by
    @David-sv7by 3 года назад +9

    Everyone on point, dressed to impress and being supremely professional.
    Greetings from Southampton England.

    • @janebruce3939
      @janebruce3939 Год назад

      They look awesome, and oh HELLO Harry! Xxx

  • @brucer9572
    @brucer9572 3 года назад +9

    Thank you for this beautiful video! I like the way that you treat Helen Forrest. She comes out and knocks everybody out of their seats.

  • @kyaramunzani1784
    @kyaramunzani1784 4 года назад +19

    My grandpa was born in 1942 when this song was released. After he passed away, I would often picture him in my dreams walking around town and he would be young and this song would play in the background, he had really good style back in the day. He was so adorable and happy every time he would come and say hi to me, it used to warm my heart by a lot. I miss him so much everyday and will always remember the amount of joy that comes into his face whenever I see him. I love you Grandpa

  • @julesgoudy5887
    @julesgoudy5887 9 лет назад +173

    As I approach my 90th, and listen to these favorites, they take me back to teenage when I was in love with all the pretty girls and the lyrics said it all.

    • @janwintz8372
      @janwintz8372 8 лет назад +20

      When was your birthday, Jules?? In May, before the 21st? If so, you are also Taurus! We love our music, don't we!
      Good health and much happiness throughout your ninety-first year!!!
      Congratulations, dear! 😉
      Jan

    • @ItsIdaho
      @ItsIdaho 6 лет назад +19

      Jules Goudy whoa. I am just 17 and love this.

    • @scotnick59
      @scotnick59 4 года назад +6

      It must have been a really great time to live.

    • @soniasutcliffe7270
      @soniasutcliffe7270 4 года назад +5

      We were so lucky to grow up in this era! After 1945 everything was just getting better and better. Except for the music, perhaps.

    • @JoeHarkinsHimself
      @JoeHarkinsHimself 3 года назад +7

      @@scotnick59 trust me - it was. 87y.o. now but was in my teens and early 20s when this was what was.

  • @Thomassonable
    @Thomassonable 10 лет назад +65

    What a gorgious song!. A whole generation that had loved this melody is now passing away (including my parents). I am very glad you put it on RUclips so Harry James and Helen Forest can live forever.

    • @marywalker9423
      @marywalker9423 7 месяцев назад +1

      My brother celebrated his 101 Birthday yesterday. He really enjoys hearing these wonderful songs from his youth and hearing them overseas.

    • @eloiselockett9001
      @eloiselockett9001 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@marywalker9423 wow! Hope you all had a lovely day.

  • @thomassicard3733
    @thomassicard3733 2 года назад +7

    Helen sounds so great! What a pleasure!!!!!

  • @nancytuck5041
    @nancytuck5041 3 года назад +18

    Such beautiful music. Totally timeless! ❤️

    • @Kelly-nm4kw
      @Kelly-nm4kw 2 года назад

      Hello Nancy, How are you doing?

  • @mockingbirdjane2289
    @mockingbirdjane2289 5 лет назад +17

    One of the best songs of all time.

  • @death2pc
    @death2pc 2 года назад +5

    Great melody, tempo - beat. This song has it ALL..............

  • @marcelozeas5046
    @marcelozeas5046 3 года назад +6

    What a nice piece. Muy father taugth me to love this kind of music.

  • @tuffyrhodes3830
    @tuffyrhodes3830 2 года назад +6

    It seems I have heard this song before and still love 💕 it!

  • @ItsIdaho
    @ItsIdaho 3 года назад +8

    Has to be my most favourite song. Love the Trumpet Intro.

  • @elisabetyyy8260
    @elisabetyyy8260 Год назад +3

    Me encanta esta música, q nunca pasa d moda. Fue música d ayer , de hoy y será d siempre. Siempre recordaré estás grandes orquestas con gran admiración y respeto. Son inolvidables!!!

  • @karma-tf2tl
    @karma-tf2tl 5 лет назад +7

    These two are the perfect duo

  • @xiolaamapola3180
    @xiolaamapola3180 8 лет назад +18

    Beautiful.....just beautiful.

  • @ashleyknofel226
    @ashleyknofel226 5 лет назад +17

    this is a great dance tune from the 1940's , an era that we will never see again. helan Forrest does a great job. ashley knofel.

    • @loiswinters8779
      @loiswinters8779 4 года назад

      Nice to see I'm not the only one listening to the good old songs.

    • @graemeakerman1739
      @graemeakerman1739 2 года назад

      Up until covid struck, we could still go and dance to this music with a 16 piece big band and singers who knew the songs, it was heaven. Hopefully this year, we will be able to do it again.

  • @boba7149
    @boba7149 3 года назад +4

    i never heard helen before and i’m 53 and love her voice i need to buy her cd !!!!!

  • @markpicknell6240
    @markpicknell6240 4 года назад +3

    Fab song and lovely lyrics
    Helen sang with so many big bands
    Beautiful voice

  • @FallNorth
    @FallNorth 4 года назад +4

    Helen Forrest = vocal perfection.

  • @TheInquisitiveCat
    @TheInquisitiveCat 6 лет назад +5

    Great music and voice!

  • @antoniocifuentes5495
    @antoniocifuentes5495 9 лет назад +11

    Harry James was the master of the trumpet. This musical piece is a proof of that.

    • @Hutzjohn
      @Hutzjohn 9 лет назад +2

      Yes I remember someone was being interviewed and he said Harry would walk in just minutes before his show and just go out, pick up his trumpet and just play because he did not need a warm-up. It was some musician from that era and he said Harry was that good, and he didn't know any other musician that could do that. So Harry was arguably the best trumpet player ever.

    • @fernmann7
      @fernmann7 8 лет назад +1

      Harry James is the standard for everything you'd want from a trumpet player, showmanship included, plus gambling, drinking and womanizing to add some spice

    • @despinamu1
      @despinamu1 7 лет назад

      m

  • @bblegacy
    @bblegacy 7 лет назад +15

    Helen Forrest rightfully earned her tag line the Queen of the Girl Singers. She sang with Shaw, Goodman and James and there isn't one record in the whole lot that isn't good, if not great.

  • @triode1
    @triode1 3 года назад +2

    I met Helen Forest in 1953, at the Cavalier Hotel in Va Beach. 🌹

  • @EcoRevolucionUrbana
    @EcoRevolucionUrbana 6 лет назад +9

    CANT STOP PLAYING THIS!

    • @104iq
      @104iq 5 лет назад

      yes!

  • @philsimpson2587
    @philsimpson2587 6 лет назад +7

    This is just fantastic stuff

  • @amyomeara2515
    @amyomeara2515 8 месяцев назад

    My son is 12 and plays the trumpet. I’ve for the original sheets from this, an old friend of my father’s passed his music collection. He’s working on it now - so glad this is on RUclips for him to hear the original. ❤️

  • @ignacioaltuna785
    @ignacioaltuna785 8 лет назад +35

    ¡Qué dulce elixir! Cuánta gloria escuchar esos armoniosos sonidos, esa voz angelical y ese ritmo, que haría danzar hasta a los más rengos... Ni qué hablar de la canción, amable, sensible, adorable: tal era la música de los viejos buenos tiempos, de cuando las damas éso eran, y los varones procurábamos ser muy hombres... Todo pasa, todo cambia, pero estos sones serán por siempre inmortales, mientras los discos giren, los filmes sean dados y You Tube conserve estos archivos..!
    Chau! Desde BA, Nacho!

    • @valuevinyl110
      @valuevinyl110 4 года назад +2

      What a sweet elixir! How much glory to hear those harmonious sounds, that angelic voice and that rhythm, which would make even the most popular dance ... Not to mention the song, kind, sensitive, adorable: such was the music of the good old days, when the ladies that were, and the men we tried to be very men ... Everything happens, everything changes, but these sounds will be forever immortal, as long as the discs spin, the films are given and You Tube keep these files ..!
      Bye! From BA, Nacho!

    • @twinmaker1
      @twinmaker1 3 года назад +1

      @@valuevinyl110 Thanks for the translation, that was really sweet of you to do for them

    • @bobboscarato1313
      @bobboscarato1313 2 года назад +2

      Hola Ignacio; yo no sabia que eres tan poetico; felicidad y felicitaciones. Eres puro genio!

    • @ignacioaltuna785
      @ignacioaltuna785 2 года назад

      @@bobboscarato1313 Gracias, Bob! (sí, soy un corazón andante, romántico incurable, tierno como el agua, siempre enamorado de las damas dulces...). Chau!, N.

    • @bobboscarato1313
      @bobboscarato1313 2 года назад +1

      @@ignacioaltuna785 Super Duper! Ditto, B.

  • @maureen1938
    @maureen1938 7 лет назад +7

    Thank you for posting this beautiful share. I love Helen Forrest and the Big Bands era....magical times these were.

  • @juanmanuelparadacontreras9565
    @juanmanuelparadacontreras9565 7 месяцев назад +1

    Una gran melodía en evocar un estilo único e irrepetible de una era dorada.

  • @fernandofausto7626
    @fernandofausto7626 7 лет назад +10

    love Harry James & Helen Forest.

  • @dwaynebrue6028
    @dwaynebrue6028 4 года назад +1

    The Legendary Harry James and Helen Forrest!!!!! The Greatest music ever!!!!

  • @drewsagar2634
    @drewsagar2634 9 лет назад +4

    I've always loved this song. Funny now that I'm in my 50's I can relate to the lyrics as to how songs from the 70's inspire nostalgia Thanks for uploading

  • @RoryVanucchi
    @RoryVanucchi 2 года назад

    One of the big ones in an era of big ones. Arguable Harry and Les Brown closed out the big band era. Ellington, Goodman, Basie, Dorsey, Chuck Webb, Artic Shaw and others got it rolling. Krupa with Eldridge and O'Day were big too. Guys like Harry, Woody Herman, Ellington, Basie and later Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Thad Jones kept it thriving until they passed. Nothing more exciting than a great brass section. All distant memories of a time passed

  • @debztv-6245
    @debztv-6245 5 лет назад +6

    God, shes beautiful...

    • @scotnick59
      @scotnick59 4 года назад

      She would have liked to have heard that, Sebastian; she never thought herself pretty enough

  • @oscarguerrerobanda3416
    @oscarguerrerobanda3416 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks Helen and Harry forma you Música!!!❤

  • @moisescedenoorozco4356
    @moisescedenoorozco4356 2 года назад +1

    Disfruto al maximo con James esta melodia

  • @voicegirl555
    @voicegirl555 3 года назад

    Happy Birthday Harry James! Boy you were a great trumpet player. I'd give anything to have seen you play back in the 40s and Helen sing.

    • @remigerits8274
      @remigerits8274 2 года назад

      Remi Gerits wat is dat voor een mooie nummer helen & harry

  • @f.a.r9372
    @f.a.r9372 8 лет назад +48

    It seems to me I've heard that song before
    It's from an old familiar score
    I know it well, that melody
    It's funny how a theme recalls a favorite dream
    A dream that brought you so close to me
    I know each word because I've heard that song before
    The lyrics said "Forever more"
    Forever more's a memory
    Please have them play it again
    And I'll remember just when
    I heard that lovely song before

  • @jason60chev
    @jason60chev 7 лет назад +12

    I've heard this before!

  • @RobertSilvestri86
    @RobertSilvestri86 6 лет назад +3

    This was the #1 song on April 28, 1943 !

  • @user-es3zs9qo8i
    @user-es3zs9qo8i 2 года назад +2

    класно играл. слушаю всегда с удовольствием. и певица что надо.большое спасибо что есть возможность наслаждаться игрой.

  • @davidlabarca4268
    @davidlabarca4268 3 года назад +8

    Hannah and her Sisters was as great as any Woody Allen film soundtrack. And the start of this song is big reason why.

  • @trinitylee3466
    @trinitylee3466 4 года назад +13

    I love this song as well as other songs by artists around this time period... Nat King Cole, The Andrew's Sisters, Mills Brothers, Peggy Lee etc.
    Strange how all this music is lost to my generation now though, most of the people listening to this are more than half my age

  • @brent6518
    @brent6518 Год назад

    True music!

  • @romcallis
    @romcallis 3 года назад

    What an era? I was born 20 years too late

  • @Jokesta
    @Jokesta 8 лет назад +47

    Grandpa loved this song

  • @stevetchia
    @stevetchia 3 года назад +2

    Heard this first in a Woody Allen movie - think it ‘Hannah’ not ‘Zelig’ - never forgot its stirring effects 30+ years since. Thanks for the memories.

  • @nicolasolmosolmos1657
    @nicolasolmosolmos1657 10 лет назад +27

    WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE HAVING RUclips THAT PERMITS US ENJOY
    THIS WONDERFUL MUSIC BETTER THAN NOWADAYS SHIT MUSIC

    • @Thomassonable
      @Thomassonable 10 лет назад +2

      @Niclas Olmos. RUclips is a blessing for us and the next generations.

    • @nothanks5570
      @nothanks5570 7 лет назад +2

      THANK YOU, TIMMY. THIS IS THE KIND OF COMMENTARY I LIVE FOR THE KIND THAT WAS WRITTEN BY TODDLERS WHO ACCIDENTLY CLICKED ON THE CAPITAL LETTER LOCK.

    • @josvandeursen727
      @josvandeursen727 3 года назад

      Amen to that!

  • @TaylorplayerforJesus
    @TaylorplayerforJesus 6 лет назад +1

    Thank you very much for Harry James. Great for baritone ukulele. Everyone remembers Harry James at Old Time Fiddlers. I get to remember my parents when I perform it and you can play it for young people to remind them that so many people's lives were disrupted by having to fight in the war. Great videio. Good job.

  • @BigSpiderback
    @BigSpiderback 7 лет назад +1

    Beautiful pictures, sound and great song

  • @garywall8678
    @garywall8678 5 лет назад +1

    I simply love the man with his horn. I got to see him live at Disneyland

  • @debbierosauer9948
    @debbierosauer9948 Год назад

    Takes me back...the best!

  • @cynthialyman2636
    @cynthialyman2636 7 лет назад +1

    Love love love it!!!!!💟❤

    • @Kelly-nm4kw
      @Kelly-nm4kw 2 года назад

      Hello Cynthia, How are you doing?

  • @titasantiniE
    @titasantiniE 3 года назад

    Great, amazing, marvelous.......

  • @barbarabeard4181
    @barbarabeard4181 Год назад

    My dad that ❤was pure music.I agree ❤

  • @billfennelly4053
    @billfennelly4053 2 года назад

    I’m a child of the 50s rock and roll and all that but I love the Big Band sound

  • @LudiusQuassas
    @LudiusQuassas 8 лет назад

    This... Aww... Is so cute and well talented!
    That's why I love these songs!

  • @StGeorgeFred
    @StGeorgeFred 10 лет назад +1

    Good job, one of my favorites.

  • @psympson
    @psympson 5 лет назад +3

    Oh, A BIG, BiG THANK YOU WOODY!

  • @annrichman6551
    @annrichman6551 3 года назад +1

    He could sure make that horn wail

  • @novelliification
    @novelliification 8 лет назад +5

    Delicioso esse timbre do trompet de Harry James.

  • @Jinkinsonsasa
    @Jinkinsonsasa 7 лет назад +1

    What great music

  • @boba7149
    @boba7149 3 года назад

    love this song reminds me of grandpa i love helens voice !!!$

  • @slokind5244
    @slokind5244 8 лет назад +3

    This is the recording I remember (and which I'm writing about, sort of). we all liked Harry James in this period, and Helen Forrest seems unbeatable as a band soloist. See my current TeeGeeEssays blogpost. It this one won't load, there are half a dozen others by Harry James that do. Also see the Images for Joseph Pulitzer.

  • @daveday5507
    @daveday5507 6 лет назад +1

    Bob Pollards baritone did a remarkable impersonation of Corky Corcorans tenor. Well done.

  • @Kroonerguy
    @Kroonerguy 9 лет назад +1

    Pretty good job, especially at the end with the Baritone Sax.

  • @joeoverby7039
    @joeoverby7039 3 года назад +1

    love it!jo atlanta ga

  • @russphilly
    @russphilly 9 лет назад

    well done..most enjoyed :)

  • @brightphoebus
    @brightphoebus 10 лет назад

    Fantastic. Great sing along song. The 40's seems so close. Enjoyed your vid.

  • @dejathoris3181
    @dejathoris3181 11 лет назад

    You did a good job.
    Thanks

  • @princesitapato9640
    @princesitapato9640 6 лет назад +1

    Woo que hermoso 💓

  • @aphguy
    @aphguy 10 лет назад

    I love Helen Forrest.

  • @sandrast.
    @sandrast. 5 лет назад

    Great!

  • @robzoneutube
    @robzoneutube 7 лет назад +2

    Song: "I've Heard That Song Before"
    Artist: Harry James
    Consecutive Weeks at No. 1 on Chart in 1943: 12

  • @argus42
    @argus42 8 лет назад

    great, great people

  • @rolandlundh1505
    @rolandlundh1505 Год назад

    Härligt gung och sång

  • @perohlindead
    @perohlindead 10 лет назад

    it's forttunate to see the original video !!!!!

    • @AndrewMaciejewski
      @AndrewMaciejewski 6 лет назад

      osha25 unfortunately the video isnt the original... this is just the audio placed over another random performance of James'

  • @spindalis79
    @spindalis79 7 лет назад

    I just found out about this great Big Band song from the 40s. (1943?) Ironically it is mere hours from Helen Forrest's would-be 100th birthday.

  • @southbend3406
    @southbend3406 3 года назад

    Remember my mom singing this...when she heard something from the past she didn't believe.

  • @cristianvalenzuela3796
    @cristianvalenzuela3796 6 лет назад

    Con gusto me tomaría ese cafe

  • @stretchedout6600
    @stretchedout6600 3 года назад

    1940s uso dance free beer damn what a great time it must of been

  • @YUGOMUSIC
    @YUGOMUSIC 6 лет назад

    all of me. why not take all of me. cant you see im no good without youuuuu

  • @trekker4254
    @trekker4254 7 лет назад

    sweet :)

  • @alanashe873
    @alanashe873 7 лет назад

    if you love this music try 101.7 capital radio every Saturday 12.00 pm perth western australia

  • @jamesngetha6760
    @jamesngetha6760 3 года назад +1

    I do wonder what song Harry and the band are playing in the video clip.

  • @ronaldcammarata3422
    @ronaldcammarata3422 4 года назад +1

    I pretty much always prefer original recordings to later hifi versions.

  • @briddoful
    @briddoful  10 лет назад

    Thanks brightphoebus. I would have liked to do better with the video but the clip of Harry James brought back good memories.

  • @antoniasanchez3214
    @antoniasanchez3214 5 лет назад

    hummmmmm!!!

  • @ArtigasMillan
    @ArtigasMillan 2 года назад

    ¿porqué cortan el vídeo cuando va aparecer la cantante?

  • @anthonyborgia3064
    @anthonyborgia3064 5 месяцев назад

    Hey i just heard this song sung by someone else earlier today

  • @ananita626
    @ananita626 6 лет назад +1

    nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

  • @kerstindahlqvist9641
    @kerstindahlqvist9641 5 лет назад

    What is the instrument called that Bob Pollard plays? English is not My native language.

  • @rubengomez6798
    @rubengomez6798 2 года назад

    This song reminds me Woody Allen