Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman - Stealing Apples (high quality)

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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
  • The other versions of this song on youtube are a bit fuzzy so I thought I'd give it a shot. RUclips probably wants me to say that I do not own any of this material. From the 1948 film "A Song Is Born," Lionel Hampton teaches Professor Magenbruch (Benny Goodman) a thing or two about jazz.

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  • @vonbabasin9544
    @vonbabasin9544 2 года назад +1143

    So, that's my dad, Harry Babasin, on bass... he was part of Benny Goodman's rhythm section at the time with the others in this group, Mel Powell on piano, Louie Bellson on drums, Al Hendrickson on guitar... the others sitting with Louis Armstrong are Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey

    • @AlBergstein
      @AlBergstein 2 года назад

      Man your dad could swing.

    • @michaeltuz608
      @michaeltuz608 2 года назад +30

      Thanks for sharing!

    • @swingman5635
      @swingman5635 2 года назад +20

      So cool! What memories he must have shared with you!

    • @vonbabasin9544
      @vonbabasin9544 2 года назад +56

      @@swingman5635 I have been working for a number of years to produce a documentary about his life and career and the entire West Coast Jazz scene... I hope to fulfill my life's work someday... cheers!

    • @swingman5635
      @swingman5635 2 года назад +18

      @@vonbabasin9544 All the best to you and your endeavor!

  • @keyestohouse
    @keyestohouse Год назад +232

    That's my dad Lionel Hampton. he was amazing. miss him so much. thank you for posting.

    • @LeePresson
      @LeePresson  Год назад +36

      That makes you my new best friend! He's a hero of mine. I play vibes myself. Got to meet him once when he was 90 (and still playing shows!). It was a thrill.

    • @danlunham4478
      @danlunham4478 Год назад +12

      Wow, LaTanya, your dad! Of all the players, then and after, he's in the ether. As my own bass player dad, pulling from the jazz lexicon, would've said, simply and with a smile, "Somethin' else."

    • @vonbabasin9544
      @vonbabasin9544 Год назад +19

      My father and your father were great friends... Harry spoke very highly of Lionel and wished they had had the opportunity to play together more often... a pleasure to 'meet' you... Happy New Year!

    • @theLexingtonKid
      @theLexingtonKid Год назад +3

      I love your father’s music and I take pride in the fact he was a fellow native Kentuckian. I just wish he was more recognized and appreciated in the current era.

    • @GalloPazzesco
      @GalloPazzesco Год назад +4

      Wow! How cool and great is that! What an icon Mr. Hampton was/is!

  • @andrewrobinson1634
    @andrewrobinson1634 2 года назад +263

    "I've never heard of Benny Goodman" - Benny Goodman

    • @anthonyrichter1456
      @anthonyrichter1456 2 года назад +4

      Benny goodman was a clarinetist who had a very famous orchestra in the 1940's.

    • @moviefiend44
      @moviefiend44 2 года назад +47

      @@anthonyrichter1456 I think you missed the point.
      He was referencing the fact that Benny Goodman was playing a character that supposedly never heard of Benny Goodman. In short, Benny Goodman pretending that he hadn't heard of himself. The irony of ironies right on film.

    • @yakovhadash
      @yakovhadash 2 года назад +2

      mood

    • @WilliamSilva-ml5nw
      @WilliamSilva-ml5nw 2 года назад +6

      Well, I heard BG forgot many peoples' names and called them Pops, so maybe he forgot his own name!!! ( I'm just kidding of course!!!)

    • @robkunkel8833
      @robkunkel8833 2 года назад +1

      @@moviefiend44 … These short comments can really be confusing. Who is Benny Goodman? A truly wonderful question. He was Sydney Bechet on clarinet? He brought the clarinet to a new level in American music? Conclusion: He moved people of generations. Me one. 🧔🏽

  • @InsomniacCoffee
    @InsomniacCoffee 2 года назад +81

    You know you have made it when you are a musician playing a parody of yourself and Louis Armstrong is an extra in your scene.

  • @annedwyer797
    @annedwyer797 2 года назад +222

    Benny Goodman was the first big jazz musician to formally integrate his band by bringing Lionel Hampton on board. It's hard to overestimate how revolutionary that was at the time!

    • @davelowrie1486
      @davelowrie1486 2 года назад +14

      Not to mention Fletcher Henderson and Teddy Wilson

    • @setonmcglennon544
      @setonmcglennon544 2 года назад +6

      Just saw a zilophone player in Munich tim Rollins, wish played a little Lionel Hampton to warm up the audience
      Music makes my soul sing

    • @terrykobleck6529
      @terrykobleck6529 2 года назад +7

      @@davelowrie1486 and Charlie Christian

    • @gregharald1072
      @gregharald1072 Год назад +2

      @@setonmcglennon544 hello 👋

    • @erinmeggik391
      @erinmeggik391 Год назад +2

      From a great 📽️🎥 era. 👍

  • @tedwhitus
    @tedwhitus 2 года назад +79

    I am old enough to remember when popular music on the radio sounded like this. What a great era to have lived in !

    • @vonbabasin9544
      @vonbabasin9544 2 года назад +5

      Can you believe that the pop music charts were nothing but JAZZ?

    • @phaedrawidney5246
      @phaedrawidney5246 2 года назад +4

      Reminds me of my dad. I think of h as a young serviceman dancing. . .I miss him so

    • @SydneyLitwak
      @SydneyLitwak 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@phaedrawidney5246😊

  • @mauricioberdugo7693
    @mauricioberdugo7693 2 года назад +97

    Every single person in that scene had amazing talent! Simply amazing!

    • @JamesAllmond
      @JamesAllmond 2 года назад +4

      even the guys not playing are an amazing group! Get a load of the folks in the background, Good Lord!

    • @soaringvulture
      @soaringvulture Год назад +4

      @@JamesAllmond Right. One of the guys not playing was the inventor of jazz - Satchmo!

    • @adlerharry3280
      @adlerharry3280 Год назад +4

      Also Danny Kaye what a guy

  • @rstoud
    @rstoud Год назад +20

    I met Lionel Hampton at Oakland Airport. He and his band were waiting for the same flight I was waiting for. So I walked up and said hello and shook his hand. Very gracious guy!

    • @willy1486
      @willy1486 Год назад +2

      He was playing a jazz club (run by Disney) at "Lake Buena Vista" when I had a gig at Disney as a young musician, back in the 70s. As you saw, what a great guy. Even between sets, he always had time for the young musicians who'd come in to hear him that weekend.

  • @wambutu7679
    @wambutu7679 2 года назад +61

    Some of the finest musicians the world has ever produced.

  • @truegret7778
    @truegret7778 2 года назад +31

    Ah Danny Kaye .... what a wonderful actor, singer, dancer. I loved these movies from this era. I'm glad I grew up when I did ...

    • @andrewfrankel7163
      @andrewfrankel7163 Год назад +2

      Love Danny Kaye! Great how he grooves along with the music.

  • @melaneephillips8721
    @melaneephillips8721 2 года назад +8

    I just saw this movie on Living Scriptures streaming. My Dad's idol was Benny Goodman. He became a clarinet player, college music professor and taught all the woodwinds privately. He was first flute teacher. Loved to hear him play.

  • @isorokudono
    @isorokudono 3 года назад +47

    I've loved this movie since it was on PBS the first time I drank an entire 40 oz. This movie SOLIDIFIED my love for Jazz. I had no idea who most of these people were in 1994. But 14 year old me thanks you for making this look so beautiful. Sincerely.

    • @isorokudono
      @isorokudono 2 года назад +3

      GENE KRUPA AND MEL POWELL................not to mention LIONEL "Buddy Rich Calls Me Daddy" HAMPTON..........................Dorsey and Pops in the back looking surprised would have been meme worthy...........Can't wait to build my time machine and teach them about funny.......................

  • @brendanshea7645
    @brendanshea7645 3 года назад +36

    I love how the "Old Greats" transitioned music from the 1920's to the 1930's. It's so wonderful to listen to.

  • @davidkyle5017
    @davidkyle5017 2 года назад +8

    In 1977, I was on my way to track practice after school at West Babylon HS on Long Island when I heard some music coming from the Auditorium. I peeked in and the room was dark except the stage where a band was practicing. I had time before practice started so I took a seat and to my amazement, it turned out to be Lionel Hampton warming up for a show they were doing that night. It was like a private concert, it was amazing, I stayed for about a half an hour and then went to practice.

  • @jayonnaj18
    @jayonnaj18 2 года назад +66

    Benny Goodman, ("the Professor") could play that licorice stick like nobody else could!!! He was the greatest!!!

    • @pamtebelman2321
      @pamtebelman2321 2 года назад +1

      He was!

    • @jibsmokestack1
      @jibsmokestack1 2 года назад +1

      My favourite is Pee Wee Russell

    • @AlBergstein
      @AlBergstein 2 года назад +1

      Indeed. The modern version is Anat Cohen. I once was at a concert of hers and an elderly lady next to me commented at the end of the show, "I saw Benny Goodman many times when I was young, and this woman is the new Benny Goodman." Loved this clip. Thanks for sharing it.

    • @michaeljenkins6448
      @michaeljenkins6448 2 года назад +3

      As if he was singing!

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 2 года назад +3

      Artie Shaw would beg to differ ....

  • @larrynile8770
    @larrynile8770 Год назад +2

    I'm so honored to make your acquaintance. Your dad brought the vibraphone into a prominence which changed jazz dramatically, particularly in the early 50s. Quite a daunting legacy.

  • @jayonnaj18
    @jayonnaj18 2 года назад +99

    Nobody could play that thing like the great Lionel Hampton!!! He was born with that phenomenal ability, and it shows!!!

    • @elizabethflynn8455
      @elizabethflynn8455 2 года назад +3

      Absolutely.

    • @warrengibson7898
      @warrengibson7898 2 года назад +3

      Flinging away and never a wrong note!

    • @ericcriteser4001
      @ericcriteser4001 2 года назад +3

      Saw him live in '94 . Absolutely brilliant.

    • @rmcfete
      @rmcfete 2 месяца назад

      To think they found him when they walked into his diner to get lunch. He was the entertainment

  • @Весна-ъ9й
    @Весна-ъ9й Год назад +15

    I live in Russia, Kazan city. And my father, 1937,told me how they young students liked listening to this beatiful jazz and other music of famous Russian band of Oleg Lundstrem,who started his musical life in Kazan.40s, 50s.They played the same music, and I like this music too, tried to play in piano .It,s a Wonderful World of great music,greetings!

    • @nd5301
      @nd5301 7 месяцев назад

      Ну тоже сравнение.. Лунгстрем - полнейшее говно по сравнению с любым из музыкантов тех лет..

  • @rjwh67220
    @rjwh67220 Год назад +9

    I was fortunate to see these guys live once in the sixties, and I haven’t gotten over it yet.

    • @iancarranza4153
      @iancarranza4153 Год назад

      Lucky you, I’d absolutely kill to do that

    • @rjwh67220
      @rjwh67220 Год назад

      @@iancarranza4153 but would you like being 73 years old? PS: I also saw Louis Armstrong in those days, and my high school band backed Dizzy Gillespie in a fundraising concert in 67.

  • @yoli5779
    @yoli5779 2 года назад +16

    What a time to have lived, I wish I was around that era to have seen Benny Goodman live.

    • @cdstoc
      @cdstoc 2 года назад

      I saw Goodman live in the late 1970's. It was near the end of his life, but he was still an amazing player and I was thrilled to get the chance to see him.

    • @mjfoster9041
      @mjfoster9041 2 года назад

      Saw Benny with his combo at Chapman college during the 70’s. Fantastic.

  • @jmrodas9
    @jmrodas9 Год назад +8

    Jazz music at its best. These two are fantastic playing together really.

  • @NoEgg4u
    @NoEgg4u 2 года назад +12

    Aside from the extreme talent on stage, there are others that deserve recognition.
    Did you notice how great the camera work was?
    They had exactly the right angles.
    They let us watch the artists using their equipment. We got to see their hands and fingers actually creating the music.
    No camera theatrics.
    No camera angle changes every 2 seconds. We got to watch as if we were there, without constant interruptions from camera angle changes.
    No zooming in and out, over and over.
    No cameras swooping around.
    No closeups to see if someone had a pimple or a blackhead.
    No warped, wide-angle, fish-eye aspect ratio.
    No lip syncing. Or in this case, no pretending to play a pre-recorded session. What we saw is what we heard.
    Compare this video to music videos of today (or even since the 1970s). Nearly all we get is lip synced, studio recordings, where the focus is 50% on the artists, and 50% on the camera acrobatics and post-recording special effects (it is not special if it is throughout the recording).
    When watching, you probably paid no attention to the camera crew. You were solely focused on the musicians.
    The highest complement I can pay a camera crew is when they are invisible to the performance. The camera crew made the event about the artists, and not about themselves.

  • @kellycoleman715
    @kellycoleman715 2 года назад +8

    Wonderful! My late father took me to a Benny Goodman concert decades ago. One of my favorite memories.

  • @steveheywood9428
    @steveheywood9428 3 года назад +61

    Great number played by two immortals. 😇😇

    • @chrishenson4450
      @chrishenson4450 2 года назад

      Three, if you count Mel Powell.

    • @vonbabasin9544
      @vonbabasin9544 Год назад +2

      @@chrishenson4450 Six if you count Louis Bellson, Al Hendrickson and Harry Babasin... and, yes, in their day they were also considered Giants of Jazz!

  • @brendanshea7645
    @brendanshea7645 2 года назад +41

    These folks trained at such young ages, that they were totally in sync with their improvisation. Being a musician myself, it it so brilliant to watch.

  • @prestonbacchus4204
    @prestonbacchus4204 2 года назад +3

    Shows how important music was/is to breaking down racial barriers. That was sweet music.^

  • @mxfxdlg
    @mxfxdlg 2 года назад +13

    Holy Moley, Von! This is the coolest thing I’ve clicked on all year! Your pops is awesome. What a great world to grow up in. You’re a good kid to have kept your dads bass and cello, too. These snipits of stories are fantastic, and even though we all know a musicians life back in the early days wasn’t always a complete bowl of cherries, I hope we can hear the long versions someday soon. Good luck with your movie, book or which ever way you decide to tell the story. Your a gem for sharing. Thank you so much. This made my night.

  • @jry3270
    @jry3270 3 года назад +39

    This is from a Song is Born- the musical version of Ball of Fire. While I still love the original with Gary Cooper, this version has some AWESOME MUSIC and all the greats of the day. A true time capsule of jazz at a time when the music was going through a transition period from swing to bebop and 'jump blues'.

    • @v.gorski3050
      @v.gorski3050 2 года назад

      Agree ! Cannot remember the date of this film. Guessing ‘ sometime ‘ in the 1940’s ( ??? )

    • @vonbabasin9544
      @vonbabasin9544 2 года назад +3

      @@v.gorski3050 It was shot in '47 and released in '48...

  • @MrDslacker
    @MrDslacker Месяц назад

    It still amazes me that no one has thought about doing a remake of this movie, but moved more forward in time so it is about blues-rock n roll etc. The professors would then be played by some of the guitar-heroes of the 70-90'ies like Satch, Malmsteen and such. So many are sadly already dead, but could be a fun movie.

  • @martythemartian99
    @martythemartian99 2 года назад +9

    Don't you just love seeing two masters of the craft complimenting each other so well.
    And the rest of the band... whoa momma. what a sound :)
    (me happy, you happy too?)

  • @ellistomago3369
    @ellistomago3369 2 года назад +9

    Holy crap there's a lot of talent in that room. Hampton, Goodman, Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong in the background . . .

    • @Goldenowl66
      @Goldenowl66 6 месяцев назад

      Is Tommy Dorsey in this video?

  • @liviusss
    @liviusss 2 года назад +7

    Amazing musicians and great time for music ❤️❤️❤️! I also love how Louie's smile lights up the room/screen ❤️😊

  • @Sarasdad91
    @Sarasdad91 6 месяцев назад

    My Uncle, who was like a father to me, grew up on Jazz and Swing music. I used to listen to it with him once in awhile. He passed in 1990, but I sure miss him, and would give everything I have to go back to listen with him again.

  • @GalloPazzesco
    @GalloPazzesco Год назад +3

    Love it ... those were the days. I grew up on that band music and, as a side note, I can still sing "I'm Hans Christian Anderson!" and march around while doing-it just like Danny Kaye.

  • @JamesIrwins78s
    @JamesIrwins78s 2 года назад +2

    How have I never come across this movie, there’s just like all of these greats standing in one room!

  • @jpdr7081
    @jpdr7081 Год назад +3

    I'm dancing by my own in my bedroom, jazz is on another level

  • @tommessner3502
    @tommessner3502 2 года назад +2

    I was lucky enough to see Benny Goodman once at Yale in New Haven, CT and Lionel Hampton twice, once with front row seats at the Bushnell in Hartford, Ct.

  • @williamrobinson7435
    @williamrobinson7435 2 года назад +5

    Incredibly good this. My dad's fave musician was probably Benny Goodman. 👍

  • @patrickchiata1828
    @patrickchiata1828 Год назад +5

    Très grand moment musical par les meilleurs musiciens de JAZZ, de cette époque révolue. Merci à eux.

  • @normarivera1396
    @normarivera1396 5 лет назад +20

    I love how a lot of jazz music has a string bass :3 it makes me feel happy 😊

    • @ericmoore1173
      @ericmoore1173 3 года назад +3

      How are you doing today my name is Eric Moore

  • @larryfisher5796
    @larryfisher5796 2 года назад +1

    Hi grew up in the late 40s and 50s an my Mom and Dad loved the big band sound along with country and western .I'm now 78 and I love the old big band and old country Music .

  • @gustavogutierrez5482
    @gustavogutierrez5482 2 года назад +1

    Great video and lovely performance. I saw Lionel Hampton band here in Monterrey...It was probably around 1976, I was in high school. The best jazz concert I've seen. He was such a máster! He played his xiliphone and also drums incredibly well. During the concert, he and his band members went to the audience and played their instruments walking around and dancing, mixing with the public. So awesome. He was brilliant and unforgettable!

  • @MrStrocube
    @MrStrocube 2 года назад +3

    Pure genius, and they all look amazing.

  • @kellywright540
    @kellywright540 11 месяцев назад

    Man, I watched this movie with my Dad three times!! It was and still is AWESOME! That and the Glenn Miller Story too! I went to high school in the late seventies and graduated in the early eighties. I think I was one of the few kids who listened to Black Sabbath, Rush, the Beatles, the Stones AND listened to Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Lionel Hampton AND Louis Armstrong!! Still listen to all of these and more to this very day!!!

  • @kenr9545
    @kenr9545 2 года назад +2

    Man, this made my day! Never seen this clip before! Thanks so much!

    • @likydsplit8483
      @likydsplit8483 Год назад

      The movie is “A song is born.”
      One of my favorites!

  • @Jazz-hk7ok
    @Jazz-hk7ok Год назад +10

    Sencillo , elegante , con mucho swing y un toque de humor , que más se puede pedir? .

  • @michaelklein5242
    @michaelklein5242 8 месяцев назад

    I was very fortunate to meet and speak to Goodman, Hampton and Charlie Barnett (the latter by phone to set up an interview with the host of the radio show I helped on) back in my teens in the late '70s. All wonderful people. I met other greats as well, and boy was I lucky. Fantastic clip--thanks!

  • @TheCharliverse
    @TheCharliverse 2 года назад +5

    That’s a three minute jazz master class!

  • @jhcmusicii6181
    @jhcmusicii6181 2 года назад +4

    I'm gonna go out on a limb here, I'm pretty sure that professor was really Benny Goodman and this was an early episode of Undercover Boss.

  • @lkj974
    @lkj974 8 месяцев назад +1

    best thing I've seen all week. No, all month. What the hell, best thing I've seen all year.

  • @tic857
    @tic857 6 месяцев назад +1

    man I wish more music was like this.

  • @markwarling3636
    @markwarling3636 Год назад +1

    Such a classic. Saw Benny Goodman in 1973 with Dad at the CNE Bandshell. Really, Dad? Never forgot. The key...just do it. Love this.

  • @steveflor9942
    @steveflor9942 2 года назад +3

    An absolute joy. Thanks for posting this masterwork.

  • @Outspoken.Humanist
    @Outspoken.Humanist 3 года назад +65

    It's just a pity that Tommy Dorsey and Louis Armstrong at the back didn't join in. Benny Goodman had some of the greats in his band, just as Cab Calloway, Jack Teagarden and Duke Ellington played with his clarinet rival, Artie Shaw. Great days. Imagine if they had all played together. I think music would have given up at that point, job done.

    • @LeePresson
      @LeePresson  3 года назад +17

      Tommy and Louis get their own numbers. It's a great movie, check it out.

    • @jantinajulius5166
      @jantinajulius5166 Год назад

      I agree. I am glad to see and hear all my favourite musicians from YEARS ago. I hope to see them all again in their second chance of living in the foretold biblical resurrection on earth.

  • @miltonholt5258
    @miltonholt5258 4 года назад +17

    Thanks for the superior copy of this gem!!

  • @spmoran4703
    @spmoran4703 Год назад +1

    True talent Hapmton , Goodman , Kaye . It's got the lot and its great fun too. I love Jazz.

  • @bruceseaman6592
    @bruceseaman6592 2 года назад +2

    WOW! WHAT A LOT OF TALENT IN THAT ROOM!!

  • @LeePresson
    @LeePresson  2 года назад +2

    The movie is available in full right here on youtube!

    • @robertobolado8606
      @robertobolado8606 2 года назад +1

      Do you know the movie name?

    • @LeePresson
      @LeePresson  2 года назад +1

      @@robertobolado8606 Yes I do! I put it in the description and everything!

  • @veroniquekaluzny2866
    @veroniquekaluzny2866 Год назад +1

    Je viens de rererevoir ce film cet après midi ! J'adore et c'est rare de voir Benny Goodman !

  • @kathiec1333
    @kathiec1333 3 года назад +10

    I always loved the vibraphone!

  • @cestovatelholub8573
    @cestovatelholub8573 2 года назад +2

    This is how I imagine it in heaven... that one day I will see jazz and swing greats there and that is something that comforts me about death...

  • @jenniferjackson2767
    @jenniferjackson2767 Год назад +1

    I could listen to this forever....pure gold

  • @frederickherring4550
    @frederickherring4550 2 года назад +2

    This is great musicianship. Worth listening to

  • @elvisway1
    @elvisway1 Год назад +1

    I'll have to find this movie!

  • @carlbowles1808
    @carlbowles1808 2 года назад +1

    I feel happy swing music always elevates my mood. Thank you very much 😊.

  • @PiotrBarcz
    @PiotrBarcz Год назад +1

    I'll be damned! This has got to be some of the coolest video I've seen on RUclips! Lionel Hampton is amazing but Mel Powell playing the piano steals the show for 10 seconds at a time! This is amazing!!!!!!

  • @pedroperalta5719
    @pedroperalta5719 Год назад

    My Dad was a big fan of both these tremendous musicians. Although I was born long after their heyday in the mid 50s, he introduced me to them when I was a pre-teen, and still listen to their music today.

  • @georgemanka
    @georgemanka 2 года назад +3

    Man, Lionel Hampton rocks!

  • @WAKAGeekTalk
    @WAKAGeekTalk 2 года назад +2

    WONDERFUL clip, Lee! How have I never seen this movie???

  • @giulioferro8550
    @giulioferro8550 4 месяца назад +1

    Il Film Famosissimo con I PIÙ FAMOSI JAZZISTI DEL MONDO ! GRANDI LEGGENDE SPETTACOLARI !!!

  • @Tmanaz480
    @Tmanaz480 9 месяцев назад

    Love the wardrobe in this scene. Very realistic and not overly glamorized. Lots of variation. Mel and Harry sporting t-shirt and jacket look that wouldn't be out of place today.

  • @rebeccasears8062
    @rebeccasears8062 9 месяцев назад

    We don’t see talent like this much anymore.

  • @2cartalkers
    @2cartalkers 7 месяцев назад +1

    The Best, just simply THE BEST! 👍👍

  • @olliehays3206
    @olliehays3206 Год назад +1

    John Williams brought in jazz artists to play his Benny Goodman style Cantina music for Star Wars. The homage is pretty clear.

  • @mikedickison5003
    @mikedickison5003 2 года назад +1

    What an amazing piece of music. On a 1 to 10 scale with today's stuff, this music is 100 !

  • @martindalmasi5340
    @martindalmasi5340 3 года назад +9

    Love that movie....Virginia Mayo was gorgeous and talented.

    • @rediryou
      @rediryou 2 года назад +2

      Is that who the blonde redhead is? Man she totally caught my eye.

  • @lesliegambee5260
    @lesliegambee5260 Год назад +1

    The story as was related to me was that Louis B. Mayer didn't want to pay Sylvia Fine & Danny Kaye $25,000 for Kaye's signature fast-talking songs. This created many opportunities in this movie for these jazz legends to take over the screen. I think it was and is terrific.

  • @karpabla
    @karpabla 2 года назад +2

    Lovely movie!
    A great remake with lovely acting and great, great musicians.
    I like how Benny Goodman makes the clown 😆 too

    • @charlescosper5126
      @charlescosper5126 Год назад +1

      The man on the left was Charlie Barnet, a famous saxophonist and band leader; you can find some of his work on RUclips.

  • @mattd6086
    @mattd6086 Год назад

    The musicianship on display here is astounding.

  • @clarification007
    @clarification007 3 года назад +13

    For the complete 2:57 sec. I had a big smile ans big swing in my foots and fingers! Great visual is a plus!

  • @jesus.christis.lord.foreve899
    @jesus.christis.lord.foreve899 Год назад

    Delightful Movie
    loved it
    Nice little memory here

  • @1947Rollo
    @1947Rollo 2 года назад +3

    Fantastici.Quanto adoro questi immensi musicisti.

  • @sultanalamos170
    @sultanalamos170 Год назад +5

    Brutal. Qué talentos. Los dos, como dioses.
    Mario Dueñas, Chile.

  • @saanzacs
    @saanzacs Год назад +2

    It's a who's who of jazz in one sequence!!!!

  • @josephboyce4522
    @josephboyce4522 23 дня назад

    My Dad used to prepare taxes for people, to make extra money. When tax season was over, he would take off to New York city and spend a week hitting all the jazz clubs. This was in th 50s. His favorite musician was Lionel Hampton. He was a WWII combat vet (79th infantry div.) and during that time, was a big Benny Goodman fan. I grew up listening to his jazz records, and it was my favorite music until the Beatles came along when I was 12.

  • @ronnyvonallmen6892
    @ronnyvonallmen6892 Месяц назад

    What an Exciting time of Music…

  • @jamie1707
    @jamie1707 2 года назад +1

    What a happy, fun little short!

  • @jamesbanksiii319
    @jamesbanksiii319 3 года назад +2

    I copied this on a VHS tape off the TV. Still have it. Great movie!

  • @statuescher
    @statuescher 2 года назад +1

    Magical to watch them, thank you.

  • @robkunkel8833
    @robkunkel8833 2 года назад +1

    I added to my Facebook story. “An awkward, dignified Professor Marvin Brooks (aka Benny Goodman) meets the Lionel Hampton orchestra in 1948. Harry Babasin was playing bass. Fun. “

  • @ponkkaa
    @ponkkaa 2 года назад +2

    Took me a minute to recognize Satchmo in the background. His iconic smile.

  • @joekurtz8303
    @joekurtz8303 Год назад +1

    Watching Lionel on TV 📺 with my Grandparents inspired them to get us the Playschool Xylophone for Christmas to Torture Mom with our incessant playing🎶

  • @midlandsroylenfield
    @midlandsroylenfield Год назад

    just wonderful thank you

  • @darrensiegel6651
    @darrensiegel6651 2 года назад +1

    When Satch Mo is behind you digging hard on what ur playing u know ur doing something right

  • @martincastilho2787
    @martincastilho2787 2 года назад +1

    It's amazing 👋👋👋👋🇧🇷👏 from Martin Castilho. Manaus Am Brazil

  • @asteverino8569
    @asteverino8569 2 года назад +1

    I liked the mix of colors and music style.
    Nice 😊

  • @Nigelrathbone1
    @Nigelrathbone1 2 года назад

    Lionel Hampton played a concert in Lancaster, Pa at Long Park Amphitheater back in the mid 70s. My mom working the concession stand nearby gave Lionel a free hotdog on his break and had a nice conversation with him at intermission.

  • @timj4909
    @timj4909 2 года назад +3

    I've just noticed the hilarious page turns just after 0:30 . . . ! Turning back for a tiny repeat placed JUST in the worst place in the copy. A wonderful in-joke.

    • @rmo52
      @rmo52 2 года назад +2

      And those idiotic page turns exist in many pieces of music. Sometimes it’s funny, you just try to memorize that section so you don’t have to turn back. Broadway shows have always been excellently copied for page turns.

  • @jacopotoscani8832
    @jacopotoscani8832 2 года назад +2

    Benny Goodman disguised is one of the coolest think i ever seen....

  • @musikberbagi
    @musikberbagi Год назад

    Yes.....thanks abaut this song.
    Success 4 U