He was really young when he wrote this. After Al Jolson got ahold of it, money problems were gone forever. Gershwin is and always be my favorite composer.
wygtam Gershwin spent alot of time in South Carolina absorbing the sound and emotional milieu of the Afro-American folks prior to writing or perhaps during the writing of Porgy and Bess in the mid thirties.
A great example of a famous singer if that period who sang a number of popular songs of the South without ever having been there was Al Joleson. Songs like “Mammy”, “Is it true what they say about Dixie?”, Rockabye your baby with a Dixie Melody”, “Swanee River”, “Hello Tucky” (for Kentucky), etc. All very popular in their day.
Piano roll. None of his real recordings have this kind of sound quality. They also seem kind of like no one's at the keyboard. Maybe his ghost is playing?
What makes the piece brilliant is that he quotes TWO Stephen Foster songs at the end: the original "Swanee" (Old Folks at Home), AND Listen to the Mockingbird. How he does this in a couple of bars is what makes him a genius.
Pianists: this is how SWANEE should be played, listen to the tempo. So many perform this piece at speeds that make their fingers bleed. This happens also to "Maple Leaf Rag." Take It down and don't forget to breathe. Yes, I love it too.
A century ago and one can still tell that music was going in a new direction with songs like this. It doesn't look to be going in any direction a hundred years later.
Yes, this piano roll performance was 'played' by Gershwin, however, those who feel like he has 4 hands, you are correct - Aeolian, QRS, all of them 'embellished' their rolls much like we 'overdub' today. There is no guaranteeing what you hear was originally 'punched' by George in one pass. Kiddies, look up "Player Piano" on the Google.. and not the one with the electric air pump - that piano's for a "Nancy Boy" [yes, Seinfeld reference].
Actually, his first published song was called "If You Want 'Em You Can't Get 'Em, When You Got 'Em You Don't Want E'm." Yeh, it's a long title! He was 16 when it was published in 1914. Swanee, which he wrote on a bus with a friend named Irving Caesar, became his first big hit when Al Jolson performed it. It was actually the biggest hit both he and Jolson ever had!
They've taken it out of the pregame in the last couple years, don't know why. It's still played as a pep tune. Here's the Gator Band version: soundcloud.com/floridagators/swanee?in=floridagators/sets/gator-band-classics
I've been away from you a long time I never thought I'd miss you Somehow I feel Your love was real Near you I long to be The birds are singing it is song time The banjos strumming soft and low I know that you Yearn for me, too Swanee, you're calling me Swanee, how I love ya, how I love ya My dear old Swanee I'd give the world to be Among the folks in D-I-X-I-Even know my mammy's Waiting for me, praying for me Down by the Swanee The folks up north will see me no more When I go to that Swanee shore Swanee... Swanee... I'm coming back to Swanee Mammy... Mammy... I love the old folks at home!
+Preman Tilson : Indeed, it's good to mention it, even if one will probably think twice and realize that such a quality in audio recording was not really possible in the 1930s :)
There was more than one system for piano rolls, and the better of them included automatic loudness and softness settings. The good news is that many of the Gershwin rolls were of the more sophisticated type. Yamaha came up with a system to translate them from punched paper rolls to digital disc format to play on their modern digitally controlled player pianos, and then, once they'd done that, they made a CD of the Gershwin piano rolls, played by the digital discs on a concert grand player piano. Also, when they did a careful analysis of the Gershwin paper rolls they found that no additional notes had been added by punching additional holes in the rolls, something they used to do to enhance the playback -- meaning the notes being sounded on the player piano were more than two hands could play. As to the Gershwin rolls, it was discovered that hadn't been done, so all the notes you hear are those Gershwin played.
It’s so amazing he wrote this song for Judy Garland - I think she truly does it best. Jo Ann Castle also does a great rendition as well, it’s also in a ragtime/slidy style like this.
12elatrommI that’s not the sheet music for this piano roll, though...that’s the much shorter, simplified version that gershwin wrote for his piano songbook.
@@aloismelichar815 The sostenuto pedal really only comes on high-end pianos, although there are some companies that used to install them on their cheaper pianos. The sostenuto pedal is a special pedal that holds a note when pressed and you can make every other notes on the piano sound staccato while the note you selected with the sostenuto pedal continues to ring out. It is like the damper pedal, except it only sustains the notes you selected. Typically, the sostenuto pedal is replaced with what is called the poor-man's sostenuto, which is just a sustain pedal for the bass. Frederick Hodges has a terrific video on it: ruclips.net/video/s1cVBPqQpgg/видео.html It sounds like there are 3 hands playing
@@thatrecord5313 Thanks, I appreciate you’re answer! I didn’t know, that such a thing existed, but I sometimes wished, there were something like a sostenuto pedal, while playing around on the piano! But it’s understandable, that it comes with its price...
So unfair! George's brothers, Ira and Arthur, both lived into their eighties, and their sister, Frances, died in her nineties, but poor George succumbed to a brain tumor at age 38.
This is a piano roll,, so has to be taken with a grain of salt. They never sound quite real to me. It lacks the verve and percussiveness of true Gershwin playing. It's only an approximation of how he sounded.
He was really young when he wrote this. After Al Jolson got ahold of it, money problems were gone forever. Gershwin is and always be my favorite composer.
Not only was Gershwin a magnificent composer, but he was also an incredible pianist.
Ok
It's funny how many sentimental songs were written about the South in the 20's and 30's by guys who were never south of Canal Street in NYC.
wygtam Gershwin spent alot of time in South Carolina absorbing the sound and emotional milieu of the Afro-American folks prior to writing or perhaps during the writing of Porgy and Bess in the mid thirties.
A great example of a famous singer if that period who sang a number of popular songs of the South without ever having been there was Al Joleson. Songs like “Mammy”, “Is it true what they say about Dixie?”, Rockabye your baby with a Dixie Melody”, “Swanee River”, “Hello Tucky” (for Kentucky), etc. All very popular in their day.
An American musical genius with such incomparable talent who died far too young. Imagine the music he had left to compose to give us and the world.
what a pity
I mean, he was no Takeoff
There are so many other too who with just a few more years… who knows what they could have accomplished
Joyous exuberant playing. This is what musical genius sounds like. Thanks for posting.
What a talent. It sounds like three pianos playing at once.
Such a rhythmic and joyous performance. Males you smile
Piano roll. None of his real recordings have this kind of sound quality. They also seem kind of like no one's at the keyboard. Maybe his ghost is playing?
@@ferociousgumbyit's what I hear. Just my opinion
This is the sort of wonderful piece that you could listen to every day and never tire of it.
What makes the piece brilliant is that he quotes TWO Stephen Foster songs at the end: the original "Swanee" (Old Folks at Home), AND Listen to the Mockingbird. How he does this in a couple of bars is what makes him a genius.
Wow! That's raw talent. RIP George
Pianists: this is how SWANEE should be played, listen to the tempo. So many perform this piece at speeds that make their fingers bleed. This happens also to "Maple Leaf Rag." Take It down and don't forget to breathe. Yes, I love it too.
I did a version and tried to slow it down a tad.
I want to learn it. Ill plsy it Gershwin's tempo.
1919 first song-very very nice like-
A century ago and one can still tell that music was going in a new direction with songs like this. It doesn't look to be going in any direction a hundred years later.
J'aime tant les merveilleuses photos de George Gershwin! Et surtout sa musique!
Yes, this piano roll performance was 'played' by Gershwin, however, those who feel like he has 4 hands, you are correct - Aeolian, QRS, all of them 'embellished' their rolls much like we 'overdub' today. There is no guaranteeing what you hear was originally 'punched' by George in one pass. Kiddies, look up "Player Piano" on the Google.. and not the one with the electric air pump - that piano's for a "Nancy Boy" [yes, Seinfeld reference].
This can be played with two hands.
@@byronjanislover I hear octave doublings that are not playable by 2 hands
Asi es. Los piano rolls están embellecidos, no es posible tocar de esta manera naturalmente.
One of the very very best Swanees I've heard.
Grandissimo George Gershwin, aveva la musica nel sangue!
Geor-gie, how-I-luv-ya how-I-luv-ya
My dear old Georgie.
ferociousgumby love it
Thank you for sharing, Richard! Brilliant G. Gershwin!
たくさんの音がゴージャスに奏でられていて、明るくて豊か🌙🌠ピアノのみとは思えない、素敵。ジャズみたい!
This person is a GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The amazing George Gershwin - this was the 1st song he wrote, in 1919
Grace Notes MusicThe Singers Center Grace Testani - Jazz I am doing homework about him
He created a song in 1911, I forgot the name but it was very popular
Actually, his first published song was called "If You Want 'Em You Can't Get 'Em, When You Got 'Em You Don't Want E'm." Yeh, it's a long title! He was 16 when it was published in 1914.
Swanee, which he wrote on a bus with a friend named Irving Caesar, became his first big hit when Al Jolson performed it. It was actually the biggest hit both he and Jolson ever had!
Magical
Te amo George!!!!
Played at EVERY football pregame show at the University of Florida.
Azi Smythe that is cool. Thanks for letting us know! I appreciate it!
They've taken it out of the pregame in the last couple years, don't know why. It's still played as a pep tune.
Here's the Gator Band version: soundcloud.com/floridagators/swanee?in=floridagators/sets/gator-band-classics
His piano playing style and mastery were out of this world. He brought back singlehandedly the roaring twenties and he did not a big band to do it.
Gershwin brought on the roaring 20s... Swanee was written in 1919.
Eblouissant !.. One of the very very best ones.... And there are the roaring twenties, their happyness...silent movies...
I've been away from you a long time
I never thought I'd miss you
Somehow I feel
Your love was real
Near you I long to be
The birds are singing it is song time
The banjos strumming soft and low
I know that you
Yearn for me, too
Swanee, you're calling me
Swanee, how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old Swanee
I'd give the world to be
Among the folks in
D-I-X-I-Even know my mammy's
Waiting for me, praying for me
Down by the Swanee
The folks up north will see me no more
When I go to that Swanee shore
Swanee...
Swanee...
I'm coming back to Swanee
Mammy...
Mammy...
I love the old folks at home!
very nice piece, am almost done redoing it and put my style in Gershwin's song swanee
Excellent stuff x
Magical!
Musica unica e affascinante....Great George
The best of the best!
Kiváló zongoraművész, hihetetlen tehetséggel.
Uwielbiam ten utwór, jest taki optymistyczny :)
If you are talking about the score, it is available on muscinotes. (i can't write down the complete adress but it's .com) It's that exact same one :)
Thank you!
Yeah baby
Quel beau souvenir !
This is a piano roll.
Preman Tilson Gershwin recorded over 140 piano rolls. He also recoded live piano, including the Rhapsody in Blue and many of his pop songs.
Richard Thomas Indeed. I only mentioned it in case anyone got the mistaken idea this was one of the live recordings.
+Preman Tilson : Indeed, it's good to mention it, even if one will probably think twice and realize that such a quality in audio recording was not really possible in the 1930s :)
+Antoine Bihr It's amazing how many that would not occur to! :) To be fair, lots of people have never heard of piano rolls.
There was more than one system for piano rolls, and the better of them included automatic loudness and softness settings. The good news is that many of the Gershwin rolls were of the more sophisticated type. Yamaha came up with a system to translate them from punched paper rolls to digital disc format to play on their modern digitally controlled player pianos, and then, once they'd done that, they made a CD of the Gershwin piano rolls, played by the digital discs on a concert grand player piano. Also, when they did a careful analysis of the Gershwin paper rolls they found that no additional notes had been added by punching additional holes in the rolls, something they used to do to enhance the playback -- meaning the notes being sounded on the player piano were more than two hands could play. As to the Gershwin rolls, it was discovered that hadn't been done, so all the notes you hear are those Gershwin played.
It’s so amazing he wrote this song for Judy Garland - I think she truly does it best. Jo Ann Castle also does a great rendition as well, it’s also in a ragtime/slidy style like this.
Judy Garland wasn't even born when this song was written. The person who made this song famous was Al Jolson.
Is there sheet music for this available?
Yes, I actually just searched it, but you have to pay money
@@jeanettewhited9602 IMSLP
Lovely
青春の向う脛から〜
金ピカのお城〜で〜♪ww
Insuperable!!!
Coming for Kokosake!
How hard is it?
第1幕「あこがれの舞踏会」
現在、AbemaTVでここさけ配信中です♪
2:20 (Enter text here)
This is amazing
きんぴかのお城で~♪
え?
そう?
完全一致ww
dana
やっぱり『ここさけ』からたどり着いた方いましたか!
何だか嬉しいです(笑)。
こうして聞くと、劇中の曲は物悲しい感じでしたが、原曲は結構明るい感じの曲なんですね。
Richard, Can you tell me the Piano Roll make and number. Thanks!
💚🙏😇🙏💚
thanks for the upload
Most of the Japanese commenters are coming from the anime film “The Anthem of the Heart”, where this song is played with original lyrics.
Yesss I am finding this
You are welcome...
ここさけから
Am I the only one who came here after watching the anthem of heart? XD
ye looks like :D
You're not alone :D
Yep XD
Lets go! xD because of that movie I've been on a piano music streak, like 80 days around the world, one by beethoven xD
The version is still diffrent tho than in the movie sad
OMG
I need to cleanse my mind of the image of Al Jolson wailing this in blackface.
1:50 You can hear where The 3 Stooges got their theme song from.
Where can I get this score?
Taitetu Takesinn musescore.com/user/2645116/scores/963861
Thank you.
12elatrommI that’s not the sheet music for this piano roll, though...that’s the much shorter, simplified version that gershwin wrote for his piano songbook.
This would sound GREAT with a sostenuto pedal on the few parts with the descending bass harmony parts.
what does such a sostenuto pedal and is it the left one at pianos with 3 pedals?
@@aloismelichar815 The sostenuto pedal really only comes on high-end pianos, although there are some companies that used to install them on their cheaper pianos. The sostenuto pedal is a special pedal that holds a note when pressed and you can make every other notes on the piano sound staccato while the note you selected with the sostenuto pedal continues to ring out. It is like the damper pedal, except it only sustains the notes you selected. Typically, the sostenuto pedal is replaced with what is called the poor-man's sostenuto, which is just a sustain pedal for the bass.
Frederick Hodges has a terrific video on it: ruclips.net/video/s1cVBPqQpgg/видео.html
It sounds like there are 3 hands playing
@@thatrecord5313 Thanks, I appreciate you’re answer! I didn’t know, that such a thing existed, but I sometimes wished, there were something like a sostenuto pedal, while playing around on the piano! But it’s understandable, that it comes with its price...
@@aloismelichar815 Money, money, money... Too bad that is the factor for beautiful things like making music.
His name is Welte Mignon...
1st class music does'nt date, especially when the pianist is this good!
towelket brought me here
swane is awsome
同い年の人が書いたとは思えない、、やっぱりすごいんだ。。。
Turn playback speed 1.25, and it sounds a lot like the way Jack Gibbons played
ruclips.net/video/muG6jQDfB24/видео.html
where was this guy during WWII?
PhaseDragonia Gershwin died suddenly from a brain tumor in 1937.
Bummer. RIP
0:35
ご本人?!
So unfair! George's brothers, Ira and Arthur, both lived into their eighties, and their sister, Frances, died in her nineties, but poor George succumbed to a brain tumor at age 38.
This is a piano roll,, so has to be taken with a grain of salt. They never sound quite real to me. It lacks the verve and percussiveness of true Gershwin playing. It's only an approximation of how he sounded.
これ違うでしょ?