George Gershwin Plays "Swanee"

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  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024

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  • @vickitaylor680
    @vickitaylor680 9 месяцев назад +10

    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.

  • @davidrds
    @davidrds 4 года назад +42

    Not only was Gershwin a magnificent composer, but he was also an incredible pianist.

  • @wygtam
    @wygtam 5 лет назад +99

    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.

    • @bobbywimsy6741
      @bobbywimsy6741 5 лет назад +33

      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.

    • @Brace67
      @Brace67 2 года назад +5

      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.

  • @Brace67
    @Brace67 4 года назад +61

    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.

    • @tobigtosuk
      @tobigtosuk 2 года назад +1

      what a pity

    • @RobertSoul123
      @RobertSoul123 2 года назад

      I mean, he was no Takeoff

    • @dylan-kerry
      @dylan-kerry Месяц назад

      There are so many other too who with just a few more years… who knows what they could have accomplished

  • @dmoody2768
    @dmoody2768 2 месяца назад +1

    Joyous exuberant playing. This is what musical genius sounds like. Thanks for posting.

  • @charlotteorr1186
    @charlotteorr1186 5 лет назад +42

    What a talent. It sounds like three pianos playing at once.

  • @crazyorganist1609
    @crazyorganist1609 4 года назад +29

    Such a rhythmic and joyous performance. Males you smile

    • @ferociousgumby
      @ferociousgumby 3 года назад

      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?

    • @crazyorganist1609
      @crazyorganist1609 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@ferociousgumbyit's what I hear. Just my opinion

  • @mikepen3477
    @mikepen3477 7 лет назад +23

    This is the sort of wonderful piece that you could listen to every day and never tire of it.

  • @ferociousgumby
    @ferociousgumby 3 года назад +8

    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.

  • @noty410
    @noty410 9 месяцев назад +1

    Wow! That's raw talent. RIP George

  • @georgeghirlando8382
    @georgeghirlando8382 6 лет назад +108

    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.

  • @blakemcnamara9105
    @blakemcnamara9105 4 года назад +10

    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.

  • @Memale2009
    @Memale2009 6 лет назад +5

    J'aime tant les merveilleuses photos de George Gershwin! Et surtout sa musique!

  • @musicom67
    @musicom67 4 года назад +10

    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].

    • @byronjanislover
      @byronjanislover Год назад

      This can be played with two hands.

    • @subplantant
      @subplantant 4 месяца назад

      @@byronjanislover I hear octave doublings that are not playable by 2 hands

    • @Leofiora
      @Leofiora 7 дней назад

      Asi es. Los piano rolls están embellecidos, no es posible tocar de esta manera naturalmente.

  • @MrCrowebobby
    @MrCrowebobby Год назад +1

    One of the very very best Swanees I've heard.

  • @vittorioderiu969
    @vittorioderiu969 4 года назад +6

    Grandissimo George Gershwin, aveva la musica nel sangue!

  • @ferociousgumby
    @ferociousgumby 9 лет назад +24

    Geor-gie, how-I-luv-ya how-I-luv-ya
    My dear old Georgie.

  • @venusgordeyeva1650
    @venusgordeyeva1650 6 лет назад +2

    Thank you for sharing, Richard! Brilliant G. Gershwin!

  • @コーラかと思ったら松崎しげるだった

    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!

  • @sunnyh5611
    @sunnyh5611 3 года назад +3

    This person is a GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Gracenotesmusic
    @Gracenotesmusic 8 лет назад +9

    The amazing George Gershwin - this was the 1st song he wrote, in 1919

    • @nataliepie850
      @nataliepie850 6 лет назад

      Grace Notes MusicThe Singers Center Grace Testani - Jazz I am doing homework about him

    • @wannabeasubscriber528
      @wannabeasubscriber528 6 лет назад +1

      He created a song in 1911, I forgot the name but it was very popular

    • @yisraellutnick
      @yisraellutnick 6 лет назад +2

      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!

  • @jeremyhaines4481
    @jeremyhaines4481 4 года назад +6

    Magical

  • @ferns800
    @ferns800 4 года назад +7

    Te amo George!!!!

  • @azismythe5428
    @azismythe5428 6 лет назад +34

    Played at EVERY football pregame show at the University of Florida.

    • @rbtsccello
      @rbtsccello  6 лет назад +5

      Azi Smythe that is cool. Thanks for letting us know! I appreciate it!

    • @porsche911sbs
      @porsche911sbs 4 года назад +3

      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

  • @jackgedzelman5314
    @jackgedzelman5314 10 лет назад +23

    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.

    • @UndeadFan122396
      @UndeadFan122396 6 лет назад +11

      Gershwin brought on the roaring 20s... Swanee was written in 1919.

  • @j-mharari3374
    @j-mharari3374 6 лет назад

    Eblouissant !.. One of the very very best ones.... And there are the roaring twenties, their happyness...silent movies...

  • @jasobres
    @jasobres Год назад

    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!

  • @christinahenze940
    @christinahenze940 10 лет назад +7

    very nice piece, am almost done redoing it and put my style in Gershwin's song swanee

  • @jeremyhaines4481
    @jeremyhaines4481 4 года назад +3

    Excellent stuff x

  • @hank1519
    @hank1519 6 лет назад +3

    Magical!

  • @taniaamendola8394
    @taniaamendola8394 7 лет назад +1

    Musica unica e affascinante....Great George

  • @benjamin_b757
    @benjamin_b757 4 года назад +1

    The best of the best!

  • @pixie_angel90
    @pixie_angel90 2 года назад +2

    Kiváló zongoraművész, hihetetlen tehetséggel.

  • @cioofek3963
    @cioofek3963 6 лет назад +6

    Uwielbiam ten utwór, jest taki optymistyczny :)

  • @pereira1801
    @pereira1801 11 лет назад +3

    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 :)

  • @likemyviolin
    @likemyviolin 10 лет назад +9

    Thank you!

  • @camillebouchard6436
    @camillebouchard6436 10 лет назад +3

    Quel beau souvenir !

  • @premanadi
    @premanadi 9 лет назад +58

    This is a piano roll.

    • @rbtsccello
      @rbtsccello  9 лет назад +18

      Preman Tilson Gershwin recorded over 140 piano rolls. He also recoded live piano, including the Rhapsody in Blue and many of his pop songs.

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi 9 лет назад +6

      Richard Thomas Indeed. I only mentioned it in case anyone got the mistaken idea this was one of the live recordings.

    • @antoinebihr8921
      @antoinebihr8921 9 лет назад +2

      +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 :)

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi 9 лет назад +4

      +Antoine Bihr It's amazing how many that would not occur to! :) To be fair, lots of people have never heard of piano rolls.

    • @ToddSF
      @ToddSF 8 лет назад +12

      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.

  • @mggentry
    @mggentry 7 месяцев назад

    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.

    • @suremate
      @suremate 3 месяца назад +1

      Judy Garland wasn't even born when this song was written. The person who made this song famous was Al Jolson.

  • @emilychurch2792
    @emilychurch2792 8 лет назад +7

    Is there sheet music for this available?

    • @jeanettewhited9602
      @jeanettewhited9602 4 года назад

      Yes, I actually just searched it, but you have to pay money

    • @SCRIABINIST
      @SCRIABINIST 2 года назад

      @@jeanettewhited9602 IMSLP

  • @HotelFlorentia2024
    @HotelFlorentia2024 2 года назад

    Lovely

  • @白湯-z5d
    @白湯-z5d 9 лет назад +11

    青春の向う脛から〜

    • @KKristof100
      @KKristof100 2 месяца назад

      金ピカのお城〜で〜♪ww

  • @danilovega9083
    @danilovega9083 3 года назад

    Insuperable!!!

  • @hendrikfranss
    @hendrikfranss 7 лет назад +3

    Coming for Kokosake!

  • @teomusic7531
    @teomusic7531 4 года назад +2

    How hard is it?

  • @user-sn5so3vn2k
    @user-sn5so3vn2k 9 лет назад +15

    第1幕「あこがれの舞踏会」

    • @KKristof100
      @KKristof100 2 месяца назад +1

      現在、AbemaTVでここさけ配信中です♪

  • @milk3n858
    @milk3n858 4 года назад +9

    2:20 (Enter text here)

  • @eliasrobinson8810
    @eliasrobinson8810 7 лет назад

    This is amazing

  • @JOHN-cl4kk
    @JOHN-cl4kk 9 лет назад +59

    きんぴかのお城で~♪

    • @amyheart5567
      @amyheart5567 8 лет назад +2

      え?
      そう?

    • @muk200
      @muk200 7 лет назад +3

      完全一致ww

    • @muk200
      @muk200 7 лет назад +1

      dana

    • @Matcha-TK
      @Matcha-TK 3 года назад +2

      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。

  • @armallya
    @armallya 9 лет назад

    Richard, Can you tell me the Piano Roll make and number. Thanks!

  • @suzysuzy4799
    @suzysuzy4799 6 месяцев назад

    💚🙏😇🙏💚

  • @Tropenfieber
    @Tropenfieber 12 лет назад

    thanks for the upload

  • @KKristof100
    @KKristof100 2 месяца назад

    Most of the Japanese commenters are coming from the anime film “The Anthem of the Heart”, where this song is played with original lyrics.

  • @fishramen5390
    @fishramen5390 6 лет назад

    Yesss I am finding this

  • @rbtsccello
    @rbtsccello  12 лет назад +2

    You are welcome...

  • @海老かす
    @海老かす 9 лет назад +15

    ここさけから

  • @nicoedogawa1203
    @nicoedogawa1203 7 лет назад +36

    Am I the only one who came here after watching the anthem of heart? XD

    • @ferdinandmartin8345
      @ferdinandmartin8345 7 лет назад

      ye looks like :D

    • @HikariSora95
      @HikariSora95 6 лет назад

      You're not alone :D

    • @fishramen5390
      @fishramen5390 6 лет назад

      Yep XD

    • @nlh5201
      @nlh5201 6 лет назад +1

      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

    • @nlh5201
      @nlh5201 6 лет назад

      The version is still diffrent tho than in the movie sad

  • @giangtran6644
    @giangtran6644 4 года назад +1

    OMG

  • @ferociousgumby
    @ferociousgumby 9 лет назад +19

    I need to cleanse my mind of the image of Al Jolson wailing this in blackface.

  • @zapdunga12
    @zapdunga12 11 месяцев назад

    1:50 You can hear where The 3 Stooges got their theme song from.

  • @taitetutakesinn7727
    @taitetutakesinn7727 6 лет назад

    Where can I get this score?

    • @12elatrommi10
      @12elatrommi10 6 лет назад

      Taitetu Takesinn musescore.com/user/2645116/scores/963861

    • @taitetutakesinn7727
      @taitetutakesinn7727 6 лет назад

      Thank you.

    • @gabrielbustos2706
      @gabrielbustos2706 6 лет назад

      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.

  • @thatrecord5313
    @thatrecord5313 4 года назад

    This would sound GREAT with a sostenuto pedal on the few parts with the descending bass harmony parts.

    • @aloismelichar815
      @aloismelichar815 4 года назад

      what does such a sostenuto pedal and is it the left one at pianos with 3 pedals?

    • @thatrecord5313
      @thatrecord5313 4 года назад

      @@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

    • @aloismelichar815
      @aloismelichar815 4 года назад

      @@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...

    • @thatrecord5313
      @thatrecord5313 4 года назад

      @@aloismelichar815 Money, money, money... Too bad that is the factor for beautiful things like making music.

  • @Askeys
    @Askeys 9 лет назад

    His name is Welte Mignon...

  • @nataliegold6584
    @nataliegold6584 Год назад +1

    1st class music does'nt date, especially when the pianist is this good!

  • @rpghorrorfan879
    @rpghorrorfan879 3 года назад

    towelket brought me here

  • @jacobthompson2578
    @jacobthompson2578 11 лет назад +2

    swane is awsome

  • @はむはむ-w3k
    @はむはむ-w3k 2 года назад

    同い年の人が書いたとは思えない、、やっぱりすごいんだ。。。

  • @MrHeroFamily
    @MrHeroFamily 4 года назад

    Turn playback speed 1.25, and it sounds a lot like the way Jack Gibbons played
    ruclips.net/video/muG6jQDfB24/видео.html

  • @PhaseDragonia
    @PhaseDragonia 9 лет назад

    where was this guy during WWII?

    • @rbtsccello
      @rbtsccello  9 лет назад +6

      PhaseDragonia Gershwin died suddenly from a brain tumor in 1937.

    • @PhaseDragonia
      @PhaseDragonia 9 лет назад +1

      Bummer. RIP

  • @reia3146
    @reia3146 5 лет назад

    0:35

  • @basx9267
    @basx9267 4 года назад

    ご本人?!

  • @VinMar-m6w
    @VinMar-m6w Месяц назад

    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.

  • @ferociousgumby
    @ferociousgumby 3 года назад

    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.

  • @morninggood9460
    @morninggood9460 6 лет назад +1

    これ違うでしょ?