Bing was one of the first stars to fight for racial equality and insisted that Louis appear in several of his movies. Frank Sinatra was also in this movie and he sang a duet with Bing. For me Bing's voice was unparalleled - above Sinatra, Como, Williams, Bennett, Cole, and the rest. Hopefully you can react to Louis doing a duet with the Greatest female singer of all time - Ella Fitzgerald
I TOTALLY agree! I know I’m probably going to get some flak, however I was NEVER a fan of Sinatra! Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Andy Williams ALL had beautiful voices!
As soon as Satchmo starts singing, tears well up in my eyes. What a classic performance. Thank you Harri and Stephen for a great time and Harri, your reaction is unparalleled.
Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong are two of the all-time greatest and their music is timeless. This is truly an excellent submission by Stephen and your review, Harri.
Written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film "High Society", he researched with Fred Astaire as he felt Louis would want a jazz song. Having a 30 year friendship, the two, Bing and Louie have no problem showing a respect and love for each other on this fantastic duet together. The horns are so captivating, the brushes on the drums and the orchestral backing such a perfect addition to these two so recognizable gentlemen. Glorious time in music. They produced a duet album in 1960 called Bing & Satchmo which includes this treat. Great reaction Harri 😊 Thanks Harri and Stephen. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
You would absolutely LOVE the movie this is from -- High Society, 1956, also starring Frank Sinatra & Grace Kelly -- her last movie before leaving Hollywood to become Princess Grace of Monaco. Lots of WONDERFUL songs (all written by Cole Porter), fun story, & some great writing have made High Society one of my all-time Top 10 movie favorites. I promise you, Harri, you will absolutely LOVE it!!!!!
Louis Armstrong is one of the very few people whose music I can listen to all day long without being bored. Most of all, I love the music that he recorded back in the 1920's and 1930's. Satchmo is well known for Hello, Dolly and Wonderful World, but it's the really old stuff that I love most. It's gritty and raw and so real. There was never anybody like him, and there never will be. And you can tell just how much admiration and affection he and Bing Crosby have for each other. They were two very different artists with the same goals and the same musical values. Whenever they came together, it was pure fire.
Was not so much a fan of Bing before. Didn't know he could swing so well ! Did he record alot of that ? This song converted me. Louis the legend I knew all about. The miracle of YT again. I watch this about daily just for fun.
Crosby was the first hip white guy per Artie Shaw. Was duetting with Ellington, Armstrong, Mills Bros and Bowells in the late 20s and early 30s. Jon Hendricks said every jazz singer followed to singers regularly Ella and Bing
What a joy, from start to finish! A nice little bit of business here is when Bing addresses Louis by nickname, but rather than using the commonplace "Satchmo" he calls him by the honorific that all jazz musicians universally used: "Pops."
Thanks Harri. Louis also sings rhe open ing title song of the movie from the bands tour bus giving a sassy commentary on what we are about to see enacted. The same also with the end title. Glorious stuff from Louis in a telling cameo appearance e . This was a great reaction Haarri. So glad you enjoyed it. 😢
The film "High Society" was released in July of 1956 and starred Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. It was one of my mom's favorite movies and I watched it with her many times. So watching this video brought back a lot of wonderful memories. My mom also had the soundtrack album from this movie and played the heck out of it. Bing & Frank did a duet on the song titled "Well Did You Evah!" which you would probably enjoy, Harri. Frank & Celeste Holm did a duet on a song titled "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" which you also might enjoy. Loved watching your reaction.
This was so great!!! Such a happy, upbeat performance. This music will be around forever. Thanks Stephen for referring this to Harri and thanks Harri for the great reaction. There is a similar video with Louis Armstrong and Sinatra doing Birth of the Blues. It’s a keeper too. Would love to see your reaction to that as well. 👏👏🇨🇦
I wish I grew up in the age of this music! This is so fantastically entertaining and crisp and clear and beautiful. Then again I wished I could've been old enough to go to Woodstock! It's just music period and the way it soothes the spirit and soul! Great reaction!
I'm old enough to remember The Ed Sullivan Show and other variety shows on black and white television. When Satchmo was performing on one of those it was a must see...or a must hear. Loved that man. Such a personality. Always upbeat and he only tooted his own horn when he played.
I don't know if you can get it posted without a strike, but check out the end of the movie Hello Dolly! were Barbara Streisand sings the song and Louis Armstrong has an extended cameo and sings with her. This is musical-style music which is great. However, look at the whole song as an example of how Amazing Hollywood could produce a musical. The power of Americana. The production is absolutely fantastic. Barbara Streisand is in her prime, the movie was released in 1969. If you are in the "right frame of mind" the presentation is completely overwhelming in a positive sense. It's simply amazing.
Fcheck out the album Louis and Bing did together in 1960 arranged and conducted by Billy May. It’s amazing and much written about . Johnny Mercer strolled in and joined the chorus of voices on -i think - Bye Bye Blues, and takes a one line solo too. Fine stuff ! I found it in a discount bin in 1980 as an LP and now has been reissued on CD and the vinyl is a collector’s item.
this is what i heard as a child because my dad was so into bing and satchmo. then my older brothers introduced me to deep purple aerosmith and zeppelin.
I read a bio of Armstrong. No one had a bad thing to say. People loved him. Bing was a huge fan and very much influenced by Armstrong early in his career.
My favorite Louie Armstrong is "Hello Dolly", "Baby, It's Cold Outside"(with Velma Middleton) and "Mack The Knife" he's really awesome and who I inspired to be when I was playing Trumpet 🎺🎺 growing up!
You're a gentleman, Harri. I loved your comment on the elegant mode of dress. You need to watch the whole movie with all the great Cole Porter tunes. You really need to do a reaction on Bing and Frank's "Well, Did You Evah?" which is a hoot. Additionally, you can't pass up the beautiful "True Love" with Bing and Grace Kelly. Movies were great when they had stars.
I'm smiling with you😊 I never saw, or heard this song, so that was real fun. I absolutely love this style of jazz💜 Well, I've watched probly about ten of your videos today, and am looking forward to going back through and checkin' out more. And I'm subscribing today😊 Thanks for the reactions. Looks like you're busy with it for sure!
You need to watch a movie called "The Five Pennies". True story about Red Nichols (a cornet player), but Louis Armstrong plays himself and has great musical battles with Red Nichols (played by Danny Kaye in my favorite role of his).
In the same movie, there’s another hysterically funny and excellent song by Crosby and Sinatra called Well, Did You Evan! as well as another terrific one called Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? again with Sinatra and Celeste Holme, one of the best comic actresses ever. Cole Porter s songs are so witty and delicious!
Many years after they first became friends, Crosby said in an interview that he wished to “acknowledge his debt” to Armstrong, describing him as “the beginning and the end” of music in the United States".
Harri, one artist you will fully appreciate is Bobby Mcferrin. He is special, please listen to his other songs and performances other than “Don’t Worry be Happy”, he is much more talented
Another movie clip, not quite as excellent, but worth knowing about and seeing can be found on RU-vid under the title of "Louis Armstrong Benny Goodman Danny Kaye Laurindo de Almeida Nestor Amaral in A SONG IS BORN 2"
Ironically this track "Now you has jazz", trying to define what is Jazz to the white audience, is more a boogie (blues structure) than a Jazz type. Fantastic piece by the way
For some reason, I had a brain fart and thought it was Armstrong and Frank Sinatra. I’m looking at it and thinking, “that’s Bing Crosby!” 🤦🏻♀️ This was my parents era and partly my generation (boomers). Such wonderful movies. What’s sad is that such an act could only be seen in the movies. Black musicians could only play in black clubs. Mind you, the whites loved jazz music, but wouldn’t allow a black jazz musician into their whites only music venues. So Hollywood made movies about blacks and whites living together in harmony via music, and it was as much a fiction as Star Wars is.
Bing Crosby was the highest grossing entertainer of the 20th century until Michael Jackson came along. He was a singer, appeared in numerous Hollywood movies (often as the lead), owned television production studios and developed several hit shows (Hogan’s Heroes among them), was a song writer, orchestra leader, the list goes on far beyond one trick. He even owned several (winning) thoroughbred ponies…
