I was Born 1950 ! My Mom Listened to all these Great Performers ! I’ll never forget These Great Artists ! These Great Artists Fueled our Country to be Great ! Our Grandchildren will never Know What it was Like to be a Proud American !
I remember this like it was yesterday. Sometimes I wish I could go back and live it all over again...but time would stand still. I wish the big bands would come back.
Yes ! And the Best Part is That This Was the TRUE Americans and THEY were Proud to be a Part of It ! Our Parents Built this Country and instilled their Values into us ! But our Grandchildren are throwing it All away !
I was born in 1944 - this music was 1939. Tonight I woke up with Harry JAMES and his orchestra in my head. Got up and went to U Tube. Watched Helen Forest sing You Made Me Love You. ( now where did this come from)?? Lovely. You can hear the words not overpowered by the noise of today. Such great lyrics. We have lost so much in the transition to the next Century. It is now Quantity and no longer Quality. Ken 5th May 2022.Campbell River Canada.
Swing and Sweet, do you remember "The Big Band Bash" either 71,72, 73 broadcast on PBS & Helen sang this tune and "I Had the Craziest Dream"; She was old to a teenager like me, but her voice, youthful body language and everything about her turned me on; didn't look a day over 28. We need to see that broadcast on You Tube I'm talking about & it'll have teenagers like I was 45+ years ago thinking about her from time to time for most of a lifetime.
a bold statement when you consider how many truly great singer they were, but the more I hear her the more I tend to agree with you, of course I an discounting the ones who made it big on their own like Ella & Peggy
@@leelarson107 Respectfully disagree on both counts. If Harry James thought his wife was better-looking than his lead singer, good for him... but who cares what a singer looks like anyway?
I just listened to this song over and over, it makes me both sad and happy.......I was born in the 40's, my dad had a large collection of this music, big band music on 78rpm records.....and he let me play them and I got to love this music ......and my mother dressed in beautiful 40's clothing, a time when elegance was important. It was also a difficult time with WW11 ...... money was hard to come by........but after the war life improved and as I watch this video and listen to Harry James and Helen Forrest it brings back memories, memories that make the 1940's my favourite decade of the 20th century.
such a pity the recording tech back then was primitive. not only have we lost the soul, we have lost the sound too. nothing today comes close to what was then.
@@robgrune3284This is a VHS recording of the film. The film is 35mm Technicolor. 35mm film is ultra HD, like up to 8K equivalent resolution. The sound on 35mm film can also reach up to 12,000 cycles, which is high fidelity. I have a 16mm Technicolor print of this film, and while 16mm soundtrack is lo-fi, it sounds decent, and the picture looks amazing. Period records of Helen Forrest singing with Harry James or Artie Shaw also sound great when played back on proper equipment with a proper stylus. Much of what was recorded back then was done with RCA ribbon microphones, which have flat response to 12,000 cycles, and sound stunning through good equipment. Modern microphone designs copy these microphones. Even condenser microphones of the period, which aren't as natural sounding as ribbon, do sound quite good.
Rush Limbaugh said it Best ! These People Were the Generation That Made America ! Because they went through SO much ! When they were born there was the Depression ! When teenagers There was WWll ! They were No Nonsense and knew their responsibilities and Dreams ! I Thank my Parents everyday for giving me the Opportunity and Showing me How to be a Good son ! A Good Dad ! a and a Great American ! Too Bad Others today Don’t feel the same !
Helen sings that song so effortlessly!! It just naturally comes out of her. Harry has the best trumpet I have ever heard!! I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid. My, how times (and music) changes.
From the movie Bathing Beauty. I watched this movie so many times growing up! ... lots of big band + South American band + organ music, for those who enjoy those 🙂 incl Xavier Cugat
I wholeheartedly agree with you. The ones today look awful, track pants too small over large posteriors. Nothing pretty about them at all. Thank goodness i grew up seeing the pretty ladies.
I know this was just a movie, but, still, the people had such class and style then. It's a nightmare living in our present society, with people looking like freaks and proud of it (purple hair, overweight, inked-up.)
What a treat to hear such a wonderful singer do this song, and no less see her beauty and facial expressions in Technicolor making it a lasting gem. Some pretty gal !!!
I just listened to this song over and over.....it makes me both sad and happy......I'm a child of the 40's. My father had a large collection of 78rpm records of big band music and he let me play them......and my mother dressed in beautiful 40's clothing.......this song takes me back to that time......a time when elegance was important.......but also tough times with WW11 and money was hard to come by.......but after the war life improved...... that decade for me is my favourite of the 20th century.
@Radim -- Pls resist the urge to romanticize old days. Yes, she was a superb singer, and there's a lot of phenomenal music from the entire 20th century -- but there's great music today, too. And more to the point, there was an enormous amount of misery for a lot of people in the 1940s -- before women and all people of color had any rights. So please cherish what we have today, work to make it better, and look for the great art that's being made today. For ex.: Have you listened to Joanna Newsom? Regina Spektor? Amy Winehouse? Three spectacular vocalists/songwriters.
She's also said to have gone through bed partners like a machine goes through shells. And she bragged about it in a book that was ghost-written for her.
Why can't the so called big band singers of today sound any where near as good as those of yesteryear, most if not all are dreadful, such a shame, but why is that.
YOU ARE SO VERY CORRECT ! what we have today is trash. music today is an industry... the focus is on money, sex appeal, woke-ism, not on talent and music.
Bathing Beauty - 1944 starring - Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Harry James & His Orchestra (ft. Helen Forrest) directed by George Sidney.
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