My dad just passed away and I found old letters he wrote to my mom when he was in the Korean War. In one, he said this was his favorite song, so I had to look it up. It gave me a good cry.
Saw the Movie the night in 1953 my David bought me a simple gold wedding band. Only 19 and 20 we eloped a few days later because of religious differences and were together until death parted us 671/2 years later. This was our song
That is a very beautiful story. It’s so rare to find love like this nowadays. You mentioned having to elope at a young age because of religious differences between families. Must have been so difficult at times. We forget that difficulty can make our marriages stronger or can snap the bonds in two. Yours is a story to let love rule. God bless you.
As an ex-member of Percy Faith's Orchestra, this clip pre-dates my tenure there, but I can spot some of the musicians who were still there when I was. Lots of record albums and tours to Japan, plus many happy memories to carry with me.
My parents used to dance 🩰 to this kinda of music when they were in love when they used to dance at ball rooms the music was just beautiful and so wonderful boy I miss my parents what great memories I shared with them I don't think I'll ever forget the good music they played back then I miss the music don't you ❤😂😢😅
@@SaraHamidpour No te imaginas que tiempos tan bellos, la gente era tan buena, cortés, y sencilla pero elegante al mismo tiempo. Momentos vividos que nunca volverán!!
soy un hombre de 52 años y al encontrar estas joyas de la musica recuerdo con nostalgia los años de mi niñez en los 60's pues en casa no solo se escuchaban los grupos del momento, sino tambien, estas hermosas melodias interpretadas por estas grandes orquestas, gracias por traernos tan buenos recuerdos.
I first heard this rendition in 1952 when I was 6 years old ---- on the radio that my mother was crying over. Still feel it as though it were yesterday.
Watched this video over and over again after being laid off from my job in 2007. I found it comforting in many many ways. Almost 15 years later and I still enjoy watching and listening. Beautiful composition.
When I was a little boy, I dreamed about so many wonderful things. I would hear so much beautiful music in those days. I'd sit outside in the evenings, gaze at the stars...Tomorrow was going to be bright. We had hope and we lived in a most wonderful country... Now, I hear this music and am sad because so much happens in our lives as we get older. Before we know it, people in our lives are no longer with us. I am reminded of them. I'm reminded of many of the people that I've been blessed in having known. I know what it feels like to have a heartache. It comes and goes. Nonetheless, this music is wonderful..
Its so nice to hear a full-size orchestra perform something so beautiful that it must have come from heaven. Sadly, most kids today only know Rock or Rap, but nothing this sophisticated. I have a feeling that this song will live on forever, but most of today's garbage will be forgotten in a few years.
Absolutely! It's so utterly repetitive and boring and full of swearing. When these kids are parents and grandparents, what beautiful contemporary music will they have to remember?
My mother loved this kind of orchestral music (especially Mantovani, Percy Faith, and Les Baxter) and played it on the phonograph as she went about her days of washing, cleaning, and cooking. It reminds me of our childhood, and how she taught us to dream.
I had a vivid dream last night about my precious wife, in heaven now for 12 years. Something about this song has had me crying my heart out, as many songs have, over the years, since she was taken home. So emotionally moving. 😥
I am thankful that I stumbled upon this beautiful song/genre a couple years ago. There are so many beautiful “oldie” songs!! Many old artist are now my favorites… Percy Faith, Bert Kaempfert, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, etc
Percy Faith's compositions are simply magical. I am transported to a very happy and peaceful place in my mind. When I am upset, I listen to his music and I am instantly better. Thank you for uploading it.
This song and Stranger on the Shore are my top two favourite songs ever! They both just seem to reach deep down into my soul and take hold of me. Peace.
I am so elated...enjoying it sooo much...such good music ! all of it a treasure for ever and ever. Thanks to the master composers, performers and all the good people sharing, so am I , paying forward. This is truly magical ❤️🙆
It was the first "Moulin Rouge" film, back in the 50's. This song went to the top of the charts for weeks...we were romanticists, then, so this song hit chords with us.
This music was before my time, but I have such a strong affinity to it; it's beautiful. What can I say? Even as a child, it could reduce me to tears....
Me, too! In the early 80's, I danced The Charleston in front of my history class for extra credit (I checked out a vinyl record from the library that had a insert to layout on the floor with the dance pattern on it), apparently I was the only kid in my 7th grade class that liked jazz and Big Band music, it was such a wake-up call for me to find out that not everyone felt the same way about it as me, to feel how very moving that music is! As an adult, I had a psychic tell me that I'm an old soul, that I had a previous lifetime from the early 1900's to the very early 1950's, and that disclosure resonated with me on a level I understood without understanding it, if that makes sense!!!
It's one of the most beautiful pieces of music that will never go out of style nor will it ever be outdated for lovers of pure music. Thanks a million Percy Faith
People who weren't raised in this era don't understand the term "angry music" as someone who grew up with this might describe much of the popular music of the past few decades.
I love this song. My mom used to play this on her record player. I was only 4 years old atthe time and it always made me cry. My mom couldn't figure out what was making me crythen she came to realize it was the music. It still makes me cry.
@@anitamaree9121 Beautiful music is like a sort of prayer, expressing gratitude for the gift of being alive. It is a terribly bad, sad thing, that most young people today do not even have the opportunity to hear such music. Perhaps the neanderthals among them would dismiss good music as being unfashionable, were they to hear it, but I think that for sensitive individuals, beautiful music is like "water to drink", for the soul.
When my AF dad came back from overseas in the 50s he brought me a pretty little enamel-painted clock that played the theme from Moulin Rouge and I think of him and that clock every time I hear it.
My late Dad took me to see the picture Moulin Rouge and had to explain most of it to me as I was just a kid but I remember I liked the music and still do. Percy Faith was indeed a great musician and his orcheasta interpreted many fine movie themes.
This song has been on this program for at least 14 years now, and it’s not going away! It a beautiful piece of music. I’ve been hearing it for years and have never gotten tired of listening…it sends shivers and tears to hear it again! Thank you!
Looking at those not so young guys play fills me with deep curiousity about their backgrounds. Some of them, I wonder if they were born and trained in Europe and left their ravaged war-torn countries to gratefully pass on their gift to a world that gave them a chance to live. They look so grounded in beauty and calmed pain, so mysteriously chiselled and crafted in the experience of the art of life. Percy couldn't have done it without each of them.
Wiele lat tamu znalazłem tu tekst: "...it was my Dad favourite song. He was a soldier in Korea 1953. I miss You so much Daddy and all of us miss you too....." Ciągle nie mogę go zapomnieć...
This is sweet and comforting, where melody and rhythm make sense, the strings are singing the lyrics. Thank God I grew up in the time I did, and embraced the music of the Greatest Generation, as with mine. If the Melody, rhythm and lyrics don't make sense, maybe it's because I cling to what I know tastes good to my ears.
It was 1954 I was 8 years old and was taken to see the movie "Moulin Rouge" staring Jose Farrer. This song and its words sank into my soul. To this day I'm emotionally affected every time I i hear it. Such a sad, but beautiful song! .
So cool!!! Sleep comes easily restoring energy & calming the mind!!!Thank you Percy Faith. Many thanks too thisboy!!! Am sleepy love wl take a nap! Be back in a bit. 😍❤️❤️❤️
Probably the one song I remember most from my youth. My mother took her 9 year old son to see the movie; scared the hell out of me. But the haunting music has remained, as beautiful as ever.
Escuchar bellas melodías nos transporta a otro mundo donde podemos vivir en paz...armonía y con amor...es maravilloso escuchar al Maestro Percy Faith que grande fue con sus melodías hoy en el cielo con los angeles.
What a great video. I love watching the orchestra play. Seeing the bows violinists and postures of the musicians somehow makes it sound more real. This was #1 top of the popular music charts in 1953. Crazy how much popular music has changed since then, isn't it?
The cascading sound from those strings was legendary. Even Berliner Phiharmonic Orchestra is not able to duplicate same sound nowaday. A true legacy from Percy Faith.
Musicians from the great symphony orchestras of the day would join Percy Faith for these recording sessions. The strings are the stars of course, with Stradivarious and Guarnarius instruments playing Faith's arrangements.
Hermosa composición musical, desde niña la escuche estaba en los discos que mi padre poseía y me decía que para el eran su tesoro y cuanta razón tenia hoy la sigo escuchando y vienen a mi mente tantos recuerdos hermosos. es una melodía que toca las cuerdas de mi alma. Me encanta!!!
I first heard this in my youth (late 50s, early 60s) as the flip side of "Swedish Rhapsody" on a 78. That mix also had a vocal after the bridge / modulation (key change). I thought that the intro sounded like music to accompany the visual of a spaceship landing, and the outro as the ship returning to the sky. The strings, at times, reach directly into me ... it's very moving.
This has been an awesome session to be able to hear some songs from Carmen Cavallaro that I haven't heard in such a lot of decades let alone to be able to find it here. Thanks for the blast from the past.
