The rousing song "Stout Hearted Men" from the 1940 movie New Moon. Nelson Eddy rallies the troops and leads the chorus. Composed by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II.
I remember watching this in grade school in 1949 or 1950 during an "assembly"! I don't remember any of the movie except this song and I remember it like it was yesterday.
My mom loved Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. She used to play this on the turntable back in the day. She passed away on Nov. 9, 2019. We all miss her and I wanted to remind myself of her enjoyment of these old classic movies. .
This song has been a part of me as long as I can remember. I'm playing it on a PSR 292 now and need to learn the lyrics. Wow! So this memory comes from the days of radio for me. Nelson Eddy, eh? WOW!
I learned this song in Year 5 at school and have loved it ever since. So glad to find the powerful baritone voice of Nelson Eddy on line. YES. Magnificent
True considering the times. Trans people are losing their human rights, women are losing their bodily autonomy and oppressive relegious goverment is destabilising democracy
He can sing tenor almost as well as he is a baritone! I've always loved his singing! When he sings with Jeannette, their voices are made for each other! Love, Liz
It's a shame, the comments reflect that so few forget Jeanette and Nelson's movies and their stirring songs from early years of the talkies to the glory days of the glamorous big studios! These memories brought a tear to my eye, especially remembering as a child of ten or so, TV bringing back all their films in festival form! I remember when it was just me, Jeanette, and Nelson, huddled around the warm glow of the cathode ray tube!
This film was shown in the school auditorium (Philadelphia) when I was about 13 yrs. old (now 80). Even then there were idiots sitting near me who started laughing and bullying those around them who were caught up in the film, poking at and otherwise making it miserable for those of us who not only enjoyed the movie but were getting something out of it. Sometimes I wish it was possible to know what happened to them and what kind of life they have had since then.
Unfortunately, some of that ilk is currently running our nation "to H%%% in a handbasket"; - hopefully not for long, though! (Vote them OUT, this November.)
YES, a song I sang as a young student at PS. 179 in NYC… these words call ever to my heart and fuels a calling in fulfillment of intention… Yes, first heard over 7 decades ago...
I would follow Charles Vidier as portrayed by Nelson Eddy to the ends of the earth. The way Nelson holds that note is amazing. Thank You for sharing with Us. Lorraine
Principles that were... principles to respect anew... protections, commitments ... allegiance ...to TRUTH, the heart, the pulse of FREEDOM Respectfully, Rose Marie Raccioppi
One of the best songs Nelson sings without Jeanette in "New Moon", my favorite movie of the super singing duo based upon the number of wonderful songs in this one film!!!
There is a family legend that my great grandfather on my mother's side. One chester giddings was on uncredited voice double for Nelson Eddy. I have no way of proving it but it is a fun old story
The movie is great -- I knew most of the songs when I was litte (in the 50s!!) but it wasn't until I saw it in the early 70s that I knew where they came from. When the VHS came out in 1986 I snapped it up!
Nelson studied voice in Germany and loved Wagner. He perfected a technique produced by the "helden" or heroic sound. Lawrence Tibbett also utilized this method. You seldom hear singers use this technique today. I wish more singers would use this technique-it is very noble and stirring.
I looked for this song which I sang in 4th grade 1957-58. I thought of it while watching a Forensic Files show in which a man was peeking over his neighbor’s fence and saw him drowning his wife in the pool. Instead of shouting at the guy he just called 911 giving the guy plenty of time to finish killing his wife. I just thought a real man would have at least yelled at the killer and then this song came to mind so I looked for it.
+4260laurel That hunk you're leching after is the famous George Reeves. He played Superman on TV for the first time and was in countless movies, like the incredible From Here to Eternity. He has a small role chit-chatting with Burt Lancaster. His death is was mysterious and is one of Hollywood's eternal worries.
Stout-Hearted Men (From "The New Moon") Lyrics Writer(s): Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein Give me some men who are stout-hearted men, Who will fight, for the right they adore, Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men, And I'll soon give you ten thousand more. Shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder, They grow as they go to the fore. Then there's nothing in the world can halt or mar a plan, When stout-hearted men can stick together man to man. You who have dreams, if you act they will come true. To turn your dreams to a fact, it's up to you. If you have the soul and the spirit, Never fear it, you'll see it thru, Hearts can inspire, other hearts with their fire, let the flame burn high for tonight we do or we die. () Give me some men who are stout-hearted men, Who will fight, for the right they adore, Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men, And I'll soon give you ten thousand more. Shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder, They grow as they go to the fore. Then there's nothing in the world can halt or mar a plan, When stout-hearted men can stick together man to man ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You who have dreams, if you act they will come true. To turn your dreams to a fact, it's up to you. If you have the soul and the spirit, Never fear it, you'll see it thru, Hearts can inspire, other hearts with their fire, For the strong obey when a strong man shows them the way. Give me some men who are stout-hearted men, Who will fight, for the right they adore, Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men, And I'll soon give you ten thousand more. Shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder, They grow as they go to the fore. Then there's nothing in the world can halt or mar a plan, When stout-hearted men can stick together man to man. () Give me some men who are stout-hearted men, Who will fight, for the right they adore, Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men, And I'll soon give you ten thousand more. Shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder, They grow as they go to the fore. Then there's nothing in the world can halt or mar a plan, When stout-hearted men can stick together man to man
The funny part is the long-held note in this song. Later, when he meets the Princess-in-disguise they have a how-long-can-you-hold-a-note duel--whcih he wins!!
Sure they did. Would someone now retake the whole world and put laws in place in all democracies whereby law prevents being done to people what is being done to them now, and what has been done during the past 20 months. Stay strong folks. Take heart, and hearten each other.
@Busdul It was the Rothschild Central Bankers of the City of London ( always the real power behind that fake monarchy) that Gen Geo Washington & his Colonists were really fighting against...and It is the VERY same Bankster family that is Coordinating & financing the death & destruction of today... (Believe it or not: the USA defeated British Imperial Satanism twice...(1776 & 1812) but they still rule the Western World's economy and politics...)
I love this song because I've never seen the movie and all I can think of is when they get there and proceed to get shredded by musket and cannon rounds like a chainsaw through a hedgemaze XD
Many years ago, I watched a tv show called, "Still Standing". The episode was "Still Men". When I heard this song, my nuts dropped soo low, I tripped whilst playing "SKIP IT". LOL
I recall listening to the radio forty or so years ago when someone said that, ‘Nelson Eddy’ was christened as Edward ‘Eddie’ Nelson. Furthermore, that he had actually seen him perform in a musical troupe that was touring the U.K. many years earlier. Could there be any truth in this ?
Actually, the song is from "Naugty Marietta" and is reprised at the end of the movie, when the Princess and the Captain go off into the (metaphorical) sunset, riding up into the moutains.
I have always Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald. I was an educator and I was a young sixth grade teacher when he died. I mourned all day. I learned later that Jeannette had killed herself . I think they loved each other but married others. Carl Spears
Carl, Where did you learn that she killed herself. Everything that I read says that she had heart trouble complicated by pleurisy and died just before she was to be operated on by famous heart surgeon Dr Michael DeBakey. Nowhere did I find even a hint of suicide and it was reported that her husband was by her side when she died.
If the spirit is in just one person, and carried through to the bitter end, then the spirit lives and burns like a tiny candle that cannot ever be extinguished.
The reason why is because he was a rotten, wooden actor.. he had very little emotion or the ability to fully emote when on film, except when he sang, he felt more comfortable singing than acting and it shows.
Yes, I heard that also. Nelson Eddy was there when she died, but so was her husband. Heart failure is a very sudden death once it takes hold you're gone.
A bit off-topic, but there are different types of heart _failure_ ; not all of them are fatal, but can be treated successfully (if not fully _cured_) with medications.
Sorry to correct someone below, but "Stout Hearted Men" is most definitely from "New Moon" and not "Naughty Marietta". It actually features in Act I of the original operetta. The movie version includes most of the music but the screenplay (story) is different from the staged version. "Naughty Marietta" has a pirates song called "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" which is also heroic. I have not watched the movie version of "Naughty Marietta", but if it does indeed feature "Stout Hearted Men" it was stolen from Romberg`s musical. Anyway, its splendidly stirring, probably the greatest of all marching songs from the musicals including "Song of the Mounties", "Song of the Vagabonds" etc..
Finally, I heard the whole song. I heard Dean Martin warble a few notes while on the piano. His version was, "Show me some men who are stout-hearted men and I'll show you a man who wears a bra..."
Folks - those of you who don't like what Authority is doing, especially in 'democracies' all over the world - listen up! (and cheers to you all, from Australia)
