You Made Me Love You - Harry James / Helen Forrest 

Thanks for your service Jack.

Currently parked at the former WURSMITH AFB

Uh oh. he's either 101 or I'm alone again

I am 84 and i flew in Constellations

God bless you and thank you for your service.

Sweet!

Congratulations for your romance men

My dad grew up in the big band era I was taught to appreciate the music and I love doris day,Helen Forrest,the Andrew sister's,my favorite band was a cross between Glenn Miller,Harry James,les brown,benny goodman,the Dorsey brothers just to name a few

Ralph Gooding don’t forget my girl kitty kallen!

Me and my wife just 52. But how sweet they've been.

Thank you for that, ma'am

God bless you Kay, what a wonderful love story you have had to fall in love with your perfect soul-mate, especially at such a tender age, but it must be emotionally devastating to lose your life partner after all those years together, maybe you can take some solace from the fact that many people search all their lives, and are never lucky enough to find the one they can love, but you and your husband found each other and shared a happy life together, and you will always have those treasured memories, we should all heed your advice though, and tell our partners how much they mean to us while still together because we all have a use by date, and unfortunately that will come around sooner or later, so we really should be kind to each other in the meantime. 💕 This song link below says it all for you Kay and your husband: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YsIL07eOqOU.html

This was my moms song. She was very excited every time she heard it. What a pitty she had died in the mid of 2000; just on the threshold of the 21 century. She had missed internet and RU-vid. She could enjoy not only the music of Harry James, but also a video with the whole band and Helen Forrest.

Although late but I just your post. I just want to say I'm very sorry for loss! I can definitely relate when I lost my dear mom! I can only hope our beloved are waiting for us!

Memories like yours sustain us through our twilight years. I can relate to what you wrote. My wife and I are both in our 70s, too young to have grown up with this music but old enough to treasure what we have now, knowing that in a few short years, one or both of us will be gone. When you reach a certain age, embrace the moment becomes a type of rallying cry as you see the years rushing by, seemingly faster than they did when you were decades younger.

This performance was in 1942 and 41 years later in 1983 Hellen's final record album, "Now and Forever, " was released at age 66 and it's really good.

Makes me cry. I lost my wife after 64 years together - the 1940's and 1950's shaped our lives. My tribute to the love of my life can be seen on youtube - judyv4 - a wonderful world then, so relatively innocent .

Real people playing instruments and people had to be able to sing, no autotune in those days

@@davidfletcher452 pure amazing talent 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Si excelente Helen Forrest

Chuck L has to take me to get some food

That's so cool I am from Pittsburgh too and I love all this music all of it!

bravo sir. you should be very proud...

FARRR OUT..!!!! 🍭😉🎸

Thank you so much for sharing! I hope someone recorded your family story.

Because it wasn't long enough!

Lovely dance music he was great ...to bad there wasn't more like him and his Band....

They are high on drugs most likely

never get tired of hearing Helen singing

@@pattiehernandez769 LOVE HER...!!!!

@@pattiehernandez769 she was the best one only an original form and

Same here. I grew up listening to that wonderful music.

Peter Shaw Ditto!!

Only 2 years before you were born - so not so much before your time! :-)

@@gadola100 im 19 years old and i love this music

Esteban tr: I'm so happy for you! Never stop listening!!

Peter Shaw: I'm with you on this one. I grew up from an early age listening to this music from a toddler on up. Each rendition has its beauty and its charm. Judy Garland's version was a stunner and she was years younger than Helen Forrest. I'm sorry to bore you. You probably already know this.

No one has good taste anymore, the children seem to not like it anymore, I am one out of 26 kids in my class who likes music like this, everyone else just says it’s garbage. But I know this isn’t garbage it’s a masterpiece!

​@@Cheddar199 The "music" kids listen to nowadays is trash. I attended a wedding last year. The music was nothing but loud base and dancing was jumping up and down.😒

Hells yeah.

Yup in 2024!!

Hachinohehorse I know bring back the romance not the skanky music

Hachinohehorse YES YES YES I do.

black iiuuugumichelle pepper 🌶 and the new queen I love you so cute I can't

endgame. nuff said.

Only works back then lol nobody likes this type of music nowadays but I do

My Mother did exactly the same thing and this was one her ' greatest hits'...

My Mom sang too..dishes, cooking, kniting, what ever. That's where I also learned alot of songs & the words. Dad played a variety of different horns( sax,trombone,trumpet) that helped too!! Of course they were WW2.

@@shirleybalinski4535 My mom sounded much like Jo Stafford, looked a bit like her too. "You Belong To Me" was another one I learned from her "Kitchen" renditions.

I grew up then too. Love the music of 20s, 30s, 40s & most of 50s

You were alive during the '40s in a previous life, possibly even as a woman, and died young by the mid-'60s. Then you were born into your current body in '66.

Sometimes I think I was born at the wrong time. Have always loved Big Band music.

Hello Kate, How are you doing?

Music is one of humanity's most special gifts. It's truly magical how much we all sparkle with music's grace...

I can confirm that

Hello Sandra, how are you doing?

+Roenie that would be a brilliant hypotheses if it weren't for the fact that Capitalism in America was by the time of this recording already pretty long in the tooth. so, PORTES PORTES' question really boils down to this: why is it that mankind -- not merely here and there, but across a broad spectrum -- cannot seem to avoid being corrupted today when they seemed to be able to manage pretty well and maintain a life-affirming culture in which talent was respected more than gimmicks and "edge" (a nice word for crassness) when this recording was new? Capitalism hasn't changed. Clearly, people have. in fact, to make reference to the "humanity" of the population, it was always true that the "rich" tended to lord it over the poor, but today even the middle-class does so -- the great masses seem to have decided they don't want to be associated with the poor, but rather with the well-off, with the unavoidable result that the wide breadth of middle-class spend so much of their money at big-box stores and other outlets, buying stuff that's made like crap but LOOKS high-end: so they can pretend to be "better" (at least what is now in their minds better) than they are. in fact, what seems so obvious today is that the greatest block of the demographic now professes to love "humanity" just as much as we used to, but now in practice actually hates (or at least disdains) actual individual humans. it wasn't Capitalism that spoiled the party, but the party-goers. the fault, my friend, lies not in our wallets, but in our selves.

Gerard Cordelli Forgive me for being helpless romantic. Yes, I am quite aware how capitalism has destroyed everything. In terms of music and culture the destruction started back at the beginning of the 19 century. Sad isn´t it. I agree with you 100 percent; my question is what are we going to do to change this. I am trying to do my part; how about you.

+PORTES PORTES alas, you may be "quite aware" of this, but i can't join you in any sob story regarding Capitalism as the destroyer of anything. i'm not a "helpless romantic", but rather driven to assess things logically whether i like where the logic leads or not. people used to be able to handle the responsibilities of Capitalism -- and thrive within it -- but today people seem to have lost sight of their place in the world, don't seem inclined to handle responsibility, and the other side of that coin i believe is they no longer demand much from anyone else either -- including (but not limited to) what they look to for entertainment. cute kitten videos, crappy music that sounds "edgy" but is actually vacuous and banal, cable tv that boasts titillation as its draw but is actually merely boorish, and a blogosphere that claims to expose ideas and ideals across the planet but which mostly airs childish nonsense. and all the while people are applauding -- because they've lost the ability to tell worthwhile from worthless, art from trash, eloquence from profanity. meanwhile, they are following the same trend as their entertainment, lowering their expectations of themselves as they do of their entertainers, and increasingly giving crap in exchange for the crap they are increasingly willing to accept. in the face of it all, they look for someone or something else to blame: Politicians, The Top 1%, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Corporations in general, or the catch-all of Capitalism as an economic system -- but the simple fact is that everyone of these things is simply a collection or people or a system of interaction between people. people are different now. they weren't ruined by any of the things they want to blame; they ruined themselves. and they don't want to be LIKE the people who listened to Harry James or watched Fred Astaire, so they don't GET a Harry James or Fred Astaire; they get Miley Cyrus and Lady GaGa gyrating in a "meat dress" -- entertainment that's a good as its consumers.

+PORTES PORTES It's not capitalism, it's greed there is a difference.

greed and capitalism are natural bedfellows. Always have been and always will be. There's no trying to rescue the one from the other.

Same here

I'm 64, same here.

This is the only music I love the 20s 30s 40s

Condolences m8

Your Mom was part of "The Greatest Generation." May she rest in peace. That would likely mean you're part of "The Silent Generation." I admire both groups.

They don't make it like that anymore

+Ernest Curtis I'm reading about the Pacific campaign now (Ian Toll). All honor to all who served there. Brutal time but you did have the best music in those days!!

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Hello Carolyn, How are you doing?

Yes, a magical combination. Such a sweet song, performed by the sweetest voice and the sweetest trumpet playing. They don't write 'em like that anymore, nor perform 'em like that anymore. (sigh)

SO TRUE...THINGS HAVE CHANGED SO MUCH AND NOT FOR THE BETTER !!

Indeed they do

God Bless her!

June Ahern - Guess we had the same kind of beautiful Mom. Cheers!

June Ahern is this her favorite song? And also I know this an old comment

generationll December 7th, 1991, a date that will swing in blissful harmony

+Ed McDowell Best of the field. That phrasing she puts on "I've never made love by lantern shine" from I'm Beginning to See the Light gets me every time.

Ed McDowell no

Harry Burke Remember the eggs that made us all possible; thus we tip our non existent hats to the age of woman.

Ildeu Silva was it a :dream

Was it a dream

lldeu Silva, Sorry for the late reply, Helen Forrest did it for me with her voice even in the early 1970's. Elis Regina always & everyday! Greetings from the U.S.

I can remember dancing like that . Why was it always anti-clockwise

Greetings from Brazil 2018 !? 😍❤

Check out Jo Stafford

corey ingison Fortunately that powerful quality was not that of a large Wagnerian soprano with a glass shattering can belto.

How about people like Annette Hanshaw or Al Bowlly or many others?

@@Niiiko895 Two fantastic singers. I have CD's of both.

She fronted for Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James. Some CV eh ? Goodman was mean to her, but the other two adored her.

@@MOGGS1942 if only we could have gotten Russ Morgan and Helen Forrest to make a song together, it could have been perfect

Thank you so much for this. I have always dreamed of real dancing, known that somewhere out there, at some point in human history it existed.... Then I read this. I compliment you, for your description is spellbinding. If I could only experience this feeling once, I would be complete. I hope you are truly grateful for the gift you've been given, for having what me and my fellow teenagers of this generation will go a lifetime without.

Man do I wish I lived back in the 40's

Bacon OK, back to the forties, but you do know you will be giving up TV, internet, cable, GPS, antibiotics, civil rights, strawberries in winter, smartphones, birth control, and Lady GaGa?

Even tough you'll lose that, you'll get back a much simpler time. I would want to give up all my modern luxeriers to live back in that era

Ashley Galura yes I do. I am constantly bemused that I have lived this long in surprisingly good health aside from a few close calls along the way, with my memory mostly intact. I claim no spiritual or moral basis for any of that. I just think I won the genetic Lottery. many times, when I see and experience new things, new events, new ideas, I wish my father was alive to enjoy them.

Hello Carmen, How are you doing?