Thomas Trumble Must have been wonderful

Harry James and Glenn Miller orchestras still tour. Just have to be in the right area of the country.

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 !

@@Thekatedelaney ,, the bands today do not reach the standards set by the originals. the orchestras come close, but the vocals today are nothing.

​@@robgrune3284Well. These people were LEGENDARY. Helen Forrest had a voice of rare BEAUTY. Then she mastered the art of singing which is a skill.

Hi Ken: This movie, "Bathing Beauty," was made in 1944. Harry James' record of the number with Helen Forrest came out in 1942.

Helen Forrest was signing with Artie Shaw and then Benny Goodman in 1939.

Yes, civilization peaked decades ago

Esther Williams didn't look too bad either!

back in the days when the world had real women. no surgeries, no plastic, no injections. and when chique was upheld.

What a beautiful commentary.

I was Glad that all you mentioned poured into 1950 when I was Born ! My Parents did All that ! I loved that Era !

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.

@@td3993 well, if you can, record a number in HiFi so we all can hear.

is this a clip from the 1944 film Bathing Beauty ?

@@robgrune3284 It certainly is. Esther Williams' first starring role.

I totally agree, those were wonderful times, even with all the hardships they endured music would always covey lovely sentiments.

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.

Hachinohehorse She was the voice of the Big Band Era. Unforgettable!

Almost all movie vocals were pre-recorded in those days. Better sound than recording live.

What is this movie called? I'll watch it

@Carlos Morillo The film is Bathing Beauty 1944

All the Singers Women Men and Bands were Great ! It’s what Made America Great ! When this era Died ! So did America ! Glad I didn’t miss the Ride !

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.

I agree

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

Betty Grable actually had a better voice. And she was better looking. At least Harry James thought so.

​@@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?

John

that's so cool

How about Peggy Lee when she was with Benny Goodman?

@@dw999 Peggy Lee was sensational -- and as a songwriter as well.

and O-Connel

I love Hele O'Connell teaming up with Bob Eberle on the Jimmy Dorsey band

And look at the musical wasteland we're living in now. Rock crap. Rap crap. Country-Western crap.

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 !

Its from Esther William's first technicolor movie: Bathing Beauty

@@justinaelizabeth5547 Thanks!

It's way better on Technicolor film. This is from a VHS tape.

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.

and maybe gone forever.

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.

yes, very attractive in her youth.

@@leelarson107 you believe everything you hear and read?

Clase y glamour puro!

Isn’t that the truth?

Red Skelton..

The movie was shot in mid-1943--released in 1944

Edie is nothing compared to Forrest.

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.

I'm pretty sure this is from _Bathing Beauty_ (1944). Pity that the uploader couldn't be bothered to provide that info.

This is from the film "Bathing Beauty" from 1944.

@@jakej.5996 thank you 😍

Yes.

yes, indeed !

Bathing Beauty 1944

Bathing Beauty - 1944 starring - Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Harry James & His Orchestra (ft. Helen Forrest) directed by George Sidney.

I'm pretty sure this is from _Bathing Beauty_ (1944). Lazy uploader couldn't be bothered to provide that info.

Are you commenting on Helen having a trim job on her big beak? Oy.

much to Helen's disenchantment, unfortunately; she was madly in love with our Mr. James

Well Harry and Betty got divorced, so I'd say he was lol

_Bathing Beauty_ (1944).

@@dw999 Many thanks. Thinkin´ this movie is on my collection. Artie Shaw played it,isn´t he? J.H.

Thanks so much to You.Probably this movie there is my collection but only in germany.J.H.

Red Skelton and Esther Williams.

@@normanlinden5786 Thanks.

Nothing I have any control over.

Download a free, safe adblocker. I like uBlock Origin -- works better than Adblocker Plus, which was great for years but began letting ads creep thru a few yrs ago. An adblocker will make life online so much better -- you won't believe the difference. FYI, most uploaders who share music and old films do so for the love of it, not to make money. Whenever anyone uploads anything in the US, YT software scans it before it can be published, and whoever owns the copyright can either let you post it w-o interference; can insist that ads be placed (which benefit the CR holder, not the uploader); or can block the piece from being shared at all, even privately. I've had several channels over the years, under different accts -- that's how I know. CR laws vary from country to country and are lax in some, which is why uploaders in, say, the Middle East can share stuff that would never be allowed from an American or Western European uploader.

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