One of the best from the early days with a wonderful mix of songs and i still sing I Believe to myself at the age of 81. Will never stop listening to his songs thankyou FRANKIE !!
I''m from Croatia. My mom loved him very much and had 2 LPs. so I grow up listening to his music. When I bought my first CD player I ordered 2 CDs from USA cause you couldn't buy it in Croatia then. That was the only thing I ever bought by internet. My kids grow up listening to his music too (it was always in my CD player :)) and we still do listen to his music. Awesome voice.
It's nice to be able to look back and see myself thirty-six years ago. (With most of my hair) I was the lead trumpet player on this and other recordings. I toured England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales with him. Great times! We lived in Euxton, Chorley, Lancs at the time and Frank came out to the house for dinner. Irene and I were relative newly weds and hadn't had a honeymoon yet. Frank picked up the tab for a week's stay in Plymouth...also gave us a beautiful gift which we still treasure. MissU
Frankie Laine sang everything with passion and obvious enjoyment. He never just mouthed words. His repertoire is great. I have enjoyed and responded to all his music.
Frankie Laine was just brilliant. A classic 1930s song with lots of great versions around. I do love in particular the Billy Fury version and the bass intro he added. Vera Lynn's version was good too.
My Mom was president of the Northern NJ chapter of one of his fan clubs, "The Shinettes", starting in the 40's - 50's.Their motto was "always shine for Frankie"! My Mom was confined to a wheelchair since the age of 14 & was never able to get to a live performance. Frankie stopped to meet my Mom at her parents home when she was 16. Growing up, it was always funny to imagine my Mom as a "swooning teenager" but every time , the moment she would see this man or hear his voice, the sheer thrill you could see in her eyes and her smile, turned her right back into that teenager, right up untill her passing at age 72! Growing up listening to this man, was what inspired me to sing. His vocal stylings were so smooth, so posh and his vocal control was impeccable. His personal philosophy/approach to singing was to treat his vocals as one of the instrumental elements of the music, just like a horn, percussion or strings. He truly used his voice like an instrument. He and his wife exchanged handwritten Christmas Cards with my Mom up until we moved to Pa in 1979. My Mom was born in "33". She had me in "67". Frankie Lane and his music have always been a part of my life, from birth & will always be a part of my personal listening choices.
yes it is so beautiful. I loved Frankie from the first time I heard him in 1960, my first time in the US, I am French, and I still love him today. So far I am concern, no one can ever be as good as he was. Next best would be Frank Sinatra, then Dean. I know I am giving my age but who cares, I love music still.
I was president of Frankie Laine's fan club in Philadelphia. I had members who lived all over, one especially lived in England where they loved him as much as we did. He was such a real, genuine person who cared for his fans. He's gone but not forgotten,
Frankie Laine was among the first four CD's that I bought. (The first four I could afford after buying a CD-player in the 1980s). What a CANON of a voice!
Frankie Laine es un gigante de la musica ; un gran cantante , bailarin y actor , cuanfo niño veis sus peliculas el año 67 a los 7 años Un artisra completo con una voz privilegiada hasta sus ultimas presentaciones .Recuerdo su visita a Chile. Su voz inconfundible en peliculas como Viento Salvaje y Jesabel magistralmente, bravo desde Chile.
To sing so incredibly in front of cardboard cutouts must have been a hellofa challenge. You were always amazing Frankie. Looking forward to catching you upstairs. !
@johnny9022 I believe it was 1975, possibly 1974. My parents were members of the fan club (FLIAS) and Frankie actually came to visit our house in Yorkshire for an afternoon. I have a picture somewhere with me sat on his knee. We used to get an Xmas card every year until he died.
I was a pro musician for 35 years, just turned 60, and never wanted to be one of those old farts who didn't give new music a chance and just whined for the old days. I've liked plenty of things over the years, but in terms of vocalists, nobody tops the greats from Frankie Laine's era. Tony Bennett, Eddie Fisher, Eddie Arnold...Heck, for that matter, even Elvis and the best of the early Rock & Roll icons...there just hasn't been anybody to match those artists in decades. So distinctive!
Ha ha I'm a Muso too, My Father actually worked with Frankie at the talk of the North in Eccles near Manchester in the 70's : ) I absolutely love Jezebel - My band are lookin into covering it. I told Dave Vanian of The Damned they should do it, he did but, he did the Gene Vincent arrangement. He had a great raw power to his voice aand could croon and rasp as well ! I recall him re-recording Jezebel, with more of a sixteeen, drum orientated beat to it ? Or was I just imagining it ?
Pipkin Hopkins Frankie recorded Jezebel on numerous occasions, but I think the version you are referring to was done around about 1970. It was on an album with other very jaunty re-recordings.
@psychodamned I'm with you, obviously, not only does Scott still have a wondrous, haunting baritone, but the list goes on of great singers, from the 60's forward. Let's remember, though, that those who followed benefitted from the era of Laine, who you have to admit really has a sound. Even though he had some crooners like Sinatra to check out - he was really pretty unique with less to draw on, in his time or in recent history. I mean, "Jezebel?" "Rawhide" -tough to categorize.
@vandywilliam Couldn't find the original anywhere here to listen to. i heard it the first time it came out. There are some things good about being older.
@psychodamned Oh, Yeah...Jezebel had something like a Bolero feel on at least one version I remember. Ever heard "The Moonlight Gambler" by Frankie? There's a clip here on The Tube. Slightly off topic - who knows, you might not have cared for them, but I wish The Specials had put out a bit more stuff. (I guess you could say my taste is pretty eclectic - loved Ska, but I'm having a boogie woogie piano renaissance. Check out Vince Weber - Vince the Prince (here) for strange production. Cheers!
Frankie Laine was the best and will be remembered for his singing relating to cowboy films such as Rawhide with Clint Eastwood as one of the stars. www.jlandrut.co.uk/
St.Ives in the late 1940's...no cars, no motor bikes, no telephones, no tv....little to entertain.....then Frankie burst on the scene like a singing supernova. However, in 1953 the BBC banned his song, Answer Me, Oh My Lord, citing, quote: " a sentimental mockery of Christian prayer".....I'm not making this up!. The song title was changed to 'Oh My Love and sold world wide. No one on Planet Earth could stop the one and only Mr Rhythm!
Few songs have such an effective and powerful delivery as Frankie Laine singing this one. This live performance doesn't quite match the original recording in overall effect, but it's great nevertheless.
Awesome singer... stayed just far enough outside the 'rat pack' to be his own man. Could 'bend' a note like no other singer - even Elvis... who had the same natural instinct for tone.
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There will never be another singer to meet his calibur...Frankie Lane had a voice like no other! Love all of his songs!!! ~ AWESOME MAN!
One of the best from the early days with a wonderful mix of songs and i still sing I Believe to myself at the age of 81. Will never stop listening to his songs thankyou FRANKIE !!
The best singer I ever heard. It was fantastic...
I''m from Croatia. My mom loved him very much and had 2 LPs. so I grow up listening to his music. When I bought my first CD player I ordered 2 CDs from USA cause you couldn't buy it in Croatia then. That was the only thing I ever bought by internet. My kids grow up listening to his music too (it was always in my CD player :)) and we still do listen to his music. Awesome voice.
It's nice to be able to look back and see myself thirty-six years ago. (With most of my hair) I was the lead trumpet player on this and other recordings. I toured England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales with him. Great times! We lived in Euxton, Chorley, Lancs at the time and Frank came out to the house for dinner. Irene and I were relative newly weds and hadn't had a honeymoon yet. Frank picked up the tab for a week's stay in Plymouth...also gave us a beautiful gift which we still treasure. MissU
Hi Paul, thanks for sharing this personal part of your life, memories like this certainly are to be treasured, all the best mate.
Frankie Laine sang everything with passion and obvious enjoyment. He never just mouthed words. His repertoire is great. I have enjoyed and responded to all his music.
What a voice as soon as he crancked it up you knew it was Frankie..Bless sadly missed another great gone..
Frankie Laine was just brilliant. A classic 1930s song with lots of great versions around. I do love in particular the Billy Fury version and the bass intro he added. Vera Lynn's version was good too.
A man whose voice never faded..somewhat forgotten today but has he ever been rivaled...I think not!
FABULOSO FRANKE LANE
My Mom was president of the Northern NJ chapter of one of his fan clubs, "The Shinettes", starting in the 40's - 50's.Their motto was "always shine for Frankie"! My Mom was confined to a wheelchair since the age of 14 & was never able to get to a live performance. Frankie stopped to meet my Mom at her parents home when she was 16. Growing up, it was always funny to imagine my Mom as a "swooning teenager" but every time , the moment she would see this man or hear his voice, the sheer thrill you could see in her eyes and her smile, turned her right back into that teenager, right up untill her passing at age 72! Growing up listening to this man, was what inspired me to sing. His vocal stylings were so smooth, so posh and his vocal control was impeccable. His personal philosophy/approach to singing was to treat his vocals as one of the instrumental elements of the music, just like a horn, percussion or strings. He truly used his voice like an instrument. He and his wife exchanged handwritten Christmas Cards with my Mom up until we moved to Pa in 1979. My Mom was born in "33". She had me in "67". Frankie Lane and his music have always been a part of my life, from birth & will always be a part of my personal listening choices.
you are so lucky to know him. i wish my mum could meet him .she just love him.plays his music every day
A great singer, what a voice he had. I used to listen to him on radio in my childhood days in the 50s and 60s
I am actually in this recording.(2nd row in at 1.05) Went there as a ten year old.What a pleasant shock to see it.
yes it is so beautiful. I loved Frankie from the first time I heard him in 1960, my first time in the US, I am French, and I still love him today. So far I am concern, no one can ever be as good as he was. Next best would be Frank Sinatra, then Dean. I know I am giving my age but who cares, I love music still.
I was president of Frankie Laine's fan club in Philadelphia. I had members who lived all over, one especially lived in England where they loved him as much as we did. He was such a real, genuine person who cared for his fans. He's gone but not forgotten,
Frankie takes me back to my early teens together with a host of happy memouries
Aloha,,, Just another great The Italian crooner... Never to be replaced, only
enjoyed...
WONDERFUL!!!!!! What a great voice!!!!
I first saw Frankie Laine at the London Palladium in 1953 and have been a fan ever since
His voice will stay in my heart until I die!! Shame on the music I hear these days!!!
I'm betting the farm he was one of Bobby Darin's major influences. One of the greats--thanks for sharing this!
Love this man's singing and the songs he sang!!!!!!!!!
Always liked frankie Laine songs & once saw him & shook his hand in San francisco.
Too bad we have to loose such great singers like him.
Joe Bowen How true. I can't think of any contemporary singers with Frankie's level of talent and class.
Memories from a beautiful era ❤❤
Version magnifique. Bravo! Chantée avec beaucoup de Charme! Merci pour votre aimable vidéo
Frankie Laine was among the first four CD's that I bought. (The first four I could afford after buying a CD-player in the 1980s). What a CANON of a voice!
One of the great singers from the 50s.
Frankie Laine es un gigante de la musica ; un gran cantante , bailarin y actor , cuanfo niño veis sus peliculas el año 67 a los 7 años
Un artisra completo con una voz privilegiada hasta sus ultimas presentaciones .Recuerdo su visita a Chile. Su voz inconfundible en peliculas como Viento Salvaje y Jesabel magistralmente, bravo desde Chile.
To sing so incredibly in front of cardboard cutouts must have been a hellofa challenge.
You were always amazing Frankie. Looking forward to catching you upstairs. !
A great song sung by a great singer
@johnny9022
I believe it was 1975, possibly 1974. My parents were members of the fan club (FLIAS) and Frankie actually came to visit our house in Yorkshire for an afternoon. I have a picture somewhere with me sat on his knee. We used to get an Xmas card every year until he died.
Magnificent !
Simavi Uluc madnifico!!!!!me recuerda lo que no puedo hacer sin estas canciones
Que Belleza de Musica Gracias soy Boliviana
Thank you for keeping us happy with your post ... great song/singer.
so nice voice I love this man somany memories of 1955
A true performer...live
Come on abc and epic lets get one greatest hits collection including making memories
very nice old song👍
Bravissimo, grandissimo, immortale... ciao Frankie!!!
All class !!
I was a pro musician for 35 years, just turned 60, and never wanted to be one of those old farts who didn't give new music a chance and just whined for the old days. I've liked plenty of things over the years, but in terms of vocalists, nobody tops the greats from Frankie Laine's era.
Tony Bennett, Eddie Fisher, Eddie Arnold...Heck, for that matter, even Elvis and the best of the early Rock & Roll icons...there just hasn't been anybody to match those artists in decades. So distinctive!
Gordon MacRae, Vic Damone...
Fantastic!!
Paul, it was probably 1976! I remember it well, nice to see your comment.
Ha ha I'm a Muso too, My Father actually worked with Frankie at the talk of the North in Eccles near Manchester in the 70's : ) I absolutely love Jezebel - My band are lookin into covering it. I told Dave Vanian of The Damned they should do it, he did but, he did the Gene Vincent arrangement.
He had a great raw power to his voice aand could croon and rasp as well !
I recall him re-recording Jezebel, with more of a sixteeen, drum orientated beat to it ?
Or was I just imagining it ?
Pipkin Hopkins Frankie recorded Jezebel on numerous occasions, but I think the version you are referring to was done around about 1970. It was on an album with other very jaunty re-recordings.
El hombre de la garganta de acero. En el olimpo junto a todos los grandes!!!!!
tango to quick step!!!very beautifulllll!
Me encanta, que voz aun, que cadencia y ripmo, nadie la canto como El.
@psychodamned I'm with you, obviously, not only does Scott still have a wondrous, haunting baritone, but the list goes on of great singers, from the 60's forward. Let's remember, though, that those who followed benefitted from the era of Laine, who you have to admit really has a sound. Even though he had some crooners like Sinatra to check out - he was really pretty unique with less to draw on, in his time or in recent history.
I mean, "Jezebel?" "Rawhide" -tough to categorize.
R.i.p. ❤❤❤💋💋💋
great Frankie
a great singer,my moms Favourite!..pdh
the master..
Grande Frankie in tutte le sueinterpretazioni
HERMOSO !!!
Lo sapevo potente ma questa versione e fantastica con un bellissimo swing! Bella anche un treno per Yuma la madre dei temi sonori western!!
Why can't some people love Sinatra, some people love Frankie Laine, and some people like both? Life is not a competition - it's a banquet.
@vandywilliam Couldn't find the original anywhere here to listen to. i heard it the first time it came out. There are some things good about being older.
@psychodamned
Oh, Yeah...Jezebel had something like a Bolero feel on at least one version I remember. Ever heard "The Moonlight Gambler" by Frankie? There's a clip here on The Tube.
Slightly off topic - who knows, you might not have cared for them, but I wish The Specials had put out a bit more stuff. (I guess you could say my taste is pretty eclectic - loved Ska, but I'm having a boogie woogie piano renaissance. Check out Vince Weber - Vince the Prince (here) for strange production. Cheers!
FRANKIE ERA UN MAESTRO.-
Davvero che lo era!
De verdad, era si un gran maestro.
He grows old but the voice remains the same....
Frankie laine unbeatable mary carden
interpretazione magistrale Vittorio Bardile
Esta versión en vivo es tan buena como la primera grabación en estudio.
rufino sanchez la yfrancksinayra
N'hésitez bn tu ni
Que musica mas linda no como la de ahora ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Frankie Laine was the best and will be remembered for his singing relating to cowboy films such as Rawhide with Clint Eastwood as one of the stars.
www.jlandrut.co.uk/
No one had a voice like Frankie (though I tried).
St.Ives in the late 1940's...no cars, no motor bikes, no telephones, no tv....little to entertain.....then Frankie burst on the scene like a singing supernova. However, in 1953 the BBC banned his song, Answer Me, Oh My Lord, citing, quote: " a sentimental mockery of Christian prayer".....I'm not making this up!. The song title was changed to 'Oh My Love and sold world wide. No one on Planet Earth could stop the one and only Mr Rhythm!
@vandywilliam Quite an extension of voice, from tenorto baritone. Remarkable singer. Gheorghij
Dont think i fully appreciated it when i was 10,being dragged around the country to FLIAS meetings but i know what you man.
I have the 78 rpm playing record (bakelite)
Few songs have such an effective and powerful delivery as Frankie Laine singing this one. This live performance doesn't quite match the original recording in overall effect, but it's great nevertheless.
Viva romance
Say’s the man dressed as Abraham Lincoln. #lordsugar @twitter
מחפשת את השיר של פרנקי ליין ששר לבת שלו
Is this at palumbos in south philly?
1980?
@melvynthecat wtf doesthat mean ?
Scott Walker ???
Awesome singer... stayed just far enough outside the 'rat pack' to be his own man. Could 'bend' a note like no other singer - even Elvis... who had the same natural instinct for tone.
Mario Lanza takes top billing always.
what year was this ?
I believe it was 1974 at The Sheffield Crucible.I am in the audience as a 10/11 year old
@joeasmythe DOW NO
He. outsold Elvis