Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - People Like You and Me
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2008
- Lyrics:
Say, get a load of that moon,
Look at those stars,
We get it all for free;
All the pretty birdies sing for
People like you and me.
You've heard of roses are red,
Vi'lets are blue,
That's corny poetry;
Maybe corn is just the thing for
People like you and me.
Folks may say we're antiquated,
If they do who cares?
So, we're not sophisticated,
Leave it to the millionaires.
I'm gonna stick to the moon,
Stay with the stars,
That's my philosophy;
Nature must have thought of spring for
People like you and me.
Chorus 2:
Say, get a load of those guys,
High in the skies,
Wingin' to victory;
Up and at 'em in the fight for
People like you and me.
Hey, get a load of those gobs,
Doin' their jobs,
Keepin' the sea lanes free;
Just to make the future bright for
People like you and me.
You must put your Yankee heart and soul in
Everything you do.
Keep 'em flyin', keep 'em rollin',
Uncle Sam'll see you through.
We'll have to roll up our sleeves,
Tighten our belts,
But through the dark we'll see;
The lady with the liberty light for
People like you and me.
I'm 14 and I love all of Glenn Miller's songs
you got good taste kid 👍
The charming Marion Hutton ...and the great Tex Beneke doing double duty on sax and vocals :-) love it
And they cut it off before the operator could say, THE TRUMPET PEAKED., can't Bill Abbott stand over on the other side? and he says, I can feel the rhythm better over here. Then Glenn Miller, whose movie name is Gene Morrison, says, JUST POINT YOUR HORN AWAY FROM THE MIC. "Orchestra Wives" was a good movie! THANKS FOR POSTING !!!
Ray Eberle was always my favourite . Just love the timbre of his voice. I'm a 72 year old fan.
The guy on the left is Tex Beneke, fabulous singer and sax player. He is my favorite member of the original Glenn Miller Orchestra. Tex took over leadership of the band after Glenn was killed during WWII.
You're so right 👍
People say we need songs like this to cheer us up and unite us...unfortunatly the entertainers and producers of today are what seems like America haters and apologists. Remember when our movie and TV stars endorsed the latest model of GM Chrysler, or Ford on TV and radio..., why cant they be the cheer leaders for this great land and the people who make it work??? I remember the entire cast of Bonanza making a commercial for Chevrolet and it was filmed on the set of the show.......
These people were real musicians, real music, real "soul", really precious. Incomparable.
Saxes: Tex Beneke, Ernie Caceras, Willie Schwartz, Skip martin, Al Klink/ Trumpets: Johnny Best, Billy May, Wade McMickle and actor George Montgomery/ Trombones: Paul Tanner, Jimmy Priddy Frank D'Anolfo, Leader: Glenn Miller/Piano: Actor Ceasar Romero/ Bass: Actor Jackie Gleason/Guitar: Carmen Maestro/ The original Modernaires with Marion Hutton and Ray Eberle. This was THE #1 band in the United States for 3...THREE years!
Many years ago, before there even was an Internet, I rented Orchestra Wives from a local video store. I watched the People Like You and Me segment more than 50 times before I returned the video.
Man, I love this song.
Dogbite Williams Thank Harry Warren and Mack Gordon for writing these catchy film tunes for Glenn and the boys! This was one of my early favorites!
From the very 1st time I saw this film, I had a crush on Marion Hutton, 40's do & all, no matter. If you looked up " Cute" in the dictionary, you'd see her photo! And yes, she was far cuter than Betty; it's just a shame the 40's & The Big Bands ended; she really struggled, & passed away in near obscurity. Wolfsky9
Probably the most underrated Glenn Miller song!
Most underrated of the famous ones
There are many songs that are incredibly beautiful and have less than 1000 views on UA-cam
I was born in the mid fifties, and have been in a working show band pretty much all of my adult life. This movie proves that nothing really changes, the band business, the groupies, traveling on the road...it's still the same! I love love love this movie and just recently caught it on Netflix. Stayed up half the night, but who cares. Fabulous movie, fabulous songs and a fabulous message.
February 12, 2014: From the 1963 graduating class of Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas--Happy 100th birthday to a great Paschal alumnus, the late Gordon Lee ("Tex") Beneke! You and Mr. Miller and all your associates did so much to boost the morale and determination of so many Americans during one of our country's darkest times. It was our parents' generation, and in memory of our parents and all other members of their generation--The Greatest Generation--who served the cause of liberty in so many ways, military and civilian alike, during and after that time, so that we might have the opportunity to enjoy the lives we have lived, we proudly salute you! Your wonderful music sounds as good today as ever!
Saxes: Tex Beneke, Ernie Caceras, Willie Schwartz, Skip martin, Al Klink/ Trumpets: Johnny Best, Billy May, Wade McMickle and actor George Montgomery/ Trombones: Paul Tanner, Jimmy Priddy Frank D'Anolfo, Leader: Glenn Miller/Piano: Actor Ceasar Romero/ Bass: Actor Jackie Gleason/Guitar: Drums: Moe (Maurice) Purtill/Carmen Maestro/ The original Modernaires with Marion Hutton and Ray Eberle. This was THE #1 band in the United States for 3...THREE years!
absolutely love this song....so great to see there was a time even Hollywood supported our country and realized that freedom isn't free, it costs and how thankful we need to be to those who are willing to fight for that freedom!!!!
willowstop The lyrics tell a story. Mack Gordon was a great craftsman.
Marion Hutton phenomenal performance. Love her work !
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Ray was all of 23 here. And, that was about the peak of his vocalizing.....his career didn't have the legs of brother Bob's, who managed a few single hits after leaving Jimmy Dorsey. Marion had a few hits after leaving Miller, but all but retired not long after the end of WW2. Miller nostalgia sort of froze the greatness of the civilian band into the minds of many. Miller himself had all but stated that his AAF band would go stateside with him after the War, sort of a Kostelanetz with jazz.
I recall hearing this on the radio back in the 1940s and walking down Main Street in my town with the song playing in my head, like music over picture in a movie!
Those were great days!
The mics in this little gem of a production were RCAs for the back of band brass. The vocalists were singing into an Electro-Voice mic that resembled the RCA 44. And the overall "catch" mic on the long shot was on the first powered mics, either an EV or more likely a Telefunken condenser.
Music like this helped Americans get through some very tough years, the Depression and WWII. In light of the current terrible economic situation, it is time for us to listen to similar music to help "through the dark".
I absolutely love Marion Hutton! She was the best singer Glenn had! Did you notice Jackie Gleason in the beginning of this video? He was in the movie.
I,also, am in love with Marion. She is just adorable! However, check out Marion in "I've got a girl in Kalamazoo." (from the same movie)She is so cute and animated-you can tell she just loves singing this song. Let me know what you think.
@gubaldino That was Tex Beneke on the male solo. Tex's voice had a distinctive nasal-type quality to it. Sad he wasn't even mentioned in the 1954 movie "The Glenn Miller Story" with Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. Apparently Tex (and Marion too)had a falling out with the Miller Estate and was completely ignored in the movie. It still doesn't seem right to see Frances Langford sing "Chattanooga Choo Choo" in the GMS.
This is from a time when we were all united as one in this country and the entertainment industry was a cheerleader for positive thinking and a great America. How things are different now.
What CLASS!.......All the elements of the best of song writing, big band perfection and the rich vocals of Tex, Marion, Ray and the Modernaires' in great harmony. This music was the best there ever was. Terrific you can bring it back to us for our enjoyment.
Chorus had tapping feet and shaking legs to keep the beat! HAW! Marion Hutton is sensational. Had a very lively girl friend who reminds me of Marion.
Glenn Miller music is like the soundtrack to my family. Three generations of adoration. Love Love Love !!!
Thank you very much for posting this.
"Orchestra's Wives" was the last movie I enjoyed watching with my father shortly before his passing on TCM.
He knew everyone in that movie.
He was a great man who lived thru a great era!
Paul Tanner was a great teacher and he had some wonderful stories. It's nice to know that he's still around.
@Hugh983
As a part of the "younger generation", I believe I can say I know what talent is. Talent, in this case, is when a musician pours they're heart and soul into the music they performing or writing, and when you hear that music, you can recognize that. Well, maybe not YOU, but many other people.
Great to see this clip again. Marion Hutton certainly was a firecracker, as someone wrote. It was a pleasure to read through all the comments and discover how many more people like me still love this music.
What an amazing energy and charisma that Marion Hutton-chick had!
You took The Words out of my mouth
robonez Reminds me a dear old girlfriend.
Marion Huton
To quote Johnny Mecer: "She had a lot of personality!"
This is truly of the few songs that will cheer me up. Too bad Miller died too "young".
but well, he left extremely great songs!!
hard times, good sounds.
Sue Perry Great art thrives on hard times.
Nothing but the best Glenn Miller! ohhh i love his music al there songs especially Moonlight Serenade, String Of Pearls, and American Patrol!
Where can you find this type of entertainment today? You can't?
Marion Hutton was so underrated. Voice, looks, and sells it like a pro. Modern Woman.
True, but you also can’t forget about Eberle!!!
And Tex Beneke too!!
Lots of authentic 40s microphones in the studio. Stars probably spotted are Caesar Romero on piano, George Montgomery and to his right is Billy May. Jackie Gleason on bass.
Looks like RCA Ribbon mic’s.
Glenn Miller & Orchestra... um capítulo da era do swing... Ainda hoje, muitos anos após o seu desaparecimento, é muito bom ouvi-lo...
From "Orchestra Wives" (1942), written for the film by Mack Gordon & Harry Warren, with Marion Hutton, Gordon "Tex" Beneke and The Modernaires delivering the vocals...Johnny Best actually plays George Montgomery's "trumpet solos"; Glenn's pianist/arranger John "Chummy" MacGregor is playing for Cesar Romero.
I agree Marion Hutton is lovely in this song! I love her!
I believe Billy May played Montgomery's solo in People Like you And Me. When this was being filmed the band was syncing to a previous recording.
snuffy39 I think Bobby Hackett is the trumpet player who dubbed Montgomery’s solos.
Perfect in every way, Sadly you'll never see their like again.
I just turned 64 and I'm loving this folks my life was wrapped up in Progressive Rock but this is wonderful too!
Tex and Marion Hutton are fantastic in this! How can I transport myself back to 1942?
goblin1966 If you find a way, include me! I recall this song when I was a kid.
+goblin1966 I wish too!!
:)*****
I was 1950, and still too late .... this is cooler than cool !
We have the technoligy
This is Great! Hot band! Nice singer!
Music nowadays will never go back to being this original and good.
And i have a crush on Marion Hutton, What a good singer -and so adorable especially in Kalamazoo!
The gorgeous Marion Hutton , with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires. -------------MJL, 76 y/o
When it comes to music, I was born way to late.
Обожаю Гленна Миллера! Класс! 👍❤️
Betty Hutton was a huge Hollywood star in throughout the 1940's and early 1950's. She was Paramount pictures top femal star for many years. Perhaps her most famous role was as Annie Oakley in MGM's "Annie Get Your Gun" ... Betty replaced Judy Garland, who was fired from the film for various reasons.
Just wonderful
I did not know Betty Hutton had a sister. Mind blown because they are gorgeous and extremely talented.
She married writer Jack Douglas. Divorced him. Married musician Vic Schoen who turned her into an alcoholic. Got sober. Moved to Laguna Beach where she got two psychology degrees then moved to Kirkland Washington where she managed a clinic for alcoholic women. Then died of cancer in 1987.
I wish I had a time machine to go back and be in the studio with these 'guys'. Great stuff!!
Yaco Abad,fue la epoca mas hermosa de la musica de los Estados Unidos,musicos y compositores excepcionales que nunca mas existiran,Dios los tenga en la Gloria y gracias por compartirlo.
Marion Hutton reminds me so much of an old girl friend. Sure miss her!
Marion seems like such a fun person.
Thank God for youtube and the creative minds that invented it!
Yes, the femail vocalist is Marion Hutton, older sister of Betty Hutton.
Tex was first. His voice was one of a kind.
Just wonderful!!!!!! THANK YOU for posting it!!!!
i got recommended this
GREAT SONG...!! IM FROM COSTA RICA AND LOVE THIS MUSIC....
Funny how the musicians dutifully all stand up and sit down in unison as if they were performing for a live audience when this scene is taking place in a recording studio.
I think this was part of a movie, seems like it. (But they probably stood anyway!)
The music was ALWAYS pre-recorded and they acted out playing when it came to filming the scene. They could do things on film that otherwise would have affected their tone, better or worse.
@@lyssat5260 Yep. It's part of a movie. I believe it was Orchestra Wives.
Amen!
The bassist was actually Doc Goldberg who replaced Trigger Alpert in June 1941.
She didn't pass away in obscurity. She got two psychology degrees and ran a clinic for alcoholic women. She was offered to perform many times but it no longer interested her.
She performed once more in the 80s
Thanks. I remember Claudette, beautifull and very good actress!
I hated this movie when i first saw it, so much syrup ha ha, but now I love it and of course the music is wonderful
I love how they just feel like playing Chattanooga choo choo at the beginning
Typical.
recs I love it too and I love Chattanooga chop chop too.
Wilbur Schwartz died in Los Angeles on August 3, 1990, 'annanoli'. As of this moment, Paul Tanner is the last of the original Miller sidemen still alive....
Thanks Sir, greetings from Argentina!
I love this video!
wonderfull
Yes, that's right. He was an actor, and appeared in a film with Claudette Colbert in 1941.
The nervous looking guy is Bill Conway of The Modernaires. You're right...he always looked ill-at-ease on camera for some reason, unlike the other guys (esp. jolly looking Chuck Goldsten).
dale1966gto - you are too kind ... actually, I just happen to know about this one thing! ha ha Van Johnson is in one of those reunion clips I mentioned here on youtube. Ironically, about 2 years before that Glenn Miller reunion event, Betty did a show with others on HBO called Jukebox Saturday Night ... and their emcee was Eddie Albert ... again, not a singer, but a personality from that era.
Agreed. I looked the film up, and it was 'Remember the day'.
I heard big band music for the first time when I was 13 and went crazy like I'd heard it before. Unlike today's music, I so identify with this music and the era but not sure why.
Todd McDurmont Maybe 'cause you're so cute! That's not a hit, just sayin'...😉
I mean... In this day and age, you don't NEED talent to enter the mainstream media! (Take Nicki Minaj for example!)
Orchestra Wives (1942)
@bratzmarilyn ; Yes I fully agree, Playing Jazz Music as a piano-player through half the night, I like it!
And this kind of Jazz Music is fabulous and motivating me all time..keep swinging
from Germany-Cologne
At that time, Marion Hutton had a serious crush on Tex!
this its musik
I just saw THE EDDIE DUCHIN STORY with Tyrone Power. He did the best piano simulation I could imagine! Very few "hidden hands" shots like most non-playing actors do.
@malafucker the song before is "Chattanooga Choo Choo", a reference to the other movie with Glenn Miller, "Sun Valley Serenade"
On second thought, I think you're right! Thanks for the correction.
Marion Hutton, OMG, you were toooo cute!! Wolfsky9
@gubaldino First it's Ray Eberle, and Tex Beneke comes in toward the end after putting down his saxophone.
George Montgomery on camera is "ghosting" for a regular Miller sideman, the wonderful Johnny Best.. Best does the solo on the number but the ensemble lead is probably played by Billy May.
Regarding the 1980's reunion of Tex, Marion, etc. ... just do a search on "Marion Hutton" in youtube and scroll down to the a few that are in color ... you will see clips from the performance you are referring to ... enjoy!
Billy may and ray anthony in the trumpet section Willie Scwartz on Reeds wow
+Bill Ridley Ray Anthony is not in the trumpet section.
There are some "ringers" in this scene. Ray Anthony could be playing on the recording but he doesn't appear in the scene because they had to make space for some actor pretending to be part of the trumpet section. The rhythm section also has Jackie Gleason "playing" in place of Trigger Alpert and Chummy McGregor has also been replaced on the piano.
The missing trumpet player is Steve Lipkins who is on the soundtrack not Ray Anthony who had been fired sometime previously.
Thanks for that, clued up, but he does look like Ray Anthony.
@@billridley4780 It's actor George Montgomery.
Dig those high waist pants on the singers !
Relations between any two persons, siblings or otherwise, can be complicated. You said Marion was "far cuter" than Betty ... that is your opinion, though you stated it as fact. And when you say "she really struggled & passed away in near obscurity" ... that prompted me to provide the facts ... and that is while Marion and Betty were not always close, it was Betty who propped Marion up with opportunities in her Vegas shows, on her short lived TV series and following their mother's tragic death.
Ray Eberle was such a cutie back then. Just a baby.
dale1966gto - they were not related to Jim or Timothy. Betty was given the stage name of Hutton, and Marion and their mother soon took it up too. Their birth name was "Thornburg". It wouldn't surprise me if Marion looked to Glenn as a mentor/father figure as her own father abandoned them when she and Betty were very young (Betty claims her father was a different man altogether, but her autobiography can fill in the details for you on that score).
...and future bandleader Billy May (one of Miller's key sidemen at the time) is playing trumpet two chairs away from Montgomery at 2:52.
You're welcome:). Glad to be of assistance.
With Miller trumpet player Johnny Best being dubbed in.
The guy polishing the bass is Jackie Gleason with Caesar Romero on piano
I gave negative feedback by mistake :-( I am so sorry (is there a way to take it back?). Obviously, multitasking is not my strength. I have truly enjoyed the posting. Thank you so much you for sharing.
Gee I always thought I was the only one that had a crush on Marion Hutton , now I find out I have to get in line . By the way that was Bob Eberle's brother Ray that sang a line with the Modernaires and Tex was second.