I agree 100%, but this video is a trifecta of sheer excellence. The song written by Irving Berlin is poetry in its purest sense. And Fred Astaire... My goodness... just watch his feet... its pure magic!
oMg I lOvE tHe OlD dAyS tHeY wErE bEtTeR tHaN tOdAy No they're weren't, shut up. There was more sexism, violence, racism and a lot of other issues in this time period that you do not want to live trough.
@@sonicpopcorn1066 Where the hell did I say everything about the past was perfect? I was talking about the class and style of yesterday's Hollywood performers, NOT about "all facets of society in general". Sheesh!
And a few of them can. Talent didn't stop just because we got old. Those people were incredibly talented, but so are some of our current performers. Joe Bonamassa (musician), Beth Hart (singer), and Maddie Ziegler (dancer) come to mind.
I cant believe what I just heard and saw on my screen,Fred dancing with some great dances,and Nat Cole singing to a great arrangement by Billy May.Quite outstanding.
There's just no words to describe how smooth he sounds and how cool this clip is. Interesting how advertisers are going back to the 1950s for music to add to their commercials these days.
This is just superlative in every way. It doesn't get better than Nat Cole singing a great arrangement of a Berlin masterpiece. Fred Astaire once owned that his favourite dance partner was Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Cansino from a family of great dancers. This video just explodes with talent! God, I miss the days when we were offered talent and art instead of flash and hype.
y’all don’t know how happy i am that advertisements are starting to use this type of music in their commercials, i get so much joy listening to even just a 30 second clip of this.
Astaire and Hayworth (with cameos by E. Powell and G. Rogers) dancing to a soundtrack sung by Nat Cole, on the swinging musical bed of Billy May's arrangement of my all-time favorite Irving Berlin tune. Sometimes, I'm simply proud to be a member of the same species that can produce talents like these. (All compliments to whomever put this montage together, and synched it so perfectly with the music.)
Even though this song was before my time. It was truly a masterpiece beautifully written & the Allstate commercial brought me here thanks to mr nat king cole for this beautiful song.
I heard my granddaughters arguing and went in changed to Amazon. Put on some Nat King Cole, and guess what? They got quiet 🤫 and listened to His music for an hour before falling asleep & taking a nap 😴. They were so pleasant When they woke I couldn’t believe it. This is why they Love ❤️ Me Grandma To this DAY. TRY IT. DO NOT SAY ANYTHING JUST DO IT!
Love Nat King Cole. My mom shared a story about my dad a man of few words didn't know how to express to my mom how he felt about her so he bought the record "unforgettable" to tell her what she meant to him. Dad's way of proposing. They're both with Jesus now. My dad in 1989 from cancer and my mom in 2020 at the age of 96. I miss them both but I'm so grateful for the memories. And all the stories my mom told me about her childhood and being a young adult. ❤❤
+watchbywatch You familiar with Louie Prima? If not, you gotta check him out! Search for these songs, "When your Smilin'", "Angelina" & "Hey Boy, Hey Girl"...to start. You'll be, as they say, "cutting a rug"!!
The orchestration that backs Nat Cole's singing here is similar to the many different ways I'd heard this song sung most of my life from the fifties until now - and I did not realize until I saw it performed as it was originally intended in a 1936 film, "Follow the Fleet," with Astaire and Rogers, how dark and tragic Irving Berlin originally intended it. It precedes a dance performance in which Astaire and Rogers portray two people who meet quite by accident on the roof of a gambling joint. Both are up there because they intend to commit suicide - he, by gunshot and she by hurling herself from the roof. Fred is about to put a gun to his head, when he spies Ginger about to jump. He instinctively runs over and catches her just in time. At first, he tries to cheer her up, ruefully showing her his gun, that he'd been thinking about cashing his chips in, too. She reaches for the gun, but he tosses it from the roof, and she retreats inside herself again. He shows her his wallet and that it is empty. He's lost all of his money and with it all of his so-called friends, who have abandoned him and won't even speak to him, now. She ignores him. Seeing how lost she is in despair, he sings to her. When you hear those lyrics in this context, and the melancholia in Astaire's voice as he delivers them and the original meter of the song, I feel the dance that follows takes on an even deeper emotional context. It is a dance in which two people live out their final moments to the fullest and it builds to one of the grandest finales in movie dance history. Over the years the original intent and perhaps power of the song has been lost. Today, we just think of it as a great jazz song. But, oh, it was so much more.
Irving Berlin, un músico muy importante en la historia de la música popular, pilar de grandes Comedias Musicales, aquí cantado por Nat Cole , una versión clásica de "Escuchemos la música y bailemos" (Let´s face the music and dance), uno de los temas más famosos de Berlin.
Oh my God, listening and watching this video has made me realize that what we have for entertainment today is a whole lot of crap. Long live the Golden days of musicals and Westerns
Nat King Cole was the best, real talent that song real music. 🎶 The music that Frank S, Tony B, Dean M, Mel T, Sammy D, Andy W,, Perry C, Vic M, Brook B, Billy E, and more were all real singer and will never be forgotten.
Huge admirer of this song ah the good ole times (that’s not to say they didn’t have their fair burden of problems) but well, no technology just people in tune with their senses enjoying living away from screens!!! That’s memories to truly re live over and over and over and over
I don't remember seeing Rita Hayworth dancing before,she was terrific. All the female dance partners of Fred Astair were fantastic, but no one could ever move like like Fred; he seemed so loose and seemed to move with out effort . He was really born to dance. Those dance routines must have been exhausting ,especially for the ladies to have to keep up with him. I am going to try recording this song on harmonica.
i also was brought here by the commercial. Fred and Rita are absolutely mesmerizing, and I agree Nat has the smoothest voice ever..love to hear him sing.
beautiful music--nat king cole sang everything wonderful! love, love, love it! old school hollywood at its absolute finest! i loove nat king cole and his daughter too.
A groovy, savvy romantic tune from the great Nat King Cole. Only discovered today that Torvill & Dean did a dance to this tune in one of their many competitive skating exhibitions. Amazing!
As a longtime fan of Mr Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, I never heard the song before until the Amazon commercial. As soon as I heard it, I went looking for it. I'm embarrassed that it took a commercial to bring me hear. I love all versions, and especially this one.
I needed something to lift my spirits - saturation point with UK and US politics. I've always liked Nat King Cole AND I used to go to Latin and Modern classes - Quick Stepping in my mind here. FYI Nat was firstly an accomplished jazz pianist but couldn't make the money that singing brought in.
Amazon commercial brought me to this classic gem.
Me 2
RIGHT?! SOOOOO GOOD!! That Opening 💜💜💜
me too :)
Yup
Me too😆
Nat King Cole, Fred Astaire what a great Combination.
Dear Lord in Heaven, thank You thank You thank You for giving us Nat King Cole!!!!!
I agree 100%, but this video is a trifecta of sheer excellence. The song written by Irving Berlin is poetry in its purest sense. And Fred Astaire... My goodness... just watch his feet... its pure magic!
@@andrejackson8249 Berlin sung by Cole & danced to by Astaire? UNBEATABLE!
God, how I wish today's Hollywood and popular music had this kind of class and style. No more....
Agree wholeheartedly.
AMEN to that
@Ebony_Love_R_007 I hope not!!!!!!
oMg I lOvE tHe OlD dAyS tHeY wErE bEtTeR tHaN tOdAy
No they're weren't, shut up. There was more sexism, violence, racism and a lot of other issues in this time period that you do not want to live trough.
@@sonicpopcorn1066 Where the hell did I say everything about the past was perfect? I was talking about the class and style of yesterday's Hollywood performers, NOT about "all facets of society in general". Sheesh!
The King, himself Nat
One of the smoothest singers ever, perfectly paired with the smoothest of dancers ever!,
Nat was outstanding. That voice was amazing. His generation produced some major musical talent.
Definitely.. Spot on comment
Like Nat and Fred were GETTIN IT!
A lot of the so called super talented now a days can't hold a match let alone a candle to Nat, Fred, Rita, Ginger, Frank, Dean, Elvis etc.
Al Bowlly
And a few of them can. Talent didn't stop just because we got old. Those people were incredibly talented, but so are some of our current performers.
Joe Bonamassa (musician), Beth Hart (singer), and Maddie Ziegler (dancer) come to mind.
@@TheBarkinFrog ummm... I don't follow a lot of the dancers now a days. One of best that can do the old style when she is asked is Paula Abdul.
Sammy Davis Jr is unmatched imo, but that's a damn fine list.
Elvis doesn't belong here, but Nat definitely belongs in front
I cant believe what I just heard and saw on my screen,Fred dancing with some great dances,and Nat Cole singing to a great arrangement by Billy May.Quite outstanding.
Billy May YAY!!!!!
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
There's just no words to describe how smooth he sounds and how cool this clip is. Interesting how advertisers are going back to the 1950s for music to add to their commercials these days.
This song by Irving Berlin was written in 1936.
Love It !!!!!😊. Amazon prime, anyone ....
Awesome !!! 👍 When I heard this on the Amazon commercial, I immediately went to You Tube!!!!
Comercial brought me here!! And now I included in my favorites list 😊
This is just superlative in every way. It doesn't get better than Nat Cole singing a great arrangement of a Berlin masterpiece. Fred Astaire once owned that his favourite dance partner was Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Cansino from a family of great dancers. This video just explodes with talent! God, I miss the days when we were offered talent and art instead of flash and hype.
There is still plenty of great talented actors today.
That’s Nat doing that organ solo. He had some of the most fearsome keyboard chops of the swing era. It was a real loss when he passed away.
Me too! I’m sad to say since he was my grandmother’s all time favorite person and my first dance was to his music.😪♥️👏👏👏 Smoke gets in your eyes.
I just LOVE all these old songs and some people are just meant to sing them. He is one
There was a sense of style and class back in these days. Makes me wish that America would return to being this way.
YOU be this way and start it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@lawrencebailey3008 I will too!!!
Me too!!!
The 2021 Amazon delivery commercial brought me here . Nat King Cole your voice was a force of nature. Rest In Power !❤🖤💚✊🏾
No matter how hard we try we will never see this kind of talent again
y’all don’t know how happy i am that advertisements are starting to use this type of music in their commercials, i get so much joy listening to even just a 30 second clip of this.
I know ive been playing it over and over..love the big band sound
Elvis?
Right
Thats what made me look it up to make sure it was Nat King Cole singing 🎶🎵🥰 on the commercial
Just love all these GREAT like MINDS🥰
I’ve been hearing the Prime commercial and it brought me to this gem
Astaire and Hayworth (with cameos by E. Powell and G. Rogers) dancing to a soundtrack sung by Nat Cole, on the swinging musical bed of Billy May's arrangement of my all-time favorite Irving Berlin tune.
Sometimes, I'm simply proud to be a member of the same species that can produce talents like these.
(All compliments to whomever put this montage together, and synched it so perfectly with the music.)
Amen!
Boy did I enjoy that
Hayworth started as a dancer. She was great.
@@annettepora8091 Eleanor Powell is on a video celebrating Mr. Astaire!
@@phyllispetras2181 I think Eleanor Powell was the best female dancer back then. I loved that signature fast turn that she did.
Nat King Cole is one of the all time favorite musicians. Grew up listening to his music.
Even though this song was before my time. It was truly a masterpiece beautifully written & the Allstate commercial brought me here thanks to mr nat king cole for this beautiful song.
Sadly, I was born 2 decades too late. What an era. The greatest generation.
Same here. I was born in ‘68. Too late. What a great time that must have been!
Pure CLASS!!!!
After Amazon brought you here, check out his rendition of “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter”.
Ok
I heard my granddaughters arguing and went in changed to Amazon. Put on some Nat King Cole, and guess what? They got quiet 🤫 and listened to His music for an hour before falling asleep & taking a nap 😴. They were so pleasant When they woke I couldn’t believe it. This is why they Love ❤️ Me Grandma To this DAY. TRY IT.
DO NOT SAY ANYTHING JUST DO IT!
Never gets old man I long for this generation
Love Nat King Cole. My mom shared a story about my dad a man of few words didn't know how to express to my mom how he felt about her so he bought the record "unforgettable" to tell her what she meant to him. Dad's way of proposing. They're both with Jesus now. My dad in 1989 from cancer and my mom in 2020 at the age of 96.
I miss them both but I'm so grateful for the memories. And all the stories my mom told me about her childhood and being a young adult. ❤❤
Make America great again like this.🙌🏽😍❤️
absolutely wonderful - a
golden age
Nat had a Beautiful, smooth voice! The music was Great and so was the dancing!
Love listening to Nat King Cole.
"AWESOMOCLES SPECTACULAR".
"This, my friends, can speak to a thousand generations".
Damn...what a fantastic kickin'. arrangement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+watchbywatch You familiar with Louie Prima? If not, you gotta check him out! Search for these songs, "When your Smilin'", "Angelina" & "Hey Boy, Hey Girl"...to start. You'll be, as they say, "cutting a rug"!!
Golden days for music
SIMPLY AMAZING!!!!!!
check out NKC love is a many splendid thing!
The orchestration that backs Nat Cole's singing here is similar to the many different ways I'd heard this song sung most of my life from the fifties until now - and I did not realize until I saw it performed as it was originally intended in a 1936 film, "Follow the Fleet," with Astaire and Rogers, how dark and tragic Irving Berlin originally intended it. It precedes a dance performance in which Astaire and Rogers portray two people who meet quite by accident on the roof of a gambling joint. Both are up there because they intend to commit suicide - he, by gunshot and she by hurling herself from the roof. Fred is about to put a gun to his head, when he spies Ginger about to jump. He instinctively runs over and catches her just in time. At first, he tries to cheer her up, ruefully showing her his gun, that he'd been thinking about cashing his chips in, too. She reaches for the gun, but he tosses it from the roof, and she retreats inside herself again. He shows her his wallet and that it is empty. He's lost all of his money and with it all of his so-called friends, who have abandoned him and won't even speak to him, now. She ignores him. Seeing how lost she is in despair, he sings to her. When you hear those lyrics in this context, and the melancholia in Astaire's voice as he delivers them and the original meter of the song, I feel the dance that follows takes on an even deeper emotional context. It is a dance in which two people live out their final moments to the fullest and it builds to one of the grandest finales in movie dance history. Over the years the original intent and perhaps power of the song has been lost. Today, we just think of it as a great jazz song. But, oh, it was so much more.
Damn, that's a good story.
Just watched Astaire/Roger's dance before coming here. Thanks for the info, it explains Ginger' demeanor perfectly.
I have read (or heard) that Irving Berlin said that nobody interpreted lyrics as well as Fred Astaire did.
@@rondaleroi For those movies Astaire was wonderful; his moves and voice were great visuals to romantic songs.
Ct. Magnifique. Sue de beaux souvenirs !❤😂🎉😅
Nat King Cole had THE smoothest voice- I always thought he was better than Sinatra
Irving Berlin, un músico muy importante en la historia de la música popular, pilar de grandes Comedias Musicales, aquí cantado por Nat Cole , una versión clásica de "Escuchemos la música y bailemos" (Let´s face the music and dance), uno de los temas más famosos de Berlin.
Im a huge Fred Astaire fan as well! nice post!
Chris Frazier Thank you very much Chris and greetings.
Nat King Cole one of the richest smooth voices ever, gorgeous 😍
That footwork at 2:00 got me! 😃 Yeah, Fred could move! 👍🏾
I love love this song
This editing is beyond splendid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my God, listening and watching this video has made me realize that what we have for entertainment today is a whole lot of crap. Long live the Golden days of musicals and Westerns
This video is absolutely amazing!!! The singing, the dancing ... unbeatable!!!
Can we get more swing dancing like this good stuff on the screen again? _Please?_
Nat King Cole was the best, real talent that song real music. 🎶 The music that Frank S, Tony B, Dean M, Mel T, Sammy D, Andy W,, Perry C, Vic M, Brook B, Billy E, and more were all real singer and will never be forgotten.
I absolutely love Nat KingCole, Fred Astaire. Just classy
Huge admirer of this song ah the good ole times (that’s not to say they didn’t have their fair burden of problems) but well, no technology just people in tune with their senses enjoying living away from screens!!! That’s memories to truly re live over and over and over and over
I wish I could have been alive in this time period
Not if you were black, unfortunately.
Black folks really was not treated equal back then.
majcpw yeah well that’s not my problem.
@@markbutler4178 Classy.
I wish I had been to! There’s not too many classy people anymore
Love classics. They are the best
Just fabulous!! Such style!!!
I love it!!
Nat the wonder man!
Fred Astaire smooth as Ice!!
Thank you always!!!
Fred Astiere was something else
THAT was entertainment! What p
joyeus pleasure it illistrate & gives!
Pure Heaven💋👠👞
A commercial introduced me to this classic...love it
2019 anyone
2020 love it.
Fabulous!
2020
2020 as well!
Thank you! Wonderful.
Yup, me too such a beautiful smooth voice. I love it. Go Nat!!🙂
Yes ,a lovely dance.
I don't remember seeing Rita Hayworth dancing before,she was terrific. All the female dance partners of Fred Astair were fantastic, but no one could ever move like like Fred; he seemed so loose and seemed to move with out effort . He was really born to dance. Those dance routines must have been exhausting ,especially for the ladies to have to keep up with him. I am going to try recording this song on harmonica.
I love love love this classical piece! ❤
Absolutely beautiful!
That's what we called "rubber feet", genius dancer!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful video!
God bless you!
What a timeless voice...
Commercial brought me here, and now I stay enjoying this beaut.
still in awe of you rita and fred!
One word.....fantastic!!!
i also was brought here by the commercial. Fred and Rita are absolutely mesmerizing, and I agree Nat has the smoothest voice ever..love to hear him sing.
beautiful music--nat king cole sang everything wonderful! love, love, love it! old school hollywood at its absolute finest! i loove nat king cole and his daughter too.
wonderful!
A groovy, savvy romantic tune from the great Nat King Cole. Only discovered today that Torvill & Dean did a dance to this tune in one of their many competitive skating exhibitions. Amazing!
Brilliant pairing of song & video!
I like this
Wonderful!!!
Perfect pairing! Thank you so very much. Happy New Year!
I need dance like this!
Fred Astaire can still raise goosebumps. Rita Hayworth is just lovely and her clothes!
Why has Eleanor Powell been all but forgotten? She was magical.
Fabulous!!!!!!
Mr. Astair is part of why I went into dance.
Sorry about your bad luck!
Still love this song in 2024 first herd it in 2003
Superb !
As a longtime fan of Mr Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, I never heard the song before until the Amazon commercial. As soon as I heard it, I went looking for it. I'm embarrassed that it took a commercial to bring me hear. I love all versions, and especially this one.
LOVE it.
Magical !!
All is perfection.
Lovely video, thank you!
Beautiful ❤️😍❣️
Fantastic voice....enjoyable. Thanks
I will always love how this song differentiates love and romance as two individual things
Once of my favorites after listening to Diane stalls version!!
Smoothest voice ever!
Awesome!!!
Hopefully Rita is in a beautiful peaceful place that she always wanted. God Bless Rita and Nat.
Уникально и неповторимо!!!
I needed something to lift my spirits - saturation point with UK and US politics. I've always liked Nat King Cole AND I used to go to Latin and Modern classes - Quick Stepping in my mind here. FYI Nat was firstly an accomplished jazz pianist but couldn't make the money that singing brought in.
Love this
What a voice.
Classic song