I'm fixing to be a young 81, and I was a part of the rock-and-roll start with the Father of Rock-and-Roll, Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock Around the Clock! The Viscount song was just one of many of my favorites. Love IT! There is Bill Dogget & Hony Tonk Part I & 2, Link Wray & Jack the Ripper and Rumble, The Chantays & Pipeline, Buddy Holly, Gene Viscent, Chuck Berry, The Fendermen & Mule Skinner Blues, Three Dog Night, of course Led-Zepplin Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, ...........sooo many more!!! I've heard a LOT of GREAT MUSIC through the many, many years, also good, fair, and POOR music!!! But the music of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s will ALWAYS keep me young at heart!!
my mom was a dancer and she worked with Bill Haley. She has his picture in her scrapbook. And one of the main three songs she used in her nightclub act was Harlem nocturne
This song has that midnight in the big city feel to it. Fog, neon lights, bars and night clubs and all that. The late 1950s was a special time in American culture. This song is the embodiment of it all.
You got it, Rohan!...and my thanks to Walt(Google: Sweeney, Walter F.), Joan, and others, who made the period so special for me. The memories live-on, today.
I want to thank Stephan King for writing Christine and who ever decided to use Harlem Nocturne in the movie. It surely added to the movie and made another generation aware of this great piece.
Damn, the sax player is awesome! I'm enjoying this on a cold winter night thinking of a smoky bar in a hot tropical night looking straight on into a stranger's eyes and dancing slowly to him! Very sensual!
My grandmother loved telling us how she worked in a sleazy strip club in the Midwest way back and this was one of her songs along with "" Night train "",,, she was not a boring lady !!💋
This song was also used occasionally as bumper music from a late Saturday Night TV show in Pittsburgh called Chiller Theater - a B movies horror show classics. It stared Chilly Billy Cardille, Terminal Stare and Georgette the Fudge Maker (two of the most gorgeous women to ever grace Pittsburgh Local TV, ) and of course everybodies sidekick Norman, a little Person. Ah... the good old days of TV. The prime opening theme was another similar moody tune called "Experiment in Terror" by Al Cialo if I recall. SNL live eventually kicked them out of their time slot on NBC
This IS the one from Christine, not the best quality. But I'm glad I found this and thank you GSMusicMoments. But the tremolo is just like I heard in the movie. The one many people upload has a slower tremolo effect with the guitar.
Try J.J. Cale's "Too Much for Me" or "Closer" then try and find the bootleg of Cale's band with Wall of Sound baritone sax Steve Douglas doing rare road work and jamming away on "Harlem Nocturne" in club land..." Also the Harlem Nocturnes favored by Cajun line dancers and 2-steppers along with Zydeco aces like Chris Ardoin, John and Geno Delafose with the Eunice Playboys etc {Creative Commons Copyright} Mitchito Ritter\Paradigm Shifters Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa Media Discussion List
Sir Duke wrote a ton of love sexy music. Jeeps Blues was known as the strippers anthem back in the late 50 s and beyond. But just a pure timeless and tireless masterpiece. Thanks Duke Rip where would music be without you?
Is there any chance you could burn me a copy of these 2 songs onto a cd as they are here. I really love the ending of the longer version of Harlem Nocturne as well as The Touch. I'd be happy to pay for them if need be. Let me know either way.
If you want to give me your email address. YT did away with Private Messaging. Ask them how the f you're supposed to send private info. If you post it here you can delete it after I got it.
It's hard to admit, but I can recall like yesterday when my sister & I would listen to this song for hours and hours in the living room of the house we grew up in way back in the day. I'm now 70 & she's 72. We weren't even teens then. We both dressed in black turtle necks and black pants and laid around like little Beatniks, with all the lights turned out. Our parents thought we went nuts. I'm not a fan of this long version. The 45 was absolutely perfect. If I had to pick just two songs from my past that made a deep impression on me it would be this hypnotic and iconic song, along with "Sleep Walk" by Santo & Johnny. They just don't make em' like those anymore.
While I like this offering, my memories are attached to the original Viscount version. Sleep Walk is also on my short list. Wonderland By Night by Bert Kaempfert does not fit the haunting aspect of the former two songs but it is one of my favorites for the memories it evokes. If you have not heard it you might give it a listen. I think you would enjoy. By the way, I am right between your age and your mothers, I am 81, yet Harlem Nocturne appeals to us all. Good music knows no age boundaries.
@@mrjekruse Oh yes, I also owned the 45 of "Wonderland By Night"! I agree that is not the same hypnotic and dreamy type of music as "Sleepwalk" & "Harlem Nocturne" but you are spot ON that it evokes MANY wonderful memories. Any thoughts on "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles? Another memory grabber!
@@rogerchinnici179 I like What'd I Say and Ray Charles in general - almost always "happy" music. Once I tried to pick my top ten. Songs I could listen to forever and not get tired of them. The best I could do is narrow my list down to a top fifty and there were still more that could have made the list. I have enjoyed jazz, rock, folk, R & B, bluegrass - just about everything expect opera, which I respect but don't care for, and rap, which just isn't for me. I always felt that anyone who has one 'favorite' song just hasn't heard many songs. You might consider making a top fifty list and then making sure to much doesn't pass between listening to them.
I remember this was the theme of the Mike Hammer tv show. It fit the vibe of that show. If you love the sax sound this song has to be in your all time top ten saxophone hits.
I found this!! Thanks!! I dedicate this to that dude I danced all N Yrs Eve '64 with! We went steady one year & married. Both just 16. We left home so young we will never get old!
as of April 2014, I am 67 years old. Class of '64. Man, I thought this was the coolest! I'd imagine it in my head at school and bop around with my eyelids half shut....aint no cooler than that shit!
1966, San Francisco, the Filmore flying on LSD walkin in the heavy fog, expecting Sam Spade 'round the next corner. Nothing could hurt us because we were bullet-proof. Wonderful times
Years ago, I was walking home from the local convenience store, maybe half a mile. One of the neighbors I passed was being absolutely RAILED to this version. Sounded like a great time.
I love this. Never heard the long version before. My mother, now 92, loves this so much that she has kept the original 45 in her dresser drawer for 53 years. I can't wait to play this for her. P.S., I had always assumed the Viscounts were black. Guess white guys can have soul, too.
they might have had dope, but that;'s about it. Hagen, who wrote this wasn't black..but he wrote it in tribute to Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges in 1940. Search around.. this is one of the crummier versions of this song you can find. Try Illionis Jaquet.. for comparison.
@@captlarry-3525 You are certainly right re. Illinois Jaquet - I'm 86 and Harlem Nocturne has never ceased to bring a longing ache in my being. I can understand OtisFan's 92 year old mother's love of the song. What brought me here now was an emailed response to a 4 year old comment I made when listening to Illinois Jacquet. Being home-bound due to coronavirus pandemic gives us time to reflect ..........
@@captlarry-3525 "Opinions" There are no crummy (sic) versions of Harlem Nocturne. This is the Rock version and pretty damn good. I'm a fan of Jacquet's version myself as well as Georgie Auld's smooth rendition and other Jazz musicians.
@@hammered0184 - Right about opinions! However, I'm a huge Danny Gatton fan, but his "Harlem Nocturne" SUCKS! And I've heard five or so different renditions by Danny...
Ive been trying to find this version of the song for years. It was used and uncredited in Christine and Ive been looking for it ever since I first heard it. 1000 internet to you.
Awesome music! I've heard this countless times over the years, and I never get tired of it. I've never heard this extended version before. I like it! :)
Wow. I don't know what to say! I've never heard the long 5:32 version of this amazing song before. This is the definitive version for my money. Thanks for posting!
"The music fills the night - Deep in the heart of Harlem". Sorry I'm late, Lieutenant. Got here as soon as I could. The skirt I was with just wouldn't let go. She insisted Santa come down her chimney. You remember how that was right? Yeah, you're not that old. Go home to the wife and kids, boss. I'll wrap it up here.
She walked into my office looking like she'd rather be suntanning in a nest of snakes. Then I saw her eyes- the kind of eyes you could get lost in, or the kind that wouldn't blink as she pushed the knife into your back. She sat down, pulled one white glove off and said, "I need a man." Then the other glove slipped off. "But you'll do."
Carrie Cox - That's some serious reverb on that guitar! It's a fun and unique style - cool way to re-imagine the song. I really like the saxophone's articulation. In our performance, I'd like to try using my part to add some interest/accent in addition to maintaining a steady beat.
My uncle plays tenor sax and this song sounds very similar to his playing style. And, he can knock the socks.off of this song. My favorite version of this song.
This was the song that made me want to play the saxophone! I first heard it (and bought) the single version when I was nine in 1959. Even at nine years old, the emotion behind the sax solo just blew me away. (to digress - kind of like when Duane and Gregg Allman went to their first R&B concert when they were still kids - Duane turns to Gregg and said, "Litle brother we got to get into this... and the rest was history).Tonight, surfing youtube, was the first I had ever heard there was a second and longer version. Though the main phrase is just repeated two or three times, this longer version sustains the mood of the song, that finishes too quickly on the single version. I especially liked the dramatic crescendo towards the very end of this version, also heard for the first time. This is solid stuff....
IT WAS JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS "GOING TO CALIFORNIA" & JOHNNY ALMOND ON THE TENOR THAT PUT A SPELL ON ME. GAVE UP THE VIOLIN & MOST EVERYTHING ELSE . ACTUALLY WORE JAW OUT(SURGERY) PLAYING AT LEAST 5 HRS. A DAY, W/ A MEAN GROWL & SUBLIME SUBTONE. PAUL DESMOND'S SOFT SOUND ASO CAPTIVATED ME. AT "SOME POINT" MY SOUND WAS AS GOOD AS KENNY G.(HAD A GOOD TEACHER EARLY ON)
Your commentary reminds me that when I was young I wanted to grow up to be a saxophone - the feeling just sinks in and becomes a part of you...I didn't want to be a human....
I was in the Army waiting in a bus depot when I first heard this song by The Viscounts and fell in love with the sax. I heard another version by The Ventures on guitar. Not the same. Night try but no cigar as they say.
Same here and last year I bought an old sax my friend had since he was 13 just like the one used here and I am coming along real well re-learning after 50 years.
(IMOHO): THE SELMER TENOR BALANCED ACTION IS THE MOST SOULFUL,ROCKIN', HIP GRINDING< FOOT STOMPING HORN EVER BUILT & PLAYED>. COUPLED WITH A BERG LARSEN METAL 110/1 & A BERG LARSEN EBONITE 120/1, TOPPED OFF WITH RICO ROYAL REEDS. THE VISCOUNTS SAX MAN< STAN GETZ , & JOHNNY ALMOND(JOHN MAYALL & BLUES BREAKERS), STEWART MATHEWMAN(SADE) + JOHN COLTRANE/LESTER YOUNG
Ravel's Bolero would be a good one to listen to if this melody puts you in a nostalgic mood, and, for me, on the heels of that comes Mood Indigo .......
🥰Loved the Stephen King movie, “Christine,” with this theme music that played while the car repaired itself after it was destroyed by Arnie C.’s classmates.
" Merry Christmas Hayden Panettiere " Heavenly Twinkle Toes with Missile Toes of True Tranquility Always Hostess Holiday Cup Cakes and Forevermore Heavenly Happiness Miss Hayden Leslie Panettiere's Milkshakes and Iced White Honey Buns are Always Lovingly in Tenderness of True Tranquility Loved Lovingly Lovely Miss Hayden Leslie Panettiere Always Faithfully Lovingly Meaningfully Forever Your's Forever and Forevermore Your's Always Lovingly, Neal Patrick Fry a.k.a. Sundown from The "Sunrise Studios" in Lovely Livonia, Michigan U.S.A.
While many know this song from Christine, my recollection is that there was not a stripper in the late 50's and 60's that did not have Harlem Nocturne in their routine. When done like the version by the Viscounts there is a beat and certain grittiness that just fits the act and the atmosphere. Fond memories. Thanks for the extended version.
Influencial but extremely underappreciated group; their version of Nocturne touched off a string of versions by such standouts as Sam "The Man" Taylor and Sam Butera; before long, sax-led college dance bands were adding Nocturne to their repertoire; I remermber when they appeared on Dick Clark's old Saturday night show in the 60's; does anyone know if a kinescope exists of their appearance?;
This song is the background music at the start of the movie "Experiment in Terror" in 1962. The credits say Henry Mancini. At least the beginning of the song is identical. The movie was a black and white film noir. Great suspense thriller. Look it up.
I put it on youtube - I hear the similar feel you're speaking about [if the segment I heard was the movie intro you're speaking about], don't agree that beginnings are identical. They come from common emotional territory, neither would kick off a kids' Disney yarn, but musically I could not say one copied the other, much less agree with your first sentence. I plan to check out the film!
+Mickey AuGrec Did you get to see Experiment In Terror yet? Slow in today's times, but so much feeling plus you had to think while watching. Another good one that has the same vibes is Cry Terror, 1958.
An older brother gave me this relic 45 RPM record when I was 16. A friend went to play it and broke it! For years, this record was not available in any Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York record shop. Due to popular demand it was re-released. Enjoy!
DIG THE TENOR "GROWLING". SO COOL, SO SENSUOUS. STILL ABLE TO DO THIS WITH BERG LARSEN METAL OR EBONITE .FABULOUS VERSION OF " MIKE HAMMER" THEME SONG.
+Jazz Lover Yes at the time it would be with gin martinis. I seriously hurt my self on gin about 20 years ago now stick to beer or vodka. In today's time give me this music, dirty martinis, candlelight and you. ;)
Love this arrangement of Sir Dukes original composition. This is a masterpiece. It was all before my time but it incisions old LA Cali at night in the early sixties. Nightlife and mystery. Oh yes.
MUSICAL MAGIC IS A "GROWLING" TENOR SAX PLAYING " HARLEM NOCTURNE". I'VE BEEN A " GROWLER" ON BERG LARSEN METAL 110/1 AND BERG LARSEN EBONITE 120/1 WITH ROYAL RICO'S )SINCE JUNIOR HIGH.
I'm fixing to be a young 81, and I was a part of the rock-and-roll start with the Father of Rock-and-Roll, Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock Around the Clock! The Viscount song was just one of many of my favorites. Love IT! There is Bill Dogget & Hony Tonk Part I & 2, Link Wray & Jack the Ripper and Rumble, The Chantays & Pipeline, Buddy Holly, Gene Viscent, Chuck Berry, The Fendermen & Mule Skinner Blues, Three Dog Night, of course Led-Zepplin Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, ...........sooo many more!!! I've heard a LOT of GREAT MUSIC through the many, many years, also good, fair, and POOR music!!! But the music of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s will ALWAYS keep me young at heart!!
Me too! One of the Bill Halley Comets lived only a couple of blocks away from where we lived. Philadelphia suburb scene.
God bless you and your soul.
my mom was a dancer and she worked with Bill Haley. She has his picture in her scrapbook. And one of the main three songs she used in her nightclub act was Harlem nocturne
I love this song so much and that's why I also love Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer.
This song has that midnight in the big city feel to it. Fog, neon lights, bars and night clubs and all that. The late 1950s was a special time in American culture. This song is the embodiment of it all.
You got it, Rohan!...and my thanks to Walt(Google: Sweeney, Walter F.), Joan, and others, who made the period so special for me. The memories live-on, today.
try to check out the johnny Otis or The Stan Kenton versions
💯
EVERY STRIPPER IN THE WORLD TOOK IT ALL OFF TO THIS SONG THE BEST ONE TO STRIP TO ALSO ONE OF THE BEST SLOW SONGS TO GRIND WITH
The same with "Night Train" and "Green Onions."
I think Ravel's Bolero would be a better one for a stripper - what do you think?
@@ojshilinski8358 certainly more graceful and classy. My mom danced to Harlem nocturne her nightclub act
I remember when they came out with this song, I loved it then and still do…I do have their album with this song on it
I want to thank Stephan King for writing Christine and who ever decided to use Harlem Nocturne in the movie. It surely added to the movie and made another generation aware of this great piece.
I hear the metallic sounds of Christine as she repairs herself to show Arnie what she is capable of....
Damn, the sax player is awesome! I'm enjoying this on a cold winter night thinking of a smoky bar in a hot tropical night looking straight on into a stranger's eyes and dancing slowly to him! Very sensual!
You can dance and I'll play this on my sax.
OMG This song brings back some good memories.
Same here, listening to this over and over while I talked to my high-school girlfriend on the phone.
Heard this Terrific mood sax on 57 Chevy Radio. Thanks
Thanks for posting! Never heard the long version, or The Touch. :)
My grandmother loved telling us how she worked in a sleazy strip club in the Midwest way back and this was one of her songs along with "" Night train "",,, she was not a boring lady !!💋
I'll play this song for you on my sax.
This song was also used occasionally as bumper music from a late Saturday Night TV show in Pittsburgh called Chiller Theater - a B movies horror show classics. It stared Chilly Billy Cardille, Terminal Stare and Georgette the Fudge Maker (two of the most gorgeous women to ever grace Pittsburgh Local TV, ) and of course everybodies sidekick Norman, a little Person. Ah... the good old days of TV. The prime opening theme was another similar moody tune called "Experiment in Terror" by Al Cialo if I recall. SNL live eventually kicked them out of their time slot on NBC
love it. so sad and moody.
This IS the one from Christine, not the best quality. But I'm glad I found this and thank you GSMusicMoments. But the tremolo is just like I heard in the movie. The one many people upload has a slower tremolo effect with the guitar.
É 10!!!!!!
Can’t listen to this and not think of the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s “Christine”
A great song indeed.
Quite possibly THE sexiest music ever recorded!
Try J.J. Cale's "Too Much for Me" or "Closer" then try and find the bootleg of Cale's band with Wall of Sound baritone sax Steve Douglas doing rare road work and jamming away on "Harlem Nocturne" in club land..." Also the Harlem Nocturnes favored by Cajun line dancers and 2-steppers along with Zydeco aces like Chris Ardoin, John and Geno Delafose with the Eunice Playboys etc
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Sir Duke wrote a ton of love sexy music. Jeeps Blues was known as the strippers anthem back in the late 50 s and beyond. But just a pure timeless and tireless masterpiece. Thanks Duke Rip where would music be without you?
Arnie: Okay, Show Me.
Christine's Lights turn on.
Larry Vechhio was my barber back in the late 50s and rarly 60s.
To Larry. Found You on the internet. Hope all is well. we live in Pennsylvania now. Rollie.
He also wrote the theme to the Andy Griffith Show.
Is there any chance you could burn me a copy of these 2 songs onto a cd as they are here. I really love the ending of the longer version of Harlem Nocturne as well as The Touch. I'd be happy to pay for them if need be. Let me know either way.
If you want to give me your email address. YT did away with Private Messaging. Ask them how the f you're supposed to send private info.
If you post it here you can delete it after I got it.
I'm running into hangups and can't take the time.
We can delete this thread later.
A. Spirit Posessed 1953 Plymouth Fury named Christine.. and a boy name Arnie
Hehe Christine is showing off from arnie ;)
How would you pronounce this bands name. I've always thought Viz-counts. Someone told me Vy-counts.
Anyone?
Gulf coast Pronunciation
vice-counts.
= Viscounts ??
Vye-counts... (rhymes with My) It's a title, in French.
Okay... Show Me! "CHRISTINE"
*Most of the people here came from Christine. Don't lie...* 👀
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cheek to cheek with your boyfriend.....memories
He was a BAD white boy
Got me started on tenor SAX,now im 73 but i remember HIM
koooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
It's hard to admit, but I can recall like yesterday when my sister & I would listen to this song for hours and hours in the living room of the house we grew up in way back in the day. I'm now 70 & she's 72. We weren't even teens then. We both dressed in black turtle necks and black pants and laid around like little Beatniks, with all the lights turned out. Our parents thought we went nuts. I'm not a fan of this long version. The 45 was absolutely perfect. If I had to pick just two songs from my past that made a deep impression on me it would be this hypnotic and iconic song, along with "Sleep Walk" by Santo & Johnny. They just don't make em' like those anymore.
While I like this offering, my memories are attached to the original Viscount version. Sleep Walk is also on my short list. Wonderland By Night by Bert Kaempfert does not fit the haunting aspect of the former two songs but it is one of my favorites for the memories it evokes. If you have not heard it you might give it a listen. I think you would enjoy. By the way, I am right between your age and your mothers, I am 81, yet Harlem Nocturne appeals to us all. Good music knows no age boundaries.
Sorry, I got a bit of the next comment confused with yours.
@@mrjekruse Oh yes, I also owned the 45 of "Wonderland By Night"! I agree that is not the same hypnotic and dreamy type of music as "Sleepwalk" & "Harlem Nocturne" but you are spot ON that it evokes MANY wonderful memories. Any thoughts on "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles? Another memory grabber!
@@rogerchinnici179 I like What'd I Say and Ray Charles in general - almost always "happy" music. Once I tried to pick my top ten. Songs I could listen to forever and not get tired of them. The best I could do is narrow my list down to a top fifty and there were still more that could have made the list. I have enjoyed jazz, rock, folk, R & B, bluegrass - just about everything expect opera, which I respect but don't care for, and rap, which just isn't for me. I always felt that anyone who has one 'favorite' song just hasn't heard many songs. You might consider making a top fifty list and then making sure to much doesn't pass between listening to them.
That's awesome! It paints a picture to me
I remember this was the theme of the Mike Hammer tv show. It fit the vibe of that show. If you love the sax sound this song has to be in your all time top ten saxophone hits.
I always thought it was a very Sensual sound of music💖
I love this track. The Viscounts really bring out that bluesy mood.
Man,this song takes me back to 1961 and summer party dances held in garages. Some nice memories going back to a more innocent time.
Amen! In '61 I was 21 and it was a great time.
Bingo!.......the party at Sonny's house....everyone was there!
Wow! I had searched and searched for this particular version of this song. I even got back as far as the original 1933. I love this one
I found this!! Thanks!! I dedicate this to that dude I danced all N Yrs Eve '64 with! We went steady one year & married. Both just 16. We left home so young we will never get old!
When I was a kid in the 60s, this was always the last song at our Saturday night dances.
Christine brought me here.
"Show me."
as of April 2014, I am 67 years old. Class of '64. Man, I thought this was the coolest! I'd imagine it in my head at school and bop around with my eyelids half shut....aint no cooler than that shit!
Great rendition
A simply incredible Blues/Jazz piece
Coolest ever. Walking through a strange city late at night. Neon reflecting on rain washed streets....
Absolutely! exactly what I sense when I hear this one. :-)
Especially if you've had a couple good tokes:o)
Chris Green Yes, Mike Hammer , Phillip Marlowe, Richard Diamond walking down the alley at the same time!
1966, San Francisco, the Filmore flying on LSD walkin in the heavy fog, expecting Sam Spade 'round the next corner. Nothing could hurt us because we were bullet-proof. Wonderful times
I love this tune! It is so haunting and beautiful!
Years ago, I was walking home from the local convenience store, maybe half a mile. One of the neighbors I passed was being absolutely RAILED to this version. Sounded like a great time.
I love this. Never heard the long version before. My mother, now 92, loves this so much that she has kept the original 45 in her dresser drawer for 53 years. I can't wait to play this for her. P.S., I had always assumed the Viscounts were black. Guess white guys can have soul, too.
My record is hanging on the wall!
they might have had dope, but that;'s about it. Hagen, who wrote this wasn't black..but he wrote it in tribute to Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges in 1940. Search around.. this is one of the crummier versions of this song you can find. Try Illionis Jaquet.. for comparison.
@@captlarry-3525 You are certainly right re. Illinois Jaquet - I'm 86 and Harlem Nocturne has never ceased to bring a longing ache in my being. I can understand OtisFan's 92 year old mother's love of the song. What brought me here now was an emailed response to a 4 year old comment I made when listening to Illinois Jacquet. Being home-bound due to coronavirus pandemic gives us time to reflect ..........
@@captlarry-3525 "Opinions" There are no crummy (sic) versions of Harlem Nocturne. This is the Rock version and pretty damn good. I'm a fan of Jacquet's version myself as well as Georgie Auld's smooth rendition and other Jazz musicians.
@@hammered0184 - Right about opinions! However, I'm a huge Danny Gatton fan, but his "Harlem Nocturne" SUCKS! And I've heard five or so different renditions by Danny...
Ive been trying to find this version of the song for years. It was used and uncredited in Christine and Ive been looking for it ever since I first heard it. 1000 internet to you.
A fantastic song from my childhood!
Justification, me, too! I always loved this song!
also used in for the intro of Stacy Keach's Mike Hammer abut ten episodes in
Awesome music! I've heard this countless times over the years, and I never get tired of it. I've never heard this extended version before. I like it! :)
Me Either,but I love it…Fabulous Music🎼🎼📀📀❤️
I play this song on my guitar. I always thought that this song should be The Film Noir Anthem 👍
Wow. I don't know what to say! I've never heard the long 5:32 version of this amazing song before. This is the definitive version for my money. Thanks for posting!
Dark alley dead kid one cop. Fog smog and rain . I'm the only detective to have to work on Christmas
"The music fills the night - Deep in the heart of Harlem".
Sorry I'm late, Lieutenant. Got here as soon as I could. The skirt I was with just wouldn't let go. She insisted Santa come down her chimney. You remember how that was right? Yeah, you're not that old. Go home to the wife and kids, boss. I'll wrap it up here.
Hey fellas, who's chalkin'? I may just be a lowly bulb-popper but let's get it going, eh? Jeez, my dame's going to kill me.
She walked into my office looking like she'd rather be suntanning in a nest of snakes. Then I saw her eyes- the kind of eyes you could get lost in, or the kind that wouldn't blink as she pushed the knife into your back. She sat down, pulled one white glove off and said, "I need a man." Then the other glove slipped off. "But you'll do."
MIKE HAmmer on the job, naTURALLY, EXPECTING INSPECTOR GADGET/
It was dark and rainy. It was a rainy rain. It rained fast. And hard. But not hard enough to wash the scum from the streets.
Memories of garage dances in the summer of 1961.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! The long version is the one I always remembered, but "The Touch" is new to me, and it's killer too. What a sound.
Carrie Cox -
That's some serious reverb on that guitar! It's a fun and unique style - cool way to re-imagine the song. I really like the saxophone's articulation. In our performance, I'd like to try using my part to add some interest/accent in addition to maintaining a steady beat.
" GROWLING" IS THE TECHNIQUE, CREATED IN THE THROAT LIKE " GARGLING", WITHOUT A SPECIAL METAL REED ENHANCEMENT
My uncle plays tenor sax and this song sounds very similar to his playing style. And, he can knock the socks.off of this song. My favorite version of this song.
this tune got to my soul since the first time I heard it when I was 12
I'm your age 100% agree
Heard it when I was 12 also???????????
We’re the same age. Cheers!
When I was 15 I snuck into a burlesque in Detroit and the gal stripped to this song. It was fun losing my innocence!
I was 9 or 10
Credit Earle Hagen for composing this unforgettable sultry song in 1939 while an arranger in the Ray Noble Orchestra.
This was the song that made me want to play the saxophone! I first heard it (and bought) the single version when I was nine in 1959. Even at nine years old, the emotion behind the sax solo just blew me away. (to digress - kind of like when Duane and Gregg Allman went to their first R&B concert when they were still kids - Duane turns to Gregg and said, "Litle brother we got to get into this... and the rest was history).Tonight, surfing youtube, was the first I had ever heard there was a second and longer version. Though the main phrase is just repeated two or three times, this longer version sustains the mood of the song, that finishes too quickly on the single version. I especially liked the dramatic crescendo towards the very end of this version, also heard for the first time. This is solid stuff....
It's all a matter of taste. The shorter version leaves me wanting more. This longer version leaves me wanting less. www.lanceaspiritunbroken.com
IT WAS JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS "GOING TO CALIFORNIA" & JOHNNY ALMOND ON THE TENOR THAT PUT A SPELL ON ME. GAVE UP THE VIOLIN & MOST EVERYTHING ELSE . ACTUALLY WORE JAW OUT(SURGERY) PLAYING AT LEAST 5 HRS. A DAY, W/ A MEAN GROWL & SUBLIME SUBTONE. PAUL DESMOND'S SOFT SOUND ASO CAPTIVATED ME. AT "SOME POINT" MY SOUND WAS AS GOOD AS KENNY G.(HAD A GOOD TEACHER EARLY ON)
I've always said if I weren't a human I'd be a saxophone or a tree - deep music fills the night...
Your commentary reminds me that when I was young I wanted to grow up to be a saxophone - the feeling just sinks in and becomes a part of you...I didn't want to be a human....
I was in the Army waiting in a bus depot when I first heard this song by The Viscounts and fell in love with the sax. I heard another version by The Ventures on guitar. Not the same. Night try but no cigar as they say.
This is THE version !
I am 73 years old.I am lost in that SAX!
got cha by 2 yrs and good point sax
Same here and last year I bought an old sax my friend had since he was 13 just like the one used here and I am coming along real well re-learning after 50 years.
(IMOHO): THE SELMER TENOR BALANCED ACTION IS THE MOST SOULFUL,ROCKIN', HIP GRINDING< FOOT STOMPING HORN EVER BUILT & PLAYED>. COUPLED WITH A BERG LARSEN METAL 110/1 & A BERG LARSEN EBONITE 120/1, TOPPED OFF WITH RICO ROYAL REEDS. THE VISCOUNTS SAX MAN< STAN GETZ , & JOHNNY ALMOND(JOHN MAYALL & BLUES BREAKERS), STEWART MATHEWMAN(SADE) + JOHN COLTRANE/LESTER YOUNG
GROWLING" IS THE TECHNIQUE, CREATED IN THE THROAT LIKE " GARGLING", WITHOUT A SPECIAL METAL REED ENHANCEMENT
Just me, but maybe the coolest sing ever.
No on Johnny Otis. He did not write this. It was Earl Hagan in 1939
Ravel's Bolero would be a good one to listen to if this melody puts you in a nostalgic mood, and, for me, on the heels of that comes Mood Indigo .......
jazz. just how it should be.
smooth.
curvy.
suave.
cool.
and dare i say maybe even sexy?
Thank you very much for posting this.
Stunning🎷thank you very much for posting.
@mrjekruse Ah yes!!! Played that song many times with my first band. (First real gig was at a small Brooklyn "lounge". Great era to grow up in.
🥰Loved the Stephen King movie, “Christine,” with this theme music that played while the car repaired itself after it was destroyed by Arnie C.’s classmates.
NO cooler song EVER.
When I was a kid I heard this constantly being played by my aunts and uncles who were themselves teens at the time.
" Merry Christmas Hayden Panettiere "
Heavenly Twinkle Toes with Missile
Toes of True Tranquility Always Hostess Holiday Cup Cakes and Forevermore Heavenly Happiness Miss Hayden Leslie Panettiere's Milkshakes and Iced White Honey Buns are Always Lovingly in Tenderness of True Tranquility Loved Lovingly Lovely Miss Hayden Leslie Panettiere Always Faithfully Lovingly Meaningfully Forever Your's Forever and Forevermore Your's Always Lovingly,
Neal Patrick Fry a.k.a. Sundown from The "Sunrise Studios" in Lovely Livonia, Michigan U.S.A.
Dick Dale and the Deltones played this to end the night at Harmony Park Ballroom in the sixties. Never forgot the sound.
Must have been gooood
While many know this song from Christine, my recollection is that there was not a stripper in the late 50's and 60's that did not have Harlem Nocturne in their routine. When done like the version by the Viscounts there is a beat and certain grittiness that just fits the act and the atmosphere. Fond memories. Thanks for the extended version.
R.I.P. My Beautiful older Brother. Lawndale Forever....
Your brother played this song. I'll play it for you on my sax.
I was 17 and partying a lot with a crowd we called the Tribe. All night and all weekend parties, and this played at all the all nighters 1960-1962
CHRISTINE
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Exactly what I was going to say!
Luv this version!!! Can anyone play like this?
Awesome song!!!!
At 5:35 another great Viscounts tune kicks in.... The Touch.
Influencial but extremely underappreciated group; their version of Nocturne touched off a string of versions by such standouts as Sam "The Man" Taylor and Sam Butera; before long, sax-led college dance bands were adding Nocturne to their repertoire; I remermber when they appeared on Dick Clark's old Saturday night show in the 60's; does anyone know if a kinescope exists of their appearance?;
This song is the background music at the start of the movie "Experiment in Terror" in 1962. The credits say Henry Mancini. At least the beginning of the song is identical. The movie was a black and white film noir. Great suspense thriller. Look it up.
+tanohuizar WOW - Mancini would love to grab credit for it, as any composer would, I suspect. He was great, but Nocturne is ... transporting.
I put it on youtube - I hear the similar feel you're speaking about [if the segment I heard was the movie intro you're speaking about], don't agree that beginnings are identical. They come from common emotional territory, neither would kick off a kids' Disney yarn, but musically I could not say one copied the other, much less agree with your first sentence. I plan to check out the film!
+Mickey AuGrec Did you get to see Experiment In Terror yet? Slow in today's times, but so much feeling plus you had to think while watching.
Another good one that has the same vibes is Cry Terror, 1958.
Never knew there was a long version, worth the visit.
An older brother gave me this relic 45 RPM record when I was 16. A friend went to play it and broke it! For years, this record was not available in any Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York record shop. Due to popular demand it was re-released. Enjoy!
I like this song
Spookie song, love it!!!
DIG THE TENOR "GROWLING". SO COOL, SO SENSUOUS. STILL ABLE TO DO THIS WITH BERG LARSEN METAL OR EBONITE .FABULOUS VERSION OF " MIKE HAMMER" THEME SONG.
Never knew of this long version till now. I always thought it was dark, sensual and haunting. Thank you for the extra also. What great sax!
Neither did I. Just listened to it, this is the version you'd heard in a club after midnight....
+Jazz Lover Yes at the time it would be with gin martinis. I seriously hurt my self on gin about 20 years ago now stick to beer or vodka. In today's time give me this music, dirty martinis, candlelight and you. ;)
Love it.
great version
чудесно !
this is my favorite song..since the first time I saw them..They played in the town I lived in back in the mid /late sixties and I was hooked..
CHRISTINE likes this song ;)
Great style but the best vrsion I ever heard was by Illinois Jacquet, live, on Wells Street, in Old Town, Chicago.
this is the 1st version i ever heard of this tune way back in the early 60's i liked it then and still do
Love this arrangement of Sir Dukes original composition. This is a masterpiece. It was all before my time but it incisions old LA Cali at night in the early sixties. Nightlife and mystery. Oh yes.
Wow I was 7 when this came out. I always loved it. Listened to Mr. Sanborn s version too.....
the fifty thumbs down have absolutely no clue where music has come from nor where its going from here.
Intense----Love the instrumentals!
MUSICAL MAGIC IS A "GROWLING" TENOR SAX PLAYING " HARLEM NOCTURNE". I'VE BEEN A " GROWLER" ON BERG LARSEN METAL 110/1 AND BERG LARSEN EBONITE 120/1 WITH ROYAL RICO'S )SINCE JUNIOR HIGH.