At Last - Original
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2011
- This is the "original" version of "At Last". The song was written for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and was first played in the movie "Orchestra Wives", 1942. Vocals by Ray Eberle and Pat Friday (dubbing for Lynn Bari). Etta James lhad a smash hit with it in the 60's and Beyonce sang it in the movie Cadillac Records and Obama's innaugaration
Never was and never will be anyone like Glenn Miller.
100% true!
Hands down this is the best of the best. I’m 80 years old and transported back in time to when I was a child listening with my mother. Thank you.
I’m 80 this year and have heard some great music in the past. Today I don’t see much comparable music.
Nah. Too stiff. Too many intruments. Too many people singing. Just like Whitney made Dolly's song her own, Etta James made this one hers. Y'all stole Jazz from black folks anyway....
I'm 84, I love this music, and a lot of it came even before my time! @@ronaldmacpherson3345
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I'm 86 and My Brother Playing This Record Over and Over 1941 In Los Angeles Love This Song Forever and Ever . T38 William
I miss this era of music, and I’m not even old enough to have known it. I don’t know how I first discovered him, but I love me some Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Not old enough to have known this era of music either, but it reminds me of my dear parents that did. Enjoyed your comment :).
I am 56 my parents remembered this music, but I love this music. Love Glenn Miller.
There is so much good music from the past to enjoy. I hope you discover it all and enjoy it all.
Same here, I discovered it thru watching movies. Pretty great!
You thought right
I'm 59 yers old and have seen my share of rock concerts and enjoyed them all...but this is 100% class and beautiful as well.
Bons bom sim pode se ouvir a música bonita rock onde se podia ver ouvir música para dormir
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My people brought me up with this type of music am 66 now..just beautiful 🇬🇧 uk
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Ohhh so so beautiful, this is the era that I wished that I was born in. Plus this alongside Moonlight Serenade is one of my favourite Glen Miller songs. My mums era and she loved Glen Miller. 🎷🎺🎼🎙🎼🎺🎷
I am 82 and still here. I have enjoyed Glenn Miller and other such music for many years and still do.
Sir, THIS is the music I grew up tom from my parents-----and I love it, forever ! -------------MJL, 77 y/o
Most don't realize this incredibly beautiful song came way before the Etta James classic.
I've encountered people who swear up and down she did it first. In fact Miller did two different versions and there were something like 15 or 20 covers before Etta made it her own.
@@Poisson4147 Wow, I never knew At Last was such an "old" song!
@@aileen694 I'm amazed at the number of songs that pre-date when "everyone knows" they were first written. As a kid during the rock era I heard "Blue Moon" by the Marcals but had no clue it was written in *1934*
The great American songbook some truly great songwiters in the 19;20 s 30 s 40 s
I do because I am a professional singer and sing it this way, plus I have the Glenn Miller Band CD for years.
Wow Etta covered this so well that I had no idea this song was a glen Miller original
Yes, he did TWO different versions, one in '41 and this in '42. IIRC about 15 or 20 other artists did covers too before Etta came along.
Should a time machine ever exist, this is the first era I would visit and find a big band concert asap
What an incredible era filled with so much natural talent.
I was a very lucky guy.
I was a busboy at a Mexican restaurant in the early 60's called Macayo Vegas.
Betty Grabel, Harry James and their daughters would usually come in every wednesday evening.
Really down to earth nice people.
Hard to imagine I was only 15 at the time.
I rarely envy anybody ..but you’re up there in my maybe list.
So So lucky !
My father danced and listened to this just before he boarded a transport early in the war. This and other Great songs during this period carried young men to and from ww2. My father was a great man and,y mom would tell me of how they went to dances and of all the great music.. they are both gone now, this song brings back memories of them.
Very loving story. Thank you for sharing.
You could have been describing my parents too!! The Greatest Generation!!.
Thsts about as romantic as it gets.so many men's last song with their sweet hearts before being shipped out was the big band's
I know what you mean . where was he bound ? My dad went to the South Pacific . he returned but died in 52. I didn't know him really but miss him and think about him a lot. I'll listen to these great songs
Wow, me too. I listen and can see my dad and mom remembering all the beautiful memories of their young love, especially being seperated by WWII.
the most beautiful song when you are in the arms of the one you love.
How I wish I could travel back time.. loving this era.
AT 83 I CAN ONLY ADD MY ADMIRATION FOR SOOO MUCH TALENT IN ONE PLACE....BRINGS CHILLS!!!!
i envy you sir. you lived in an era of respect originality and patriotism.
@@iwatcher69 true ! Couldn't agree with you more sir.
Canzoni eterne, musica meravigliosa
Pure gold ❤❤
My wedding song... 23 years of being “our song” and this is the first time I’ve ever heard the original. I’m glad this video found me!
i wish i could be transported back to that time and place , wonderful
I love the music, but I wouldn‘t go that far 😅
@@joeylove777 that is true but hey! the kid can dream
I do, every time i play my late mothers collection of 78 rpm dance records. she was 16 in 1942.
You are right there !....the music is the elevator, your imagination the key to open this door.@johnboy
For your sake I hope you're white lol cause any other races will not live so well back then. Just sayin
How's it possible that someone could give this beautiful piece a thumbs down?
Just ignore.
I know right?! Sad people gotta be sad.
Oh well their problem
It means nothing! Kids play around with those icons just to be obstinate!
Everything ain't for everybody.
I used to DJ but still have my equipment and this music seems to need a club to be played at. Orchestras like this must not be forgotten.
In my humble opinion this is the best version!! The band the couple singing just perfect! I wish I was there enjoying this in the crowd
Today, any idiot with a guitar and a bad voice can make millions, but not music.
Ricko s this comment is underrated.
Ya talking about Justin Bieber?
So true.
Not really. You're just too old for the room.
any idiot and a computer. there, fixed it!! but yes, pretty much what you said.
One of the all time great songs by the best ever big band performed on film. Outdoors and as one with the vocals, the trumpet, the gal falling for the trumpeter, everything....a moment in time...
Superb! How could they write so wonderful songs? Songs that never grow old
When you use your heart in the writing/composing process, anything is possible!!! What's lacking today is ~just that~ ....................... HEART~!~
So magical and yet during one of the worst times in human history.
An era when musicianship, melody and harmony were not dirty words
And era where black people were getting lynched regularly, couldn't vote and were redlined into ghettos. But, hey, at least singers didn't curse.
When days where long and slow, now we lost that sense of living in the moment.
Just perfect: The level of talent on display, is just jaw dropping ; today's musicians could not replicate this song
They could but won’t.
@@chuckpetersen246 Exactly.
@@chuckpetersen246 There's no money in it.
This sort of music is so sweet to hear and very good to relax hearing it. The singers sings well pronouncing the words clearly, so it is easy to understand what he says. And what he and she sing has meaning.
Music will never be this good again.
So soothing so calming we have gone backwards in life
iN MORE WAYS THAN ONE !!!! WE HAVE A COMPLETELY DIVIDED GOVERNMENT...... AND SADLY THE LEFT FORGETS THAT JUST LIKE A BASEBALL GAME, OR, A FOOTBALL GAME ..... YOU ~~~M-U-S-T~~~~ HAVE ~~T-W-O T-E-A-M-S~~ OR ................................ THERE AIN'T NO GAME ~!~!~! THE DEMS WANT TO WIN EVERY GAME, EVERY PENNANT ~!~!~!~ GEEEZZ LOUEEZZ~!~!~!~
Every time I hear this music , this song I feel like home . Crazy! Like I have lived in those times I feel like crying! Lol I love the 20,30,40 and 50s . My kids listen to this music every time I clean my home . Or make dinner ! ❤️
The most romantic music I have ever heard. Talent like this comes once in a lifetime!
Damn.. This is sooo good, my eyes turn tearful. Sometimes I wonder if musicians, artists even common people from this time gave everything a little extra heart knowing what was around the corner ?
nah just gave it all their heart
Nah...they were in the moment like all artists and creatives.
They knew we wld be involved in the war. They didn't know Glen Miller would be killed in a plane crash over the English Channel during the war. He even dreamed about it before it happened. OH!!
I never knew there was another version but etta james' ... she sung it and she owned it ...but this is marvellous
Glenn Miller did TWO different versions, one in '41 and this in '42. IIRC about 15 or 20 other artists did covers too before Etta came along.
Frankly, I'm not crazy about Etta James' version.
my wedding song love the music from the 40's
Pat Friday was a wonderful singer.
My Parents are dancing to this in Heaven ...........tonight amongst the stars.
This is the outdoor concert scene from the 1942 20th Century Fox film musical Orchestra Wives. The first song played is the instrumental "Boom Shot" which is followed by the encore "At Last" performed in the duet version with vocals by Ray Eberle and Pat Friday (lip-synched by Lynn Bari in the film). "Boom Shot" is played on the Wurlitzer juke box and then at the open air concert featuring Harry Morgan as soda jerk Cully Anderson and Ann Rutherford as Connie Ward. They go to see the Gene Morrison Orchestra featuring George Montgomery as Bill Abbott on trumpet. After performing "Boom Shot" the band leaves the stage. The audience is still on their feet. The band returns to play an encore, "At Last" featuring Ray Eberle and Lynn Bari (overdubbed by Pat Friday). "At Last" was composed by Harry Warren, music, and Mack Gordon, lyrics. Glenn Miller first recorded the song in 1941. "At Last" first appeared in the 1941 film Sun Valley Serenade in an instrumental version performed by Glenn Miller in the cafe scene after the 1941 version of "In the Mood" is played. "At Last" is also played as background music in Sun Valley Serenade and during the final ice skating scene but without the lyrics. John Payne and Pat Friday recorded a version with vocals with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1941 for the movie but the song was not used in that film.
Thank you Louis for the additional information, Also, we can note that in the movie, Caesar Romero was at the piano, and a young Jackie Gleason on the upright bass. - Ron
@@callron1 I always watch this movie when it comes on TMC. The story line ain't much but the music is fantastic. My Dad was in England prior to D-Day and he got to dance with Dinah Shore at a USO dance. Those entertainers ALL pitched in to the war effort.
Memories of watching my parents dancing to this...
aww
Me too. My mom danced with Dad barefoot, on tiptoes, lights turned off, laughing softly. Great music, romance, and I, hidden on the stair that didn't squeak, listened in my own trance, all those years ago. Lovely. Just lovely memories of a real love during a very intense time in our world! So glad others have same memories. ❤
This is what love sounds like…82 years and this is how life feels magic.
Music from before my own time, that is still Great to hear. And sung with real talent without the help of electronic gimmicks. Very good to hear, despite the fact the quality of the recording is not up to today's standards.
I just remember Etta James singing this song....but this is pretty cool, my parents and grandparents must have danced to this.....slow dancing at its best...
Hello Suzi, How are you doing?
I love watching videos of times gone. This is 42 years before I was born. Makes me want to go to an club to watch a band while sipping on a gin fizz or martini. It's tough to find lounge music now.
You can not only dance to it, you can understand what they are singing!
What a wonderful era ❤
ALESSANDRO MARTUFI. YES THE BIG BAND ERA WAS NICE EXCEPT FOR THAT DAMN WAR. MY FATHER WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THE BATTLES IN THE NORTH AFRICAN DESERTS AND IN ITALY, THE BATTLE AT MONTE CASSINA AND FINALLY IN BELGIUM, THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE.
Ah yes, the Big Band Era, big dance crowd so the songs had a long intro by the band before the singer started, like above, and like Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey also.
Fabulous. Dont you just love that signature reed sound in miller with addition of the clarinet? Just changed the tonal quality in a lovely subtle way.
Thanks a million Harry Warren and Mack Gordon.
Best music ever nothing will ever beat it, make me feel happy. Sheila x
If only more Gen-Z's and and Millennials are able to appreciate older and classic tunes like this, it'd be wonderful/
It's still alive! Try Angelina Jordan's version on UA-cam ... R (Australia)
Great song ! Brings back memories of my mom and dad !! Miss them so much !! 🙏🙏❤❤
This is so damned sweet! Great trumpet feature at the end. Wonderful sentiment from another time. Would that we could embrace this kind of sentiment - commitment and quality of music, and life in general
I think the trumpeter is Ray Anthony, whose own version I had on 45 rpm back in the '50s.
And Ray Eberly always did a super job singing! My dad raised me on Glen Miller, and I just happened to marry a trumpet player...
wow - didn't know that it was so old - I LOVE the Etta James version
From the movie “Orchestra Wives”, it’s worth watching, some crazy cats in that movie, including Jackie Gleason as the bass player.
Yo también
Etta blows this version away
@@casejinable etta nMes verzion
This is so poignant for me.. Because my mum and dad loved THIS FILM@ SONG and DAD WAS A TRUMPET PLAYER WHO LOOKED JUST LIKE THE ONE IN THE GLENMILLER BAND.... AND MY MUM LOOK JUST LIKE THE GIRL WITH THE DARK HAIR IN THE CROWD GAZING AT HIM 💞.. WE LOST DAD 8 YEARS AGO AND MUM DIED ONLY IN OCTOBER 2020 SO THEY ARE TOGETHER 🎼AT🎵LAST🎶RIP PEACE MA@PA ♥️🙏🏼❤️
I WISH THAT I WAS AROUND IN THOSE DAYS. THEY MUST HAVE BEEN. FANTASTIC
Que belleza de voces! Glenn Miller, lo escucho desde chica, nací en 1955 pero mi padre era su admirador y yo también
So sweet. You only hear this kind of music at lindy swing dances. Long live the swing era!
I WISH THAT TIME COULD BE TURNED BACK
I am 92 years young l saw that film countless times as you say Barry l wish we could see those days again
@@sidneyburton305 Thanks for replying Sid. I'm 68 and I've always loved the golden oldies
Great days, perhaps I should have been borne to that era….❤
This describes exactly how I feel about my late-in-life love. He came along after my 5-1/2 years of sleeping-walking thru life after losing my husband of 38 years. Coincidentally, he had lost his long-time wife and reached out to me, the widow of his boyhood friend. 🥰
American brass band sound stirs fond memories of my Dad. One of the family’s first LP’s is by Glenn Miller. I owe my love for music to Dad.
just another example of the great American songbook, the greatest popular songs ever written, this one by the brilliant Harry Warren and Mack Gordon.
And as far as i know Doris Day was the only singer who sang this song in full that is she included the verse at the beginning.
The best of music forever The big bands Glenn Miller and others . I love The music made during and after de II World War!!! It will last forever!!!
pure gold!!!!!
Wow! Back in the day. Good music. Romance in the air. Men are men. Women are women.
People having fun. Time Machine leaving, all aboard!
HILARIOUS but so true
Interesting idea. But let's skip Okinawa an D Day if you don't mind.
Is there a lot of room on this time machine? I wanna steal a brand new Cadillac and a couple of typewriters and bring ‘em back wit me!!$$
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@@lawrenceaddy2489 In my time machine we follow Shirley and Lee's advice, "Let the Good Times Roll!"
We skip things like the Black Plague
and the Inquisition.
Could listen to this forever!❤️
Love Etta James version. However when the orchestra starts, I get chills…. My parents era, but just transcends years and periods and genres ❤
At last
my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
At last, the skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped in clover
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that i can speak to
A dream that i can call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill i've never known
You smiled, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
For you are mine, at last
Thanks for the good lyrics. Regards.
10/10 I miss these days, songs and movies. Glad it was in my lifetime, so glad.
At Last...I have spent years in my life trying to find the title of this song, thanks to who uploaded it
This was the best Era ever!
Just gorgeous! And a revelation on the origin of this song, which has become such an enduring one for so many! Wonder if I can find a youtube video of Orchestra Wives...
Search, and ye shall receive: ua-cam.com/video/bNW3ItL5pBU/v-deo.html
Joanne Eberle was my friend for awhile until she died. She fell apart when Ray died. He was her sweet heart.
I'm honored to know a couple of members of the extended Eberle family. Wonderful people, all of them.
Some people hate on different renditions. I long for the era when several different musicians would perform the same song in their style. Example: Ella Fitzgerald right alongside Patsy Cline right alongside Frank Sinatra. All three of them can carry the same songs. ...amazing to hear the delightful differences like how various artists used to perform songs from the great American songbook you know. Now it’s like everyone’s just comparing one against the other and no one has the freedom to just do their own thing.
Justo beautiful music
Such a normal atmosphere n soothing sounds..lol I still listen n love it all..
Exceptionally charming.
❤ I still love this music and I am 83 yong !
I am just nuts about the Miller recording of " At last ". Fabulous. Those saxes jost WOWl
I had no idea it was written for Glenn Millers orchestra! it's lovely as a duet.
Always loved the big bands. Was unaware that this was a Glenn Miller original. Thought Etta James made it famous. She is awesome, but Marlena Shaw sings my favorite rendition of this. Saw her in Hollywood, CA in the 90s, which was a highlight of my life.
Pure magic!
Just gorgeous. especially the trumpet interlude, that is Ray Anthony, isn't it? I wish we had more music like this today, but we CAN listen to the recordings and weep with joy!
This was the greatest song to ever come out of that era. Lynn Bari and ray Eberle , make it impossible for anyone else to ever top their rendition. They could melt the coldest hearts!
+JOHN T. Reading It appears Pat Friday dubbed it for Lynn Bari based on someone's comment. I just learned that too John.
+Sylvia Carlson You're correct. Pat Friday (née Freitag) was a studio vocalist who dubbed a number of actors who weren't also singers, a bit like Marni Nixon "ghosting" for Audrey Hepburn and others. OTOH John Payne was also a trained singer and did his own vocals.
Oh damn, this original version of "At Last" is wonderful. Then Etta James' version took it to another level as well. I was born in 1950, a bit too late for romantic music like this to be part of my youth. ... This was my parent's generation's music to fall in love to. Love it !
This era will never be the same again its ulp to us to remember it im 72 and i still ay iton my tablet im a 59s ans 60s chils but i love 40s az well
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the music and the men were so different back in the 40s .. today's generation dont have the same feelings and adulation for women as we had . different times different music that said we loved women .more than ourselves ...
robert galardi well said I’m in my late seventies now, it’s a whole different world in covid 2020 then back then
Robert Galardi: maybe we stopped caring for both them and us. Me, I’ve got a most special lady in my life, and we have listened (and danced) to a lot of Big Band jazz. One of our favorites is “Rhapsody in Blue” by Glenn Miller.
I enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting. No one commented about the camera work. I liked it because it gave a dreamlike quality to the recording. After decades of watching movies, I've never seen anything like it, so you are a very creative person,
callron1.
After hearing this song so much, including at public jam sessions and open mics, it is nice to hear a version that expresses more clearly the songwriter's ideas and vision.
If Etta James chose this song above all others to make her mark, she must have heard something in it. Both versions are authentic, imo. Not sure how anyone could not value Ms. James' contribution. It obviously strikes a chord with many hearers.
How lovely the music was just listening to the song atlast
66, so born long after this period, but OMG what a classy, stylish era.
This song made me cry.
MAJOR MILLER ROCKED THE HOUSE LIKE NOBODY ELSE . COME ON MAN 🙂
No tatoos, no piercings, no torn troussers, just good looking people, well dressed and clean.
@@gispel7058 it came from black people and white Kids imitating it
@@ekunsa white, Black, Brown, we are all the same. We are all Humans.
So true
@@ekunsa , wow. You couldn't just enjoy the song without turning it into ray sis, snarky comment, huh?
Enclave Officer is right. You obviously haven't read the memo.
The silly dress codes of today will pass. Worse may come. This will also pass. There is only ONE race on earth. It is called the Human Race. We come in all shapes and sizes Big, little Fat thin Tall short and all colours too. From Paley Whaley White to Shiney Black with 50 shades of Brown in between. The real divider is GOOD and EVIL. Also 50 shades in between. I have noticed that Kind and Considerate people don’t commit crimes.
Just love the Miller sound. It oozes nostalgia and despite what was happening in the world at the time, it’s just a warm cozy sound. Maybe life was better in some places then?
Preciously beautiful music. In Chicago, from 1966 until 1972, I listened to it being played on WGN's "Meisterbrau Showcase," MC'ed by the late Franklyn MacCormack. During the long nights as a graphical illustrator, I worked for a large consulting and engineering firm known as Barton-Aschman & Assoc., Inc. I think they allowed me as much overtime as I could tolerate. I often had more overtime, than regular hours. That big band music and Franklyn MacCormack made it very pleasant. In 08/01/1972, I moved to Panama City, Florida...
Oh this is my mother music...I love so much too
We’re still enjoying it, this tune is timeless. Keep putting it out there…I’ll pass it along.
Once again this is my Papa and Mama Fovoriets songs and they dance with gracefully steps like a newly lovers and I am looking TILL I find one somedays...well, I wait for that times till it comes okay! Bye and thanks everyone for being here be good to yourself and enjoy the Valentines with your love one's goodbye for now ok ! Till we see to each other again sonetimes thanks Again ❤❤❤
As a child, my mom always said I was an old soul. I had no clue what she was talking about. She was on to something. I've always enjoyed Big Band music......just as much as Motown.