I AIN'T GOT NOBODY - THE MILLS BROTHERS

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  • Опубліковано 4 чер 2012
  • THEIR VERY FIRST APPEARANCE 1932

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  • @randyjimmiejamesbowles
    @randyjimmiejamesbowles Рік тому +19

    My dad raised me on this! I'm 74. I'll be singing this song at the grand opening of a tea shop in Seattle in July. Along with a bunch of other 1920s/30s songs.

  • @francisalanwormald6328
    @francisalanwormald6328 4 роки тому +93

    AT 83 THIS GOLDEN OLDIE BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES...THE BIRTH OF MUSICAL GENIUS!!!

  • @craig693
    @craig693 3 роки тому +43

    These brothers were incredible and supremely talented. Doesn’t get any better than this.

  • @michaelpatterson2955
    @michaelpatterson2955 3 роки тому +11

    I love these guys! To me, their older songs, like this one, were their best. Truly talented!

  • @nellieprice6337
    @nellieprice6337 4 роки тому +8

    Awesome even now in 2020!!!!!!

  • @frankscarborough1428
    @frankscarborough1428 4 роки тому +8

    My mom loves the mills brothers nobody like them

  • @walarsh
    @walarsh 5 років тому +38

    Fantastic! So cool to see the Mills Brothers so young. They were the greatest!

    • @cynthiapickett7403
      @cynthiapickett7403 3 роки тому +2

      They were; it's still a bit strange to see the original lineup.

  • @Maltsky3773
    @Maltsky3773 Рік тому +4

    A great rendition!!

  • @diegojames8678
    @diegojames8678 7 років тому +30

    wow, he sounds just like a trumpet 👏

    • @pondererofpointlessdreams5029
      @pondererofpointlessdreams5029 7 років тому +13

      Diego James He's secretly the son of a trumpet.

    • @rickhinojosa5455
      @rickhinojosa5455 4 роки тому +8

      Diego James if you watch more of their videos, you will see them do all kinds of amazing musical instrument sounds with their hand or even with just their mouth. They had many awesome songs. 🙏

  • @whiterook8022
    @whiterook8022 3 роки тому +17

    While all four of them are superb, I am always particularly impressed with Donald. I so very badly wish that I had found the Mills Brothers before he passed, so I could thank him for filling the cracks in my soul. Sounds corny but it's true, their music speaks to me like no other, and has a very strong impact on my emotional wellbeing.

    • @whiterook8022
      @whiterook8022 3 роки тому +2

      @Gia Monette' - I listen to them, and try to learn as much as I can about them, every day. I feel as though I know them, like they're MY great uncles. I do feel blessed to have been contacted by someone in their family. From my family to yours: Thank you. You and your family are a gift from God.

    • @rickhinojosa5455
      @rickhinojosa5455 Рік тому +3

      @whiterook8022. I took my two year old daughter to see him (Donald) and his son perform at the Fresno Fair back in 1991. At the intermission, I took her to the back of the stage and managed to get him to hold her in his arms and sing to to her the song "Daddy's little girl". This is the first song she heard when she (and later my other two daughters also) was born, just a few minutes old and evey so often after she (and they) we're born. I was able to tell him how I discovered them on an old 8 track tape when I was about ten years old in 1974 and that I memorized all their songs because they brought so much happiness to my heart, getting me through some sad times too. He was very happy and I think he probably knew that others will discover their music and enjoy them too. ☺️🙏

  • @3941602
    @3941602 Рік тому +1

    Sad and beautiful

  • @joshuajuarez6960
    @joshuajuarez6960 7 років тому +16

    Real Classics right here.

  • @whiterook8022
    @whiterook8022 3 роки тому +11

    Excellent upload. These Mills Brothers clips are becoming more and more rare, and precious. Thank you, and thank God that you uploaded it.

  • @Casper1tfg
    @Casper1tfg 4 роки тому +33

    One of the greatest groups to ever perform in the history of music. Some of these 'performers' today could learn a few things from these guys. And only one instrument to boot. That's what you call TALENT!!

  • @dave327ful
    @dave327ful Рік тому +2

    Nice rendition of a popular song!

  • @cynthiapickett8342
    @cynthiapickett8342 6 років тому +7

    This is one of the best prints of an important landmark cartoon.

  • @kevinw9073
    @kevinw9073 3 роки тому +4

    A classic by one of the best groups!

  • @cynthiapickett7403
    @cynthiapickett7403 7 років тому +6

    People still can't get over actually three teens and a guitarist who actually looks older than his (barely) 21 years!

  • @malotonga4957
    @malotonga4957 2 роки тому +2

    The list of legendary acts they Collab with is amazing. Their rival was the ink spots incredible.

  • @alfredwu4392
    @alfredwu4392 6 років тому +15

    Check the rhythm from Harry - impeccable, so full of virtuosity.

  • @allaboutrecords
    @allaboutrecords 4 роки тому +4

    The incredible Mills Brothers at their peak

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 5 місяців тому +1

      Actually first appearance.

  • @jojodancer6150
    @jojodancer6150 3 роки тому +2

    A precious glimpse of music Americana from your time capsule. Thank you so much for this gem.

  • @cynthiapickett7403
    @cynthiapickett7403 6 років тому +6

    Supernatural harmony!

  • @netarcheruto
    @netarcheruto 2 роки тому +2

    Wow they had 2b teenagers. I never saw videos of them so young. Awesome

  • @waynejkl4035
    @waynejkl4035 3 роки тому +3

    Brilliant!

  • @ellenr.3549
    @ellenr.3549 5 років тому +6

    They are so young here.

  • @ColinHarperSummerson
    @ColinHarperSummerson 10 років тому +7

    Brilliant'', thank you:-)

  • @jonmills6927
    @jonmills6927 3 роки тому +10

    Best group of all time and of any genre.

  • @nhmooytis7058
    @nhmooytis7058 5 місяців тому

    So young ❤😊

  • @cynthiapickett8577
    @cynthiapickett8577 2 роки тому +3

    One of the better -known brother acts to emerge from the Buckeye state (I'm also a native of Ohio); Isley Brothers and Bobby Womack also hail from Ohio, as do the O'Jays.

  • @veryunusual126
    @veryunusual126 2 роки тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤I LOVE THIS❤❤❤❤❤

  • @lennon1252
    @lennon1252  5 років тому +26

    From left to right: Herbert, Donald, Harry and John Jr.

  • @johnmenary8473
    @johnmenary8473 9 місяців тому

    Great music

  • @TheJamesOPhillips
    @TheJamesOPhillips 4 роки тому +1

    I cam here because of a link on a tenor guitar page. I only knew this song, without all the lyrics, because of the version Elizabeth Cotten did on her first album. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @Caskchap
    @Caskchap 3 місяці тому +1

    What a great gimmick, pure talent.

  • @cynthiapickett8342
    @cynthiapickett8342 6 років тому +2

    Dig that crazy (and prehistoric) TV set!

  • @flaylikespikachu15
    @flaylikespikachu15 3 роки тому +3

    Nostalgia critic brought me here

  • @bwehm1
    @bwehm1 5 років тому +6

    Donald mills was about 17-18 years old in this !

    • @cynthiapickett7403
      @cynthiapickett7403 4 роки тому +1

      ...more like almost 17!

    • @Vino3437
      @Vino3437 4 роки тому +2

      Really 😳. One reason more to make something out of my life.

  • @Ontario100
    @Ontario100 2 роки тому +1

    It is spelled T-A-L-E-N-T ! I watch this at least one a month. Thanks!

  • @cynthiapickett7403
    @cynthiapickett7403 6 років тому +5

    Nice touch in the last live-action scene where (very young) Donald is doing his scat solo; he has a hard time keeping a straight face (probably aware of just how silly "Tiger Rag" is as a song).

    • @cynthiapickett5017
      @cynthiapickett5017 5 років тому +3

      Cynthia Pickett ...he is also giving a side- eye to the silliness of his brother Harry's histrionics.

  • @mitchgrube2480
    @mitchgrube2480 6 років тому +9

    American Classic from the Mills Brothers--black white pop jazz rock country all classics you know--STELLAR RECORDING by LEGENDS. Lets all keep race class sex and politics out of it ok ?

  • @pondererofpointlessdreams5029
    @pondererofpointlessdreams5029 7 років тому +18

    So many people have covered this I have no idea who the original artist is.

    • @diegojames8678
      @diegojames8678 7 років тому +20

      Ponderer Of Pointless Dreams- original lyrics by David Young, music by Chas Warfield. I have an original 1915 music sheet of this song.

    • @pondererofpointlessdreams5029
      @pondererofpointlessdreams5029 7 років тому +4

      Diego James Ah, thanks.

  • @lionelkyle4695
    @lionelkyle4695 2 роки тому +1

    A1

  • @cynthiapickett7403
    @cynthiapickett7403 5 років тому +10

    Without even closing my eyes, I picture Dean Martin crooning in the exact same manner. Martin was mostly influenced especially by Harry Mills.

    • @johnnytroyano
      @johnnytroyano 3 роки тому +6

      Cynthia you are right on cue.. not many people knew this.. Dino even copy Harry's mannerisms... he love all of them.... take care

  • @bl1754
    @bl1754 9 місяців тому

    Wow their first

  • @carlosalbertomantillagarci9836
    @carlosalbertomantillagarci9836 5 років тому +4

    Nice song. A fragment of this song is sang by David Lee Roth in "I'm Just A Gigolo". Greets from Peru...

    • @danilejai7801
      @danilejai7801 5 років тому +6

      Carlos Alberto Mantilla García dude check out Louis Prima’s version

    • @88KeysToPlay
      @88KeysToPlay 4 роки тому +2

      @@danilejai7801 Correct, Prima did the same medley. Works like a bridge, in fact I used to think it WAS the bridge of "I'm Just a Gigolo."

    • @viktorzavadsky4746
      @viktorzavadsky4746 2 роки тому

      Louie Prima first recorded the 2 songs together: "Just a Gigolo" & "I Ain't Got Nobody" in the 1940's - the Village People did the double cover in the 1970's - both songs date to the 1930's

  • @djfatal2gilliam616
    @djfatal2gilliam616 3 роки тому +3

    jack benny brought me here

  • @cynthiapickett8342
    @cynthiapickett8342 6 років тому +2

    Interesting.. Harry is the only one that is not fighting a losing battle where the camera is concerned.

  • @kevinceniceros1690
    @kevinceniceros1690 4 роки тому +3

    3:51, they are older than you think.

  • @spacefarer400
    @spacefarer400 3 роки тому +3

    1:18

  • @13thcentury
    @13thcentury 8 місяців тому

    We're just 4 singers... I see three

  • @zc6594
    @zc6594 6 років тому +7

    WOOoooooo where is tthat tiger ????golden tiger ??!!!!

    • @zc6594
      @zc6594 6 років тому +1

      hell yeah that right1

    • @zc6594
      @zc6594 6 років тому +1

      told u

    • @zc6594
      @zc6594 6 років тому +1

      IKR

    • @hohoohope
      @hohoohope 4 роки тому +2

      Hold that tiger*

  • @blakegman4479
    @blakegman4479 4 роки тому +2

    nice Tiger Rag anime at the end

  • @goodc0re
    @goodc0re 11 років тому +12

    Goth of the 1930s I suppose .. :o

  • @comixproviderftw_02
    @comixproviderftw_02 3 роки тому +2

    The Suicide Squad

  • @ingediana
    @ingediana 3 місяці тому

    and when was the gigolo coming in? 😮

  • @josemeda4592
    @josemeda4592 3 роки тому +2

    Didn't Van Halen record this very same song? Or part of it?

    • @michaelmanning5379
      @michaelmanning5379 3 роки тому +3

      Yes but he was riffing off of Louis Prima's version, making it a medley with "I'm Just a Gigolo."
      ua-cam.com/video/uY-EzZPzCv8/v-deo.html

  • @fazefarcry
    @fazefarcry 4 роки тому +2

    Even they had wave checks back then

  • @dhamblin65
    @dhamblin65 3 місяці тому

    What year would this be?

  • @thomaskallmyr
    @thomaskallmyr 2 роки тому +1

    They where the Better Group in USA

    • @thomaskallmyr
      @thomaskallmyr 2 роки тому +1

      Jeffrey Quigley vart våran släkting.
      Han forskade fram,att Walther Evert Kegö,18 år gammal,utklädd till Amerikansk Motorcykel Police,stod under trädens skugga ovanför gräskullen,bakom staketet,och på Elm Street i Dallas kom Cortégen med John F.Kennedy,och med George Bushs Hagelgevär sköt Walther halva huvudet av John.Det vart Lennart Napoleon Zandier som berättade för Marianne Philliphson,att han vart "Patriot".
      Presidenten sköts med Fruset Kvicksilver,en special Brennecke kulor.Järnvägsarbetarna sprang orädda mot skytten,som tog sin lånade PoliceMotorCykel och följde efter Cortégen mot Parkland Hospital. Han svängde av mot ett privat Flygfält,där ett en motorigt gult Flygmaskin väntade på att flyga till Nord Väst om Dallas,litet samhälle som hette Paris i Texas. En Nattclub,som Jack Ruby vart delägare i,för att "Fira att de lyckats mörda John F.Kennedy ". Nazister är dessa Hemliga Mördare.Walthers biologiska Mor vart med på Abraham Zapruders film.Hon är identifierad.Svenska Gaby Ida Karin Stenberg-Koch,hon är dotter till en Ostron/Pärl Dykerska och Prince Hirohito av Japan. Cayo Hatha hette hon i Japan,Kobe 1923 är Cayo född av Leiah Hatha. 1926 kom syskonen till Uddevalla med Båt via Yokohama,Japan.Min Mor Inger Maria Johanna blev arbetskamrat med systern Mikko Hatha,som gifte sig med Gösta Hallqvist från Vänersborg. Hon vart född i Kobe,och fick svenskt namn,Elin Kronborg Hallqvist.Elin/Mikko vart född 26 September 1920. I Sverige fick hon heta Pettersson.

  • @klkiley2922
    @klkiley2922 3 роки тому +2

    Where's all the singing of WAP? Must have been a different era.

  • @ionutgalatanu9491
    @ionutgalatanu9491 5 років тому +8

    To many instruments

  • @ashkenaze
    @ashkenaze 7 місяців тому

    Those African-American hybrid blokes stole the tunes from Louis Prima's song, which in turn only covering David Lee Roth's.

    • @jameswalton3930
      @jameswalton3930 7 місяців тому +2

      This was recorded back in 1932 or so: you can tell look how young they are , Louie become famous much later. I'm sure, and, they didn't have to "steal" a song, music is Universal, bloke 😂
      What is a Afro-American hybrid?, their parents were both black,

  • @kimadkins7427
    @kimadkins7427 3 роки тому +2

    Brrrruuuhhhh this song sounds like something someone would commit suicide to like a really dapressed person and they just say fuck it it's over I'ma end it so they turn in song on and boom down they go I hope an prey to god it doesn't happen more than likely it will but o'well ig🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @jameswalton3930
      @jameswalton3930 2 роки тому +1

      You are very weak minded if this song leads you to suicide.

    • @SB-se7vb
      @SB-se7vb Рік тому

      I'm sorry you are too dimwitted and simpleminded to appreciate the nuance and complexity of the human psyche. Many upbeat songs have depressing undertones. It's called dissonance. Maybe educate yourself before commenting such nonsense again.

  • @13thcentury
    @13thcentury 8 місяців тому

    This song is offensive to ghosts

  • @joewelnack3283
    @joewelnack3283 3 роки тому +2

    A damned shame they didn't get any billing on this short! This is one way the studios cheated black entertainers.

  • @lestersabados1306
    @lestersabados1306 6 місяців тому

    These people stole the song from Van Halen

    • @lennon1252
      @lennon1252  3 місяці тому

      This video and recording was made before Van Halen was even born.

  • @Lerf8
    @Lerf8 Рік тому +1

    Love louie primos cover of this song

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 5 місяців тому +1

      Me too, Louis and Keely Smith.