"Dancing in the Dark" is one of the prettiest tunes of this era and this is the definitive version. Knock one note out of place and its no longer as pretty and pure. Thank God there WAS an era when this type of music was popular and we are left with these recordings !
We didn't lose the recipe. The public tastes changed, and music from the 30s and 40s became old fashioned, just like everybody used to thumb their noses at disco until the last decade or so. Strong music styles get stuck in their era. Now we have corporate pop. On second thought, you were right. I wish we hadn't lost the recipe for making this kind of music.
When I was in high school in the mid '50s this record was probably the most requested and played over the gym's PA system at sock hops after home field football games. If a gal and guy weren't really, REALLY, close dancing when it was playing it was usually because, #1, the guy was clumsy as an ox and was stomping all over her feet, or #2, he had put his hands where they shouldn't be and she had told him to back off, or #3, she had a really big crush on some other guy and couldn't care less about the poor slob she was dancing with, and way too often that slob was me.
Growing up in the late 40's and 50's three of the greatest that I really liked were Artie Shaw's Band who was the greatest, the Platters, and the great Mr. "B:", Billy Eckstine.
John Perks"pop" is an ambiguous term. Pop simply means that it is music which can be enjoyed by all- popular appeal- one may say. By all technicalities, Big Band Swing can be referred to as Pop music.
ack848 Why even Mary Most Blessed would've danced(Dances?) to this.There is wondrous music in Heaven, not just dry theologians and pickle faced pietists.No offence to pickles or glowingly happy pietists.
I've played Aerie Shaws tunes now for over 40 yrs with various groups including piano bars playing solo. I've also sang many too including Sinatras hit tunes, i.e.New York, NY., girl of my dreams, it had to be you, etc. Joe G Bowen Miss Gulf Coast Riviera of the south
Thank you so much for posting. I watched Woody Allen's "Radio Days" yesterday and in that movie this wonderful song also came along. What a great era of music!
I agree with a number of the comments - the sound is excellent. This is the ultimate recording of this song! It's a great song - Artie Shaw made it greater! I first heard this as a kid in the late 60's ...it blew me away and still does. I told my dad he had great music when he was a kid!
Wow, that is SO cool! So you grew up with this music being played live in your home, not just on the gramophone? That must have been absolute BLISS :0)
I have heard many, many "Dancing In the Dark" recordings and lots of them were marvelous, but it always comes back to this Shaw recording for me. If I am thinking about the tune, it is the Shaw that plays in my mind. I think that this arrangement was by Lennie Hayton.
My understanding is that Shaw outlined to Hayton what he wanted & he basically transcribed it. Shaw would further tweak it, after that, until it was exactly the way he wanted it. 🎶
Perfection. The kids today have no clue as to what true talent and musicianship is all about. Just an example of how our society has eroded (and continues to erode). What's next - burning all of these old records and CD's which show how a civilized culture used to exist here.
jeffrey lancaster. And the ignorant little darlings don't want to know. They don't want to sift through the garbage bin of musical history. They are modern, they are here for the now, they are here for the future. God help us. Amen!!!!
What a stupid thing to think....ive been collecting 78s since my teens , im 40 now , have thousands , i have read up on my history on swing. ..join some facebook music groups , while there may only be 1 in 1000 to care about this stuff that still leaves a LOT of people Just yesterday , me a 25 year old and a 53 year old didcussed louis Armstrong 78s for an hour.... burn them all? Thats SO sad that thats what you think of us. Do you not remember how RADICAL *this* music was when it started ? Racial tension , war , i cant believe this is what oldsters think tgese days ...THATS sad.
Wait, do you really think that young people don't like this music? I promise that more people enjoy this than just you and your generation, if you can believe it.
Wow - I had wondered who "Joy" might have been! I also have one of Sinatra's first records ("On a Little Street in Singapore;" posted as well) which has 'Joy' scratched on the label. I bought these a few years ago from a consignment shop in Burnaby.
There are three recordings that are probably the best ever recorded, this one Frenesi and Begin the Beguine. All by Mr. Shaw. They were requested so many times that Shaw became disgusted with them, I think.
My clarinet teacher loaned me a 12 inch 78rpm recording of Artie Shaw's Concerto For Clarinet plus the sheet music , but it was too difficult for me! Artie had a lovely style as did Benny Goodman but Benny was more clinical and classical and Artie more dramatic and poetical. Two great bandleaders.
Basically, yeah. There was a story back in 50' ish about how he hated it, but after he served and played for the army, he had a newfound respect-disgust relationship with the song. The soldiers wanted him to play it all the time, and since they couldn't have music he played it over and over. "The memories of home restored humanity to the soldiers" or something along those lines.
Gangsta kittie War is hell, and that never changes. What kind of music do we play to get thru the humorless man baby, his sidekick, that triumph of the embalmer's art, and their everloyal surrogate wives, LindsayG, and the odious enforcer, Mother?
worked in 'ciros on the bay' west amityville l.i. in college & one of our waitresses ALWAYS had the musician play this on his accordion-it was nice to hear but this is THE version-terrific arrangement-tune has been covered by other big-bands & the 'boss',lady ga-ga,diana krall but never better than THIS!
Another recording that used to give me a sort of similar nostalgic feeling is Benny Goodman's "Six Flats Unfurnished." I posted that about 2 years ago.
There's nothing more graceful than screwing up a cue up of a song on a turntable or hearing an unprepared slamming of a cart as it breaks thru the air. Analog production. A reel to reel edit of a copy. That's an artform. Gete hooked up with commercials okay Raechel? Thank you for being the best female DJ infinity broadcasting ever had! No offense April, Katy, Dusty. Salamat (thx). Like that video.
What a combination! A sensational Howard Dietz -Arthur Schwartz tune, gorgeous Lennie Hayton arrangement and of course Artie's artistry. This version for me is on a par with the MGM studio version that Fred Astaire and Cyd Charise danced to in "The Bandwagon". If you haven't seen that clip I think it's still on TH-cam and should be experienced to help flesh out the story of the song.
Thank you VERY much for sharing this with us!!!! Personally, I'd rather dance with Rita Hayworth, but then I'd better be able to dance as well as Fred Astaire, too!!! Oh, well.....
If you haven't seen this tune danced to then look for Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse dancing to it in the move The Band Wagon. But I love this Artie Shaw orchestration.
The DJ Jonathan Schwartz whose father Arthur Schwartz wrote the lyrics to this great song says that it took his day 20 miniutes to come up with the lyrics.
In reply to litvak1936: Did Jonathan Schwartz really say his father wrote the lyrics in 20 minutes? It would be some claim. The lyrics are by Howard Dietz. Schwartz was the composer.
@beautman1 Either the preamp on my Pioneer SX-1050 or the built in one on the turntable. To be honest I don't adjust the signal for older recordings because I find it actually worsens the sound. A newer Newmark like this might be good, depending on the turntable you're using. I'd of course trade this setup for a good quality 1950s transcription turntable but if you're using a Dual or especially Gerrard then this is definitely a better setup. I do miss the automatic functions though.
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"Dancing in the Dark" is one of the prettiest tunes of this era and this is the definitive version. Knock one note out of place and its no longer as pretty and pure. Thank God there WAS an era when this type of music was popular and we are left with these recordings !
i was born in 41 and grew up listening to this music with my parents and such great memories
Ladies and Gentlemen this is real music. Crafted by a genius
MAGIC and timeless, sounds wonderful even now in 2023
Brilliant music from a genius of jazz,Artie Shaw.
Amazing sounds & so,so good.
it will never go away...this is forever for all
one of the most famous scenes ever filmed.pure magic.
If only we hadn't lost the recipe for making this kind of music.
We didn't lose the recipe. The public tastes changed, and music from the 30s and 40s became old fashioned, just like everybody used to thumb their noses at disco until the last decade or so. Strong music styles get stuck in their era. Now we have corporate pop. On second thought, you were right. I wish we hadn't lost the recipe for making this kind of music.
The recipe is still there ,but the big swing bands were full of star performers and so expensive to maintain.
Maybe i dont know what im talking about, but, is to have in off milage what matters.
Three parts romance, one part whimsy, one part dignity & one part bliss...mix.
So good to hear music that 'speaks' to my soul. Thank you
This is making me wish I was born when my Grandpa was...
so I could have heard it when it was made & danced to it, like he had.
Great song! Wonderful sound! THANK YOU VERY MUCH for sharing this with us!
Esta melodía será inmortal. Excelente reproducción. Gracias!!
BEAUTIFUL.....the magic era of the Big Bands were wonderful. Thank you for this delightful share.... !!!
When I was in high school in the mid '50s this record was probably the most requested and played over the gym's PA system at sock hops after home field football games. If a gal and guy weren't really, REALLY, close dancing when it was playing it was usually because, #1, the guy was clumsy as an ox and was stomping all over her feet, or #2, he had put his hands where they shouldn't be and she had told him to back off, or #3, she had a really big crush on some other guy and couldn't care less about the poor slob she was dancing with, and way too often that slob was me.
Growing up in the late 40's and 50's three of the greatest that I really liked were
Artie Shaw's Band who was the greatest, the Platters, and the great Mr. "B:", Billy Eckstine.
Crazy that it was still so popular then. It is a good rendition.
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How did we let this music get away from us.
+Carleen Malone I know, but I'm so glad these are recorded so we can listen.
With so many regrets.
The peasants and their new purchasing power brought "pop" into our lives, and the musical world suffered a death blow to quality.
John Perks"pop" is an ambiguous term. Pop simply means that it is music which can be enjoyed by all- popular appeal- one may say. By all technicalities, Big Band Swing can be referred to as Pop music.
Because people accepted crap!
I don't validate this kind of music over other kinds. But Holy Mother of God this might be the greatest recording of all-time.
ack848 Why even Mary Most Blessed would've danced(Dances?) to this.There is wondrous music in Heaven, not just dry theologians and pickle faced pietists.No offence to pickles or glowingly happy pietists.
@@bobbywimsy6741 I needed that giggle, SO much, thank you :0)
I've played Aerie Shaws tunes now for over 40 yrs with various groups including piano bars playing solo. I've also sang many too including Sinatras hit tunes, i.e.New York, NY., girl of my dreams, it had to be you, etc.
Joe G Bowen
Miss Gulf Coast
Riviera of the south
Marvellous, just flippin' marvellous. Singing is so good for the soul.
Artie Shaw and his "Symphony Orchestra", I think that's what they called him in Hollywood.
Fabulous, thank you.
Thank you so much for posting. I watched Woody Allen's "Radio Days" yesterday and in that movie this wonderful song also came along. What a great era of music!
I'm watching Radio Days right now, it brought me here, too! Great era, indeed.
Superb arrangement, beautifully played.
Think this was a Lennie Hayten arrangement
@@cats0182 Thanks for the information it was worth waiting for!
I agree with a number of the comments - the sound is excellent. This is the ultimate recording of this song! It's a great song - Artie Shaw made it greater! I first heard this as a kid in the late 60's ...it blew me away and still does. I told my dad he had great music when he was a kid!
bigcity233 So did I and told him this music would return in popularity, he pooh-poohed it. It happened at last.
My dad (Les Robinson) was the lead sax alto on this recording. He thought is was "pretty good" too !
Wow, that is SO cool! So you grew up with this music being played live in your home, not just on the gramophone? That must have been absolute BLISS :0)
The best band of alltime.
Now this is music! Thank you for sharing it.
Oh if only I could shuffle my feet to this wonderful version of dancing in the dark.. dancing on a nicely waxed floor...
I was born in 1941 and grew up listening to this music ''Thanks to my dad I love all of it But makes me miss my daddy When I hear it.
I have heard many, many "Dancing In the Dark" recordings and lots of them were marvelous, but it always comes back to this Shaw recording for me. If I am thinking about the tune, it is the Shaw that plays in my mind.
I think that this arrangement was by Lennie Hayton.
Artie's tone is magnificent. His sound is one of the most beautiful I have ever heard.
My understanding is that Shaw outlined to Hayton what he wanted & he basically transcribed it. Shaw would further tweak it, after that, until it was exactly the way he wanted it. 🎶
Cómo en mis sueños! 😍 gracias por compartir
Wonderful! Wonderful to listen to..to dance to.. and..What good quality!
Perfection. The kids today have no clue as to what true talent and musicianship is all about. Just an example of how our society has eroded (and continues to erode). What's next - burning all of these old records and CD's which show how a civilized culture used to exist here.
jeffrey lancaster. And the ignorant little darlings don't want to know. They don't want to sift through the garbage bin of musical history. They are modern, they are here for the now, they are here for the future. God help us. Amen!!!!
What a stupid thing to think....ive been collecting 78s since my teens , im 40 now , have thousands , i have read up on my history on swing. ..join some facebook music groups , while there may only be 1 in 1000 to care about this stuff that still leaves a LOT of people
Just yesterday , me a 25 year old and a 53 year old didcussed louis Armstrong 78s for an hour.... burn them all? Thats SO sad that thats what you think of us. Do you not remember how RADICAL *this* music was when it started ? Racial tension , war , i cant believe this is what oldsters think tgese days ...THATS sad.
So sad but true These beautiful 78's were discarded in the trash by the thousands.. It's so sad
Wait, do you really think that young people don't like this music? I promise that more people enjoy this than just you and your generation, if you can believe it.
@@k0y9l8e7 yeah man im 16 and this shit is fire
La mejor melodía de todos los tiempos . Gracias Mr. Show
Thank you so much for posting this beautiful music :) Perfect sound from perfect Artie Shaw :) x
AMAZING! Can´t stop listening....
Wow - I had wondered who "Joy" might have been! I also have one of Sinatra's first records ("On a Little Street in Singapore;" posted as well) which has 'Joy' scratched on the label. I bought these a few years ago from a consignment shop in Burnaby.
I thought I had most of the Artie Shaw LPs starting collecting in 1955 - but TH-cam has made me increase my shelf space! Love it!!
So lovely to watch the glow of the turntable to this music!
I love that bass. And it sounds clear.
Preciosa melodía y orquesta !❤
Very nice....thank you for sharing
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.
Amazing sound quality.
Will it ever come back. Please. Someone. Must be listening 👂🏻.
Oh ! For the good old day's!
Maureen Anderson We thot they'd never end, we...
Excellent ... VinylToVideo!
That was wonderful. Thankyou so much.
artie takes us to a higher level Matt NY
Lovely ! 🎶💕
Thank you! That music is a balm for the soul! Cette musique est un baume pour l'âme...
C'est vrais, c'est bien formulé!
Oui, bien sur, helps us wash the trumpish out of our system.
Wow! Excellent sound out of that old disc.
royalewithcheese12 With some "encouragement," yes.
An excellent turntable and sound system makes this song sound as if it were being played for the first time.
such a beautiful tune, thank you for this =)
Another vinyl, Beautiful Music. Thanks
Beautiful, thank you for sharing :)
I used to have a collection of 7k 78’s.80% of the masters! Those were the days!!!
Used to? I can't imagine giving up my small collection!
me parece una excelente música para relajarse con amor
BELLISSIMO!!! BRAVO!
Arti Shaw ❤❤❤❤❤
I see Fred in Band Wagon! Thanks a lot!!!!
Que bien que suena! quiero un tocadiscos
The best music ever !
There are three recordings that are probably the best ever recorded, this one Frenesi and Begin the Beguine. All by Mr. Shaw. They were requested so many times that Shaw became disgusted with them, I think.
My clarinet teacher loaned me a 12 inch 78rpm recording of Artie Shaw's Concerto For Clarinet plus the sheet music , but it was too difficult for me! Artie had a lovely style as did Benny Goodman but Benny was more clinical and classical and Artie more dramatic and poetical. Two great bandleaders.
Basically, yeah. There was a story back in 50' ish about how he hated it, but after he served and played for the army, he had a newfound respect-disgust relationship with the song. The soldiers wanted him to play it all the time, and since they couldn't have music he played it over and over. "The memories of home restored humanity to the soldiers" or something along those lines.
Gangsta kittie War is hell, and that never changes. What kind of music do we play to get thru the humorless man baby, his sidekick, that triumph of the embalmer's art, and their everloyal surrogate wives, LindsayG, and the odious enforcer, Mother?
astonishing how good that sounds
Ooes right to my heart chakra !
I get a similar feeling every time I play this.
worked in 'ciros on the bay' west amityville l.i. in college & one of our waitresses ALWAYS had the musician play this on his accordion-it was nice to hear but this is THE version-terrific arrangement-tune has been covered by other big-bands & the 'boss',lady ga-ga,diana krall but never better than THIS!
Special! Thank You!
I can visualize Ginger Rodgers and Fred Astaire dancing on air!
Fred and Cyd Charisse did a fair job in 'The Bandwagon'; the MGM studio orchestra provided an arrangement synchronized to the dance.
Another recording that used to give me a sort of similar nostalgic feeling is Benny Goodman's "Six Flats Unfurnished." I posted that about 2 years ago.
AAH music that is a pure pleasure to listen to, where did it go to!
Delightful.
There's nothing more graceful than screwing up a cue up of a song on a turntable or hearing an unprepared slamming of a cart as it breaks thru the air. Analog production. A reel to reel edit of a copy. That's an artform. Gete hooked up with commercials okay Raechel? Thank you for being the best female DJ infinity broadcasting ever had! No offense April, Katy, Dusty. Salamat (thx). Like that video.
What a combination! A sensational Howard Dietz -Arthur Schwartz tune, gorgeous Lennie Hayton arrangement and of course Artie's artistry. This version for me is on a par with the MGM studio version that Fred Astaire and Cyd Charise danced to in "The Bandwagon". If you haven't seen that clip I think it's still on TH-cam and should be experienced to help flesh out the story of the song.
I wish I knew that much about it :0) very interesting, I will check it out right now!
Nice sound!
Thank you 👌
This is REAL music..........
Thank you VERY much for sharing this with us!!!! Personally, I'd rather dance with Rita Hayworth, but then I'd better be able to dance as well as Fred Astaire, too!!! Oh, well.....
Ich liebe diese Musik
Hi great bands good
I always thought that this, MOONGLOW & STAR DUST were such classy recordings of the Swing Era!
I meant the Artie Shaw versions, especially.
I'll give that a listen soon as I get a chance. :)
If you haven't seen this tune danced to then look for Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse dancing to it in the move The Band Wagon. But I love this Artie Shaw orchestration.
Authors: Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz (Rio, 3/oct/2019).
Fred,Ginger,and Irving Berlin's 'Isn't it a lovely day'
That's some truly haunting and enlarging shit. WOW, what have we been missing???
Such romantic dance music. From a time when ladies acted and dressed like ladies, and gentelmen acted accordingly.
great record
I want go to a very fancy place with my girl, just to dance this with her
Lucky girl. I hope you find a place. It's worth the search.
Lindo...
Artie`s tone is beautiful. Sounds similar to my favorite clarinet-group OK-Dreamband. CD "Clarinet-Dreams" is available for download (amazon, iTunes).
ha ha ;) love this old music.
The DJ Jonathan Schwartz whose father Arthur Schwartz wrote the lyrics to this great song says that it took his day 20 miniutes to come up with the lyrics.
.. BON LUNDI // LE 20 AOUT 2018
The Man!
In reply to litvak1936: Did Jonathan Schwartz really say his father wrote the lyrics in 20 minutes? It would be some claim. The lyrics are by Howard Dietz. Schwartz was the composer.
@beautman1 Either the preamp on my Pioneer SX-1050 or the built in one on the turntable. To be honest I don't adjust the signal for older recordings because I find it actually worsens the sound. A newer Newmark like this might be good, depending on the turntable you're using. I'd of course trade this setup for a good quality 1950s transcription turntable but if you're using a Dual or especially Gerrard then this is definitely a better setup. I do miss the automatic functions though.
What a turntable,not even a hiss to be heard.
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Jonathan Schwartz says that his father,Arthur Schwartz wrote the lyrics to this song in approx. 20 minutes.
Off the top of my head, I've got 2 78 styluses, 6 microgroove styluses, and 6 cartridges.
I have that one, somewhere... I'm almost done digitizing the Frankie Carle stuff I have. The Benny Goodman 78s are next.
Perhaps it's a different Joy as this one was issued and made in Canada. The Sinatra record doesn't say where it was made.
Smooth. Makes me want to dance with Myrna Loy in a 40's night club. ;-P
This is called a make out song! :)
Great song,and that is some fancy record player where can I get one and price?