Henry Burr and the Peerless Quartet - Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1911)
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- Charted at #1 in November 1911. Written by Leo Friedman and Beth Slater Whitson. This song quickly became a standard and has been recorded by hundreds of artists.
I thank Anne Of Green Gables for bringing me here and introducing me to this beautiful song.
Same here.
I thank my mom for singing this song to me in my wee years in the early '60s.
Downton Abby is how I got here
Omg yesss!!!!
I first heard on Hallmark's show When Calls the Heart.
I have love for this fantastic music! 105 years later and now yet it is hearted for someone like us.
I feel the same way you do :)
Yes it really is..💕
A true classic brings tears to my eyes for everyone I know who danced this tune at their wedding
Damn.
"Fuelled" brought me here.
Same lol
As a lover of this kind of music, I couldn't believe my ears when I heard Henry's voice on the video, despite not being able to tell the exact source hehe. Outstanding animation btw
I seriously don't understand why they didn't just credit it in the description or credits. Just because it's public domain because it's 111 years old doesn't make it so that you don't have to credit it.
@@CPorter True. I wish they did.
samee
I remember my Grandfather used to sing this in German. He liked to whistle it too. I miss him dearly.
I was here to literally say the same about my grandmother. Except she was Italian but, she whistled this too.
My pop pop sung this to me growing up. It was the first song I learned just for him when he had his first scare with cancer. I was only 5.. ill never forget that hug he gave me that day. Such a good man. I miss him with every bit of my being. I believe I would've been a different person if he had been there for longer then 12 years of my life. He also used to tell me he lost his hair in the war. (Ww2 marine vet) never talked about the war, only eating chocolate covered ants on the ship when him and his buddies went to steal candy from the kitchen. He got a big surprise in the dark that night. I'd give anything to learn more about him and his life. Wish I asked more.
My grandparents both sang this to each other. She was in a Sweet Adelines choir when she was younger so she'd sing the harmonies. Absolutely lovely, I adore that I was lucky enough to grow up in a family hearing and learning all these wonderful old songs.
Yo fulled hit hard like in my heart plus the short introduced me to this song
Oh damn I’m hearing my grandmother around the house singing this beautiful song… ❤️
i'm hearing my mum while she was doing chores.
Nick, I was brought up by my granny in WW11 and she be was akways singing.these old songs I am now in my 80's and can still hear her
@@brymorian owww that’s cute… man it’s an honor to meet someone who haves his 80’s 🥺❤️ health and love for you and your family Sr!❤️❤️
@@nicknelson5993 Thank you Nick
Can't believe they played this on adventure time. Never thought id see the day where they play 1900's music on one of my favorite shows.
That would be 1910s though.
Still a classic!!!!❤
so beautiful :')
now let's be honest, you heard that in "Fuelled"
Being honest, I was surprised to hear this in Fueled because I first heard it on my mom's playlist in the early morning hours. It made me cry, nonetheless.
No, 50 years before that.
Nope, Adventure time
Thanks!> I woke up singing this and missing a few of the lyrics -- and i knew i could count on you to provide an old, original version.
Sacramento train museum... 2018.. watching "evidence of a dream" a film about the Union Pacific... And I hear this song.
I have some old 78 RPM records with Henry Burr and another man named Campbell. on the label it says "Campbell and Burr'
@EdisonSquirrel Reminds me of "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi". It was written in the 1910's, but most of the recorded versions are from the late '20's and afterwards.
Excellent ☺
Like this if your here bc of the giants cards game
Henry Burr was much appreciated by Tiny Tim. (Not a joke)
Aben Rudy Why would that be a joke? Tiny is is amazing and so is Henry burr.
Funny they already had something like a Billboard rating in 1911. Was that for the sheet music or the actual recording?
Came here coz of Adventure Time xD
Anos, vários anos
também está aqui por causa daquela animação chamada fuelled?
What the Hell has happened to music....?!!?
0:55
0:55
nací en el año incorrecto :'(
Great, I'll never be able to listen to 1:06 without having an emotional breakdown.
Oh yeah... is it the animation?
@@adh2413 I Think He Ks Talking Of The Animation Called "Fuelled"
@@lilecx yeah i think
There is no reason why they shouldn't have credited this song in the description or credits
@@lilecx god i do love that film
2:06 ''fuelled broke my heart´´
I remember my grandmother singing this to me long ago...sweet song!
Mine too!!
Cathleen Berreie now it gonna be featured in my history presentation
Aww.
When I was eating dinner tonight on my cruise, a guy arranged for the staff to sing this song to his special lady as they gave her a cake. The whole restaurant sang along and applauded. It was so sweet. I’d melt if a guy sang this for me
Any song that survives two wars, outlived three british kings , over a dozen US presidents , the various singers who covered it and the famous actors who loved hearing it , is the best song ever written .
Four british kings*
@@video_camera in 1911 George V . Late queen Elizabeth's grandfather was king. Then after him his sons Edward and bertie.so 3
@@nativegerry335 Monarchs I mean.
Now it's 5 monarchs in total
@@nativegerry335 camera
Fuelled Short film is very Amazing!🥲
I am dreaming Dear of you, day by day
Dreaming when the skies are blue, When they're gray
When the silv'ry moonlight gleams, Still I wander on in dreams
In a land of love, it seems, Just with you
Chorus:
Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you
Let me hear you whisper that you love me too
Keep the love-light glowing in your eyes so true
Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you
Longing for you all the while, More and more;
Longing for the sunny smile, I adore
Birds are singing far and near, Roses blooming ev'rywhere
You, alone, my heart can cheer; You, just you
Fuelled and Adventure Time bought me here
Most of the renditions of "Let me call you sweetheart" were recorded in the late '20s. It's a great change of pace to listen to an early quartet version.
This is what a REAL barbershop quartet is supposed to sound like. The modern ones don't attempt the bel canto singing that captures the essence of the song.
Uhh no
@@umairashraf5167 uhh yes.
@@Chris-cm4wn no
@@umairashraf5167 yes.
@@Chris-cm4wn no
THIS IS THE MOST ROMANTIC SONG EVER WRITTEN. AND THIS IS THE DEFINITIVE VERSION. PEERLESS QUARTET YOU WERE THE GREATEST.
Keep in mind this was the output of Beth Whitson and Leo Friedman who had been so cruelly cheated two years previous when their blocbuster "Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland" was stolen by the publisher and they received not a dime. Two years later their second blockbuster was published in their authorship. Justice, thank God!!
PHENOMENAL. I COULD LISTEN TO HENRY BURR AND BILLY MURRAY FOR HOURS. THEY HAD VOICES. THEY COULD SING. IN THOSE DAYS IF YOU COULDNT SING YOU DIDNT MAKE RECORDS. NOW SINGING AND REAL ABILITY DOESNT EVEN FIGURE IN IT..IF BURR AND MURRAY SAID LETS COME BACK IN 100 YEARS AND SEE HOW MUCH MUSIC HAS CHANGED..BOY WOULD THEY BE SHOCKED
my Grandparent's theme song, and my Dad's lullaby song to me. Many thanks for uploading
Absolutely beautiful - they just don't write them like that anymore :(
The 1910's often seem to be forgotten, but when you look back at it, it looks like a nice time.
My grandmother got married in 1910. As a young boy, I remember she would often whistle songs as she did her housework. One time she laughed after whistling a song and said - "A whistling maid and a crowing hen - Both will come to no good end" .
ww1
The Peerless Quartet sold more records, as a percentage of population at the time, than any modern artist. It's amazing to think artists like the Peerless Quartet, Billy Murray and Arthur Collins had more number one records than anyone nowadays.
Do you have a source for that?
@@eyuin5716 It was in a book titled "Joel Whitburn Presents a Century of Pop Music: Year-By-Year Top 40 Rankings of the Songs & Artists That Shaped a Century". It is OOP now but you can get a used copy yet. It has all the top 40 songs from each year from the 1900s with the specifics of the dates. If you are a music data nerd it is quite interesting. Early recording artists were sold by advertisements in magazines, because there was not a lot of radio and of course no TV. So people bought a lot of records based on names they knew. When they saw "Peerless Quartet", it was a known quality to them, and they would order the record. At least, IMHO this would account for the reason the early vocalists had high ranking records - 1 to 3 on the charts - by amounts that would make today's artist stagger. Like 50, 60 records or even more.
@@eyuin5716 I got this from Wikipedia, but it jogs with the book "In his book Pop Memories 1890-1954, music archivist and statistician Joel Whitburn assessed a variety of sources such as Talking Machine World 's lists of top-selling recordings, and Billboard 's sheet music and vaudeville charts, to estimate the most successful recordings of the period. He concluded that the Peerless Quartet had 102 "top ten" hits in all between 1904 and 1926, and in the decade 1910-1919 had more successful recordings than any other musician or group.[3] Although Whitburn's methods of assessment have been criticized,[7] this broadly confirms statements that the group were the most popular of their era.[5]"
@@libertytree3209 Oh man, if only pop was like this nowadays.
@@libertytree3209 his methods have been criticized very unfairly. Because what those who write him off desire something that is completely impossible and ridiculously high standards. Yes of course he had to make his own new ranking system for this because not every charting system was made like Billboard's from the 40s onwards. He made a mistake in his first print of Pop Memories, which he later rectified in other editions, but that followed him his entire life through.
Hell, I didn't even know they were making records in 1911.
Chip Ballard They have two CDs with actual music from the 1890s! The sound isn't great but the fact they even have anything from that time period is simply amazing!
they started to make records in the early or mid 1880s
What you don't know can fill a werehouse lady
@@e.tezani3877 Well, you can't even spell warehouse, so what do you know?
@@dantep4966 i was referring to a man turning into a werehouse.. I know what I said
I have love for this fantastic music! 105 years later and now yet it is hearted for someone like us.
Anyone else here from Downton Abby?
This song reminds me of my Great- Aunt Dee and Uncle Chuck.
They had danced to this song at their 40th wedding anniversary party. It was so beautiful. I can still see them dancing in my mind 20 years later and it makes me so happy to have that memory still.
I truly miss both of them.❤
Let me Call You Sweet Heart...How lovely.
Our band played it for Ballroom dancers for several years. They really enjoyed the song and the waltz dance!
I remember as a young boy My grandma used to sing this delightful song many years ago with her piano accordion RIP ma often think of you
@Kittielips I think I may have a version of it by one of the quartets, but I'm not positive. We'll have to see if it comes up. It's a great song. I've always liked it ever since I heard it in "The Jolson Story".
Thank you for preserving this.
i was brought here by the time period itself. :)
It's great to hear them sing the "missing" part from the covers of the Frank Sinatra era.
Why does it.... make me cry???
The difference between modern music and this music is amazing omgosh
This is my very favorite of all the versions I've heard of this song. I never knew it had the words at the beginning.
Yes not many people do know that it has words before the famous chorus!!!! This is a true find very very rare
Beth Slater Whitson is my great-great-grandmother or something to that effect. My grandfather still gets the occasional royalty check off this song.
Do people still buy amberol cylinders? Lol!
That's really cool history to hear. Leo Friedman is my grandmas uncle. My dad gets the royalty checks from all of Leo's music these days.
My pops has a lot of the og stuff from all his songs. Really cool things to look back through
The old pics and newspaper articles of the time are amazing
Life in the 1910s be like:
Lovely !! and so great to hear the verse .
Thank you for sharing.
OMG this is the year before the Titanic went down. This is even before boardwalk empire!
Adventure Time brought me here. It's actually pretty scary seeing Princess Bubblegum turning everyone into candy zombies while singing this song. It's almost as bad as Eddie Gluskin from Outlast singing I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad.
Question: Are songs from the early 1900's public domain?
In America I think its after 100 years since its publication. In other countries it's like 50-70 years after the author's death
As of 2021, its anything published in 1925 or before.
@@bad-xtian7773 Good to hear.
@@randymi9334 Sweet.
Not to rain on anyone, but didn’t she sing smile in 1963, she was born 1922, so her looking like this in 1936 doesn’t make sense to me. I’m just saying that she didn’t sing smile in 1936, but on 1963. (I love this song just wanted to point out the time mistake)
did anyone came here cause they heard it from Downton Abbey?
The Fighting Preacher brought me here. This song just seems to get stuck in your head after hearing it, which is not a bad thing
Beth Slater Whitson is depicted in the artwork on the original version of the sheet music as seen above.
I showed this to my fiancé and he fell in love with the song the more and more he listened to it. It's unfortunate that this is the only version which has the beginning lyrics.
IAmMsKristina this is not the only version. there is a cylinder recorded version which is so much more clearer than this.
Please listen to Doris Day's rendition. It is so lovely. Her phrasing is unbelievable. You won't be disappointed.
The version sung by Ruth Etting has the beginning lyrics, albeit in the middle of the song.
Heard this on Downtown Abbey tho knew it long before.
Downton Abbey brought me here :')
of all the old songs in the series, this is my most favorite.
such a beautiful gem.
what the fuck happened to music in our generation...heartless thumpa thumpa shit with no taste.
agreed 100%
I'm 16, I didn't even get to live through the 80s
Does anyone know whether this song was composed independently, or whether it was from a stage musical?
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Beautiful!!!!🥰❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼
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Laurel and hardy
My dad sang it all the time.
this is ACTUALLY the Columbia Quartet on Columbia 1057!
Very nice recording!
Alfalfa sang a good rendition of this song in a Little Rascals episode :)
I was wondering why I knew this song so well.
I love it. Thanks very much for posting.
Life with Louie brought me to this piece. Even from another continent, great music...
This was their number one hit. It was also hugely popular in general. Strange, but it never turns up (?). Did they record it on Victor as well? Did anyone else cover it? Lovely song, a real classic.
I Have My Record As A Kid And Also I Used To Sing Along Way Back In 2007
I remember the song from when I was a kid, but I heard it them sing it on Petticoat Junction the other day.
Thanks to Tiny Tim, for introducing me to this wonderful songs!
Thanks for uploading!
Sounds like my grandmother singing, :)
This sounds so beautiful
.....who else is here from Fuelled?
Yes
@This Apple Judges Its a short film search it up
So classic and i love it
Who hear this in 2021? Hiii
Yeeeessssss
@@artemis2520 nope. i’m watching in 1911 ;)
@@DerpyPossum nice
2022 :D
Who here from sister wives
190 13 Song
Absolute, utter perfection!
Is this a public domain recording that I can use? Thanks.
😊 😊 I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 👆 the song but when last did you play it 💖
@@johnhalbert3575 if I remember correctly, the majority of songs before 1926 are public domain unless a big studio still claims ownership. Records like this are ok to use :)
Awesome!
I liked this song before it was popular
Indeed
I wondered why Adventure Time used this tune. I see now, it's probably PD
All it's missing is for either Pitbull or Nicki M to spit a verse or two on it. :)
Psychopaths, film brought me here!
Dang