1927 HITS ARCHIVE: The Best Things In Life Are Free - George Olsen (Bob Borger, vocal)

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  • @Jazzapatiss
    @Jazzapatiss 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Best channel on TH-cam Is free !

  • @silverdamascus2023
    @silverdamascus2023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    And now this song is in the public domain, no longer protected by copyright.
    The best things in life really are free.

    • @LGranthamsHeir
      @LGranthamsHeir ปีที่แล้ว +6

      (Insert a Bert Cooper singing and dancing meme here )😉

    • @Hozzizay
      @Hozzizay ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lmao, what do you want to do with it now it’s free? Listen to it on TH-cam and pay premium for no ads or let companies show you ads to watch it? Or are you going to pay for it on record (vinyl costs)
      Of course you could download it from somewhere though and it would be freeeeeeeeeeeeee, maybe you can get free wifi and find a second hand phone and second hand speakers to listen to it in your friend’s couch
      But honestly, oxygen is free, and feels good to breath

    • @silverdamascus2023
      @silverdamascus2023 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Hozzizay The internet age should have brought more public domain, but it brought less, internet is a place to share things, more things should lose their copyright and become free to share on the internet with no fear of getting copyright striked or fined.
      And the main reason why copyright expires, is to allow people to make their own versions, creativity is not just creating something from scratch, taking things that other people made, and making them different, or even better than the original, is also creativity, now people can make free covers of the original song and they will own a copyright on these covers while the original stays free.

    • @PapagenoMF
      @PapagenoMF ปีที่แล้ว +5

      * The song is free, but not the recording!

    • @silverdamascus2023
      @silverdamascus2023 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@PapagenoMF I think this is the original recording.

  • @gaze505
    @gaze505 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    97 years ago

  • @GizmoFromPizmo
    @GizmoFromPizmo ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is an amazing reproduction. This is from a 78 RPM platter. No hiss. No pop. Just perfect.

  • @davidgordon4798
    @davidgordon4798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    The moon belongs to everyone,
    The best things in life are free
    The stars belong to everyone,
    They gleam there for you and me
    The flowers in spring, the robins that sing
    The sunbeams that shine, they're yours they're mine
    And love can come to everyone,
    The best things in life are free

    • @LGranthamsHeir
      @LGranthamsHeir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bert Cooper's swan song in #MadMen.
      RIP Robert Morse (1931 - 2022) 🙏

    • @jjandthemonkey4747
      @jjandthemonkey4747 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get out

  • @theresamwatson9207
    @theresamwatson9207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    To the 78prof: I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR MUSIC COLLECTION WITH SOME OF US. THE MUSIC IS TRULY MAGNIFICENT. WHEN I LISTEN TO THE MUSIC, I WANT TO GET UP AND DANCE AND TAP MY FEET. THANKS AGAIN. TMWATSON

    • @the78prof72
      @the78prof72  3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Wow, thank you! So glad that you're enjoying the presentation.

    • @claradelano128
      @claradelano128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      THE STYLE IS A HAPPY TURN ON. SO WONDERFUL ❤️

    • @UTURN8888
      @UTURN8888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I second that! The musical escape is truly needed daily.🎶🎶

  • @otto8049
    @otto8049 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can visualize my newly wed grandparents inviting friends over for cake, coffee, home made beer and wine to listen to this music. I was told they literally rolled up the living room rug so they could dance to the days popular jams.

  • @brandonquinto4852
    @brandonquinto4852 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Had this stuck in my head today... glad I could listen to it!

  • @eddiewebb7025
    @eddiewebb7025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I JUST LOVE THAT 20'S MUSIC

  • @spencersmith2798
    @spencersmith2798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Just listen to that bass sax before the vocal. Real music!

  • @Tara-g7c
    @Tara-g7c หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I LOOOOOVE 78Prof!!!!! Thank you soooo much!!!!❤ I get to listen to the music my belov'ed Grandma loved as a girl!!!! Such a treasure: thank you!

    • @the78prof72
      @the78prof72  หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are most welcome, Tara! I'm so pleased to know that you're enjoying our presentation. 🎵

  • @katherineberger6329
    @katherineberger6329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Happy Public Domain Day! This song is now part of the public domain!

    • @channel1344
      @channel1344 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Happy Public Domain Day to you too.

    • @XX-sp3tt
      @XX-sp3tt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      God bless.God created the universe. Everything is a derivative work. Screw giant companies keeping copyrights on artists who are long dead.

    • @katherineberger6329
      @katherineberger6329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@XX-sp3tt We live in a world where GOD DID IT is not an acceptable argument for any purpose.

    • @LGranthamsHeir
      @LGranthamsHeir 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      (Insert a Bert Cooper sing-and-dance meme here) 😉

  • @MG-ge5xq
    @MG-ge5xq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    this song is more than amazing......

  • @williamfox5685
    @williamfox5685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I love the George Olsen Band. It has that 1920's sound. Great version of this old song. Thanks for posting.

    • @songsmith31a
      @songsmith31a 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      George Olsen's recordings obtained CD issues - I have a couple. Good things are always worth keeping!

  • @PorusHorus
    @PorusHorus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Officially public domain as of today!

    • @IM2awsme
      @IM2awsme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's what brought me hear to

    • @LGranthamsHeir
      @LGranthamsHeir 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      (Insert a Bert Cooper sing-and-dance meme here) 😄

  • @madelineandresen-miccoli3672
    @madelineandresen-miccoli3672 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    it’s always so strange to me, seeing the little “from …” telling me that this song is from a movie, a movie that i’ll never see, and may never be seen again. the actors, the plot, the jokes, the tragedies, all forgotten. was it a comedy? was it a drama? was it a romance? i, in my finite knowledge, may never know. excellent song!!

    • @auroramacula
      @auroramacula 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      that's deep dude, but this movie is actually available on streaming websites and might be available on dvd (i know the 40s version is, yet the 20s I'm not sure). i myself have watched it and it's a goofy little comedy musical, with well known stars at the time such as penny singleton

  • @SPCH0
    @SPCH0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As is... - Les meilleures choses de la vie...
    ( "Y.en.a qui ne le comprendront jamais...! )

  • @thendrjazz
    @thendrjazz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    George Olsen's band did the music for the 1927 Broadway show Good News where this tune got started. Olsen was busy on Broadway in much of the 1920s-30s.

  • @songsmith31a
    @songsmith31a 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Surely, the signature song for its time - jaunty fun that still appeals today!

    • @TheSecurdisc
      @TheSecurdisc 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      On You Tube put in 'Melbourne Ska Orchestra' playing this song...you may like it..

  • @thendrjazz
    @thendrjazz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This and other DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson tunes were revived in the 1940s-50s because they were showing in full-color Hollywood musicals. This tune appeared in the 1947 film version of the 1927 Broadway musical Good News where it was introduced and in the 1956 musical The Best Things in Life Are Free, the story of the trio that wrote the tune.

    • @carolleenkelmann4751
      @carolleenkelmann4751 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is music from my parents era. I don't think they would have seen the Film Musical from 1927 so I guess it must have been the 1956 Musical. But they were always singing this song.

  • @joybreeden366
    @joybreeden366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thanks...love this song...
    I've been singing it all my life .

  • @RaulMacias-o9o
    @RaulMacias-o9o 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is perfection but I still wish this wonderful song was longer!

  • @felixchaplin
    @felixchaplin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A beautiful song made even more beautiful by the fact that it's sung by a guy named Bob Borger

    • @crefmag
      @crefmag 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With his wife Londa and children Gane, Tona and Lauise

  • @zw97
    @zw97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Coming from someone who was born in 1997, I enjoy listening to this music! I find the modern stuff repulsive

    • @japanfanatic1415
      @japanfanatic1415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      As a person who was born in 2007, I completely agree, my friend!

    • @postscript67
      @postscript67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@japanfanatic1415 Being someone born in 1967, I'm delighted to find two people 30 and 40 years my junior liking this kind of music. Of course, growing up in the 1970s and '80s and having these tastes was eccentric then too, the only difference was there were still then a few radio programmes playing it for people who could remember it when it was new!

    • @Dexter649
      @Dexter649 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm from 2003 and I have loved this music since I was 5.

    • @elizabethburch334
      @elizabethburch334 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was born in 1998 and love this music too!

    • @james-flynn1938
      @james-flynn1938 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      2004 and been a fan since I was 13

  • @jjandthemonkey4747
    @jjandthemonkey4747 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ive listed to this about 10000 times its my theme song

  • @fwboring802
    @fwboring802 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Terrific arrangement

  • @hanschenk8256
    @hanschenk8256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    THIS MUSIC IS GREAT

  • @larrywalden8740
    @larrywalden8740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great old time music well done.

  • @frankolen4137
    @frankolen4137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Good band great song

  • @jamesmcinnis208
    @jamesmcinnis208 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Las mejores cosas de la vida son regaladas - beautiful, spirited version. Thanks!

  • @CantaloupeJones
    @CantaloupeJones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love how Bert Cooper did this in Mad Men

  • @OHigginsPatriota
    @OHigginsPatriota 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ¡¡¡¡Bravísimo!!!!
    ¡Precioso!...
    ¡Una divina hermosura!

  • @mainaccount131
    @mainaccount131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Super excellent interesting

  • @mainaccount131
    @mainaccount131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Super excellent

  • @TopHatJack4970discord
    @TopHatJack4970discord 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That little sequence from 1:10 to 1:14 is so brilliant and addictive lol.

  • @markrudolph7302
    @markrudolph7302 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Takes me back in time .Thank you!

  • @stefanschutz5166
    @stefanschutz5166 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you from Amsterdam.

  • @owowhiplash
    @owowhiplash 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Great song. And the vocalists name is Bob Borger, for some reason I find that mildly funny.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fran Frey was another of Olsen's vocalists.

    • @Just_Sara
      @Just_Sara 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bob's Burgers should have been run by him, ha! Other names that are great: Muzzy Marcellino and Bix Beiderbecke.

  • @catlover34fl
    @catlover34fl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My favorite version of "The Best Things In Life Are Free." Listen to that orchestra!!

  • @markrudolph7302
    @markrudolph7302 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The band sounds good tonight!

  • @LGranthamsHeir
    @LGranthamsHeir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Bert Cooper's swan song in "Mad-Men" 7th mid-season finale

  • @shirleybalinski4535
    @shirleybalinski4535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How can you not sing along?

  • @rogerpropes7129
    @rogerpropes7129 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got news for him, love is never free and neither is moonshine.

  • @DiamondKingStudios
    @DiamondKingStudios ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This reminds me of when I watched the _Knowing Better_ video on _Starship Troopers_ and the part where, when an excerpt from the book is said, a character is mentioned citing an old song that said, “The best things in life are free.” When that quote appeared, he played a clip from (since deceased) Barrett Strong’s “Money (That’s What I Want)”, which, though familiar to modern audiences didn’t exist in the late 1930s when the book was written. That other song takes its line from this one, which is probably what Heinlein was referencing. Was reminded of that when this video appeared in my recommended.
    Other than that, great song.

  • @XX-sp3tt
    @XX-sp3tt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    FREEEDOM!!!!!

  • @rhinman
    @rhinman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just entered the public domain...

    • @LGranthamsHeir
      @LGranthamsHeir 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      (Insert a Bert Cooper sing and dance meme here) 😉

  • @Seals-ky6dj
    @Seals-ky6dj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    its PUBLIC DOMAIN BOISSS

  • @neesi1570
    @neesi1570 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Don, my boy!"

  • @dandamanatee9023
    @dandamanatee9023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    damn wonder how I got here

  • @evanrandolph4602
    @evanrandolph4602 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder if that is adrian rolini on bass sax

  • @ZuanianBroadcasting
    @ZuanianBroadcasting ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you selling any records?

  • @Aliamner
    @Aliamner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thought this was a 1950s song.. goddamn

    • @Tadfafty
      @Tadfafty 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      For some reason people confuse the 20s and the 50s a lot.

    • @Aliamner
      @Aliamner 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Tadfafty no no The version of the song I first heard from was 1950s and it sounded old as shit so I figured it was just the original. But now I know

    • @dantep4966
      @dantep4966 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Tadfafty they were recording a lot of 1920s songs with updated arrangements in the 1950s, and those records became hits while the older ones were forgotten. I wonder if they started recording older songs because there wasn’t as much of a songwriting business…

    • @thendrjazz
      @thendrjazz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hollywood made several big picture, color biographies of 1920s songwriters in the 1950s which brought back and updated much of that music. One was "The Best Things in Life Are Free" 1956. It was the story of the team of DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson which wrote the title and many other popular songs.

  • @Josh-le6lu
    @Josh-le6lu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bob Borger🍔

  • @Albertoperea72
    @Albertoperea72 ปีที่แล้ว

    early shrek song found that song name this the beast things in life are free

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sounds as female vocalist!

  • @XZb9x2129asjfCkV
    @XZb9x2129asjfCkV 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1SN'T

  • @user-wb9yb3yw4b
    @user-wb9yb3yw4b 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Bestu hlutirnir í lífinu eru ókeypis.