Lola Albright performs "How High the Moon." From the television series Peter Gunn (Season 1, Episode 5, entitled "The Frog") Featuring Shorty Rogers on the flugelhorn.
mac2phin In my o this particular performance -- both the instrumentalists & Ms A..... ranks right up as one of coolest **recordings** ever🎙🎵, TV show or none 💐💖... Even considering, that the P Gunn show is / was ultra cool. Mancini & stuff.... cheers!!!🍾🥂
So true, Jack................Peter Gunn was the first LP I ever bought, 1960, in Australia. I went onto purchase MORE MUSIC from Peter Gunn.......and the soundtrack to MR. LUCKY......and Bernstein's music to JOHNNY STACCATO ! All were private eyes of the time !..........................and I still have them, in pristine condition ! :):)
The complete Peter Gunn series is available on DVD. Lola Albright sings several standards in various episodes. The print and transfer quality is excellent (from original negatives, if I remember correctly). PS.: Beware -- you may succumb to binge watching, as I did. :)
Lola made a terrific album with Henry Mancini on Columbia, "Dreamsville," not to be missed. It was the rage at the University of Missouri in 1962 and 1963.
I never heard of her but I love she stuck with the original tune. I'm going to look for her Dreamsville recording. I always loved Mancini's Days of Wine and Roses. Thanks for the information.
I first came across Lola Albright looking for a version of "How High The Moon" and found this, Lola's version on the Peter Gunn show. It is so simple, and understated with just a quartet featuring Shorty Rogers on flugelhorn to back her up and is still my favorite version of this classic jazz standard. From that introduction I picked up as many of her albums as I could find. Truly a beautiful lady in every respect.
Beautifully Stated as you took the words right out of my mouth. I fell in love with her cover of this Song after thinking that Les Paul & Mary Fords version was the best.
Somewhere there's music How faint the tune Somewhere there's heaven How high the moon There is no moon above When love is far away too Till it comes true That you love me as I love you Somewhere there's heaven It's where you are Somewhere there's music How near, how far The darkest night would shine If you would come to me soon Until you will, how still my heart How high the moon How high the moon Is the name of this song How high the moon Though the words maybe wrong We're singin' it because you ask for it So we're swingin' it just for you How high the moon Does it touch the stars How high the moon Does it reach out to mars Though the words maybe wrong to this song We're askin' how high high high high is the moon
Ok.... I have a question. What in the world was going on in television back then that they would put a complete kick ass song like that into an episode and not have it as back round but as a stand alone performance. Incredible! Thanks for posting this! Do yourself a favor and check out the Pat Suzuki version!
I was a wee lad when Peter Gunn aired, but I knew even then that TV shows had standards. By the time the 70s rolled around, I spent less and less time watching TV. Today, I don't watch it at all.
I want ti thank my camp counselor, Mike Maddox, from Camp Bohatom, upstate New York, Coemills Hallow, summer of 1963. He had some cazoo or something, and he was always playing "How High The Moon". I have been humming it ever since.
The Talents of Lola are amazing.. She has to perform not as a singer but as an actress at the same time... She doesn't miss a beat from the little glances and jesters to peter gun to performing a beautiful piece of jazz.... I've watched the DVDs of Peter Gun and this was just one of many great pieces of music... It's wonderful Americana and what made us such a great country... Yup real music videos way before the junk MTV is giving us these days...
Thanks to "Metv" I have discovered "Peter Gunn" and was always a fan of Lola Albright and I have never seen a single episode of this series. On Sunday late night, I immerse myself into the world that is Gone with the wind...Peter Gunn, Naked City, Route 66....thanks METV!!
Pure Class. Best music Video from the Peter Gunn Series.Stellar singer, actress,musicians and cast. I feel like I'm right there after hours with them.So cool!! Thanks!!
There are. I agree that there's not many out there. They are hard to find and it does take some research. A couple to start with are, Melody Gardot and Tierney Sutton.
@@charmerci I wanted to reply to David but I checked your name by mistake. Class is a thing and beauty another. Ok you can find class , but beauty is something were born with for example wouldn't someone want to see ella because she is not model like. But she did have class.
This was such a great show. The noir vibe, the absolute coolness of Peter Gunn, but the music was the clincher for me. The jazz bands were fantastic, and Lola had a that sultry voice -one of a kind .
Somewhere there's music How faint the tune Somewhere there's heaven How high the moon There is no moon above When love is far away too Till it comes true That you love me as I love you Somewhere there's music It's where you are Somewhere there's heaven How near, how far The darkest night would shine If you would come to me soon Until you will, how still my heart How high the moon Somewhere there's music It's where you are Somewhere there's heaven How near, how far The darkest night would shine If you would come to me soon Until you Will, how high the moon
looking back at this show, it was super low budget, but so fun, hip, classy. What fun, I encourage all to rend the DVD's. Loved the character of "mother"
Somewhere there's music, How faint the tune! Somewhere there's heaven, How high the moon! There is no moon above when love is far away too, 'Till it comes true that you love me as I love you. Somewhere there's music, it's where you are. Some where there's heaven, how near, how far! The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon. Until you will, how still my heart, how high the moon! Somewhere there's music, it's where you are. Some where there's heaven, how near, how far! The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon. Until you will, how still my heart, how high the moon!
The cool thing about Peter Gunn was that each episode was a short film noir. If they made a Peter Gunn movie, it would probably end up being about violence, gun fights and explosions. The show was about Peter Gunn trying to find a bad guy and running into one or two quirky characters along the way, and filmed in beautiful and shadowy black & white.
Lola Albright was a "Classy Lady" with a great voice. I love this version of How High The Moon. Peter Gunn was a great TV show too. Craig Stevens was a "Class Act" too. Craig & Lola were a wonderful TV couple. I miss quality television shows like this. Like the shows, gone now are are these wonderful actors. Thank Goodness for mediums like TH-cam. Where Peter, Edie, Lt. Jacoby, & Mother can live on forever. We Miss You Lola.Your style & grace were exquisite & your voice was that of an angel's. "Somewhere there's music & it is where you are".Rest Well Beautiful Lola, Job Well Done.
After his Lighthouse appearance one night, Dave Larson and I rode UP in Shorty's limo to his house in -????- to hear the first tape of Chico Hamilton;s "My Funny Valentine". Shorty's music den had 3 walls piled with 33s from floor to ceiling. One thing I'll never forget was Shorty putting his head between his knees when his chauffeur scaled the ramp up to the house. Those were the days
Boy ! Does this bring back memories. Lola was great and the show was so cool the theme is bouncing around in my head as I write this ! Thanks for the post Record Changer.
This was a great series in the late 50's. Featuring Henry Mancini. Way ahead of it's time. And Lola had a great voice. To bad this quality of programming no longer exists.
A beautiful n classy lady who's voice matches her looks! I love her in one of my favorite SCI FI movies, " THE MONOLITHIC MONSTERS( 1957) loved her in that! Sad she is gone but she will live forever in song n her movies!! R.I.P. beautiful Ms. Albright!!!
Craig Stevens, the luckiest man in the Twentieth Century. Tall, good looking, great dresser, the coolest detective on TV. Married to Alexis Smith and his TV girlfriend was Lola Albright. That is running the table.
@@247hdjazz Rolly Bundock - bass, Larry Bunker - vibes, Richard Nash - trombone, Jack Sperling - drums, Bill Chadney (Lola's husband at the time) - piano.
Those of us who love real music recognize the treasure rendered by the show's producers, sponsors, Henry Mancini, Craig Stevens, Lola Albright, Shorty and all the great musicians who participated. Dreamsville is a hip love song.
Her Columbia album with Mancini, "Dreamsville," was the rage at the University Missouri in 1960. We wore it out. The arrangements were unique, the material unique and she certainly as a singer was unique. I guess what impressed everyone was the album was enormously sexy an enormously tasteful at the same time. As a singer, she was no amateur. We all mourned there never being a followup L.P.
Nightclubs and nightlife with actual singers and a live band- look for these now in old television shoes and movies! Dress, speech and actions were cultured too!
One gets the feeling the song has been carefully selected to be within the limited range of her voice. The allure here surely is not bland melody, plain vanilla sound produced by larynx, it is Lola's unspeakable attractiveness. So lovely turned toward the film-noir light I cannot find words to adequately describe it.
Every singer performs within the range of their voice and talents, this type of song and range is perfect for the TV show (a nightclub rehearsal in the late 1950s) and Lola's mid-range vocals.
Never under-estimate attractiveness with the ability of a singer to entertain. This is club that needs to attract patrons, so an attractive and merely adequate singer are perfect for the venue. A powerful voice like Whitney Houston would over-power this room, unless Whitney greatly played-down her beautiful, powerful voice, which she could have done of course!
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The coolest three minutes in television history..
Maybe the coolest song ever incorporated into a tv show ever. Listen & watch this time & again.
mac2phin
In my o this particular performance --
both the instrumentalists
& Ms A.....
ranks right up as one of coolest **recordings**
ever🎙🎵,
TV show or none 💐💖...
Even considering,
that the P Gunn show is / was ultra cool.
Mancini & stuff....
cheers!!!🍾🥂
Oh me too and sung by the Beautiful Lola Albright 💯💯
Wow. Totally blew me away. I always felt that she was underrated as an actress , but wow Lola could sing.
I agree ... She was underrated in both categories I feel! ❤
Beautiful lady and singer never given her chance to shine outside of Peter Gunn. Wotta pity. I still have a crush on her! RIP, Lola Albright!! ♐
Peter Gunn always had some fantastic music.
So true, Jack................Peter Gunn was the first LP I ever bought, 1960, in Australia. I went onto purchase MORE MUSIC from Peter Gunn.......and the soundtrack to MR. LUCKY......and Bernstein's music to JOHNNY STACCATO !
All were private eyes of the time !..........................and I still have them, in pristine condition ! :):)
Dick Nash on Trombone!
@@bigglesflysagain1749 That's great! Hang on to them.
Lola Albright and Jazz ... yippee! I saw this show when I was a teen. Never forgot it. I'm glad it's on TH-cam.
The complete Peter Gunn series is available on DVD. Lola Albright sings several standards in various episodes.
The print and transfer quality is excellent (from original negatives, if I remember correctly).
PS.: Beware -- you may succumb to binge watching, as I did. :)
Lola made a terrific album with Henry Mancini on Columbia, "Dreamsville," not to be missed. It was the rage at the University of Missouri in 1962 and 1963.
Bro, same thing at the famous Jazz school, Univ. of North Texas in Denton. 62/63, and of course plenty of Brubeck Quartet too.
I never heard of her but I love she stuck with the original tune. I'm going to look for her Dreamsville recording. I always loved Mancini's Days of Wine and Roses. Thanks for the information.
Am watching, and listening, to Lola now on episode of PG carried on MeTV. Great!
FYI, the episode is entitled 'The Torch'.
This rendition sent me straight to the Moon...and back again!
I first came across Lola Albright looking for a version of "How High The Moon" and found this, Lola's version on the Peter Gunn show. It is so simple, and understated with just a quartet featuring Shorty Rogers on flugelhorn to back her up and is still my favorite version of this classic jazz standard. From that introduction I picked up as many of her albums as I could find. Truly a beautiful lady in every respect.
Beautifully Stated as you took the words right out of my mouth. I fell in love with her cover of this Song after thinking that Les Paul & Mary Fords version was the best.
Lola Albright is so underated
Somewhere there's music
How faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven
How high the moon
There is no moon above
When love is far away too
Till it comes true
That you love me as I love you
Somewhere there's heaven
It's where you are
Somewhere there's music
How near, how far
The darkest night would shine
If you would come to me soon
Until you will, how still my heart
How high the moon
How high the moon
Is the name of this song
How high the moon
Though the words maybe wrong
We're singin' it because you ask for it
So we're swingin' it just for you
How high the moon
Does it touch the stars
How high the moon
Does it reach out to mars
Though the words maybe wrong to this song
We're askin' how high high high high is the moon
Is this a Sinatra variation?
Ok.... I have a question. What in the world was going on in television back then that they would put a complete kick ass song like that into an episode and not have it as back round but as a stand alone performance. Incredible!
Thanks for posting this!
Do yourself a favor and check out the Pat Suzuki version!
Yeah!!!! It should have been... RIGHT UP THER WITH PEGGY LEE, ELLA FITZ, JULIE LONDON, SARAH VAUGHN!!!!! Fantasti!
I was a wee lad when Peter Gunn aired, but I knew even then that TV shows had standards. By the time the 70s rolled around, I spent less and less time watching TV. Today, I don't watch it at all.
@@michaelcummingsherrera1232 So how exactly would you know what is aired now?
I want ti thank my camp counselor, Mike Maddox, from Camp Bohatom, upstate New York, Coemills Hallow, summer of 1963. He had some cazoo or something, and he was always playing "How High The Moon". I have been humming it ever since.
I have listened to many different versions of 'How High The Moon?', and this is my favorite.
try listening to Pat Suzuki then decide!!!
Mine too!
@@johnellis572 Both versions are great!
Lola Albright had a great voice and she sang the best version of this great song.
Yes....almost like a subtle, husky, cigarette voice vocal. Perfect for the scene too!
I agree 100% and I feel Lola was vastly underrated!
The Talents of Lola are amazing.. She has to perform not as a singer but as an actress at the same time... She doesn't miss a beat from the little glances and jesters to peter gun to performing a beautiful piece of jazz.... I've watched the DVDs of Peter Gun and this was just one of many great pieces of music... It's wonderful Americana and what made us such a great country... Yup real music videos way before the junk MTV is giving us these days...
Beautiful, charming, disarming voice and style.
College _Boy:
" disarming " is a marvelous description
I'm amazed at the amount of work and creativity they put in for the music of a TV show
Doesn't get better than this.........
What a beautiful talent. She will be missed.
The epitome of class and cool. They have it!!
Lola Albright - be still my beating heart !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best versions of this song that I have heard.
Shorty Rogers plays really great!
Yes a Class act. I was a High School senior. Getting ready to join the USMC 1960.Thanks for the memories.
Love her vocal style!
Mother and Barney toasting, Shorty Rogers, Peter Gunn and the lovely Lola, just the best, yup, pure class all around.
Classic Shorty Rogers & his Cats with Lola singing beautifully.
Rest In Peace Lola Albright.
This is top class musicianship made extra special by the presence of the lovely talented Mis Albright.What a gorgeous lady!!
I loved her voice!
Very good singer! Never had the recognition!
Thanks to "Metv" I have discovered "Peter Gunn" and was always a fan of Lola Albright and I have never seen a single episode of this series. On Sunday late night, I immerse myself into the world that is Gone with the wind...Peter Gunn, Naked City, Route 66....thanks METV!!
METV Beats a lot of the commercial trash on broadcast and cable TV, every show is exaggerated in character representation and storyline!
Her voice is so smooth!
Pure Class. Best music Video from the Peter Gunn Series.Stellar singer, actress,musicians and cast. I feel like I'm right there after hours with them.So cool!! Thanks!!
Timeless. Fresh as today.Smooth jazz.
Why can't singers these days be this beautiful and classy.
Because people the times and values into which they presently live, so we live in a more crass and low-mannered time than the of the 1940s and 1950s.
There are. I agree that there's not many out there. They are hard to find and it does take some research. A couple to start with are, Melody Gardot and Tierney Sutton.
@@charmerci I guess you are also beautiful right? Because if id see you in any job id better see a beautiful person... Wtf ...
@@kaka19871 ahem, your profile photo. I was referring to having class and Edmund's comment on being crass and low-mannered.
@@charmerci I wanted to reply to David but I checked your name by mistake. Class is a thing and beauty another. Ok you can find class , but beauty is something were born with for example wouldn't someone want to see ella because she is not model like. But she did have class.
the right mood for jazz and romance...
Cool song and there's Shorty Rogers!
Bravo 👍❤️
@thousandsmiles1 Back when music was music! Thanks Monika for sharing!
This was such a great show. The noir vibe, the absolute coolness of Peter Gunn, but the music was the clincher for me. The jazz bands were fantastic, and Lola had a that sultry voice -one of a kind .
Just absolutely great jazz; the best!
Beautiful interpretation !
my kind of music
Brings back old memories and dreams
A real "class act" with true talent. From the days when T.V. was worth watching. Lola Albright,Shorty Rogers(fuglehorn) and Victor Feldman (vibes).
Thanks for the info...you are right about true talent...
Larry Bunker is on vibes.
@@ChuckParDueMusic Bunker also worked on the show, but that's Victor Feldman. They looked nothing alike.
@@ChuckParDueMusic Jill and Tom are correct...that's a young Victor Feldman on vibes.
@@KentHewittpiano88 Very correct!! That's a very young Victor Feldman.
Somewhere there's music
How faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven
How high the moon
There is no moon above
When love is far away too
Till it comes true
That you love me as I love you
Somewhere there's music
It's where you are
Somewhere there's heaven
How near, how far
The darkest night would shine
If you would come to me soon
Until you will, how still my heart
How high the moon
Somewhere there's music
It's where you are
Somewhere there's heaven
How near, how far
The darkest night would shine
If you would come to me soon
Until you Will, how high the moon
looking back at this show, it was super low budget, but so fun, hip, classy. What fun, I encourage all to rend the DVD's. Loved the character of "mother"
Somewhere there's music,
How faint the tune!
Somewhere there's heaven,
How high the moon!
There is no moon above when love is far away too,
'Till it comes true that you love me as I love you.
Somewhere there's music, it's where you are.
Some where there's heaven, how near, how far!
The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon.
Until you will, how still my heart, how high the moon!
Somewhere there's music, it's where you are.
Some where there's heaven, how near, how far!
The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon.
Until you will, how still my heart, how high the moon!
Charming rendition for those of us used to Ella's interpretation.
What a beautiful sound!
The cool thing about Peter Gunn was that each episode was a short film noir. If they made a Peter Gunn movie, it would probably end up being about violence, gun fights and explosions. The show was about Peter Gunn trying to find a bad guy and running into one or two quirky characters along the way, and filmed in beautiful and shadowy black & white.
Lola Albright was a "Classy Lady" with a great voice. I love this version of How High The Moon. Peter Gunn was a great TV show too. Craig Stevens was a "Class Act" too. Craig & Lola were a wonderful TV couple. I miss quality television shows like this. Like the shows, gone now are are these wonderful actors. Thank Goodness for mediums like TH-cam. Where Peter, Edie, Lt. Jacoby, & Mother can live on forever. We Miss You Lola.Your style & grace were exquisite & your voice was that of an angel's. "Somewhere there's music & it is where you are".Rest Well Beautiful Lola, Job Well Done.
best version imo! beautyful
She’s killing it. Very nice.
Wow what a series - stars that can sing? About time we had some talented pretty actresses in another cool detective series with jazz.
Good!
This is more than a salute or a tribute to Les & Mary. Much, much more !!!!
Ms. Albright gifts the mighty duo " a musical ditto"...but different !!!
Absolute class!!
Wow, she is very sultry with a nice voice. Thanks for uploading.
Blue book its amazing:)
Love it timeless
Lola RIP Great singer ...ahead of her time.
Beautiful Girl,Beautiful Voice,Beautiful Song......!!!
After his Lighthouse appearance one night, Dave Larson and I rode UP in Shorty's limo to his house in -????- to hear the first tape of Chico Hamilton;s "My Funny Valentine". Shorty's music den had 3 walls piled with 33s from floor to ceiling. One thing I'll never forget was Shorty putting his head between his knees when his chauffeur scaled the ramp up to the house. Those were the days
Rest in peace dear Lola.
Lola has the type of beauty you saedly don't get any more.
No tattoos or nose piercings; she was slim, youthful and attractive. No plastic surgery either!
Craig Stevens may have brought the cool to Peter Gunn but Lola Albright brought the silky smooth, chilled heat with her songs.
Boy ! Does this bring back memories. Lola was great and the show was so cool the theme is bouncing around in my head as I write this ! Thanks for the post Record Changer.
This was a great series in the late 50's. Featuring Henry Mancini. Way ahead of it's time. And Lola had a great voice. To bad this quality of programming no longer exists.
+Bob Magruder Ha! Good Show..... you sound like my comments.
...aye, Bob...'tis sad...but...but...lads like you and I can email this around to all we know !!
Wonderful.
thats class
Shorty does an awesome intro and Lola takes it away!
Edie, sexy, sultry, & beautiful! Rest in Peace Lola.
Very Beautiful !!!
Classy and beautiful lady!!!!!!
A beautiful n classy lady who's voice matches her looks! I love her in one of my favorite SCI FI movies, " THE MONOLITHIC MONSTERS( 1957) loved her in that! Sad she is gone but she will live forever in song n her movies!!
R.I.P. beautiful Ms. Albright!!!
Craig Stevens, the luckiest man in the Twentieth Century. Tall, good looking, great dresser, the coolest detective on TV. Married to Alexis Smith and his TV girlfriend was Lola Albright. That is running the table.
It's always a treat to see real musicians playing instead of actors faking it.
oh yeah, besides Shorty, who are they?
@@247hdjazz Rolly Bundock - bass, Larry Bunker - vibes, Richard Nash - trombone, Jack Sperling - drums, Bill Chadney (Lola's husband at the time) - piano.
@@vidiupload4174 I think I caught Tommy Tedesco playing guitar while Lola is singing in another episode.
When television had class.
Love it!
This show has it all. I watch it every night. Mothers is such a dump how does she manage to pay all this talent?
Agreed, the nightclub should have been more upscale in decor and setting!
Those of us who love real music recognize the treasure rendered by the show's producers, sponsors, Henry Mancini, Craig Stevens, Lola Albright, Shorty and all the great musicians who participated. Dreamsville is a hip love song.
.....and I am emailing this to as many folk as I can...see WIKIPEDIA on "Peter Gunn" , as well.............
Fantastic series. Best of the genre. Only one that comes close is the "M Squad" starring Lee Marvin.
Not sure of the timing of each's ascent, but she has the languid approach of Astrud Gilberto in some of her phrasing. Love it.
So beautiful...
I agree, this type music was great....thanks for sharing.
I love it
this is superb
Her Columbia album with Mancini, "Dreamsville," was the rage at the University Missouri in 1960. We wore it out. The arrangements were unique, the material unique and she certainly as a singer was unique. I guess what impressed everyone was the album was enormously sexy an enormously tasteful at the same time. As a singer, she was no amateur. We all mourned there never being a followup L.P.
Fantastic
Love Lola and Shorty Rodgers
My fav version of this song, and a superb flugelhorn solo: 1:18
Yeah, baby...
Nightclubs and nightlife with actual singers and a live band- look for these now in old television shoes and movies! Dress, speech and actions were cultured too!
How smooth. Lovely!
I dig this the most man !!!
One gets the feeling the song has been carefully selected to be within the limited range of her voice. The allure here surely is not bland melody, plain vanilla sound produced by larynx, it is Lola's unspeakable attractiveness. So lovely turned toward the film-noir light I cannot find words to adequately describe it.
Every singer performs within the range of their voice and talents, this type of song and range is perfect for the TV show (a nightclub rehearsal in the late 1950s) and Lola's mid-range vocals.
This is great playing, and great singing you know nothing about music.
Never under-estimate attractiveness with the ability of a singer to entertain. This is club that needs to attract patrons, so an attractive and merely adequate singer are perfect for the venue. A powerful voice like Whitney Houston would over-power this room, unless Whitney greatly played-down her beautiful, powerful voice, which she could have done of course!
Wow what a great voice thank you for the introduction :-)C
Beautiful!!!