One thing I love about this video is the utter confidence that Laine exudes during the performance. He's at the top of his game and he knows it. Listen to that final "Je - e - ze - e - be e e e el." Pavarotti couldn't have done it better.
My father introduced me to Frankie Laine over 50 years ago. I love the songs and the smoothness of this man. I also love singing many of the songs he did. Beautiful!
Frankie was one of a kind, no one sounded like him and no one sang like him. Many tried but just couldn't bring it off. There will never be another like him.
Even though he sold millions of records ___ had a hit tv show __made many guest appearances ___ I still feel he was underrated as a vocalist. He was and is a wonderful vocalist .
I first heard this song in 1964 when I was five. My dad had the 45 with it on and he would play for me a couple times a week. So I listen to remind me of my parents who are now with God and Frankie.
How bizarre. I just googled the words of this song (the ones I could remember) because my father used to play this as well when I was maybe 6-7 yrs old ..early 60s ... and it pops into my head as an ear worm every now and then and I finally decided I want to hear the whole song and learn who sang it. Brings back happy memories of my dad for me.
Frankie Elaine has voice and style that NO one can duplicated or compare to. He is a ONCE in a Life time ALL Time Classic Entertainer and Singer that will Always Be Remembered and Admired by His Fans. I became a Frankie Elaine fan as a young child and today at age 67 I remain one of his faithful fans - I do regret that I never had the chance to see him perform in person. Thank you Frankie for all the years of such awesome entertainment and may you rest in eternal happiness & peace with God.
Powerful song. I seem to remember this clop from early TV. At any rate there were dancers dancing to "Jezebel". And yet I remember it 70 years later! Wonderful stuff.🙂
Born 1940...Remember Frankie in the early 50's, and this song along with many others. Can't count the number of times l and buddies imitated him singing. This is my first time seeing this video...Oh the memories!
WOW That was my favorite song when I was 15. Took me 60 years to see him singing and heard HIM again here! What a gay, what a stile, what a voice. Got goose pumps once and again and again. God bless u markalson. TH-cam is a real time machine. Thanks. Got my teen feeling love back!
You are so right. Frankie didn't have the most beautiful voice, but what he had was a strong manly voice with lots of style and emotion That few back then and none today could come close too. When Frankie sung no one had to tell you who was singing. There will never be another like him.
There was great music then, and with artists like the Marcellis brothers, Regina Carter, and so many others, there is great music being made today too. Now, unfortunately it doesn't aways make it into the mainstream, but it's there!
there you have it backwards, the song was writen in 1951 by wayne Shanklin who gave it to Frankie wanting him to record it. which he did as his first hit at Columbia. In 1952 him and his wife Nan went to Paris and had dinner with Edith Piaf at the night club where she was performing. Edith got up and sang Jezebel with new French wording later she recorded it.
What a great video. I have been a fan of Frankie Laine ever since he made the record Thats My Desire. Thanks for the Video. I seen him in person in Framingham Mass in 1961, I can't think name of the place, but it is not there anymore It was owned by Vaughn Monroe. I just thought of the name it was Monticellos. He also danced with my girlfriend. He was a great singer and a great person.
Thanks so much for posting this live performance Markalson, just an amazing performance, and the best version of this one that I've ever heard. Terrific singer, and a great song.
What a voice! What singing mastery! I was born later (1953) but was knocked-out by this when I discovered it in brother-in-law's collection 20 years later. I like various styles across all the decades, but understand the comments about how artists dressed-up in the old days. Glad there are no obscene pointless insults on this site (well, at the top of the list anyway)
He was my Dad's favorite singer and this was his song. He died when I was very young so I never knew him but he wrote about him in the letters he sent to my Mother. I met some men stationed with him over 50 years prior and they told me he sang Frankie's songs while he worked in the motor pool. I wrote and conversed with Frankie before he died. He was so thankful that he had such an impact on my Father. I will always love this song as it tells a very special story in my life of two special men.
My first family dog was named Jezebel. My step dad would try and sing this song to her sometimes. Well, he was no Frankie Laine. I am sure her name came from this song. She was such a good dog! Fond memories. Great song!
Here I come. I was born in 1935!!! All the marvelous things I have seen and heard!!! I bought all of Frankie's 78-rpm records played in my dad's victrola. Greetings from Lima, Peru.
My late Dad's idol, my father use to sing his songs in pubs in London, little did he think he would meet him one day, but he wrote go Frankley and Frankley invited him to stay and he did , means more to me now than it did 20 years ago
I remember this LP as a child in the early 70's. I didn't know who Frankie Lane was, but I had goose-bumps hearing this song. It was only years later that I found out he was the singer. I've been in love since...
Your right, He was the first Blue eyed Soul singer and at the same time the first Western singer from Chicago plus he sung with a best that would be passed down to the early Rockers. Plus no one could put more emotion into a song than Frankie.
I am 70 and remember him well! We were discussing Jezebel in our Bible study and remembered this song! 😄 i was just a child, but nuts about Frankie Lane.
Yes I was born in 1938 and I became a Frankie Laine fan the year that you were born. As a 10 year old boy songs like "Mule Train", Cry Of The Wild Goose" set my musical taste. Over the next few years the likes of "Black Lace", "Jezebel" "Humming Bird" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" set this teanager's taste in music for ever. Then came Rock N' Roll what a bummer.
@some1tookmynick Frankie had a style all his own. Unlike most singers of his time, he didn't just stand there and sing into a microphone. No he moved, waved his hands, stomped his feet and moved to the beat. That is why they gave him the nickname of "Mr Rhythm". There will never be another like him.
This is the singer that introduced , a new Frankie ( and the Teenagers) Different time, different style, but not in greatness. The baton is passed once again.
I used to listen to my uncle's records on Gramma's phonograph...with the "cobra" stylus arm. I was maybe six or eight. This was one of my favorites. I used to belt out "Jezebe-e-e-e-lle" as little girl. My parents were appalled, but Gramma thought it was hilarious!
Yes I grew up with the British Invasion, an era that produced a great variety of songs. An example is Herman's Hermits doing their own take on "Jezebel". And look how The Beatles did unusual covers like "Till There Was You" from The Music Man. Bands from that era sometimes did songs not associated with Rock and roll.
As I've noted before Frankie really had a number of differing voice tones, including a somewhat thin nasally sounding tone on some songs or parts of songs which was actually a bit like Bobby Vinton. The difference is that Frankie could also produce an operatic tone and volume as he does at the end of this one which would be far beyond what Vinton or, indeed, most other pop singers could produce.
@IvoRobicPlatinum What I ment by not covering the song is that there was not any other popular recordings of the song back when he made it popular in 1951. Which was the standard back then. Yes other's have done it years later but I wouldn't call them covers as they were not in direct compition with his recording. Frankie recorded "Ghost Riders" on an Album in 1963. Was that a cover of Vaughn Monroe's Hit version in 1949? I have several of the later recordings of the song.
Edith Piaf heard him singing this, asked Aznavour to write an Engish version, and she performed this before Laine recorded it, then recorded it herself the same year.
No I'm not kidding. The Hermits' live version (not the studio version) is excellent, and beats every other version (by anyone) of the song I've heard. There are two versions here on TH-cam. The black and white clip from German TV is best. The other one, in color, is from The Ed Sullivan Show.
I agree absolutely. I assume you were born in1938. Well I was born in 1949 and I remember the smart dress of singers and musicians of my youth. No, it's not old-fashioned to dress well. I prefer to call it having good taste!
You have been buying his records even longer than I have. I started in 1957 after I joined the army and was able to buy a used record player. Growing up we didn't have any records or a way to play them. But I was a fan since 1949. Now I think I have everything he ever recorded.
Mark you like Frankie are a legend you have brought caso much pleasure dding these songs to you tube. I am also an old fan znd zi bought thats my desire on Bruns wick records with saint marie on the reverse side. Thanks buddy
I totally agree. At the beginning of the song he has a bit of a boyish, tenor quality that's very similar to Bobby, but the high points of this song are just incredibly intense. His vocal range is pretty amazing.
If you mean you heard this sung in the movie "High Noon", Frankie didn't do the movie. That was Tex Ritter who did the movie. But for some reason he didn't want to record it. So they got Frankie to make the recording. which was a big hit, then Tex rushed to record it but by then it was to late.
I like Peter Noone's/Herman's Hermit's cover of "Jezebel" as well. It is among the most powerful in all Herman's Hermits' repertoire. And although they may not equal the fame of Desi Arnaz, Herman's Hermits, or Frankie Laine, a Boston-based garage rock outfit called The Lyres used to perform a killer cover of "Jezebel." All these good versions of "Jezebel" are helped by the fact the song itself is tremendously evocative and powerful.
Hate to break this to you, as I've had this discussion before. Frankie never recorded "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" either in the movie or on record. That was Gene Pitney. Charted #4 in 1962. I have no idea why people think that Frankie did this song as I don't think Gene sounds anything like Frankie Laine. There's a lot of places you can look this up.
There's an entertaining YT clip of Mario Lanza doing a shortened version of Laine's "Jezebel" as well as Perry Como's "Temptation" and Dean Martin"s "Memories are Made of This" under the heading "Mario Lanza Clowns Around (Imitates other Italian singers). It was taken from the 1957 film Arrivederci Roma..
![Jezebel [The Frankie Laine Show]](/img/n.gif)
Frankie's powerful voice and his clarity of diction his perfect timing made him one of the best singers of all time.
One thing I love about this video is the utter confidence that Laine exudes during the performance. He's at the top of his game and he knows it. Listen to that final "Je - e - ze - e - be e e e el." Pavarotti couldn't have done it better.
14 years later, I agree. 😁
15 later I also agree lol.
My father introduced me to Frankie Laine over 50 years ago. I love the songs and the smoothness of this man. I also love singing many of the songs he did. Beautiful!
Frankie was one of a kind, no one sounded like him and no one sang like him. Many tried but just couldn't bring it off. There will never be another like him.
Even though he sold millions of records ___ had a hit tv show __made many guest appearances ___ I still feel he was underrated as a vocalist. He was and is a wonderful vocalist .
I first heard this song in 1964 when I was five. My dad had the 45 with it on and he would play for me a couple times a week. So I listen to remind me of my parents who are now with God and Frankie.
How bizarre. I just googled the words of this song (the ones I could remember) because my father used to play this as well when I was maybe 6-7 yrs old ..early 60s ... and it pops into my head as an ear worm every now and then and I finally decided I want to hear the whole song and learn who sang it. Brings back happy memories of my dad for me.
One of the coolest vocalists I've ever heard, he's so into it as well. He knew he made gold
This guy could sing anything that’s what makes him so good. Everyone’s favourite Italian-American western balladeer.
It’s sad that he felt that he had to drop his Italian last name to be a success! Another gifted Italian singer! Wonderful voice!
Still one of my favorite artists after all these years. His natural talent came from inside, not enhanced by technological devices.
What a huge luck that this video exists. Can't take an eye off
The great Frankie never be another like him in my lifetime!
Frankie Elaine has voice and style that NO one can duplicated or compare to. He is a ONCE in a
Life time ALL Time Classic Entertainer and Singer that will
Always Be Remembered and Admired by His Fans. I became a Frankie Elaine fan as a young child and today at age 67 I remain one of his faithful fans - I do regret that I never had the chance to see him perform in person. Thank you Frankie for all the years of such awesome entertainment and may you rest in eternal happiness & peace with God.
Hello Maria, How are you doing?
jezebel is my most favorite song in all the classic music
Powerful song. I seem to remember this clop from early TV. At any rate there were dancers dancing to "Jezebel". And yet I remember it 70 years later! Wonderful stuff.🙂
Of course I meant clip, not the rude-sounding clop!
This was one of my faves way back when! What a great voice Frankie had and I liked all of his songs too.
Frankie Laine put all of himself into each song. His voice and body unite. Try his version of Wild Goose. It made me cry.
Hello Nancy, How are you doing?
brilliant .. tells the story with fire and passion
A master at work. Gee could more bands today use a singer like Frankie Laine. Well done video from that time also. Enjoyed
I first see Frankie Laine at the London Palladium in 1952 and bought most of his records when I was a teenager
Born 1940...Remember Frankie in the early 50's, and this song along with many others.
Can't count the number of times l and buddies imitated him singing.
This is my first time seeing this video...Oh the memories!
When I first heard him I was around 15 years old And yes on a Radio , , always loved is voice .
WOW That was my favorite song when I was 15. Took me 60 years to see him singing and heard HIM again here! What a gay, what a stile, what a voice. Got goose pumps once and again and again. God bless u markalson. TH-cam is a real time machine. Thanks. Got my teen feeling love back!
What class, what style, what orchestration, what choreography, what a voice and what a performance!
This is a fabulous song. I remember it from the fifties, but didn't know it was as old as 1951.
Hello Pauline, How are you doing?
You are so right. Frankie didn't have the most beautiful voice, but what he had was a strong manly voice with lots of style and emotion That few back then and none today could come close too. When Frankie sung no one had to tell you who was singing. There will never be another like him.
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I'm sorry but the music back then was so much better than it is now.
Bob Archer don’t be sorry, it’s true
Sorry?
There was great music then, and with artists like the Marcellis brothers, Regina Carter, and so many others, there is great music being made today too. Now, unfortunately it doesn't aways make it into the mainstream, but it's there!
Why are you apologising? You are right!
yes it was
there you have it backwards, the song was writen in 1951 by wayne Shanklin who gave it to Frankie wanting him to record it. which he did as his first hit at Columbia. In 1952 him and his wife Nan went to Paris and had dinner with Edith Piaf at the night club where she was performing. Edith got up and sang Jezebel with new French wording later she recorded it.
His voice is better here than in later studio recordings, at least for this song.
What a SINGER:):):):):):):) R.I.P Frankie. You're music will always be ageless & timeless!!!! See ya in heaven!!!!
Great singer with a unique voice, style and performance...thans for posting.
My late mom used to play this song often. I already liked some of Frankie's songs.
What a great video. I have been a fan of Frankie Laine ever since he made the record Thats My Desire. Thanks for the Video. I seen him in person in Framingham Mass in 1961, I can't think name of the place, but it is not there anymore It was owned by Vaughn Monroe. I just thought of the name it was Monticellos. He also danced with my girlfriend. He was a great singer and a great person.
Thanks so much for posting this live performance Markalson, just an amazing performance, and the best version of this one that I've ever heard. Terrific singer, and a great song.
What a voice! What singing mastery! I was born later (1953) but was knocked-out by this when I discovered it in brother-in-law's collection 20 years later. I like various styles across all the decades, but understand the comments about how artists dressed-up in the old days. Glad there are no obscene pointless insults on this site (well, at the top of the list anyway)
He was my Dad's favorite singer and this was his song. He died when I was very young so I never knew him but he wrote about him in the letters he sent to my Mother. I met some men stationed with him over 50 years prior and they told me he sang Frankie's songs while he worked in the motor pool. I wrote and conversed with Frankie before he died. He was so thankful that he had such an impact on my Father. I will always love this song as it tells a very special story in my life of two special men.
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My first family dog was named Jezebel. My step dad would try and sing this song to her sometimes. Well, he was no Frankie Laine. I am sure her name came from this song. She was such a good dog! Fond memories. Great song!
Love it! Such passion --- music with the implied analogy of a toreador facing a bull!
One of my favourite singers
hands off the best song from MAFIA 2.
Chapter 7, In the loving memory of francesco potenza, first song on the car radio empire classic
I came here from the remaster haha
Wow that was really as awesome, loved Frankie Laine voice. Cool early video.
Here I come. I was born in 1935!!! All the marvelous things I have seen and heard!!! I bought all of Frankie's 78-rpm records played in my dad's victrola. Greetings from Lima, Peru.
Are you still doing okay mate?
How are u ?
nicely done!!!!!!
It's great to know that Frankie has fans all over the world. I have heard from fans on every corner of the world .
My late Dad's idol, my father use to sing his songs in pubs in London, little did he think he would meet him one day, but he wrote go Frankley and Frankley invited him to stay and he did , means more to me now than it did 20 years ago
smashing footage. of. the. great. man. like. this. a. lot. thanks
Loved this song since I first heard it !! My Dad worked with Frankie, He was a gentleman !
Fabulous! Thanks for posting!
Frankie Laine had a soaring voice. He used all of himself in this one. I miss him. Please listen to the Wild Goose, too.
Hello Nancy, How are you doing?
I remember this LP as a child in the early 70's. I didn't know who Frankie Lane was, but I had goose-bumps hearing this song. It was only years later that I found out he was the singer. I've been in love since...
One of my favorite songs to sing!! Of course I can't sing as good as the master but I still enjoy trying to come close!! GBY! Jim
Your right, He was the first Blue eyed Soul singer and at the same time the first Western singer from Chicago plus he sung with a best that would be passed down to the early Rockers. Plus no one could put more emotion into a song than Frankie.
Incredible range power, and emotions. Unique talent.
Desi Arnaz in ''I Love Lucy'' brought me here, that performance is magnificent!
There's plenty of Jezebels in the world.There's profound lyrics in this song.
Same here. I'm 49, and the only time I ever heard it, was on I Love Lucy. Both Desi and Frankie do great work on this song!
Excellent. Always loved this song.
Thankyou There isn't another poular singer that comes anywhere near this great mans talent
Thanks Mark Yes one of the Gods of popular song.#
Kind Regards
Jim
Absolut Amazing Voice timeless
Wow - I never knew this footage existed. GREAT film (and great song too of course), Frankie Lane's version is still the best. THANKS for posting.
One of pop music's great voices at its best. note its distinctive tone and timbre and its range and power
I am 70 and remember him well! We were discussing Jezebel in our Bible study and remembered this song! 😄 i was just a child, but nuts about Frankie Lane.
How are you holding up man?
Frankie at his very best. Love it,,,cheers,Ernie
Frankies high noon is the first record i ever remembering hearing. I was about 5. He still one of my favourite stars.
this video is ahead of its time awesome
Hoy todo de 10!!! Gracias por existir!!! Rafael
Yes I was born in 1938 and I became a Frankie Laine fan the year that you were born. As a 10 year old boy songs like "Mule Train", Cry Of The Wild Goose" set my musical taste. Over the next few years the likes of "Black Lace", "Jezebel" "Humming Bird" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" set this teanager's taste in music for ever. Then came Rock N' Roll what a bummer.
Me agrada esta musica, gracias Frankie.
@some1tookmynick Frankie had a style all his own. Unlike most singers of his time, he didn't just stand there and sing into a microphone. No he moved, waved his hands,
stomped his feet and moved to the beat. That is why they gave him the nickname of
"Mr Rhythm". There will never be another like him.
GENE VINCENT a 56 Rock n Roll singer covered this song in the mid 50's but not to the greatness of Frankie''s version nobody could have.
Frankie has always been one of my favorites.
I like the elegant and balletic dancing. Perfect accompaniment to the powerful song.
This is the singer that introduced , a new Frankie ( and the Teenagers) Different time, different style, but not in greatness. The baton is passed once again.
Hello Linda, How are you doing?
I used to listen to my uncle's records on Gramma's phonograph...with the "cobra" stylus arm. I was maybe six or eight. This was one of my favorites. I used to belt out "Jezebe-e-e-e-lle" as little girl. My parents were appalled, but Gramma thought it was hilarious!
Not only the singing is amazing, but the performance! I mean his stage presence, such charisma!
im 19 years old and im digging this song soooooooooo much. Wish i could go to his consert. Much better than that crap they call music these days.
Uno dei più grandi cantanti di tutti i tempi!!
Yes I grew up with the British Invasion, an era that produced a great variety of songs. An example is Herman's Hermits doing their own take on "Jezebel". And look how The Beatles did unusual covers like "Till There Was You" from The Music Man. Bands from that era sometimes did songs not associated with Rock and roll.
As I've noted before Frankie really had a number of differing voice tones, including a somewhat thin nasally sounding tone on some songs or parts of songs which was actually a bit like Bobby Vinton. The difference is that Frankie could also produce an operatic tone and volume as he does at the end of this one which would be far beyond what Vinton or, indeed, most other pop singers could produce.
@IvoRobicPlatinum What I ment by not covering the song is that there was not any other popular recordings of the song back when he made it popular in 1951. Which was the standard back then. Yes other's have done it years later
but I wouldn't call them covers as they were not in direct compition with his recording. Frankie recorded "Ghost Riders" on an Album in 1963. Was that a cover of Vaughn Monroe's Hit version in 1949? I have several of the later recordings of the song.
One of my earliest memories is of this coming over the loudspeakers at the Festival of Britain .
My dads favourite singer, so I was listening to this in the 70s when I was 5 😊
Edith Piaf heard him singing this, asked Aznavour to write an Engish version, and she performed this before Laine recorded it, then recorded it herself the same year.
He looks he's being so natural,he's impressive, I love it. J.c.
No I'm not kidding. The Hermits' live version (not the studio version) is excellent, and beats every other version (by anyone) of the song I've heard. There are two versions here on TH-cam. The black and white clip from German TV is best. The other one, in color, is from The Ed Sullivan Show.
I agree absolutely. I assume you were born in1938. Well I was born in 1949 and I remember the smart dress of singers and musicians of my youth. No, it's not old-fashioned to dress well. I prefer to call it having good taste!
One of my dad's favourites. Just love it.
You have been buying his records even longer than I have. I started in 1957 after I joined the army and was able to buy a used record player. Growing up we didn't have any records or a way to play them. But I was a fan since 1949. Now I think I have everything he ever recorded.
Mark you like Frankie are a legend you have brought caso much pleasure dding these songs to you tube. I am also an old fan znd zi bought thats my desire on Bruns wick records with saint marie on the reverse side. Thanks buddy
Worth looking for, believe it or not, Herman's Hermits covered this and it is an excellent cover.
Esta cancion era cortina musical del cine en la Base Aerea de Quintero...trae muchos recuerdos nice time
FRANKIE LAINE COMO NOS DELEITA CON SUS CANCIONES DE AYER HOY Y SIEMPRE
Beautiful!
The first song i ever remember hearing was Frankie and High noon from an old cinema speaker. It was unforgettable. I was about six
I totally agree. At the beginning of the song he has a bit of a boyish, tenor quality that's very similar to Bobby, but the high points of this song are just incredibly intense. His vocal range is pretty amazing.
What a great singer. Few of them around any more.
You SAID it.
If you mean you heard this sung in the movie "High Noon", Frankie didn't do the movie. That was Tex Ritter who did the movie. But for some reason he didn't want to record it. So they got Frankie to make the recording. which was a big hit, then Tex rushed to record it but by then it was to late.
I like Peter Noone's/Herman's Hermit's cover of "Jezebel" as well. It is among the most powerful in all Herman's Hermits' repertoire.
And although they may not equal the fame of Desi Arnaz, Herman's Hermits, or Frankie Laine, a Boston-based garage rock outfit called The Lyres used to perform a killer cover of "Jezebel."
All these good versions of "Jezebel" are helped by the fact the song itself is tremendously evocative and powerful.
My favorite singer ,,pure magic
Hate to break this to you, as I've had this discussion before. Frankie never recorded
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" either in the movie or on record. That was Gene Pitney. Charted #4 in 1962. I have no idea why people think that Frankie did this song as I don't think Gene sounds anything like Frankie Laine. There's a lot of places you can look this up.
MUSIC AND SOUND THAT WILL NEVER DIE
Loved all of these songs 😍
There's an entertaining YT clip of Mario Lanza doing a shortened version of Laine's "Jezebel" as well as Perry Como's "Temptation" and Dean Martin"s "Memories are Made of This" under the heading "Mario Lanza Clowns Around (Imitates other Italian singers). It was taken from the 1957 film Arrivederci Roma..
Fabulous,Frankie Lane,xx🤠 Keith,France,🍺🍺