The Modernaires - People Like You And Me

[@joeybonin7691]

The level of musicianship was incredible in this era. No mediocrity. I see Tex Beneke there, first sax and vocal.

[@stephenspencer4672]

Just great music from a bygone era. My parents grew up with this music.😊❤❤

[@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

I believe the fellow rockin' the trumpet is Ray Anthony, now 101 years old and the sole surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. (That was the late Billy May second from left in the "trumpet row.") It is also interesting to see the band in "street clothes."

[@scottstacey7447]

Anthony was in "Sun Valley Serenade" but left before this movie was filmed. The person missing from the Trumpet section was Johnny Best whom George Montgomery stood in for.

[@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

@@scottstacey7447 Thanks for the information.

[@montyallen6676]

Actor George Montgomery, aka Mr. DINAH SHORE... is lip synching the trumpet for this movie. He is not playing the trumpet.

[@jason60chev]

@@montyallen6676 He trills the trumpet, pretty well. He doesn't really even give a good fake playing display.

[@lecil2]

Thanks for that information

[@QueenAmethyst55]

I love how Marion looks at Tex when he sings. ❤

[@doranziegler2303]

Love these guys. Marion Hutton was so animated and expressive when she sang.

[@soupy1950]

Just like her sister...Betty

[@moldyoldie7888]

Want to to see animation? Check out youtube's "Betty Hutton Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry"

[@FairwayJack]

yes ...I loved her expressive rendition of "I got a gal in Kalamazoo"

[@sxbrowns]

@@moldyoldie7888 and “Murder, He Said”, and Hamlet, and, and, and... (huge fan)

[@moldyoldie7888]

@@sxbrowns Yep, Betty was good.

[@goback3spaces]

The Modernaires are everywhere. I mean, like, they're everywhere, man! I opened my closet this morning and they were there singing. I went to Confession a few weeks ago and I saw them humming through the grate. On line at McDonalds, at the car wash, at the DMV, everywhere!

[@ethanhill7261]

I was in the bathroom at Walmart and heard them in the next stall.

[@gispel7058]

Saw them on an airport radar screen, an ultrasound in the obstetrics dept at the hospital.....security cameras at government offices?????

[@No_auto_toon]

Yeah, I haven’t had that lovely experience…

[@piggyman-st8iu]

So THAT’S why I hear “Chattanooga Choo Choo” every time I step on my floorboards.

[@hopps3206]

The best type of Schizophrenia.

[@ericseabury3955]

I love the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Tex Beneke, Benny Goodman and the Modernaires. I listen to them on "The 40s Junction" on Sirius Radio.

[@morriscone3246]

Me too Love it

[@leeming1234]

Artie Shaw Helen Forrest Harry James.

[@gispel7058]

Sirius radio👌👍😀

[@gispel7058]

@@leeming1234 Charlie Spivak

[@ofeliaolivarfvvl2426]

@@gispel7058 did

[@mickeykeep1495]

The war was everybody's business This country was united This is great Miller music

[@davegaba9091]

This must have been fun to dance to back then. Wish I'd learned these dances from my folks long ago... Great tune!

[@SamhainBe]

My father-in-law was in the Navy during the war and boy that man could dance!

[@ТамараТринеева]

@@SamhainBe г1

[@astraa786]

You can study Lindy hop today too! It's cool. I was danced it in Russia)

[@wayneandrus240]

What a terrific band!!

[@PaschalSCL]

February 12, 2014: From the 1963 graduating class of Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas--Happy 100th birthday to a great Paschal alumnus, the late Gordon Lee ("Tex") Beneke! You and Mr. Miller and all your associates did so much to boost the morale and determination of so many Americans during one of our country's darkest times. It was our parents' generation, and in memory of our parents and all other members of their generation--The Greatest Generation--who served the cause of liberty in so many ways, military and civilian alike, during and after that time, so that we might have the opportunity to enjoy the lives we have lived, we proudly salute you! Your wonderful music sounds as good today as ever!

[@howardmobley6493]

I appreciate that > My dad was in Korea. keep up hope.

[@patriot-wf1er]

Do u know movie this from

[@jimbo97]

@@patriot-wf1er ORCHESTRA WIVES

[@Kinseydsp]

Right on my father was in the Army Air corps in WWII.

[@Poisson4147]

@@Kinseydsp Not to nit-pick too much, but starting in 1941 it was known as the Army Air Forces. The AAC became a subdivision of the AAF, so it could be _really_ confusing.

[@robertovens9372]

This music is timeless! and what"Style" they had back then, Superb!

[@dudley5533]

This opening number from "Orchestra Wives" is such a true example of the "Miller Style" that he and all his vocalists always put together that was so enjoyable.........thankful for the years we were fortunate to have such a talented musical group. Nice choice for this great video......thanks!

[@gispel7058]

A unified America, working together during WW2

[@jason60chev]

Except for Miller, Trombonist Frank D'Anolfo and maybe one other, the band was under 25 years of age.

[@kencarole8415]

Talent in abundence!!!!

[@scottstacey7447]

@@jason60chev Tex Beneke was 28 when this was filmed. The majority of the band was actually OVER 25.

[@stevedyer6252]

This is real "feel good" music. Love it!!!

[@chuckwagon5518]

Wow! Is Marion beautiful! She has a great voice too!

[@rockmanx8011]

It's Betty Hutton her sister.

[@tjrox]

Rockman X Nope That’s Marion Hutton

[@moldyoldie7888]

A running joke in the band was her mike was out of tune. Unfortunately, her singing off-key wasn't infrequent. And Glenn didn't want her to take voice lessons, a big mistake, IMO.

[@moldyoldie7888]

@Carl Ferrigno What I wrote is out of George Simon's book on the Miller band. Airchecks exist where she sang obviously flat.

[@ottogonzalez2210]

A real popper a real pipperoo

[@hiresrootbeer1876]

Love this song. Probably the greatest song Glenn Miller never recorded for Bluebird/Victor Records.

[@scottstacey7447]

They did featured this song on their Chesterfield Broadcasts in June of 1942 shortly before Ray Eberle left the band.

[@choward5430]

I love the arrangements of big bands!

[@brianlongfield8870]

A great song by a great big band orchestra and singers! The Glenn Miller orchestra is one of my favorites!

[@jason60chev]

Only tune that featured ALL of Miller's vocalists

[@peterblack1639]

Nobody from this era of music ever thought it would fade away.....

[@1982nsu]

It hasn't faded away. It's alive and well in, of places, Germany and Japan! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZ2Wf2lmZq-oa80

[@jeffearle8172]

Judging from the comments here, it never will fade away….

[@giovannirivoira5496]

Beautiful and happy song!!!a breathe of fresh air!!!

[@roberthelms1737]

What great spirit people had back then.

[@michaellazzeri2069]

This is the music grew up on ! My parents LOVED Glenn Miller , & so do I. Marion Hutton was a total knock-out . -----------MJL< 76 y/o

[@georgeevans2662]

Love them. All had quality. Beautiful voices and lovely music.

[@garygriffiths2911]

Timelessly wonderful stuff - if you don't instantly fall in love with this then there's something wrong with you.

[@ellengaildeb]

..... M

[@SamhainBe]

What happened to that America? They couldn't have fathomed the nonsense we are living through today.

[@Tessickah]

Preach!!!!!

[@kentworch]

I miss what we used to be

[@NancyDrewe]

It’s even worse now in 2023. 😢

[@yorkshirelad3524]

Diversity inclusion equity

[@oltedders]

That America is a MAGA fantasy world today. Christo-Fascist White Nationalism.

[@mathias369]

Reminds me of my grandpa, thanks for the swell tune

[@lewstone1934]

When I was at school in the late 1970s, around '76, Glenn Miller was enjoying a bit of a renaissance in the UK, and I got into him and the British Dance Band music from the 1930s via Dennis Potter's wonderful "Pennies From Heaven" TV series from 1978 (hence my posting name). I never looked back. I loved pop music from the 70s but this was something else. Later on in the 1980s I was lucky enough to sing with several big bands. It was a dream come true. Super cool Tex walking up to the mic at the last moment- just before he sings - amazing.

[@angeloarimborgo6352]

These musicians played so perfectly back then

[@jason60chev]

Glenn's bands were very well rehearsed.

[@stewartwforbes]

They were. And it’s there.

[@stewartwforbes]

I’ve loved this music for nigh on 60 years. I’m a professional saxophone player and this music represents THE pinnacle of it. I had the incredible good fortune to work under Billy May in about 1998. My dad would have been ever so proud of that ! 😊

[@PatriciaRobertson-gv9sr]

The Modernaires are great. I have a 78 record of theirs.

[@chrisredfield6103]

Awesome! Just heard Modernaires on 40's on 4 with "Juke Box Saturday Night" glad to find this as well!

[@Jowakiine]

Chris Redfield When they sang that sing was Harriet Clark there?

[@Georgie12248]

@@Jowakiine - Yes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHLCgaiHaLOto7c

[@pepperwilliams4428]

Such a happy song!!!

[@CosmosNut]

Superb classic Glenn Miller, thank you for putting it up. I drained my folks and their parents about the era and time, dances, styles. A very different America in those days soup to nuts. Yes, some things were wrong but compared to the rest of the world we had it made in the shade - and went on to prove it over the next few years. What I think about these days is how many talented people are performing here, totally on and tight and there's a happy swing to it all - great stuff like I hear on "Juke Box Saturday Night" radio program... According to my mom Glenn Miller was called "Mr Smooth"

[@lanageorge9408]

The music ensemble is divine. What a wonderful time to be alive. They had little, but had great imaginations , and a lot of humanity with whole lotta love. Their glorious music was their bond to all aspects of their care-free but cultured existence. Yes they had .a respectful, harmonious, and endearing collective group consciousness that elevated humanity in any given society, that reflected in their vivacious Swing music. Will we ever see those tranquil, yet taste-fully splendorous wholesome days. I ask?????

[@general5104]

It was awfully hard to live, in those war-torn years. Money was scarce, you had to have tire stamps to get tires and meat stamps to buy meat and if you didn't have what you needed, sometimes you could do a little work and trade stamps so you could get what your family needed. It was hard living. You didn't waste ANYTHING ! They posted a list at the post offices and court houses that told you if you squeezed out ALL the toothpaste and flattened the tube out, they would come by every week and collect that scrap. The list told you, for example, 4 dozen flattened brass tubes made one anti-aircraft shell. Different metals would make grenades. If a piece of equipment broke and wouldn't operate, since you save everything, you looked thru your scratch box and got the right part to fix your equipment. Some folks would trade in old busted equipment to mister fix-its, for Credit for repairs and those that were signed up could get their items repaired for very low money. Most everything was MADE IN THE USA, so there wasn't any metric. Everything was standard and made to repair. (not like the stuff, now-a-days, built in other countries, built on a wing and a prayer). Our Country WAS BLESSED by GOD !!! Now a days, God has taken His protective hand off because of the way folks treat Him. Oh, to be in a BLESSED country again !!!

[@jetpilot3714]

@@general5104 That’s a great synopsis and perspective of that time. I’m afraid you’re right about us not being blessed as before.

[@philippejenvrin2741]

Welcome To Liberator!! Greetings To the France !!❤❤❤ Wonderfull music !!! ❤

[@vlaekershner7305]

With victory songs like this, no wonder we won the war!

[@mckendrick4046]

It's not quite a victory song, fella. It's more a rallying song... made a good three years before any victory.

[@TheSchlerm]

@@mckendrick4046 .. I call them "rah rah songs"... But like the movies at the time, they were written to encourage the people to support the USA.

[@geoffreylee5199]

Tex Beneke was a sax player, wow. Monotone singer.

[@scotthares]

That's terrific!

[@Kinseydsp]

Austin Casey What a Joy to see People Who Loved the USA and cared about Freedom.

[@AustinCasey]

Indeed! I'm not sure where you might know this from. I'm not much of a gamer but it may have been used in a game or commercial maybe. This is from the 1942 film "Orchestra Wives". Excellent film, probably my all time favorite. Glad you enjoy! -Austin

[@Kinseydsp]

Austin Casey Thank you so much for this one Just Love it! My Father was a B-29 Tail Gunner in WWII. I have always Loved the Miller Band saw them when Tex Beneke was running the Band at Sunny Brook Ballroom in Pottstown Pa.

[@markjohnson4962]

What a payroll. Plus live recording, direct to acetate. No mixdowns, no overdubbing. Just a pure recording.

[@moldyoldie7888]

The film studio could make an acetate for an immediate playback check. And the cutter they're showing looks decent for the job. But I would expect someone looking at the grooves under a microscope, and there would be a vacuum hose by the cutter. But hey, it's a movie! The real high fidelity copy, "the direct to film"/ stem, had to be developed. The military drumming at 3:31 was originally dubbed in at the final mix session, my guess is it was added in for this video. If you listen to the band's first recording/stem on various CDs, you won't hear it. If anyone has a better explanation, please correct me.

[@haroldwestbrook2348]

This is more likely an optical recording from filming on a sound stage for the 'Orchestra Wives', but mostly without the technical tricks of the recordings of today.

[@moldyoldie7888]

@@haroldwestbrook2348 I believe that is Fox's sound stage they're using.

[@Poisson4147]

Everyone: I've spoken to people from the University of Colorado's Glenn Miller Archives. The audio was pre-recorded, then the band assembled on the film stage and mimed to the pre-recorded tracks. This was very typical for musicals because the technology of the time wasn't really capable of picking up "live" from a film stage. That said, I've heard two conflicting stories re whether the original was done on optical tracks or transcription discs. I've seen several 16" discs of the sound track but no one I've spoken with could confirm whether they were masters or dubs.

[@moldyoldie7888]

@@Poisson4147 First, thanks for your earlier comments. I can only add what has been written on recent CD liner notes, that Fox made many demo discs from sessions before foley was added. The aforementioned CDs were made mostly from demo disks that are now in collectors' hands. I still believe the hi-fi sources were optical, as liner note writers have mentioned nitrate stems. This track on the 1959 Fox GM soundtrack album has noticeable sprocket buzz.

[@almaguillot8597]

This is giving me life! ♡

[@Kinseydsp]

Austin Casey WOW The Trumpet Player Johnny Best I think goes into Outer Space with His Solos Thank You So Much for this.

[@Poisson4147]

Yes, Johnny Best (source: John Flowers' official discography)

[@southerncross-toleka]

This is real quality music !! What a pleasure to listen to. Long live the Big Band and Swing.....❤❤

[@raphaelbernard7954]

Austin another masterpiece from that period great sound and voices.

[@DoeSwiftandBond]

Theyre the best!!!! What a feeling!

[@marcosmza1962]

Nice music!

[@carlmuench9184]

Thanks for posting this incredible music.

[@general5104]

This type of MUSIC is MUSIC ! This junk they play now-a-days most of the time doesn't even HAVE a tune to it. These told a story or these are "pep-tunes" to help the "Kids" do without much money...during the second world war. These fine songs have stood the TEST of TIME !!! Glen Miller was a genius, when it came to arranging a piece. He's the one that took a tune and wrote what note each of all the musicians hit at any one moment, so they all harmonized well together! Hardly ever do you have, what Glenn called his " PERFECT SOUND". Moonlight Serenade was the tune that his New Sound first nailed it !!! And the rest is HISTORY !!!

[@БорисЧунтонов]

I grew up listening to this music. What music it was! Music for the soul and life!

[@yumisunday]

Amazingly catchy cheerful music :^D wish I was around then

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Cheerful, yes, but remember it was in support of the war and encouraged people not to be afraid to make personal sacrifices.

[@juliebergacker5680]

Love this group 😍😀👍

[@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565]

Música de una era de gran glamour y sofisticación en ser recordada con mucha nostalgía.

[@codex3048]

Incredibly, this wasn't released as a single at the time. It would have been another huge hit.

[@donharmon2443]

I wasn't even born when this was recording made, but I found it very interesting and appealing. Even more so is the gorgeous 22-year-old Marion Hutton from 72 years ago! Never heard of her before, but I thought she had not only good looks, but great charm and magnetism. Maybe I'll hunt up an old movie on her and watch it streamed on my TV.

[@jimbo97]

Marion's singing style was very close to her better-known sister, Betty Hutton's.

[@donharmon2443]

Jimbo, Right you are. They were both gorgeous and appealing. Betty lived to be 86 and had some tough times, being unsuccessfully married a number of times. Older sister Marion only made it to 67, but likewise had a difficult life, despite her talent and enormous appeal.

[@jimbo97]

I saw Robert Osborne's interview with Betty on TCM about her life and career, and was disappointed that Marion was never mentioned. :-(

[@jimbo97]

Marion was married to conductor Vic Schoen I think. Not sure if he was the first, but she was pregnant during shooting of ORCH. WIVES.

[@scottstacey7447]

@@jimbo97 Marion was married to Jack Philbin, Jackie Gleason's manager, in 1941; they later divorced.

[@fazbell]

This is a classic big bang song. I cannot add to that. Amazing.

[@jimpassa1]

Great music from a fun movie.

[@Guilherme-ic1co]

Cara que melodia... Que medolia. Tenho 27 anos, mas desde que ouvi essa canção em um fundo musical de um determinado desenho em minha infancia, de la pra ca me encantei com esse genero musical. Nos dis de nossa atualidade so existe horrores musicais. Vivemos uma verdadeira depravação musical principalmente no pais que vivo, o qual se chama: Lixo de Brasil.

[@TheSchlerm]

I have to wonder what kept the roof on the studio with such a powerful band....

[@jason60chev]

Listen to Stan Kenton's band!!

[@tombasye1016]

Just Beyond Excellent Band's Alway's To Remember.

[@JohnThomas-cb1fv]

Just amazing!

[@Halo101st]

The blonde vocalist is Betty Hutton's sister, Marion.

[@nycsguy]

Some musicians in the film are characters in the story, and are played by actors. The piano player is played by Cesar Romero. The bass player is played by Jackie Gleason.

[@audeladureel3104]

Fantastic yes !

[@bruceseaman6592]

Love Glen Miller

[@BillFEILHAUER-bu7go]

The Glenn Miller band is still packing dance halls and touring the world. The last time I heard them they great .bookings 2yrs in advance.the busiest and highest paid sidemen in the business

[@leslieackerman4189]

That was Glenn Miller conducting his orchestra!

[@eugenemalush9284]

SO GREAT!!!

[@jimbo97]

Hats off to 20th Century-Fox, not only for capturing the Miller band's realistic performances on film but also for the sound recordings! The soundtracks of Glenn's two movies are top notch, much brighter and "alive" than RCA Victor's own records, some of which sound like they were recorded in a broom closet! (no reverb at all)

[@moldyoldie7888]

I tend to agree with you. OTOH, Victor's version of "Moonlight Serenade" is hard to beat. Another example: "Bluebirds in the Moonlight" studio recording is good. In at least one broadcast version, the trumpet shouts are compressed, low level.

[@jimbo97]

@@moldyoldie7888 I never heard of "Bluebirds in the Moonlight". (Was it a nod to the Bluebird record label?) I have an original 78 of two of Miller's "forgotten" recordings: "On the Old Assembly Line" and flip "Juanita, Rosita, Pepita, Lanita... (etc.) Lopez". I've never seen those two titles on a Miller LP.

[@moldyoldie7888]

@@jimbo97 "Bluebirds..." was written for Paramount's "Gulliver's Travels" (1939) which you can see on YT for free. The Miller 78 has a very loud trumpet section, I love it. Not all of GM's records were hits. The songs you have are in the so-called complete GM LPs and the boxed CD set. Regarding Victor's dead sound, what first comes to mind is Tommy Dorsey's "I'll Take Tallulah", that they performed in the film "Ship Ahoy." Tommy played it on radio shows, and at least one of those versions originally aired in July '42 just smokes, partially due to Buddy Rich's playing and a really good sound balance. But I can't find that version on YT right now. It's on a Frank Sinatra CD, "Learn to Croon." The February Victor version, over-posted on YT, is lame in comparison.

[@jerrera45]

I remember well hearing this on the radio when I was a kid. This was the music my parents danced to and also the music that entertained our troops during WII.

[@mokmok8080]

Great lyrics!

[@mescko]

Such lyrics as these, and the lyrics you hear in the Great American Songbook in general, I fear will never return. Grateful that we have the ones we have. Let's keep 'em alive.

[@montyallen6676]

"GOBS"....NICKNAME OF US NAVY AVIATION MECHANICS AND GROUND CREWMEN.

[@dianafashion3278]

Unbelievable!!! & thanks a lot that it's all digitized and posted here!💖😘💖

[@barryhill9343]

VERY. CHEERFUL. MUSIC

[@patriciaotoole5930]

This was a great time great music

[@mrfredyramirez]

That trumpet solo is solid!! Reminds me of some great salsa classics

[@nicholassmith536]

The guy playing the trumpet solo is the actor George Montgomery pretending to play it. Also Cesar Romero pretending to play the piano. All part of the film from which this was taken.

[@bobbell1922]

@@nicholassmith536 Jackie Gleason on bass.

[@TheSchlerm]

@@bobbell1922 .. Yes.. The real play ers were off stage..

[@jason60chev]

@@nicholassmith536 He could have pulled off the fake trumpet playing, a little better, I think.

[@silverwood6705]

Great stuff, and don't forget Tex Beneke

[@garyfrancis6193]

Marion Hutton was 18 here. What I like is that she either understood consciously or intuitively that this was a visual medium. So rather than just stand there as they might in a regular recording studio she was very animated as her movements added to the energy of the song. This would not be useful on radio but works on film. By contrast Tex Beneke is less animated. He wasn’t a lot older.

[@Poisson4147]

Tex was born in 1914 so he was 28; Marion Hutton was born in 1919 which would have made her 23 here. But no matter - what a gorgeously talented woman!

[@smilanesi98]

@@Poisson4147 I think shortly after this film she got married and had to step aside for a bit when she became pregnant.

[@Poisson4147]

@@smilanesi98 Right, that was in early 1941. Marion was temporarily replaced by Dorothy Claire who Miller wooed away from Bobby Byrne's group by offering a hefty pay increase - reportedly $1000 a month, which was a heck of a check in those days. Call it sacrilege, but there are times I wish Miller had been able to keep her or Kay Starr as his gal singer. Or maybe had given Marion more latitude in material.

[@johnmcilroy6874]

Dorothy Claire could sing rings around Marion Hutton, but Marion was more of a vivacious entertainer. Miller obviously found this quality better suited to the band

[@Poisson4147]

@@johnmcilroy6874 According to George T. Simon, Miller was looking for someone who'd come across as the ultimate "girl next door". He wrote that Glenn had to be dissuaded from giving her the stage name "Sissy Jones", gack.

[@mustafajackson9430]

Wonderful.

[@mgretche]

Read the Pacific War Trilogy and understand the times they did this. Nothing short of pure genius. The lady with the Liberty Light indeed……!!L!

[@mickeykeep1495]

Keep em flying..

[@jason60chev]

I believe that this is the only recording where ALL of the Miller vocalists perform.

[@David-l3i2f]

Cool swing jazz.

[@evantvede6452]

I can`t keep my feet still.

[@patriley9449]

My parents were of that generation. My dad passed in 1994 and my mom in 2001. If they were to come back again now, they would not recognize this country.

[@charlesnickerson4812]

Great music

[@nedcrouch3202]

The saxaphonist on th left (section leader) is Tex Benecky. He went on to conduct the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and keep them going for years. Also, excellent singer (see Chattanooga Choo choo

[@denecos3468]

🌈🤍THANKS SO MUCH!!!

[@bobareebop]

Seems like Miller's band was one of the earlier ones to use a baritone sax, which was a prominent sound in the ensemble...think this song, "American Patrol", and several others.

[@jason60chev]

Ernie Caceras played Alto Sax and the baritone. In this same movie, He played a quick clarinet solo on Bugle Call Rag

[@NumberSixAtTheVillage]

What a nice break. Thanks for the post.

[@emmgeevideo]

One of the original "music videos"!

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

I'm a youngster who grew up hearing about Glenn Miller, and I can see why he was so popular. His stuff is technically complicated, and cleverly disguised as pop music. This was ahead of its time like Frank Zappa.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

@Carl Ferrigno Learn about the world around you. Don't be a woke loser. Wokeness is going away soon.

[@jamesgough3938]

"youngster"? I think you should have been born in the 30s, daddy-o

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

@@jamesgough3938 Thanks for chiming in for no reason, neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie.

[@jamesgough3938]

@@TheKitchenerLeslie that's what happens on social media. But how do you know I have no reason?

[@Poisson4147]

You ought to hear some of the songs he only performed a couple of times like "Harlem Chapel Bells". Those charts sound like they were done in the mid-1950s!

[@SomeoneHasToSayIt2525]

Impossibly close harmony. Literally the standard bearers.

[@Poisson4147]

The Beatles credited the Mods as one of their major influences. Pretty cool.

[@enriqueluarteveloso523]

I love this

[@sawzall69]

Real music..............

[@danielsanderson4857]

sweet shirt on Tex.

[@josephcostello695]

Music to win a war by. My dad said it got everyone pumped.

[@loninappleton]

This must have been in the same time period ad Juke Box Saturday Night. Though I haven't seen the film it came from. Betty Hutton's older sister. Hmm. The first time I saw the Modernaires was on the old Bob Crosby and the Bobcats television show as a child. So I always thing of The Modernaires Withg Paula Kelly ( not the dancer) as The Modernaires.

[@carolsummers7414]

This is from the film Orchestra Wives.