Bob Hope & Shirley Ross - Thanks for the Memory (1938) [Restored]

[@Charlotte-bn4gp]

Well, can say confidently, they don't make 'em like this anymore!! Thank you for sharing, thank you so much 🙏

[@jamesdunn7186]

"No tears, no fuss - hurray for us!" - so moving. And didn't she look elegant.

[@tombrown1898]

The commission for this song was to have Bob Hope and Shirley Ross say "I still love you" without actually saying it. The legend is that when Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin, the songwriters, performed it for the studio brass, these though, cigar chomping businessmen all had to wipe the tears off their cheeks.

[@viridityxnyctophillic]

Thanks for the memories to someone who will never see this 🤎….

[@CanCan77777]

I’m thinking about my family. They have passed away. But!!! They gave me so many happy times. Me driving at 9, fishing at the lake in the night. So many happy memories. I’m grateful.❤

[@cidermonkey5616]

Agree entirely. I have lost all my family now and recall this - The saddest part of life is when those who gave you the best memories becomes a memory. I was so fortunate to have great parents and so many mainly happy memories to look back on and keep with me.

[@memyself7413]

As I write, my eyes are a blur. There is something about this song, and the way it is being sung. It is so beautifully moving. The emotion on the faces of Shirley Ross, and Bob Hope, sums up everything.

[@suevis]

ya

[@Blacky474]

Ah

[@msgingerjourney]

So beautifully gut wrenching. A sad parting.

[@Pet-rf6rh]

So innocent but filled with secret innuendo. A lost art.

[@jorgerobles9484]

The 1930s is a so underrated decade for music, so many great songs, most of them written for the musical movies of the era

[@Pet-rf6rh]

Thanks for the memories Bob and Bing and your movies I watched as a child on TV in the 60s.

[@bandini22221]

They’re speaking of a world, and a way of life, that doesn’t exist anymore. At 70 now, I’m old enough to remember the tail end of it. I’d love to back to 1933 and spend d a couple of weeks!

[@mattsweeny3957]

Yes..I'm 56 but I got a taste of it...Those were the days...and we knew it! Mad Dog Sweeney

[@professoremio]

Same here, let me know when you get a ride on the time machine.

[@StephanYourdam]

Class of 72 checking in - ahh yes - I remember it well! (tongue in cheek)

[@steveforbes7718]

DITTO! Turned 70 this year. My parents were from that era and loved Mr. Hope and many of the REAL stars when Hollywood was still producing quality entertainment. Plus, I got to have lunch with Mr. Hope in the late 1970s. Then, later that year, Jim Nabors got lost and I got a lunch for guiding him to T.G.I. Friday's which was almost in sight of our location. LOL

[@marykolars6729]

The rich we've always had with us!

[@dariowiter3078]

A movie tune that quickly turned into an iconic theme song for Bob Hope, thanks to this film, Big Broadcast Of 1938. 😊😊😊😊😊

[@mai98938]

Such simpler times when friends were true friends,and familys got together every Sunday for dinner. A fabulous time to have lived.. I was fortunate enough to have such friends who we met while my husband was in the military. We were together all the time. Played cards till midnight talked for hours on end ate dinners together and kept in contact for years after.Forever true friends untill death took them from our lives..

[@salinagrrrl69]

Lost to the last century's gone generations 💔

[@steveforbes7718]

Not yet it isn't! Some of us are still here!

[@carloscharmy]

Captivating nostalgia. Bob Hope's heartfelt vocals. Unforgettable melody. Emotionally resonant lyrics. Timeless classic.

[@Oso8467]

Beautiful times. Gentle times. How lovely that was.

[@ethan33]

Gentle times 1938? So pre-war Europe Nazis invading Poland etc etc weird comment

[@Blacky474]

Twee

[@steveforbes7718]

@@ethan33 America was not divided and filled with absolute hatred as it is now. People could agree to disagree and go have beer. It was the end of the Great Depression and hope was building again. You kids know nothing.

[@raf5710]

@@steveforbes7718 Black people were extremely disenfranchised and infidelity was rampant as he was in the time of this video. Easy to cheat when women stayed at home and men did whatever. Bob Hope never respected what marriage or commitment was. It's easy to look classy on camera and be a sleazeball off it. Stop watching thew news and lay off social media, that specializing in highlights the loud minority, the biggest reason why you think it's filled with such hatred compared to back then.

[@chrisgreulich]

This is one of my favorite scenes from any Bob Hope film. It is so moving and well done. Well done Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.

[@girlgeniusnyc272]

Wow!!! An emotional depth and self-awareness that you just don't see these days. The little dreams.... omg

[@jerryboswell3849]

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind.... Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine...

[@javystrait1]

My favorite song by Elvis ❤

[@kenhallermd8897]

If you're younger than 40 - maybe even 50 *Gulp!* - you probably don't know who Bob Hope was. Well, Bob hope was a very big deal. For baby boomers, he was a perennial performer on television, and especially on NBC. He hosted frequent variety specials between 1950 and the 1970s and hosted the Oscars a record 19 times. Before my time he was a radio performer as well as a primarily musical and comedic actor on Broadway and in the movies. Over the years, his signature tune became "Thanks for the Memory" often with special lyrics when he'd perform it at the end of a special to reflect both events in the show and in the world. This is where he first performed it, in his very first film, the Paramount musical, "The Big Broadcast of 1938." At this point in the film, Hope's character runs into his ex-wife, played by Shirley Ross, and they reminisce about their relationship. I looked this song up because I'm thinking about it for a future cabaret show. Having heard it with protean lyrics for decades, I wanted to get to the source, and I had never heard its original iteration. What a revelation! First of all, Hope: Having known him for decades exclusively as an outright comedian and sketch artist, I am so impressed by his subtlety and vulnerability in this song. And the song itself is claver and sweet and tart and funny and wistful. While their contemporaries, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, have quite rightly been celebrated for performances for romantic ballads like "They Can't Take That Away from Me" and "The Way You Look Tonight," Hope and Ross and "Thanks for the Memory" match and even, I daresay, exceed them in the emotional arc of this scene. Because it is a scene, not just a song. Unlike so many songs of this period, it's not just a musical number, but rather a scene where the characters discover things about themselves and each other, where they move emotionally from one place to another. In fact the lyrics are so evocative that one could imagine Ross and Hope performing this scene without the music. Still, the music, slightly upbeat and with a gentle swing, adds a subtle poignancy, especially in the final bridge: Ross: We said goodbye with a highball Hope: And I got as high as a steeple Ross [interjecting, spoken]: Did you? Hope: But we were intelligent people. Ross: No tears, no fuss Both [clinking glasses, wistful]: Hooray for us. No wonder "Thanks for the Memory" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1938 for Ralph Rainger (music) snf Leo Robin (lyrics) and in 2004 was listed No. 63 on the America Film Institute's "100 Years...100 Songs" survey of top tunes in American cinema. So to Bob and Shirley and Ralph and Leo, as you all say so often in this song, "Thank you so much."

[@sonnycorleone4964]

Ken Haller, Hello. Thank's for telling us who Bob Hope was. I was a 1970's kid and a big old movie fan (I like Humphrey Bogart the best). But I surely knew who the great Bob Hope was. 1930's -1940's was Hollywood's Golden age for sure . Great scene this is ! :)

[@farmerbill6855]

How sweetly bittersweet...

[@johnkulm997]

Bob Hope was so wonderful in those years of the Big Broadcast, USO shows and his road pictures. People underrate him.

[@karlhungus5554]

Lovely. Shirley was so beautiful.

[@justcurious3119]

I agree and wondered when I saw this at first if she was Jennifer Lawrence!

[@jamesryan6008]

Shirley Ross, one of the best(yet overlooked) singers of the thirties.

[@JimMcCrudden-w6g]

Her acting in this threw me. Perfect. Natural. I didn’t know what to expect. In a way the whole thing was torture as I remembered my own lost love, my darling wife.

[@johnfmather]

A poignant thing. I'm been divorced for twenty years. All I recall now are the very happy memories.

[@euskedyzestoa2008]

What a performance!! This little piece of art one that made me cry, don’t even know why... thanks for posting!

[@michaelbyfield6323]

Neat me only being 32 years old I remember this song I've heard it a few times as a kid I was just randomly thinking of it now I'm glad I found it though I'm a millennial I've been told I have an old soul.

[@ronbutler3431]

Not really the same situation, but -- Thank you for so many wonderful memories, beloved wife. (RIP Linda Eileen -- 1956 to 2024)

[@EpicJoshua314]

Years ago I was in a concert band a played a piece called Salute to Bob Hope which had this song, Buttons and Bows, and a few others. I played Thanks for the Memory it to my grandmother who's in her 90s and one of her longtime friends; they recognized and enjoyed it. Her friend passed away 3 weeks ago and this is one of the memories I have of her. 😥

[@nmuphelps1]

Classic. Unforgettable. Perfection in a song - thank you - so much.

[@njlillycline]

It is hard to put a pin in exactly what makes this great- but if I had to try, I’d say it has to do with the colorful verse, it’s status as an icon in Americana, the simple and wistful tune, and the bittersweetness which is captured upon reminiscing. Reminds us of our loved ones who have long since gone, and of course our ill-starred loves.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

People love each other so much as people once they fall back in love as lost lovers. This piece is perfect, and it captures real people of the era, the emotion and rich understanding we had back then, wasn't anything far from this.

[@bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880]

Lyrics: Thanks for the memory Of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes Motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes How lovely it was Thanks for the memory Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine The Parthenon, and moments on the Hudson River line How lovely it was Many's the time that we feasted And many's the time that we fasted Oh well, it was swell while it lasted We did have fun, and no harm done So thanks for the memory Of crap games on the floor, nights in Singapore You might have been a headache, but you never were a bore I thank you so much Thanks for the memory Of China's funny walls, transatlantic calls That weekend at Niagara when we hardly saw the falls How lovely that was Thanks for the memory Of lunch from twelve to four, sunburn at the shore That pair of gay pajamas that you bought and never wore Say, by the way, what did happen to those pajamas? Letters with sweet little secrets That couldn't be put in a day wire Too bad it all had to go haywire That's life, I guess, I love your dress Do you? Thanks for the memory Of faults that you forgave, rainbows on a wave And stockings in the basin when a fellow needs a shave I thank you so much Thanks for the memory Of Gardens at Versailles, and beef and kidney pie The night you worked and then came home with lipstick on your tie How lovely that was Thanks for the memory Of lingerie with lace, and Pilsner by the case And how I jumped the day you trumped my one and only ace How lovely that was We said goodbye with a highball And I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray for us Strictly entre nous, darling, how are you? And how are all those little dreams that never did come true? Awfully glad I met you, cheerio, tootle-oo Thank you, thank you

[@shawneequawyche409]

My Daddy Stuart C. Pearson loved this show. After the ratings from Man from Uncle on one side & Movie channel on other he did a final show song rephrasing, What kind of Fool am l. I saw how great his show really was but, l loved Mr. David McCallum, UNCLE Agent. Mr. Hope also entertained the Troops. Awesome & Talented Man. Thanks for 🎉Posting ❤ S. P. Wyche

[@dillybar58]

Thanks for the Memories! Music Video Vault

[@vickifriend9285]

I was taken aback by my reaction to this wonderful song. It’s so nostalgic, happiness tinged with sadness or is it the other way around? I’m getting old now and all my memories are just a wonderful wonderful wonderful way of remembering. It’s made me very tearful for a lost relationship but happy for my beautiful grandchildren. They simply don’t make them like this anymore ❤

[@GeneBurnett]

This is a masterful performance through and through and a great song to work with. I wish more people could sing like this today...with this kind of humility and respect for the material...

[@JimMcCrudden-w6g]

Exactly - respect for the lines.

[@jyttethagaardnielsen3568]

Wonderful song and lovely film!!!

[@brian7333]

This song became Bob Hope's song associated with all his public appearances and routines...

[@mattsweeny3957]

A great American 👍 Packer East...Love 💘 u Bob..Matt NYC

[@GrinnandWinn]

A beautiful sad song of Love and Loss. A story song of daily Life and World travel. Happy, sad, cultured and all-telling. A gem of song and film.

[@LJBSullivan]

Thanks for the memories

[@richardthunderbay8364]

A great song and a great scene. Beautiful.

[@msgingerjourney]

Aw! This gets me everything I listen to it. So beautifully sung.

[@KennethSloan]

At 1:33 when Bob sings "That weekend in Niagara when we hardly saw the falls," the original lyrics were "That weekend in Niagara when we DIDN'T see the falls." The censors thought that too risque so the lyrics were changed.

[@spindriftdrinker]

LOL. A 100% sex weekend was dirty, but not a 90% sex weekend.

[@mattsweeny3957]

American Greatness.Im glad to have been exposed to this Golden Era and the Great Bob Hope. Met him at Belmont Racetrack in the late 1970s....Packey East...Mad Dog Sweeney

[@steveforbes7718]

I had lunch with him in Cleveland when he was there back in the late 70's. He was a regular Joe and a wonderful man.

[@jorgvennedey18]

Simply wonderful!

[@earldeanpowell]

Thanks...for the restored post!

[@coachmen8508]

What Great delivery!!

[@hankkingsley9300]

Love

[@sonnycorleone4964]

...This was way before my time. But I alway's loved old movies and this Classic sweet scene by Bob Hope & Shirley Ross ! Wow! Look how young they were ! This would of been kind of fun too if this song was sung by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca". :)

[@personanon-grata5083]

I loved Bob Hope. You? He was an Era, wasn't he?

[@odarn8911]

Ah yes! From the Golden Days of Hollywood and from true talent and extraordinary actors and actresses. Movies that were uplifting and positive and not full of pandering and all that other anti-American bravo sierra! Thanks for the memories Bob and company!

[@steveforbes7718]

HEAR! HEAR! Thank you for saying that! I totally agree!

[@GoodMrDawes]

So wonderfully clever. What an era

[@steveforbes7718]

One of my favorite memories is of having lunch with Mr. Hope one day in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a wonderful and witty man who was as humble as pie. He was an average Joe who knew that he put on his trousers one leg at a time just like every other man. The success never went to his head. Diametrically the opposite of the idiots and morons of today have who turned Hollywood into HollyWOKE! He was one of the best entertainers to ever bless the world with his talent. Thanks for the memory Bob and Shirley.

[@ARIZJOE]

You ought to watch the DVD.... it's fun.

[@aislynns]

this is so sweet

[@sonjadietz5297]

))))) Hier trinke ich meinen Grog und singe mit ))))))).....ALLEINE....nur so !!))))) High as a ...))))) ich liiiebe dieses Lied.......

[@MartiGrant-jc2gn]

Thank you John.

[@4EDoug]

If we ever dated, kissed or did more... Ladies Thanks 4 the memory, they will last 4EverEternal

[@musmus-culus]

Wonderful restoration! Thank you for that! Just one minor complaint, I wish you had included the hug at the end.

[@brian7333]

So glad to see today's kids appreciating this music instead of rap filth 😏

[@MPM.Mikus.P.]

Grandma and Grandpa People, whom fought in WW2.🧐

[@kevinpoveromo6324]

how refreshing

[@barbieham4644]

Thanks for the memories Brice Taylor

[@andrewbaroch2141]

Emailed this to Msry and Joe, my 30-somethings who haven't contacted me in ...what?...13 years. Someday....

[@hep2jive]

I miss you Barry.

[@a1wireless1964]

Little did anyone realize back then that this would become one of the most iconic pieces and most recognizable pieces of music in all of mankind period and i almost bat bob never realized that it would become his theme song And also a permanent connection to him

[@sharonhopper7015]

❤️

[@karenkuckinskas3995]

No wonder we didn't remember all the words

[@smck001]

Crooning par excellence.

[@jamesdunn7186]

I said in my previous comment that I thought she looked elegant - but my wasn't she lovely!

[@tomwashingtonjr848]

❤😢❤

[@rcnelson]

What is a day wire? Rhymes with haywire, but I can't find its definition anywhere. And was that a planned hiccup at 3:07?

[@sonnycorleone4964]

RC, the daywire was probably the news from the radio.

[@SMH24.7]

Hi there, RC...I have to believe that "day wire" is a somewhat poetic reference to what Western Union actually used to call a "day letter", a specific category of telegram. The categories included "Day Letter", "Night Message", "Night Letter," and others. Cost of the telegram varied accordingly. Telegrams were of course, still a popular form of long distance communication back then, and since the telegraph operators on both ends of the system could read the full contents of the "wire", the lyrics at 1:55, "letters with sweet little secrets, that couldn't be put in a day wire" makes sense. It may be that the term, "day wire" was not in common usage, but it rhymed with "hay wire...!!!" I absolutely love this scene. This is what "talent" looks like. Blessings...!

[@brucer9572]

@@SMH24.7 Bravo! I'll claim that you said it just right. (And I know one or two things about telegrams.)

[@njlillycline]

A telegram

[@steveforbes7718]

@@sonnycorleone4964 Nope! The comments about the telegraph are correct.

[@emcash7042]

That laugh at 2:33

[@steviegr36]

No one look at me-I'm crying.

[@brian7333]

I'm sitting here watching the 2023 Valspar with Schenk on the Leaderboard and I'm singing, "Schenks for the memory..." 🎶

[@steveforbes7718]

The what?

[@spindriftdrinker]

I have a feeling that Shirley Ross is actually doing her own singing.

[@steveforbes7718]

They all did their own singing back then. Those were live takes and seldom repeated because film was very expensive. If you pay attention they both had minor glitches in their performance. The were not bad enough to require a re-shoot.

[@אריאלהבטן]

"I want to have different ear lobes, hudson river" 👂🏻

[@maxgarza-k9h]

THANK YOU IVAN ARNOLD AMUSEMENTS

[@satori9928]

The grapes of wrath brought me there

[@vinnywarren2144]

They've cut out the word "Hash"from the original ? 😂how silly.

[@ColleenHogan-v6p]

😌😊

[@saarapollonen8138]

Anyone interested try Brice Taylor's Thanks for the memories. Paints a totally different picture about Bob Hope... And will change your perspective forever

[@anopinion9830]

Was looking for this comment the book is $90. I want to read before it’s gone forever too

[@saarapollonen8138]

@@anopinion9830 you can find it in PDF format for free! At least I did few months ago.

[@helitbroza6790]

The lyrics in the movie are diffrent from the original lyrics of the song. Anyone know why? Or where can I find ALLthe diffrent versions that Robin wrote?

[@NobleQuinn]

I just watched the movie "Thanks for the Memories" and this scene was not in the film. Where is it from?

[@VideoFunForAll]

The Big Broadcast of 1938

[@davidallen508]

I recently watched the movie “Thanks for the Memory” but this scene appeared to be deleted, the song appeared at the end of the film but not like this.

[@VideoFunForAll]

This scene is from the movie: "The Big Broadcast of 1938", after its success "Thanks for the Memory" became its successor.

[@davidallen508]

@@VideoFunForAll Thanks for putting me right.

[@tadstrange1465]

Thanks for the Medicare

[@GuyFierisShirt]

This beats fallout boy 100 to 1.

[@미쎼루]

Mafia Definitive Edition WLH Radio

[@waynejones2378]

I LOVE the song but it is an insult to me as a Black person to see how so many " miss those days"! I now realize where Trump's supporters are 😢!

[@martyheresniak5203]

Wow. Methinks your mindset is just a tad racist, what?

[@premanadi]

Most elderly white people were/are completely blind and oblivious to how things weren't quite so rosy for many other people during those days. All they remember is how good it supposedly was for them and their kind. (Of course that ignores things like how women were 2nd class, how LGBTQ people were completely erased, etc).

[@IncogNito-gg6uh]

I hardly think it is racist not being nostalgic for a period when a black person was expected to step off the sidewalk when a white approached or had to go to the back door of a diner to buy food or denied the use of restrooms at a gas station. On the other hand I don’t know why a black person should be insulted by a white person’s nostalgia for that period, although he could be if he believes that nostalgia automatically includes, “When coloreds knew their place.”

[@mauricioloayza1044]

Brice taylor..

[@heathcotepursuit8]

So many references to sex! filth from start to end! 😲😲😄

[@farmerbill6855]

How so? It's his ex wife.

[@steveforbes7718]

Hopefully that was a sarcastic remark.

[@ElliottMichaels56]

A little dated now, but still classic!

[@pwb5150]

When the hell did this ever seem modern to you? 😂

[@ElliottMichaels56]

@@pwb5150 Everything's relative.

[@ColonelMarcellus]

Thanks for the mammaries . . .

[@smck001]

Gay pyjamas LOL.

[@hopeinjesus8289]

Haha -- sure they're gay! 🎉

[@steveforbes7718]

Back the the word meant happy and joyful.

[@bpexodus]

What 2 cheaters say when they finally get caught. 😂