Charlie Barnet - Skyliner

[@talbotvanman]

I had the pleasure of accompanying (on Drums) Charlie Barnet when he cruised with his wife on the Cunard Liner I worked on in 1963. He borrowed the bandleaders alto and we gave a concert for the ships crew featuring (of course!) Skyliner and Cherokee. He was a gent!!

[@lessthanzero1955]

Which of his wives was that? hmmmm? He had at least 11.

[@lulz_danny_1541]

No fucking way, tell more

[@CaptZdq1]

Lucky ducky.

[@brasil33]

What a memory that must have been! You’re a fortunate man! 👍🏼

[@SuperBC10]

Wow!

[@TheBoondoggler]

Imagine living during the time this music was the most popular. What a blessing.

[@robertchamberlain7202]

My computer and KZbin takes me back 80 years were I can enjoy the past 8 decades in music. What wonderful music and memories.thanks to all the people who makes this possible

[@albertadriftwood3612]

First rate band from an era that was far too short. Very sophisticated, and a joy to watch. Imagine hearing this live!

[@michaeljayklein500]

I once spoke to him on the phone when visiting my mom in San Diego in my teens. This was in 1978. I worked on a big band radio program in Atlantic City and was hoping he'd do a phone interview with us later. His name was in the phone book (he lived on Anchorage Drive, I remember that). He was as nice as could be and was rather pleased to know he was speaking to a 16-year-old fan.

[@brasil33]

Great memory for you 👍🏻

[@spikehofmann]

Thanks for sharing delightful story

[@filsgreen]

This just evokes memories of my long departed parents......

[@TheDrewmeister66]

Love this song. Love Big Band music period. Shame that music went downhill since then.

[@piercejanecek1764]

Charlie Barnett is great.

[@robkeeleycomposer]

Glorious. You don't need to to have lived in 1944 to feel nostalgia for that period. Makes you feel good to be alive.

[@stevesvideoentertainer]

I was born in 1944 and this music filled my soul 🙂

[@thebigfist]

Great find, Chuck. Charlie definitely had one of the most underrated of all of the big bands,Thas some all -star lineup he had!

[@EdVanMeyer]

One of my all time favourite tracks

[@pgcsec]

My father was conscripted into one of the tank regiments in the UK around 1946 or 47. As well as being a driver of the tank in Germany he volunteered to be the projectionist for films and the news reels. He always played this to let the troops know the film was about to start. We all thought it fitting to play it as his funeral.

[@johncoles-pw4qx]

Great to know that as we approach 2025 people still enjoy this music.

[@jjakiefte2165]

Lyman Vunk on the short trumpet bit, Barney Kessel on guitar.

[@johncoles-pw4qx]

I love big band and swing music it never fails to cheer me up, it wasn't a weapon in ww2 but it was certainly a morale booster, the axis had nothing like it, no wonder they lost.

[@msbony2u]

This was used as the theme song for a radio show on WJQS AM in Jackson, Miss., in the late '50's and early '60's, from 11 PM till 2 AM or so. They played great music on that station, which my dad managed.

[@pavelvasilyev3826]

no way, wow

[@msbony2u]

Yes, way!

[@donalddenton2297]

Whenever the crazy news gets too much, i spend an hour listening to this challenge.

[@ghairraigh]

"Skyliner" dropped out of the standard Big Band repertoire because it is just too hard to play those breaks with the brass pyramids at tempo. However, my Big Band ( the O.M.J.B.) performs it. I love the tension in the rhythm section between the bass/drums playing in "two" and the guitar playing a straight swinging "four".

[@SuperBC10]

It's a beautiful piece of musical language I think. I love the long tenuto notes in one passage followed by the staccato in the next - or even vice versa. You sort of get into that groove but it surprises you next time round. Beautiful.

[@andraxdosreis6570]

An amazing melody and band!!!

[@topazioazulazul]

This music makes me soooo happy!!! People that make this beautiful music are AMAZING!!!

[@irenekent4335]

Oh just wonderful love this music happy days for me

[@MrSpadeofAce]

i love this.. they were more classy back then

[@scotnick59]

D'ya think? yes = there seemed to be more class in the thirties/forties/fifties somehow

[@TheTricky411]

and racist

[@madkittylady]

@@TheTricky411Racism has gone on for centuries, not just during this era. Blame your whites for the slave trade, because that's what it all stems from. So from the days of Captain Cook, to President Biden............because of attitude, NOTHING changes!

[@vicsplace7708]

American troops in Munich in 1945 used this as a theme song for the show "Midnight in Munich.

[@andyong2494]

This was used as the theme song in our local Radio network in the mid-1950's for a program called "Spot the Favorites". Had to look our for Kelsey Grammer. Caught him on the left of the screen at about 1:22 Andy Ong - Singapore

[@gaspersacco9914]

Believe it or not , I took alto sax music lessons from one of the Charlie Barnet`s great sax players who also taught ! I was a 1950`s teenager in a Newark NJ high school dance band at the time!

[@krg1965]

Great cut - swings like a good 'un. I first heard the Ted Heath version and loved it ever since, wonderful to hear the original - thanks! Neal Hefti (RIP) was an absolute genius, responsible for another of my all-time favourites, Splanky. (Like another poster, I'm too young to remember the big band era, but luckily my Dad introduced me to the music...)

[@scottalexander7612]

Skylines was my parents fav when they were dating in 46… she still in the RAF, he demobbed from raf and working in Montreal mum from Scotland, dad a Yorkie. Really nice to have found this

[@tallpaul521]

Thanks. My favorite tune of Barnet's, who is sadly forgotten in the realm of Big Bands. Posted on May 16th -- my birthday. There used to be a video of Barnet doing "Cherokee" from a film, on You Tube, but it has disappeared.

[@brasil33]

I think it’s back on KZbin (2021)

[@akoripahs]

Re: stijnhouwer's question - I'm almost positive that Barney Kessel is the guitar soloist!

[@bandstand16]

Thank you so much, for 2 mins. and 52 seconds, I forgot about all the earthquakes, floods and poverty that's surrounding us. This music is from an era that will never be forgotten. The stage design reminded me of Ricky Ricardo's Tropicana Club...Wonderful...

[@johnnolan9312]

One of the truly great arrangements of the big band era. Right up there (almost) with Artie Shaw's Begin the Beguine.

[@abmrl14]

HOW COOL WAS THAT!!!!!!!!

[@MrRJDB1969]

The great Charlie Barnet !!

[@VallinSFAS]

ES-PECIALE: That split screen at the guitar solo groovin' wit' da bass. Yeah, Man!

[@evenstar0]

took a break from listening to a bunch of goth rock to revisit some of swing favorites, and this is one I haven't listened to since I was living at home and had it taped off the radio on a cassette, a few years ago... I love love love it! one of my absolute favorite charlie barnet tunes - when the saxes come in behind the trumpets and things at about 0:25 I get chills every time!

[@shirleybarratt6496]

Bloody great, reminds me of my mum she used to play it to death in the sixties

[@kurentbellsringing4306]

My dad just named this man as a great contribution to his 45 record collection . Thanks for your post , he got to enjoy tunes from his childhood. 🙏

[@josephpapalia7106]

One of the best bands coming out of the forties.

[@dept2]

The guitar player is a young Barney Kessel. There's also a young Doc Severinson in the trumpet section but you can't see him on the video. And..this is NOT live - it's pre-recorded!!!!! They are just playing along with an earlier recording.

[@timothyfioravanti7042]

Who is playing the piano?

[@RitaMahony-nn1lx]

Skyliner is one of my favourites. It is a flight of joy. And, yes, the music had class.

[@1948BigCy]

Neal WAS a genius. Check out his work with Count Basie. He also issued an album under his own name that is great. He was one of the BEST arrangers around!

[@XNYer68]

This IS one of my favorites from the Swing Era. There is just something I love about this tune.

[@orchardist1965]

Conjures the wonderful sight of lights of the airport coming into land.

[@ghairraigh]

This is a wonderful Charlie Barnet chart that we play in our big band. Unlike many swing era hits, "Skyliner" is largely forgotten and omitted from modern big band repertoire because it is so difficult to play. The repeated brass pyramid breaks where each horn enters in turn are hard to perform smoothly at tempo. Watch for the Barney Kessel guitar solo.

[@georgealfano6291]

I don't know that it is forgotten because it was the closing theme on the Tonight Show.

[@robertino2008]

gracias youtube por ésta herramienta, que nos permite escuchar lo que ya dabamos por perdido en nuestros oidos!!!!

[@schnieef]

The trombone section at 1:42 is something I can't get out of my ears.

[@MrsClippit]

Ive been humming this tune off and on for years but never knew the name of the song....My Mom used to listen to the Big Band music on KFI Los Angeles back in the 60s when i was little and this song was one they played all the time. So anyway,Im listening to XM Sirius Jazz Classics 40s and they played this song! So now i know the name! LOVE IT!!

[@zeekfromthecreek]

Yeah that's the downside of instrumental music. If no one's singing, it's hard to figure out what the title is. Of course sometimes it's pretty hard even if someone's singing.

[@muhammadomar2343]

one of the best jazz swing ever

[@johnholloway2445]

I HEARD BIG BANDS FIRST .........A BIG BAND BOOMER ....SO FAR SO GOOD .BIG BANDS FOREVER

[@Zartonistv]

One of my favorite pieces of music. Thanks for posting this live performance.

[@wadeharris65]

Actually Barnet's instrument is a straight soprano sax. As far as I know, Barnet never recorded on the clarinet, although I may be wrong.

[@rolandlundh1505]

Härligt och vilket gung det är !

[@pauldorobialski8871]

I have this & other musical selections by Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra on a 16mm short subject produced by Universal Studios.

[@EsquadrãoAço]

Particularmente é o trabalho do Charlie e sua Big Band, que mais aprecio.

[@wadeharris65]

Very true. Even in Glenn Miller's band, Tex Beneke would sometimes double on clarinet (and takes the clarinet solo on "By the Waters of Minnetonka").

[@patrickmartin925]

CONTINUE TO LOVE IT.

[@littlequacka]

So smooth.

[@enaj78]

Thanks so much for this. One of my favorite Barnet numbers.

[@heantonstudios]

this is truly great work an amazing sound, i no nothing much about big band music but i fell in love with this and as my dad 79 would say thats proper music. i used this for my mates stag do video check out Daves Stag Do Golf. music today well....lets not go there!!!

[@Queenmary1936]

Nothing epitomizes sailing day for the great ocean liners QUEEN MARY and QUEEN ELIZABETH than this song!

[@stunatox]

The "clarinet" Charley is playing is a soprano sax.

[@annabevivino9327]

Mi piace moltissimo

[@colinglass1342]

Fantastic love this 😀

[@22stublue]

Charlie Barnett...the epitomy of cool...

[@RatPfink66]

UPCUT! Dang it, so many of these rare old music films stop right before the ending.

[@Petox20x]

Perfect accompaniment for Martini- and Manhattan-fueled madness.

[@Thundermonkeyms]

@blazerwolfsmartt Just so you know, I think thats actually a soprano saxophone.

[@kansasross]

I was stationed in Japan during the Korean War. Each day at noon we listened to Honshu Hayride, a disk jockey program coming from Yokohama. The intro theme music at the beginning of the program was Skyliner, the wlole piece every day. I didn't know the name of it at that time but it became one of my lifetime favorite recordings, along with Shina-no Yoru, China Night, also played every day. I still love both of them. China Night was recorded by an American girl, Shirley Yamaguchi but it seemed to come right out of the soul of Japan..

[@slurpee27]

man... that is a toe-tapper!

[@carloscasarero2620]

Charlie Barnet : Ritmo Elegancia " una Caricia para el oído " !!!.

[@deralteu96dasboot]

the guitarist is definitely Turk van Lake!. Must Know it, cause he is my armenian uncle. Thank´s for posting!

[@deralteu96dasboot]

on drums hal hahn (one of the best drummers of his age!)

[@onlyme6662]

Love this song! 😁😁

[@mclaugtj]

It's a SOPRANO SAX, not a clarinet.

[@duncankimball]

I beg to differ with you on two counts, jonbecker. (1) Louis Jordan was HUGE - one of the first true crossover artists to gain a big following with both 'black' and 'white' audiences and score hits on both charts (2) Charlie Barnet's Orchestra could eat Glenn Miller's group for breakfast and still have room for more pancakes. 'Skyliner' is IMHO one of *the* greatest of all swing recordings - the original Decca cut is one of the most thrilling sides I've ever heard. Who produced it?

[@OLD_SOUL1900]

My favourite of Barnet's songs! Does anyone know the brand of silver clarinet he played on?

[@carloscasarero2620]

Virtuosos de la Música " que Perdura en el Tiempo ",. Que Ritmo en Cada Grupo de Músicos, dirigidos por el Gran Charlie Barnet.

[@daantemminkpiano]

amazing players

[@rogeralsop3479]

Wonderful band.

[@generationll]

Very nice.I also like Redskin Rhumba by him

[@thebigfist]

Great post, blazerwolfsmart!

[@blazerwolfsmartt]

Charlie Barnet on the clarinet of course, however Buddy DeFranco played for him for several years as the clarinetist!

[@davidreidenberg9941]

Soprano sax

[@guyperry4010]

Fabulous

[@donvito495]

Maravilhoso" Adoraria ter vivido nessa época, grandes musicos, grandes musicas.

[@vitorrenato984]

Quem diria, um camarada do Brasil! Realmente, a era do swing foi um período icônico na história da música, marcado pelo ritmo contagiante, as melodias cativantes e a energia vibrante. Um tempo que não volta mais...

[@владимирбражник-у8к]

Прекрасная мелодия.

[@annabevivino9327]

Stupenda.

[@jimthompson7402]

We used to say: Swing and sweat with Charlie Barnett.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Barnet

[@motokid413]

I'm 17 and i hope to spread this great music on to my friends! any suggestions?

[@somasohi3325]

EVERYWHERE AT THE EMPTY BALLROOM STAGE 3

[@juliourdinelizaga8763]

Es una música que transmite un optimismo un tanto kitsch y modo de vida americana

[@deralteu96dasboot]

the guitarist is definetily Turk Van Lake. Don´t forget that charlie Barnet made movies in 1945, end of 1945 was drum-chair-change from hal hahn (on drums to see HH)! to george jenkins (from the Lionel Hampton Band)

[@armsaleenak3200]

Great Brand

[@Bob-Horse]

Finished too soon, left off the wonderful ending.

[@karlruffing4237]

Is that Barney Kessel on guitar? It sure looks and sounds like him.

[@scotchrks]

Kelsey Grammer on Lead TROMBONE!! LOL

[@joylunn3445]

Yeah Kelsey swing it brother.

[@jimthompson7402]

Swing and sweat with Charlie Barnet.

[@davidfletcher7573]

I looks like a mid-40s "soundie"....the one-reeler video jukebox items that were popular then (you had to stare at a movieola screen). Could also be from a short subject film....not live, but produced in a small movie studio. From the haircuts, and Charlie's appearance, I'd date it to 1945. His Decca Records band from 43-46 had this sort of sound; electric guitar breaks start to show up on his records around 44. Does your video source have additional info? Decca single was in 44, wasn't it?

[@Suldog29]

Barnet is my favorite sax soloist. Hot band, although some of the arrangements seemed to peter out at the end, like the arranger was thinking, "OK, the solos are over, let's end it and move on to the next one."

[@jonbecker03]

@JiggyHo the people of the forties may have been "very tough." (in fact, i'm sure they were.) but the music they liked was, on the whole, sweet and sentimental (glenn miller, tommy dorsey, charlie barnett, etc.). there were tough, kickin' musical outfits out there (louis jordan, lionel hampton), but they didn't have huge audiences. this was especially true of white swing fans.

[@neuzasantos2777]

Amei!!! e cadê "Early Autumn"

[@khussein6409]

COOL!!!

[@detlevgrossman9203]

A r d sportschau 1969