Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - "I'll Never Smile Again" from Las Vegas Nights (1941)

[@usermikes]

You'll never see an era like this again..

[@Insert639]

That's what people in every era say...

[@RalphDratman]

@@Insert639 In a sense they are always right: no two eras are similar in all ways. But the implication that no era will ever be as great is not true.

[@duncanjaxson8422]

Instablaster.

[@margieniles7324]

@@Insert639 beautiful world, free of fat loud rude ugly feminists

[@michaelobrien8420]

@@margieniles7324 😂👍

[@brayliebutler8696]

The way they dressed, talked, sang it's so beautiful!

[@black.pewdiepie415]

CAP

[@JR-yr6fq]

@@black.pewdiepie415 why

[@summertimesadness7365]

@@black.pewdiepie415 nah bro, it was the best era, 1850-1999 best music time

[@metube3398]

​@@black.pewdiepie415you're stuck between 2000 and 2023, that's tight! free yourself and listen to older music, it is better and wider

[@farny8323]

​@@summertimesadness7365whats about 1850s?

[@JEGamingHD]

1940- I'll never smile again 2017- England is my city

[@r3tr025]

jayden elazzi 2018- bitch lasagna

[@kkorrupttt]

r3tr 0 2020- are u coming to the tre 🌲❤️

[@uggggggghhhhh]

no

[@JohnSmith-us2jx]

Used to listen to this on the radio with my Grandma during the war ... nearly 80-years later it brings tears to my eyes. Thanks Mr Sinatra and Mr Dorsey; they never bettered you.

[@_Random.Edits_]

I find this truly amazing thank you for sharing!

[@kelvinsurname7051]

Sir God bless you, I hope you are still alive and great health!

[@garryharriman7349]

❤

[@joezen1693]

I bet Gramz was lovely JS.. it is beautiful music.

[@edwinz3243]

I'm only a kid and I love this song

[@user-xo7pj7kg8c]

Sad to think that one day the last person who lived from that era will die, and there will be no one who will tell great stories from there generation.

[@whereswesker]

Wow that's deep......😭

[@ivetofta6084]

That era will never truly die as long as we can watch videos like this. The internet has preserved many generations. All of the movies, shows, music, and interviews are easily accessible in today’s world. That’s the power of technology :)

[@monicabella7894]

@@ivetofta6084 🙏♥️

[@anautisticpersonxd3324]

If people would keep watching this video it will never been forgotten 😊😊 if your talking about people who lived in the 1940s-30s sadly yes you’re correct

[@glesioferreira9872]

But,you must remember:EVERYBODY DIES ONE DAY....Dont'you?

[@L3a98]

My grandmother’s era. She was born in 1913 and passed away in 2011 aged 98.

[@funkyhombre]

Nice that she lived long

[@Kazukktv]

She's 2 years older than frank sinatra

[@lauracfont]

Oh god, this is beautiful. I'm sad there's no music like this anymore

[@aderramos3497]

Pero siempre estan estas joyas qué jamás se olvidan

[@vikingblood0408]

This song was written by Ruth Lowe, she was from Toronto. She wrote it for her man that went to war and never returned. Too bad for the interruption.

[@lindalund1852]

That's so sad. :-(

[@Mthomas116-t1m]

That is quite wrong actually. Ruth Lowe's husband died during heart surgery.

[@ivetofta6084]

@Michael Thomas Jr. I didn’t mean to laugh at that! It truly is still a sad story

[@legodudes11]

If you did just 5 seconds of research, you'd see that her husband died during surgery instead of making a claim like that

[@seawisp1167]

its nice to Listen to this kind of music and I'm 12 and I like this kind of music cause it gives me a idea of how the 1940 were so interesting

[@adilsoniglesias4703]

Rawdog 59 I am around your age and it always comes to me about the music from other time periods .Just like you I actually like it

[@jocelyndimas1675]

I love this music it aesthetically pleases me🤤

[@pansnow4631]

These types of musics calms me💙😍...... i love olden day music its so beautiful to listen to it

[@Ayaaaaaahh]

Omg girly same

[@mrhoovy889]

15... Love this song.

[@margeshilling7983]

Sinatra will always be in a class by himself. The best male singer who ever lived.

[@monicabella7894]

& that is Bing Crosby, although the early Sinatra was great

[@margeshilling7983]

@@monicabella7894 I liked Crosby but Sinatra still gets my vote.

[@Matt78collector]

Personally, I believe Al Bowlly to be the best male singer who ever lived, but I agree Frank was great!

[@margeshilling7983]

@@Matt78collector I'm not familiar with him. I'll check him out. Thanks!

[@Matt78collector]

@@margeshilling7983 He was a famous singer during the 1920s and 1930s, I hope you enjoy his music!

[@OldAirman2000]

I remember in the 60s, as a kid, my mom and dad would sit on the porch and listen to a 40s radio station from time to time. One day after coming in from playing, I was sitting with them and commented that the guy singing on the radio had a really good voice. My mom and dad looked at each other in amazement and smiled. Then dad asked me, "You don't know who that is?" I said, "No." He smiled at me and said, "Why that's Frank Sinatra. That is what he sounded like before he lost his voice." I was amazed. He sounded so different from the songs that I knew he sang in the 60s. Mom and dad used to comment when Sinatra sang on television that he didn't have a good voice anymore. They were right. He was fantastic during his big band days.

[@donaldbrenner9481]

I wonder what other artists would sound like after singing so many tunes for so many years. And still he was on the charts for 40 years. He left Columbia because he wouldn't sing the garbage tunes Mitch Miller, the head of Artist & Repertoire, wanted him to sing. Enter Guy Mitchell who would. Miller never pushed Sinatra's records because he was busy developing other artists: rosemary Clooney, Frankie Laine, Johnnie Ray, Dinah Shore and Guy Mitchell. Sinatra left there in late 1953 and was on the charts again in early 1954. Along the way, he had 10 top-20 hits during the 1950s. He stayed with them until he started his own record company, Reprise, in 1961. He signed Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1962, Trini Lopez in 1963, Beach boys, Cher, Eric Clapton, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Fats Domino, Depeche Mode, Fleetwood Mac, John Sebastian, etc. He had his last chart record with "New York, New York" in 1980. His next to last album "Duets" charted at #2.

[@legamature]

@@donaldbrenner9481 Great information Thanks

[@glesioferreira9872]

The voice change wen you to be OLD...This is a normal thing...

[@Ryan-qr8yl]

@@glesioferreira9872 sinatra was singing up to a 100 songs a day in his early years. He developed a voice hemmorage in his throat and stopped singing for years and went into acting. Then came back and still killed it. But the young sinatra had a golden voice.

[@otaviofigueiredo3047]

Beaultifull! Are you american?

[@alangordonflash9543]

It amazes me that this is the same guy who sang My Way 27 years later and went on to become the pop icon of the 20th century.There will never be anybody like that ever again!

[@glesioferreira9872]

I agree whith you...Francis Albert Sinatra is realy a icon of the 20th century...He's never will be forgoten...

[@silverdub2545]

Pity about the dialogue, but this is nevertheless a beautifully iconic clip. I believe it really captures the spirit of the period, and is a super cameo of the young Sinatra, as well as a taste of the Dorsey orchestra and Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers. What a lineup of talent! Thanks so much for posting this.

[@carter7937]

I was born 55 years after this but love this kind of music.

[@90sr27]

i actually love the dialogue it’s beautiful

[@Poisson4147]

If you know the song's backstory it's also achingly sad. Composer Ruth Lowe had lost her husband of less than a year and wrote the tune in an effort to overcome her grief. I can't imagine what she was going through.

[@tonywoodward1994]

I watch this video every night. I love Frank Sinatra

[@JohnSmith-us2jx]

When did this old world scratch 'style' from the dictionary. Just glad I'm an old guy who knew the best of it. Thanks Tommy, thanks Frank, great arrangment ... now that was style.

[@loge10]

And let's not forget Jo Stafford, singing here with the Pied Pipers - the most amazing voice of the 40's and 50's (IMHO)...

[@brianoyler4777]

loge10... Thank you for mentioning Jo Stafford. She was truly a singer's singer and one of the best female vocalists in the 40s and 50s.👍😁

[@Ilovesillyrobots]

Such short but extremely sentimental and powerful lyrics...

[@Poisson4147]

And achingly sad, if you know the backstory. Look up Ruth Lowe, the song's composer.

[@58jn89]

I wish that style comes back. Who's with me?

[@billwilly3950]

I am so thankful for these old movies, otherwise our past may not have preserved the live performances of the greatest generation of music there ever was!!

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Great song. Only because it was very early in his career, and he was not in the driver's seat -- could anyone get away with interrupting Sinatra. Especially in what would become a signature tune. Love Jo Stafford, standing there so cool with the backup singers.

[@robertovens9372]

This was the best Era for music,absolutely timeless! Beautiful!

[@poltergeist6692]

Im only 14 but when the girl and the boy started talking, i felt a pang of nostalgia hit me.

[@funkyhombre]

Nice you keep on loving this music I started liking this music at 10

[@perdizes1954]

Just wonderful.

[@laflame8548]

Damn... time flies....

[@rennerbd]

Frank Sinatra was singing with the Harry James Orchestra when the lead singer (Jack Leonard) with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra left. Harry James let Frank leave him to take the job with Tommy's orchestra who was big at the time. Frank stayed with Dorsey for almost 3 years until he borrowed money from Tommy Dorsey to go solo. He was replaced by a singer named Ken Curtis who later became an actor. You might remember him as Festus on "Gunsmoke".

[@jamesmurray3128]

This is wy my parents were such great people. They had things like this to enrich there lives.

[@jeromemartinez6415]

The sweetest song ever written!

[@edmund114]

May 23rd 1940, Frank, the Pied Pipers and Dorsey recorded their first big hit, "I'll Never Smile Again". It became "Number One" on the chart five months later. I wish I can find a backing track on this song...

[@dinocrocetti2950]

His voice is pure gold . How dare they speak while Frank’s singing !!!!!!!!!

[@bw8632]

What a beautiful song. Young Sinatra, Jo Stafford and that entire orchestra. What a time

[@DooWops4U2]

The crowd already was starting to sense a superstar in the making. The best was yet to come And so it did

[@eduardooviedo8495]

5 years and still listening to it as it was the first time

[@TheGodsrighthandman]

IMHO, Sinatra sung some of his best tunes whilst providing the vocal refrain for the Dorsey band . . . Just completely sublime.

[@ivetofta6084]

I love Sinatra so much! Even though he’s dead, he still has many teenage Bobby Soxers

[@johngale2548]

Songs were written properly back then and set to the right music..btw that Sinatra guy can also sing a little

[@janellerollins5893]

Wow. I thought it was just me. Who knows. He might have a little career...

[@billfelts3012]

Just great to hear this music again

[@ericinareis9717]

Ruth Lowe escreveu essa música para seu marido que morreu, quando tinham um ano de casados, durante uma cirurgia de emergência, no abdomen. Ela ganhou um concurso de músicas e o próprio Sinatra escolheu dentre milhares de outras. Ela voltou a casar e teve dois ou tres filhos, viveu feliz e morreu velhinha.

[@dhiradas108]

Jo Stafford was awesome too. Always on point.

[@mcdeadsquirrel]

This is a time that no one will ever appreciate who was born after 1950. Sorry, folks. This was one of a kind.

[@jasontrausch8069]

awe young frank

[@esmeephillips5888]

Virginia O'Brien said that MGM worried about Frank's face. He was a breech baby and they thought he looked too sinister and skinny to be a crooner. LOL at Vegas as the friendliest lil town. This was just before Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky & Co adopted it.

[@lakersfanplus]

Frank sings with the Pied Pipers and look closely and the girl singer is Jo Stafford.

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Of course, in 20/20 hindsight, none of us KNEW what we were actually watching - the birth on film of the man who would sing the soundtrack of our lives - Frank Sinatra.

[@blindalopez5198]

This song is so beautiful bro

[@piddles11]

Now this is Music!❤❤❤❤

[@SuperEddierivers]

That was the very first screen appearence of Frank.

[@michaelchapman4955]

Once upon a time when My dad was a returning WW11 Vet & working as an apprentice actor at the Geller Theatre Workshop on Wilshire & Fairfax & the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on 8th & Lucerne & His dad My Grandfather was managing the Hollywood Post Office on Wilcox Ave

[@NURREDIN]

PBS has a DVD available that has the complete performance without the dialog. it's on the Big Band dvd.

[@TheVCRTimeMachine]

Movie is named “Las Vegas Nights” This is the film set where Frank met Dorothy Gooding who became his live in mistress in L.A. while Nancy was living alone back east

[@miket851]

What a world it must have been when this was the #1 song, now its Drake and that sucks.

[@ivetofta6084]

Sad music like this will probably come back when another expensive world war happens

[@francky5451]

Listening this after "(There'll be A) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" shows how people's hope decreased at that period of WWII

[@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380]

band comes back to forefront @ 2:21

[@metube3398]

this is legendary

[@okayhehe7401]

“Speak loud and clear.. If you don’t you’ll never make history” I’m only 12 and gonna turn 13 But I love old music I don’t care what people say but I love it my friends think it’s werid but I think it’s lovely😊🖕

[@maybenotyt8353]

Okay Hehe just because u place a 🖕🏻doesn’t make it cool.. but it’s good that u don’t care what people care

[@user-km6ls8qw2n]

I’m 12 right now and love songs like this ✨

[@moreece5863]

@@user-km6ls8qw2n i want to be 12 again):

[@jynspotions7367]

@@user-km6ls8qw2n same! i turned twelve about a month ago

[@Luisrojas1945.]

Wow... hermosa canción...wow

[@bellini7verdi]

adorable frank sinatra...........................

[@mikeschneider1624]

i hated when the music stopped and loved it when realising how relevant the movie scene is to me in 2020

[@neptune8898]

Love it

[@someone1]

Thank you for the information in the description section. I like that.

[@ericbadia5]

What does the guy say to the woman he's talking to to get her name? Like he says that this place is called the friendliest little city in the world but right after that, he says something about calling people by its first name. What does he say exactly?

[@lonelyfish529]

its mean he already know people in town bec he see them all the time.

[@nadhiagurrola491]

Yes.

[@uselessproductions7867]

Tommy Dorsey is my first cousin three times removed on my mother's side.

[@laflame8548]

I wish I could talk to a Gal like that….

[@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380]

Great Post! Thanks!

[@90sr27]

how can u watch this movie i can’t seem to find it anywhere ?

[@funkyhombre]

Me too

[@phaasch]

Great. Sinatra's first film appearance, and he gets used as background to some cheesy dialogue. And I wonder what Mr Dorsey had to say about his orchestra being relegated to a backdrop? But then I guess he was a pragmatist. So long as it paid the bills....

[@sfc-syntheticfalloutcreato9962]

Would someone be able to split the audio from the dialogue removing that and just keeping the song? I mean the songs playing in the background but faintly

[@colejohnsondrums]

In my top 5 songa

[@jl-zn3os]

I love this music ansd im like 5 years old this is so great like I f u agreew,

[@cadeskywalker7]

I dedicate this to the future love of my life

[@Dumbashamedloser]

I thought that was Marlene Dietrich, because of the eyebrows, lol. When I heard her voice I knew it wasn’t her.

[@mamarremamarremamarremamar4092]

Here before tragedy

[@hildabusciglio]

que maravilla mi querido frank sinatra

[@Aesthetic-ev7nd]

sorry for ignorance ... but what's the movie called?

[@tonyhawkproskater2fan294]

Las Vegas

[@1ronnox]

Las Vegas Nights

[@Poisson4147]

It's right in the header for the post: *"... from Las Vegas Nights (1941)"*

[@colejx78]

where is this clip from?

[@andresjaramillo9683]

Rick D I wanna too know that

[@leehinshelwood3496]

Rick D From the film 'Las Vegas' 1941

[@TheVCRTimeMachine]

@@leehinshelwood3496 Las Vegas Nights

[@Poisson4147]

It's right in the header for the post: *"... from Las Vegas Nights (1941)"*

[@Piteco61]

Lindo!!!

[@fredlavenuta5857]

Was that Margaret Whiting alongside Sinatra?

[@Poisson4147]

Jo Stafford. As in "The Pied Pipers with Jo Stafford".

[@aarushi748]

Woah, this clip is from a year when my country (India) was still colonised.

[@Poisson4147]

* "Whoa"

[@AutieTeleDexBaBrBo]

It's FRANKIE!

[@vincenzo6162]

what movies this?

[@leehinshelwood3496]

"Las Vegas" 1941

[@Poisson4147]

It's right in the header for the post: *"... from Las Vegas Nights (1941)"*

[@chuckgray9058]

I guess Sinatra was famous for technique using a microphone.

[@philippejenvrin2741]

THE VOiCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thatbandcalledamanda]

fun fact: All of the people showed in this video are dead...RIP... :(

[@cloudyvisor5127]

Elite Gaming :(

[@lilkanegaming451]

lol thanks thats very funny :)

[@_chloerains]

So I looked up the cast. One of them is alive today, shes 91 years old.

[@SafaAlkan]

@@_chloerains who is she ?

[@bubabavu8627]

@@SafaAlkan yeah who?

[@thechrismackeyorchestra1042]

Las Vegas nights ?

[@strangelife0_0]

The Chris Mackey Orchestra yup

[@jonathancarey39]

When was Bob Hope in the band? That was him standing behind Sinatra

[@Poisson4147]

It's right in the header for the post: *"... from Las Vegas Nights (1941)"*

[@Oscar-yy8gp]

Sounds creepy af but cool 😊

[@divest_.2759]

ITS NOT NE-VAW-DAW ITS FOOKING NE-VA-THE >:( from someone in vegas

[@zyxwut321]

Think of what a guy hitting on a woman in a bar in Las Vegas would look like in the 2020s. LOL Far, far, far removed from this.

[@jamin12342]

He was 26 in this