Frank Sinatra - "Boys And Girls Like You And Me" Outtake from Take Me Out To The Ball Game (1949)

This number was cut from the movie. The powers that be felt that it slowed down the movie too much. However, this number would have meant a lot to the story, because without this number you do not really see Sinatra really "go" for Garrett. This number shows them finally "together." There is an audio dropout in the middle of it, but glad that this was preserved and included in the Special Features on the DVD.

[@champabay3621]

In retrospect; never ever should a Sinatra performance ever been cut in any movie!!!

[@roblewis3565]

Sinatra on the cusp of greatness as a singer. Displaying his famous breath control across bridges. Betty Garrett confessed later she had a crush on Frank making this movie.

[@lrn_news9171]

Huh? Sinatra was phenomenal in the early 1940s and around this time he had issues with his voice from all the smoking, drinking and lack of sleep. He made a comeback anyway by changing his image and working with what he had.

[@retrosiren824]

I wish this didn’t get taken out of the movie. When they’re together you don’t see him truly falling for her she’s just bugging him until he gives in but I feel like there’s no genuine moment where he’s like huh she’s actually not so bad, I like her kind of moment or song.

[@DonizeteMesapereira]

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[@MarkBlackburnWPG]

Boys and Girls Like You and Me 39. Boys And Girls Like You And Me (FS - Film Studio Outtake) 40. Girl Talk (Frank Sinatra Jr. & Steve Tyrell) 41. For Me And My Gal (Harry Nilsson) Loved this segment, perhaps especially for including a pretty song I'd not heard before. Turns out the melody was written by my favorite composer, Richard Rodgers! Who knew? Chuck and Nancy, obviously. I was tempted to turn this into a trivia test: Quick quiz: Could you name a Richard Rodgers song, 'cut' from a hit Broadway show as well as TWO movie musicals? ---- Google for the song title, “Boys and Girls Like You and Me” and you're taken to a page called 'Wiki Sinatra.' (The song itself has no Wikipedia entry of its own.) It says, "Boys and Girls Like You and Me" is a song Frank Sinatra recorded for Columbia Records in 1948. Sinatra performed this song as an outtake from the film Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and it was not featured in the final production of the film. The Wiki Sinatra' page doesn't name the composers - Rodgers & Hammerstein, or that it was “withdrawn” from their first Broadway hit, 'Oklahoma!' before the show opened. The song isn't mentioned in Richard Rodgers' autobiography, while Oscar Hammerstein's own book -- “LYRICS” - has just a single-word reference: “Withdrawn” -- as in cut from Oklahoma!. Search KZbin and there's a Judy Garland rendition - cut from 'Meet Me in St. Louis' - before Sinatra's version was cut from Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Just checked the liner notes by “Charles L. Granata” written for the 6-CD “Hollywood” box set, where Chuck recalled that, Betty Garret Parks remembers the 1948 recording sessions for “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” and Frank “had a song that he was to sing to me, a lovely Rodgers & Hammerstein tune called 'Boys and Girls Like You And Me.' He was making take after take of this wonderful recording and they kept bugging him to 'speed it up'. They felt it was too slow, and Frank got very angry about it. He insisted on doing it the way he wanted to do it. It was beautiful and I thought to myself, 'They are telling Frank Sinatra how to sing a ballad? What is the matter with them?' Ultimately the song was cut from the picture, but I can tell you that he was right and they were wrong!” Love Hammerstein's simple, poignant lyric (with Frank substituting “lots of things” for “many”): “Songs, and kings, and many things, have their day and are gone / but boys and girls like you and me - we go on and on . . . ” Judy makes it a girl song, to a lovely orchestral arrangement (wonder who?). There were too many other good songs written especially for Meet Me in St. Louis: Besides the title track, the ones that made the cut were 'The Trolley Song' and 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.' Thanks for sharing, Night Owl TV. Celebrated this night at Sinatra Family - Forum - "Siriusly Sinatra" - NFF - Week of March 7, 2021 sinatrafamily.com/forum/showthread.php/51281-NFF-Week-of-March-7-2021-nbsp?p=1305481#post1305481

[@juancarlosreyesliz141]

Hello, can you tell me the title of the instrumental songs of this 1949 film, the ones that are heard in the background?? Greetings from Santiago, Dominican Republic

[@colinyork2215]

I wish this number made the movie. It really coulda helped the Garret Sinatra romance storyline.

[@GoddessNeith]

they're not miked during the speaking parts. just lipsyncing. but it's wonderful.

[@davidorganes8545]

Evidently the soundtrack of the dialogue was not preserved since the scene was not used in the final cut of the movie.

[@a75567556]

Is it will be possible that We can see Judy Garland sang the song in the "Meet me In St.Louise"?

[@whitneyryangarrity5265]

Judy Garland sang The Boy Next Door in Meet Me in St Louis. But apparently Boys and Girls was cut from the film, so you may have seen or heard an outtake

[@tiarailic4086]

Aww so cute🥰🥰

[@cjprentiss1]

How did one Rodgers and Hammerstein song get into this movie when they wrote nothing else for this movie?

[@michaeldanello3966]

The "audio drop out in the middle" was dialogue, not singing

[@retrosiren824]

Wait did they cut out their conversation too???? I couldn’t hear anything he was saying to her

[@davidorganes8545]

The film and pre-recording of the song were saved but apparently not the dialogue soundtrack.