Harry James & Helen Forrest I've Heard That Song Before

I have tried to make video clips fit the song instead of just pictures, therefore it is not always quite in sync. However the recorded music is worth a listen.

[@richarduhlman7245]

This Grandfather still loves this song - Harry & Helen can't be beat,,

[@DerrickWindsor]

No screeching and screaming - just melody and charm!

[@loiswinters8779]

Now, I am approaching my 90th and I remember jitterbugging to this in high school. Loved the Harry James trumpet.

[@tuffyrhodes3830]

I'm 62 and just discovered Harry James and Helen Forest a couple years ago. Modern music has truly digressed and going back in time and discovering treasures like this well.... that's entertainment!

[@rosa7236]

I bet you could really cut that rug Lois!

[@edludwig1337]

78rpm records of these songs still out there and or cds still available...buy em,play em, i do,to hell with today's music.

[@FelicityAnn]

The #1 song on Tuesday, April 6th 1943 was: I've Heard That Song Before by Harry James and His Orchestra This is the day I was born...

[@veejean4149]

I was born July the same year nice to know this was the music at that time.

[@julesgoudy5887]

As I approach my 90th, and listen to these favorites, they take me back to teenage when I was in love with all the pretty girls and the lyrics said it all.

[@janwintz8372]

When was your birthday, Jules?? In May, before the 21st? If so, you are also Taurus! We love our music, don't we! Good health and much happiness throughout your ninety-first year!!! Congratulations, dear! 😉 Jan

[@ItsIdaho]

Jules Goudy whoa. I am just 17 and love this.

[@scotnick59]

It must have been a really great time to live.

[@soniasutcliffe7270]

We were so lucky to grow up in this era! After 1945 everything was just getting better and better. Except for the music, perhaps.

[@JoeHarkinsHimself]

@@scotnick59 trust me - it was. 87y.o. now but was in my teens and early 20s when this was what was.

[@jeromewhelan6723]

Approaching 73 years old here and this is the music I learned to love while growing up , listening to it as my parents played it. for me, this was the height of appreciable music; the melodies smooth and pleasurable, the lyrics clear and understandable.

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

I'm 75 and feel the same way!

[@paulphelps7809]

Fabulous music. Harry James --what a treasure.

[@geraldjampol3120]

Songs like this are no longer written. Music today has to be atonal and raucous to appeal to younger listeners. We're fortunate to live in an age when there are quality recordings of melodious tunes and pleasant voices from the distant past. A hundred years from now these songs will still be played. I can't say the same for most of today's music.

[@roykaneshiro8583]

This melody, I can't or I just won't let it leave my mind and heart. What is it about a tune that reaches way down into your soul and makes you melt. It brings tears to my eyes. I'm 80 and a veteran.

[@trc3675]

@@roykaneshiro8583 Hi Roy, yes that's the only way I can describe certain music too. It reaches the soul where our intellect, emotions, and spirit are all at. What a wonderful and mysterious realm! Well goodbye and thank you for serving our great country!

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

Music today is outright garbage.

[@geraldjampol3120]

Calling it music is too much of a compliment. I fear we'll never again see the likes of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, The Gershwin brothers and the other superstars of that era.

[@kyaramunzani1784]

My grandpa was born in 1942 when this song was released. After he passed away, I would often picture him in my dreams walking around town and he would be young and this song would play in the background, he had really good style back in the day. He was so adorable and happy every time he would come and say hi to me, it used to warm my heart by a lot. I miss him so much everyday and will always remember the amount of joy that comes into his face whenever I see him. I love you Grandpa

[@David-sv7by]

Everyone on point, dressed to impress and being supremely professional. Greetings from Southampton England.

[@janebruce3939]

They look awesome, and oh HELLO Harry! Xxx

[@Thomassonable]

What a gorgious song!. A whole generation that had loved this melody is now passing away (including my parents). I am very glad you put it on KZbin so Harry James and Helen Forest can live forever.

[@marywalker9423]

My brother celebrated his 101 Birthday yesterday. He really enjoys hearing these wonderful songs from his youth and hearing them overseas.

[@eloiselockett9001]

​@@marywalker9423 wow! Hope you all had a lovely day.

[@brucer9572]

Thank you for this beautiful video! I like the way that you treat Helen Forrest. She comes out and knocks everybody out of their seats.

[@nancytuck5041]

Such beautiful music. Totally timeless! ❤️

[@Kelly-nm4kw]

Hello Nancy, How are you doing?

[@tuffyrhodes3830]

It seems I have heard this song before and still love 💕 it!

[@mockingbirdjane2289]

One of the best songs of all time.

[@thomassicard3733]

Helen sounds so great! What a pleasure!!!!!

[@ItsIdaho]

Has to be my most favourite song. Love the Trumpet Intro.

[@death2pc]

Great melody, tempo - beat. This song has it ALL..............

[@marcelozeas5046]

What a nice piece. Muy father taugth me to love this kind of music.

[@boba7149]

i never heard helen before and i’m 53 and love her voice i need to buy her cd !!!!!

[@karma-tf2tl]

These two are the perfect duo

[@Jokesta]

Grandpa loved this song

[@ashleyknofel226]

this is a great dance tune from the 1940's , an era that we will never see again. helan Forrest does a great job. ashley knofel.

[@loiswinters8779]

Nice to see I'm not the only one listening to the good old songs.

[@graemeakerman1739]

Up until covid struck, we could still go and dance to this music with a 16 piece big band and singers who knew the songs, it was heaven. Hopefully this year, we will be able to do it again.

[@elisabetyyy8260]

Me encanta esta música, q nunca pasa d moda. Fue música d ayer , de hoy y será d siempre. Siempre recordaré estás grandes orquestas con gran admiración y respeto. Son inolvidables!!!

[@bblegacy]

Helen Forrest rightfully earned her tag line the Queen of the Girl Singers. She sang with Shaw, Goodman and James and there isn't one record in the whole lot that isn't good, if not great.

[@markpicknell6240]

Fab song and lovely lyrics Helen sang with so many big bands Beautiful voice

[@xiolaamapola3180]

Beautiful.....just beautiful.

[@triode1]

I met Helen Forest in 1953, at the Cavalier Hotel in Va Beach. 🌹

[@FallNorth]

Helen Forrest = vocal perfection.

[@f.a.r9372]

It seems to me I've heard that song before It's from an old familiar score I know it well, that melody It's funny how a theme recalls a favorite dream A dream that brought you so close to me I know each word because I've heard that song before The lyrics said "Forever more" Forever more's a memory Please have them play it again And I'll remember just when I heard that lovely song before

[@TheInquisitiveCat]

Great music and voice!

[@EcoRevolucionUrbana]

CANT STOP PLAYING THIS!

[@104iq]

yes!

[@antoniocifuentes5495]

Harry James was the master of the trumpet. This musical piece is a proof of that.

[@Hutzjohn]

Yes I remember someone was being interviewed and he said Harry would walk in just minutes before his show and just go out, pick up his trumpet and just play because he did not need a warm-up. It was some musician from that era and he said Harry was that good, and he didn't know any other musician that could do that. So Harry was arguably the best trumpet player ever.

[@fernmann7]

Harry James is the standard for everything you'd want from a trumpet player, showmanship included, plus gambling, drinking and womanizing to add some spice

[@despinamu1]

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[@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565]

Una gran melodía en evocar un estilo único e irrepetible de una era dorada.

[@trinitylee3466]

I love this song as well as other songs by artists around this time period... Nat King Cole, The Andrew's Sisters, Mills Brothers, Peggy Lee etc. Strange how all this music is lost to my generation now though, most of the people listening to this are more than half my age

[@ignacioaltuna785]

¡Qué dulce elixir! Cuánta gloria escuchar esos armoniosos sonidos, esa voz angelical y ese ritmo, que haría danzar hasta a los más rengos... Ni qué hablar de la canción, amable, sensible, adorable: tal era la música de los viejos buenos tiempos, de cuando las damas éso eran, y los varones procurábamos ser muy hombres... Todo pasa, todo cambia, pero estos sones serán por siempre inmortales, mientras los discos giren, los filmes sean dados y You Tube conserve estos archivos..! Chau! Desde BA, Nacho!

[@valuevinyl110]

What a sweet elixir! How much glory to hear those harmonious sounds, that angelic voice and that rhythm, which would make even the most popular dance ... Not to mention the song, kind, sensitive, adorable: such was the music of the good old days, when the ladies that were, and the men we tried to be very men ... Everything happens, everything changes, but these sounds will be forever immortal, as long as the discs spin, the films are given and You Tube keep these files ..! Bye! From BA, Nacho!

[@twinmaker1]

@@valuevinyl110 Thanks for the translation, that was really sweet of you to do for them

[@bobboscarato1313]

Hola Ignacio; yo no sabia que eres tan poetico; felicidad y felicitaciones. Eres puro genio!

[@ignacioaltuna785]

@@bobboscarato1313 Gracias, Bob! (sí, soy un corazón andante, romántico incurable, tierno como el agua, siempre enamorado de las damas dulces...). Chau!, N.

[@bobboscarato1313]

@@ignacioaltuna785 Super Duper! Ditto, B.

[@amyomeara2515]

My son is 12 and plays the trumpet. I’ve for the original sheets from this, an old friend of my father’s passed his music collection. He’s working on it now - so glad this is on KZbin for him to hear the original. ❤️

[@maureen1938]

Thank you for posting this beautiful share. I love Helen Forrest and the Big Bands era....magical times these were.

[@fernandofausto7626]

love Harry James & Helen Forest.

[@midgemorris7636]

Fernando Fausto 0lay

[@RobertSilvestri86]

This was the #1 song on April 28, 1943 !

[@drewsagar2634]

I've always loved this song. Funny now that I'm in my 50's I can relate to the lyrics as to how songs from the 70's inspire nostalgia Thanks for uploading

[@philsimpson2587]

This is just fantastic stuff

[@dwaynebrue6028]

The Legendary Harry James and Helen Forrest!!!!! The Greatest music ever!!!!

[@davidlabarca4268]

Hannah and her Sisters was as great as any Woody Allen film soundtrack. And the start of this song is big reason why.

[@RoryVanucchi]

One of the big ones in an era of big ones. Arguable Harry and Les Brown closed out the big band era. Ellington, Goodman, Basie, Dorsey, Chuck Webb, Artic Shaw and others got it rolling. Krupa with Eldridge and O'Day were big too. Guys like Harry, Woody Herman, Ellington, Basie and later Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Thad Jones kept it thriving until they passed. Nothing more exciting than a great brass section. All distant memories of a time passed

[@moisescedenoorozco4356]

Disfruto al maximo con James esta melodia

[@oscarguerrerobanda3416]

Thanks Helen and Harry forma you Música!!!❤

[@user-es3zs9qo8i]

класно играл. слушаю всегда с удовольствием. и певица что надо.большое спасибо что есть возможность наслаждаться игрой.

[@voicegirl555]

Happy Birthday Harry James! Boy you were a great trumpet player. I'd give anything to have seen you play back in the 40s and Helen sing.

[@remigerits8274]

Remi Gerits wat is dat voor een mooie nummer helen & harry

[@jason60chev]

I've heard this before!

[@debztv-6245]

God, shes beautiful...

[@scotnick59]

She would have liked to have heard that, Sebastian; she never thought herself pretty enough

[@nicolasolmosolmos1657]

WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE HAVING KZbin THAT PERMITS US ENJOY THIS WONDERFUL MUSIC BETTER THAN NOWADAYS SHIT MUSIC

[@Thomassonable]

@Niclas Olmos. KZbin is a blessing for us and the next generations.

[@nothanks5570]

THANK YOU, TIMMY. THIS IS THE KIND OF COMMENTARY I LIVE FOR THE KIND THAT WAS WRITTEN BY TODDLERS WHO ACCIDENTLY CLICKED ON THE CAPITAL LETTER LOCK.

[@josvandeursen727]

Amen to that!

[@stevetchia]

Heard this first in a Woody Allen movie - think it ‘Hannah’ not ‘Zelig’ - never forgot its stirring effects 30+ years since. Thanks for the memories.

[@brent6518]

True music!

[@garywall8678]

I simply love the man with his horn. I got to see him live at Disneyland

[@romcallis]

What an era? I was born 20 years too late

[@TaylorplayerforJesus]

Thank you very much for Harry James. Great for baritone ukulele. Everyone remembers Harry James at Old Time Fiddlers. I get to remember my parents when I perform it and you can play it for young people to remind them that so many people's lives were disrupted by having to fight in the war. Great videio. Good job.

[@BigSpiderback]

Beautiful pictures, sound and great song

[@debbierosauer9948]

Takes me back...the best!

[@barbarabeard4181]

My dad that ❤was pure music.I agree ❤

[@billfennelly4053]

I’m a child of the 50s rock and roll and all that but I love the Big Band sound

[@titasantiniE]

Great, amazing, marvelous.......

[@cynthialyman2636]

Love love love it!!!!!💟❤

[@Kelly-nm4kw]

Hello Cynthia, How are you doing?

[@boba7149]

love this song reminds me of grandpa i love helens voice !!!$

[@Jinkinsonsasa]

What great music

[@LudiusQuassas]

This... Aww... Is so cute and well talented! That's why I love these songs!

[@jorgegoren4286]

Wonderful times

[@psympson]

Oh, A BIG, BiG THANK YOU WOODY!

[@annrichman6551]

He could sure make that horn wail

[@StGeorgeFred]

Good job, one of my favorites.

[@novelliification]

Delicioso esse timbre do trompet de Harry James.

[@daveday5507]

Bob Pollards baritone did a remarkable impersonation of Corky Corcorans tenor. Well done.

[@brightphoebus]

Fantastic. Great sing along song. The 40's seems so close. Enjoyed your vid.

[@Kroonerguy]

Pretty good job, especially at the end with the Baritone Sax.

[@slokind5244]

This is the recording I remember (and which I'm writing about, sort of). we all liked Harry James in this period, and Helen Forrest seems unbeatable as a band soloist. See my current TeeGeeEssays blogpost. It this one won't load, there are half a dozen others by Harry James that do. Also see the Images for Joseph Pulitzer.

[@aphguy]

I love Helen Forrest.

[@joeoverby7039]

love it!jo atlanta ga

[@rolandlundh1505]

Härligt gung och sång

[@russphilly]

well done..most enjoyed :)

[@dejathoris3181]

You did a good job. Thanks

[@princesitapato9640]

Woo que hermoso 💓

[@argus42]

great, great people

[@sandrast.]

Great!

[@robzoneutube]

Song: "I've Heard That Song Before" Artist: Harry James Consecutive Weeks at No. 1 on Chart in 1943: 12

[@MaddieSchnitzel]

from pretty famous ? 😋

[@southbend3406]

Remember my mom singing this...when she heard something from the past she didn't believe.

[@perohlindead]

it's forttunate to see the original video !!!!!

[@AndrewMaciejewski]

osha25 unfortunately the video isnt the original... this is just the audio placed over another random performance of James'

[@spindalis79]

I just found out about this great Big Band song from the 40s. (1943?) Ironically it is mere hours from Helen Forrest's would-be 100th birthday.

[@YUGOMUSIC]

all of me. why not take all of me. cant you see im no good without youuuuu

[@stretchedout6600]

1940s uso dance free beer damn what a great time it must of been

[@cristianvalenzuela3796]

Con gusto me tomaría ese cafe

[@mrjimmienoone2130]

Young people, can you imagine this: You could give these old guys an instrument into their hands, and they started to make fine music. No electrics, no technical gimmicks, no background helpers... needed. Sometimes, they didn't even have notes, then they played head arrangements. I'm not kidding! They didn't have fancy clothes, they didn't dance, there was no refined camera and blue box work to pep up the performance. They just made music. Incredible, isn't it?

[@renison873]

MrJimmienoone yes, yes it

[@alanashe873]

if you love this music try 101.7 capital radio every Saturday 12.00 pm perth western australia

[@trekker4254]

sweet :)

[@jamesngetha6760]

I do wonder what song Harry and the band are playing in the video clip.

[@ronaldcammarata3422]

I pretty much always prefer original recordings to later hifi versions.

[@briddoful]

Thanks brightphoebus. I would have liked to do better with the video but the clip of Harry James brought back good memories.

[@antoniasanchez3214]

hummmmmm!!!

[@ArtigasMillan]

¿porqué cortan el vídeo cuando va aparecer la cantante?

[@anthonyborgia3064]

Hey i just heard this song sung by someone else earlier today

[@kerstindahlqvist9641]

What is the instrument called that Bob Pollard plays? English is not My native language.

[@kerstindahlqvist9641]

From What year isthis?