It Had To Be You (1936) - Ruth Etting

Lyrics by Gus Kahn Music by Isham Jones (c) 1924
Performed by Ruth Etting
From the film: Melody in May (1936)

[@RJ-ql6ff]

Lovely singing and orchestration.

[@TheSilvergold45]

ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS EVER WRITTEN AND SUNG.. THANK YOU GUS KAHN AND ISHAM JONES..

[@patriciafusaro7648]

This was our wedding song 1962....First time hearing this version..Absolutely love it...Great music & vocal....

[@Mohd_Kaif69]

Your wedding song

[@MrMemeGaming]

@@Mohd_Kaif69 his wedding song

[@roccovitiello7031]

Great voice great singer I've got over 80 of her songs on my Ipad

[@stephenstephen1505]

Another lovely romantic old song

[@jamesjordan5214]

Ruth is one of my favorite singers, as is Annette Hanshaw, both from the wonderful 1920's. We will never see or hear their like again. Sigh.

[@davidbrown7931]

I totally agree. Im reading her biography now. I have some of her original 78 records

[@noahpettitt8533]

David Brown Lucky, would love to have some.

[@1943ofour]

I love this type of singing. I understand all of the words. Beautiful song.

[@johnwhitehead3360]

GREAT OLD SONG GREAT SINGER - THANK YOU

[@mariehmarieann]

One of my favorite songs from that era. Ruth sings it wonderfully.

[@Mamamush]

One of the best performances. Just magically

[@josefinamartinez2251]

Beautiful song and voice

[@davidhartley8049]

I DON'T REMEMBER RUTH ETTING SHE WAS LONG BEFORE MY TIME BUT WHAT A GREAT SINGER SHE WAS DORIS DAY DID HER PROUD IN THE FILM LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME BUT RUTH ETTING DIDN'T LIKE THE FILM BECAUSE A LOT OF IT WASN'T TRUE

[@johnw3456]

Tremendous film clip. Great song and superb singer. Great feeling and every word so clear

[@DaisyAnnabelle65]

I love her! ❤️

[@FernandoNunes_SJC]

Beautiful!!!

[@PMKehoe]

By the mid-1930s - as shown here - those rolling 20s affectations in her voice had been dropped and her sound simplified to allow the clarity, diction and more natural intonations of her voice to come through... AND WHAT A VOICE... it's certainly a voice from the earliest side of the "American Song Book" but there's such emotionally honesty and a kind of worldly sincerity premeating each word... very impressive pop(ular) singer/song stylist... P

[@cbowenrb75vl]

Well Said

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Perfectly put

[@bingo1232]

Such style and grace!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@emilyleo1435]

What a memories

[@jmrodas9]

Beautiful song I have enjoyed in many different versions. It is from before my own time really but is veryh good to hear those songs with clear words so one can easily understand what is being said. And the best only decent correct words are used not those ugly vulgar and profane words that ruin so many songs today. It is indeed a pleasure to hear a real Lady singing.

[@vy4129]

mesmerizing.

[@jgaunt1]

Great!

[@christianlacroix9133]

love

[@roccovitiello7031]

When I build my time machine I'll give you one guess as to where I'm going.

[@MrPizza063]

that would be an awesome time to re visit

[@TheOriginalShoneBoyOnYT]

Stopping fdr from signing into law the national firearms act

[@dorisd436]

Thank you Charlie! What great memories..gotta love it..cant remember her but its wonderful...sure heard it often...oh wait sure do remember Helen Forrest and Harry James! Ohmygosh how long ago?

[@SEB1991SEB]

That couple are so cute!

[@areittesabado5651]

Inaantok ako sa boses nya na parang nasa loob ako ng cartoon world, nakaka relax ung voice..

[@Radiotron47]

This is Priceless 💕

[@emileemartin3553]

It had to be you It had to be you I wandered around And finally found The somebody who Could make me be true, Could make me feel blue, And even be glad just to be sad Thinkin’ of you. Some others I’ve seen Might never be mean Might never be cross Or try to be boss, But they wouldn’t do. For nobody else Gave me a thrill. With all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you.

[@kendalllaughon9664]

Timeless..... Eternity!!!

[@mariacarmen3667]

Gracias

[@garymazzeo3490]

Stop wasting everyones time.Big deal you know the words ...showoff!

[@MarklovesAngels]

what great lyrics that capture the contradictions of falling in love. Beautifully sung!

[@waynebrasler]

At this point she had markedly matured as an artist and shed all her affectations and the difference is a revelation. Here she is totally contemporary and would today sound right in place. Ruth was so offended when Doris Day said, making "Love Me or Leave Me," I never could understand why anyone would be a kept woman." It's not how Ruth thought of herself. What is most notable about Ruth I think is the amount of truly great American songs she recorded and made forever popular. She had a magic touch.

[@mamatibborscassady9388]

Doris had no kind of life understandings....................

[@waynebrasler]

mamatibbors cassady Actually, Doris the public figure never approached the topic of life beyond that of the sunny, All American up through the 1950s. But don't confuse the star who gave the public the person they expected with the person. She had a rough childhood. Her music teacher father had an affair and had it in a bedroom next to Doris' when she was very young. She said, "I heard everything, and I mean everything." Her parents divorced and her mother struggled to keep Doris and her brother living a decent life. Doris' brother had an accident which affected the rest of his life. Doris studied singing and dancing and was about to be on her way to Hollywood when a train slammed into the car in which she riding. She couldn't walk on her own for a year. WIth her buttery voice, engaging phrasing, good looks and great personalty, she ended up on radio, then became a famous big band singer, then went to Hollywood and we know the rest (including four marriages, none of them in the end happy). She did a long running T.V. show because she had to do it to fulfill a contract she did not even know of. She underwent several illnesses. She lost her beloved and talented son Terry. She saw and understood a lot of life. She was not a lovely little flower or dumpling but a strong (even headstrong), self-reliant, ambitious, hardworking lady. She understood life more than most people could or would, believe me. Her most distinctive quality was her utter lack of the phony. Who you saw on screen, who you heard on her records, was the same person you saw in real life. She just has never had a phony bone in her body. She never took being a star seriously; it was the job, responsibilities and a commitment to doing her best she took seriously. And the face she gave the public was part of that responsibility. As for comment on Ruth Etting, Doris was not making a moral judgment. She was saying she didn't understand any woman who would rely on a man to run her life and control her (ironic, because Doris' husband at the time was doing just that without her knowing) much less bring violence into her life. At 90, Doris Day looks, sounds, walks, talks like Doris Day. She understands life more than you and I will ever be equipped to understand.

[@noorclean2915]

Funny because i love both songs

[@jimthompson606]

@@waynebrasler I greatly appreciate your remarks about Ruth Etting and Doris Day, both informed and compassionate.

[@ToahNur]

Wonderful, really wonderful ❤

[@maureen1938]

BEAUTIFUL....Thanks for posting this lovely share.

[@cezar1951]

Love it!! Tks...

[@Snails451]

Thank you!

[@davidbrown7931]

Wonderful song. Im reading ger biography atm. I have some of her original 78 records

[@user-jg7fl5tx6m]

Прекрасная редкая запись. Эту певицу слушаю благодаря Ю Тубу. Спасибо за запись.

[@MrMizzantrop]

Я вообще знаю о ней благодаря сериалу Карнавал.

[@orchardist1965]

Wonderful recording,thank you for the bonus of the film clip.

[@promisepope8888]

The young man in this clip is Frank Coghlan Jr. If he looks vaguely familiar, it may be because he is the young Tom Powers in "The Public Enemy" from five years earlier. He doesn't look a thing like James Cagney, who played the older Tom, but many people say that is because he was cast when Edward Woods was going to play Tom. However, he doesn't look like him, either. They should have cast Mickey Rooney as young Tom. That aside, this is a swell song with Ruth Etting.

[@iadorenewyork1]

Well, he is certainly very cute! Neat performance scene in general.

[@josephcarter5101]

WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, But... What a fool that guy was running away from such a lovely lady.

[@HOUNDDAWG]

Really good music, James. The early 20th century was quite colorful, what with "Moe the Gimp" as Ruth's manager-husband.

[@washburnroad8816]

Better than my still intact disc - thanks! So many scrathes...😗

[@arielblue]

Remember this song on A League of there Own.

[@kimnamjoon2638]

Lindooo!!!

[@raymondpolly73]

The song that brings forth tears. Lost love. So many have been sad hearing.

[@judyalcatraz918]

a league of their own brought me here 👍👍👍

[@NuisanceMan]

That poor guy. "It had to be you two."

[@thinkinoutloud.1]

And that was the style back in those days...poop poop Dee doop.

[@tammymcnabb7743]

This was so awesome! What movie was this from.

[@rextony22]

is she original singer? nice song

[@JohnStephenDwyer]

+rextony22 No. This song was first published in 1924 and several artists released versions of it that same year. Etting became associated with this song via the 1936 short film "Melody in May."

[@rextony22]

thanks for the tip

[@anakinskywalker1344]

Bioshock 2

[@LAlibrostututu]

And 1

[@OIdiesCentral]

When music was all about class,love and devotion and not satanism,like it is today.

[@foxstars8760]

I don’t think you understand Satanism..

[@carsonkoehnen]

I don't think you understand today

[@Galaxxi]

ok boomer

[@UdodaTube]

Actually not. Go on Spotify and search 1920 and 1910. There are some songs that are just as derogatory but of course today's music uses tons of profanity

[@davidhartley8049]

I DON'T REMEMBER

[@arabarian]

Where did he go?

[@2Granule]

@ Clarke Statham: why do some guys want to look like women of the 1920s and 1930s? If you are going to be a cross dresser or homosexual it seems like it would be better to be an original, not a bizarre clone of Mae West --- seems to me.

[@Barbstexas]

You again. You sure watch a lot of what you claim to despise.

[@Falcogaybirdies]

Because then, Men had lots and lots of privileges that women didn't have.

[@artistphx]

Whatever it takes to ring your bells. I don't understand it my self but if it makes them happy, why not?

[@btsk-pop1471]

Tom Tall I don't understand your problem !?

[@sinisterteaser4464]

They wore mascara and a little bit of lipstick so they didn’t appear as featureless ghosts on the s’invente shitty cameras

[@Annabanana5526]

Often used on Looney Tunes