Hoagy was a genius and more than a bit subversive. A perfect example of this is at 14:00: The Hong Kong Blues, a wonderfully subtle ode to Opium. While he avoided sure controversy by switching the word "opium" to "loco man" on this show, Hoagy left in the lyric (2x) about "kicking old Buddha's gong". It's also worthy to note that Hoagy changed the original subject of the song to "an unfortunate Memphis man", from "an unfortunate colored man".
@patriciaallen20893 жыл бұрын
Beautiful version of stardust
@donnavaughn94092 жыл бұрын
I am 70 and I sang that song with friends when we lived on Oahu in the early 1960's, and I swear I hadn't heard it for decades until listening to this program. Never saw H. Carmichael before and always thought he was black because of his name, for some reason. Someone should write a screenplay about his life, it could be interesting. People in those days, did not have the daily interruptions like we do now, and their minds were able to come up with tunes and words easier I believe.
@DOOMJESUS Жыл бұрын
PERHAPS YOU JUST ROMANTICIZE YOUR OWN DRUG USE AS MOST ADDICTS DO; BUT THE SONG IS NOT AN "ODE TO OPIUM", IT IS A CAUTIONARY TALE.
@BlueBeeThemeMusic Жыл бұрын
Your contentions only lack proof. Proof.
@onenamlit3861 Жыл бұрын
@@DOOMJESUS of course it's an ode to opium. It is also a cautionary tale. Not all odes are positive. And why are you yelling?
@colinwarner77623 жыл бұрын
Hoagy was a master at his music and Ernie had a fantastic voice Boy, we had the best of music from the 30s through to about 69.
@jugglenautics3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. This was a golden age for live television. The animated Peanuts intro and the live commercials are awesome. I
@hughmanatee76572 жыл бұрын
Hoagy-one of the giants of the “American Songbook”!
@cynthiarowley719 Жыл бұрын
You might have your favorite version in mind. Its a marvel to have this moment from live television. Folks stayed home for this and they saw it once. And, now i know what a 61 Ford was like😊
@StevenTorrey3 жыл бұрын
Hoagy Carmichael (November 22, 1899 - December 27, 1981)
@Juliaflo4 ай бұрын
Hoagland Howard Carmichael.
@AdaraBalabusta3 ай бұрын
The intro is postmodern pop culture. “Old Buttermilk Sky” is one of my all-time songs. ❤
@MrJoeybabe252 жыл бұрын
Is there a more beautiful song than "Stardust"?
@jaygatz4335 Жыл бұрын
Possibly "Skylark".
@Bw12334 Жыл бұрын
Maybe “Georgia on My Mind”.
@zipadeed00dah Жыл бұрын
No, no there's not.
@mariabiggart868210 ай бұрын
My Lord it’s so wonderful a piece of music
@user-il5oq5df6l4 ай бұрын
@@jaygatz4335"Skylark" was covered by Linda Ronstadt. Lovely recording.
@JakeMabe13 жыл бұрын
These are so much fun. I wish the entire run was available. It makes me forget about the insanity of 2021.
@230608grace2 жыл бұрын
Getting worse in 22 Just love Ernie Ford Hoagie Carmichael was true great. Wish we had music like that today.
@yvesfrancoisritmo Жыл бұрын
Reminding me of my youth, music like this is what I grew up with on TV and radio. Great show - and Ford is as great of a singer as Hoagy. Hong Kong Blues is amazing
@hughmanatee76572 жыл бұрын
Ernie is perfect on “Georgia,” and Hoagy looks impressed.
@Kikiyayazengardens Жыл бұрын
I am Dutch and learning Stardust on my ukelele and that is how I ended up here. I love the 1950s 60s tv shows in the US.
@lemokolyon Жыл бұрын
Learning Cosmics on my piano.. not that easy...
@lemokolyon Жыл бұрын
Watch '' Monkey song '' by Hoagy Carmichael from movie. Worth seeing.... 💪
@230608grace2 жыл бұрын
I still some nights listen to Mr. Ford's gospel music and hymns.
@Lupinthe3rd.2 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: Hoagy Carmichael was the physical model for James Bond in Ian Fleming's novels and is mentioned by people in the books bond bears a resemblance to Hoagy.
@lucyflorey91522 жыл бұрын
I loved Tennessee and still listen to him. I was six years old when this aired. I didn't appreciate Hoagy until later in life.
@michaelschaefer7962 Жыл бұрын
I was nine, and this was my introduction to Hoagy. I was blown away and remain a fan sixty-two years later.
@RobertoDallossi2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I loooooooove Stardust! Best regards from Brazil.
@mrjack480810 ай бұрын
Like seeing Tennesse Ernie Ford and the cast clap their hands as they sing gospel.
@banjochris3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@StevenTorrey3 жыл бұрын
The Ford add as homage to the 1957 Broadway Play, The Music Man.
@SpeegBJ Жыл бұрын
Not only was I alive when this aired, I was 13 years old and never forgot seeing Carmichael.
@smokeyallanritter3211 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for posting this!
@mistergrandpasbakery99413 жыл бұрын
I should have been born 20 years eariler. Nuff said!
@timcarr64013 жыл бұрын
But Ernie died in 1991 --30 years ago. Hoagy died a decade before, in 1981 -- 40 years ago.
@Ffejro12256 Жыл бұрын
Not to take away from the performance of HC but, wow, that whole show was so White. A reflection of the times. We have come a long way. Not perfect today, but certainly different from the early 60s.
@ChristopherSobieniak Жыл бұрын
Well true. I saw this in how my parents were in their youth in the 50's.
@dirtlevel8 ай бұрын
And?
@pegbars7 ай бұрын
Yes, I miss that, too.
@waynemoenkhaus486 Жыл бұрын
It has been passed down in the family that my relative William E, Moenkhaus notated the song “Stardust” for him since they were close friends.
@brucep97293 жыл бұрын
Hard to imagine, once apon a time in America!
@230608grace2 жыл бұрын
.......today where is the country headed!!!!!!!!
@orbyfan9 ай бұрын
This was broadcast three months before Hoagy appeared in "The Flintstones" singing "Yabba Dabba Dabba Dabba Doo," which, for some reason, failed to become a hit.
@John-fj9oh11 күн бұрын
Hoaghy looks like louey peters on gunsmoke
@230608grace2 жыл бұрын
I believe Ernie truly enjoyed this show with Hoagy.
@snoppitt25 ай бұрын
so fun! thanks for sharing
@tonywolton Жыл бұрын
60 years ago, the 'hi honey, I'm home' era. 1961 was just an extension of 1955, ads for cars and smoke Camels. I love all the nostalgia, but these were the last of the good old days? A few years later people would be walking around naked at Woodstock.
@ChristopherSobieniak Жыл бұрын
Yeah, this was my parents' era.
@johnheppenstall490411 ай бұрын
Smooth, romantic, nostalgic and yep, a little sexy. Who's not gonna fall in love with/to his music?
@dianawallis11263 жыл бұрын
I had no idea Hoagy wrote "Georgia on My Mind"!
@timcarr64013 жыл бұрын
He was responsible for the melody.
@bevnfred2 жыл бұрын
He also wrote the Monsters Inc. theme. Uncredited theme from Old Rockin’ Chair.
@230608grace2 жыл бұрын
Hoagie sure had rhythm in his soul.
@thomjones44 Жыл бұрын
I can't speak for everybody else i'm only going to speak for myself. Hoagy in fact was a genius that's the bottom line here. Now when I think of Hoagy Carmichael the first thing that comes to mind for me is when he was on the Flintstones & the Yabba Dabba Do song. Again i'm speaking for myself.
@cybrarian93 жыл бұрын
The joke he missed was "We sent our kids to summer camp. The only problem is ... they came back."
@joeykardos760210 ай бұрын
Is the announcer John Harlan?
@geraldbaker401910 ай бұрын
Mhm
@lemon1peach2mango32 жыл бұрын
oh man this is crazy
@ruthc840710 ай бұрын
I thought I'd never see Tenn. Earnie Ford RAPPING, but 9:48 is the proof.
@MrJoeybabe25 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if Jim Nabors was inspired by TEF.
@kennethnero2011 Жыл бұрын
What is this song called @1:15 it’s beautiful
@viking670 Жыл бұрын
Wow, back when there was a place called America. Now it's rap, blm, antifa, with critical race theory and open borders. A time machine would come in quite handy right now.
@ZoeBuchansky8 ай бұрын
0:12
@sodality39703 жыл бұрын
Are you sure this isn't 1971 ??
@notthatyouasked66563 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if this was post-1961, but the show only ran 1956-61. The Peanuts opening in particular threw me off, but apparently there were a number of Peanuts animations done for Ford starting in 1959, a full 6 years before A Charlie Brown Christmas. There are others on KZbin.
@geraldbaker40193 жыл бұрын
I am sure this is 1961.
@WAL_DC-6B3 жыл бұрын
Sure looks like a '61 Ford in the commercial with Tennessee Ernie Ford describing it as such.
@geraldbaker40193 жыл бұрын
@@WAL_DC-6B Yes.
@Treebard3 жыл бұрын
Tennessee Ernie Ford was not prominent anymore in the '70s. The '70s were the time of Sonny and Cher and Carol Burnett! 🤩
@mariabiggart868210 ай бұрын
Lord those back singers spoil the whole thing ,,, but of it’s time
@StevenTorrey3 жыл бұрын
I never thought it could be even possible for anyone to ruin "Stardust"--but by gosh, they sure succeeded! They turned a bitter-sweet song, sung in a minor key, about time lost into an overdose of bad saccharine.
@magnificentfailure23903 жыл бұрын
It's a good thing the composer wasn't there. /s
@b.deville32362 жыл бұрын
Steven Torrey; "Stardust" isn't in a minor key. The standard key is C major. But preach to us all about it, Beethoven.
@StevenTorrey2 жыл бұрын
@@b.deville3236 Thanks for that info. I sounds like a minor key to my ear.
@cynthiarowley719 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if Hoagy liked it? So many big band versions, and Choral versions, of Stardust.
@kateetakea2285 Жыл бұрын
Hoagy wrote Stardust, Mitchell Davis the lyrics.
@KaBoomChannel2 жыл бұрын
1961? Who had color televisions back then?
@ChristopherSobieniak Жыл бұрын
The early-adopting rich, typically. I saw this play out when HD came in.
@pegbars7 ай бұрын
NBC/RCA was first with compatible color television. While the program was being fed down the line in color, areas like mine saw it in B&W - not because sets weren't available, but because local stations weren't yet converted to color.
@user-il5oq5df6l4 ай бұрын
RCA was NBC's parent company at the time.
@dallaskenn2 жыл бұрын
15:17 He's wearing a Tupee'.
@gwenniegirl508 ай бұрын
Hoagy Carmichael? Sorry you’re so very mistaken. 40+ years licensed cosmetologist here
@paulafranceschi3 жыл бұрын
We didn't watch this show. The guy is such a Southern stereotype.
@mikel22838 ай бұрын
oh the irony of this comment....
@WickBeavers Жыл бұрын
The greatest generation, kids are 40, Fords have nipples but girls don’t, ain’t one single black singer dancer (to keep the bar white and low) and the chorus barely pays rent in Arkansas but somebody presses their undies. This show has been traced to the earliest vestiges of QANON and Donald Trump. The playbook for “Make America Great Again”.