When
Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely Lyrics

Last night when we were young
Love was a star, a song unsung
Life was so new, so real so right
Ages ago last night

Today the world is old
You flew away and time grew cold
Where is that star that shone so bright
Ages ago last night?

To think that spring had depended
On merely this: a look, a kiss
To think that something so splendid
Could slip away in one little daybreak

So now, let's reminisce
And recollect the sighs and the kisses
The arms that clung

When we were young last night

Lyrics © S.A. MUSIC

Written by: E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen

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thevoiceoftheBBs

11y↑12

Margaret was a big band singer from the 40's--a great singer--a classy lady--who I had the pleasure of working with when I was a Promotion Manager at RCA in the early 70's. She passed away a couple of years ago but had a long, great life and left her mark on American popular music. RIP Margaret....

patrick ryan

6y↑5

Reminds me of Mom -- one of many songs she'd sing while attending to household chores and the kids. This kind of music helped her make it through some rough times; and we kids were the beneficiaries. Thanks Mom, and thanks for all the wonderful music that filled our lives. 6/2018

jim miller

3y↑3

My parents must have bought this record when I was two years old it was one of those old breakable 78 RPM records but we played it for years and years

540rollerman

10y↑9

I remember when this was number1. We didn't have any money to play jukebox or buy records, we listened on the radio. Thank you for letting us enjoy this great music.

MrEagle2704

Must have been amazing times, thanks for sharing this comment

Art Gecko

2y↑1

I was a Jimmy Wakely fan, I think, because I'd seen him on the Arthur Godfrey TV show when I was a kid. Anyway, in the late 70s I saw Jimmy perform at a restaurant at Fishermen's Terminal in Seattle. He was an accessible and enduring talent. I'm glad I got to see him sing.

SirBacon

Thats epic im his great grandson and im glad people still listen to his music. Hope you enjoy the rest of his music!

Mia Hess Music

2y↑1

I just bought this sheet music in a bundle and found this song. Great song!

Micky May

11y↑2

My favorite version of this song by this duet. I heard them sing it on my Grandpa's wind-Charger radio when I was 3 & for 17 weeks it was #1. No longer #1 2 weeks after I turned 4, but they kept playing it. It was a great dance tune that everybody loved to dance to & the couples would slip around on that stuff they threw on the dance floor. ET couldn't miss singing a great dance tune, so he recorded in 1949 too. Floyd Tillman, writer of the song, did 1st record. On a radio a lot in 1949 & 50.

bjuck57

12y↑2

I just got a cd with Margaret & Jimmy; been listening to it every evening for almost 2 weeks now. Just love it!!

Jerry Pullen

5y↑3

Two great singers

TheGreatToucan

4y↑2

The part where they sing "Oh your're tied up...." in harmony just recently popped into my mind, from where? I was n't even 1 year old yet when this song hit number one, but my mom probably had it as a record, though I would not have heard it after 1955 or so..... Thanks for posting it, a big mystery as to the artists is solved, but the rest, like why I remember it after 6 decades.....

Do It Now! video's yeah!

4y↑1

I was puzzled as to why I remember this melody but wih a very different voice till I read Ernest Tubb recorded it. I also have a signed copy of a Floyd Tillman record with this on it. I just met Mr Wakely's nephew so I looked up this, the most famous version

JERRY F Bacon

9y↑11

One of my favorite records.........love that Hammond sound.

Danny Owens

11y↑3

This is wonderful for an old man to hear.

Nancy Wood

Danny Owen's. Me too. I'm 78 and it took me back to my tender age ' hearing it on moms radio daily.❤

William schlenger

Great tune. 👍🏻

Sonny Dave

7y↑1

Margaret Whiting crossed over to pop. She was one of the best pop singers. If she "stayed country" she would have been a top country singer also.

Francis Alan Wormald

7y↑2

AT AGE 12 I WAS DISCOVERING POP MUSIC & THIS ALSO GOT ME ON TO COUNTRY!!! JUST HEARD IT TODAY IN MY CAR ON A GREAT "CD"!!! THE WAY IT WAS WAS BEST!!!!

Mi Vida

Beautiful song. My family had this record when I was very young but like many 78s it got broken

Roy D'Oliveiro

7y↑2

I remember this song and first heard it in the 1950's. Thanks

Nancy Wood

3y↑3

OM Gpsh...O just found this. I'm 78 and this played on moms radio in late 40's or very early 50"s. We took car rides on Sunday sometimes for something to get us out of the house. Boredom! I would sing all the songs on the car radio with .y dad who had a voice like Bing Crosby. I hadn't heard it in probably 68 years but sang every word & note of " Slippin Around with this recording! Thank you from this old shut in heart! ❣

eddie lopez

8y↑2

The very first memorable country western song I had ever heard. I was 11 years old. Fort Worth, southside. Not sure if it was called "country western" back then.

BlackWhirlies

10y↑29

This just goes to show how recording technology has destroyed music. This is a bunch of people playing and singing live in a studio, with no auto tune or punched in vocal fixes.

table

4y↑1

BlackWhirlies menacing

BlackWhirlies

@table We are Black Whirlies.

table

4y↑1

BlackWhirlies also very cool to respond to a comment you made 6 years ago

BlackWhirlies

@Flander Snatch I totally agree. I have played at a high level and with most of the best groups of musicians I have recorded with everyone played together (with some instruments in booths) The problem begins when you start with a click track or a beat and everything is built around that.

Flander Snatch

4y↑1

@BlackWhirlies sure but many artists do still get together and play through a song, to record their music, from start to finish.

you have the choice to listen to anything you want. if you want highly polished, overly produced, edited to fuckery, industrial techno, you can have that, or you can go on to sound cloud and listen to hundreds of hours of indie artists creating gatsby era-esq music, OR anything youd like in between.

things dont always get worse because a single thing isnt the norm anymore, music especially, evolves over time, and the history doesnt die easily, this is just nostalgia goggles friend. music isnt destroyed, its more vibrant and alive than ever.

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TOM WALLY

11y↑2

MOM HAD THIS ON A RECORD THAT WE LISTENED TO GROWING UP MOM HAD ALL KINDS OF 78 RECORDS THIS I GREAT COUNTRY MUSIC

Carole Kohlschmidt

2y↑1

That was a great song.

Bob Sink

An oldie but still a good one

CurtaCrazy

8y↑4

The pop music was so clever and sweet back in the day - Pat.

Charles Meek

12y

Brings back memories. Iloved the Jimmy Wakely movies

Smokyieus

9y↑1

good one!

BrickPa

12y

Yahoooo! I've been searching for this for months! Thanks heaps for a great post!

brad dovel

8y↑6

the only song in 1949 that went to #1 in 1949 , that wasn't a Eddy Arnold song

SEIKA

this should have been on the fallout 3 soundtrack

patthecatman

12y

haven't heard this in some 50 years...jimmy used to be compared to bing.

dufus

takes me back

Thomas Davis

11y

My mom has the 45 rpm version from 1949

Mike Newton

12y↑6

Early "cheating" CW song. Wakely's daughter told of how her father attended a church service where the minister criticized the song as being degrading to public morals..And this was in 1949. Wakely never went back to that church again.

famospilot

13y

@bonneville58bob Your problem is that the song was just recently posted and so far has only 607 viewers. I don't know how old you are, but this is great music regardless of your age!