Comin' On
The Artie Shaw Orchestra Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Comin' On' by these artists:

Art Shaw And His Orchestra You better watch out, you better not cry You better not…
Deluxe Don't tell me that your life's wrong Now that all your…
The Hot Sprockets This is just to weigh my final call So keep you're…
The Shamen This here a special message goin out to every Man,…
The Wheel Don't you ever feel sad Lean on me when times are…

We have lyrics for these tracks by The Artie Shaw Orchestra:

Any Old Time Any old time you want me I am yours for just…
Begin The Beguine When they begin the beguine It brings back the sound…

Dancing in the Dark Dancing in the dark, Till the tune end We're dancing in the…
Day after Day I was a stranger in the city Out of town were…
Deep In a Dream I dim all the lights and I sink in my…
Frenesi Some time ago I wandered down into old Mexico While I was…
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
I Cover The Waterfront I cover the waterfront, I'm watching the sea,, Will the on…
Indian Love Call Keep, keep Keep, keep Keep, keep Keep, keep When I'm calli…
My Heart Stood Still I took one look at you That's all I meant to…
Stardust And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the…
Temptation You came, I was alone I should have known you were…
Thanks For Ev Thanks for everything. Every word, every sigh, every kiss. T…
Thanks for Ev'rything Thanks for everything. Every word, every sigh, every kiss. …
Thanks for Everything Thanks for everything. Every word, every sigh, every kiss. …
They Say They say you have no lips for a fool such…
What Is This Thing Called Love What is this thing called love? This funny thing called lov…

Yesterdays Yesterdays, yesterdays Days I knew as happy Sweet sequeste…

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Comments from YouTube:

OldDogNewTrick

7y↑31

Heard this so many times over my lifetime. Still enjoy it more than ever.

Bluejeans0701

12y↑8

The sound of the clarinet is really amazing. I love the tune of "Begin The Beguine" whether it is a vocal version or an instrumental one.

The Dewitt Clinton

10 years baby. Still love it! Hope yer alive👍

Deborah Rich

11y↑21

My mom used to have this song on an old 78 and I used to listen to it a lot when I was growing up in the 1950's. I just love the Big Band music from the 30's and 40's! Debbie.

Jean Lunt

9y↑13

Great sound....loved Artie's music. We had the best.

The Dewitt Clinton

Are you still goin?

Edouard Millan

5y↑41

Big Band music always reminds me of the great sacrifice that our troops made during WWII.

raul duke

4y↑2

During all wars

ralph gar

4y↑1

MY DAD LOVED THIS SONG IN WWII SOUTH PACIFIC US ARMY STAFF SGT.RIP DAD!!! WOULD HAVE BEEN 97 THIS XMAS DAY 2019 !

Jean Fleming

4y↑10

My late husband and I danced to all of these wonderful bands and I love all of them ,and they bring back so many lovely memories

Lucia

4y↑2

God bless you, ill play the clarinet part of this song next month, btw dedicated to all swing era dancers. Best

Ellen Fields

3y↑1

My parents loved this music as I grew up and I still love it when I hear it! Reminds me of them..

Hilda Martzrob

3y↑1

Recuerdo a mi papá y a mi mamá bailando, hace ya más de treinta años. A mi papá le encantaba esta melodía y él era un excelente bailarín. Ya hace seis meses de su partida 😔

Roberto López

Gracias, muchas gracias por rescatar esta joya musical.
Excelente sonido!!!
👍

Randall Riley

8y↑13

By 1968 when Shaw pulled this group together to record his famous "Artie Shaw Recreates his Famous 1938 Band" album for Capitol, audio recording technology had come so far from what it was in 1938. Treat yourself to some good headphones, slip them on and turn up the volume and make believe it is 1938 and your up by the bandstand. It's magic. Amazing stuff here. It's too bad that the last few notes are cut off. Ugh!

Batty Mac

8y↑2

Randall, that is exactly what I do and love it and I am in my 80s. Cheers from Scotland.

Jose Salame

9y↑8

No doubt the best instrumental interpretation ever of this Cole Porter jewel. Thanks and regards from Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America.

Carmen Linares

4y↑2

Qué bonita es la música, me transporta a tiempos lejanos, qué fueron estupendos,
No sé vivir sin la música

lulu fabiola sanchez jasso

Me encanta! Gracias 🎶💕

SONIA E.

Hermosas!!! Melodías que van a perdurar en el tiempo... adoro escucharlas...

francisco soler panades

Artie Shaw maravillosa orquesta tengo 71 soy catalán y me embruja esta musica tan maravillosa que época debía ser poder oírlos y verlos en vivo gracias a Dios la técnica cinematográfica y musical podemos disfrutar de ello hoy gracias ,

20alphabet

8y↑47

This was the most popular just prior to WWII. Still remember listening to it when it was first recorded. Yep, I'm old.

Edouard Millan

You have good taste.

Sam Moss

bless your pea pickin' heart

STEREO REY

7y↑3

20alphabet Age is a state of mind !

20alphabet

7y↑2

Skin, eyes, bones, hair....

STEREO REY

7y↑2

20alphabet Only Skin...Heart never gets older.

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Martin Schwartz

4y↑4

Such a great version.

marjorie knapper

6y↑3

I love this type of big Band music so beautiful to listen too and enjoy it Wonderful x

Jeremy Haines

4y↑10

i love this big band music

Pink Lady

Beautiful and fun to dance too. High class that's for sure 🎸🎹🎤🎧🎶🎵🎼🎷🎺📯🎼🎵🎶

orchardist1965

10y↑3

How sad it was that Artie Shaw retired so early and though he has left a body of work that many could only aspire too,how much more to the fabulous sound of his clarinet there could have been one can only wonder. Thank you for posting.

June Tyle

9y↑4

Amazing sound transports me back to that wonderful era

Raúl Durán

5y↑4

This recording has a great sound!

Roselys Almeida

8y↑2

OS BELOS BAILES DOS ANOS 40/50 É SÓ SAUDADES

Lois Winters

12y

This is one terrific swinging rendition, and the absolute best. Shaw was a genius.

Quixote010

12y↑8

As as been famously stated: Benny Goodman played the clarinet, but Artie Shaw played music

irish89055

10y↑6

This was the first song I had ever heard through a set of stereo head phones in the early 70's..... wow

Fabian Alejo

14y↑3

Son muchas las interpretaciones que se han hecho de esta exquisita creaciòn del maestro Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine, tanto instrumentales como cantadas, pero ésta ya legendaria interpretación del gran clarinetista Artie Shaw y su orquesta para mi es la mejor de todas, sin lugar a dudas! Gracias Miguel por la selección! Un saludo amigo!

William Shaw

My dad God rest remembered this this version. Artie a true clinician of the clarinet. This lives on now. Talent does not age xx

Sock Bucketfrance

4y↑1

how is the audio quality on this so good compared to like every other version of this song on the internet

Joe Buster

4y↑3

I played this tune in highschool. This brings back great memories.

Joe Buster

4y↑1

@Andy Milsten Outstanding!

Andy Milsten

4y↑1

Joe Buster I’m currently playing it in high school!

jamt39

11y

me gusto mucho esta versión. gracias por compartirla

Lorraine DiMaggio

4y↑2

Will always remember my Mom and Dad dancing tothis. Now they do it in heaven.

William Edelman

I love the music from this era. It's so rich and full. We don't hear enough of it these days.

William Edelman

@Kevin R Yep.

Kevin R

The primary reason there is so little appreciation of it is because of the devaluation of what (real) music is in education. If 90+% of the population had any idea of how much (hard) mentally consuming work goes into just having the knowledge of how an arrangement gets written, even one as seemingly simple as this, (before it ever gets played by competent musicians, let alone accomplished professionals), then, (A) there would probably be more appreciation for this kind of music creating more of a demand for it and (B) there would be more schooled Arrangers and Musicians around that are capable of playing this well, as well as create other legitimate new music that is also as "musically" appealing on the merits of honest forthright creativity, planning and execution.

But as with everything else in today's world, if something isn't thrown together in a hasty slap-dash "good enough (for the widest array of the public to consume)" manner, and only has a minimal amount of attention paid to detail, and only created with the underlying purpose to make as much money as possible, then it's considered nothing but a total waste of time. And in that, many (perhaps even a majority of), people even feel that a person "could" or worse, "should" be doing something else "better" or "more practical" with their time if they don't spend every awake moment of every day finding a way to make money. Welcome to the world of worshiping the Golden Calf or the Almighty $$. In today's world, what passes for music is akin to the crap food available in a McDonald's or Applebees. And the general public eats it up exclaiming how great it is, often out of nothing but ignorance (or because it's "good enough"). And if we don't believe it, we have relentless advertising on virtually every form of media that does nothing but attempt to further brainwash us, telling us so; and of course try to convince us to buy the latest crap someone is hawking just to make an easy buck. Just consider the amount of advertising here on YouTube alone that only wastes time, energy and space. And how either whoever created this post, or YouTube itself managed to chop off the last measure of this, (perhaps so they could bring you their next ad three seconds sooner?).

Robbie Thomas

LOVE this song

jazzmaan707

10y↑12

Ralph Carmichael did a great job re-recording this song with the original score and with the greatest big band musicians in the world. They played it note for note, the way Artie would have played it. Having played in jazz bands, I had always wanted to know what this song would sound like with todays modern digital technology, if Artie Shaw had recorded it today. It's hard to find a cd of Carmichael's recording, but if you can, and if you like big band music, it's worth it. In another life, I used to play with these great musicians. When I hear it, it takes me back to that era.

Kevin R

8y↑3

+jazzmaan707 Ralph Carmichael had NOTHING to do with this. Artie himself produced and conducted the album "Artie Shaw Re-creates His Great '38 Band") for Capitol (ST-2992) in 1968 using the original arrangements he pulled out from the 700+ scores and parts he still had in his music library file cabinets, and he hand picked the band out of the best musicians available in NYC, some of whom had worked for him in his original bands back in the day....

Capitol Records had released a number of successful albums since the mid-1950s with the title "<Bandleader's Name> In Hi-Fi".
Benny Goodman, Harry James, Stan Kenton and a studio-reconstituted Casa Loma Orchestra under its leader Glen Gray were four of them. Shaw was cajoled into doing the same but he insisted on producing it himself so he could own the recordings. Legendary artist manager and band booker Willard Alexander had been after Shaw for some time about sending a "ghost band" out on the road akin to the Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey bands that were working steadily through the 50's well into the 80's and beyond. Shaw used the new album as a market test to see if there might be enough interest to make sending out a band on the road feasible. With the album's success, he approached Walt Levinsky, the clarinet player heard here, to see if he wanted to front a re-constituted Shaw band, but Levinsky turned the offer down, because he was making so much money working as a studio contractor and free-lancer in New York at the time. Walt's wife Natalie told me this herself back in 2001 a little over a year after after Walt passed away and I visited her to retrieve a small number of the original Shaw arrangements that Walt had borrowed from Artie back in the 1990s.

Big Foot Bill Unknown

6y↑1

Growin' up Big Band Music filled our house. Either on an old RCA Victor radio or Victrola record player. Artie Shaw was one of my parents favorite musicians. "Begin The Beguine," must have been special to them. Anytime they heard this song, they would get a Faraway look in their eye, embrace and start dancing.
Thanks it brought back great memories.

joe a smythe

13y

fantastic days of the big band era, which I was lucky enough to grow up in. Feel sorry for you guys who missed these halcyon days

rodolfo piana

8y↑2

Wonderful Artie...great music.....thanks from Italy

Victor Gonsalves

Am listening to Artie Shaw for the last 60 years; and I cannot stop it.

Evan McElfresh

10y↑9

they are playing the famous rca victor 7/24/38 arrangement - but this is a much later recording because the sound has so much clarity-wonderful!

Poisson Volant

5y↑1

As several posters noted, this is from a 1968 Capitol LP that Artie put together with a group of hand-picked studio musicians. He's conducting, but his parts are performed by Walt Levinsky.

高橋司

4y↑3

This is the swing Jazz music. Good!!

Shirley Gow

12y↑1

Thank you dad for introducing me to music from your era. It is superb and will never die.

Carlos Jorge Martínez

Fuera de serie. Inolvidabe. Persona inteligente.

Bernard Milhau

du sublime cette version une très belle époque ou les musiciens respectaient leurs public pas comme aujourd'hui un monde nous sépare

LUCHO SANT

11y↑1

FANTÁSTICO SONIDO DE NIGHT CLUB. GRAN ESTILO.

Juan Manuel Parada Contreras

Música de una gran época de muy variados sucesos en evocar plenamente.

Надежда Карелина

4y↑1

Класс!

Frida Berenstein

o tempo não retorna. Ma essa melodia a arranjos são imortais.

Jeremy Haines

4y↑1

💘 love it my late Dad And Mum use to like this jazz x

Batty Mac

7y↑1

Still listen to this most nights. Why is there only 607 thumbs up it is worth more than that surely. Cheers from Scotland.

Majella O'Dwyer

I love his music I was rated to his music.. just fanastic

Collin Dcruz

SUBLIME & REFRESHING & REVITALIZING!!!!

Algirdas Mulvinskas

Tai yra nuostabu...
Norisi surasti tokį ar bent panašų klarneto tembrą, garsą, ir muzikos suvokimą!?.
Su meile tikrai klarneto muzikai - A. A. J.

Barry Hill

3y↑1

BEAUTIFUL. SOUND ARTIE

MRJEYPi

13y↑1

Hey, where can I get this version, it sounds so new. Me wants it! :D

Poisson Volant

5y↑1

It's (comparatively) new. It was a 1968 Capitol LP titled "Artie Shaw Re-creates his Great 1938 Band"

Rene Arteaga

please help me, wich version is this, it is superior to all the other everywhere, puede ayudarme cual es esta versión es mejor que todas la que es escuchado

don rhodes

12y↑2

im learning to play the bflat clarinet,but when i hear this all i want to do is practise more.i am 75 yearsz of age.

jovial111

is this version available without the abrupt cut at the end?

Beatríz Marisela Soriano

Dios! Esos si eran galanes

songanddanceman100

10y

As the poster below wrote - and as you can hear, it is in real stereo.

dancebandleader2 years ago

Excellent version. BUT this was recorded in 1969, Artie led the band but that's Walter Levinsky playing the clarinet, Artie had not played in something like 14 years. This was the Capitol LP "Artie Shaw re-creates His Great 1938 band" (If I have that title right.)

Poisson Volant

@David Thompson To provide a bit more details, in 1968 Artie put together a new band in honor of the 30th anniversary of his 1938 orchestra, widely regarded as the best group he ever led. He's conducting but not performing; that honor goes to Walt Levinsky. He'd only planned to do studio work but the LP was popular enough that he soon took a new band on the road. It's continued to this day under a succession of leaders.

David Thompson

10y

Thanks. I wish uploaders would give us more information - lots more.

Medusawithglasses

8y↑1

Te amo Artie!!!! <3

Boondoggler

12y

BRILLIANT

Jean-Claude Audet

11y↑1

With this Cole Porter song, Artie became an instant celebrity LOL.

Poisson Volant

Jerry Gray's arrangement didn't hurt either !

Julio LIMA DE IZAGA

9y↑1

GREAT MUSIC AND CLARINET

ArchiveMan78

8y↑1

That's Walt Levinsky playing Artie's clarinet parts and solos :-)

hipcatwho

Its hard as Hell For a Saxophone player that's playing a French sax to sound like that Conn M-10 even with that echo chamber, just listen to the Real recording.

leedsman54

Nice but I prefer the original version that's on here. Much more mellow sounding.

Lord of Cinder

4y↑3

This is class a stuff

joe r newsom

13y

* * * P L E A S E R E - U P L O A D * * * the tune is cutoff at the end before it finishes :( this is THE stereo version from the 70s that's THE BEST !!!!!

Poisson Volant

1968, actually. It's from a Capitol LP "Artie Shaw Recreates His Great 1938 Band"

Big Foot Bill Unknown

Rock and Roll, ain't got nothing on Big Band Music!

Linde Davis

A little bit of heaven

geforce5700fx

11y

Epic :D

songanddanceman100

10y↑7

Whoa! It cuts off just before the last few notes!!! No no no!!!

N7801Z

5y↑1

I agree - that completely spoiled it. It is a shame more people accept it as is.

Earl Zwicker

7y↑2

Beautiful memories.
Earl Zwicker

Ingrid Bonning

How ' Wonderful ...........................!!!

Richadiana Kartakusuma

10y↑2

thank you for sharing

Current Batches

Would that he'd arranged his life and his politics as he arranged and played his music.

killerpianist4628

5y↑5

Thanks for the commercial right at the end cutting the ending short.

Sam Moss

7y↑10

Boy did he ever have his share of 'de wimmin'

Robert Vertès

Les années 80

Novotny Ingersol

Story is that Cole Porter hated this arrangement. But then, who was he to say?

dancebandleader

13y

Excellent version. BUT this was recorded in 1969, Artie led the band but that's Walter Levinsky playing the clarinet, Artie had not played in something like 14 years. This was the Capitol LP "Artie Shaw re-creates His Great 1938 band" (If I have that title right.)

James Hampton

5y↑3

39 thumbs up to cancel out the unfortunate unilluminated thumbs down folk

Scott Mahoney

So, Ralph Carmichael did this recording? Does anyone know the name of this album?

Kevin R

8y↑1

+Scott Mahoney Ralph Carmichael had NOTHING to do with this. Artie himself produced and conducted the album for Capitol in 1968 using the original arrangements he pulled from the 700+ scores and parts he still had in his music library and he hand picked the band out of the best musicians available in NYC, some of whom had worked for him in his original bands back in the day....

Sonia Mohedano

Esta versión que dicen no es Artie Shaun,

Bob Malack

Like big band music, but the clairenet is the biggest wussy instrument of all time, and woodwind/reed instuments in general. Now go listen to Stan Kenton's 'Intermission riff'. Robert at 66.

TheloniousCube

Here's the real thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNcPnEc99UE
The other is a stereo remake

John Barton

5y↑1

How did the rolling stones and the beatles supersede this

gunnel johansson

6y↑1

Får aldrig nog av denhär .

Super Nova

He decidido ser la más respetuosa de todos. Tanto es asi que escribiré y rezaré el rosario a la vez. Ojalá me resulte.Por lo menos la primera línea. Atte.

CK Martin

5y↑1

What the hell is the beguine

Margo McKaine

It was a dance.

Nanette Escobar

Ahhhh! Whataburger

Fred H

not the original and first. different key

Samoa Moni

Saturday — August 8, 2020

Frank Collins

Not the original recording.

john brown

12y

@dancebandleader Did Walt play that late?,when did Dick Johnson take over?

Jose Godínez

Mi pm

Poisson Volant

IIRC Walt only performed on the studio recordings. When Artie decided to take the band on the road Dick Johnson became the leader.

Joe Overby

4y↑6

we now have 50 thumbs down?go elsewhere and listen to your junk!joe overby atlanta ga

Margo McKaine

You tell 'em Joe!

Thomas Smith

0:09

William Cooke

Nice post from William.......Smiles

Frank Collins

Not the original recording.

Poisson Volant

5y↑1

This is from a 1968 Capitol recording by a revived Shaw band. He's conducting but Walt Levinsky is handling Artie's clarinet parts. Despite being released in the era of the Beatles and Stones it did well enough that Shaw decided to take the band out on the road again.