There! Ive Said It Again Vaughn Monroe Jimmy Dorsey Teddy Walters

Bobby Vinton 1965

There! I've Said Information technology Again is a romantic dear song written by Redd Evans and David Isle of man popularized originally past Vaughn Monroe in 1945. While Monroe'southward version reached the Number 1 position on the Billboard charts, a later version was even more significant. That version was sung by Bobby Vinton in the early 1960s. So permit me leave 1945 for a few moments and jump to the 1960s.

Although in reality Bobby Vinton was living in the 1960s, in his listen, he was living in the 1940s, when he was a immature teen-ager (he was built-in in 1935) and every song was sentimental and designed for tedious dances. It was a world in which backing singers tended by and large to sound like a choir of heavenly angels singing lullabies.

Vinton covered an old Number 1 song from 1945: There! I Said It Again, originally sung by Vaughn Monroe. Bobby Vinton was the polar contrary of the bottom of the baritone rumble of Vaughn Monroe, a homo whose voice was so virile that he was sometimes called "the Baritone with Muscles," or "the Vocalization with Pilus on its Chest," or "Ol' Leather Tonsils," or "Leather Lungs." Past contrast, Vinton sang in a higher annals and in a more than relaxed manner, much like Perry Como, who, like Bobby Vinton came from the aforementioned home town of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. There must have been something in the water in Canonsburg to make them both sing so effortlessly and so wonderfully casual.

In the 1960s, nigh pop singers would have sung a song like There! I Said It Again with a more up-beat tempo, simply not Bobby Vinton. He sang information technology just every bit if it were 1945 all over again, reaffirming what someone has written, "the vocal's position as probably the least exciting sounding song ever to ever accept been granted an exclamation mark equally part of its title."
Covering an old Number 1 is often a good way of getting a new Number 1, and certainly it was the instance hither because In that location! I've Said It Again reached Number 1 on the Billboard charts and reached Number 34 in the United Kingdom, and even reached Number 13 in Australia.

Vinton's version topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January iv, 1964 and remained there for four weeks. The song is significant because information technology marks a sort of dividing line between the "innocent years" of the Stone and Roll era and the modern rock period. Much has been made of the fact that There! I've Said Information technology Again was the last Number 1 vocal on the Billboard charts before The Beatles' I Desire To Agree Your Hand knocked it off. With the so-called "British Invasion" of The Beatles and the miracle known every bit Beatlemania, popular music would be changed forever. Ironically, The Beatles – the sound of the hereafter – knocked off not only a Bobby – but likewise the most old-fashioned of all of the Bobby'south, singing a song from 1945, that sounded as though it were recorded in 1945!

Returning to the 1940s, in addition to Vaughn Monroe'due south version, there were two other recordings that made it on the Billboard charts.

The first was a recording past Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra, with vocals by Teddy Walters. This version reached #8 on the Billboard charts and lasted for half-dozen weeks.

The other version was by The Modernaires, a vocal group all-time known for performing in the 1940s aslope Glenn Miller. The group began in 1935 with members Hal Dickinson, Chuck Goldstein, and Beak Conway, and were chosen "Don Juan-Ii and 3." They then joined the Ozzie Nelson Band, and became known every bit "The Iii Wizards of Ozzie." They next recruited Ralph Brewster to make a quartet and, performing with the Fred Waring Orchestra, became known as The Modernaires. In 1940, Glenn Miller engaged them to record It'due south Make Believe Ballroom Time, a sequel to the original Brand Believe Ballroom, which they had recorded earlier for Martin Cake's big band bear witness of the aforementioned name, on WNEW New York. In January 1941, Miller made The Modernaires an important part of the most popular big band of all time. Paula Kelly (Mrs. Hal Dickinson) was added to the Miller band betwixt March – August 1941. After Miller joined the Army, Paula Kelly became a permanent member of The Modernaires, making it a quintet. For the next few decades they traveled the globe many times over making history with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

The Modernaires with Paula Kelly 1951

The lyrics describe how deep ane lover'south love is for the other lover in the words:
I've tried to drum up
A phrase that would sum up
All that I feel for you
But what good are phrases
The idea that amazes
Is you beloved me and it's heavenly

Forgive me for wanting y'all so
Merely one thing I desire yous to know
I've loved you since sky knows when
There! I've said it again.

There are other versions of the song recorded that did not make the charts, just are worth mentioning. These versions include recordings by Nat "King" Cole, Louis Prima, Woody Herman, and Spade Cooley. Fifty-fifty though the song is beyond the telescopic of my weblog, because of its importance I have included the 1963 version by Bobby Vinton too.

To mind to the vocal, click on the song title.
Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra, vocals: Vaughn Monroe At that place I've Said It Once again (#i)
Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra, vocals: Teddy Walters In that location! I've Said It Over again (#8)
The Modernaires with Paula Kelly, Mitchell Ayres Orchestra There! I've Said It Once more (#11)
Nat " King" Cole Trio, vocals: Nat "King" Cole There! I've Said It Again (1947)
Bobby Vinton, Stan Applebaum Orchestra At that place I've Said It Once more (late 1963)

Next song: I Can't Begin To Tell You

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