this is the moment we have ♪ dreamed of all our lives we'll be the change ♪ we wish from others we'll stand tall for what is ♪ right and in my heart ♪ there'll be no doubt the arms of the world will come ♪ reaching out and embrace me to be all ♪ i can be now nothing can stop me ♪ i believe in the power that comes from a world brought ♪ together as one i believe together we'll fly ♪ i believe in the power of you and i ♪ i believe the time is right now ♪ stand tall and make the world proud ♪ i believe together we'll fly i believe in the power of ♪ you and i i believe in the power of ♪ you and i i believe, i believe ♪ i believe in i believe, i believe in ♪ i believe, i believe ♪ i believe in i believe, i believe in i believe in you i believe, i believe in ♪ i believe, i believe i believe in you i believe, i believe in you ♪ i believe together we'll fly i believe in the power of ♪ you and i i believe the time is right now ♪ stand tall and make the world proud ♪ i believe together we'll fly i believe in the power of you and i ♪ i believe in the power of you and i ♪ i believe together well fly i believe in the power of ♪ you and i. ♪ >> i was blessed to be able to fulfill my dream. to sing and perform all over the world ( singing in hebrew ) ( singing in hebrew ) but there are so many children who are not fortunate and i try to use my music to be their voice and speak for them. >> ♪ i don't know where to find you ♪ i don't know how to reach you i hear your voice in the wind ♪ i feel you under my skin within my heart and my soul ♪ i wait for you adagio ♪ all of these nights without you ♪ all of my dreams surround you i see and i touch your face ♪ i fall into your embrace when the time is right, i'll know ♪ you'll be in my arms adagio ♪ i close my eyes and i find a way ♪ no need for me to pray i've walked so far ♪ i've fought so hard nothing more to explain ♪ i know all that remains is a piano that plays ♪ if you know where to find me if you know how to reach me ♪ before this light fades away before i run out of faith ♪ be the only man to say that you'll hear my heart ♪ that you'll give your life forever you'll stay ♪ don't let this light fade away no, no, no, no, no, no ♪ don't let me run out of faith be the only man to say ♪ that you believe make me believe ♪ you won't let go adagio (applause) ♪ i've heard there was a secret chord that david played ♪ and it pleased the lord but you don't really care for music, do you ♪ it goes like this the fourth, the fifth ♪ the minor fall, the major lift the baffled king composing ♪ hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah i did my best, it wasn't much ♪ i couldn't feel, so i tried to touch ♪ i've told the truth, i didn't come to fool you ♪ and even though it all went wrong ♪ i'll stand before the lord of song ♪ with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah. ♪ >> i pray that my generation will put a stop to this hatred. we'll find a way to forgive and forget and start a new beginning. ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah >> one year ago a very close friend of mine was murdered in a terror attack. it made me realize the pain and the suffer that every family who lost someone they loved has to deal with. i'm sure there are children on the other side just like us that all they wish is to live in a safe world to live in a place without war. i don't think that children so young should even know what war is all about. they should have fun they should be happy and not worry conflicts and wars. ♪ there comes a time when we heed a certain call ♪ when the world must come together as one ♪ there are people dying and it's time to lend a hand to life ♪ the greatest gift of all we can't go on pretending day by day ♪ that someone, somehow will soon make a change ♪ we are all a part of god's great big family ♪ and the truth, you know love is all we need ♪ we are the world, we are the children ♪ we are the ones who make a brighter day ♪ so let's start giving there's a choice we're making ♪ we're saving our own lives it's true we'll make a better day ♪ just you and me send them your heart ♪ so they'll know that someone cares ♪ and their lives will be stronger and free ♪ as god has shown us by turning stones to bread ♪ so we all must lend a helping hand ♪ we are the world, we are the children ♪ we are the ones who make a brighter day ♪ so let's start giving there's a choice we're making ♪ we're saving our own lives it's true we'll make a better day ♪ just you and me ♪ we are the ones who make a brighter day ♪ so let's start giving there's a choice we're making ♪ we're saving our own lives it's true we'll make a better day ♪ just you and me it's true we'll make a better day ♪ just you and me. ♪ ( applause ) captioning sponsored by wpbt marshall: hello, i'm peter marshall. nick clooney: and i'm nick clooney and it is only because of your pledges and your support that we are able to be back again with another edition of my music from the glorious big band era. peter marshall: you're so right, nick, and this time, we're gonna focus on the great singers, and remember the songs that they made famous, music that is timeless it's my music: the big band vocalists, and it starts right now, right here on pbs. narrator: next, pbs brings back the best of the big band era. your favorite vocalists sing their greatest songs on pbs. [singing] peter marshall: this darling lady started out with the artie shaw band, it was 1938 she followed billie holiday on the band with great success incidentally then she moved over to the benny goodman band. nick clooney: and then it was harry james. peter marshall: and you know why? nick clooney: of course, she had a terrible crush on him. peter marshall: that's right. he didn't have any money to pay her but she could have cared less. in fact, with the harry james band she became a household name with hits like "i don't want to walk without you." nick clooney: and "i heard you cried last night." peter marshall: and here she is, helen forrest with "i had the craziest dream." [music playing] helen forrest: ♪in a dream the strangest and the oddest things appear. and what insane and silly things we do. here is what i see before me. vividly and clear. as i recall it, you were in it, too. i had the craziest dream, last night. yes, i did. i never dreamt it could be. yet there you were in love with me. i found your lips close to mine so i kissed you. and you didn't mind it at all. when i'm awake such a break never happens. how long can a gal go on dreaming? if there's a chance that you care. then please, say you do, baby. say it and make my craziest dream come true.♪ [music playing] peter marshall: now we think this is the earliest footage of peggy lee with a big band it's from 1942. nick clooney: and it's a song that she would then sing for the rest of her life. peter marshall: well it's a, it's a great piece of film it's her big break with the benny goodman band and it's a, "why don't you do right?" nick clooney: like some other men do. peter marshall: you got it. man: here's something for the cats. i'm going to bring you a cranky bra by a sharpie who plays a licorice stick that's out of this world. the guy who knocked them off their seats and drove them into a groove benny goodman. [music playing] peggy lee: ♪you had plenty money, 1922. you let other women make a fool of you. why don't you do right? like some other men do. get out of here and get me some money too. [music playing] peggy lee: if you had prepared twenty years ago. you wouldn't be a wandering now from door to door. why don't you do right? like some other men do. get out of here and get me some money too. [music playing] peggy lee: why don't you do right? like some other men do. like some other men do.♪ peter marshall: when i was 14, believe it or not, i was an usher at the great paramount theatre in new york city and i saw all the great bands. but i'll never forget the day i saw frank sinatra walk out on stage wearing this beautiful blue jacket, standing next to a white piano and he sang "night & day." this cole porter classic was one of his earliest hits. i guess that's why they called him "the voice" here he is the best frank sinatra. [music playing] frank sinatra: ♪night and day. you are the one. only you beneath the moon and under the sun. whether near to me or far. it's no matter, darling, where you are. i think of you day and night. night and day. why is it so? that this longing for you follows wherever i go? in the roarin' traffic's boom. or in the silence of my lonely room. i think of you day and night. night and day. under the hide of me. there's an oh, such a hungry yearning, burning inside of me. and its torment won't be through. 'til you let me spend my life making love to you. day and night night and day. night and day. under the hide of me. there's an oh, such a hungry yearning, burning way down inside of me. and its torment won't be through. 'til you let me spend my life making love to you. day and night night and day.♪ nick clooney: after the boswell sisters blazed the trail, the andrews sisters patty maxene and laverne, were the biggest female singing trio of all time and here's one of their most beloved tunes, "don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me." but now wait a minute, i know you love this trio look closely in this clip, you're going to see shemp howard of the three stooges. take a look. man: in this part i am supposed to introduce the andrews sisters, but that won't be necessary i found out that they knew each other. i should have stood in bed. [music playing] andrew sisters: ♪i wrote my mother. i wrote my father. and now i'm writing you too. i'm sure of mother. i'm sure of father. and now i want to be sure very, very sure of you. don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me. anyone else but me. anyone else but me, no, no, no. don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me. 'til i come marching home. don't go walking down lovers lane with anyone else but me. anyone else but me. anyone else but me no, no, no. don't go walking down lovers lane with anyone else but me. 'til i come marching home. i just got word from a guy who heard. from a guy next door to me. that a girl he met just love to pet. and it fits you to a t. so don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me. 'til i come marching home. [music playing] andrews sisters: don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me. with anyone else but her. no no, no not a single soul but me. no no, no don't you sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me. not 'til you see me. not until you see me marching home, home home sweet home. don't go walking down lovers lane with anyone else but me. with anyone else but her. no no, no not a single soul but me. no, no, no don't you go walking down lovers lane with anyone else but me. not 'til you see me. not until you see me marching home, home home, home sweet home. just wait 'til i come marching home. [music playing] andrews sisters: so don't go walking down lovers lane. no walking down lovers lane till you see me. when you see me marching home. then we'll go on and on and sit down under the apple tree. baby just you and me when i come marching home.♪ [music playing] nick clooney: now the tommy dorsey band always had the cream of the crop, their vocal group, ah, the pied pipers. now the lead singer became one of the most successful vocalists of all time, her name jo stafford. here she is with "it started all over again." [music playing] jo stafford: ♪it started all. all: over again. the moment i looked in your eyes. jo stafford: it started all. all: over again. the thrill we can never disguise. jo stafford: the day that we parted, so broken hearted. never return again. all: dreams i've delayed. promises made. are starting anew. just for you. jo stafford: it started all. all: over again. the moment i held you so tight. jo stafford: it started all. all: over again. when we kissed away the night, 'til dawn's early light. jo stafford: now we're together. sweethearts forever. we'll build our romance anew. all: it started all over again. jo stafford: the moment i. all: looked at you.♪ peter marshall: you know we've got much more of my music to share with you tonight so stay with us right here on pbs. oh and make a pledge so we can stay here with you. [music playing] nick clooney: you've seen us sitting up here before, talking to you, you know the regimen you understand how it goes. where else are you going to see this, peter? this is what always drives this energy in me to talk about this stuff. there's no place else you're gonna see this on television. peter marshall: that's true, you know. i love that whole era. that's where i came from. and this is the only place it seems that i'm able to present it to people out there who love this music. and the only way we can continue to do this is by pledging. and so, either get on the ameche. nick clooney: the old ameche and if you don't know what that is then you're a lot younger than we are. peter marshall: or through the internet. so pledge here on pbs because we'd like to do a third edition. tj lubinsky: absolutely we want to do a third one. and we can, with your dollars, and your pledge and your support right now. tj lubinsky here and as the guys were telling you, this is the second in a series of big band specials because of those past calls of support we received, we were able to come back and bring you this all new special, which focuses on the big band vocalists. isn't this incredible? great sentimental music, yours to own, by the way and to share. isn't it wonderful pbs is here to share this music? time and again with your family? where else can you hear it except pbs? see it, experience it love it all over again. $120, go to your phone right now. when you do, we're sending you the dvd of the program, plus an extra special dvd of great big band vocalist performances that we couldn't fit into the show. so it's twice the show that you're getting in this great two-dvd package, when you go $120. now if you can increase that pledge to $150, boy, have we got something absolutely amazing for you. this is really special. the all-new, all-new, there's no repeats on this from the previous collection, big band cd set. this is exclusive to members of public television, you will find this nowhere else, call right now, support big band music let us know that you want to keep these incredible songs alive the emotion that you're feeling in your heart. feel, share, experience wherever you are cd playing, great way to listen in the car by the pool, whatever you're doing, what a wonderful experience to have this music in your home. this is an all new collection. what we're waiting for right now is you, to pick up the phone, join the station as a member, here's just a sample of some of the great music that will come your way. $150 and keep the big band sounds playing. narrator: share the experience of the great big band sound. pledge at the $150 level, and you'll receive the amazing five cd set featuring over 60 hits from the big band vocalists. [music playing]. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this timeless pbs collection includes the greatest vocalists, singers, and songs and even a special disc of hard to find instrumentals of the big band era. [music playing]. keep your music and memories alive here on pbs with your pledge now. [music playing]. peter marshall: now boy that was really fun for me to see, "it started all over again." i hadn't seen that video in, well, i've never seen that video. i remember sinatra doing it, just after the pied pipers but we were discussing earlier about the era of big band music. it was very narrow, really. nick clooney: very short, actually. and what surprises me and gratifies me too is the whole really swing big band era was only about 12 years, that was it. think about that now. rock and roll has been around for 50 years, the waltz era was around for 50 years before and that, think of how absolutely important it's been to music and influential in movies, in television, in radio, everything, so many things have eventuated from that swing era, that short period of time. peter marshall: you know, i get a lot of feedback from our show, people say hey, thank you thank nick and thank you for bringing this music back. it just made my evening or it made my day or it made my week, and the only reason we're able to bring it back is because you out there have pledged and uh, that's what we're doing right now. we're asking for more pledges. you know, pbs is the only place where you can still see and enjoy the wonderful music of the big band era, along with all the terrific singers you and i love. nick clooney: we need your support, now, to show that you want to keep the big band era alive on public television. peter marshall: now if you call the number on your screen, as a thank you gift we will send you an incredible cd, it's a cd collection of the greatest big band songs or on dvd, you can receive the show you're watching now plus a wealth of additional material not seen in the broadcast. more music and memories from the magical big band days. nick clooney: for a pledge of $150, we will send you the cd collection with over 100 big band classics. peter marshall: things like, "my dreams are getting better all the time," doris day and the les brown band "i'll get by," dick haymes and the harry james band. how about martha tilton? nick clooney: i love her. peter marshall: "and the angels sing," the benny goodman band. "i'll be seeing you," sinatra, with the original tommy dorsey band. "don't sit under the apple tree," tex beneke marion hutton, and the glenn miller band. "i've heard that song before," helen forrest with the harry james band, and "i wonder who's kissing her now" perry como and ted weems. oh "why don't you do right?" nick clooney: i will. peter marshall: peggy lee and benny goodman. "moonlight in vermont," with margaret whiting and billy butterfield on the trumpet what a great band that was. how about the original "marie," it wasn't sinatra, it was jack leonard with tommy dorsey's orchestra. we've got that. "i'm beginning to see the light," pretty kitty kallen and harry james band. "racing with the moon," vaughn monroe, "blue skies," with art lund and the benny goodman band. "yes indeed," jo stafford and the tommy dorsey orchestra. "flamingo," herb jeffries, i love herb jeffries, with the ellington band. and "you'll never know," rosemary clooney and harry james. "peg o'my heart," guess who did that. nick clooney: buddy clark. peter marshall: yeah, with who? nick clooney: with the ray noble orchestra. peter marshall: you got it. nick clooney: "indian summer." peter marshall: i love it, my favorite song. ginny simms and the kay kyser band. nick clooney: "cow cow boogie." peter marshall: ella mae morse with freddie slack. "tampico," nick clooney: [singing] from the gulf of mexico. peter marshall: june christy with stan kenton and dozens more of the greatest big band songs ever recorded. [music playing]. narrator: nothing compares to the great big band sound. pledge at the $150 level and you'll receive the amazing cd set, featuring dozens of hits from the big band vocalists on five cds. [music playing]. ♪ ♪ this enduring pbs collection includes the greatest vocalists singers, and songs. plus a special disc of hard to find instrumentals of the big band era. [music playing]. share the experience of the great big band sound. pledge at the $150 level and you'll receive the amazing five cd set featuring over 60 hits from the big band vocalists. [music playing]. tj lubinsky: you know the wonderful thing about pbs is it brings the sheer joy of exploration, exploring the world, new ideas, concepts, people to everyone, wherever you are, in your community in your home. so allow us to continue this great tradition. tonight we're celebrating the best of the big band vocalists going back in time almost a personal time machine if you will. made possible by past calls of support. now, membership to your station is an annual thing. you hear us talking about $150, $120 the package for $250, those are all wonderful, but we're asking right now for you to give whatever you can give whatever you can afford. whatever feels right, any amount is fine to allow us to continue this exploration for sharing for discovery and for keeping the greatest emotional sentimental music of all time preserved for the next generation, and the generation after that and the generation after that. thank you for calling so far right now we need to hear from you. nick clooney: pbs is dedicated to celebrating arts and culture. we bring you music programs that touch your life and stir your soul. whether it's a special presentation like this one, or programs like "great performances," we are proud to be able to bring you the best in arts. whether it's home-grown or from anywhere in the world. but we are most proud of the strong bond we have with viewers like you who are willing to support it.

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