Hubby lived in the Quarter, in New Orleans for over thirty years. Frankie Ford's lounge piano kicked ass. He did all kinds of stuff. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, soup to nuts, spotlights..the works. Ric remembers this withthe greatest affection. SEA CRUISE and the audience singing along "oo-ee baby", was of course golden. But Ric tells me this guy was, a freaking mini-Vegas, not some one-hit wonder, as many would have you believe..you can hear the Fats Domino boogie woogie influence, and even a whiff of Jerry Lee Lewis.The late Frankiewas, as my Uncle Jimmy liked to say: all wool and a yard wide. RIP, stylish, groovy gent...
@nc1schoolclosings245
3 жыл бұрын
Lucky Pierre's and The Gateway
@tenbelow96172 жыл бұрын
Frankie told this joke at NOLA jazzfest. "These pants are like a cheap hotel, no ballroom". Rest in peace, you flamer you.
@eolonizzi51896 жыл бұрын
Frankie, was a great singer, and could he play the piano, Oh yes, RIP
@doeadear22cardenas743 ай бұрын
My three year old self’s favorite song. First horn song awareness. Love horn bands!!!!! This song still rocks. ❤
@elgoogkcuf
2 ай бұрын
i was born in 1985. My favorite song as a child no doubt.
@Liberal_US_Army_Vet8 жыл бұрын
RIP ....another rock n roll pioneer gone to heaven
@JAMESMAC44210 жыл бұрын
One of the best songs EVER!
@JBmusicart
Жыл бұрын
That's why they call them HITS and Classics.
@moemcgovern7345
Жыл бұрын
I Love this arrangement.
@rickmunroe50784 жыл бұрын
One of the best of all time.
@VerdaLinda19 күн бұрын
I loved growing up to this music
@quietjarvis Жыл бұрын
Love this video. How he says "It goes exactly like this!"
@TheWizardofRandR8 жыл бұрын
He was a Great addition to Bourbon St. Nightlife in the 70s & 80s when I worked the visited at in Lucky Pierre's where he played regularly ! He was great !
@eolonizzi72208 жыл бұрын
We lost another great singer, RIP Frankie!!
@bwilliams4639 ай бұрын
Love this guy's style and his piano skills. I also love how energetic the background singers are in this recording.
@judd11574 жыл бұрын
Not sure how I made it 60 years in this world not knowing about this guy. The CONSUMATE showman . Such talent.....and just like that, he’s gone.
@martyrezac9037
4 жыл бұрын
You was under a rock maybe ? 😳😳😳
@grantbowen6583 жыл бұрын
WOW .. Love it !! A Legend !!! This song still sounds amazing many years later after it's release. People still love it !! What an explosive Era. IT's amazing that Frankie was right there with his fantastic contributions to the era !! Frankie had a feel like no other artist. This song still sounds great at my live gigs. (pre Covid) .. and it works well on the Cruise Ship gigs as well. My Students love to learn and play this song. If you need it transposed into a different key to make it easier to sing, i can help you with that as well. Gotta Love the Classics. ;-)
@johnastrup15494 жыл бұрын
Frankie Ford great New Orleans stuff,Singer, pianoplayer and showman. ✊🎤🎹
@michelinekribs956311 жыл бұрын
I remember this as a little child. loved it then and still do Thank- you for downloading this for the rest of us to enjoy.The one who voted thumbs down, must not appreciate music from the 50's. You can understand the lyrics there is no cursing,that kind of thing. Micheline Kribs. Rolla,MO
@hotrod3able10 жыл бұрын
BIG HIT FOR FRANKIE FORD WAS NEVER MY MOST FAVORITE BUT GIVE IT TO THIS MAN HE IS A GREAT PERFORMER AND SINGER.IF YOU EVER GET TO SEE HIM LIVE DON'T MISS IT .HE WILL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF .DENNT R MAN
@davidshowmaker4408 Жыл бұрын
I discovered this show a few years ago! Great show
@robertpetrellisr.4658 жыл бұрын
RIP you are rockroll heaven now!
@19genowefa218 жыл бұрын
When this came out,,,I danced many times in my house. I have the 45 rpm...think I will get it out and remember being 16. Frankie Ford...rest in peace..you gave us many hours of dancing fun.
@feelinqfren9521
5 жыл бұрын
Gen Wefella franky ford gave me a minney mouse before he died and he worked with ly dad eddie and if you look up “lousiana, im coming home.” My dad sings in it
@1968tomf Жыл бұрын
Erst heute abend wieder angehört.... Einer der grössten Rockstars seiner Zeit.....
@dogtowncurve510712 жыл бұрын
Frankie Ford - He is great --- the life of the party!!
@maureenmcgovern6119
2 жыл бұрын
I can tell. I just had 2 strokes, this makes me come alive!
@artguti15519 жыл бұрын
Damn he still sounds Good!
@johnzmijewski3600 Жыл бұрын
When I heard that song it was only once or twice being played by Bill Shannon on WCBS FM 1O1.1
@seemegonow10 жыл бұрын
Frankie, you have come a long way since you appearance on The American Bandstand. You are just as great today as you were back in the day. yankee1830 Thank you for putting up this video. Elliott as Elvis
@raywiefling48869 жыл бұрын
Wow Frankie Ford. You are just great! Would love to hear you sing "Statue of a fool " I know you would blow us away with your version! I hope you see this post. Will check for your live shows.
@johnnielehew27942 жыл бұрын
This is a great song !!!!!!!
@gazwren82522 жыл бұрын
Had the pleasure of meeting and talking to him...funny,and very polite.. He came over to England in the eighties to do rock n roll weekender ran by Johnny Hale in Weymouth,Blue Waters Holiday Camp...i worked the stage door.Good days
@stuartjenkins667310 ай бұрын
TUNE What a voice especially on Gone
@stevengilman5 жыл бұрын
I met and talked with Frankie for just a few minutes at the First Cavalry Division Officer's Club at Camp Howze in Korea, 1964. We were both in the Army and he was playing the piano during the cocktail hour at a formal function. It was said, that when the command staff found out who he was they took him out of his assigned unit and made him the director of the First Team chorus, the singing group of the First Cavalry Division. They entertained at the officer's and NCO clubs in the division area. That was great duty!
@fasteddie90559 жыл бұрын
Go ahead, Frankie.....you re the best!!!!!!!!!!
@LaurieLevites8 жыл бұрын
Body gone, his music lives on... Peace....
@pathealey188510 жыл бұрын
love it great job .
@cynthiahawkins23895 жыл бұрын
In that clip from the Cosimo documentary...Ford mentions that the high humidity in the air in New Orleans, caused the felt in the piano keys (hammers?) to swell up, so when you'd hit the note you were aiming for, it sometimes didn't quite come out that way..which created some VERY interesting interpretive results...
@martyrezac9037
4 жыл бұрын
Good to know ! 😁😁😁
@breabyrne36048 жыл бұрын
ONE OF THE BEST EVER FRANKIE FORD R I P DJ JOHNNY LEE 27 yrs aDJ COUNTRY AND OLDIES IRELAND
@33Keith338 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Frankie Ford.
@lesterhensley40173 жыл бұрын
Yes on e of the best. One by one they slowly leavening us, how sad.
@SpeegBJ6 жыл бұрын
What a performer....rip and thanks for the gorgeous tunes.
@davidgottlieb531 Жыл бұрын
Straight ahead rock n roll by a master.
@bennyjazzful4 жыл бұрын
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan.
@mcfrdmn7 жыл бұрын
Lovely song and fantastic musical performance !
@AngryRantsAndStuff8 жыл бұрын
Sail into the sunset in peace. Thanks for the music.
@markross68182 жыл бұрын
Look, listen 'n Love.. Heah yeah.. ☺️
@christinab.28645 жыл бұрын
I watch another video this talks more about “we (he) record it it don’t go something like this it goes exactly like this.” This party was back in 1999 and he some of the others were becoming apawed about the music at the time. I can’t exactly say that I would argue with him but it’s wrose now and it’s on every channel.
@moemcgovern7345 Жыл бұрын
Love this song!
@moemcgovern7345
Жыл бұрын
Take a good look around that room.
@maureenmcgovern61192 жыл бұрын
I just Love his jacket!
@RDK8604 жыл бұрын
"Herman's Hermits did a version of this song in'65!
@bigrigbutters1874 ай бұрын
Rest In Power, King.
@dancelli7147 жыл бұрын
GET THIS 9 HOUR SERIES;"R&R GRAFFITI" YOU WON'T REGRET IT !!!
@mahalkita7351
4 жыл бұрын
Dan Celli ABSOLUTELY 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💜💜💜💜💜
@michaelmakes4883
3 жыл бұрын
Go to "country family reunion" website
@JBmusicart Жыл бұрын
What yall need to know is that all that boogie woogie from Louisiana is called Swamp Pop down here. That's a fact.
@reneecarter6702 Жыл бұрын
Man he was gettin it! 🫰🏼🫰🏼🫰🏼🔥
@swishastickers51925 жыл бұрын
What happened to the rest of the recordings? They were pretty awesome....Anyone know???
@sandychipper467110 жыл бұрын
Wow , memories what a job , what a voice- could listen to him sing all day
@teddyleather90796 жыл бұрын
one cool cat!!
@hollisterpatricia8 жыл бұрын
One of the unforgettable songs of my childhood. Stiil comes to mind often. Never even saw a picture of Frankie Ford.
@NeverTalkToCops19 ай бұрын
This song was birthed by Little Richard, original title was Semen Cruz.
@senob4412 жыл бұрын
@hunterv41 I think cw605 meant that Ford did the song "Sea Cruise" (aka THE ONE IN THIS VIDEO) before Lewis did his version of this same song, which was in the 1970s. In fact, re-reading cw's comment I think it's obvious. Pay close attention to the part where he says: "he was before Jerry with the song Sea (sic) Cruse"
@hipmusic222js9 жыл бұрын
great time ,fabulous entertainers...takeme back now;;;
@lennieblue8 жыл бұрын
Sounds as good as ever. Better. I didn't know he had passed away.
@tomace1943 жыл бұрын
Sweet jacket.
@Frenite4 жыл бұрын
2:09: That guy is my favorite
@OldFuddyDuddy69
3 жыл бұрын
Little Richard's stunt double?
@maureenmcgovern61192 жыл бұрын
This rendition was done after 1959.
@maureenmcgovern6119
2 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite version of this song.
@daktari3055 Жыл бұрын
💃🕺
@goojedooje6602 жыл бұрын
Herman's hermits did this one 1964
@lauraswihart4816 Жыл бұрын
💖🇺🇲💖
@bettyb9813 жыл бұрын
Hot hot hot
@davel.v86953 жыл бұрын
Age didn't slow him down. Didn't miss a beat.
@flhxri Жыл бұрын
Is this the sweatin to the oldies version? Why isn't Richard dancing around?🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣
@bennyjazzful5 жыл бұрын
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen 75yo Aussie fan. Should be 1999 not 1959.
@joshualitton48985 жыл бұрын
I like things I can remember
@leopoldopetrieska65643 жыл бұрын
are people in the audience all 50's musicians?
@starr52210 жыл бұрын
Only time I did not like this song was on Bandstand when they make the song a joke.
@JBmusicart Жыл бұрын
Naturally Nawlins
@shawnrazani56612 жыл бұрын
What year was this performance?
@oneman18123 жыл бұрын
🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🎸🎸🎹🎹🎹🎹
@antonybuckley831210 жыл бұрын
Camper than a Brighton bus queue!..
@lenspaulding8 жыл бұрын
the old guy with the striped shirt sitting near the piano....supplied all the reefer at this great show for the singers mostly.(Peace and Love)
@lorettasteele1755
6 жыл бұрын
lenspaulding bulshit
@henrybyrd54027 жыл бұрын
A bit later than 1959 I think! He was a bit thinner back then.
@ChicagoBeaver11 жыл бұрын
Doo Wop Jo RULES MAN!!!!
@joshualitton48985 жыл бұрын
My fav is guy @ 2:09
@steveblack610
5 жыл бұрын
Joshua Litton you made me chuckle pointing that out.
@Frenite
4 жыл бұрын
Joshua Litton Me too
@fasteddie90559 жыл бұрын
Who was that in the AMERICAN HOT WAX studio presentation? Was it the real Frankie Ford?
@yongary01
9 жыл бұрын
Yes
@fasteddie9055
9 жыл бұрын
Looking great, Frankie. Sea Cruise is still one of my favorites.
@ravenshotlist5 жыл бұрын
uss roosavelt cvn 73
@MichaelSmith-ui5zs7 жыл бұрын
when's this film from about 1990?
@paulrelgne2149
5 жыл бұрын
A 1999 Reunion of former recording artists
@freezonetrumpet
4 жыл бұрын
@@paulrelgne2149 Yeah, Dee Dee Sharp was there too!
Пікірлер: 110
Hubby lived in the Quarter, in New Orleans for over thirty years. Frankie Ford's lounge piano kicked ass. He did all kinds of stuff. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, soup to nuts, spotlights..the works. Ric remembers this withthe greatest affection. SEA CRUISE and the audience singing along "oo-ee baby", was of course golden. But Ric tells me this guy was, a freaking mini-Vegas, not some one-hit wonder, as many would have you believe..you can hear the Fats Domino boogie woogie influence, and even a whiff of Jerry Lee Lewis.The late Frankiewas, as my Uncle Jimmy liked to say: all wool and a yard wide. RIP, stylish, groovy gent...
@nc1schoolclosings245
3 жыл бұрын
Lucky Pierre's and The Gateway
Frankie told this joke at NOLA jazzfest. "These pants are like a cheap hotel, no ballroom". Rest in peace, you flamer you.
Frankie, was a great singer, and could he play the piano, Oh yes, RIP
My three year old self’s favorite song. First horn song awareness. Love horn bands!!!!! This song still rocks. ❤
@elgoogkcuf
2 ай бұрын
i was born in 1985. My favorite song as a child no doubt.
RIP ....another rock n roll pioneer gone to heaven
One of the best songs EVER!
@JBmusicart
Жыл бұрын
That's why they call them HITS and Classics.
@moemcgovern7345
Жыл бұрын
I Love this arrangement.
One of the best of all time.
I loved growing up to this music
Love this video. How he says "It goes exactly like this!"
He was a Great addition to Bourbon St. Nightlife in the 70s & 80s when I worked the visited at in Lucky Pierre's where he played regularly ! He was great !
We lost another great singer, RIP Frankie!!
Love this guy's style and his piano skills. I also love how energetic the background singers are in this recording.
Not sure how I made it 60 years in this world not knowing about this guy. The CONSUMATE showman . Such talent.....and just like that, he’s gone.
@martyrezac9037
4 жыл бұрын
You was under a rock maybe ? 😳😳😳
WOW .. Love it !! A Legend !!! This song still sounds amazing many years later after it's release. People still love it !! What an explosive Era. IT's amazing that Frankie was right there with his fantastic contributions to the era !! Frankie had a feel like no other artist. This song still sounds great at my live gigs. (pre Covid) .. and it works well on the Cruise Ship gigs as well. My Students love to learn and play this song. If you need it transposed into a different key to make it easier to sing, i can help you with that as well. Gotta Love the Classics. ;-)
Frankie Ford great New Orleans stuff,Singer, pianoplayer and showman. ✊🎤🎹
I remember this as a little child. loved it then and still do Thank- you for downloading this for the rest of us to enjoy.The one who voted thumbs down, must not appreciate music from the 50's. You can understand the lyrics there is no cursing,that kind of thing. Micheline Kribs. Rolla,MO
BIG HIT FOR FRANKIE FORD WAS NEVER MY MOST FAVORITE BUT GIVE IT TO THIS MAN HE IS A GREAT PERFORMER AND SINGER.IF YOU EVER GET TO SEE HIM LIVE DON'T MISS IT .HE WILL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF .DENNT R MAN
I discovered this show a few years ago! Great show
RIP you are rockroll heaven now!
When this came out,,,I danced many times in my house. I have the 45 rpm...think I will get it out and remember being 16. Frankie Ford...rest in peace..you gave us many hours of dancing fun.
@feelinqfren9521
5 жыл бұрын
Gen Wefella franky ford gave me a minney mouse before he died and he worked with ly dad eddie and if you look up “lousiana, im coming home.” My dad sings in it
Erst heute abend wieder angehört.... Einer der grössten Rockstars seiner Zeit.....
Frankie Ford - He is great --- the life of the party!!
@maureenmcgovern6119
2 жыл бұрын
I can tell. I just had 2 strokes, this makes me come alive!
Damn he still sounds Good!
When I heard that song it was only once or twice being played by Bill Shannon on WCBS FM 1O1.1
Frankie, you have come a long way since you appearance on The American Bandstand. You are just as great today as you were back in the day. yankee1830 Thank you for putting up this video. Elliott as Elvis
Wow Frankie Ford. You are just great! Would love to hear you sing "Statue of a fool " I know you would blow us away with your version! I hope you see this post. Will check for your live shows.
This is a great song !!!!!!!
Had the pleasure of meeting and talking to him...funny,and very polite.. He came over to England in the eighties to do rock n roll weekender ran by Johnny Hale in Weymouth,Blue Waters Holiday Camp...i worked the stage door.Good days
TUNE What a voice especially on Gone
I met and talked with Frankie for just a few minutes at the First Cavalry Division Officer's Club at Camp Howze in Korea, 1964. We were both in the Army and he was playing the piano during the cocktail hour at a formal function. It was said, that when the command staff found out who he was they took him out of his assigned unit and made him the director of the First Team chorus, the singing group of the First Cavalry Division. They entertained at the officer's and NCO clubs in the division area. That was great duty!
Go ahead, Frankie.....you re the best!!!!!!!!!!
Body gone, his music lives on... Peace....
love it great job .
In that clip from the Cosimo documentary...Ford mentions that the high humidity in the air in New Orleans, caused the felt in the piano keys (hammers?) to swell up, so when you'd hit the note you were aiming for, it sometimes didn't quite come out that way..which created some VERY interesting interpretive results...
@martyrezac9037
4 жыл бұрын
Good to know ! 😁😁😁
ONE OF THE BEST EVER FRANKIE FORD R I P DJ JOHNNY LEE 27 yrs aDJ COUNTRY AND OLDIES IRELAND
R.I.P. Frankie Ford.
Yes on e of the best. One by one they slowly leavening us, how sad.
What a performer....rip and thanks for the gorgeous tunes.
Straight ahead rock n roll by a master.
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan.
Lovely song and fantastic musical performance !
Sail into the sunset in peace. Thanks for the music.
Look, listen 'n Love.. Heah yeah.. ☺️
I watch another video this talks more about “we (he) record it it don’t go something like this it goes exactly like this.” This party was back in 1999 and he some of the others were becoming apawed about the music at the time. I can’t exactly say that I would argue with him but it’s wrose now and it’s on every channel.
Love this song!
@moemcgovern7345
Жыл бұрын
Take a good look around that room.
I just Love his jacket!
"Herman's Hermits did a version of this song in'65!
Rest In Power, King.
GET THIS 9 HOUR SERIES;"R&R GRAFFITI" YOU WON'T REGRET IT !!!
@mahalkita7351
4 жыл бұрын
Dan Celli ABSOLUTELY 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💜💜💜💜💜
@michaelmakes4883
3 жыл бұрын
Go to "country family reunion" website
What yall need to know is that all that boogie woogie from Louisiana is called Swamp Pop down here. That's a fact.
Man he was gettin it! 🫰🏼🫰🏼🫰🏼🔥
What happened to the rest of the recordings? They were pretty awesome....Anyone know???
Wow , memories what a job , what a voice- could listen to him sing all day
one cool cat!!
One of the unforgettable songs of my childhood. Stiil comes to mind often. Never even saw a picture of Frankie Ford.
This song was birthed by Little Richard, original title was Semen Cruz.
@hunterv41 I think cw605 meant that Ford did the song "Sea Cruise" (aka THE ONE IN THIS VIDEO) before Lewis did his version of this same song, which was in the 1970s. In fact, re-reading cw's comment I think it's obvious. Pay close attention to the part where he says: "he was before Jerry with the song Sea (sic) Cruse"
great time ,fabulous entertainers...takeme back now;;;
Sounds as good as ever. Better. I didn't know he had passed away.
Sweet jacket.
2:09: That guy is my favorite
@OldFuddyDuddy69
3 жыл бұрын
Little Richard's stunt double?
This rendition was done after 1959.
@maureenmcgovern6119
2 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite version of this song.
💃🕺
Herman's hermits did this one 1964
💖🇺🇲💖
Hot hot hot
Age didn't slow him down. Didn't miss a beat.
Is this the sweatin to the oldies version? Why isn't Richard dancing around?🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen 75yo Aussie fan. Should be 1999 not 1959.
I like things I can remember
are people in the audience all 50's musicians?
Only time I did not like this song was on Bandstand when they make the song a joke.
Naturally Nawlins
What year was this performance?
🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🎸🎸🎹🎹🎹🎹
Camper than a Brighton bus queue!..
the old guy with the striped shirt sitting near the piano....supplied all the reefer at this great show for the singers mostly.(Peace and Love)
@lorettasteele1755
6 жыл бұрын
lenspaulding bulshit
A bit later than 1959 I think! He was a bit thinner back then.
Doo Wop Jo RULES MAN!!!!
My fav is guy @ 2:09
@steveblack610
5 жыл бұрын
Joshua Litton you made me chuckle pointing that out.
@Frenite
4 жыл бұрын
Joshua Litton Me too
Who was that in the AMERICAN HOT WAX studio presentation? Was it the real Frankie Ford?
@yongary01
9 жыл бұрын
Yes
@fasteddie9055
9 жыл бұрын
Looking great, Frankie. Sea Cruise is still one of my favorites.
uss roosavelt cvn 73
when's this film from about 1990?
@paulrelgne2149
5 жыл бұрын
A 1999 Reunion of former recording artists
@freezonetrumpet
4 жыл бұрын
@@paulrelgne2149 Yeah, Dee Dee Sharp was there too!
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