Joni James - Why Don't You Believe Me
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- Joni James (Giovanna 'Joan' Carmella Babo) was born into an Italian family in Chicago on Sept. 22, 1930. As an adolescent, she studied drama and ballet, and on graduating from high school, went with a local dance group on a tour of Canada. She then took a job as a chorus girl in the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. After doing a fill-in in Indiana, she decided to pursue a singing career. Some executives at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) spotted her in a television commercial, and she was signed by MGM in 1952. Her first hit, "Why Don't You Believe Me?" sold over two million copies. She had a number of hits following that one, including "Your Cheatin' Heart" (a cover of Hank Williams' hit) and "Have You Heard?"
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My mother worked in a record shop, Russel Acots in Oxford, England, playing records for customers. My father a young G.I. wooed this young record clerk by having her place all of Joni James records for him! They have been married for 61 years!
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Grew up with her in the 50s. No one like her .playing in my car right now. Hav every album.
I agree with all comments here, especially Sparwood8. I first heard this song on WVNJ 1160 when they used to play music. They don't make songs like this anymore, unfortunately. It's nice to have CZcams where all this great music can still be found and enjoyed.
Joni James left us yesterday, March 4, 2022. She brought an infinite amount of love with her songs. Ralph L Seifer, Long Beach, California.
My father passed on December 26, 2023 and she was his favorite. Every time I hear her voice I tear up.
I wish my parents had named me Joni, because one of my favorite singers was Joni Mitchell. But my parents were born in 1920, and I was named after another female singer Jeanette McDonald. By the way I also sing and I love the sound of Joni James voice. It is really beautiful.
+Donald Lentz Mitchell did an album of 50's/60's pop and did a terrific job with the music. Not at all folksy. Tackled some A-List singers and did herself proud. One of the rare rockers I thought was worthy to spend my money on. I listen to that music regularly. You can buy that on CD..........
This song, & seeing all the photos of Joni, takes me back to the 50's, when life was so much simpler, & innocent. Dad----Mom-----I love & miss you both. ------------Your Oldest Son, MJL, 76 y/o
A red table cloth Italian restaurant in Brooklyn circa 1955, playing this over the radio, along with songs by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Vic Damone. The height of civilization!
RIP JONI....Thanks for being a part of my childhood.
I was named after this woman, what an honor and privilege! 💕💐
So was I! :)
Hi Joni, I was named after Joni James as well! Nice to see that you were as well, Joni
I was named after Joni as well!
This song made my hubby & i fall in love .married at 15 & 17 yrs old .been married since dec- 31-1952. also went to Bowen hight school with her brother angelo. Hope everyone is doing well .Love you Joni !!
That's beautiful 😍
Joni James, brings back my High School days
R.I.P. - Joni James. Thanks for the music!
first heard Joni in the very early sixties when I was in the British military stationed in Hong Kong. A beautiful voice and a wonderful person. Wish I could have met her. Michael in UK
a great song.there are great songs today. you dont have to turn loose the memory to embrace today
Joni James had a beautiful voice, clear and sweet, This was a very popular song in the early 1950"s.
Ohhhhhhh Joni ! A Classic Italian beauty. What a voice ! The 50's . I want to go back so badly !! -------------MJL< 77 y/o
Junior James has been my favorite female singer since the first time she sang this song.
One of her very best singing and goes well with the song.
Joni James, was my heroine in the 50's. The last time that I saw her, was when, she appeared on the "Joe Franklin Show," in the early 70's. She still mesmerized me then, as she still does, now!!!!!
How I love this song. I can
Remember Joni James
Singing this, like today.
I actually sang this.
Who's here after her passing also her voice is beautiful :)
I am drawn back to this song because of how much it meant to both of us "BACK THEN"... I play it & choke up...
When I hear JJ I just want to get lost in that time period her song pumps the blood through my heart to make me feel alive!
Dad absolutely LOVED this pretty Italian girl, & her perfect voice.
My all time favorite female singer, bar none..
My Dad absolutely LOVED this woman . She was gorgeous, classy, & what a voice ! ------------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o
Thanks for sharing, I love her!
Growing up , & now 62, Joni James was played throughout my childhood home. She brought & still brings Love & joy. RIP Joni🙏🏼❤️
just discovering Joni James . . . great voice
I was so sad to hear that Joni James passed recently. I never saw her perform but I love her voice and her songs. RIP Joni! You were a beautiful person 💕
Love that voice! RIP
GOT TO MEET HER IN NEW YORK IN 1958...SO GRACIOUS !!!!..ALWAYS LOVED HER VOICE !!!
I wish that Joni James and Jo Stafford were still with us so we could still listen to the wonderful and beautiful songs that they sang in the fifties
SAW HER ENTERTAIN AT THE NAVAL BASE IN NORFOLK IN 1956. SHE HAD EVER SAIOR AND MARINE HOMESICK AS HELL. SHE IS STILL THE BEST.
I CAN SIT ALL NIGHT AND LISTEN TO JONI SONGS ..WHAT A GREAT VOICE THAT WAS WHEN MUSIC WAS SOMETHING COMPARED TO WHAT THEY CALL MUSIC TODAY THANKS FOR THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES
HOW WONDERFUL GREW UP IN THE MID 40 S THIS WAS MUSIC KIDS TODAY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT great music is IT WILL LIVE ON AND ON
Richard, you are so right, I grew up at that time all the great singers and the big bands. nothing but a bunch of crap today.
I cry when I hear music from the 50's (my generation) Long gone but I still long for the those simple wonderful years.
Great song, and nobody sings it better than Joni James. I used to chop wood in the barn while listening to the "hit parade" on the radio back in 1952, and this is one of the songs I have never forgotten over the past 60 years. In fact this is one of the songs that made me want to be a songwriter.
What range ... such a beautiful beautiful voice.. love all her music... thank you for sharing 💝
# 1 song in 1953-A # 37 hit for The Duprees in 1963-A certifiable classic!
Your Aunt Joni will always be my favorite female singer. I have seen her in person many times. She is greatly loved by her fans.
#1 on the day of my birth...
...Elvis on Sullivan was less than four years in the future...
...and boy, did we need him.
+tuxguys
Same here.
Are we twins?
@statesideqsod I too heard it on an AM in South Jersey...WCMC in Wildwood (Cape May County) and for a young boy, her voice was entoxicating. I had numerous lp's and 45's that got sold when I gave up my collection...now I am buying some of her records back. She was beautiful. Thanks.
Wish that she could have been movies!!!
I REPEAT MYSELF...GREATEST FEMALE RECORDING OF MY YOUTH!!!! NOW AT 80 I STILL THRILL!!!
Rest in Peace Joni James there will never be another
Rest in peace Joni. Her songs still resonates in my ear. One of my favorites of the 50's.
She was one of the very best. Thank you, Joni. RIP.
joni you were the very best!, you had a very special voice!. when you sang, you knew right away it was your voice!, not to many singers have that. i am an italian american, like you!, although we never met, i have to say, you are very special to me! may god bless you! love is a beautiful thing!, and love conquers all!!!! Louie Vaccaro, las vegas.
First heard this song about 1952 at the age of twelve. Too old and advanced for me at that age, but Joni James' voice sang loud and clear at the time and stayed with me..
Joni was marvelous..
Joni is a very talented woman.
Her songs..
Her voice..
Her arrangements
are all marvelous..
Buddy, you just summed up in a few sentences what men of our generation have been thinking for 50-60 years! When I was teenager back in the mid-50s, I thought she had the sweetest sound ever and that she was singing directly to me (Doris Day was the only other singer that could to that for me)! I met my first real girlfriend (later to become my wife) because we picked the same Joni James song at a jukebox in a soda shop in Bellefontaine Ohio in 1953 (this very same song, in fact).
joni s voice just....shimmers!
Certainly, one of the prettiest of the girl singers.
Now this song could make me cry but this is a great song
I regularly play her 78rpm's, always nice to hear her voice.
This lady had an elegance to be admired and that voice was one you can never forget Thanks Joni for all the pleasure you gave the world. R I P.
Wonderful music. I'm grateful for being a part of this current generation, but man sometimes I think I would have loved to live in these times.
They just don't have singers or love songs like this --she just melts your bones away!
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God speed Joni, your voice will live on forever 🙏
I was a teenager in the fifties. What great times. Juke boxes, soda shops and all the rest . Those were "Happy Days" indeed.
A lush sweeping classic sung intimitably by Ms. James. Where are the 'girl' singers like this anymore? No more! Now all manufactured tech babble!
I first heard Joni on Armed Forces Radio while serving in Japan during the Korean War. She was the best of a great crop of female songbirds of that era, including Jo Stafford, Patti Page, Teresa Brewer, Kitty Kallen, Gogi Grant, and others. Unfortunately, at the height of her career, she quit to care for her ailing husband. MGM replaced her with Connie Francis. She resumed her career later, but rock and roll was popular by then and she could never get into that style. I have bought every record, tape, and disc of Joni that I could find, many at used record stores. Still love her.
I love this song 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌟🌟🌟
I remember Joni from my high school years back in the 50's. I loved her then and I love her now more than 50 years later.
Listened to her album in my room with my eyes closed It was.love at first sight. I was 8. what memories.
God gave her something many don't have TALENT
Joni James! her voice is like magic. She is an original who sings with great longing and heart.
This is for my Dad -----------------he LOVED Joni James, knowing she was a nice Italian girl : Gorgeous, classy, & what a voice. ---------------I liked her too, as I grew up to her music in our home.-----------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
I remember hearing this clear, straight-forward, sweet female voice on the radio, in the early 1950s..I was just seven years old, but was somehow attracted to the sound of her voice...but, like others of my Boomer generation, I quickly moved on, to embrace the Rock and Roll revolution in popular music...I had forgotten about Joni, until I happened to recently read about her death...when I listened once again to this excellent hit record, I got misty-eyed!...She had such an innocent quality to her singing voice...nothing too stylized, just heartfelt singing, from such a pretty lady...she dropped out of the music scene, in the early 1960s, ostensibly to take care of her ailing husband...more likely though, by the early 60s, musical tastes had changed, crooners of both sexes were no long in vogue...but she had a great run in the 1950s...Interesting that she never had kids, coming from such an Italian background!..After her first husband died, in the mid 1980s, she eventually married again, to a much older retired military officer..they lasted until he died, at the age of 94...This sweet woman clearly believed in marriage!...She is buried in Arlington National Cemetery....Joni was a classy lady, all the way!
absolutely! the youth today have not clue what a true singer is
This song "Why don't you believe me" was number 1 for many weeks on the top ten in 1953. She had a beautiful voice Too bad she ended her career short at that time to care for her sick husband. When she came back a year or so later Patty Page was the top female singer.
Joni broke my heart in the fifties, and fuels my fantasies sixty years later. She is the fifties for me; and conjures ups all the angst of my pathetic adosolescence. Many thanks for uploading the tunes that translate to cherished memories.
Don’t beat yourself up over what you call “A Pathetic Adolescence “ It was what it was my adolescence was the 1950s in a way it was tough for every one goin* through our changes. Find some Good in it.
Well put, lol. I'm in my early 30s total babe for sure. This song turns me into mush. Such a powerful, silky sexy voice
Brings back memories in the 50's - danced to this song so many times. There is no female singer quite like this gal. She is the cream of the crop.
Christmas time '52 our returning troop ship arrived and we wound up in Camp Kilmer NJ. As soon as possible a group of us went to the PX and as we walked through the door the opening strains of this song had just started playing. It stopped us dead in our tracks. We never heard of the song or Joni when we were overseas. Now when I hear this recording again it sounds as if I am back in that large PX. I can visualize it as if it was yesterday. It also has a special meaning.
Great Masterpiece thanks for sharing it...
This music is conscious moving and beautifully sung.
Wonderful when I hear her voice a tear comes to my eye. .
I had the pleasure to see her perform at The Paramont on Times Square in1953.
what beautiful memories. My friends and I sat front row to the left, she's as beautiful as her voice Thanks.
ceeceeable thank you for uploading this song ,love it so relaxing to hear her angelic voice...
Leo John Luna voice of a angle a fan since 1954. I have 78 45 33 taps and CD.
Such purity of voice. And thanks for the wonderful memories.
15 & SOO IN LOVE.. TEARS ME UP AT 78!!!
This song tears me too now at 22 :'( great talent
Im 97 and this song tears me up
My favourite song & singer of the 60's. Never heard anyone to match her since then. Many happy memories from this song.
I remember playing this in the cold wooden barracks with coal heaters in France, (Army 1955, age 17). I was spending my teen age years where I did not want to be. That's what you get for forging a birth certificate and joining up at 16. Joni was the sweetest voice and really made a lot of young guys like me home sick. Thanks for posing this great oldie and bringing back memories.
No shirt! I did the same. Pittsburgh to Ft Jackson to Ft Bragg to Ft Campbell! Same barracks.
WOW I LISTEN TO THIS MUSIC ALL THE TIME......WHERE HAS ALL THIS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC GONE.....ALL THE BLACK GROUPS TOO....THEY HAD CLASS....NOT TODAY.....AMEN FOR THE 50'S
Joni was ou favorite girl singer in the USMC at Cherry Pt, and I am stillin her Fan Club. I think she is still alive and well in florida, but many dont seem to remember her, but her LP albums are very rare, andI paid about 25 dollars to get them andI have ,many of them, so hey are collectors items!!!!
love jonii since I was 9.
I have loved this lady's music for more years than I can count. When my daughter was born, we named her "Joni." I still have long-play records, cassettes and CDs containing Joni James' music.
I AMAZED AT HEARTFELT INPUT THAT FOLLOWED MY COMMENT OF A YR AGO>> AT 79 I STILL TEAR UP AT HER VOICE & THAT SONG!!
joni james is the voice of 1953 international fair in manila,together with her husband they made a heart warming sound of the times in manila
90's baby but love listening to her voice
Glenn Johnson Have this on `78 but wonderful to hear it here!What a great voice!Thanks for this upload.
fantastic.......................................
My now 80 year old friend introduced me to her music a few years ago! I love her crystal clear voice!
what a voice
I had to come back. Egads! What a voice! What a beautiful soul. BTW the orchestral renditions back in the day also made these songs live on decades after they were recorded.
This song was number 1 during the week I was born. Never heard it until now, although I do remember that voice with other songs...interesting.
I remember when Joni came to Bowen High School (1952?) and did a show for us in the auditorium... such a special treat from such a special young lady who happened to have a great/big/beautiful voice!
I wish I was there to see her I graduated from Bowen high in 1963, she sure was cute!!!
Ida McCarty It must have been wonderful to hear her Sing she has been such a lovely person all her life and such a great singer! The way she took care of her Husband, what a special Person!
Sad to hear of her passing.. Beautiful woman and amazing voice
My favorite DIVA - awesome song.
I also grew up in the 1950s, and this was one of the most unforgettable songs of that era.
David Anderson me too
I to fell in love with this Woman, Her voice used to send tingles down my neck they still do! it was whilst I was serving in the HongKing area from 1955 to 1958. Be stationed on Island off Hong kong I used to tune my TCS receiver to Manila Radio and swoon to her singing. JUST FOUND HER AGAIN AFTER MENTIONING TO MY MY WIFE OF 60 YEARS WHO HAD NEVER HEARD OF HER!!
Joni James-------such a natural beauty, Dad used to be glued to the tV any time she was on TF. A nice Chicago Italian girl.------------------MJL, 76 y/o
I just have to get some of these albums. I had never heard of her and I think she is FAB! But seriously, she really is good. And the orchestra behind her is great. I will add her music to my collection.
+Yukon Mike Stewart You can buy Joni James music on eBay.
+Yukon Mike Stewart
A favorite of mine also. I used to be a DJ in Philly and I have a pile of her 45's! The original DJ copies.
I was born in 1943. As a tenish year old, this is the music that imprinted on my brain. My older sisters were always listening to the radio. On Saturdays from 10 am to noon, WOAI in San Antonio would play the top 20 countdown. Such great and wonderful music that has stuck with me through all the great singers who followed in the rock 'n roll years.