David Rose - Holiday for Strings download song

Some people have no appreciation for the finer things in life.

I remember this lovely tune as the theme song for many an afternoon movie on TV in the 50's. Great song and great arrangement. Makes you long for those days once again.

Sounds like the music to an instructional video haha. I love this though.

I remember hearing this every week at the end of The Red Skelton Show, and the dancers on the show posing on a giant revolving platform. As a child, it was quite mesmerizing; up there with the theme from The Jackie Gleason show and Jackie calling "And awa-a-ay we go!"

guys I found the 45 rpm of this in the trash, under the rain...  Now he's happy, dry, in my living room :)

It was a different world back then!

Anyone thinking of the "June Taylor Dancers"? Same era!

Finally found this piece. Been an earworm for years now. Heard it in a 50s monster movie...kinda like bigfoot...which I am also looking for.

There's a melancholy subcurrent to this composition that I really like.

I had no idea this song was from 1942, almost sounds like something from the mid 50's. Nice.

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My great uncle was the first violinist and concertmaster for David Rose. As my grandmother tells the story. her brother wrote this as a practice piece and the rights were stolen from him. Not sure about that part but he was the first violinist.

This only became associate with cheesiness when it was used over and over for bad vaudeville acts. The music stands alone as a valid and entertaining composition. That said - I really enjoy the Glenn Miller AAF band version. They go all out!

First composed and recorded by David Rose in 1942 at MGM Studios when he was a staff composer, the musical director of MGM at that time, Herbert Stothart, liked it so much he promoted Rose to managing composer and conductor, and then in 1943 Rose became the Music Director for MGM, a position he held until 1948, when he was replaced by Miklos Rozsa. David Rose''s "Holiday for Strings" was also featured in an MGM short musical film in 1945, and in 1947, in an MGM Musical feature titled "The Unfinished Dance". David Rose had become a close personal friend of comedian Red Skelton at MGM in the 1940s, so when Red Skelton was offered the chance to have his own musical comedy variety show on CBS-TV in 1951, he called David Rose and offered him the job of Musical Director for the TV show, which ran until 1971. David Rose chose his "Holiday For Strings" to be the new theme song for the show, and that's where I first heard it as a boy in the 1950s.

If I am right or correct, David Rose made this music very famous on The Red Skelton tv show a long time ago.