Puttin' on the Ritz - Leo Reisman & His Orch., 1930

[Turkeydoodlers]

Yes that's Bubber Miley

[ErnieHollerhagen]

The trumpeter could be Bubber Miley in person!

[gfks11]

WONDERFUL!!!

[doloresmytube]

@gfks11

Grazie, Judie, per questa bella condivisione

ciaooooo !!!!!

[terraitya]

3 years and no dislikes. 20 years between wars were legen... WAIT FOR IT!  ........DARY!:)

[Turkeydoodlers]

I was very fortunate to buy this on eBay not to long ago, hard to find

[YearOfCam]

Okay, I'm just throwin' this out there -- who was it that did the Leo Reisman orchestra's arrangements from this era?? Were these the arrangements from stage or screen sheet music?

Really I just wanna find out if any are still written down. Even if I could find out who arranged 'Night and Day' (an amazing arrangement even by today's standards) for this orchestra, it'd be something.

[pmorlan3]

Best version of Puttin' on the Ritz ever! I believe that's Bubber Miley playing trumpet on this version. Wow!

[renascencewoman]

better than those kooky lyrics about gary cooper. give me harlem!

[boojum2222]

Can't fault the arrangement of this wonderful Berlin concoction, but the vocal is just barely adequate, if even that. Better that lovers of this number listen to the recordings by Harry Richman or Fred Astaire.

effjay

[Georgewos]

This was the original lyrics to this song. Then Irving Berlin changed it for the 1946 movie Blue Skies as sung by fred Astaire

[AeolianHall1]

This is by far the best version I have ever heard.

[max1941]

The real title is HERNANDO RIDES AWAY or in spanish El escondite de Hernando.-

[RahmSifr]

I'm not sure what is more exceptional, the brilliant arrangement or the outstanding quality of the recording.

5*, however!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

I like these lyrics...Maybe just because they mention Harlem.

[jd03150]

To my mind there has never been a classier version of this, one of the greatest songs of that era. The Leo Reisman band was one of the best.

[Masquerade03]

You see, I was tired to heard this song, but this rendition is a horse of different color, sooo hot and crazy!!

[fromthesidelines]

The song was originally featured in Harry Richman's "talkie" of the same name (revived by Fred Astaire in 1946, with Irving Berlin supplying "updated" lyrics for him to use). That's former Duke Ellington trumpeter Bubber Miley giving out with a "hot" solo at 1:32. The band's violinist, Lew Conrad, delivers the vocal here, which was recorded on January 20, 1930.

[jozefsterkens]

years ago I travelled from Europe to the States and in New Jersey not far from Princeton I discovered a little shop runned by an old man, he had hundreds of 78 rpm's, as I could not buy them I took one record out of a pile it was Leo Reisman And His Orchestra with vocal refrain - Puttin' on the Ritz, Victor. I play it on my radiofram when I have visitors. The Victor's have no surface noice.

[kspm01]

Outstanding, catchy and witty.

[dzheger]

Lovely, bright, brisk version. That's the way I like it. Thanks.

[barbcard]

I think you mean the Ritz-Carlton was RAZED, not RAVED in your screen note.

But you're forgiven and actually the error introduces a funny double entendre. Very stylish rendition, O to be there in the audience...

[bigcity233]

The original Ritz-Carlton was on Madison &

E46th St on the East side of the Ave - it was torn down in 1951. It was close to other notable neighbors including the New York Central RR-owned hotels - the Biltmore, the Roosevelt, the Barclay and the Waldorf.