Sophie Tucker "SOME OF THESE DAYS" (1927)

[go1121]

Boardwalk empire?

[Delurr]

In the book he listens to "Some of these days" by Ethel Waters, afroamerican singer.

[changoloboperro]

But.. is this the version.. of the "Nausea" novel?

In the book Roquetin says the singer is black.. :/

Greetings from Mexico.

[3909clancy]

You never think that people really were the same back then as now.I guess it is really true times change but people never do!

[HannyGray]

I thought I'd be one of the only ones listening to this after reading 'Nausea'... nope

[THECLOSETWRITER]

hey .. listen to the song these days by rhymefest..youll like it go back and forth from this song to the other

[Lengo67]

Nice video! How did you find all these photos of Sophie? Good job!

[WILLOBIE]

I heard Sophie do a live show at the Sahara in Vegas circa 1961-- about five years before she died. She could still belt this one out. She played a double bill with Paul Anka: the dumbest pairing the Sahara could have made. The kids wanted to hear Anka, but Sophie was R rated.

[OyVayGafiltaFish]

Now 54, My Dad taught me to play guitar when I was a young boy. He, born in 1918 grew up on all of this music, and I consider myself extremely lucky to know all of these "Standards". Polkas, Jewish songs, Italian, and his favorite Cowboy songs like those sung by Gene Autry and others. I still go back to my "roots" when practicing. Makes me feel good to have a visit with Dad. Great to see all of you out there enjoying this music as well. God bless you all and Happy holidays to you too!!

[Danielguns98]

Y sin embargo, estoy inquieto; bastaría tan poco para que el disco se detuviera: un resorte roto, un capricho del primo Adolphe. Qué extraño, qué conmovedor que esta duración sea tan frágil. Nada puede interrumpirla y todo puede quebrantarla.

El último acorde se ha aniquilado. En el breve silencio que sigue, siento fuertemente que ya está, que algo ha sucedido.

Silencio.

Some of these days

You’ll miss me honey.

[changoloboperro]

@Danielguns98 ajaja genial..justo hace unas semanas termine esa gran novela...

Esta es la canción aunque me pregunto si sera la versión, ya que en el libro roquetin dice que es una voz de "mujer negra".... quien sabe...

[gbtbag]

If you search for Sophie Tucker, you get more results for Bette Midler than the woman herself!

I wish there were more clips rather than stills.

[GraveDigger0901]

Sartre brought me here.

[Deexxtro]

Sartre. "La nausée"... god damn it.

[KINKtease]

:D



[MermaidPrincess9]

well this is my first time ever hearing Sophie Tucker.. sorry to say, i am a singer / blues singer and i always wondered where my singing genes came from.. Just recently i found out that my grandmother Gertrude Jacobs and her sister Hilda.used to sing in all the pubs in London and she sounded like Sophie Tucker.. I never knew that in the early days when she used to sit me on her lap and tell me stories about London her home.. I feel in love with England bec. of her. but now to find out shesang

[CarlDuke]

Just great.  Thanks for posting this one.

[cpheels]

She is great, but remember JUDY HENSKE is still alive! and she did a fantastic version of this song on "Little bit of sunshine...little bit of rain" altough she detested

the album. Judy is still producing great quality and I`m waiting for the new album she is mixing right now!

[medmond6]

Alas no more "red hot mamas" like that. Did get to see her on the old Ed Sullivan TV show along with a lot of other greats long gone  - for that I thank you Mr. sullivan.

[mecagoen666]

Id really enjoyed this magic theme but right then after it finished Id start feeling the Nausea again

[jahlaune]

This gal is the ONLY gal that can sing this...What Negress? Sophie was jewish

[ivanlarsen]

i finished nausea today and it alluded to this song...the Negress sings. finally.

[0mollytee]

I love this... I found out recently I'm related to her. Apparently she's my Grandpa's cousin, so it's kind of distant, but when my mom was growing up he'd say "Come watch Cousin Sophie on TV!" I'm a singer/songwriter now, and as far as I know she's the only musician I'm related to besides Molly Bee (the country singer) on my dad's side. I'm glad youtube has footage of her.

[harrison58]

That picture @2:58 with the Dodger & Yankee guys is PRICELESS! This song has been done by a million artists, but she'll always be the one and only...

[bsgs98]

@harrison58 That was Chuck Dressen, Dodger manager and Casey Stengel, Yankee manager at the 1953 World Series. Sophie was demonstrating to the press that she showed no favoritism!

[BuckshotLaFunke1]

Sophie Tucker. I have an old 78 rpm of her: 'Mr Segal', about an unmarried mother. 'Mr Segal, please make it legal.' And You promised to take me to the Stork Club. You didn't took (!) me to the Stork Club, you took me to the stork...'

[bsgs98]

@BuckshotLaFunke1 Thanks for the info. For those who want to hear "Mr. Segal" it has been posted on YT.

[DrMoorehen]

thank you yes i 'saw' sophie on the HBO show too... thank you so much....

[littlesadperson]

j.p. sartre- :)

i understand him now

[belathequeen]

Jolie chanson. I have been introduced to it by Sartre's Nausea. 

[RobinPratt]

Fantastic piano playing!!!

[bsgs98]

Sophie recorded this for Okeh records which was a subsidiary of Columbia, but Okeh chose not to release it because they did not want to compete with with a recording of the same song she did with the Ted Lewis Band a year earlier. Thus it was not heard for about 30 years when Columbia released it on an LP album "Sound of the Twenties"

[john44122]

I've not heard or seen this clip before, and it it a great one! Sophie Tucker is my favorite lady entertainer; I remember seeing her on Ed Sullivan's TV show in the late 50s. She recorded her signature song, 'Some of these Days' for Edison in 1911 on a wax cylinder. She performed in vaudeville, movies, and caberets up until her death in 1966 at age 80 or 82. Her first recordings can be had at Archeophone records. That CD is a must for Sophie's fans and admirers.

[Zidane388]

Boardwalk empire ;)

[Christina5Archer]

What a song! What a woman! Here's to the last of the red-hot mamas.

[danfrellla]

i'm a 17 yr old girl & this is my favorite genre of music haha

[DelphinusMAch1]

Excellent song. Used very well in 'Nausea', an excellent book. Overall, it has the effect of making one overuse the word 'excellent'.

[Maynard0504]

@DelphinusMAch1 Nausea is the same reason I came here to listen to this

[toxicptl]

@DelphinusMAch1 - Ha, another sartre fan!

[chemiche]

Boardwalk Empire rocks!

[thecp29]

Alright..you got me..Boardwalk Empire brought me here. Thanks for the tunes.

[chewy61790]

BOARDWALK EMPIRE!!!!!!

[Lucia826]

If you caught "Boardwalk Empire" on 11/14 when this song was sung. What a great song of the times...very much from the black influence!

[henfon1971]

me me..!!!!! lolol

[STINJE]

where can i find that version that was on boardwalk empire. the quality was much better.

[softsummermover]

LOL I did.

[henfon1971]

me.!!!!

[Silvija216]

I was born in the 80s so thanks to the show now I too know this fabulous song! 

[DominicanJones]

....Yes I ended up here because of Boardwalk Empire...

[nick2293]

Alright, who else wound up here because of Boardwalk Empire?

[bsgs98]

@nick2293 Got about 900 views above average for Sunday and Monday, probably due to the HBO show!

[netorders31]

@nick2293 fo shooo

[CronoLegend]

@nick2293

She sang it better on boardwalk

[AlanD96]

Raises his hand !

[reebiejo]

@nick2293 You caught me out - I almost fell out of my chair when "Sophie" took the stage - incredibly done. Boardwalk is a marvel, and has left all else in it's wonderful wake. A thousand Emmy's are waiting!!

[x67hdq]

@nick2293

Great Show (Boardwalk Empire). Always a fan of Ms. Tucker, her jokes and timing were perfect! h

[thinkpunk21]

@nick2293 I did it just for Boardwalk Empire.-

[echoing0comfort]

@nick2293 Guilty!

[bbl32002]

@nick2293 = You caught me!! As it happens, I have this 78. Heard the song on Boardwalk Empire and can't get it out of my head!!

[nickdaherpoetry]

@nick2293 yes but not the right song :/

[bsgs98]

@nickdaherpoetry What song were you expecting?

[awesome220]

@bsgs98 "Some of These Days" a la Kathy Brier

[RaisedAesSedai]

@nickdaherpoetry- It is the right song. The lady that sings it on Boardwalk Empire is doing a shortened version of the song- Some of these days.

[VAND1983]

@nickdaherpoetry

It is the right song. Continue listening.

[Zidane388]

@nickdaherpoetry It is the right song, its just in the show its a little faster

[edisone1]

@nickdaherpoetry Possibly expecting the 1911 Edison recording, which was used in BE ?

[slmmcutta3]

@nick2293 I wound up here becuz of B.E.

[TheMelcool]

@nick2293 me

mee mee :)

[VAND1983]

@nick2293

I know I did. What a haunting version of the song Kathy Brier did.

[boogerdip22]

@nick2293

Me, for one. The wife and I weren't sure who that was. She said Mae West, I said no, but didn't know for sure 'till I checked it out.

Boardwalk Empire is a good series, in our humble opinions...

[Deadhuntah]

@nick2293

Yeps :) wonderful show

[awesome220]

@nick2293 Me!. I'll tell you, some of those 1920s era songs, jazz and such...I like some of 'em!

[wawalisko]

@nick2293 youre absolutely right. This song you can see in another version, in the first cap. When Nucky is in front of an incubator...Am i right? 

[beaglelad]

@nick2293 yeah just watched this episode..great song at the end ;o)

[jonnyallen007]

yeah that's right. Sophie Tucker is tops.

I look forward to seeing DOOZY on this show. Check em out. Local LA band. youtube doozy all I saw.

[kajvlado]

@nick2293 but also "shazam" helped :)

[47siman]

@nick2293 Right on Nick - couldn't fathom who it was - Love those 20's & 30's music

[Singerxen]

@nick2293 ya! me :)

[Zumramania]

@nick2293 Alright, let's see how many of you are here because of Sartre's "Nausea"?

[eeskildsen]

@Zumramania And how many are here because of Nabokov's review of Sartre's "Nausea"?

[changoloboperro]

@Zumramania me..

[CrushinRuSSian27]

@nick2293 such a fuckin masterpiece of a show

[dennisgilliam]

Tonight Sophie joined other stars from the nineteen teens and twenties with an homage performance on HBO's Boardwalk Empire. The stars, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolsen and Sophie Tucker are not usually identified. One has to know something of show biz history to experience their presence.

[bsgs98]

@dennisgilliam I have wanted to see that show but I don't have HBO!

[djfakt]

@bsgs98 You don't really need HBO to watch it, homie...

[vash47]

@bsgs98 Just watch it on the internet.

[79barkingspider]

I saw Sophie Tucker on stage in Reno, 1953, I believe at the old Riverside Hotel, front row seats. She was sharing the bill with Ted Lewis. Even at 12, I knew I was seeing and hearing something really special.

[waynebrasler]

I believe Sophie played Judy's mother in two, possibly three, M-G-M musicals. Hollywood loved Sophie but Sophie missed New York City too much. While in Hollywood, though, she would give Sunday pool parties for all the teenaged and kid actors at M-G-M and Judy considered her a second mom. People do remember Sophie but I think they don't remember what a terrific singer she was.

[WynnCreasyFineArt]

This is great research materials! I'm in the process of working on a new show base on the life of Sophie Tucker and her Pianist Ted Shapiro. 2016 will be the 50th anniversary of her death. So few people even know who she is any more….. And she influenced our female singers like almost no one else….

[javycane]

I was sent here because of Boardwalk empire Lol haha she has a great voice. I actually like old style music.

[ridiculousrecords1]

@ Robert, yes what an awesome story! :)

[MissusFingerBottom]

I'm here because she's referenced in Chicago, one of the best musicals of all time!!

[mikeinfla]

The picture with Judy Garland on the piano, thats photoshoped right?

[MGMmusical]

@mikeinfla

That's probably a publicity picture for the movie Throughbreds Don't Cry (1937) that Sophie did with Judy Garland.

[mikeinfla]

@MGMmusical Thank you. Figures its from one of 3 Judy Garland movies I havent seen.

[CarlDuke]

@MGMmusical More probably it is from the movie Broadway Melody of 1938 in which Sophie plays Judy's mother and singing teacher. In this film Judy sings Dear Mr. Gable and Sophie, I feel, comes forth with her best version of Some of These Days.

[bsgs98]

@mikeinfla Judy and Sophie appeared together in the film, "Broadway Melody of 1938." This is an actual untouched photo.

[Gllsubm]

Ther will never be another Sophie Tucker.Thanks for sharing! She made alot of money making millions of people laugh.

[louswire]

What little bits she might have lacked in physical beauty,(not many), she more than made up for with a powerful personality, voice and wit. God bless you Sophie...

[nandesneto]

1:50 beautiful note.

[mrspatrickcampbell]

was sophie a heavy smoker?

[Robert11xyz]

When I was 13 (60 years ago) my father took the family to the Latin Quarter to see Sophie Tucker. One of my greatest memories is sitting ringside and having Sophie Tucker sing Happy Birthday to me. She was surrounded by the Latin Quarter girls who all winked at me. I'm told I turned the brightest red!!

My father was an old friend of Sophie Tucker and always supported her charitable projects including the Sophie Tucker Playgrounds around NYC.

[bsgs98]

@Robert11xyz What a delightful memory of Sophie Tucker. Thanks for sharing.

[pildskadden]

@Robert11xyz What a sweet memory indeed, thanks for sharing it.

[Juliaflo]

@Robert11xyz God has blessed you.

Who matches that quality today? Certainly not Stephanie Germanotta.

[wordlogicvee]

reading sartre, finding this on youtube. how fitting. the timing for me at this hour, its just all so perfect. i like time.

[TSchoey666]

Don't you think such an explicit allusion would have been better thought out than that? The character is wrong, but for a very specific reason. The end of Nausea suggests "the Jew and the Negress" are saved due to their creation of a piece of art. Their existences are justified through their creation, which outlives them. But

how can her existence be justified, when such a fundamental error is so easy to make. It's sort of the point of the book, you might want to re read it with that in mind...

[panorama1370]

You got it right, p. 42 in my Nausea in Spanish, Mr. Sartre was stereotyping. Good call!!

[TSchoey666]

@panorama1370 see above

[wattever333]

yo mama!

[LeeGrasswalker]

the singer that jean paul sartre mistook for a "Negress"

[TSchoey666]

@LeeGrasswalker see above

[Freakingeediot]

@LeeGrasswalker you mean Roquetin?

[pinascita]

es un excelente cantante.

[SeadogErk]

the last of the red-hot mommas!

[tundraization]

Thank you for Posting ! I first heard of Sophie Tucker via Bette Midler.

[daimdar]

2:47 sophie and Judy!!!

[antiblondie]

<3 wow.

[MikeBlitzMag]

It's amazing that she not only recorded at the dawn of the 20th century, but that she survived long enough to have made appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Sophie Tucker is one of the greats of the early recording industry!

[kualitee88]

so this is the influence for roxie's performance in chicago.

[meehall121]

10/10

Thanks

[Gregg30]

To me the greatest of the 20's belters was Blossom Seeley. look her up on YT.

[scooter21122112]

hmmm the roots of rap music? Sounds like eminem. at :43 to 1:07 :P love her.

[Gregg30]

It really does sound like rap!

[staysomemore]

couldnt be sure,sartre might be a reason to love this song too...

[zohpakrante]

same here, found out about this song while reading sartre :)

[staysomemore]

guess,this song is a reason to love Sartre.

[saxophoney]

Very nice presentation. Thanks for this fine history lesson.

[gglorybee]

Wonderful! She was my grandmother's favorite and I can see why.

[CarlDuke]

Great version of Sophie doing this song, even better than her original. But there is one better, her performance of this song in the movie Broadway Melody of 1938.

[luvebug21]

All of her songs are sung from the heart .definately my type .

[luvebug21]

Very nice sophie tucker was a great talented lady .

[bluemoondork]

thank you so much for posting this!!! they just don't make singers like her anymore