I first heard Al Jolson sing this in 1975! at the end of the Dimension Film documentary,'Brother,Can you spare a Dime' in Worcester,Mass,view film about the Great Depression,I had heard about by my Parents and Grandparents who lived and struggled through those very hard times,hearing Jolson sing in the documentary was very pleasing!
@PinkPantherFan102 He didn't start a war-for-profit costing us trillions and 5,000 US troops deaths. He didn't send any jobs overseas like Romney. He got Bin Laden at least. Grow up and read a book.
@PinkPantherFan102 What an itelligent rebuttal. Ebarrassingly childish at best. Typical of your kind. Ignorant ANNND stupid. Grow up, illiterate retard. Get some education you sad fucking moron. And "block" this, asshole. You should kill yourself. The world could use one less ignorant, sad, fucking moron.
I heard that President Herbert Hoover asked a song-writer for something to help people forget the Depression. Instead, he wrote this. Hoover got some other song-writer to write "Happy Days are Here Again" instead.
My Dear Bergertim: You Couldn't Be Wronger! You are at the Opposite Extreme of Correct. You are 180 degrees removed from the Truth. You're so Far Off -- you're Beyond Reach. Good luck to you, my good man. You'll need it.
Republicans have Occupied the Congress. It's their fault. If they had passed Obama's programs, the US economy would be Flying High today. It's Time to throw out all of those T-GOP Bums.
Welcome to the thirties. The different's is today we have awful music, and ugly clothes. The good news is we still have fascism and antisemitism in the world. Let's not forget the star of this show, every ones favorite racism. This is satire. Please do not send me hate mail. thank you.
@wasp9 LOL! How many books have you read about economics in the last three years? I suspect I know a hell of a lot more about the subject than you ever will. It's funny how libs blame Bush for the bad economy in 2007, but fail to grasp the concept that Obama may have something to do with our current economic woes. If you had more than a double digit IQ, you would know that Obamacare alone was enough to sink our economy.
@Bergertim OBAMACARE? ARE YOU -KIDDING-? Yeah, encouraging insurance companies to insure children and the sick is a horrible thing. Maybe instead of giving themselves a bonus, CEO's should be a little more prudent with money. I'm sure you're an absolute genius when it comes to economics. Did you attend the Reagan school of economics?
@wasp9 Once again, you demonstrate just what an idiot you are. I'll explain, since you obviously have no clue whatsoever: Before Obamacare, health insurance costs were increasing by 20% per year. Since it was passed, the costs have been increasing by 30% per year. That is why it now costs the average employer $15,000 per year, per employee, for health insurance. You don't seem to grasp the concept that forcing insurance companies to provide addional benefits has a huge cost. It does.
As compared with Germany during the Great Depression, the U.S. was in far worse shape. People starved to death and were mistreated. Farmers in the state of Washington started forest fires just to create jobs! Americans, when it comes to compassion towards their own, rank pretty low.
To all the idiots that knock Social Security and Unemployment Benefits. This is why we have them. Without them these scenes would be getting repeated daily.
To all the idiots that knock Social Security and Unemployment Benefits. This is why we have them. Without them these scenes would be getting repeated daily.
@bh5606 This song means the human race is cursed for turning Earth into a concrete jungle, especially building filthy, unlivable cities nears rivers and on beaches. Homo Saps were supposed to live simply and in harmony with Mother Nature and her creatures great and small. Why do you think Walden Pond by Henry Thoreau is still taught in high schools and colleges the world over? And why do you think serial killers always operate in cities where sacred ground near water is now a human sewer?
This version best captures the pathos of those left destitute of everything but their name, pride and humanity. There but for the grace of God go all of us.
@exita99 All Obama can offer the downtrodden of America & the cancer that is his nation's debt are words that are worth no more than a ten cent coin !
We were not put upon this earth to slave, or skivvy for the rich, any man can create jobs, it is possible to have everyone digging holes and filling them in again, society can restructure so that retirement at a young age is practical [45-50], rid the planet of child labour. Bring down retirement as quickly as possible. Unnecessary work and money are a curse, that can be cured. Eliminating money will release millions of people, from tedious finance jobs to work at the essentials in life
I seem to remember from old folks I talked to that this song was BANNED by the US government...I asked this before,but I seemed to have been 'deleted'...?
I like how everyone's saying this describes Obama, when its exactly this he's fighting against. Sure he added a maximum $60 billion a year to our budget, (for a benevolent cause, mind you), but what about the $700 billion+ he's trying to cut down on? And the efforts of him trying to get the nation out of the debt we're in due to our monster military spending? We're being told 1-sided stories by the media and believing everything.
Anyone reading this might want to listen to my song that came out August 1, 2011 on the website above or through a digital download service under the listing The C.R. Ecker Band. The Bushwacked song was inspired by "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and was written in 1991.
Brandoncipelle I agree with you . And your E nglish is great. I am from the Netherlands . So english isnt ,my first lanqueage either, this a great somg. All JOLSON IS WAS AND IS GREAT INSPIRATION FOR A LOT FROM ELVIS TO DEAN MARTIN. IO AM A DEAN FAN FIND HIS SONG OF ALLS. I LOVE IT DAILYM GREETINGS FROM NETHERLANDS JAN
What has happened to this country where people would rather go on food stamps than get a job. All work is dignifiable and there is no shame in employment.
@FWYGINOND The nation has become very unproductive in this current state!! When this song was recorded, it was in the same year when Herbert Hoover imposed Davis-Bacon Act of 1931!!!
@FWYGINOND The need to instill a dignity of work was the rationalization advanced in Victorian England to promote workhouses where sweatshop jobs were created virtually to enslave the poor and deprive them of any reasonable chance at upward mobility. Does Mr. Gingrich want us to learn that type of dignity?
I heard this kid sing that song at my school in the theatre building and when i heard him sing it, the first thing i thought was: when i get home im sooo searching this song on youtube
The rate this country is going, the NRA, WPA and CCC Camps would be the solution to unemployment. I have experienced poverty, During the Depression and dealing with the Dirty 30s. As a Farm Kid, food and water was plentiful, but money, there was none. For those who were never around during the Depression and the Dirty 30s, you will never know true poverty.
The clarity and honesty of this song along with the relevant images makes me tear up. My Dad and Mom were teens during the Great Depression and had to wear cardboard in there shoes when they wore out. A job back then was everything....Any job! We have it so easy today.
The clarity and honesty of this song along with the revevant images makes me tear up. My Dad and Mom were teens during the Great Depression and had to wear cardboard in there shoes when they wore out. A job back then was everything....Any job! We have it so easy today.
The clarity and honesty of this song makes me tear up. My Dad and Mom were teens during the Great Depression and had to wear cardboard in there shoes when they wore out. A job back then was everything....Any job! We have it so easy today.
The clarity and honesty of this song makes me tear up. My Dad and Mom were teens during the Great Depresion and had to wear cardboard in there shoes when they wore out. A job back then was everything....Any job! We have it so easy today.
About building a railroad: It's hard to think of an analogous economic entity in modern times. "Once I built an SUV", "Once I built a computer", or "Once I built a Hedge Fund" just doesn't ring true. Perhaps "Once I built the Shuttle", or "Once I built an Interstate Highway"? The US has mostly quit doing things that require such a focused magnitude of labor and have had such an effect on American society as the railroad[s].
@purps45 The US used to be an industrial powerhouse we used to build and make many things. When we were taken off the gold standard we destroyed our industrial base and just became consumers. This was partly "by design" in order to appease some very freaked out allies abroad. I wish we could become that powerhouse again, but greedy union bosses, stifling government regulations, and international politics will not allow this.
@soadj28 Your right on the money ...but don't filter out political correctness that insists we park our own common sense in favour of of our intellectual betters. It's these superior beings that encourage the growth and expansion of you first two and discourage the use of guts, determination and realism in the latter.
@BKPLDD1 The monorail in Disneyland. Seriously - hes not referring to a specific railroad, or tower (in the second verse); he's telling how he worked and contributed to society in the past, and now needs to beg because times are so bad..
Now you are back with the name calling - very sophisticated, and European. We were discussing the failures of Keynesian Economics. You said it works, but you fail to provide SPECIFIC examples. I said it never has and never will work, and provided specific examples of the failures (US 1930,s, Japan 1990's thru now, US again now). You never respond to my specific points. The FDR Sec. of Treasury quote, the Keynes quote on inflation. You blindly place your faith in other people to run your life.
Nice specific example. England was an economic superpower prior to Keynesian style policies. She has never returned to that status. The US is following the same path. Keynes was evil because the spending he advocated typically requires an expansion of the money supply (inflation), and he said this about inflation: "By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
We had a severe recession in America in 1921. Coolidge cut spending, and the recession lasted one year at most. Then we had a severe recession in 1930, and Hoover increased spending, and the recession transformed into the great depression. FDR came in and continued. History shows the 1921 approach by Coolidge works, and the Hoover/FDR approach fails. And now Bush/Obama follow the Hoover/FDR approach - things are not getting better - they are stagnating.
When have they worked? Examples please. Keynes was an evil man, becareful who you align yourself with. The song was a depression era hit. Keynes style spending started prior to FDR becoming President. He simply accelarted it, and the quote I provided was from his Sec. of Treasury in 1939. The quote is an admission of the failure. More recent history shows that for 20 years Keynesian policies in Japan have failed. Keynesian Economics is aligned with Command Econonmies - name a successful one.
@goatface1000 Someone who thinks of ways to confiscate the property of others is evil. Keynes did this. Always remember, government produces nothing. In order for them to spend money they must first tax it (theft), borrow it (debt), or print it (inflation). As HL Mencken once said, "Every decent person is ashamed of the government they live under." When government expands, and Keynesian Economics causes expansion, then freedom shrinks. All humans are fallible, steering an economy is impossible.
@mjvvliet1 You are a very naive silly person. Some parts of the infrastructure of a country need to be state run, for example the armed forces, the police the fire service and in a civilised country like England hospitals. We need to pay tax to financse these and other needs. Until the witch Thatcher was in power in the UK we had a mixed ecconomy it worked well and with the aid of trade unions we had the best country in the world.
Last week, I walked into my Father's office, and found him collapsed at his desk, crying like a baby. He's been besieged by by out-of-work contractors from all over the country, looking for work. We started out Blue Collar, ourselves. He tries to help, but has limited autonomy within his web of alliances. He's overwhelmed.
This is entirely a situation created by a government dedicated to destroying America and Americans. I fear for the future.
@megaswensonGreetings Comrade Don't worry help is at hand, socialism is on it's way to the USA the workers will be freed and the legacy of Comrade Stalin will be gifted to the workers of the USA. The red flag will fly over the USA
@goatface1000 Thank you, Comrade Goatface! I believe your prophesies have already come to pass, under the guidance of The Kenyan: Stalin's Emissary on Earth....starting with GM (Government Motors). Da svedanya!
@megaswenson My followers are many and their numbers will grow we will overun the USA. As I write this workers from New York to Nebraska are singing socialist songs and getting ready to march on Washington. All over the US Comrade Stalin's picture is being paraded through the streets. Women weep and throw flowers as we march together singing of freedom. All neocons will be sent for re- education. I am the GOAT and I will lead you to freedom in the name of Comrade Stalin our leader
@goatface1000 You are a deeply unpleasant person, why do you call Obama the Kenyan? Is it because you don't like black people. He is not a good president but at least he is not a right wing moron like Palin. My grandfather Rebbe Goatstein was denied entry into the USA from Poland in 1908 and so came to Britain. Now I am coming back with an army of followers to avenge this slight and to conquer the USA.
@megaswenson The two greatest sons of America are Robert Johnson blues singer and Groucho Marx. Therefore New Yoork will become Johnsonburg and Washington DC Marxtown. The death penalty will be abolished, Disney will be nationalised and will produce films about the 5 year plan. Baseball will be replaced by Cricket, American beer will be replaced by English ale. And lastly the USA will become the USSA THE UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA ONE MAN ONE GOAT
This song speaks to the failure of Keynesian Economics - taking money/borrowing money/printing money - to fund public spending on projects the private sector did not find worth it. It has never worked, and never will. It turns recessions into depressions - just like it did in the 30's and just like it is doing now.
@mjvvliet1 i suggest you read a history book. It was Keynsian eccomics that got America out of the depression. The current problem is due to the excesses of capitialism. The man who wrote it ended up before the House Un-American Activities Committee. So like most right wingers you are ill informed and driven only by emotion
@goatface1000 Then why did FDR's Sec. of Treasury say this: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. We have never made good on our promises. I say, after 8 years of the Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... and an enormous debt to boot!" -Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury during the New Deal,May 1939
@goatface1000 No credible history book can make the claim Keynesian economics ended the great depression. The depression did not end until after WWII. The Keynesian spending started in 1930. That is 15 years. It appears you did as well in History as you did in Spelling. You can't spell Keynesian or Economics, so it appears I'm wasting my time with a mental midget. Listen to the lyrics of the song - he builds the railroad and still needs a dime.
@mjvvliet1 Interesting and American talking about spelling... The song was written prior to FDR becoming president so your last point is an ill researched attempt to win an arguement. Like most Americans you are unable to see outside your of your country. Keynesian ecconomics do work and have done in the UK for many years until the evil witch Thatcher came to power.
@goatface1000 The lovely lady..M Thatcher..praise be upon her, rescued the whole of the UK from the dunce ridden Brit Labour Party whose loyalty, you yourself make clear, was to the USSR. She also broke the back of out of control unions and as an encore she put the Yorkshire miners back on a more honest and common sense capitalist course that ultimately saw them right. Oh..Keynesian economics 'do work' is 'does work' although she and I disagree profoundly. @mjvvliet wins. Canada hails you!
@ponderslong The Labour party was not a tool of the USSR, neither am I if you read my comments you might gather I was joking about Stalin. You are totally ill informed the Tories closed the mines down. We have them back now and they are pillaging the country to benefit the wealthy once more. At one time the Tories were reasonable but Thatcher set out to destroy our welfare state, she sold the council houses and created a them and us society
@ponderslong Your taste in music is so awful you have no justification to ajuduicate in debates. Matt Monro! how lame. Britain represents a far more complex set of problems compared to Canada no easy wins only a left of centre govet, will work
SO TRUE! 1ST WW1 (THE WAR TO END THEM ALL!!) THEN WWII...VIETNAM....DESERT STORM..IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...ATOMIC BOMBS...NUCLEAR....SOMETIMES CONFLICT CANNOT BE AVOIDED, BUT TO WALK INTO COUNTRIES..INCLUDING OUR OWN..AND PRESSING FOR WAR IS WRONG. THIS WORLD EXISTS SO WE CAN LEARN HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER. NO ONE PERSON OR GROUP IS TOTTALY RIGHT...BUT TOGETHER WE MAKE UP THE TRUTH....PEACE AND RESPECT TO YOU ALL.... OHH AND BROTHER, OR SISTER, CAN U SPARE A DIME?
I like the one guy who is holding up the sign that says "What I want is work. What I don't want is charity"
People nowadays stand on the side of the road and hold up signs that say "I lost my job, need money, god bless" or something like that. That guy at least was willing to earn his money instead of asking for a handout.
@dosie451 I think people used to use the "will work for food" signs, but of all the homeless people I see when I drive around, I pretty much just see the "pity me" signs, not the "help me and I'll help you" signs. I'm sure this says something about the decline of my country's work ethic.
@GodfatherXXI I forgot I wrote that comment, but yeah, doesn't it seem like people should be more interested in how they can help those who help them? "Will work for food" has become "I'm homeless, help me, God Bless." I don't want to sound cold, but you have to figure that being unwilling to work for others in return for money might have something to do with why some people are on the street in the first place...
its funny cause im doin a report on the great depression and i found this
ijkcool 3 days ago
I first heard Al Jolson sing this in 1975! at the end of the Dimension Film documentary,'Brother,Can you spare a Dime' in Worcester,Mass,view film about the Great Depression,I had heard about by my Parents and Grandparents who lived and struggled through those very hard times,hearing Jolson sing in the documentary was very pleasing!
jerrylaverty60 1 week ago
brother can you spare $100. well thats inflation for you
gilleanthebattleaxe 1 week ago
Sadly, very telling about the damage Obama's doing to this country!
PinkPantherFan102 1 month ago
@PinkPantherFan102 He didn't start a war-for-profit costing us trillions and 5,000 US troops deaths. He didn't send any jobs overseas like Romney. He got Bin Laden at least. Grow up and read a book.
loungelizard5000 1 week ago
@loungelizard5000 Bite me, loser! Blocked!
PinkPantherFan102 1 week ago
@PinkPantherFan102 What an itelligent rebuttal. Ebarrassingly childish at best. Typical of your kind. Ignorant ANNND stupid. Grow up, illiterate retard. Get some education you sad fucking moron. And "block" this, asshole. You should kill yourself. The world could use one less ignorant, sad, fucking moron.
loungelizard5000 1 week ago
I heard that President Herbert Hoover asked a song-writer for something to help people forget the Depression. Instead, he wrote this. Hoover got some other song-writer to write "Happy Days are Here Again" instead.
Dracopol 1 month ago
Unfortunately, WWII probably destroyed this country in the long run.
pittnor 2 months ago
My Dear Bergertim: You Couldn't Be Wronger! You are at the Opposite Extreme of Correct. You are 180 degrees removed from the Truth. You're so Far Off -- you're Beyond Reach. Good luck to you, my good man. You'll need it.
cjprentiss1 2 months ago
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@cjprentiss1 How am I incorrect, exactly? Wronger is not a word, by the way.
Bergertim 2 months ago
Republicans have Occupied the Congress. It's their fault. If they had passed Obama's programs, the US economy would be Flying High today. It's Time to throw out all of those T-GOP Bums.
cjprentiss1 2 months ago 2
@cjprentiss1 If you really think that, you're an idiot. Obama's moronic policies brought us to the brink of ruin.
Bergertim 2 months ago
Welcome to Obamaville.
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cwcwful 2 months ago
Welcome to the thirties. The different's is today we have awful music, and ugly clothes. The good news is we still have fascism and antisemitism in the world. Let's not forget the star of this show, every ones favorite racism. This is satire. Please do not send me hate mail. thank you.
cwcwful 2 months ago
I need a dime dime, a dime is what I need...
densaner77 2 months ago
The Republican Party is turning this song into America's National Anthem for 2012. Great Job, GOP. Want to buy an apple?
cjprentiss1 2 months ago
@cjprentiss1 Obama's the president. It's his fault.
Bergertim 2 months ago
@Bergertim Obama doesn't control the economy. If you knew anything about economics, you'd know this.
wasp9 2 months ago
@wasp9 LOL! How many books have you read about economics in the last three years? I suspect I know a hell of a lot more about the subject than you ever will. It's funny how libs blame Bush for the bad economy in 2007, but fail to grasp the concept that Obama may have something to do with our current economic woes. If you had more than a double digit IQ, you would know that Obamacare alone was enough to sink our economy.
Bergertim 2 months ago
@Bergertim OBAMACARE? ARE YOU -KIDDING-? Yeah, encouraging insurance companies to insure children and the sick is a horrible thing. Maybe instead of giving themselves a bonus, CEO's should be a little more prudent with money. I'm sure you're an absolute genius when it comes to economics. Did you attend the Reagan school of economics?
wasp9 2 months ago
@wasp9 Once again, you demonstrate just what an idiot you are. I'll explain, since you obviously have no clue whatsoever: Before Obamacare, health insurance costs were increasing by 20% per year. Since it was passed, the costs have been increasing by 30% per year. That is why it now costs the average employer $15,000 per year, per employee, for health insurance. You don't seem to grasp the concept that forcing insurance companies to provide addional benefits has a huge cost. It does.
Bergertim 2 months ago
Such a sad song.
corwinorr 3 months ago
As compared with Germany during the Great Depression, the U.S. was in far worse shape. People starved to death and were mistreated. Farmers in the state of Washington started forest fires just to create jobs! Americans, when it comes to compassion towards their own, rank pretty low.
mujaku 3 months ago 3
@mujaku makes sense in a country formed on the genocide of the First Nations.
derdriui 3 months ago
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To all the idiots that knock Social Security and Unemployment Benefits. This is why we have them. Without them these scenes would be getting repeated daily.
ElComadreja777 4 months ago
To all the idiots that knock Social Security and Unemployment Benefits. This is why we have them. Without them these scenes would be getting repeated daily.
ElComadreja777 4 months ago
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Obama, can you spare a dime?
ASSASSINOC714 4 months ago
finally. music with no auto-tune.
Xmaggot93X 4 months ago
The Great Depression was worse than now. At least now we have air conditioning.
Maroons1p 5 months ago
aint a dime about ya, have ya?
lovemyrainbowgold 5 months ago
The new national anthem for the US.
bh5606 5 months ago 66
@bh5606 This song means the human race is cursed for turning Earth into a concrete jungle, especially building filthy, unlivable cities nears rivers and on beaches. Homo Saps were supposed to live simply and in harmony with Mother Nature and her creatures great and small. Why do you think Walden Pond by Henry Thoreau is still taught in high schools and colleges the world over? And why do you think serial killers always operate in cities where sacred ground near water is now a human sewer?
redfordforpresident 3 months ago
@bh5606 Creativity can still get the USA back on track!
crayonplane 2 months ago
@bh5606 Or the European Union for that matter...
AmersfoortTristan 1 month ago
@bh5606 What an idiot.
FredoTheMan1 2 weeks ago
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This version best captures the pathos of those left destitute of everything but their name, pride and humanity. There but for the grace of God go all of us.
bertiefrom30 5 months ago
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bertiefrom30 5 months ago
What's that streamlined railcar at 0:53?
uncinarynin 5 months ago
@uncinarynin
just google it
MattisSoderstorm 5 months ago
"Don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.
Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Brother, can you spare a dime?"
This part always makes me sad
MsCasati 5 months ago
History repeats itself. I want my mammy.
johnforkner 5 months ago
1931...meet 2011.
Xeacons 6 months ago 27
@Xeacons and now 2012...
exita99 1 week ago
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@exita99 All Obama can offer the downtrodden of America & the cancer that is his nation's debt are words that are worth no more than a ten cent coin !
BigDon62 2 days ago
Melbourne High anyone?
XiaoDenZhi 6 months ago
@XiaoDenZhi Bloody Mr. De Corte.
Tnk64ChessCourse 5 months ago
We were not put upon this earth to slave, or skivvy for the rich, any man can create jobs, it is possible to have everyone digging holes and filling them in again, society can restructure so that retirement at a young age is practical [45-50], rid the planet of child labour. Bring down retirement as quickly as possible. Unnecessary work and money are a curse, that can be cured. Eliminating money will release millions of people, from tedious finance jobs to work at the essentials in life
thomascow1 6 months ago
Check out the two men at 2:18. Those guys had balls as big as church bells!
63gstone 6 months ago
Go ask the Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Morgans and the rest of the Cartel, I'm sure they've got a few to spare.
realgunslinger 6 months ago 2
I seem to remember from old folks I talked to that this song was BANNED by the US government...I asked this before,but I seemed to have been 'deleted'...?
jockhamish 6 months ago
Legend... xxx
paully1969 7 months ago
Once I built a railroad... then the Republicans imposed fiscal austerity, now its done.
hoodoo961 7 months ago
I like how everyone's saying this describes Obama, when its exactly this he's fighting against. Sure he added a maximum $60 billion a year to our budget, (for a benevolent cause, mind you), but what about the $700 billion+ he's trying to cut down on? And the efforts of him trying to get the nation out of the debt we're in due to our monster military spending? We're being told 1-sided stories by the media and believing everything.
monkeylx1 7 months ago in playlist Music
Obama should use this as the theme song for his 2012 campaign. He and President Hoover have a lot in common.
Gary39115 7 months ago 4
@Gary39115 obama wouldn't admit that :)
petsBenham 7 months ago 3
What album/record was this off of?; 'Greatest Hits', maybe?
tthomaselli2 7 months ago
Please rise for the national anthem of Greece
KrzyCanuck 7 months ago 4
kinda fits the times in the present..parents used to tell me allot of ways they made it through the depression...and they made it
tiny450 7 months ago
How can you dislike this? It’s about the lives of real people - then and now.
ajpenno 7 months ago 3
Once I had billions, and billions to my name. Once I had it all, and now it's gone. Brother can you spare a dime.
dnt9217 7 months ago
America's theme song.
monkeylx1 8 months ago 2
I slightly prefer Rudy Vallee's voice over Jolson in this one, but what the heck, all these folks were highly talented singers.
Vercingetorix2006 8 months ago
OBAMA ELECTION SONG
retrocinema 8 months ago
2:55 even Freud is broke
BrendonSmall456 8 months ago 2
Just wiating for bread!
grandslam1998 8 months ago
A guy called Steve Conway sang it best but I cant find it anywhere.....................
maxrome67 9 months ago
What a great version - surely the signature one of the period?
stuarthants 9 months ago
Gee if only Bernanke and geither were around, they could have raised the debt ceiling and saved us all.
OBAMASTINKSLIKEANAPE 9 months ago
great music and picture sync
55Zeros 9 months ago
This is well-done. Enjoyed this!
WilliamFogle 9 months ago
"Once I built a website, etc...."
kaferere 9 months ago
They should've had this song in Fallout 3...
anklebreakers101 9 months ago 2
@anklebreakers101 I agree but it was a different time period - like 20 years before the 1950 decade Fallout encapsulates.
MrBloopyGoopyGoopy 8 months ago
@MrBloopyGoopyGoopy Hmm....well you're right. But this is a true classic. I don't think people would've questioned the song's presence in the game.
anklebreakers101 8 months ago 2
unemployed men keep going we cant even take care of our own!
magacruzragajusin360 9 months ago
this got to me
Sephiroth4luvrs 9 months ago
Poor George Michael; he missed the meaning of this song.
ACVB2006 9 months ago
mr doak is a hoooomoooo
cornchips88 10 months ago
1:38 is the most insperation photo I have ever seen
miketallica665 10 months ago
Yeah, keep it real folks. Jolson did 2 things in his "act"
First and foremost - spread the word that folks want a hand up, not a hand out.
And secondly - Poverty affects all racial stereotypes.
tazmaniandevil1503 10 months ago 3
Listen to the words rather than discuss who sings it best.
We are all on the treadmill, try to love your family and keep grounded.
erudite1100 10 months ago 10
Anyone reading this might want to listen to my song that came out August 1, 2011 on the website above or through a digital download service under the listing The C.R. Ecker Band. The Bushwacked song was inspired by "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and was written in 1991.
11shoreguy 3 months ago
Brandoncipelle I agree with you . And your E nglish is great. I am from the Netherlands . So english isnt ,my first lanqueage either, this a great somg. All JOLSON IS WAS AND IS GREAT INSPIRATION FOR A LOT FROM ELVIS TO DEAN MARTIN. IO AM A DEAN FAN FIND HIS SONG OF ALLS. I LOVE IT DAILYM GREETINGS FROM NETHERLANDS JAN
MRjandean1 10 months ago
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music used to be such a passion delivered from the heart.. when you heard a wonderful voice you knew it was God given...not like nowadays...
CGJUGO80 10 months ago
This song is sadly even more present in theese modern day and times . sorry for my bad english . It is not my first language to speak .
brandoncipelle 10 months ago 3
Jolson was the greatest singer, real emotion in this song...
qz903700 11 months ago
@qz903700 I find his version a little "hammy" - Crosby's version has all the emotion without the "acting"
thetinalyons 10 months ago
@AngryGoyim
Jolson was a patriot, unlike Bernanke.
ugha323a 11 months ago 3
What has happened to this country where people would rather go on food stamps than get a job. All work is dignifiable and there is no shame in employment.
FWYGINOND 11 months ago
@FWYGINOND Nah these cats want bureaucrats to command their actions in Job Market!!
n64wilbert 4 months ago
@FWYGINOND The nation has become very unproductive in this current state!! When this song was recorded, it was in the same year when Herbert Hoover imposed Davis-Bacon Act of 1931!!!
n64wilbert 4 months ago
@FWYGINOND The need to instill a dignity of work was the rationalization advanced in Victorian England to promote workhouses where sweatshop jobs were created virtually to enslave the poor and deprive them of any reasonable chance at upward mobility. Does Mr. Gingrich want us to learn that type of dignity?
mstalcup 1 month ago
I heard this kid sing that song at my school in the theatre building and when i heard him sing it, the first thing i thought was: when i get home im sooo searching this song on youtube
kennsie8 11 months ago
@kennsie8 Cool story bro.
poopsix 11 months ago
@poopsix oh im sorry i don't like it when people call me bro im a girl :|
kennsie8 11 months ago
@kennsie8 You obviously don't know that meme, sir.
poopsix 11 months ago
@poopsix meme sir ...?
kennsie8 11 months ago
This song sounds like it would be on Disney
jakethesnake3212 11 months ago
Bush: Bye-bye! (Thanks for blaming the black guy.)
Onezumiya 1 year ago
@richardcwood1 Except for the writer of this song apparently.
timmyp34 1 year ago
Brother can you raise the schedule for the marginal efficiency of capital and or reduce liquidity preference.
hoodoo961 1 year ago
The rate this country is going, the NRA, WPA and CCC Camps would be the solution to unemployment. I have experienced poverty, During the Depression and dealing with the Dirty 30s. As a Farm Kid, food and water was plentiful, but money, there was none. For those who were never around during the Depression and the Dirty 30s, you will never know true poverty.
MrCraig1930 1 year ago
@MrCraig1930 Now in developing nations people have been possessing Cell Phones!!
n64wilbert 4 months ago
@richardcwood1 your solution to unemployment is that we all become day-laborers?
come back and talk to me when you have actually experienced poverty.
free484 1 year ago
I do believe this song was banned because of its strong lyrics...?
jockhamish 1 year ago
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The clarity and honesty of this song along with the relevant images makes me tear up. My Dad and Mom were teens during the Great Depression and had to wear cardboard in there shoes when they wore out. A job back then was everything....Any job! We have it so easy today.
nedarc 1 year ago
The clarity and honesty of this song along with the revevant images makes me tear up. My Dad and Mom were teens during the Great Depression and had to wear cardboard in there shoes when they wore out. A job back then was everything....Any job! We have it so easy today.
nedarc 1 year ago
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The clarity and honesty of this song makes me tear up. My Dad and Mom were teens during the Great Depression and had to wear cardboard in there shoes when they wore out. A job back then was everything....Any job! We have it so easy today.
nedarc 1 year ago
The clarity and honesty of this song makes me tear up. My Dad and Mom were teens during the Great Depresion and had to wear cardboard in there shoes when they wore out. A job back then was everything....Any job! We have it so easy today.
nedarc 1 year ago
seven people have a dime to spare!!!!!
jzhelqpgh 1 year ago
Timeless in so many ways.
Want to make a change ? change your government
sweetypie000 1 year ago
It's sad times we are living in, if this song produces such feelings as it does in me.
goldbird29 1 year ago
Bravo. Bravo. Great words by a great singer. Al all the time!
grandslam1998 1 year ago
yeshmin sent me here
nervousboy1111 1 year ago
Just waiting for bread!
grandslam1998 1 year ago
Once I built a railroad. Brother can spare a dime. It was Al all the time. Bravo. Bravo.
grandslam1998 1 year ago
Just listened to Tom Waits and Bing Crosby, and others, copy this, but Al sure sounds like he means it!
RedFrankCook 1 year ago
They used to tell me I was building a dream...so I followed the mob!
dirtynuke 1 year ago
About building a railroad: It's hard to think of an analogous economic entity in modern times. "Once I built an SUV", "Once I built a computer", or "Once I built a Hedge Fund" just doesn't ring true. Perhaps "Once I built the Shuttle", or "Once I built an Interstate Highway"? The US has mostly quit doing things that require such a focused magnitude of labor and have had such an effect on American society as the railroad[s].
purps45 1 year ago 2
@purps45 The US used to be an industrial powerhouse we used to build and make many things. When we were taken off the gold standard we destroyed our industrial base and just became consumers. This was partly "by design" in order to appease some very freaked out allies abroad. I wish we could become that powerhouse again, but greedy union bosses, stifling government regulations, and international politics will not allow this.
soadj28 1 year ago
@soadj28 Your right on the money ...but don't filter out political correctness that insists we park our own common sense in favour of of our intellectual betters. It's these superior beings that encourage the growth and expansion of you first two and discourage the use of guts, determination and realism in the latter.
ponderslong 1 year ago
Ultimate porn music...
willvidsalot6382 1 year ago
anyone know what railroad he is referring to in the song?
BKPLDD1 1 year ago
@BKPLDD1 The monorail in Disneyland. Seriously - hes not referring to a specific railroad, or tower (in the second verse); he's telling how he worked and contributed to society in the past, and now needs to beg because times are so bad..
Grvthang 1 year ago 2
@BKPLDD1 The rail road of life. My Dad sung this to me 50 years ago . I now Know what it means.
erudite1100 1 year ago 30
@erudite1100 i WAS THINKING THE PENN RAILWAY
phoenixhasricin 1 year ago
@erudite1100
It was true then
and its still going on now.
MattisSoderstorm 5 months ago
Good Al I use to watch him on TV when I was a child
But that was a long while
back ,
dave777blaster 1 year ago
who agrees this should have been in fallout new vegas like really this fits with fall out instead of a dime its a cap
TheVgstudio 1 year ago
Of then and now, a timeless song of life around us sung by Al Jolson. Great Al, you nail it.
richventures 1 year ago 14
@richventures So well put.
cunningsophie 7 months ago
I love Al Jolson, although he died before I was born. Amazing video. Thanks for posting
whenjazzwasking 1 year ago
Hey, you did a great job choosing the pictures!
aquamarina67 1 year ago
You will end up with the government you deserve. The one that constantly confiscates your property, and tells you it is for your own good. Wake up.
mjvvliet1 1 year ago 2
Now you are back with the name calling - very sophisticated, and European. We were discussing the failures of Keynesian Economics. You said it works, but you fail to provide SPECIFIC examples. I said it never has and never will work, and provided specific examples of the failures (US 1930,s, Japan 1990's thru now, US again now). You never respond to my specific points. The FDR Sec. of Treasury quote, the Keynes quote on inflation. You blindly place your faith in other people to run your life.
mjvvliet1 1 year ago
Nice specific example. England was an economic superpower prior to Keynesian style policies. She has never returned to that status. The US is following the same path. Keynes was evil because the spending he advocated typically requires an expansion of the money supply (inflation), and he said this about inflation: "By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
mjvvliet1 1 year ago
@mjvvliet1 Britain needs to steal its citizens wealth to pay for its ridiculous social projects.
hablerz 3 months ago
We had a severe recession in America in 1921. Coolidge cut spending, and the recession lasted one year at most. Then we had a severe recession in 1930, and Hoover increased spending, and the recession transformed into the great depression. FDR came in and continued. History shows the 1921 approach by Coolidge works, and the Hoover/FDR approach fails. And now Bush/Obama follow the Hoover/FDR approach - things are not getting better - they are stagnating.
mjvvliet1 1 year ago
When have they worked? Examples please. Keynes was an evil man, becareful who you align yourself with. The song was a depression era hit. Keynes style spending started prior to FDR becoming President. He simply accelarted it, and the quote I provided was from his Sec. of Treasury in 1939. The quote is an admission of the failure. More recent history shows that for 20 years Keynesian policies in Japan have failed. Keynesian Economics is aligned with Command Econonmies - name a successful one.
mjvvliet1 1 year ago
@mjvvliet1 The UK prior to Thatcher, How can you call Keynes evil? You may think he is wrong but but evil? That is for Hitler etc.
goatface1000 1 year ago
@goatface1000 Someone who thinks of ways to confiscate the property of others is evil. Keynes did this. Always remember, government produces nothing. In order for them to spend money they must first tax it (theft), borrow it (debt), or print it (inflation). As HL Mencken once said, "Every decent person is ashamed of the government they live under." When government expands, and Keynesian Economics causes expansion, then freedom shrinks. All humans are fallible, steering an economy is impossible.
mjvvliet1 1 year ago
@mjvvliet1 You are a very naive silly person. Some parts of the infrastructure of a country need to be state run, for example the armed forces, the police the fire service and in a civilised country like England hospitals. We need to pay tax to financse these and other needs. Until the witch Thatcher was in power in the UK we had a mixed ecconomy it worked well and with the aid of trade unions we had the best country in the world.
goatface1000 1 year ago
5 cents for an apple. Damn. I wish I could get apples for 5 cents ):
animefangirlxx 1 year ago 2
Last week, I walked into my Father's office, and found him collapsed at his desk, crying like a baby. He's been besieged by by out-of-work contractors from all over the country, looking for work. We started out Blue Collar, ourselves. He tries to help, but has limited autonomy within his web of alliances. He's overwhelmed.
This is entirely a situation created by a government dedicated to destroying America and Americans. I fear for the future.
Listening to this song, now I'M crying.
megaswenson 1 year ago
@megaswensonGreetings Comrade Don't worry help is at hand, socialism is on it's way to the USA the workers will be freed and the legacy of Comrade Stalin will be gifted to the workers of the USA. The red flag will fly over the USA
goatface1000 1 year ago
@goatface1000 Thank you, Comrade Goatface! I believe your prophesies have already come to pass, under the guidance of The Kenyan: Stalin's Emissary on Earth....starting with GM (Government Motors). Da svedanya!
megaswenson 1 year ago
@megaswenson My followers are many and their numbers will grow we will overun the USA. As I write this workers from New York to Nebraska are singing socialist songs and getting ready to march on Washington. All over the US Comrade Stalin's picture is being paraded through the streets. Women weep and throw flowers as we march together singing of freedom. All neocons will be sent for re- education. I am the GOAT and I will lead you to freedom in the name of Comrade Stalin our leader
goatface1000 1 year ago
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@goatface1000 You're all going to die.
Bergertim 2 months ago
@goatface1000 You are a deeply unpleasant person, why do you call Obama the Kenyan? Is it because you don't like black people. He is not a good president but at least he is not a right wing moron like Palin. My grandfather Rebbe Goatstein was denied entry into the USA from Poland in 1908 and so came to Britain. Now I am coming back with an army of followers to avenge this slight and to conquer the USA.
goatface1000 1 year ago
@megaswenson The two greatest sons of America are Robert Johnson blues singer and Groucho Marx. Therefore New Yoork will become Johnsonburg and Washington DC Marxtown. The death penalty will be abolished, Disney will be nationalised and will produce films about the 5 year plan. Baseball will be replaced by Cricket, American beer will be replaced by English ale. And lastly the USA will become the USSA THE UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA ONE MAN ONE GOAT
goatface1000 1 year ago
@goatface1000 Da, Comrade Goatface! Marxtown sounds far more politik than Grouchograd or Grouchenplatz.
megaswenson 1 year ago
This song speaks to the failure of Keynesian Economics - taking money/borrowing money/printing money - to fund public spending on projects the private sector did not find worth it. It has never worked, and never will. It turns recessions into depressions - just like it did in the 30's and just like it is doing now.
mjvvliet1 1 year ago
@mjvvliet1 i suggest you read a history book. It was Keynsian eccomics that got America out of the depression. The current problem is due to the excesses of capitialism. The man who wrote it ended up before the House Un-American Activities Committee. So like most right wingers you are ill informed and driven only by emotion
goatface1000 1 year ago
@goatface1000 Then why did FDR's Sec. of Treasury say this: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. We have never made good on our promises. I say, after 8 years of the Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... and an enormous debt to boot!" -Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury during the New Deal,May 1939
mjvvliet1 1 year ago
@goatface1000 No credible history book can make the claim Keynesian economics ended the great depression. The depression did not end until after WWII. The Keynesian spending started in 1930. That is 15 years. It appears you did as well in History as you did in Spelling. You can't spell Keynesian or Economics, so it appears I'm wasting my time with a mental midget. Listen to the lyrics of the song - he builds the railroad and still needs a dime.
mjvvliet1 1 year ago
@mjvvliet1 Interesting and American talking about spelling... The song was written prior to FDR becoming president so your last point is an ill researched attempt to win an arguement. Like most Americans you are unable to see outside your of your country. Keynesian ecconomics do work and have done in the UK for many years until the evil witch Thatcher came to power.
goatface1000 1 year ago
@goatface1000 The lovely lady..M Thatcher..praise be upon her, rescued the whole of the UK from the dunce ridden Brit Labour Party whose loyalty, you yourself make clear, was to the USSR. She also broke the back of out of control unions and as an encore she put the Yorkshire miners back on a more honest and common sense capitalist course that ultimately saw them right. Oh..Keynesian economics 'do work' is 'does work' although she and I disagree profoundly. @mjvvliet wins. Canada hails you!
ponderslong 1 year ago
@ponderslong The Labour party was not a tool of the USSR, neither am I if you read my comments you might gather I was joking about Stalin. You are totally ill informed the Tories closed the mines down. We have them back now and they are pillaging the country to benefit the wealthy once more. At one time the Tories were reasonable but Thatcher set out to destroy our welfare state, she sold the council houses and created a them and us society
goatface1000 1 year ago
@ponderslong Your taste in music is so awful you have no justification to ajuduicate in debates. Matt Monro! how lame. Britain represents a far more complex set of problems compared to Canada no easy wins only a left of centre govet, will work
goatface1000 1 year ago
Haha give this a techno remix and you've got the theme for 2008 and 2009.
beanio12 1 year ago
SO TRUE! 1ST WW1 (THE WAR TO END THEM ALL!!) THEN WWII...VIETNAM....DESERT STORM..IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...ATOMIC BOMBS...NUCLEAR....SOMETIMES CONFLICT CANNOT BE AVOIDED, BUT TO WALK INTO COUNTRIES..INCLUDING OUR OWN..AND PRESSING FOR WAR IS WRONG. THIS WORLD EXISTS SO WE CAN LEARN HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER. NO ONE PERSON OR GROUP IS TOTTALY RIGHT...BUT TOGETHER WE MAKE UP THE TRUTH....PEACE AND RESPECT TO YOU ALL.... OHH AND BROTHER, OR SISTER, CAN U SPARE A DIME?
MrBtown215 1 year ago
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MrBtown215 1 year ago
Jolson was always one of the best, but nothing will top Crosby's original...
george77772moons 1 year ago
Wow, that last line. Stirring!
298625 1 year ago
Almost a century and now it's brother can you spare a buck...
plpesuti 1 year ago
Mr. Burns couldn't have sang it better, way back in Season 2. He was really sad with the Nuclear Plant being classified as a dangerous place.
YoshiAngemon 1 year ago
I like the one guy who is holding up the sign that says "What I want is work. What I don't want is charity"
People nowadays stand on the side of the road and hold up signs that say "I lost my job, need money, god bless" or something like that. That guy at least was willing to earn his money instead of asking for a handout.
posthumanfetus 1 year ago 34
@posthumanfetus "Will work for food" ring a bell? There are no jobs. They are in India and China (our jobs, that is).
dosie451 1 year ago
@dosie451 I think people used to use the "will work for food" signs, but of all the homeless people I see when I drive around, I pretty much just see the "pity me" signs, not the "help me and I'll help you" signs. I'm sure this says something about the decline of my country's work ethic.
posthumanfetus 1 year ago
@posthumanfetus That's bullshit. True Americans will never ask for charity, then or now.
GodfatherXXI 1 year ago
@GodfatherXXI I forgot I wrote that comment, but yeah, doesn't it seem like people should be more interested in how they can help those who help them? "Will work for food" has become "I'm homeless, help me, God Bless." I don't want to sound cold, but you have to figure that being unwilling to work for others in return for money might have something to do with why some people are on the street in the first place...
posthumanfetus 1 year ago
@posthumanfetus diaf
PopeSlyph 1 year ago
@posthumanfetus well back in the day, lots of unemployed people weren't dependent on drugs or alcohol..
bbang1989 10 months ago 3