Roaring 20s: B.A. Rolfe's Orch - Let's Do It (C.Porter) 1928

[roybo1930]

This AWESOME song is about as 1920s as You can ever get!!! I have around 8 different versions including this one, And can never get tired of hearing it!

[TCDS75]

Encantador, agradable, romántica ................ César

[lostplanet92]

Woody Allen from everything else to Midnight in Paris out done himself, yet again

[lostplanet92]

Woody Allan has yet to stop from everything else to Midnight in Paris

[BudTuba]

Prior to starting his own orchestra, BA Rolfe was the lead trumpet with Vincent Lopez Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra. When he left Lopez, he took his tuba player, Hank Waak, with him. Waak was said to be a virtuoso on the tuba and played cornet solos on the tuba with concert bands (including Sousa's) in Central Park.

[demoman87]

song's stuck in my head after watching Midnight XD

[luludada123]

i wanna know too!

[luizamoora]

is this the version of midnight in paris? if it's not, does anyone knows who sings?

[krove]

@luizamoora I prefer Yves Heck version

[thelonelyslayer]

@luizamoora Cole Porter sings the song in movie. But i'm not sure if they used the actual recording or if the actor who portrayed C.P sang it in the movie. I know the Josephine Baker song was the orignal, so idk.

[luizamoora]

@thelonelyslayer oh, ok! thanks

[TCDS75]

Muy bonita -------------- César

[shalomfilm]

one of the best movies by Woody Allen for my opinion

[hauntingbeauty]

thumbs up if Midnight in Paris brought you here =)



[farlover70]

@hauntingbeauty

I'm obsessed with the soundtrack :)

[NuclearTrenchDeath]

@hauntingbeauty

It has also been in True blood.

but yes, Midnight in Paris made me look for it;)

[jvhamby5]

Now i know where i heard this from! Wall-E!!!

[MusicLuvah23]

@jvhamby5 It was in Wall-E too? Cool!

I heard it in Midnight in Paris :)

[Gydinglight12]

This verson of Let's..should be a lesson in how to make a piece of music sound "dirty, with the way some of the notes are held, and the bed frame squeaks from the violin. Makes you think the couple are already 'doing it." There is another great version by Bill Wirges, who went all out for the pumping beat Cole may have written into this piece.

[roybo1930]

This is one song that I just could not live without! Cole Porter was just too AWESOME! I have several versions of this song including Rudy Vallee`s on verious labels (78s) and there is not one of them that I just don`t LOVE! This video is fantastic!

[victorbrunswick]

By far the best version of "Let's Do It." I love the music of the period -- so happy and joyous with just that right combination of sweet, smart and sexy. I don't find the song the least bit offensive. If anything some of the garbage that sadly passes for music today is ten times, a hundred times more offensive.

[rogharm]

great syncopation rhythm peppy love the musical arrangement & great singer!!!!!!******who is singer? like xylophone sounds great.

[brosro]

Rolfe was made the musical director of Edison records in 1926. If you've ever heard his 1928 recording of Deep Hollow, you will be amazed at how 63 year

old Rolfe could toot with the rest of the best.

[rogharm]

great voice great peppy arrangement!!!!******keep rolfeing he is great!!!!!*********ROGHARM

[GrenvilleT]

It's still one of my faves!

B.A. Rolfe - who looks like my 6-year-old boy grown old - God Bless!

[SLanima]

A great song! 5 stars

[theproknowsall]

i love this song!

I don´t give a damn if its offensiv or not!

[Iltbsm]

"chinks" and "japs" is offensive? aren't those expressions more like "Kraut" and "Yank"..just expressions of teasing each other?

[saxondog2001]

I have just one word for you with respect to this version of the Cole Porter hit: Smashing!

[VWOWV]

It brings bells to my ears. Makes my heart want to say yippy. =J

[Squarerig]

And now we can all do it-on You Tube.Thank you for your contribution.Delightful music.

[jazzgirl1920s]

Nice to hear the singer singing the original words to this tune for a change. "The Chinks do it, Japs do it" instead of that politically correct crap that came later, "The birds do it, the bees do it"

[cocgle]

Strange to hear the original offensive opening lines (Chinks do it, Japs do it)

[everybodylovesmybaby]

That apparently is the way the song was originally published. There are at least four recordings recordings from 1928 that use that lyric.  Porter changed it after the song was first introduced.

[idasynco]

WOW, fantastic bending of notes and interplay b/w the instruments. I love the xylophone too, and the vocal was so spirited!! I LOVE IT!! 5*

[GrenvilleT]

Wonderful, zany version of one of Mr Porter's finest which, with its lunatic xylophone and violin flourishes, catches the exuberant madness that the song is all about. Bliss. (Now back to washing-up and laundry-duty in NW London, 2008.)

[idasynco]

Your comment is PERFECT!! I should have read it before posting mine as yours is the cream in the coffee for SURE!!

[HarborGuy]

One of the very best ever posted! - 5 Stars

[GrenvilleT]

I do so agree. Delirious.

[revelation1960]

a great video for the era. thaks for posting it.

[joeocho88]

AMAZING MUSIC!

I LOVE this old jazz!

Thank you for preserving it and posting it!

[fuzzbear6240]

Amazing sound. I guess that explains why collectors are willing to pay so much for Edison Needle-Cut records. Ha Ha! Sounds as good as a Victor Scroll. ;-) Regards, J.

[fuzzbear6240]

240252, Really fantastic presentation of a fantastic recording. Is this a DD or a Needle-Cut? I saw Merrihew's comment. Regards, J.

[Victrolaman1]

Being new to YouTube,I'm amazed by the great music on here.Merrihew,240252,Kspm01.Aa­ron1912,Thanks for entertaining me.

LOU

[livingaragtimelife]

Great arrangement, thanks so much! The cares of the world slip by; euphoria reigns. Thanks Cole, thanks Edison, thanks to all musicians!

[kspm01]

I guess the worse often wins because it's cheaper to produce it. As for this recording, it is awesome!!! It's beyond me how this hot stuff got recorded at the Edison studio.

[merrihew]

Yes, the sound quality of even the earliest cylinders is often astounding. It was because they were vertically recorded. There was more room for the sound waves going up and down rather than back and forth - where they would overlap.

[barbcard]

This jaunty version of that old song actually woke me up from my late summer torpor...Terrific choice, but why the "Bye Bye Blackbird" record?

[merrihew]

An Edison lateral electric! Edison's taste was terrible and he usually had to sign off on what got issued. He must have been away when this great record slipped through.

[victorbrunswick]

@merrihew

By the 1920s Edison was ailing so the running of his companies was left to his son Charles who had a bit more business sense than his father.