George Olsen & Ethel Shutta - Underneath The Arches 1933

[lilsaprano123]

Hi I am 13 love all these old songs. This is me singing a Gracie Fields song hope you all enjoy.

[roybo1930]

The first time I ever heard this AWESOME song was by Connie Boswell, on a Brunswick 78 I bought, I have the Flannagan & Allen version on a CD.

[accomuk]

Mum told me Dad liked this song

[pedrovono]

Bravissimo!!!

[rogharm]

great arrangement!!!minor key great orchestration. love ethel great performance!!!!*****like the key note.*********when she divorce george and how old were the two boys shown in some posts? ROGHARM ethel i love you R.I.P.

[RRaquello]

Ethel Shutta was a big broadway star in the 20's. You can also see her in the film version of "Whoopee!" playing a comedy part. Her name is pronounced "Shoo-tay", which I never knew until I heard her in a very old Jack Benny radio show. This is a real depression song. I guess lots of people were sleeping under bridges & on the pavement in those days. Connie Boswell also did a swell version of this song.

[GirlBarrie]

George & Ethel are my husband's Great Aunt & Uncle!!! Thank you so much for allowing him and his sister to hear them!!

[silynne]

omg my nan used to sing this to me to in the 60 s miss u & love u 4 ever nan x x x x thankyou 4 the posting 240 252

[Corrie121]

I have only ever heard the Flannagan & Allen rendition of this song, so I am very pleasantly surprised to be introduce to this exceptionally fine version.

Thank you for sharing.

[owlkev]

my nan used to play this to me when i was a baby in the 60,s....oh memorys xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx thanx xxxxx

[perfectjazz78]

Stetson Hat is one of my favorite musical numbers of all time! Thanks for the plug.

[Dykesi662]

Such a beautiful song...a all time fav

[pshanknyc]

Thanks for posting this. Just one small correction that I need to make: the Hirschfeld drawing in the photomontage is NOT from "c. 1941", but was done by Al for the Prince/Bennett/Sondheim show "Follies" in 1971. Ethel is on the left with her right finger pointing down.

[78rpm78rpm]

I was in Olsen's restaurant in 1964. Elegant, good taste, great food and HIS music. He certainly was not hurting himself financially running that place.

[panzermort]

stampata

thanx nice to know m8

[horarwgt]

This record reached #11 in 1933 for Olsen. Later the song was also a hit for The Andrews Sisters, Primo Scala and Andy Russell (three different recordings) in 1948.

[stampada]

Oh, no! -- not sad at all! "Olsen's" was a VERRRRRY popular restaurant in Paramus, NJ. Mr. George was on sight many nights from the 50s into the late 60s. He loved to mix with people and was always ready with a compliment or interesting story. His music of the 20s and 30s playing in the background was considered "cool" by the patrons of the 60s -- both old and young! He passed away in 1971.

[HarborGuy]

Everybody - let's dance ..........

[kspm01]

I know... but now that even the restaurant is gone, we fortunately still have the records

[kspm01]

This surely was one of the "better" - as the dance data base states - if not one of the "best" American bands epitomizing the the 1920's! Lovely vocal too.

[dancebandfan]

An excellant version of this famous in the UK performed by Flannagan and Allen.Like the photos of Ethel who i have only seen once in the film "Whoopee".

[85scampi]

Strange to hear this without old Bud and Chesney!. The lady does rather a good job of it though!!

[barbcard]

Thanks for the memory of a much later version of this song, popular when I was in college...I was always fond of the quasi-poetic line "Pavement is my Pillow."