My mom, told me about this song when I was a kid in the 60's. Obviously it is a very old tune at this point, but maybe we could have a Hip-hop version?
@Lyriicistique Although I don't play or even like games, any medium that brings the younger generation to this fine music is fine by me! More people need to hear the great music of the first half of the 20th century.
I saw this on TCM today and absolutely fell in love with this performance! I love her facial expressions and movements. So much fun to watch. Thanks for posting this :))
@Fivefires24 EXACTLY. Now instead of Human generated genuine entertainment, we have synthesised bullshit, and autotune up the but hole. It is asinine how many people like the fake horse shit of an excuse for music that is known as music today. Notice how there is not one bearable thing to listen to on the top 10 list of itunes. It's all fake.
Regarding being a kid in the 1940s, I was born in 1940 and have vivid memories from two years on. I was a kid on radio and hung out at the T.V. stations in my hometown as soon as I could ride the streetcar alone. I was a big Andrews Sisters fan and used the name Jim Andrews on radio because I thought I was the Andrews Brother (Maxene Andrews loved that story). It was an entirely different culture. It was segregated but, believe me, blacks and whites could be friends if they wanted.
@VladLazerian The recording used in the L.A. Noire video game is the Dinah Shore recording of 'Murder, he says'. Done in the same year as the Hutton recording, one year after the 1942 Anita O'Day recording. This seems inaccurate of L.A. Noire. The game is set in Los Angeles 1947 - 1951, many years after this song was popular. It would make more sense to use the Hutton version, because it was so animated and would have survived the 4+ years of radio play.
Betty Hutton used humorous but anxiety-laden quirkiness in her persona that perfectly mirrored feelings of everyday people coping with a frightening era of tyrannical egomaniacs. That generation watched peers forced to exist in nightmares or to die; Miss Hutton’s performances, funny and energetic but with an unmistakable pathos were a perfect outlet for audience’s fears of the intolerable. Using innate warmth, intelligence, and style, she has earned our admiration and respect. Bravo!
She could do it all-sing -dance-act-comedy-personality-Betty Hutton was one of a kind and there will never be another-she deserved more credit for what she did in Hollywood. My all time favorite!!!!
should be in a museum, also a radio show too to keep the ww2 songs alive, as well as the relases of CDs and DVds to keep alive for the young, in memory of troops. I love this music, not everyone likes commercial music. Young people like this music too, awesome
No delusion. I'm 70. I grew up then; it was a different world. As for your cliche about African-Americans, my white Jewish family always had black friends , I attended a high school and college which were integrated, I was part of a black-white student government coalition in junior college and as kid on radio I broadcast from studio B while across from us in Studio A, waving through the picture glass window, was the great black d.j. Spider Burks. At 12 I was collecting Billie Holiday.
I absolutely love this song and other songs from this era, they didnt need to swear every 3 wordws to make it a good song. It's funny to watch her sing this, shes so animated. Better than any song you here now,
@carolyncarnage Oh thank God, I'm not the only one who feels that way! I have Betty's song Papa Don't Preach To Me on my MP3 and when one of my friends borrowed it and heard that song, she asked "Um, I thought Papa Don't Preach was by Madonna, not some old chick"
It amazes me how hardly anyone in this generation appreciates the classics. I mean, the TRUE classics.
I saw her in a Jan 2010 in a Turner CM interview... she is so amazing. She really raises my spirit. I'm so sad to here about the difficulty life she had.
What a lady! only person that is even close it Debbie Reynolds but she does not keep up with Betty! I just wish she would have received as much from her career as she gave us....
Man, My Grandfather told me to look up this song a few months ago. Boy I'm glad I did he did too. I also may use song for my LEGO version of Fallout 3, It's a great song. I'd like to see someone from THESE days pull something that good.
She is SO amazing!! There's something charming and goofy about her incredibly talented delivery. Thanks for posting this!! I only just heard of Betty Hutton following an audition, and she is definitely destined to become my favourite :)
I love this performance...Butn what does the song mena? Was 'murder' a 1940s expression ? What did it mean? Maybe like people somethimes say something is 'sick' meaning 'great' these days?
@hexum7 - In answer to your question: Yes, you've got it right. She is expressing her frustration with all these "jive talk" slang expressions, associated with swing and jazz music scene of the era. According to the Cab Calloway Hepster Dictionary, murder = something excellent; solid = great.
@mattiescottage Thanks for that answer (finally). Now the next obvious question: Was the title of the show "Murder She Wrote" a play on this song title?
@hexum7 - Hmm. I really don't know. By the time the T.V. show "Murder, She Wrote" came, I think very few people remembered the Hutton song that was popular four decades earlier. But I searched a little and found that there was a 1961 movie, "Murder, She Said" based on an Agatha Christie novel. . . and someone else has suggested that this movie title may have been a partial inspiration for the title of the T.V. series. Was the Hutton song an inspiration to the 1961 movie title? I don't know?
After reading some things about Betty Hutton on the internet,was astonished to find she wasn't considered very attractive with only a so-so voice, though using both enthusiastically. This lead me to believe that CRACK, must have been readily available back then and all. For in my humble opinion, she's very attractive and has a voice that puts 99% of my generation to shame. Nor does she act or dress like a cheap whore to coverup possible talent failings. I think she's brilliant ! :o)o:
This is really a broadcast on film, not lip synching. Note how she sings to the microphone with full facial and body expressions. That's what singers did. Note, too, that everyone is dressed up. I was part of that radio era as a kid and that's exactly how it looked. The world was totally different. Everyone, but everyone, was lively, congenial, friendly and down to earth. Patty Andrews said it was "like the whole world was in love."
@waynebrasler Someone else living under the delusion that things were better "back then." "Everyone" dressed up, and "everyone" was all kind and nice to each other, and there were no people of color around to mess things up. You're also old enough to benefit from a host of medical advances they didn't have "back then."
i've seen this so many times its an unlisted number. hey, look at the black soldiers, dancing, the entire unit is black, segregation, back in those days, huh? glad that part of history is history. but what would be nice too, would be to have these talented people around , still young and vital, and alive. bob hope, betty hutton, and all the rest of them, judy garland, and on and on and on....
The reason that I love Bob Hope so much is because he made sure his cameramen focused on the troops working hard, and then shows some members of the unit dancing. Bob Hope was a good man in many ways! I too am glad that that part of history is history! God Bless America!
Betty sang this live as she was in her early 20's here. Check out her versions of It's Oh So Quiet(51), Stuff Like That There, I wish I Didn't Love You So etc. songs she sang way back in the 40's and 50's that people are singing now.
I commented that certain user may perhaps be slightly bigoted because he and his thankfully dead grandfather found the use of black people in this clip to be offensive, therefore disregarded Hutton's singing in less than a mindless heartbeat.
I called a racist twat out basically and got shot down for it, oh well. Such is the world.
This is one of my favorite WWII era songs and probably one of the very best performances on Command Performance. I'm only 47 but I know every word by heart!
Glad to see more than 45,000 views. Retiring from films at the zenith of her popularity, (very soon after "Annie Get Your Gun" and "The Greatest Show on Earth") Betty may be the most underrated performer in show business history. She could do Anything! And sublimely beautiful too!
I am, of course, the Olympian Betty Hutton's most adoring fan.
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that's very odd that you would pick betty hutton as your all time favorite star, especially when you were a kid, betty hutton just seems like a strange performer to idolize; when i was a kid i felt that way about janis joplin; maybe it's just the times, but i sure was upset when she died, more so than my own father died a few yrs later, but then, i never really liked my father much to begin with; oh, well. . .
Indeed that was a long time ago, and many have forgotten that Betty was Paramount's number one star in the '40's and then went to MGM to make Annie for which she was voted 1950's most popular actress by Photoplay Mag. readers. Then she starred in the oscar- winning "Greatest Show" and retired. Hoofer, singer, actress, and trapeze artist----what Jim Thorpe was to atletics, Betty was to show business! See "Annie, "Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and video, Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In a Hurry!
Betty didn't retire after "Greatest Show on Earth", she had a small part in "Sailor Beware" & also released "Somebody Loves Me" before leaving Paramount. She filmed the TV extravaganza "Satins & Spurs" in '54, then was doing Vegas, etc. She did her final movie in '57, "Spring Reunion". It wasn't received well, but I've seen it & I liked it OK ... not the kind of pic you would expect to see her in though. Betty was known for "retiring" & then coming out of retirement repeatedly in the 50's.
It's our loss that she didn't make more movies, but her emotional breakdowns were bound to happen sooner or later. If you read her autobiography, you will wonder how she made it as long as she did ... what a story she had! She's the best in my opinion.
I am sixteen years old and I think this is NICE I was watching a documentary in American History on WW2 and there was a section of "American Entertainment" during WW2 and like, there was a clip of her singing this song, and i was like "WOW THIS IS AWESOME!" I was like dancing in my seat while people were looking at the ground, bored. But stuff those people. Old music is REAL music before all that technology and rap stuff. Maybe I should ask my grandma about songs from the good ol' fourties :)
There is a new Betty Hutton Bio Book that just came out, it is caled "Rocking Horse" By Gene Arceri. I read it, it was very Warming and enjoyable to read. I recommend it to all those Betty Huttons. We Love you Betty !!! RIP.
There's no one to match Betty! America's Jitterbug! She was so incredibly cute and jam-packed with talent. TCM has a wonderful interview with her shortly before she died, and what a fabulous woman! 80 years old and she still couldn't keep still and still could sing this song with gusto!
My boys, this is a sample of the time when music was healthy and not depressing like today. Life than was much harder, but they had great song writers like Berlin, Johny Mercer ... and other.
So devastatingly cute, so funny, really great voice, good dancer. What pulls it all together is her blatant intelligence, her obvious awareness of what she is constructing.
I think Bjork should cover this.
theirishinc 1 week ago
Woody Allen brought me here.
theflaksmusic 1 week ago
Hay dad!!! :)
brittanychippette17 2 weeks ago
My mom, told me about this song when I was a kid in the 60's. Obviously it is a very old tune at this point, but maybe we could have a Hip-hop version?
Kasbahkabaret 1 month ago
I love her no one can do it as well as her
Iluvesingingalot 1 month ago
She was 22 in 1943.
HellField04 1 month ago
A Frank Sinatra documentary brought me here.
Symbton 1 month ago
L.A NOIRE!!!
cathylicious96 1 month ago
I think its lame that a game brought half of these people here.
Lyriicistique 2 months ago 6
@Lyriicistique Although I don't play or even like games, any medium that brings the younger generation to this fine music is fine by me! More people need to hear the great music of the first half of the 20th century.
moonraven3 1 month ago
What a spitfire! :-D
MaskedMan66 2 months ago
I think Björk was inspired a little bit by Betty Hutton xD
cesiface 3 months ago
@cesiface Well, she did do a cover of "It's Oh So Quiet," which Betty also sang.
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what the fugg is a "Nicki Minaj" and why should I care? Sounds like some new Carribean fruit drink
DreamsCumTrue469 3 months ago
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DreamsCumTrue469 3 months ago
Love love love this song!
FelipeMorati 4 months ago
Her voice is not beautiful at all, but still very charming and strong. :) I like that. <3 Not to mention her enthusiasm, just brilliant!
EliasBlu 4 months ago in playlist The Classics
@EliasBlu I completely agree with your comment. She had a cute demeanor about her.
moonraven3 1 month ago
Betty was amazing....such a sad later life, but at least we have her on film, radio, and record!
^^X^^
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I saw this on TCM today and absolutely fell in love with this performance! I love her facial expressions and movements. So much fun to watch. Thanks for posting this :))
pamstephenspianist 5 months ago
I swear she is a old fashioned white Nicki Minaj when she did those facial expressions.
MRWHTZ 5 months ago
@MRWHTZ more like Nicki Minaj is a modern black version of Betty Hutton!
ShinyGlitterDoll 3 months ago
@ShinyGlitterDoll Yes that is a better description!
MRWHTZ 3 months ago
@ShinyGlitterDoll Please bitch¬¬ Betty could sing
anonimoa1515 2 weeks ago
It's an old fashioned white Nicki Minaj.
MRWHTZ 5 months ago
Funny, found this video and then realized that it was from L.A. Noire, which is great.
8BitStranger 5 months ago 4
she's cute but crazy
TheHephaestus16 6 months ago
this came on TV last night. blew my mind.
OnlySeanJohn 7 months ago
moiduh baby!
MamaJacqueroo 7 months ago
she had the most amazing stage presence I've ever seen.
2109neje 7 months ago 5
@2109neje
absolutely...never seen anything like her before...you just have to fall in love with her instantly ;-)
anj4de 6 months ago 2
L.A. Noir brought me here. :D
BearzTeddy 7 months ago 27
@BearzTeddy Gosh me too!!
SAINTCHEZZ 2 months ago
LA NOIRE
ferbert19 7 months ago 2
*sigh* SICHEASHUN
itubeyoudont 7 months ago
You are a goddamn menace, Phelps!
SMunozDB7 7 months ago
La Noire :D
TheMariachi7 7 months ago
L.A. Noire... Awwwwwwwwwwwww YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Kiger43 7 months ago
From this, to Kesha. What the hell.
Fivefires24 8 months ago 4
@Fivefires24 EXACTLY. Now instead of Human generated genuine entertainment, we have synthesised bullshit, and autotune up the but hole. It is asinine how many people like the fake horse shit of an excuse for music that is known as music today. Notice how there is not one bearable thing to listen to on the top 10 list of itunes. It's all fake.
branflakes4547 7 months ago
Regarding being a kid in the 1940s, I was born in 1940 and have vivid memories from two years on. I was a kid on radio and hung out at the T.V. stations in my hometown as soon as I could ride the streetcar alone. I was a big Andrews Sisters fan and used the name Jim Andrews on radio because I thought I was the Andrews Brother (Maxene Andrews loved that story). It was an entirely different culture. It was segregated but, believe me, blacks and whites could be friends if they wanted.
waynebrasler 8 months ago
Give it Like if Rockstar's L.A. Noire Brought you here
armisael82 8 months ago 17
@armisael82 Nope. Team Bondi's L.A. Noire brought me here.
GamingJesters 7 months ago 3
la noire
Gavo6644 8 months ago
@VladLazerian The recording used in the L.A. Noire video game is the Dinah Shore recording of 'Murder, he says'. Done in the same year as the Hutton recording, one year after the 1942 Anita O'Day recording. This seems inaccurate of L.A. Noire. The game is set in Los Angeles 1947 - 1951, many years after this song was popular. It would make more sense to use the Hutton version, because it was so animated and would have survived the 4+ years of radio play.
ijoe79 8 months ago 3
Found this after playing LA Noire. It's not the game version, but I'm really glad I found it.
VladLazerian 8 months ago
Betty Hutton used humorous but anxiety-laden quirkiness in her persona that perfectly mirrored feelings of everyday people coping with a frightening era of tyrannical egomaniacs. That generation watched peers forced to exist in nightmares or to die; Miss Hutton’s performances, funny and energetic but with an unmistakable pathos were a perfect outlet for audience’s fears of the intolerable. Using innate warmth, intelligence, and style, she has earned our admiration and respect. Bravo!
writeurselfabook 8 months ago 2
She could do it all-sing -dance-act-comedy-personality-Betty Hutton was one of a kind and there will never be another-she deserved more credit for what she did in Hollywood. My all time favorite!!!!
kurtenbach25 8 months ago
comic genius!!
windstorm1000 8 months ago
She is so adorable, I loved it! Round of applause!
ccpoiry 9 months ago
Betty Hutton -- Murder, He Says
arizonaboy77 9 months ago
should be in a museum, also a radio show too to keep the ww2 songs alive, as well as the relases of CDs and DVds to keep alive for the young, in memory of troops. I love this music, not everyone likes commercial music. Young people like this music too, awesome
djmusicjac 9 months ago
why do people even bother looking up these videos if they're just going to "dislike" them!!!??? Makes no sense to me!! >:I
tatianamelissa 10 months ago
No delusion. I'm 70. I grew up then; it was a different world. As for your cliche about African-Americans, my white Jewish family always had black friends , I attended a high school and college which were integrated, I was part of a black-white student government coalition in junior college and as kid on radio I broadcast from studio B while across from us in Studio A, waving through the picture glass window, was the great black d.j. Spider Burks. At 12 I was collecting Billie Holiday.
waynebrasler 10 months ago
I absolutely love this song and other songs from this era, they didnt need to swear every 3 wordws to make it a good song. It's funny to watch her sing this, shes so animated. Better than any song you here now,
pharaohsgrl 11 months ago
Tojo, Hitler, Goebbels, and Mussolini didn't like this video. Those rats.
thekg9kid 11 months ago 4
Way too cool for school... and hot to trot? Jeez she was great!
rockinroger69 11 months ago
LOL I laughed when she was singing "Stalin, He says!" and squinting her eye.
NFitalianGuy 11 months ago
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Not Stalin. Solid. You gotta get with that 40's jive.
GypsyFairy85 11 months ago
@NFitalianGuy She didn't sing "Stalin". She said "Solid!"
blunelson 11 months ago
@NFitalianGuy You can check the words to the song online,but I think she's saying "solid,he says"
4MaryAnna 11 months ago 2
se va a atras a tomar más merca jajaja una genia
Ma6dA13nA 1 year ago
Just class!:)
Tamari551 1 year ago
Damn, she was cute!
Bopalena 1 year ago 3
@Bopalena Betty Hutton was a Gorgeous Vivacious Woman.I am just starting to appreciate her work!
NFitalianGuy 11 months ago 2
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writeurselfabook 1 year ago
I don't understand why the rest of my generation today can't learn to love this kind of music. Instead of rap and Justin Beiber and shit.
carolyncarnage 1 year ago 6
@carolyncarnage Oh thank God, I'm not the only one who feels that way! I have Betty's song Papa Don't Preach To Me on my MP3 and when one of my friends borrowed it and heard that song, she asked "Um, I thought Papa Don't Preach was by Madonna, not some old chick"
It amazes me how hardly anyone in this generation appreciates the classics. I mean, the TRUE classics.
CountryBarbie777 1 year ago 2
I saw her in a Jan 2010 in a Turner CM interview... she is so amazing. She really raises my spirit. I'm so sad to here about the difficulty life she had.
kevorkazito 1 year ago
@kevorkazito umm sadly, Betty Hutton died a few years ago.
grl008 1 year ago
@grl008 Um, sadly, you didn't catch that kevorkazito said they saw her on a Turner Classic Movie interview. As in it was probably recorded earlier.
carolyncarnage 1 year ago
she was a real cutie! anyone notice the resemblence to drew barrymore ?
TheBabyboomkidof53 1 year ago
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wow she is my fave im in loveeeeeee
THEMONSTERMATTMAN 1 year ago
wow she is my fave im in loveeeeeee
THEMONSTERMATTMAN 1 year ago 2
!! Betty Hutton swings!
treesurgeon 1 year ago 2
Her wink would melt me in a second...
DannyBruiz 1 year ago 2
...she had energy like a nuclear explosion......and was a fine singer musician too.....and she could do Annie Get Your Gun, too.......
valdengo1 1 year ago
What a lady! only person that is even close it Debbie Reynolds but she does not keep up with Betty! I just wish she would have received as much from her career as she gave us....
c9ari 1 year ago
hahahaha "A vitamin pill with legs!!" teehee love it!
grl008 1 year ago
Is this the language of love?
DayTrips1 1 year ago
Fabulous Song!!!
OmgGossipGirl1 1 year ago
It's been awhile so I simply must post this crazy video. Who knew the 40's had such whackjobs?
PhillySeth 1 year ago
betty is never a downer,just love her.
wackyjackyable 1 year ago 3
check out yeah yeah yeahs "rich". reincarnation.
rchlboyd 1 year ago
she's awsome, she and Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
rchlboyd 1 year ago
she's some rock chic
rchlboyd 1 year ago
true talent will never die
LaVieLeHow 1 year ago
He sais "who-ho" 2:01? Just like that? He's my kind of girl.
lalishelaide 1 year ago 3
She was incredibly sexy!
eieiowens 1 year ago
Loved it so much I have it on my IPOD!!!
debthebob 1 year ago
Man, My Grandfather told me to look up this song a few months ago. Boy I'm glad I did he did too. I also may use song for my LEGO version of Fallout 3, It's a great song. I'd like to see someone from THESE days pull something that good.
legomasterv1 1 year ago
WOW!, A big thanks for posting!!! "A vitamin pill with legs"...oh yeah Bob, you nailed it!
IntroSpetful 1 year ago
absolutly excellent
prosverige 1 year ago
Betty was one of the most famous of of all the celebs of that time period. She worked very to help the morale of the troops being sent overseas..
Tyler380 1 year ago
i love her
patoman881 1 year ago 2
I love her cuz she is such a ayunca
patoman881 1 year ago
VOWT !
rialtobaby 1 year ago
She is SO amazing!! There's something charming and goofy about her incredibly talented delivery. Thanks for posting this!! I only just heard of Betty Hutton following an audition, and she is definitely destined to become my favourite :)
Wolfie825 1 year ago 5
when men were men and woman fought for them
fmazzar 1 year ago 5
what drugs were they on? no one has that kind of amazing energy in this decade. betty
BettyNewsinger 1 year ago
I love this performance...Butn what does the song mena? Was 'murder' a 1940s expression ? What did it mean? Maybe like people somethimes say something is 'sick' meaning 'great' these days?
hexum7 1 year ago
@hexum7 - In answer to your question: Yes, you've got it right. She is expressing her frustration with all these "jive talk" slang expressions, associated with swing and jazz music scene of the era. According to the Cab Calloway Hepster Dictionary, murder = something excellent; solid = great.
mattiescottage 1 year ago 2
@mattiescottage Thanks for that answer (finally). Now the next obvious question: Was the title of the show "Murder She Wrote" a play on this song title?
hexum7 1 year ago
@hexum7 - Hmm. I really don't know. By the time the T.V. show "Murder, She Wrote" came, I think very few people remembered the Hutton song that was popular four decades earlier. But I searched a little and found that there was a 1961 movie, "Murder, She Said" based on an Agatha Christie novel. . . and someone else has suggested that this movie title may have been a partial inspiration for the title of the T.V. series. Was the Hutton song an inspiration to the 1961 movie title? I don't know?
mattiescottage 1 year ago
@mattiescottage This song is so cool,
hexum7 1 year ago
@hexum7 - I'm glad you are enjoying it. She certainly is having a lot of fun with it. :-)
mattiescottage 1 year ago
After reading some things about Betty Hutton on the internet,was astonished to find she wasn't considered very attractive with only a so-so voice, though using both enthusiastically. This lead me to believe that CRACK, must have been readily available back then and all. For in my humble opinion, she's very attractive and has a voice that puts 99% of my generation to shame. Nor does she act or dress like a cheap whore to coverup possible talent failings. I think she's brilliant ! :o)o:
crockyoshighty 1 year ago 5
amen to that! I'd like to see a pop princess do a performance like that!
annaleander 1 year ago 2
the tori amos version from the film 'mona lisa smile' is exquisite--much more understated. but betty's version will always be the best!!
XXXKrisAnthony 1 year ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETTY!!!!! :D
johntravolta20 1 year ago 2
God she was good. How she remembered all those lyrics is amazing!
DA90027 1 year ago 2
I have an mp3 file of this(and lots of other betty's) if anyone one wants them send me a message I can send them through my yahoo email account
sizemeat 2 years ago
Wow!
BI8759 2 years ago
does someone know if the file midi of this song exists?
sabryfairy 2 years ago
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Roikale95 2 years ago
This is really a broadcast on film, not lip synching. Note how she sings to the microphone with full facial and body expressions. That's what singers did. Note, too, that everyone is dressed up. I was part of that radio era as a kid and that's exactly how it looked. The world was totally different. Everyone, but everyone, was lively, congenial, friendly and down to earth. Patty Andrews said it was "like the whole world was in love."
waynebrasler 2 years ago 49
@waynebrasler Someone else living under the delusion that things were better "back then." "Everyone" dressed up, and "everyone" was all kind and nice to each other, and there were no people of color around to mess things up. You're also old enough to benefit from a host of medical advances they didn't have "back then."
DarkRider69 10 months ago
@waynebrasler I wish I was a kid back then =(
Triipticz 8 months ago
i enjoy this from just watching the amount of energy she puts into singing ^_^ i love her facial expressions.
"vitamin pill on legs" haha
tori amos does a cover of this song. its slower, but really good.
MiNekona 2 years ago 17
i've seen this so many times its an unlisted number. hey, look at the black soldiers, dancing, the entire unit is black, segregation, back in those days, huh? glad that part of history is history. but what would be nice too, would be to have these talented people around , still young and vital, and alive. bob hope, betty hutton, and all the rest of them, judy garland, and on and on and on....
bettygoodbody 2 years ago 7
The reason that I love Bob Hope so much is because he made sure his cameramen focused on the troops working hard, and then shows some members of the unit dancing. Bob Hope was a good man in many ways! I too am glad that that part of history is history! God Bless America!
Lovelymiz 2 years ago
Great
mazak6811 2 years ago 4
Lip synched? How old was she here? She could shake it with some rhythm.
Latz51 2 years ago
Betty sang this live as she was in her early 20's here. Check out her versions of It's Oh So Quiet(51), Stuff Like That There, I wish I Didn't Love You So etc. songs she sang way back in the 40's and 50's that people are singing now.
johnnynazz52 2 years ago 2
No lip synch...the recorded version is not exactly the same...as a matter of fact, not as good...this is the best version.
zoomdeluxe 2 years ago
la la love this!
babysintechnicolor 2 years ago
How many times could I look at that? Wow, she is terrific!!
RayLindstrom 2 years ago 6
caspiti...è fantasticaaaaaa!!!!
sabryfairy 2 years ago 2
I love her she's great!!
lizzyluvscats17 2 years ago 7
*takes bettys hair* BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA
callethathegreat 2 years ago
Actuality, always more complex than the legend. Thanks, robinson--thumbs up.
muckbluvid 2 years ago
I need to marry this girl yesterday!!!!!!!!!
-$later
24601ish 2 years ago
she's really funny!
ManuelRochaCR 2 years ago 3
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i was enjoying this segment until that part with the negroes came on..my gramps said he didnt see any blacks in uniform during the war
teehonky 2 years ago
Was your gramps blind?
bufoarborealis 2 years ago 4
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no bufo..blacks didnt want to serve this great country
teehonky 2 years ago
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Well, hopefully your gramps is not with us any longer and if you and your kind could follow him soon that would be great.
Regards
MintySpunkBubble 2 years ago
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betty wouldnt like that mintyspunkbreath
teehonky 2 years ago
Sorry, champ. I've just never given a shit about bigots.
MintySpunkBubble 2 years ago
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and i never gave a shit about liberal trash
teehonky 2 years ago
what did MintySpunkBubble Say? lol
johntravolta20 2 years ago
some bad bad things john
teehonky 2 years ago
I commented that certain user may perhaps be slightly bigoted because he and his thankfully dead grandfather found the use of black people in this clip to be offensive, therefore disregarded Hutton's singing in less than a mindless heartbeat.
I called a racist twat out basically and got shot down for it, oh well. Such is the world.
MintySpunkBubble 2 years ago 6
Thanks!
callethathegreat 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting. Love it!
TreblePop 2 years ago 2
Got her autograph! :-) x
swirlywirly78 2 years ago 3
how i love betty hutton , great song , love the war years thanks
bearcub410 2 years ago 2
This is one of my favorite WWII era songs and probably one of the very best performances on Command Performance. I'm only 47 but I know every word by heart!
Lovelymiz 2 years ago 8
I'm just discovering Ms Hutton. What an amazing ball of energy and talent!
1timysand 2 years ago 10
Miss Betty-the answer for the energy crisis!
savida34e 2 years ago 9
I love this...she had so much energy! Great song....and soooo true! :)
jdfox1 2 years ago 4
Glad to see more than 45,000 views. Retiring from films at the zenith of her popularity, (very soon after "Annie Get Your Gun" and "The Greatest Show on Earth") Betty may be the most underrated performer in show business history. She could do Anything! And sublimely beautiful too!
I am, of course, the Olympian Betty Hutton's most adoring fan.
muckbluvid 2 years ago 7
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that's very odd that you would pick betty hutton as your all time favorite star, especially when you were a kid, betty hutton just seems like a strange performer to idolize; when i was a kid i felt that way about janis joplin; maybe it's just the times, but i sure was upset when she died, more so than my own father died a few yrs later, but then, i never really liked my father much to begin with; oh, well. . .
chetmcgee 2 years ago
Indeed that was a long time ago, and many have forgotten that Betty was Paramount's number one star in the '40's and then went to MGM to make Annie for which she was voted 1950's most popular actress by Photoplay Mag. readers. Then she starred in the oscar- winning "Greatest Show" and retired. Hoofer, singer, actress, and trapeze artist----what Jim Thorpe was to atletics, Betty was to show business! See "Annie, "Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and video, Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In a Hurry!
muckbluvid 2 years ago 4
Betty didn't retire after "Greatest Show on Earth", she had a small part in "Sailor Beware" & also released "Somebody Loves Me" before leaving Paramount. She filmed the TV extravaganza "Satins & Spurs" in '54, then was doing Vegas, etc. She did her final movie in '57, "Spring Reunion". It wasn't received well, but I've seen it & I liked it OK ... not the kind of pic you would expect to see her in though. Betty was known for "retiring" & then coming out of retirement repeatedly in the 50's.
mkrobinson95 2 years ago
It's our loss that she didn't make more movies, but her emotional breakdowns were bound to happen sooner or later. If you read her autobiography, you will wonder how she made it as long as she did ... what a story she had! She's the best in my opinion.
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zag001a 2 years ago
"A vitamine pill with legs" LOL It suits Betty perfectly! What energy! Love her! Thanx for uploading this
cocacolaoso 2 years ago 47
@cocacolaoso If we could bottle & sell what she had, we'd have a revelution in this country-al kaida would be exterminated!
Darrell1019 1 year ago
Hutton......., an incredible and one-of-a-kind never to be seen again raging knockout of a wonderful woman and talent.
Thr world is less with her no longer around. Miss Bob Hope, too.
equinoxranch 2 years ago 33
@equinoxranch Nice rack too.
Alexsteen 1 year ago
@equinoxranch Hear-hear!
Darrell1019 1 year ago 2
Betty Hutton..a singer..actress..dancer and never to be replaced talent!
One of the best!
Thanks for posting!
KatradioNY 2 years ago 3
Her body movements kill me. How is she not pulling a muscle!?
slipper4us 2 years ago 3
They didn't call her Bouncing Betty for nothing!
johnnynazz52 2 years ago 3
bob hope!!!! i love that guy!!!
SHCkeyboardist 2 years ago
I have never heard of her until today. I was watching Annie Get Your Gun's Anything You Can Do and she came up...
She's adorable! Funny, too. :)
mewMEWmusic 2 years ago 3
Shes cute and i love her voice
maddaa11 2 years ago 4
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I am sixteen years old and I think this is NICE I was watching a documentary in American History on WW2 and there was a section of "American Entertainment" during WW2 and like, there was a clip of her singing this song, and i was like "WOW THIS IS AWESOME!" I was like dancing in my seat while people were looking at the ground, bored. But stuff those people. Old music is REAL music before all that technology and rap stuff. Maybe I should ask my grandma about songs from the good ol' fourties :)
khenali25u8 2 years ago 3
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khenali25u8 2 years ago
I'm so happy I didnt miss Betty in my lifetime. First time I saw her in greatest show on earth as Holly .
cheyenne86 2 years ago 5
There is a new Betty Hutton Bio Book that just came out, it is caled "Rocking Horse" By Gene Arceri. I read it, it was very Warming and enjoyable to read. I recommend it to all those Betty Huttons. We Love you Betty !!! RIP.
9847monkees 3 years ago 3
Stunning.
idzit 3 years ago
God! She's has such energy!
rathnakumar 3 years ago 5
There's no one to match Betty! America's Jitterbug! She was so incredibly cute and jam-packed with talent. TCM has a wonderful interview with her shortly before she died, and what a fabulous woman! 80 years old and she still couldn't keep still and still could sing this song with gusto!
dornroslein 3 years ago 6
My boys, this is a sample of the time when music was healthy and not depressing like today. Life than was much harder, but they had great song writers like Berlin, Johny Mercer ... and other.
dusanjova 3 years ago 8
So devastatingly cute, so funny, really great voice, good dancer. What pulls it all together is her blatant intelligence, her obvious awareness of what she is constructing.
zackfuller 3 years ago 8