I'll always remember this song & watching Coconuts on tv back in the 70's with my grandmother who saw the Marx Brothers perform it on stage in Boston in the 20's.
If you wanted drugs in the twenties, you may not have had paxil but you certainly had legal cocaine and marijuana (the law making pot illegal in '37 referenced "negroes" having sexual relations with white women, and blamed blacks, mexicans and jazz players for corrupting youth). Let's not pretend that our grandparents were saints. Booze was illegal--something even the Prohibitionists came to regret--but drugs were not.
In the 30's they didn't have those popular antidepressants we have today. They didn't have Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft. I know those drugs help people, but if you wanted to feel good back then you went to a Chaplain, Laurel and Hardy or Marx Brothers movie. They could not build movie houses fast enough back then, and most of them were glamorous. A very lost era.
@GeorgeCrosley - thanks for the added info, added this to 1925's playlist.
This is fantastic sound quality for a record of this era!
Averaging 2 hours each, my playlists for 300 artists & each of the past 120 years are meant to be your most accessable & intrnational music library ever !
I am indebted to jazzgirl for helping me fill out the 1920s playlists !!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for uploading. I was listening to an episode of Flywheel Shyster Flywheel and the guy imitating Chico was singing this and I had to look up this song luckily you had it on here.
I assume you were listening to a recreation of the Groucho Marx Chico Marx Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel radio show from the 1930's. Do you know one of the actual shows with Groucho and Chico has been found?
No I've been listening to the recreation episodes, as it is stated on wikipedia: "The episodes of Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel were recorded, but for many years it was thought the recordings had not been preserved. At the time of the broadcasts, pre-recorded shows were frowned upon by advertisers and audiences." So only the scripts survived unfortunately
I'll always remember this song & watching Coconuts on tv back in the 70's with my grandmother who saw the Marx Brothers perform it on stage in Boston in the 20's.
AssinnippiJack 5 months ago
If you wanted drugs in the twenties, you may not have had paxil but you certainly had legal cocaine and marijuana (the law making pot illegal in '37 referenced "negroes" having sexual relations with white women, and blamed blacks, mexicans and jazz players for corrupting youth). Let's not pretend that our grandparents were saints. Booze was illegal--something even the Prohibitionists came to regret--but drugs were not.
Gryphonalia 7 months ago
The greatest comedy team of all time.
49bobbyk 1 year ago 2
The Monkey Doodle Doo was the only song from a Marx Bros. movie that was not a success.
49bobbyk 1 year ago
In the 30's they didn't have those popular antidepressants we have today. They didn't have Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft. I know those drugs help people, but if you wanted to feel good back then you went to a Chaplain, Laurel and Hardy or Marx Brothers movie. They could not build movie houses fast enough back then, and most of them were glamorous. A very lost era.
Houdini774 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite songs, Thank you so much!
thetoymaker 1 year ago
The film of The Cocoanuts was released in 1929, but the stage version opened in 1925. I therefore assume that the song was part of that show.
GeorgeCrosley 2 years ago
@GeorgeCrosley - thanks for the added info, added this to 1925's playlist.
This is fantastic sound quality for a record of this era!
Averaging 2 hours each, my playlists for 300 artists & each of the past 120 years are meant to be your most accessable & intrnational music library ever !
I am indebted to jazzgirl for helping me fill out the 1920s playlists !!!!!!!!!!!
chkjns 2 years ago
Thank you for uploading. I was listening to an episode of Flywheel Shyster Flywheel and the guy imitating Chico was singing this and I had to look up this song luckily you had it on here.
drcoxcentral 2 years ago
I assume you were listening to a recreation of the Groucho Marx Chico Marx Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel radio show from the 1930's. Do you know one of the actual shows with Groucho and Chico has been found?
jazzgirl1920s 2 years ago
No I've been listening to the recreation episodes, as it is stated on wikipedia: "The episodes of Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel were recorded, but for many years it was thought the recordings had not been preserved. At the time of the broadcasts, pre-recorded shows were frowned upon by advertisers and audiences." So only the scripts survived unfortunately
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drcoxcentral 2 years ago