"The Sun has Got His Hat On" (Ambrose & his Orchestra, 1932)

[Thanairobian]

Now that was a surprise. White folk r u unable to survive in the world without throwing abuse left right and centre? By standards even of that time that was offensive, but guess the desire to offend existed even back then. My reply is cool I shall carry on with life u may proceed and throw as much abuse as u like, we shall overcome.

[BOT101st]

Well tbh, there's as much racism towards Whites as there is Blacks, Asians etc... just not common in the public eye. Sure, racism is still on going, but back then it wasn't as frowned upon it seems, sure people found it offensive back then as they do now, but the world was opening to multiculturalism, so obviously someone of different colour in your two would give you a thing or two to pick at blah blah...

and you must remember... not EVERYONE is a racist... I

[Abhanyore]

@BOT101st I agree. I used to like the song and was surprised and disappointed and on reading the comments people left I was even more incensed. On reflection I agree and say the world is full of negative thoughts and positive thoughts. Don't let the negative get you down and neither should I. I apologize for my general brushing of everyone with the same brush.

[BOT101st]

@Abhanyore

Well at least someone has some sense haha! I think people really need to concentrate on moving on, instead of concentrating on old racism haha...

[PS3xMedia]

someone tell me why this is banned? or someone tell me if it actually is banned or not

i did not hear the word nigger at all

[tmmvds]

@PS3xMedia It isn't banned, but there Sam Browne clearly sings "he's been tanning niggers out in Timbuktu".

[PS3xMedia]

@tmmvds where! what time

[tmmvds]

@PS3xMedia Around one minute.

[PS3xMedia]

@tmmvds goddammn just link me to the time, like 1:01 or 0:58

[tmmvds]

@PS3xMedia You already link it, just listen to it, goddamm!!!

[mmmbeachlover]

No need to be offended on anyone else's behalf, few of 'em will get to hear this as they're not that cultured!

[m2mark1]

LMFAO wife loves this when i sing it but never knew all the words...she will probably go off it when she knows lol

[smudger1973]

@andyjd25 Because, in songs like this the word is being used in a derogatory way withe the assumption that Africans are in someway, backwarrd and subhuman. When rap artists use the word, its an attempt to reclaim it and destroy the negative connotations. You will find that many groups of people use the words that were once used to hurt them. some say it takes the power back.

[Londonfogey]

@smudger1973 , how exactly does this happy little song assume 'that Africans are in someway (sic) backwarrd (sic) and subhuman'? All it says is 'He's been tanning niggers, out in Timbuctoo'. By the standards of the time it is absolutely harmless. It seems an awfully big step to infer that this is derogatory unless one judges it purely by modern standards.

[TheSpecOpsAirsoft1]

Nigger was the name of my dog :0

[arrieissocoollike]

my grandparents sing this and i've had it in my head for days :')

[ThatWrongGuy]

AHAHAHA, wow my grandma used to sing this to me when I was young, I think she left out the nigger part.

[ArcticDragonWolf97]

My mother used to sing this to me every morning when I was younger. XD

[Quarryman99]

Love this crazy song!! :D

[mllelilypoo]

Hip hip Hooraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!

What a lot of fun!

[LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

We need more jolly songs like this. The Hit Parade today is just too bloody aweful!

[YellowTexasRose90]

*Peter's Voice* Hehehe - classic racist song ....

[Libbywibbles]

I remember singing this song all those years ago in primary school. Ah, memories. Thank you very much for sharing this delightful piece! May you all be happy and love come your way! Whenever I'm feeling down this is one of the best songs to cheer me up!

[DoctorScuba]

tanng wot? by JOVE

[Sonchild196]

This song sounds GAY lol

[funkg]

The word 'nigger' was indeed known as being offensive in Britain during the 1940s and no doubt before as I have seen proof of this from archive publications of the East London Advertiser during WW2.

[bellini7verdi]

a este paso ni duermo........cada vez que creo que tengo ir a dormir.......encuentro algo que me pone las neuronas a punto para volver a despertar.....y esta gente del pasado son como una pesadilla para mi.......no me sueltan....y encima a mi me gusta......uffffffffffffffffff­ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffes­taria brincando todo el dia.......................con esta musica

[DoctorScuba]

ohhhh! great! I love this by jove!

[cyclist68]

I don't get it. You play the song in it's entirety ( Quite rightly I would say ) but leave out the whole of the Timbuktu lines in the text. Why? It is of it's time and should be seen as such. Unlike the gallons of racist swill that often washes over these posts. If you are going to censor anything you should campain to stop that.

[joevacane]

how long you think Ambrose would last singing this in compton?

[gibx99]

i thought niggers were already tanned? 

[matthewmaus]

I used to love this song - the bits I knew...It's like discovering your beloved grandmother is a Nazi! - or your dead hero grandpa wasin fact a concentration camp guard, who got promoted...!

[YankeeSoop]

This song is great! It would have lifted our spirits in the war :) Long live the british empire!

[1JenniferEnglish1]

Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­ne! lol

[Knoxy81]

Nigger was also a name for brown paint back in the day.

The dog in Dam Busters was originally called 'Nigger' which was then re-dubbed for American veiwers as 'Trigger' and later by British TV to 'boy'

[freebeerfordworkers]

@Knoxy81 True as "Nigger" was not considered offensive in Britain until about 1960. Black US servicemen in WW2 did not like but they realised the British; "Didn't mean nothing by it"

BTW Gibson's dog was hated because it used to piss on everyone when it got drunk and because it was the CO's everyone had to put up with it. It was buried outside his office and it is said that for years after the war it was traditional for airmen to piss on its grave when they were drunk!

[Knoxy81]

Nigger was also a name for brown paint back in the day.

The dog in Dam Busters was originally called 'Nigger' which was then re-dubbed for American veiwers as 'Trigger' and later by British TV to 'boy'

[Subscribe4Jesus]

Funny song!

[Utubestolemylife]

Great! - I'm off to listen to Jollity Farm by the Bonzos now.

[ataxidriver64]

this was played on Radio 2 this morning by Alad Jones and it was this version, i only came to see if i was hearing things with the lyrics lol

[tonymontana1974]

Im off to glastonbury festival this week and the sun has got his hat on hip hip hip hooray.

[masonfreeparty]

hip,hip hoora! lets hear it for saturn!

[horandago]

tanning niggers :| xD

[Subscribe4Jesus]

@horandago OH NOW THATS JUST SAD!

Jesus never was racist! Jesus stood up for human rights!

[networkse7en]

wtf this is a racist song how sad

[Subscribe4Jesus]

@networkse7en Really?

[kimba1316]

olgc had to do this song

[BooshwickBill]

the above lyrics are wrong.

[jw2327]

LOL! XD

Who knew that second verse?!

X)

[RuudJH]

RReady, put the nigger line in the lyrics.

It's part of it.

[Subscribe4Jesus]

@RuudJH That's just sad :(.

[RuudJH]

@Subscribe4Jesus What's sad is people have so little sense of humor these days, and are so weakhearted they get angry over everything, this sort of thing cannot be listened to in context of the era, without it being called racist, and without people censoring themselves and everyone else.

That's what's sad.

Nigger = negro = nero = black. Nothing more, nothing less. Get used to it.

[WWEvsTNA200766]

listen to the vocals to this and imagine by john lennon and they use the same tune according to wikipedia when u look up its mashup article. Listen to this and imagine

[peskirabbit]

@ tiintune......although nigger was always a description of an inferior social status, it remained a descriptor not a deliberate insult until the civil rights movements of the sixties, when it became associated with people who wanted to keep the black people in their old social position.

[tiintoon]

not sure about "tannin' niggers" line.

[dancebandleader]

The sound quality is surprising for it's

age. What was the source material?

I think this was from Ambrose's time

with the HMV label. Probably recorded

in Abbey Road as well.

[kirkham100]

vile racist filth. unbelievable

[biteitoff]

From a modern perspective, totally, yes.

For the time, 'though, it strikes me as more indirect - a combination of cheery ignorance, indifference, (and possibly willful denial), where the focus was a nice jaunty little number.

Yes, it's the same ignorance, indifference and willful denial that causes some poor tools to reflexively mark you down and complain that people were "less uptight back then".

The difference, now, is that they are the minority, reducing in number every day - as they die.

[78timothy]

I have the Regal/Zonophone of Sydney Kytes Orchstrea from the same period doing this. A rather merry tune. Looking at the Sunburnt Peaches! heh heh ;-)

[polbrannagh]

Hip Hip Hooray the Sun Has Got His Hat On

Thank God for that, its brilliant.

[Madhatter1903]

How can the sun wear a hat? It's a giant mass of gas, even if there were such a hat that could theoreticly cover a planet like that it would burn on contact wouldn't it?

[aeschhere]

It's *plasma* which admittedly couldn't wear a hat either .

[Madhatter1903]

Exactly! :S

[TheKarrakaz]

Clever people are clever..... ...

[spl1ffy]

You've lost the plot !

Chill out !

[fightming]

It's not a planet

[trean999]

your a sad, strange little man... you have my pity

[drwhatson]

"The Sun has got his hat on..." is a metaphor for going out, as "putting one's hat on" suggests one is departing one's abode does it not?

Yours pedantically, Ganymede Jupiter Jr.

(well... you started it...!)

[AceKray]

this is KDK1 to KDK12 thank you and ok?

[dorisboy52]

This jolly tune alles makes me think of England in the summer...

[mike11244]

FFS, are we going to ban every song and every book ever written in the past because it contains a word that may be offensive to someone.

It was written 77 years ago when such words were in common use. No doubt someone in another 77 years will complain about some words we use now .

Political correctness gone mad.

Just my opinion.

[BOT101st]

sooner or later I bet you "coloured" is going to be politically incorrect!!

[Derwentcub]

Well said, Mike11244

[Eddy2730]

@mike11244 Isn't this song better off censored?

[I85PIES]

@Eddy2730

No, nothing from the past should be censored; whether it's a line from a song, Airfix selling kits of German WW2 aeroplanes without the swastikas, or Chanel 4 showing 'The Dambusters' and bleeping out the name of Guy Gibson's dog. It's a distortion of history, and is just shouldn't be done.

[jrobertsoneff]

@I85PIES Back in the fifties ,i had a cat called nigger and black friends when it wasn;t fasionable.I wondered why everybody looked round when i called for it.

[I85PIES]

@jrobertsoneff

I'd forgotten I posted that comment, it was more than two months ago. I suspect most people in the past would be classed as racists by todays standards, when probably many were not racist at all, and they thought of 'nigger' as a harmless nickname.

[goatshredder]

@mike11244 Somebody needs to do a rap cover of this.

[jeff94582]

@mike11244 You are correct sir. Words like "Nigger" and "Jap" or "Chink" while very offensive in today's world, were perfectly appropriate, or at least accepted as common place in the time this song was made. People should stop getting their panties in a bunch over such things and open an encyclopedia. Perhaps then they would understand. Ignorance-the worst plague of all.

[ir91]

@jeff94582 you say these words were acceptable at the time, did anyone ever ask the people in question i.e black people, if they found these words offensive?

all very well to say they were acceptable at the time, because it was the white majority that decided what was acceptable, and everyone else had to live with it

[SegaMegadriveMic]

The sun has got his hat on. Whoop de freakin doo.

[GrumpyOldWoman]

"all the little boys excited,

all the little girls delighted" - naughty! :D

[BHMatrix]

the word nigger is actualy dutch for black, and no racist meaning till amerifags starting using, so what up now?.

[captainyoinksac]

Spanish, actually.

[ruffchethedog]

Oh `I thought the words were `Tannng `knickers` --- I did wonder why anyone would do such a thing !!!

[MissMinnieMousegirl]

yeah...I was HOPING he said that...but I looked up the lyrics to make sure soo..... .:(

[roybo1930]

I Know the ratings have been disabled, BUT 5 STARS For You Anyway!!! I Love This, Don`t Care What Anyone Thinks. Thank You For Posting. Back Then It Seems People Were Not As Uptight!!!

[BOT101st]

One of my fav songs :D

Very Comical

So what if it has a bad word in it, liven up, thats the purpose of the song!

[pahoboye]

great song alas pity bout the nigger bit ..offensive to my ears

[peterdcarter1]

The sheriffs a what?

[robcmoseley]

its a wonderful period piece - no need to get uptight

[TZBen]

At least in my mind, there is something peculiarly malevolent and racist about that particular word, an opinion borne out at least partially by the fact that in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (which came out in the slave-trading US fully 80 years prior to the release of this song), only the vilest, most unreconstructed racists refer to black people as "niggers."

[TZBen]

Had this song used the word "darkies" or somesuch I think it could be more readily excused. But surely, even in the 1930s, the "n" word was used with explicitly racist intent.

[Polynesian576]

Le soleil a son chapeau dessus Hanche-hanche-hanche-hooray ! Le soleil a son chapeau dessus, He' ; s sortant aujourd'hui. Maintenant we' ; le ll tout soit heureux, Hanche-hanche-hanche-hooray ! Le soleil a son chapeau dessus, Et he' ; s sortant aujourd'hui. He' ; s été arachides de roastin dehors dans Timbuctoo,

[Polynesian576]

maintenant he' ; s revenant pour faire la même chose pour vous. Sautez ainsi dans votre sunbath Hanche-hanche-hanche-hooray ! Le soleil a son chapeau dessus, Et he' ; s sortant aujourd'hui. Jamais n'a ainsi vu l'herbe verdir Jamais n'a ainsi vu le bleu de ciel Ce qui beaucoup d'amusement à ev' ; ryone, Se reposer au soleil toute la journée.

[kehkehbia]

Oh by the way does anyone have SAM BROWNES

I dont want to go to bed?

cant seem to find it on the tube........boo hoo

[kehkehbia]

A lovely bright and cheery song!

if one teensy line in this song offends you , you have to roll with it, sorry but it is a vintage song of its time, thats just the way it was , and thank God attitudes have changed regarding derogatory names.

bear in mind Ambrose is jewish himself, so NO malice intended , I say.

Just a happy song, besides everyone wants a tan these day!

Cheers

RReady555

[PAXRAHOWA]

What prove do you have that he was Jewish?

[Mrsheen23]

tanning niggers ? LMFAO WHAT THE FUCKKKKKK

[mrfoxywhiskers]

If ever there was evidence in one song that those that control the media are hiding the realities of the past then this song must be it!! Don't EVER expect to hear that on the BBC. The BNP are accused of being 'Nazis' by lefties, but as I have always said they are just 'old fashioned' and are just have the same outlook as my grandparents generation. Just look at what Dambuster WW2 hero called his black labrador (clue in this song), no one batted an eyelid. Now the heavens would fall in.

[mrfoxywhiskers]

Dambuster hero - Guy Gibson.

[PAXRAHOWA]

This song is REGAL!

[camtheman3x6]

this just made my day

[jennifermiriam]

love it

[itgirl1982]

It is hard to get past that one lyric at first but it's a great song and of course superbly orchestrated by Ambrose. His music is always a treat.

[englandgirl627]

hahahahahhahhah the sun has got his hat on

[RReady555]

A happier, jolly tune from a saner time than ours... ;)

Best,

-RR

[Eddy2730]

@RReady555 Now you've said it, I'd take my hat off to you!

[TheThrashNerd]

@RReady555 Hey RReady, I hope you can answer a question I have. I am looking for a nice introduction tune, as is a beginning credits roller, as jolly as can be, and preferrably progressive (but hopefully a quick progression, as I want the credits rather short). I was hoping you might be able to point me to a few songs, seeing as you are much more knowledgeable of this era. Thanks bunches.

[AyebeeMk2]

my sentiments too

[JimmyC1983]

See you left out the true lyrics about our black "friends"....

[RReady555]

An editorial decision--the song's spirit is positive. ;)

[PAXRAHOWA]

bugger what the darkies think!

[Subscribe4Jesus]

@JimmyC1983 Of course it is!

[englandgirl627]

omg this is hilariousss

[RReady555]

Very glad you enjoyed it!

[Subscribe4Jesus]

@englandgirl627 Oh yeah! THis is an awesome song!

[L0K3]

kinda racist

[PANORAMA1815]

MMMMM, it came out again in the 60's and the lyrics were the same (oh crikey) but you must admit it's very gay!

[RReady555]

That one lyric, yes--but it wasn't hateful at the time.

[evenpearlflowjam]

Hey You Guys!

This Reminds Me When I Was Younger And I Used To Sing This At Pre-scool!

Funny Days!

[RReady555]

;) A more challenging tune than "Eensy Weensy Spider" or "I'm a Little Teapot" (American nursery school favorites)...glad you like it!

[DaveT62]

OH MY!!!!

Very cute and peppy, also slightly unreal!

Great fun...

[RReady555]

YouTube is an amazing window into the hearts of earlier eras...glad you enjoy it!

-RR

[mrdee11091]

ive had to send another message on this ad the rating is disabled 5 stars from me matey +++++

[RReady555]

Kind comment--Thanks muchly! ;)

[mrdee11091]

thank you even though i cannot remember this coming out i do recall it being played sometime in my life anyway its a cheerfull tune a well prepared video so a big thank you

dev,..

[RReady555]

Glad you like it! Its last popular appearance was in the musical, "Me and My Girl". ;)

[Derventio74]

The campest thing since sliced bread - you are amazing, RReady555!

[Daisy4dk]

Thank you for sharing this amazing oldtimer with me. Would have rated 5* if possible.

[RReady555]

Fun stuff, absolutely! It'll endure for generations yet... ;)

[Derventio74]

RReady555 - you have a new fan!

[Derventio74]

Absolutely fantastic.. I wish ratings were enabled!

[RReady555]

Thanks, Tony!

[wowlvl2noob]

Lol i kept singing that song all summer long :)

[RReady555]

They don't write summer novelty songs like they used to...glad you like this one!

[bunchie1966]

What charming words: "He's been tanning niggers out in Timbuktu..." !

[RReady555]

Less sensitive times, certainly.

[Derventio74]

True, but now it's gone too far the other way.. One daren't speak his or her mind nowadays.. The nanny state rules.. :-(

[RReady555]

Aye...one can still enjoy the tune and merry intent. Glad it's such a fun number here!

[thyzira]

THANKS FOR SHARRING ROCSTHEDOG

[RReady555]

Glad you & Rocs enjoyed Sam's work, thyzira! ;)

Best,

-RR

[rocsthedog]

hallelujah

[RReady555]

Thanks! Always was a favorite--may it find many new fans here on YouTube.

Best,

-RR

[murphy150]

great! Excellent sound quality

[RReady555]

Thanks for stopping by! Not quite Vivaldi, but a fun number for the beach... ;)

Best,

-RR

[serotsky123]

sounds lyk summat off tom and jerry woop xD

[RReady555]

'Ere Tracey...whez Gene Kelley 'oofin? ;+O

[iiSunShinex]

hehe this song reminds me of when i was little ^_^

[RReady555]

Thanks, sunshine! Figures that *you'd* enjoy this cheery li'l tune... ;)

-RR