The Music Man "Ya Got Trouble"

[jedimasterawesome]

I am in this play for school! I am a towns person. The guy who is playing Harold at my school is not taking his part seriously and is not energetic when he sings trouble and 76 trombones. And the play is feb. 3 and 4

[freklfacejpgr]

Words like...like "swell"and "so's your old man!"

[FaithNarmore]

I absolutely love the music man!!!!!!!!!! :)

[thewizofseus101]

Our high school did this, and the librarian was a lesbian and the music man was gay. They kissed :D

[Rumjux]

Monorail!!!

[tracer740]

Every time I view this number I have to pause, laugh and resume. What a great number and superb performance by Preston! Note also that the supporting and background cast are into the mode and under wonderful direction.

[AuspexAO]

"I pass this way but once."

That's the only clue he gives that he's conning them. It's like he's screwing with them just a little bit because he can.

[thedarkephoenix]

3:53 lol

[flyinghow]

Brilliant...great musical, great song, and even greater performance by the Great Robert Preston!

[FunkDashi]

Robert Preston's performance might be the highlight of American musical theater. Astonishing!

[Riverdance44]

this made me realize how truly horrible matthew broderick is.... this version is epic

[sexychick25951]

this song is awsome!

[warvad]

@sexychick25951 Agreed.

[TheAntiSPLC]

Rick Santorum

[funforalgernon]

The studio wanted Cary Grant to play Harold Hill. Grant replied, "Not only will I not play it, but if Robert Preston doesn't do it, I won't even see the picture."

Thank you, Cary Grant.

[willywonkausername]

Seth macfarlane's version is better

[DickJohnson509]

My favorite Broadway musical for PURE JOY!! The film ranks among my top ten for musicals of ALL time!! Bravo Preston!!!

[poetryexpert90]

I know this is supposed to be like 100 years ago or more but that Piano playing signal was slick!

[xKamrynLovesx]

yea i love this song its cool i guesss

[lolchick001]

Awww man i love love love this movie! I wish i knew where the cassette was

[awsomehog1]

3:10 jazz hands are ALWAYS the answer

[Koolkitties]

The town's offspring would later be the cast of "River City Ransom" for Nintendo.

[angelsease1234]

i have to do a play janusry at my school

[MrMakesmoke]

Troub.....D'oh

[zoomzoom1001]

the frist rap lol

[SoCalSummerSquad]

I get to memorize this for a big English protect. BEST FREAKING SPEECH EVER.

[johnnydarkness1]

immoley- i've always thought these songs were really unique. like a mix between beat poetry and rap. glad i'm not the only one who noticed

[immoley]

he's performing one of the very first rap songs. Think about it.

[jbbn2011]

i know these words by heart

[LuckySchmuckers]

This might be my favorite scene in all of cinematic existence. I love it. I can watch this movie over and ove rand never get tired of it.

[WorldCupFanRG]

0:42



[WorldCupFanRG]

lolll 1:49

[heatherjoymusic]

what is this... the old school version of rap? o_O

[mcdom89]

True

[FrazierPwnsYouAllDay]

This is part of a gay assignment. Im forced to watch.



[heatherjoymusic]

@FrazierPwnsYouAllDay LOL. same here.

[jkvcrdr]

...gotta figure out a way to keep the young ones moral after school...

[Theluckypoet]

Damn pool tables!

[mcdom89]

And rapping was invented

[tazmon122]

if that's trouble...than i'm the fucking anti-christ. i wear nothing but tripp pants, play rock and roll...REALLY LOUD. i spit, cuss, have green hair, and satan is my homie.

[DarkBraelyn]

@tazmon122 Lols. Have you seen the whole show? Prof. Harold Hill is making it seem worse than it is for a reason.

[tazmon122]

@DarkBraelyn yes i have...but consider the towns people, and how they react to things, and the time...i mean Ragtime is something to gasp at...now society thinks ragtime=ice cream truck.

[ant2206]

@tazmon122 What's funny is that nothing's changed. Back then it was pool tables, but now it's video games, Janet Jackson's boob, rap music, rainbow parties. The Harold Hills of the world are still here, and the townspeople still react in the same way they did back then.

[tazmon122]

@ant2206 i love video games (manly the only FPS that i love are Bioshock, and all the Portal games) i don't think Janet is relevant anymore...like if it's not Law & Order, it's "reality" shows (what kind of Orwellian double speak is that...you melt into a couch in order to watch reality), and some rap is AMAZING (that being said, MOST rap is shit). so on your last point...your talking Glenn Beck types, and Glenn Beck and Glenn Beck type supporters right?

[ant2206]

@tazmon122 Err, I wasn't dissing any of those examples. My only point is that moral outrage over absolutely nothing still occurs. We can laugh at The Music Man, but nothing's different - back then it was pool, today it's something else. And it's not just the Glenn Beck followers - the most recent example is the vodka tampon thing, which was reported by reputable sources and caused a flash of panic, despite it being a 10-year-old legend with no examples of it actually happening at all.

[Yehudittx]

@ant2206 @ant2206 In fact I came here to grab this video in response to a friend worrying that the current rage for vampire movies means we are heading to social decline.

[ant2206]

@Yehudittx With a Capital T, and that rhymes with V...

[dazzlemexdarling]

my school i sdoing this play and I'm in it. I play Marian. That's a lead role in the play.

[bagger1972]

Robert Preston simply owned this! I have watched this five times in a row, smiling ear to ear. Folks, there is trouble in River City, and you are watching pure genius.

[MrAwesome3276]

-"Why does everybody keep rummering into the billliard parlor?"

"Oh, they just got in a new pool table."

-"Must've seen a pool table before."

"No, just billiards."

Classic.

[BackBeforeDark]

Harold: Words like... SWELL

Townspeople: OHMYGAWD NOT SWELLLL!!!!!!

[pansyfaye1]

One of the finest musicals of all time. Preston is amazing, just brilliant.  Compare to Andrew Lloyd Webber and the junk coming out in the last 40 years and look how far we've sunk.

[NarnianTrekkie]

@pansyfaye1 Andrew Lloyd Webber is certainly not junk!

[DemiLuna96]

this movie is on tv right now. :)

i only ever heard this song before, but i was surfing channels and heard a song that reminded me of this song.

so i started watching the movie and then this song came up, i was all excited!

so turns out the movie is called The Music Man XD

[syk3rg1rl]

It's funny.. By then, saying "swell" and playing pool was bad..

Today, probably 70% of my friends do drugs and like 90% of them already lost their virginity ..

I'm only 16 and so are most of my friends :) xD

[DarkBraelyn]

@syk3rg1rl Lol, playing pool and saying swell wasn't bad. Have you seen the whole show? Prof. Harold Hill is stretching the truth.

[GrayscaleRainbows]

to anyone out there who's saying he's not singing, he IS. Right this moment my Theatre company is producing this musical and the person playing this part is defiantly SINGING. not just shouting, Robert Preston here is not shouting either, he's just playing a part

[miker2001]

Robert Preston was PERFECT for this role. He is brilliant.

[imhoover9000]

this is annoying as hell, it isnt even music.

[6musky]

@imhoover9000

Why do you say it's not music?

[imhoover9000]

@6musky Because hes just shouting at the people like an 1800 rap, i dont consider rap music.



[GrayscaleRainbows]

@imhoover9000

It's not 1800's rap it's called a musical and the songs in musicals tend to have a plot or be of someone telling someone something(in this case the con man coning the town into needing a boys band) but this is anything but rap

[frother]

@imhoover9000

It's called a musical. A play that's sung.

[imhoover9000]

@frother obviously the words arent being sung they're being yelled.

[Lupin0The0Vapour]

Ever met a guy that does this kinda thing? Grabs people and makes them see what he wants them to see, when he wants them to see it. It's fun to watch, so long as he's on your side. Problem being, you have to be sure you come up with any good ideas while he's not around, else they're almost always HIS ideas that he's convinced you are good. XD

[AnthonySHall]

@Lupin0The0Vapour Which is exactly what is going on with John Kasich and SB5 in Ohio. We got trouble... right here in Ohio.... The union's the pool table. Suckers....

[1skywalke2]

can you put on the First seventy-six trombones? nobody has put it on youtube. they are all versions of the new movie, instead of the original one

[jedimasterawesome]

I love this musical so much doing for my school play. I sucked at auditions so I got a really crappy part. Oi if I auditioned with the guy songs too I would have rocked. Is it sad that me and my friends jokes are all based off music man? I love Marian the librarian so much that song rockes.

[jedimasterawesome]

Harold hill (Robert Preston) is the best con artist ever

[Perktube1]

Massteria!!

[Enigma3650]

Hmm...wouldn't this make an awesome flash mob song XDD ?

[bryanbecker1]

@Enigma3650 haha just randomly drop the flash mob in Mason City, Iowa (The original River City)

[HighKingTurgon]

@Enigma3650 WHERE DO YOU LIVE THIS IS A FANTASTIC IDEA

[Enigma3650]

@HighKingTurgon unfortunetely no where near the origonal river city D;

[HighKingTurgon]

@Enigma3650 Unnecessary, though! Could Flashmob ANYWHERE. Like, Grand Central Station or maybe something slightly less huge. But just get a Hill and a crowd of people to chorus, have him drag a few people over and others gather around.

[Chaosfire360]

Harold Hill: a true con-ARTIST. Fast, melodic voice. Absolute attention to detail. Ability to respond to any situation or question and turn it to his advantage. Tricking a whole distrustful conservative town into believing him by playing up their fears and by listing trivialities (saying "swell") next legitimate concerns (smoking), therefor irrefutably linking them all to "trouble". Even if you realized you were being conned you'd let him do it anyway because its a joy to watch him at his craft!

[HighKingTurgon]

@Chaosfire360 Well, by that argument, Marian was just as taken in. But it sounds a lot more cynical when you say it. : D

[Graydonpow]

I love Mary Wickes' hat in this scene!

[Graydonpow]

Well, of course, Jimmyboy! They always record the cast album first and then play it back during filming!

[jimmyboy99]

Most people don't know this but when the filmed this Preston was lip sinking this the whole time.

[hendrixtolosa20]

Harold is a fast talker .. I can't do this ahhhrrrggg

[jimmyboy99]

@hendrixtolosa20 Takes a lot of practice. I can elocute it but I haven't got a voice for singing though. Kinda sucks.

[ParmesianNinja]

Dang.......salesmen

[ParmesianNinja]

Dang, if he can do this, he better be a darned good sales-man

[DrOdddTurtle]

I would buy everything this man would sell.

[deathskilledreaper]

YEA I'm pretty sure in 1910 or whenever this thing with Set there wasn't any black people in river city ioway ( As they say It in the movie)

[ahauntedtrainman]

@deathskilledreaper They say it, but they don't like other people to.

[tallperson605]

just got back from singing this in the car with my parents. <3 i love this musical

[Asahi100percent]

@LGTryg or better yet Boehner



[DrLeePhD]

32 people re-buckle their knickerbockers BELOW the knee.

[meangirl714]

omg ! i love this song!

[ShaintheWolfman]

Greatest number from the movie.

[deadballo]

Did you see the black guy?

Me neither

[crazyco95]

I love how many people on here don't understand the reason they find this so terrible isn't because pool was considered awful. He's got to make a living, so to sell the boy's band he has to find a reason to get all of the parents involved in it. So he starts up this nonsense that obviously isn't true so that the ideological parents in this small Iowa town will grab a hold of the opportunity to "save their children" from this "wretched game". It was written kind of as a political message..

[SuperHappyCow]

What the fuck was that last part with the piano?

[xicyhailx]

@SuperHappyCow that was harold's friend letting him know that the piano teacher was passing by so he could seduce her.

[Dance4me4life4ever]

@SuperHappyCow It means the piano teacher/ music teacher was on her way. it was their little sign to eachother.

[NJWells92]

If Bill O'Rilley could sing...

[Emi8254]

Sad thing is, I know all the words to this song.

[stargatefansg1]

@Emi8254 It's not sad, this song is awesome :D

[Emi8254]

@stargatefansg1 Iloveyou. :-D

[Drtomterrific]

Anyone remember Preston in The Last Starfighter? Great movie with corny cartoon EFX. I forget the name of the actor that played the boy. Played Clark Kent as a boy in the '78 Suoerman.

If they remade that movie they could maybe make it better but I don't know who they'd get to play Preston's role better than he did it. Centari I think the character's name was.

[danmickla]

@Drtomterrific Yep. That was Lance Guest as Alex Keaton, and Preston was *amazing* as Centauri. One of my favorite movies ever.

But he's pretty damned amazing as Howard Hill too.

[Drtomterrific]

@danmickla Continued: Because they confirm our deepest fears and our highest aspirations. They tell us anything is possible. . .if we'll just pay one dollar for this magical elixir. Later, when reality tears our hopes and dreams to shreds, we blame them for making us believe, but only for just a short while, in the beauty of our potential.

And I think THAT'S why we hate them so much. They can't make the fantasy picture they paint last.

[Drtomterrific]

@danmickla Preston played a likeable "flim-flam"' man in just about all his movies. Not easy to do. Flim-flam men are con men. Grifters. Liars and thieves who prey on our weaknesses and fears. But Preston's characters in these two movies had the advantage of either believing from the beginning in what h they were selling (Starfighter) or coming to believe in it by the end of the movie (Music Man).

Why do we listen to them?

Continued

[thepattymacster643]

i played this roll in my summer camp's production of the music man and i went up against high schoolers and im going into 8th grade. But i was no ware near as good as this actor did.

[Lauralou12579]

"surely they've seen a pool table before?"

"No, just billiards."

LOL!

[danmickla]

@Lauralou12579 a lot of people don't realize they're different games. Pool had a much worse reputation, for some silly reason.

[trbrooks34]

Robert Preston is the only actor who could have played Professor Harold Hill so eloquently. This was his career role.

[misssianyboo]

did anyone Seth Macfarlanes take on this from the WGA's. With out a script this town will fall of the fucking map :D xx

[22shredderman]

FRITTERIN!

[kayleighcolfer]

I was in the play "The Music Man."

[Rndmnz123]

OH gosh, i remeber this! i'm 12, and i saw this wen i was 6 xD

[aryaseriousx2]

Conan parodied this for one of the times he hosted the grammys. "weeeeell we got trouble, right here at NBC, with a capitol T which rhymes with G as in GEE we're screwed."

[MissDancerr101]

classics

[22shredderman]

imagine how the other towns, who got the buisness end of hill's scamming. they probably look like the fffffffuuuuuuu meme face

[bookworm987654]

1918- "so's your old man!"

2011- "Your mom!"

[ryoushii]

@bookworm987654 No, its "yo MOMMA!"

[jimmyboy99]

@ryoushii Puhleeze, "YO MOMMA" is so 90's. Its "Your Mom" these days.

[spnkr19]

@bookworm987654

>2011

>saying "your mom"

You're out of touch.

[TimeTravellerDBZ]

@spnkr19

Oh God, why did I link this to /v/

>2011

>Greentexting on YouTube

>YA GOT TROUBLE.jpg

[spnkr19]

@TimeTravellerDBZ

>2011

>Be a time "traveller"

>Choosing to be in 2011

No sir, I don't like it.

[biozamadotcom]

River City is a ghetto/barrio now.

[biozamadotcom]

How come "diversity is our strength" has never done something as culturally rich as this? 

[MiLyfe8]

<3 it!



[ledhead504]

Isn't it funny how the related video is for Bad Teacher? Just like Harold Hill!

[StevenSupernatural]

Robert Preston is one great actor!!

[Jridden2009]

@StevenSupernatural right about that but what the heck is he doing in the "Last Starfighter'????

[StevenSupernatural]

@Jridden2009 lmao, idk, showing his acting range? xD haha

[Featureman]

Wow. So entertaining.

[duckwart]

Dang, good thing politicians can't sing like this these days, if they did I'd agree with every single word the ever said just because I liked to hear them sing.

[smallredrocks]

I love how at 4:22 he goes over to Marcellus and is like, "Heh, got 'em."

[2ndAsstJizzMopper]

robert preston was a GOTTdamn free-stylin' rhythm genius and general swingin' balls MFer.

[megadeth9000]

i didnt see one black person...RACIST!!!

[Ldym8]

Because parents are not as ignorant. They have done as much as the kids or more.

[trumatic101]

@Ldym8 I know! I'm a teenager, and my mom doesn't complain about much that I do, because she's told me some of the things she did as a kid, which makes what I've done nothing!

[demilavatocam]

31 people are trouble >:)

[ninjacupcake143]

we are watching this in my general music class right now :) and also, is there a new version with Matthew Broderick?

[mmbr01rrf]

@ninjacupcake143 That 2003 version is just HORRID. Do NOT see it. Your brain will die.

[plaidcarogemm]

This version is ten times better than the new one. The actors are better, and it's just so much more exciting, or forget about that. THIS VERSION KICKS ASS

[surfsup4465]

I AM DOING THIS SONG FOR SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!

[Cutiebabsprty]

I will always love this musical, this is my favorite song from it. I would rather watch this over the shows they give on TV nowadays.

[thekenzie125]

SO'S YOU'RE OLD MAN!!

[LiWaLETHALITY]

@thekenzie125 D8

TROUBLE! TROUBLE I TELL YA!

[Cruiserfrank]

This is sure Swell!

[thefray123]

too freaking classic!!!!

[Berenueve]

MONORAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[demilavatocam]

Idk y but i've been really obsessed with this play lately...

[iloveJapanese1]

30 people are named Tom with a capitol T that rhymes with P which stand for pool.

[Failkour]

hahahhaha. gotta turn on the captions! haha! country arrives at the end i stand for boom= with a capitol t and rhymes with p and that stands for pool. Epic fail...

3:12

[WeenisLad]

Ladies and gentlemen, the precursor to Jack Thompson.

[HoldingUpTheBar]

I want a copy of Cap'n Billy's Whizbang.

[orangpend8]

When I was young I never pumped water for the cistern or patched a screen door, but you couldn't stop me from pounding the beef steak. I was a fritteren fool.

[missanime00]

Now this is what old school rapping is all about!

[TheReneamac]

I love this song: perfect satire of The Slippery Slope.

[PearsRpretty]

"They must've seen a pool table before?" "Nope. Just billiards." LOL. XD

[radioactive2558]

@PearsRpretty It's a little known fact these days that TECHNICALLY most billiards tables aren't actually pool tables. Three-cushion billiards, for example, was the dominant billiards game, and there's no pockets in that table.

[rgresham13]

timeless. its gets more hilarious with every year that passes.

[rgresham13]

timeless. its gets more hilarious with every year that passes.

[AskMrScience]

I wish they could have worked "Gold Bond Medicated Triple Action Body Powder" into the lyrics. Just seems like it would have fit.

[comrade33]

When I was in high school a girl once told me that I didn't know what art was because I hate musicals (with a rare exception here and there). These "works of art" are nothing more than MST3K material. This clip just proves it.

[dragonheart333]

Wait how playing not the same as  playing pool ?

[sabrefreak]

@dragonheart333 Billiards refers to ALL cue games. Carom billiards is played on a larger, snooker style table (6x12) and pool was less common then; this game does not use pockets, has 2 cue balls and a red object ball. English Snooker has narrower pockets (pots) than a pool table. Likely they were playing snooker under the name of billiards.

[dragonheart333]

@sabrefreak mm that 's interesting thanks for the info

[sabrefreak]

@dragonheart333 after re-listening to Professor Hill, he states that the pool table has 1-2-3-4-5-6 pockets (that mark the difference between a gentleman and a bum!), so they are likely playing carom billiards

[dragonheart333]

@sabrefreak what's that?

[weightfeather1]

Years ago, when I worked as a bank teller, at the end of the day, if one of us was having trouble balancing our cash drawer, we'd break into "Trouble" and it would go on until we balanced. I think sometimes one of us would be deliberately off just so we could sing the song! Too fun!

[witness124]

One day I migt actually do this in public, except replace 'swell' and 'so's your old man' with 'well gud' and 'yer mum'.

[adicoIor]

spittin mad raps yo! but seriously, nothing beast this.

[KelACW]

It's pretty fun to see this video with the 1911 filter.

[uhohitsbrendan]

Old school fear-mongering. Love it.

[AaronTheContrarian]

This clip is swell and so's your ole man.

[williusethis]

@AaronTheContrarian GASP

[furryredpanda]

Originally,they thought of getting a more famous actor than robert preston to play harold hill in this movie version."WHEW"!!,good for us they didn't!!It's like he was born to play that role!!How often do we catch ourselves singing the chorus to some of the numbers in this moviel!!My fav parts in this video are 3:10-3:24 & 4:04-4:19 when he's running around waving his hands,lol!!!!