I Love to Singa

[thelouisfanclub]

I LOVA TO I LOVA TO SIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

[uncletimmyfrompa]

This song really makes me feel joyful. It's so much fun. I found this "original" version of "I Love to Sing-a" while looking for the Owl Jolsen's Merrie Melodies version. What a surprise! I love both of them. And I love to sing-a "I Love to Sing-a"!!!

[rcibnmd]

My grandmother's 2nd cousin was a nurse in Hot Springs Arkansas in the early 30s and met Al Jolson....who soon married her.

My Mom and grandparents would always drop by the Jolson mansion when they were out on vacation in California.

Jolson was awesome.

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[rcibnmd]

"I got through Yale...with Boolah-Boolah." ha

Bravo Cab Calloway and Al Jolson!

[Machewes]

a cheer for Uncle Sammy and another for my Mammy...classic!!!

[akosininio]

he's supposed to be an owl

[Harlot13]

I learned this song from Looney Tunes. Nice to hear the full version by the original.

[TheDastardlyDildo]

"i love to wake up with the southa in my moutha"... ummmmm, what?

[lovelyx06]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[ytrewQwerty]

Creepy Stuff :| !!!

[TheDastardlyDildo]

lol, yeah.

[sessantaseicl]

cab the best

[j0807m]

1:01

[yungdtownsolja2]

there we go

[kapacon]

Cab's daughter was my kindergarten teacher back in 1964!

[minniethemoocher1932]

which one?

[kapacon]

Her name was Miss Brooks to us kids. But you know she was probably "Mrs." Brooks.

[drumiestdrummer]

whos the second singer?

[RoloVideo]

Hello!The second singer is tha band leader Cab Calloway.

Thanks for your interest.

RoloVideo.

[JimR541]

Cab Calloway.

[JeffTheDude777]

I heard this song in an old 1930's cartoon. It's fun.

[taberjohnson18]

...WTF "The SInging Kid"? This is "The Jazz Singer".

stupid ass description, that would be like calling the Godfather "Italian Crime Family Movie"

[JimR541]

You've got it wrong. This is a movie called The Singing Kid which came out in 1936. The Jazz Singer came out in 1927.

[vanbelkom]

yeah hate to shoot you down there mate, there were several Jolson movies... :/.

[LazlosPlane]

Fabulous.

[63gstone]

What movie was this from? LOVE  that penthouse btw.

[SufiHeistMonkey]

Love Al Jolson. Any idea were I can download this as an mp3 file?

[RoloVideo]

Hello my friend. Send me your e-mail and I`ll send you an mp3 file.

Thanks for your commentary

RoloVideo

[evilkitty52]

best song ever

[emiera]

i love to sing-a too! :D

love disney's adaptation of this song

[PaKipciDaniels]

WOW! This looks like a great movie. I love the painting of the city and the camera shots. they make the set look bigger than it is. thanks for posting. is this on dvd?

[RoloVideo]

Dear PakipciDaniels: Thanks for your words. Is not a DVD, is the granphather of DVD. Is a old LaserDisc MGM.

Bye, and thanks again. RoloVideo

[beasst94]

al jolson and a VEry young cab calloway! nice

[minniethemoocher1932]

and handsome don't forget handsome :)

[63gstone]

It's ashame they don't put stuff like this on MTV for the kiddies to see. But I don't think they want stuff like class and tallent rubbing of on them. LOL!

[taaapa]

OOO i get it in the cartoon its owl jolsen and his real name is al jolson i feel slow

[zzdesolatezz]

Lmao

[Pakam3]

i like the owl better!

[91basket]

this is the best!

[hypnotiqdom]

LOL i only knew about the OWL, but i figured it came from somewhere. YOUTUBE is a great place to learn a thing or two.

[GuitarHeat27]

thing or two-a

[asialou]

WOW!! this is my 1st time seeing this, I always knew the owl cartoon, but this is classic too

[HHH100]

Those days were magical!!! Wish I was alive back then!!!

[bio666]

yup... gas was cheap... :(

[MeXLuffy]

I so agree! I love the old times! My friends always say I was born in the wrong century. XD

[cholo2a1]

the one with the owl is way more better... but i just love this song!!!... I LOVE TO SINGA!!!

[CarlDuke]

You like OWL Jolson better than AL Jolson. Interesting choice. It certain was a clever cartoon and a great salute to the real Jolie.

[cholo2a1]

hahhaha... but that was back in the days... this is the real deal... which one do u like?

[CarlDuke]

I like both. But I am a big Al Jolson fan. He was really was the World's Greatest Entertainer.

[cholo2a1]

oh i see... but what happened to his partner?... i heard he fired him or something....

[caleb11583]

my favorite was black face owl jolsen

[jsamc]

cab really bust a move at 1:18 and al really could belt out a song.

[bawitback]

I love this song!! <3

[uthornss]

al jolson and cab calloway?

this is great....

[hem5001]

i herd this song on south parck rally

cool to know were it came from

i've wonderd were it came from for 7 years so seeing this is really cool

[UkeUkeMakinLove]

Ahhh memories<3 xD LOVE IT XD lol

[UkeUkeMakinLove]

Old Microphone GOTTA >=D xD

[monolith94]

Ol' Jolson looks like such a square compared to hep Cab. It goes to show you how much more culturally influential Calloway was, despite being hindered by an entertainment industry that marginalized black folks.

[lyricalcarol]

Nothing Better than singing with Cab and Al...I love to Singa....I love to sing!

[GoodWoWPlayer]

Iiiiiiiiii love to singa, about the moona and the juna and the springa, I love to singa. Haha, I love this song. :P

[silverinkjet]

It's good music, man. Without it, music would have been much different throughout the years. Stop looking at the asininity of the racism, and look more at its aethetic place in musical history, and the sublime quality of the music.

I mean, hell, there isn't any blackface or racism at all in this scene; Al Jolson is singing ALONG with a black man, so it's quite the contrary. The least you could to do is have the brains to insult the music when there's racism actually in it.

[xmileena]

old movies fucking suck

[WTFWJCD]

You suck!

[UkeUkeMakinLove]

Burn...o3o

[jrg817]

he was jewish and felt much of the prejudice and since he was famous and well known his act was an attempt to get people to socially accept black people in entertainment, he was not a racist but the opposite, he tried to help get them out there

[eupher2]

I hate Jazz but I love this song

[10Tuxedo]

Is Al wearing Dockers? :-)

[nibargerswife51482]

you never see people like that anymore.

[towringer]

Wow. I never knew this song & this music was done in real life. I had always heard this music in the WB cartoons which can still be purchased on DVD. I guess the jazz movies from the 30's & 40's were considered dated & racist and were never rerun.

[jac141974]

stop being ignorant al jolson wasnt racist he was embrassing black music

[MiguelMrls13]

maybe you should read what he wrote. he never says al was racist

[BillieJeanne777]

He's creepy...but good lol

[coolsworld23]

guys did you notice in 1:19??

muntik na xang m.hulog!! whahahaha!!!

old school rocks!!

skinny jeans!! waaaah!!!

[SirCyrano]

I was just thinking: how many singers other than Jolson could sing "la-de-da" and make it sound macho?

[SirCyrano]

What a joyous, imaginatively staged number! I had known this song from the old WB cartoon, but here it is in the flesh with two larger-than-life superstars. Notice that Al treats Cab as an equal here, which had to be unusual back in the '30s; so much for Jolson's "racist" legacy.

[Guernicaman]

People who think Jolson was racist didn't know Jolson. While wearing blackface might seem racist as worst and naive at best today, it wasn't peceived that way at all today. Jolson embraced black music and black culture at a time when it wasn't considered "kosher" to do so by white America. He brought these two cultures together, making America a little more tolerant and a little less ignorant.

[laron214]

singing about "mammy" never brought anyone together, sorry.

[Shizue7]

I agree. In fairness let's remember that in 1911, Al read where two relatively unknown African-American composer-musicians (Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle) were refused service in a Connecticut restaurant. Al found Eubie and Noble, took them to dinner in the same restaurant. A mega-star at the time, Al said he'd plant on a punch on the nose of the owner if they dared refuse them service again. Brave move for the son of a Jewish cantor in 1911, no?

[thecuriousproject]

i agree fuck these assholes they are in denial as always.

al may you burn in hell and your off spring and kin suffer pain beyond name. scumbag racist piece of filth.

[mlb95]

why are you being mean to him? are you racist

[RoninLawyer]

Agreed. People misunderstand "blackface". Back then, it was the only socially acceptable way for white people to enjoy black entertainment.

[hellseek]

Connor loved this song, RIP man!

[Yossarian3990]

shouldn't have gotten hit by a train then

[ppicciotti]

Blackface=bad taste..but Eddie Murphy doing a sketch about BUTT FU**ing Mr T..now thats real art. I am not suggesting the old days were right. But if you like the new days, you got a problem. Especially if it blinds you to two artistic geniuses, a great composer and lyricist. You are evrything that is wrong with American (and slowly spreading around the world like cancer) audiences. Recognize genius for what it is, or just crawl under a rock. I address this reply to every human being on earth

[Licreh]

Two great singers.

[555Kamikaze]

00:34 - 00:38 IS AWESOME

[akasha85]

Is there a website I can download this song?

[BarrytheBogan]

"mp3.earthreactor" with a ".com" on the end. It won't let me post the full URL.

[dormira]

Well I'll give him the respect due to an entertainer of his caliber but he'd be higher in my books if he hadn't performed in black face.

[dorastandpipe]

Black face was part of the times. If you like Bing Crosby, you better lower his rank because he did it too! Many many people from the era did.

[dormira]

Yeah i do lower their rank. It was something that wasn't necessary. They didn't have to perform in blackface or use the sterotypical cliches. I think they had enough talent to stand on their own.

[hoaxcrank]

black face was done as he lovd to sing black ppl's music like jazz. It's more of black integral into the white community. not racism intended.

[dormira]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is a line between imitation and mockery. Blackface is just mockery. Just like in modern music the way people behave in some of the music videos. It's negative. Rockers running around with trashy dressed models and alcohol and rappers with booty shorts girls and big cars. They don't have to do it but because it's popular and makes money they do anyway.

[laron214]

amen.

[whydontyoushootme]

Honestly, there was so much then that was acceptable that isn't acceptable now just as I'm sure there's plenty of things that are perfectly acceptable now that won't be some SEVENTY years from now.

[dormira]

True history does go in a cycle. There is always excess and then backlash.

[555Kamikaze]

I'm 13.

I can say I listened to this when I was kid in the future. :-p

Great song anyway, especially the A-aa--aaa--a in the beginning.

[xsugarcatx]

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It's a bunny ^.^

[Yohko86]

Aw, what a cutie!...

[Thakmere]

ya the owl jolson thing was released along with the brand new jazz singer DVD for the 80th aniversary, very nice three disc set. its awesome. and the fact that they include the owl thign is wonderful. and i didn't realize that cab was actually doing vocals thru-out the whole song before.. pretty awesome. and watching the blues brothers so many times than watchign this, is pretty cool seeing cab young and the noticing the little thigns that cab does. A+A+A+

[fivefoflow]

The cartoon with the little owl that wants to sing and his dad wants him to play an instrument? I remember seeing that on cartoon network late at night, I still get it stuck in my head sometimes. LOL.

[Luindriel]

I love this! Have you seen the Merrie Melodies cartoon with the owls? It's in my favorites - "Owl Jolson" sings this... it's great! :)

[nadime93]

why every time i listen to this song, i want to dance and singa?! i mean, i feel so happy when i hear this song! it's amazing! and i'm only 15! lawl! ^-^

[vinnizle]

lmao i no how ya feel i used to watch da cartoon version wit da owl all da time wen i was younger and im 15 to

[zvikach]

wow six months ago!!!

[johlysid]

Love that song, thanks

[TheBullets]

This is a fantastic piece of music history!!!

Thans for sharing.