The Andrew Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Shein

[RiddleBat]

Hmm...I miss Bioshock.

[XXzolko666X]

i prefere the original in yiddish :)

[63x927is58401]

The Andrews Sisters' names & their lifetimes, Laverne Andrews' lifetime Thursday July 6, 1911 -- Monday, May 8. 1967, 20,395 days. Maxene Andrews' lifetime Monday, January 3 1916 - Saturday, October 21, 1995, 29,146 days. Patty Andrews Saturday, February 16 1918 & 94 on Thursday, February 16, 2012 & was 34,333 days.

I wonder how many albums sold in Germany & maybe under Adolf Hitler's nose, before the discovery of the song writers were of Jewish! I strongly wonder if one was in Hitler's office!

[MihaiViteazul100]

Who's the lady at 1:56?

[CaptainYossarian]

I just noticed that right at the point lyrics are bella bella, the image is of Bela Lugosi. I've never spotted an easter egg before. I wont lie, im feeling pretty awesome right now.

[Ididnotwanttojoin]

@CaptainYossarian Not sure that would count as an Easter egg.

[happychappy12]

loada bollocks bioshock.i've played it........shite!!...........an­yway sod that......the songs more important than the feckin game. This is a great postin and a very nice video......xx

[vanemi428]

Bioshock is the best it has improved my musical leniencies and I'm only fifteen :D

[JayMarie003]

What the heck is Bioshock?

[NekoNadja]

@JayMarie003 A REALLY nice game that happened to have this song in it o.o

[bluejuiseritsma]

@JayMarie003 It's a videogame based in the 40s & 50s. This song is in it

[1991MRjesse]

@JayMarie003 even though this has already been answered, google is your friend.

[JayMarie003]

@1991MRjesse A man after my own heart. But that darn SOPA...

[1991MRjesse]

@JayMarie003 any mention of SOPA will just make me sigh a lot.

[sarah2837]

How the heck does Harpo Marx do that face at 0:36?

[1510Ronald]

super Video, danke vielmals dafür.

[trechan]

I actually found this song through my XM radio.

[Matthias227able]

bioshcok saves many people the music life :D my too

[TheNadja96]

Ohrwurm :)

[venuslady1]

nostalgie pur... herrlich !!!

[DaniOcean]

The song was written in 1932 by Jacob Jacobs and Sholom Secunda. It became popular outside of Jewish circles with its English version named as an English transcription of the Yiddish name - "Bei Mir Bistu Shein".

It was a big hit in Nazi Germany under a germanized name-"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen". After its Jewish origins were discovered,however,the song was promptly banned.

The song was so popular in Germany that USSR made a parody of the song titled-"Baron Fon Der Pshik",with anti-Nazi lyrics.

[Thespadecaller]

@DaniOcean

It was a big hit in Nazi Germany under a germanized name-"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen". Yes, it was banned in Nazi Germany and that it is sad that some people still refuse to acknowledge it's true origins. Why?

[DaniOcean]

@Thespadecaller They do? I thought it is a settled matter.

[katharynking]

@Thespadecaller I acknowledge its true origins !! (Russo-German Jew here !)

[lafchievs]

@DaniOcean

Isn't the correct song name "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön"?

Thanks for posting.

[Eglu100]

love that song <3

[grizabella626]

Anyone know what album this version is on?

[Tootsy39]

0:49 - Ohhhh Marilyn :]

[mrgoodvibrations]

This song not only jams it kicks ass!!!! Wunderbar!!!!!!!

[XxCheekyPaddyxX]

shein? Took me a while to figure out that it's supposed to mean "schön" x'D

[IDMSH]

Memoirs of a Geisha.

[marcel9862]

ich dachte das wär besser bin von pro7 hier xD

[one5643]

Ich kann Deutsch, und ich dachte das dieses Lied Deutsch waer. Ich hab auch zu viel getrunken. Bitte, vergeben Sie mir.

[kerstinwernermironow]

@one5643

Aber gerne doch!!! : ))))

[Erfarot]

@one5643 Nein, das Lied ist ursprünglich Jiddisch, was soviel wie Süd-Deutsch bedeutet. :) Ich hab noch keinen Deutschen gesehen, der Jiddisch nicht zumindest einsatzweise verstehen könnte.

[MartinRaetzJr]

So many remembrances - I did enjoy your video.

[ChoozetheImpossible]

thanks to Bioshock I now listen music from the '40s

[XxEmOKookieZxX]

@ChoozetheImpossible Ikr! :D

[worldwar1945]

@ChoozetheImpossible Bioshock and fallout 3 XD

[JackFSinging]

@ChoozetheImpossible This was released in 1937 :S

[allenincollingo1]

this is not the original recording same arrangement but better studio

[metlgandalf]

26 people have no ears

[vaibanez17]

I remember there was an episode of Hey Arnold where grandpa was telling Arnold some story and accidentally gets off track talking about the Andrews Sisters being hot or something lol

[ebj1871]

@vaibanez17 hahaha really?!?! That is great. Great show and great artists

[kakashidemon321]

I don't know about any of you, but I came here because of the movie swing kids. :))))

[pike9us1]

MsMrReason, what an ass you are for making comments like that, can you not accept a good thing with out showing your "intelligence" . Wish I was there to slap you, now say you are sorry!!!

[vaibanez17]

@pike9us1 But what is good to one person is not good to another. As a history major I agree with MsMrReason, historical accuracy is super important because teaching incorrect history really screws up a lot of people's thinking in many other aspects.

[DefyGravity464]

Don't bite my head off, but what is Bioshock?

[JimijaymesGuitarist]

@DefyGravity464 It is a video game it along with Fallout 3 have a lot of swing and other late 30s and early 30s american genres of music on their soundtrack.

[DefyGravity464]

@DefyGravity464 Ahhh, gotcha. Thanks!

[MangledPuppets]

The Andrew sisters were in Bioshock????

[KingGopherNuts]

Thumbs up if Mafia II brought you here

[erzbet07]

Fun video. I enjoyed how you used the photos to counterpoint the lyrics. LOVED the pics of Groucho and Margaret, George and Gracie, Jack Benny and Jimmy Durante too. Great talents, the likes of which we'll never see again. Thanks for sharing.

[jipidibipity]

good montage!

[thenashi]

your knowledge of famous people around the time of the Andrews Sisters, is absolutely appaulling. e.g. Marilyn Monroe? She came in pop power in the fifties, a good twenty years after the Andrews Sisters. I'm sorry, but learn some history.

[MsMrReason]

@thenashi I found the photo montages funny as Marilyn was Rock N Roll generation not big band. But then again I have seen ppl put Madonna with the Beatles - so ignorance is just a fact of life.

[DaniOcean]

@MsMrReason yes but many films she starred in took action during the big bend era and her singing style was closer to the movie-cabaret style then rock'n'roll. I remember some great performances in "Some Like It Hot" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

[MsMrReason]

@DaniOcean I think Marilyn Monroe would be devastated to know people put her in a a category with Betty Grabble, Bette Davis and the Andrews sisters instead of Diana Dors, Jayne Russsell and Jane Mansfield.

I think she would be very uspet indeed.She was never a war-time pin- up she was distinctly fifties

Some like it hot was 'twenties' but I don't think she would also appreciate being remembered with Charlie Chaplin - while Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis are remembered as 50s and 60s actors

[DaniOcean]

@MsMrReason I don't dispute that, but people imagine the first half of the last century as a mesh up of the 40s, 50s and 60s. Also I think "Some like it hot" was more of the end of the Prohibition Era, like early 30s. I associate her more with the late 50s and early 60s. This video, however, illustrates that many people just throw a bunch of b&w actors and in their mind they represent the first half of the 20th century.

[MsMrReason]

@DaniOcean It illustrates as you move further away from a decade it loses it individuality. In one hundred years time people will think Lady GaGa knew Elvis Presley and Charlie Chaplin and Justin Bieber were the same era.

To clarify 'Some Like it hot' was a sixties film dealing with a thirties theme.

I recently watched a teen on TV who thought Paul Newman was the same generation as Charlie Sheen which illustrates the point that time is only important in the moment.

[DaniOcean]

@MsMrReason :O , well that's flat out ignorant!

Regarding "Some like it hot", I was talking about the theme of the movie, not the year it was made :) , just to clarify.

You are right regarding the memory for the past, it is a big bowl of soup. For me however those decades have distinct personalities and while I love them all I don't mesh ;) .

[MsMrReason]

@DaniOcean I am stating facts no need for personal attacks or name calling sonny. I also find it incredibly tedious when people call others gnorant for not agreeing with them or blowing smoke up their asses

You can call me fucking rude or arrogant but if I am able to provide information and facts which are correct it is clear I am not ignorant.

If you have managed to get through life without people indulging you and your behavior - all I can say is that you have been pissing privileged.

[DaniOcean]

@MsMrReason I was referring to the kid on TV, sorry for misunderstanding, I should have clarified.

[MsMrReason]

@DaniOcean  I apologize for my potty mouth !

[DaniOcean]

@MsMrReason No problem, it was an honest mistake.

[phaloxxx]

just because somethings older doesnt mean its better neccesarely(dont care on spelling) languages are different your both correct now grow the fuck up and enjoy the awesome music brough to us from these wonderful women and memorize our times in rapture and times with our loved ones....

[Gabrieja]

Jiidisch? That's awkward.

[KazeTenno]

Thumbs up if you found this song from Memoris of a Geisha ^^

[XxFugufishXx]

Bioshock saved my music life.

[jackram2h2]

@XxFugufishXx Yup, that describes me exactly. Nicely said, I don't even know how I was able to listen to modern crap before I discovered Bioshock and its soundtrack.

[PANtheGR33k]

@XxFugufishXx TRUE TRUE ! I agree...

[667Atlas]

IS there a live performance of them doing this song

[Marsipaanimies91]

Bei mir bist du schön = With me you're beautiful

[BlackLionFilms]

Kinda reminds me of METROPOLIS.

[GaladedridDamodred]

I'm dancing around my kitchen to this right now 8D

[playnite]

bioshock introduced me The Puppini Sisters and so The Andrew Sisters

[IanHunedoara8]

Being the only Greek on the Lower East Side block I thought the song was about "My dear Mr. Shane."

[ddog5467]

yddish german same thing

[ryeguy48]

I was lead to this song by reading Lovecraft-inspired literature. Specifically "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone." I forget who wrote it. But both the story and the song are good shit. ;P

[ravemarisha]

this was in bioshock?

Craptastic,That was one thing i didnt pay attention in the game.

[macvatu]

"To me you are beautiful - Bei mir bist du shoen".....what does it matter, as long you'er happy listening, that's the main thing !!

[AlejoCif]

Awesome song for an awesome soundtrack of an awesome videogame. BioShock FTW!!!!

[TheAltamira123]

esta cancion la encuentras cuando vas al cuarto de yazmin yolie en fort frolic, la madre biologica de jack

[piez07]

BIOSHOCK ftw!!

[TomEMun]

Really nice. Great song, and all the pictures brought back so many memories....even though most of the pictures came along about the same time I did. :-)

Thanks for a walk down memory lane!

[Aelanya]

This is a great song

[playingwithfirehurts]

haha harpo that clown

[BrandonTxOthor]

Is that Jayne Mansfield at :39??

[naga120]

The song was originally Yiddish, however when the nazis came (which is about the time the song became popular I think) the artists who sung it decided to "Germanize it". Creating the faux German name "Bei Mir Bist Du Shein"

The original name (in Yiddish) is, בײַ מיר ביסטו שיין, "To Me You're Beautiful"

[TomEMun]

@naga120 Thanks for your comment! I had no idea what it meant, but I love the song and the Andrew Sisters.

Support Israel!

[Hellbat308]

......und bei allen andern bist du hässlich =)

[MihaiViteazul100]

Who's the woman at 1:35?

[tranurse]

@MihaiViteazul100 martha raye

[lordinkdeath27]

fallout 3 told me but i come for wonderful andrew sisters

[MsMusicgirl100]

bei mir bist du schön ! so you write it in german

[kburnout]

why is hitler in this?

[IncogUser]

@kburnout That isn't Hitler. It's Charles S. Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin) playing as a goofy spoof of him in his expressive film "The Great Dictator".

[mutanTV131]

thumbs up if you knew the Andrew Sisters before Bioshock or did it bring you here

[LittleDende]

@mutanTV131 They were in Bioshock?? O_o I gotta get me that game...

[BBexdnb]

@LittleDende do it!

[MihaiViteazul100]

@mutanTV131 Fallout 3, actually

[phlarrdboi]

@mutanTV131 how can u thumbs up for an either or question, dipshit?

[lolPaperclip]

@mutanTV131 I didnt know they were in it.. Awesome.

[DarkSplicer93]

@mutanTV131 I personally think it is great that games such as Bioshock and Fallout open other generations to great music such as the Andrew Sisters.

[lipinellly314]

@mutanTV131 yes knew them from Mafia 2 :))

[xiquiripat]

Whenever I drive around I blast this song like a gangsta!

[SakaPC1]

What a delightful sounding song...

[valvetrom]

Bist Du Schoen ( beautiful)

[pirrung123]

Good Job :o)

[TheOlscheda]

Großartig! 

[wyatta01]

You type the song in to Google and it basically tells you straight up that the song was originally Yiddish. It's pretty weird how many people keep commenting about languages.

[alekakai]

@Thespadecaller i wasn't either wtf does that have to do with it. If you couldn't listen to music older than you what about the Sound of Music. duh moron

[xtiml]

האין ביידיש בעצם הלשון kazar שונה לתוך וולגריות אירופית? מה אידיוט כדי הערות ביקורתית על היהודים? הם מקודשים? וזזה הברך תגובה ה ממש מצחיק לראות lickspittles גוי נושא המים עבור אדוניהם הנפש שלהם או goys לשבת מי Lite שלהם synagog ולפתוח את שעריהם על amelikans דבר השבת הם אנשים blindest על פני כדור הארץ עקב המוח היהודי להתיך הם תחת מאז הם באים מתוך אמותיהם.

[ANR052386]

Great song... The melody is timeless (obviously). And nothing about it is bad. I really like it. Even though it's not the "usual" genre that I listen to. The best of the best is still the best. ^_^

[Pitfossil]

@Thespadecaller - as far as I understand Yiddish ( which is pretty close to zero) "Bey mir biste sheiin" translates as "in my ey eyes you are beautiful"

[alika207]

Oh, and I forgot to add: Great song.

[alika207]

Isn't it actually spelled as "bistu" in Yidish?

[hilaorni]

@alika207 Hi Alika, nice to meet here... Yiddish is written in Hebrew letters (even though most of the words are not Hebrew) . When it is transliterated into English, different people can tranliterate in different ways. There are conventions but they can vary. My Yiddish is not good enough to determine which is a better tranliteration in this case but my guess is that there is more than one "correct" way to spell this.

[KawaiiSayurixoxo]

OMG YES. I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS SONG FOREVER. I LOVE YOU. ;~;

[SuperHartline]

Let's settle this german vs. yiddish once and for all. The sentence no matter how you write it isn't german. To me you are beautiful in german is. Meiner Meinung nach bist du schoen. or Von mir aus bist du schoen. Bei mir bist du schoen in german means in my house you are beautiful, and suggests that outside my house you're a dog. Bei mir in german is like a mi casa in spanish. In yiddish bei mir means either in my house or in my opinion. In german it means only the former. Superhartline

[TheSteamphunk]

@SuperHartline

THANK YOU! People are so ignorant.

[LoneMaquis]

lol @ the image appearing during the first "Bella, Bella"

[TheWick53]

I really like it, I don't care who they are, They are cool.

[MissManimok]

Damn, I love this song! It's scares the crap out of me! Ofcourse, 'cause of Bioshock, when you find your mother dead, I think. :( But the whole game music..... Awsome, just.... Great! :D

[InBy9OutBy5]

There was all that talent....and then there was Desi Arnaz...LOL !

[R2carde]

The only thing that got me into the music is Bioshock :P and I relized that this isw beter then any other type of music you can find in my opinion ^ - ^

[Chauchat7777]

@R2carde What the hell is Bioshock? Sorry. I'm 38. Grew up with this in my house. now what is bioshock?

[R2carde]

@Chauchat7777 Bioshock, it's a video game... Look it up; it's pretty cool... There's a ton of music like this in it.

[jackram2h2]

@darthelghastN7 Thanks for the encouragement. :) Usually everyone makes fun of me for listening to this music. But I don't let it bother me.

[EastLinn]

Wonderful!

[EastLinn]

wonderful!

[lunapeculiar]

25, love it ;)

[senorasusi]

It's Yiddish people... in German: Für mich bist du schön.

[gesamtszenario]

@Thespadecaller I think you are reading too much into it. "Bei mir bist du schön" vs. "Bei mir bist du shein" is a pretty easy misinterpretation to make. It's like saying that those who say "No Woman, No Cry" is bad grammar all hate Jamaicans, because they do not acknowledge Patois and insist on it being English.

Everybody who's a sucker for Yiddish music should check out the various recordings of "Tsen Brider" found on youtube, btw.

[produccioneswhite]

beautiful women, sweet music and nice clothes. what else could you want?

[JohnnyLeyenda]

@produccioneswhite

That they were still young (and alive) ;__;

[redshark618]

is it wrong if i like the Janis Siegel cover?

[Frommerhold]

Best Song ever! :P Oh I forgot to tell that I'm 20! ;)

[Frommerhold]

Best Song ever! :P

[Pascosux1]

Funny video. Have loved the song for years.

[TheSteamphunk]

@Thespadecaller You're welcome. :D

[TheSteamphunk]

For all of those who think the title is spelt incorrectly, it isn't. "Shein" isn't German, it's Yddish (as the song is).

[AiiiiCaramba]

@TheSteamphunk But why is the rest german than? I really don't understand the sense behind it, but I like it:D:D

[TheSteamphunk]

@AiiiiCaramba It's the quasi-German title that has become popularized. If you were to look at the original Yiddish title, "Bei Mir Bistu Shein," you'd understand.

[jason13204]

@TheSteamphunk well, i agree to an extent but on the album LP it is spelled schoen or or however they spell it in german. I was just saying that's why people may think its spelled wrong.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@TheSteamphunk: Excuse me, lots of Yiddish comes from German and schön is shein. German gay men love this song !

[MrSKINFLICK]

@TheSteamphunk:.....you should watch German gay pubs + clubs even nowadays when "Bei mir bist du schön" ("at my place you are beautiful") gets played !

[MrSKINFLICK]

@TheSteamphunk:....but "bei mir" is not Yiddish probably.....LOL.....excuse me.....i´m an independent linguist and Yiddish is not Hebrew....inform yourself about the origin of slangs + languages.......

[TheSteamphunk]

@MrSKINFLICK

Yiddish is a Germanic, Slavic, and Herbrew language that is spoken by several people of the Jewish faith. The Yiddish language DOES borrow words from other languages (no different than any other lagnuage out there). If you're a linguist, you should know that much, at the very least...

[TheSteamphunk]

@MrSKINFLICK

Besides, I do speak some German. I think that I WOULD know the difference between Yiddish and German.

[Killerqualle77]

@TheSteamphunk thx i thought all the time she meaned schön ^^

[dessertboy2006]

@TheSteamphunk FYI its Schoen and not shein. And yes it is a German word.

[JackFSinging]

@TheSteamphunk And you spelt Yiddish incorrectly

[ColdIceCreamMan]

@JackFSinging And you spelt Jiidisch(Jiddisch) incorrectly

[JackFSinging]

@ColdIceCreamMan What the fuck? You was the first one who spelt Yiddish wrong anyway and I didnt even spell it as Jiidisch? I spelt it Yiddish which is the correct way of spelling it I mean look on your spell checker for FFS

[ColdIceCreamMan]

@JackFSinging I spelt it as Jiidisch because that's the Jiidisch way of spelling it?! And Jiddisch is the way it's spelt in German. Yiddish is just a retarded way of spelling it in the English language. The Jiidisch and German way of spelling the words are much older!

[allaballababy]

it's SCHÖN, shein is no word!

[TheSteamphunk]

@allaballababy "Shein" is Yiddish, not German. The song is originally from the Yiddish musical "I Would if I Could."

[kundakatkaa]

@Thespadecaller Ah so ;) I´ve be only suprised...I listening it cause i like it :DD