Clara Bow "Rarin' to Go"

[stlgtrace]

Clara Bow was tragically underrated as an actress. Her voice is perfectly fine and her Brooklyn accent is not really all that noticable. Paramount gave her virtually no training, either speaking or singing, and just threw her at the mike! Brava Clara!!!!!

[ClarasBeau]

In the storyline of the film, she is not trying to entertain; she's trying to get her beau to dump her by embarassing him at a high-hat party. She is also (in the story) pretending to be drunk. If you watch her closely, you'll see that Clara does a GREAT job of acting as one does when one is "overserved". So she really was a terrific actress, especially when you consider how uncomfortable she was with the new technology.

[Rouben19]

@ClarasBeau Clara was the greatest and initaly they used her in good roles - where she more than proved herself.... after the It Girl took over and a money bonanza formula was created, they varied little in the type of films for her, I always thought she would have perfect for " Dark Victory"

[CleoTheSim]

I've never understood why people don't like Clara Bow's voice. I love it. She sounds just as she should. She was a little spitfire from Brooklyn (who could "lick any boy her size"). Her singing is powerful and tragic all at the same time (just like her).

[msjosephh]

I love how much energy she has in this clip!

[4MaryAnna]

I adore Clara Bow,but I've always thought that she (in this scene only) was acting more like someone about to have a nervous breakdown and less like someone belting out a song to entertain people.

[davidglow3]

@4MaryAnna having just read her biography,she was indeed very traumatised from this time onwards

[thadxxx]

Way to go Clara. Why were people so shocked? It's not like she was taking off her clothes. Clara was the most natural actress of her time and she was loved.

[scmckinney1]

(fast tempo)

Dont give a care what people will say,

Dont give a care for people to-day,

I want to be a child, I want to go wild,

Im Rar-Rarin to Go!

Wonderful days, wonderful nights

Wonderful scenes, wonderful sights

Let me go, Im rarin to go, Im Rarin to Go!

(Refrain)

[scmckinney1]

(slow tempo)

Im through tryin to be, all that you think I should,

Im tired of being, being so awfully good.

Im through toeing the mark,

That doesnt mean a thing.

Id like to have a try at having my fling!

[scmckinney1]

Wonderful days, Arabian Nights! Take in the Cabaret to take in the sights! Brother Ill stick, wont miss a trick, Im Rar-Rar-Rarin to Go! (Refrain) Motor Cars are a kinda of tame, 'Tho youre steppin on high! Want to glide in an aeroplane, Glide her up to the sky! Who wants to be a bird in a cage? This is the Great Electrical Age! Turn on the Juice, Im on the loose, Im Rarin to Go

[scmckinney1]

From Vintage Music Products Airshots and Rarities album of The Boswell Sisters, here is a transcription of the song. I read that an L. Green and Abel & Gilbert Brown composed it, although I am not positive of that. After having read David Stenns book Runnin Wild, this could have been Clara Bows autobiographical song.

Rarin to Go

Dont give a care what people will say,

Made up my mind to live for a day,

I want to be a child, I want to go wild,

Im Rarin to Go!

Rarin to Go!

[Misanthropalicious]

Does anyone have or is able to understand all the lyrics to this song? I'd love to be able to sing it but can't quite make out all the lines.

[MildredDavisLloyd]

Is there a CD with recordings of all her singing? Cause I love her voice! I especially LOVE when she sings the title song!

[rhapsodyphantom]

Get it, Clara! Hehe.

[1tenthAngel]

I love her silent films, but I can see why she didn't make it when sound came into pictures, it's a little harsh and deep for such a small lady, still a shame her last film was at the age of 26. She's still a heroine!

[rbf100]

Clara brought such energy and enthusiasm to all of her roles that the present day actresses never do.

[XtinaxFan]

I love this song, it sums up her personality - outgoing and defying the limitations and persona a woman had to conform to in that era.

[luckyshow]

She married a guy with a ranch, in Nevada, maybe, and retired.

[chinaluckynew4]

Luka Magnotta is the NEW Clara Bow

[crumpletime]

hahaha!! what's with the horrible close-ups of all the fellow diners?!? like that bald guy in the beginning and the woman with the spectacles?!

[creamofcardstv]

I like your vide clip and have rated it as awesome. Please check out mine on a set of 1920's movie star cards: Marion Davies, Fay Wray,Clara Bow, Greta Garbo,Louise Brooks and many more.

[amanochou]

I think her voice perfectly compliments the types of characters she played, so I don't see how everyone would make a big stink about her so-called "accent".

Nearly every role she's ever occupied were feisty girls who went against the grain with such bawdy joy. She was a real Hollywood gem and it saddens me that she took such an early retirement and her life ended as sadly as it began.

Love Clara Bow forever!

[leiathegreat]

they wanted all the girls to have the weird "I come from somewhere" Accent. It was easier to cast you if you had that, pronouce everything perfect thing going for ya. But she was doing a lot of historical dramas before sound, but that's not the roles that she was really well recived in. So it is very funny that her accent hurt her.

I love her, she was indeed the IT girl.

[twentiesDOLL12213]

She has a WONDERFUL voice and that amazing quality ("it", I guess) that Jean Harlow had, too. I think Marilyn Monroe didn't have it. She gave that impression and she tried, but she didn't have it. But Clara did, and I'm sorry that her and Harlow's careers were cut short. Great clip!

[jimtodd]

It was difficult for actors in that day to make the transition from silent movies to talkies. Up to that point both actors and film crew never had to worry about being dead silent during filming. Many times sets were being built and people were conversing with one another. Clara was un-nerved by this change. She also had a hard time with the mike hovering over and following her around the set.

[Goottilainen]

the problem is, she was so insecure with her voice. Her voice is just amazin =)

Too bad she stoped because the movies would not continue to be silent.

SHe's my favorite actres. I love her =D

[Rouben19]

The problem was her talking films were not viewed by anyone for more than 60 years and thats a long time, many books were written in that period and i doubt anyone that wrote about her had ever heard her voice which I like a lot! this was a 1930 film and all actors suffered from the primitive equipment, If any one has a copy of Her Wedding Night 1930 contact me I will Pay well for it..

[theunderpass]

I'm sorry, but I just don't understand what the big deal was about her voice in the talkies. She sounds more than fine!