Actually, Aunt Jemima is a depiction of racial sterotyping.
She wears a handkerchief around her head and maid clothing to further the belief that black women are not sexual beings and that they are inferior to white people not only in beauty but also in social standing. Search photos of Aunt Jemima in the 1910s, 1940s, and now and you will see that todays Aunt Jemima is sending the exact same image but altered slightly.
we have a different presentation and song in Mexico for the Aun Jemima hot cakes..a lovely black woman too but singing a song in spanish ...miss her much
Actually Show Boat was an anti-racist musical play (ca 1929), WRITTEN TO SHOWCASE the brilliant talents of Paul Robeson. It's theme was inter-racial love. This in a heavily racist epoch!
ITS OK THEY CAN BE RACIST ALL THEY WANT LOOK AT US BLACKS NOW I MEAN WE ARE BRILLIANT!!!!! OH YEA DNT FORGET ARE PRESIDENT IS BLACK AS WELL!!!!!! WE CAME A LONG WAY!!!
@Tonyho0124 did you read what you wrote? "ARE" PRESIDENT IS BLACK. The word is "our" President. Please learn how to speak and write proper english before you write something on the internet that makes you and by implication, all other black people look stupid. You can't tell people how far we've come when you show people you don't even know the difference between the 1st grade words "are" and "our."
see back in slavery days and days of segregation old black women were called aunt by whites and old black men were called uncle. i heard it was to keep from calling them mr. or ms. this term was used to show lower status. amd lack of repect.
@veeseee128 LOL but you know whats so funny. Its impossible to imagine a slave house negro as being fat. she must of been living good off them white folk lolol.
@veeseee128 I see your point, but remember this was in the 1920's when they came up with that. The funny thing about you're comment is that Cracker as racist too
@IwontConform the only nigger on the page is you i mean come on you 're a smart guy every one knows that nigger mean ignorant such as your self i cant understand if you dont like niggers why are you listening to nigger music, eating nigger pancakes and eating (Aunt Jemima) nigger syrup it SHO IS GOOD AINT BOSS!
The Kiwanis Club hosted an Aunt Jemima pancake jubilee every year in my hometown, and Aunt Jemima would come and sing and sign autographs. She toured the schools ahead of time to promote the event. We kids didn't think about racial stereotypes, we just thought she was a neat lady, and she happened to be black. I think she did a lot to teach us that all people are the same, regardless of race.
actually, the character Tess played in Showboat was "Queenie" not Aunt Jemima- check out Edna Ferber's novel for the source of this character. Gardella's career as AJ was entirely separate from the Ziegfeld produced musical of Showboat (she had worked for him previously- thus the role in this Broadway show) check out the youtube clip showing her number from Showboat- "Queenie's Ballyhoo"
I was watching the video "Sitting on tha toilet" and someone said the woman from that video looked like "Aunt Jemima." So i looked up Aunt Jemima and here it is!
Didn't this lady play Buckwheats Mother in one of the little rascal's episodes? The one where Spanky is accused of taking the gangs money? He put's a book in his pants because he's going to get a spanking from his Father, Buckwheat pushed a stroller around in it and said "I comin" or "ice cream man" I think the lady was called Dinah she cooked for Spankys family.
i've got some original aunt jemima saltand pepper shakers. sad to find out they're worth about 10 dollars. (not replicas)... i thought they'd be up at the hundreds.. bah...
I wonder how much money did she get paid to do this job? I know a lot of people ocllect this types of stuff. I wished there was a way I could get my hands omsome of it and resell it. Most of the time its at yard sales I guess.
@fihaprincess You're right-- colour and race has NOTHING to do with it. But people with no understanding of art or music or theater will pin the race tag on anything to make their pointless argument, and in the process politicize it to the point where no one can enjoy it any more.
im brown and the only reason "racism stays alive " is becuz of the people that claim not to be "racist"... and sift for "racism"... "we" as a human species are a "people" of color...get off of the issue
I recorded this off NPR in college, and have loved the song ever since. Her vocal is so upbeat and fun. Thanks for posting, and it's nice to see the real singer's name because I was a slightly horrified that someone that was clearly talented was having to sing under the name Aunt Jamima.
Remembering all the bad jokes about Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben of another era it was bad.......but like with many other things now long gone we didn't know any better. Unless your over 60 in today's world you don't know how bad it was.
@HarborGuy Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We should never forget the ugliest worst expressions of racism. (Slavery, my God. Jim Crow. Apartheid) Never again
@Herstory4321 Slavery has always been apart of human history. People of all colors have all been slaves at one point in history. However, I am not vouching for slavery whatsoever.
Hey, this woman is a super vocalist and the music is great. This is a classic song and the words reflect the love between a man and a woman, nothing else!
what's wrong with those photos??? i'm black and i think they are cute!! what if it was photos of white salt and pepper shakers and aunt jemima was white?? don't think anyone would make a complaint!!! get over it!!! crying racism is just soooo old!!
@TheLadyjazzy1 Sorry to let you know this but racism still exist. It may not be the beast that it use to be but it is still here, just not as visible anymore.
We're talking the days of the Riverboat culture, the Showboats,etc. History tells us that those days & shortly after, blacks were working menial jobs, and cooked & served meals, worked the fields, raised the family's children oft-times..so, how are the images of the "mammy" historically-incorrect? The images reflect the goings on at that time. That doesn't make it right by today's standards, but it was what it was. Everyone looks at today and makes judgements about then.
@honeybee7700 oddly enough the ebonics espoused by that caricature of aunt jemima make up a large percentage of the bastardized english widely spoken by blacks in the US (ie "ebonics") so in hindsight it wasn't a betrayal of blacks... but an accurate generalization.
@honeybee7700 The whole point of Showboat was to point out and protest the rampant racism back then. However, there are no racist depictions in this piece, in my opinion.
@honeybee7700 just harmless caricatures and satire.No reason for you to feel bad about niggers.And I think you meant to use the word "portray",didnt you?
CAN'T HELP LOVIN' THAT MAN OF MINE is sung by JULIE, the mulatto woman in the show, not by QUEENIE, although QUEENIE joins in in the 1936 film version, which is probably the closest to the original Broadway show. The 1951 MGM version has been sanitized.
Lovely rendition of this classic, and Tess avoided making it corny or stereotypical. I miss the original Aunt Jemima on the pancake box. She looked warm and friendly and motherly. I guess it was only right to get rid of the "mammy" outfit, but I don't see why they had to make her lose 30 pounds and jazz up her hairstyle. What's wrong with a full-figured, motherly woman as Aunt Jemima. Before you know it, she'll wind up looking like Diana Ross.
Hard to believe this quality recording is from 1928.
Gardella's jazzy rendition is casual compared with later versions that treated the song as the revered anthem it became. Helen Morgan (with Hattie McDaniel) in 1936 and Ava Gardner in 1951 handled the song with special respect.
In the 1936 scene, Hattie McDaniel stirs some pancake flour. Briefly an anachronistic box of Aunt Jemima Mix is shown on the kitchen counter, a bow to the 1929 film and its Ziegfeld Broadway roots.
Tess Gardella portrayed the character of Queenie in the original Broadway production of Show Boat, which is an African-American character. Since Gardella was Italian-American, she wore blackface. In the 1936 film version of Show Boat, Hattie McDaniel played Queenie (the first African American to ever be nominated or win an Academy Award, which she won for her portrayal of "Mammy" in "Gone with the Wind"). "Aunt Jemima" was a vaudeville character that Gardella would play, in blackface.
"Aunt Jemima" was and is a registered trademark of a large American corporation, not a stage name. My Cousin David attended the original Broadway production of Showboat; there is no "Aunt Jemima" listed in the program, which he had saved as a souvenir. and, many years later,showed to me.
There's a page from the program for the week of July 30th, 1928 reproduced in the book, "The Ziegfeld Touch." The last player listed on the page is Aunt Jemima.
This is NOT true. There was no "Aunt Jemima" in Show Boat. Tess played a character called "Queenie." The only reference to pancakes in the show is a little bit of "the dozens" that Queenie lets loose on her husband, Joe, in an early scene.
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Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man 'til I die Can't help loving that man of mine Maybe he's lazy, maybe he's slow Maybe I'm crazy, lovin him so Can't help loving that man of mine And when he's away..That's a rainy day And when he comes back That day is fine, the sun will shine He can come home as late as can be Home without him aint no home to me Can't help loving that man of mine
Foxolita.I agree with you,wholeheartedly.This music takes me back and is soo much better than anything being written or performed today.Singers ahd to be able to sing!
usicians ahd to be able to perform-anything,not just several chords.Thank you for the music.Wonderful
that's the real figure of the slaves, why don't you niggers get offended with this and instead are fucking with the mexicans for a simple postal stamp,you better have to stop living from welfare and really start to work...
ok, i'm white, rich, female, and jewish. so what? people hate me for all or any of those. this is a place where we can go back and enjoy the wonderful music that these PEOPLE provided. i still would rather listen to this than anything we have today. i always loved hattie mcdaniel and wished i could have met her and hugged her. maybe she wouldn't have hugged me back, i don't know, all i know, is that we are all p e o p l e. period people people, get it? love to all!
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You wish she could of work for you dream on no black females I know these days are giving you the pleasure I dont care how rich you are try watching beyonces crazy in love now thats the stuff black wemon are really made of check out the video you might like it rich jewish chick
Big-hearted Hattie McDaniel would have hugged you back, and would hug the whole big world if she could! The world is filled with loving people who love one another, especially in show business,time now to put away the hate and enjoy the richness of such glorious works of art as SHOWBOAT, perfomed by Blacks and Whites in harmony and joy! Right on foxolita!
I don't think A&A were ever loved by the black race at the time of its heigth. It was a put down even tho they never said anything against the race in so many words.......it was the longest running radio show next to Ma Perkins the "soap"........
hey i think everyone has become too touchy-feely in these "look at me days", Tess does a great job on this song and i enjoyed it very much, dont take everything so serious.
Paul Mooney is my friend and he told me that when these things came out it was all black people had and they loved it. They even loved amous and andy! AMOS and ANDY!
What is the big deal that everybody is commenting crazy fo. Some of us bk take thing a little to seriously, just live life and dont let life live you.
The beef is because Black folk's identities were fashioned and promoted in a manner that was conducive to, and beneficial for, the White power structure.
Being called an "Aunt Jemima" is not insulting because there is something wrong with Jemina the person. It is an insult because she has no self-determining qualities, because she is a shell of a person. Created by someone else for their benefit, not hers. Also because she fiercly identifies with and protects those who use her.
This is why she is loved. So many folks that hated Black people had her image all throughout their kitchens. Because she was comforting, something that they wanted to replicate in other Black people. All Jemima wanted to do was make pancakes for White people. The video doesn't show half of it.
If you get a chance watch "Ethnic Notions" it explains a lot more.
There are many "Uncle Toms". This is a Black person who promotes White interests to the detriment of Black people, although this person can have any name on their birth certificate!
This is exactly what I'm trying to figure out..they'll create this Aunt Jemina character to love and comfort them, so, why couldn't they love her sons? Is this what they meant by the "mammy"? A Black Woman who would comfort them but not take hostility to THEIR hostility towards their sons? I mean, here's the BLack Woman...Black Man isn't too far ahead or behind. Where can I watch "Ethnic Notions"?
Do a youtube search, "Ethnic Notions" is on here in 6 parts.
Aslo, regarding Aunt Jemima's sons and why they were not accepted as weel, it because they were not useful to the power structure. At the point where her husband and sons became usable, that's when they were accepted, i.e. entertainment, servitude (military or butler/gardener), fodder for the prison system.
According to wikipedia, Tess Gardella was a white Italian-American who is best known for her stage persona of "Aunt Jemima". She performed on both stage and screen and always in blackface!
I have a different set of Aunt Jemimah and Uncle Moses salt and pepper shakers. I used to have an Aunt Jemimah cookie jar too.
But I have something you probably do not have... a 14 year old daughter named Jemimah. Jemimah is also the name of the little girl on the 1960's movie CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.
I love the Aunt Jemimas, perfect visual..absolute Americana...
I love this wonderful song from one of the greatest and my favorite musical "Showboat". Only "MAKE BELIEVE" can top this. Do you have "Make Believe?" :)
I'm sure they did! And you know I'm the kindest person this side of heaven--whatever that means. As kind as dear old Auntie Jemima, my favorite family member.
wheres unkle ben?
lazercannoncheck 2 weeks ago
Actually, Aunt Jemima is a depiction of racial sterotyping.
She wears a handkerchief around her head and maid clothing to further the belief that black women are not sexual beings and that they are inferior to white people not only in beauty but also in social standing. Search photos of Aunt Jemima in the 1910s, 1940s, and now and you will see that todays Aunt Jemima is sending the exact same image but altered slightly.
torry7 4 weeks ago
i would like a blow job from aunt jemima and tuck me in to sleep
JxT1957 1 month ago 3
O_O
lere99 1 month ago
we have a different presentation and song in Mexico for the Aun Jemima hot cakes..a lovely black woman too but singing a song in spanish ...miss her much
CarlitosDJmx 2 months ago
I like the old Aunt Jemima pancake box...bring it back!!
mazzata66 3 months ago 3
mmmm aunt jemima and waffels:P
dyllman5 5 months ago
Actually Show Boat was an anti-racist musical play (ca 1929), WRITTEN TO SHOWCASE the brilliant talents of Paul Robeson. It's theme was inter-racial love. This in a heavily racist epoch!
princeandrey 5 months ago
keep eating aunt jemima, fat future
Runsillas89 6 months ago
dammmmm look her fat arm
Runsillas89 6 months ago
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SIGNALSTAT 6 months ago
ITS OK THEY CAN BE RACIST ALL THEY WANT LOOK AT US BLACKS NOW I MEAN WE ARE BRILLIANT!!!!! OH YEA DNT FORGET ARE PRESIDENT IS BLACK AS WELL!!!!!! WE CAME A LONG WAY!!!
Tonyho0124 7 months ago
@Tonyho0124 did you read what you wrote? "ARE" PRESIDENT IS BLACK. The word is "our" President. Please learn how to speak and write proper english before you write something on the internet that makes you and by implication, all other black people look stupid. You can't tell people how far we've come when you show people you don't even know the difference between the 1st grade words "are" and "our."
DreamsCumTrue469 1 month ago
she was a blood?
FatalityTTT 7 months ago
see back in slavery days and days of segregation old black women were called aunt by whites and old black men were called uncle. i heard it was to keep from calling them mr. or ms. this term was used to show lower status. amd lack of repect.
veeseee128 8 months ago
i don't think people who disapprove of racism should use racist terms to describe those whom they deem to be racist..
IDMTOYP 8 months ago 13
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YES, this is racist and the crackers or crackers that came up wit dis shit have dogshit for brains.
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seonfox 9 months ago
@veeseee128 LOL but you know whats so funny. Its impossible to imagine a slave house negro as being fat. she must of been living good off them white folk lolol.
tag1989 8 months ago
@veeseee128 I see your point, but remember this was in the 1920's when they came up with that. The funny thing about you're comment is that Cracker as racist too
ryan489 5 months ago
big black mammy. yep dem whiteys loved that image. 2 left feet, sometin about em.
veeseee128 11 months ago
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poopyscoopyF8 11 months ago
I love aunt Jemima. My grandma's name was Mamie. I don't mind being an aunt Jemima. She cooked, cleaned and kept the family going. LOL>
slapme77times 11 months ago
I'm obsessed with this song. X3 Tess Gardella did a really good job singing it.
CherryFairy02 1 year ago
@IwontConform the only nigger on the page is you i mean come on you 're a smart guy every one knows that nigger mean ignorant such as your self i cant understand if you dont like niggers why are you listening to nigger music, eating nigger pancakes and eating (Aunt Jemima) nigger syrup it SHO IS GOOD AINT BOSS!
spicey551 1 year ago
All of a sudden I have an incredible urge to dig into a big ol' pile of flapjacks.
daven58100 1 year ago
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daven58100 1 year ago
mm jemima
o00o00o00o00o 1 year ago
The Kiwanis Club hosted an Aunt Jemima pancake jubilee every year in my hometown, and Aunt Jemima would come and sing and sign autographs. She toured the schools ahead of time to promote the event. We kids didn't think about racial stereotypes, we just thought she was a neat lady, and she happened to be black. I think she did a lot to teach us that all people are the same, regardless of race.
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Who thought niggers could make good pancakes?
TorgeistLLN 1 year ago
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daven58100 1 year ago
actually, the character Tess played in Showboat was "Queenie" not Aunt Jemima- check out Edna Ferber's novel for the source of this character. Gardella's career as AJ was entirely separate from the Ziegfeld produced musical of Showboat (she had worked for him previously- thus the role in this Broadway show) check out the youtube clip showing her number from Showboat- "Queenie's Ballyhoo"
craigkier 1 year ago
we used to have the salt n pepper shaker
heckler171 1 year ago
Say what you want about racism, but I bet Tess could cook some MEAN soul food. Mmm.
pianonotes1010 1 year ago
I was watching the video "Sitting on tha toilet" and someone said the woman from that video looked like "Aunt Jemima." So i looked up Aunt Jemima and here it is!
iamgem 1 year ago
@iamgem Me to :)
Pumani94 1 year ago
@iamgem craziest story i have veer heard
cunt1o 1 year ago
aww, thanks you guys! I really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! <3
ohlawdymyword 1 year ago
That was the most awsome thing I've seen today
busessuck1 1 year ago
dat sho' be sum fyne singin'! an dem PANKAKES! daze' be as lyght as a feddah1 yass yaaas!
DoctorScuba 1 year ago
Didn't this lady play Buckwheats Mother in one of the little rascal's episodes? The one where Spanky is accused of taking the gangs money? He put's a book in his pants because he's going to get a spanking from his Father, Buckwheat pushed a stroller around in it and said "I comin" or "ice cream man" I think the lady was called Dinah she cooked for Spankys family.
Sheri451 1 year ago
Actually, the character Tess Gardella played in the original 1927 cast of Showboat was named QUEENIE. "Aunt Jemima" was a stage name.
neworleansrandy 1 year ago 2
Actually, the character she played in the original 1927 cast of Showboat was named QUEENIE - Aunt Jemima was a stage name.
neworleansrandy 1 year ago
did betty crocker steal her recipe?
marialove1989 1 year ago
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Lol. Niggers find black women racist? Ha ha.
ToxicOdiousOne 1 year ago
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL she's fat from pancakes
MelRules911 1 year ago
i've got some original aunt jemima saltand pepper shakers. sad to find out they're worth about 10 dollars. (not replicas)... i thought they'd be up at the hundreds.. bah...
izlude2 1 year ago
I wonder how much money did she get paid to do this job? I know a lot of people ocllect this types of stuff. I wished there was a way I could get my hands omsome of it and resell it. Most of the time its at yard sales I guess.
WonderWomanFan4life 1 year ago
Aunt Jemima aka aint yo mama on the pancake box?
HIPHOPCHAMBER2 1 year ago
I can see how this can be construed as stereotypical, but I think racism?
Bogframe 1 year ago 2
i didnt know aunt jemima was even an actual person
stephisraw 1 year ago 4
She aint got no pancake mix!! wait...she does
smutery 1 year ago
@jared610roks
You are an ignorant jackass
IsThatReallyYouAlex 1 year ago
I reallly dont understand why colour matters in any situation?
Racism is stupid and it's awful that it's still out there.
It really annoys me when poeple ask why i'm not black (and have a funny look on their face) when they find out i'm partly kenyan!!
fihaprincess 1 year ago 2
@fihaprincess You're right-- colour and race has NOTHING to do with it. But people with no understanding of art or music or theater will pin the race tag on anything to make their pointless argument, and in the process politicize it to the point where no one can enjoy it any more.
madamerotten 1 year ago 6
i wants me some syrups
XxAnimeGurl178345xX 1 year ago
Sweet and eerie song from "Showboat" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein.
musicaldogs 1 year ago
im brown and the only reason "racism stays alive " is becuz of the people that claim not to be "racist"... and sift for "racism"... "we" as a human species are a "people" of color...get off of the issue
thebuzzbud 1 year ago
@thebuzzbud that was the the worst comment ever
bevans52 1 year ago
@bevans52 and you are the worst nut yo father ever bust
thebuzzbud 1 year ago
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@thebuzzbud and you have no clue who your father is
bevans52 1 year ago
my voice teacher gave me that song^^ i love it :]
mosiafreak 1 year ago
Love the singer, love the song!
pattigeeful 1 year ago 2
does anyone have the sheet music for this? i need it for a performance and if you have it please message me, it'll be so very much appreciated!
onlyforyou77 1 year ago
I recorded this off NPR in college, and have loved the song ever since. Her vocal is so upbeat and fun. Thanks for posting, and it's nice to see the real singer's name because I was a slightly horrified that someone that was clearly talented was having to sing under the name Aunt Jamima.
stevers62 1 year ago 2
i jacked off to this and came all over the screen :3
poopinluggins 1 year ago
Remembering all the bad jokes about Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben of another era it was bad.......but like with many other things now long gone we didn't know any better. Unless your over 60 in today's world you don't know how bad it was.
HarborGuy 1 year ago
@HarborGuy Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We should never forget the ugliest worst expressions of racism. (Slavery, my God. Jim Crow. Apartheid) Never again
Herstory4321 1 year ago 3
@Herstory4321 Slavery has always been apart of human history. People of all colors have all been slaves at one point in history. However, I am not vouching for slavery whatsoever.
hambright1010 1 year ago
Hey, this woman is a super vocalist and the music is great. This is a classic song and the words reflect the love between a man and a woman, nothing else!
butchfoot 1 year ago 2
good music
silly ceramics
ActionAm7 1 year ago
what's wrong with those photos??? i'm black and i think they are cute!! what if it was photos of white salt and pepper shakers and aunt jemima was white?? don't think anyone would make a complaint!!! get over it!!! crying racism is just soooo old!!
TheLadyjazzy1 1 year ago 7
house negro.....@TheLadyjazzy1
clovitis 1 year ago
@TheLadyjazzy1 Sorry to let you know this but racism still exist. It may not be the beast that it use to be but it is still here, just not as visible anymore.
DigitalDezinesCEO 1 year ago
@TheLadyjazzy1 Bravo! Progress.
markbender49 3 months ago
awful awful awful awful awful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesomeness8199 1 year ago
o thats sooooo wrong!!!!!!!!! the lyrics are mixed up and idk but i hate it
awesomeness8199 1 year ago
i live that woman! no doubt about it
blacksmith420 1 year ago
White people dont need to make fun of blacks of stereotype them because they do it themselves :(
GuysSeriously 1 year ago
wow now i fully understand the tears of joy that were in my elders eyes when borack became president.
stookiegal06 1 year ago 5
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Sorry to break the news to you, but borrack obama is not black. His mother is puerto rican, and his father is arabian.
jared610roks 1 year ago
Our President's name is Barack and his mother is American. Ann Dunham's parents are from Kansas. His father was born a Muslim in Kenya.
jazmundln 1 year ago
Well there you go!! He is not black!!
jared610roks 1 year ago
i want the soap dispenser>
misskrissxoxo 1 year ago
Cook your own fucking pancakes.
denzelsnipes69 1 year ago
i wish i had an aunt jemima or a mammy type in my life. id love to have pancakes everyday!
banrepguy 2 years ago
Gotta love Aunt Jemima.
skinny12331 2 years ago
i love it. :)
KatandErinbffFOSHO 2 years ago
You can see the sadness behind her smile.
denzelsnipes69 2 years ago
so many racist depictions it was sad how they betrayed african americans back then
honeybee7700 2 years ago 20
Sounds like a sad case of white guilt.
Northernrebel666 2 years ago
@honeybee7700
We're talking the days of the Riverboat culture, the Showboats,etc. History tells us that those days & shortly after, blacks were working menial jobs, and cooked & served meals, worked the fields, raised the family's children oft-times..so, how are the images of the "mammy" historically-incorrect? The images reflect the goings on at that time. That doesn't make it right by today's standards, but it was what it was. Everyone looks at today and makes judgements about then.
BigBingFan 2 years ago 3
@honeybee7700 oddly enough the ebonics espoused by that caricature of aunt jemima make up a large percentage of the bastardized english widely spoken by blacks in the US (ie "ebonics") so in hindsight it wasn't a betrayal of blacks... but an accurate generalization.
lictor313 1 year ago
@honeybee7700 The whole point of Showboat was to point out and protest the rampant racism back then. However, there are no racist depictions in this piece, in my opinion.
madamerotten 1 year ago
@honeybee7700 Portrayed? For it to be a betrayal, a promise would have to have been made upon which Whitey reneged.
Porkcfish 1 year ago
@honeybee7700 just harmless caricatures and satire.No reason for you to feel bad about niggers.And I think you meant to use the word "portray",didnt you?
IwontConform 1 year ago
@IwontConform Your racist words just show your ignorance.
honeybee7700 1 year ago
@honeybee7700 No,i`m not ignorant.But i think people need to let go of history and quit feeling sorry for blacks.
IwontConform 1 year ago
@IwontConform Yeah, but you didn't have to use that word...
RCDeschene 1 year ago
CAN'T HELP LOVIN' THAT MAN OF MINE is sung by JULIE, the mulatto woman in the show, not by QUEENIE, although QUEENIE joins in in the 1936 film version, which is probably the closest to the original Broadway show. The 1951 MGM version has been sanitized.
RayPointer 2 years ago
WOW! thumbs down for asking who uncle ben was??? sorry! i wanted to know....
creeball 2 years ago
I like my panny cakes with Jack Daniels...
all drippy with butter and surple.
urbild 2 years ago
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Yessss sir yes I's do to. One tme my mster beat me to a raw after he a don a catchin' me with his panny cakaes. Yesss sir. LOL!
dacatholicbandorgan 2 years ago
ahhhhh lol- thats hysterical. blacks must love this icon
banrepguy 2 years ago
Lovely rendition of this classic, and Tess avoided making it corny or stereotypical. I miss the original Aunt Jemima on the pancake box. She looked warm and friendly and motherly. I guess it was only right to get rid of the "mammy" outfit, but I don't see why they had to make her lose 30 pounds and jazz up her hairstyle. What's wrong with a full-figured, motherly woman as Aunt Jemima. Before you know it, she'll wind up looking like Diana Ross.
Razbunyik 2 years ago 9
Everybody loves Aunt Jemima
fannsex 2 years ago 32
Hard to believe this quality recording is from 1928.
Gardella's jazzy rendition is casual compared with later versions that treated the song as the revered anthem it became. Helen Morgan (with Hattie McDaniel) in 1936 and Ava Gardner in 1951 handled the song with special respect.
In the 1936 scene, Hattie McDaniel stirs some pancake flour. Briefly an anachronistic box of Aunt Jemima Mix is shown on the kitchen counter, a bow to the 1929 film and its Ziegfeld Broadway roots.
FoPo4 2 years ago 2
Tess Gardella portrayed the character of Queenie in the original Broadway production of Show Boat, which is an African-American character. Since Gardella was Italian-American, she wore blackface. In the 1936 film version of Show Boat, Hattie McDaniel played Queenie (the first African American to ever be nominated or win an Academy Award, which she won for her portrayal of "Mammy" in "Gone with the Wind"). "Aunt Jemima" was a vaudeville character that Gardella would play, in blackface.
2darcyliz 2 years ago
"Aunt Jemima" was and is a registered trademark of a large American corporation, not a stage name. My Cousin David attended the original Broadway production of Showboat; there is no "Aunt Jemima" listed in the program, which he had saved as a souvenir. and, many years later,showed to me.
radbear67 2 years ago
There's a page from the program for the week of July 30th, 1928 reproduced in the book, "The Ziegfeld Touch." The last player listed on the page is Aunt Jemima.
Gumlegs 2 years ago
This is NOT true. There was no "Aunt Jemima" in Show Boat. Tess played a character called "Queenie." The only reference to pancakes in the show is a little bit of "the dozens" that Queenie lets loose on her husband, Joe, in an early scene.
radbear67 2 years ago
Ya well..Fish gotta Swim..Birds gotta Fly..
HOLYpinkGRASSHOPPER 2 years ago 3
"Aunt Jemima" was the stage name of Tess Gardella.
Gumlegs 2 years ago
That Aunt Jemima teapot is way cute !!!!
Neurozumim 2 years ago
I never knew Aunt Jemima was a real person always thought it was made up like Betty Crocker.
HarborGuy 2 years ago
Uncle Ben (rice) was a real person too.
kariberrie 2 years ago
oh yeah. who WAS uncle ben, originally?
creeball 2 years ago
I believe his name was wali bin abdullah if I'm not mistaken
allyalleybooboo 2 years ago
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Imaspammerdealwithit 3 years ago
and the cream of wheat man
izuma123 3 years ago
I wonder, did she ever got paid back in the day?
MAYDAYES 3 years ago
If she did, it no doubt was very little. What a shame.
paul51 3 years ago 2
I don't believe the musicians are the problem; it's the singers. They just don't have it anymore. :(
westphillysoul 3 years ago
The problem is training... they go from the garage to the stadium, with no learning in between.
quandrax 3 years ago
uhm. not all singers have problems.
MissCarlson2010 3 years ago
I'm about to sing this song with 4 or 5 girls at school, someday soon ;)(an assignment for singing-class)
Maybe my recording of that version will be on youtube soon aswell (y)
Riane2104 3 years ago
-trumpet solo-
And when he's away..That's a rainy day
And when he comes back That day is fine, the sun will shine
He can come home as late as can be
Home without him aint no home to me
Can't help loving that man of mine -end-
Riane2104 3 years ago
Riane2104 3 years ago
This is what i made of the songtext (I'm Dutch.. and this is what i could hear;)
Oh listen sister, i love my mister man,
And I cant tell you why..
There aint no reason ..why I should love that man
It must be something that the angels dont plan,
The chimney smokin, the roof is leeking in,
But he dont seem to care,
He cant be happy with just a sip of gin
I even love them, when his kisses got gin
Riane2104 3 years ago
Did she say she loves kissing him even when his lips taste like jizz??? wtf??
tonybklyn 3 years ago
no she said when his kisses have JIN
nasurdan 3 years ago
OK, I listened again, still sounds like "jizz" but Gin makes more sense.
tonybklyn 3 years ago
Foxolita.I agree with you,wholeheartedly.This music takes me back and is soo much better than anything being written or performed today.Singers ahd to be able to sing!
usicians ahd to be able to perform-anything,not just several chords.Thank you for the music.Wonderful
Squarerig 3 years ago
Thank You for Posting;
All the Rap/Hip-Hop personnel owe money to this musical, and its images.
Time to make the pan-cakes.
Cheers!
Valkyrie Ziege Mourne
12Zwolf 3 years ago
Ahh, I really like this song.
deliciouscakex 3 years ago
I taught aunt Jemima was skinny lol
RichardDdog 3 years ago
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that's the real figure of the slaves, why don't you niggers get offended with this and instead are fucking with the mexicans for a simple postal stamp,you better have to stop living from welfare and really start to work...
abisail 3 years ago
ok, i'm white, rich, female, and jewish. so what? people hate me for all or any of those. this is a place where we can go back and enjoy the wonderful music that these PEOPLE provided. i still would rather listen to this than anything we have today. i always loved hattie mcdaniel and wished i could have met her and hugged her. maybe she wouldn't have hugged me back, i don't know, all i know, is that we are all p e o p l e. period people people, get it? love to all!
foxolita 3 years ago 2
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You wish she could of work for you dream on no black females I know these days are giving you the pleasure I dont care how rich you are try watching beyonces crazy in love now thats the stuff black wemon are really made of check out the video you might like it rich jewish chick
SapphireJ2013 3 years ago
Big-hearted Hattie McDaniel would have hugged you back, and would hug the whole big world if she could! The world is filled with loving people who love one another, especially in show business,time now to put away the hate and enjoy the richness of such glorious works of art as SHOWBOAT, perfomed by Blacks and Whites in harmony and joy! Right on foxolita!
ShowBizComic 3 years ago 2
Well said! I still can see Paul Robeson, singing in Showboat. Enuough said!
yogisuperman 3 years ago
I don't think A&A were ever loved by the black race at the time of its heigth. It was a put down even tho they never said anything against the race in so many words.......it was the longest running radio show next to Ma Perkins the "soap"........
HarborGuy 3 years ago
hey i think everyone has become too touchy-feely in these "look at me days", Tess does a great job on this song and i enjoyed it very much, dont take everything so serious.
butchfoot 3 years ago 2
Paul Mooney is my friend and he told me that when these things came out it was all black people had and they loved it. They even loved amous and andy! AMOS and ANDY!
farfromfake 3 years ago
they loved it becuz they didnt kno ne better..n now dat we do we kno dat it was very degrading
tful88 3 years ago
What is the big deal that everybody is commenting crazy fo. Some of us bk take thing a little to seriously, just live life and dont let life live you.
sistacee30 3 years ago 2
"dat" man? So in other words the Slang used today by many people is basically rooted in White Supremacy.......
VampireLord66 3 years ago
This is why black people dont succeed. We're so worried about what happenned yesterday. Fuck Aunt Jemima. I dont buy that shit!
PresidentOfTheBlacks 3 years ago
It is relevant because it is still happening, watch "Ethnic Notions".
afrochick1 3 years ago
POTB careful there your already on the hitlist ha ha
cherriesandicecream 3 years ago
cherrie-LOL
sistacee30 3 years ago
Aunt J did make some good pancakes tho
cherriesandicecream 3 years ago
Aunt Jemima is rich.
darkchild00 3 years ago
ha ha well whoever invented her yes sir lol
cherriesandicecream 3 years ago
The beef is because Black folk's identities were fashioned and promoted in a manner that was conducive to, and beneficial for, the White power structure.
Being called an "Aunt Jemima" is not insulting because there is something wrong with Jemina the person. It is an insult because she has no self-determining qualities, because she is a shell of a person. Created by someone else for their benefit, not hers. Also because she fiercly identifies with and protects those who use her.
afrochick1 3 years ago 5
I still like aunt J but excellent point.
cherriesandicecream 3 years ago
This is why she is loved. So many folks that hated Black people had her image all throughout their kitchens. Because she was comforting, something that they wanted to replicate in other Black people. All Jemima wanted to do was make pancakes for White people. The video doesn't show half of it.
If you get a chance watch "Ethnic Notions" it explains a lot more.
afrochick1 3 years ago
ight.
cherriesandicecream 3 years ago
What about Uncle Ben that's on the rice box, he was portrayed as a house slave, or house servant or "house ni**er". Does that upset some people?
darkchild00 3 years ago
hey c'mon you know women get hated more...lol only uncle tom I know is uncle tom lol
cherriesandicecream 3 years ago
Well put.
darkchild00 3 years ago
but you know that is a good observation tho.
cherriesandicecream 3 years ago
Yes, indeed.
darkchild00 3 years ago
There are many "Uncle Toms". This is a Black person who promotes White interests to the detriment of Black people, although this person can have any name on their birth certificate!
afrochick1 3 years ago
sadly i think u r right, but there's nothing that we as normal people can do about it so it has not changed since.but i like the music.
Funkdogg 3 years ago
This is exactly what I'm trying to figure out..they'll create this Aunt Jemina character to love and comfort them, so, why couldn't they love her sons? Is this what they meant by the "mammy"? A Black Woman who would comfort them but not take hostility to THEIR hostility towards their sons? I mean, here's the BLack Woman...Black Man isn't too far ahead or behind. Where can I watch "Ethnic Notions"?
MaxSachs 3 years ago
Do a youtube search, "Ethnic Notions" is on here in 6 parts.
Aslo, regarding Aunt Jemima's sons and why they were not accepted as weel, it because they were not useful to the power structure. At the point where her husband and sons became usable, that's when they were accepted, i.e. entertainment, servitude (military or butler/gardener), fodder for the prison system.
afrochick1 3 years ago
that is so racist
reppinny1 3 years ago
According to wikipedia, Tess Gardella was a white Italian-American who is best known for her stage persona of "Aunt Jemima". She performed on both stage and screen and always in blackface!
disco79 4 years ago
She has a great voice.. but I can't help at cringe at some of these images LOL so.. politically incorrect.
disco79 4 years ago
In my family it was pronounced tsotskes. I wonder if that's the Litvak version or they just mispronounced it.
barbcard 4 years ago
Grzegorz, you are a darling! Thank you, I really love that song.
genia106 4 years ago
I have a different set of Aunt Jemimah and Uncle Moses salt and pepper shakers. I used to have an Aunt Jemimah cookie jar too.
But I have something you probably do not have... a 14 year old daughter named Jemimah. Jemimah is also the name of the little girl on the 1960's movie CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.
bowlingballout 4 years ago
I love the Aunt Jemimas, perfect visual..absolute Americana...
I love this wonderful song from one of the greatest and my favorite musical "Showboat". Only "MAKE BELIEVE" can top this. Do you have "Make Believe?" :)
genia106 4 years ago
I like the defiance in showing these Aunt Jemima tchotchkes. They are cute and innocent collectibles, and they go well with the tune.
dzheger 4 years ago
Her objects are quite collectible as a part of Americana..........I have the original c/d of Show Boat..........
HarborGuy 4 years ago
I'm sure they did! And you know I'm the kindest person this side of heaven--whatever that means. As kind as dear old Auntie Jemima, my favorite family member.
barbcard 4 years ago
5 stars just GREAT! I give her credit for helping to break down many, many barriers.....
Her image on Pancakes has improved over the years somewhat tho......
HarborGuy 4 years ago