Who knew this song was originally a racial slur? Not me! It was changed substantially by the time Fred Astaire did it. By the way, the dark set with the threatening buildings reminds me of Gotham City in the Batman movies.
@FoxRunMan Berlin changed it within a year of writing it. It was even too much for 1930 lol. I like original lyrics of songs like "wont you play a simple melody" people always leave out the ragtime verse talking about music "darkies" play not need to make them pc cause it's history.
@DrKorn5 Thanks for the enlightenment. "That's where each and every Lulu Belle goes" - definitely not PC. LOL And the segregated dance troupes. When I first heard this rendition, I was wondering what happened to the line about "trying hard to look like Gary Cooper", and then I figured out the whole thing had been changed substantially.
@Rollich1 Maybe you're right - I don't know - but referring to the black maids collectively as "Lulu Belles" has a condescending ring, if not an outright slur.
Dark, just very dark. Who knew the roots of what we think we know.....yep, like a train wreck, couldn't look away. It was state of the art at the time, just remember. Like those killer buildings...
@personlalafa Oh okay. Well I was just stating that you can get pants there for 15. I think. I don't shop for clothes there.. Well, they occasionally have a few good nerdy T's. :P
@personlalafa Nerdy T's are great things. And I've never hated Wal-mart. Just the people there, and well yeah! I mean.. Target is so much better than Wal-mart. Better quality merchandise.
If I told someone that the original version of puttin' on the ritz included segregated dancers an entirely different set of lyrics and killer buildings they wouldn't believe me.
This is disturbing on multiple levels but like a train wreck I can't look away
@beatlesopera i agree. i love the history, dispite it's bad reputation, segregation was just there back then, and im facinated at how they displayed blacks back then. this song gives me the willies.
@nastypenguin Puttin' on the ritz was a white slang expression specifically making fun of people of color who would parade themselves in fancy dress when they were poor as dirt. In 1930's Harlem, the popular place to be, to be seen, was on Lennox Avenue. Also the home of the Cotton Club (at the intersection of Lennox Ave. and 142nd St.) The song pokes fun at people who "bling" themselves out well beyond their means, by joking "let's watch them spend their last two bits, Puttin on the Ritz."
@avnostlga Oh, wow.. I had no idea.. Thank you, for the background information - very interesting.. English is my second language, so I loved this song before I even knew what they are singing about, and even now it's hard for me to separate the words out. I kind of wish I didn't know all of this though.. Can't really enjoy the sounds anymore knowing what's behind the lyrics... =(
@karpovka I would say that it is just a part of musical history. Myself, I like the song regardless of its lyrical meaning. It's what you believe as an individual that really matters. Personally, I do not believe in racism. We all bleed the same color of red regardless of the color of our skin. That statement means to me that all humans are the same. Since all humans are the same, we are all equal. No one is better. No one is worse. Think about all the songs that make fun of white people?
@lanakovacic 'Puttin on the Ritz' meant to act as if one was from the Ritz Hotel, which was the most expensive chain hotel of the era (for example, it was one of the hotels where all the money was washed before being returned to the patrons as change). The later version by Fred Astair, which removed the original racist lyrics, turned the song into the peculiar idea that people who are already rich can 'put on the Ritz', which makes no sense, so it's not surprising that the thing is confusing.
Taco's is like a disco version. I already knew this song, from Ella & Louis, from Fred Astaire's version on a vintage 30's LP. But I didn't know that it came from a Broadway musical, before it was filmed in Top Hat, I think it was, with Astaire.
This clip from the stage musical is the real deal !! Look at those sets, the decor! - Right out of expressionist art; just like the early expressionist films. The buildings are expressionist even before they start moving at the end. Just fantastic!
english is not my mother tongue, and i've never heard the expression puttin on the ritz before, what does it mean, is it something like get happy and make the best out of situation, or something about money. i would really apreciate an explanation, great video, love the vodvilian makeup
loved this...of course fred astaire was great but this is pure entertainment in the raw...choreography was horrible but that is what makes this so special...i am glad i found it...thank you so very much
"spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns from down the levee; all misfits."
might have had something to do with it.
The fact that the black entertainers couldn't get a drink in the front of the house at the time makes the twenties and thirties a hell of a lot different than now. don't sell yourself on the 'bowdlerized' version of the past you see in movies. The truth was civil rights were a shambles in the late twenties and early thirties.
wow! what a treat to see the original performance of this song! thankyou！ I love the creepy buildings looming overhead. this is one of the timeless classics of the twentieth century. as meaningful today. if not more so.
@aplethoraodirigibles It's always been political - the whole song laughs at poor black servants on their night off, trying to look smart and have a good time with no money. Jazz and politics are intimately related, there's no way or need to divorce them.
It's ironic that some Irish are so anti-immigrant (and racist) considering how many emmigrants we exported all over the world. I've never visited the United States, but I rejoiced when Obama was elected president. I felt America had redeemed itself.
@theprophet20 Unfortunately, after Bush, almost anyone else would seem like a good leader. Obama has been good for the international image of the USA. But he has done little for us here at home. Even his promise to end the wars has not been fully realized and it has been nearly two years since his swearing in. yes it is an improvement but we, the USA and the world, needs for the USA to have someone much better.
@shatros I would take Bush in a heartbeat over Obama. Obama is probably the worse president sense Johnson. I would be surprised if I lived to see a worse president in my life.
by making a good image for the USA abroad, don't you mean.....kissing ass and apologizing for who we are?
But I am in complete agreement with you over the fact that we need some one much better.
@Alexn1067 Bush was by far the worst president in US history bar none. He took us to a war that was by any moral and ethical standard wrong and illegal under both US and international law. I am utterly shocked that he has not been executed for war crimes. Then add to that his complete destruction of the US economy. That said, I agree that Obama is not an especially good president and in fact is pretty bad.
@Alexn1067 Kissing ass? hmm. The United States has been shitting on a lot of little helpless countries every since the end of the second world war. I think apologies are still owed. We had absolutely no business going into Iraq. We have been meddling in the affairs of other nations for far too long. It is time we stop wasting our resources on trying to be the world police.
@shatros then why don't you live somewhere else, I don't give a shit, if you read up on your history, every super power that has ever existed has been the source of complaint from little bitches like you. You would bash the Roman empire while completing forgetting the advancements they made for the world....piss off you arrogant dumbass
for your sake, thank god for chap stick and knee pads.
@Alexn1067 So lets see, you believe that if one does not agree with the majority nor with their government they should not criticize either? Guess what? Here in the good old U S of A we have a long history of not agreeing with our government and being in the minority is a tradition. The signatures of three of my ancestors are born on our Declaration of Independence. All three died that I may have the right of speaking my mind and speak it I will.
@Alexn1067 The very reason for the first amendment is to protect the rights of the MINORITY to speak as they will and express their opinion on ANY topic. I am proud of where I am and of my country but gravely disapointed in our leaders who have led us down a dark path. I pity you for being blind to that fact.
My only comment, and do take this without any attack to the song or performance (I loved it) but...
that ending was freaking CREEEPY. Honestly, this is the kind of stuff I would catch on TV in my childhood that would get twisted and distorted into nightmares.
That's a trend, though, of early filmwork: it always has that dark, odd contrast to it that, mixed in with what may be going on in the film, always seems creepy to me.
@kurisux You are so right; it's like a nightmare. Back in the 50s I would be up late, alone and half-asleep, watching the late show. I would see something like this and think I'd had a hallucination.
Origin of these lyrics were written by, "Irving Berlin" in the year of 1928. His inspiration for the song came from, house butlers and / or maids servant's. Their night to go out on the town, and having Thursdays nights off.
@xmen5k Yes it's racist, and America has come a long way since then. What it refers to is the old genre of 'minstrel shows' which were extremely popular from about 1830 to 1920. It's hard to believe how much people liked that stuff for such a long time. The 'blackface' dance you see is influenced by the 'cakewalk' dance that was part of that culture. Someday we'll be able to appreciate this kind of thing without worrying about the race issue, because true equality will have arrived.
@Axgoodofdunemaul I did not realize the racist background of this song until I heard it referred to on an item on Irish radio just the other day. I love the song and the performance here, including the "creepy" ending referred to in another comment. Perhaps true equality finally arrived in the United States, at least in symbolic form, with the election of President Obama?
@theprophet20 Obama's election means that well-meaning Americans are ready to start the long process of curing our racism. It's like a contagious disease, a virus, a meme. We've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. This culture is our American soul; I love it in spite of its faults. I pray for the day to come when we can enjoy it with clear minds. After all "Yankee Doodle" is a racist song, in which the English satirized simple-minded American colonists.
@Axgoodofdunemaul The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung made the interesting observation in the early 20th century, in what would now be considered racist terms, that white Americans were "black under the skin", having been unconsciously influenced by black people by virtue of living closely with them. And it's also a fact that many African Americans have some white ancestry. It seems a shame that people can't get along - we've had it to a certain extent in recent years with inward migration to
@theprophet20 Jung was 95% right about American culture. Also, Irish everywhere should be proud of their nation with its great steps forward out of communal hatred in Northern Ireland, and also for its great economic advances. The human race is making PROGRESS! Let us REJOICE and not be pessimistic.
@Axgoodofdunemaul bro mankind, has always been what it will be, and will always be what it is. They say change is the only constant, the exception to that rule is mankind.
@Alexn1067 What we need is a president with the balls of Reagan, the policies of Ron Paul and the charisma of Kennedy. What we got now is someone who started with some charisma no experience and yes I agree the policies of Johnson. Obama is horrible but Bush was still far worse.
@theprophet20 racism is everywhere in the world. I think it has been more pronounced and more obvious in the USA because of our diverse racial demographics. I work in a factory and last Columbus Day we had a "nationality pride day" where everyone was encouraged to put a colored pin on a map to show where they were from. out of 450 employees there were 121 nations represented. only 55, including myself, put pins in the USA.
@shatros fuck all this ethnicity shit, I am sick of being trying so hard to feel special by segregating themselves.
either you're american or you're not.
people talk about being irish-american, or african-american when they don't speak a word of the old country, they haven't stepped foot into the old country, their grandparents sometimes beyond that were born here......its stupid.
there are better ways to distinguish yourselves as men and women.
found it thank you! next stop itunes. I'm forwarding this to a relative that can play this for me.I did find a hits of the 30's mix on there. Owecub I agree with you but I've found out that Taco tried other music from this time that no one noticed.
@u2control i think you mean irving berlin must be rolling over in his grave by tacos version not to mention the version by "the you know who" (yes thats what theyre called im serious)
I like the video. But I dislike it very much too. It reminds me of those nightmares I used to have when I was a child, that "dooo dooo dooo" sounds really creepy, it's like the spirit of the Great Depression crawling like a ghost everywhere. It looks like somewhere very close to hell, the women sound like moaning spirits and he looks like a semi-diabolical presence, very nightmarish, and very good too. I listen to it a lot.
Btw:Notice the rather "modern" hip movements of the girls.
The 20:s where much more like our times than many seem to think and i guess some of it spilled over into the 30:s (even though things like censorship in movies started then).
Seeing these early talkies always makes me marvel at the invention of recorded film and sound. The performers are long gone, yet their work goes on living.
i want to have some other peoples opinion ok....who do you think did a better job, harry richman, fred astaire, gene wilder, or taco, in my opinion it was gene wilder, on puttin on the ritz
@CincyBengals84 i agree, such as frank sinatra dean martin, and gene kelly, well..atleast we have seth to carry the legacy, i'm proud of him for doing that
this is so classy i want to lead a rebellion against Justin Beiber and burn him on a cross and then go and help 2 chickens mate even though they're from 2 different coops
Harry Richman was an extremely wealthy and flamboyant showman. As an amateur pilot he personally financed and co-piloted an attempt to break the return flight across the atlantic in 1936 - seriously ambitious and risky undertaking.
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Jimmyfresshhtube 1 week ago
In Brazil we live the beautiful music!
congratulations
No brasil vivemos a bela musica
Parabens
dudafelipe 1 week ago
Who knew this song was originally a racial slur? Not me! It was changed substantially by the time Fred Astaire did it. By the way, the dark set with the threatening buildings reminds me of Gotham City in the Batman movies.
FoxRunMan 1 week ago
@FoxRunMan Berlin changed it within a year of writing it. It was even too much for 1930 lol. I like original lyrics of songs like "wont you play a simple melody" people always leave out the ragtime verse talking about music "darkies" play not need to make them pc cause it's history.
DrKorn5 1 week ago
@DrKorn5 Thanks for the enlightenment. "That's where each and every Lulu Belle goes" - definitely not PC. LOL And the segregated dance troupes. When I first heard this rendition, I was wondering what happened to the line about "trying hard to look like Gary Cooper", and then I figured out the whole thing had been changed substantially.
FoxRunMan 1 week ago
@FoxRunMan yeah that and "high browns from down the levee"
DrKorn5 1 week ago
@FoxRunMan No racial slur was intended. The song was written with love not hate.
Rollich1 4 days ago in playlist Almost All
@Rollich1 Maybe you're right - I don't know - but referring to the black maids collectively as "Lulu Belles" has a condescending ring, if not an outright slur.
FoxRunMan 4 days ago
omg so scary i peed mi pants. omgggg
jvemPiRe14 1 week ago
Ah, 240p, we meet again.
DrStabbyPhD 1 month ago 2
I've seen that set in another movie or number. don't they do "singing in the rain" on that set too?
wattever333 1 month ago
I think the reason it is so dark is because of the camera technology of the 30's. Oh, and is it just me, or do the buildings have eyes?
TheDynamon 2 months ago
i'll bet he never got done without CRISCO.
Hot80s 3 months ago
Dark, just very dark. Who knew the roots of what we think we know.....yep, like a train wreck, couldn't look away. It was state of the art at the time, just remember. Like those killer buildings...
SpeegBJ 3 months ago
8 people don't know how to put it on the ritz.
fanboy2015 3 months ago
Gosh I'd like to see this in high definition!
Axgoodofdunemaul 4 months ago
What's with the creepy German Expressionist backdrops? Looks like Dr. Caligari.
archer1949 4 months ago
I wish my pants were 15 dollars. 3:
personlalafa 4 months ago
@personlalafa Wal Mart? :3
chunkypuff91 3 months ago
@chunkypuff91 nope.avi
personlalafa 3 months ago
@personlalafa For real?? Where you live?
chunkypuff91 3 months ago
@chunkypuff91 As in, I loathe wally world. XD lolol
personlalafa 3 months ago
@personlalafa Oh okay. Well I was just stating that you can get pants there for 15. I think. I don't shop for clothes there.. Well, they occasionally have a few good nerdy T's. :P
chunkypuff91 3 months ago
@chunkypuff91 Ah yes nerdy T's, good choice sir. I am a Target gal myself. lol Just always have hated Wal mart
personlalafa 3 months ago
@personlalafa Nerdy T's are great things. And I've never hated Wal-mart. Just the people there, and well yeah! I mean.. Target is so much better than Wal-mart. Better quality merchandise.
chunkypuff91 3 months ago
Fabulous, those were the days!
BalletBabyBoy 5 months ago
anyone who knows what movie formats this movie exists in?
kallemick 5 months ago in playlist Music From The World War Years
@kallemick It is from the musical film Puttin' on the Ritz (1930).
ShawnaCobain 5 months ago
@ShawnaCobain thanks for saying that but im sorry but i already knew that i just meant if it existed on DVD or VHS or something like that
kallemick 5 months ago
@kallemick It does. Haha. I sent you a message wwith the link to where you can buy it online. :)
ShawnaCobain 5 months ago
@ShawnaCobain really? where did you send it? i havent found it
kallemick 5 months ago
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@kallemick your comments on your page. :)
ShawnaCobain 5 months ago
That is the most frightening set I have ever seen o.o
ydracomagusy 6 months ago 9
hairy rich man... every gal's dream!
donutgabe 6 months ago 2
is this the original?????
omg, soooooo old :)
mastinea 6 months ago
@mastinea Yes, it is the original.
ShawnaCobain 5 months ago
If I told someone that the original version of puttin' on the ritz included segregated dancers an entirely different set of lyrics and killer buildings they wouldn't believe me.
This is disturbing on multiple levels but like a train wreck I can't look away
beatlesopera 6 months ago 9
@beatlesopera i agree. i love the history, dispite it's bad reputation, segregation was just there back then, and im facinated at how they displayed blacks back then. this song gives me the willies.
zatnicatienth 6 months ago
@beatlesopera Fuck niggers anyway
crapfacejoe 1 month ago
@crapfacejoe
Dude.
Not cool.
DrStabbyPhD 1 month ago
"Chewy Gooey Girls" in the background. Am I the only one that caught that? Super duper!
ibwilliamsi 6 months ago
@ibwilliamsi It says Chewy Gooey Gum
mosemeister 6 months ago
great song
darkdragon0606 6 months ago
Taco completely murdered this song
WWIIace45 7 months ago
@nastypenguin Puttin' on the ritz was a white slang expression specifically making fun of people of color who would parade themselves in fancy dress when they were poor as dirt. In 1930's Harlem, the popular place to be, to be seen, was on Lennox Avenue. Also the home of the Cotton Club (at the intersection of Lennox Ave. and 142nd St.) The song pokes fun at people who "bling" themselves out well beyond their means, by joking "let's watch them spend their last two bits, Puttin on the Ritz."
avnostlga 7 months ago
@avnostlga Oh, wow.. I had no idea.. Thank you, for the background information - very interesting.. English is my second language, so I loved this song before I even knew what they are singing about, and even now it's hard for me to separate the words out. I kind of wish I didn't know all of this though.. Can't really enjoy the sounds anymore knowing what's behind the lyrics... =(
karpovka 6 months ago
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avnostlga 6 months ago
@karpovka I would say that it is just a part of musical history. Myself, I like the song regardless of its lyrical meaning. It's what you believe as an individual that really matters. Personally, I do not believe in racism. We all bleed the same color of red regardless of the color of our skin. That statement means to me that all humans are the same. Since all humans are the same, we are all equal. No one is better. No one is worse. Think about all the songs that make fun of white people?
avnostlga 6 months ago
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avnostlga 7 months ago
Harry Richman was a good singer and made numerous records in the late 20's and early 30's. I wish TCM would air "Puttin' on the Ritz".
I understand it was not a hit when it came out in 1930.
jazz1929 7 months ago
yeah, the fukkin Minstrels. Take that you politically-correct wowzers!
AlfieNoakesOhHo 7 months ago
I once dressed up in a tailcoat and a top hat for a party, reminded me of this song :D
M4sterOfTheDisaster 7 months ago
I once dressed up in a top hat and a tailcoat for a party= puting on the Ritz!
M4sterOfTheDisaster 7 months ago
What an amazing set design! I like the monster buildings.
pufftailkitty 7 months ago
Damn it. What are the lyrics? They read differently than the version he's singing.
ghostfire93 7 months ago
@ghostfire93 they were changed later i dont know why
kallemick 7 months ago
@lanakovacic 'Puttin on the Ritz' meant to act as if one was from the Ritz Hotel, which was the most expensive chain hotel of the era (for example, it was one of the hotels where all the money was washed before being returned to the patrons as change). The later version by Fred Astair, which removed the original racist lyrics, turned the song into the peculiar idea that people who are already rich can 'put on the Ritz', which makes no sense, so it's not surprising that the thing is confusing.
mulout 8 months ago
@mulout 'Puttin on the Ritz' is just slang for dressing fashionably, not strictly referring to the Ritz Hotel itself.
nasteypenguin 7 months ago
@lanakavacic 'Puttin on the Ritz' meant acting as if one was from the Ritz Hotel which was the most expensive chain hotel of the era.
mulout 8 months ago
Great production number. GREAT video. Thanks for posting it.
gmmix 8 months ago
Taco's is like a disco version. I already knew this song, from Ella & Louis, from Fred Astaire's version on a vintage 30's LP. But I didn't know that it came from a Broadway musical, before it was filmed in Top Hat, I think it was, with Astaire.
This clip from the stage musical is the real deal !! Look at those sets, the decor! - Right out of expressionist art; just like the early expressionist films. The buildings are expressionist even before they start moving at the end. Just fantastic!
gggiraffe 9 months ago 3
@gggiraffe I think was "Blue Skies" not "Top Hat".....
maorod71 7 months ago
what year was this
majorstonner55 9 months ago
@majorstonner55 1930
Thorneycroft1937 9 months ago
@majorstonner55 like...it was made in 1929 the video was posted on youtube in 2008
xzombersx 8 months ago
Nice. I like Taco's version the best though. Any other good ones? :)
antdude 9 months ago
english is not my mother tongue, and i've never heard the expression puttin on the ritz before, what does it mean, is it something like get happy and make the best out of situation, or something about money. i would really apreciate an explanation, great video, love the vodvilian makeup
lanakovacic 9 months ago
@lanakovacic it basicly means putting on fancy clothing orputting on something that's in fashion at the time
warhawk927 9 months ago
@lanakovacic It mean's getting all dressed up & going out all high class. The make-up is vaudevillian.
launwatch 9 months ago
Great set design!!!! Scary Deco!!!
stlgtrace 10 months ago
9 people wern't blue and knew where to go to and didn't put on the ritz
LaffinPumpkin 10 months ago
@LaffinPumpkin no offense but i think a better way to get thumbs up is to make something original
kallemick 10 months ago 2
I liked frankenstiens version better
just2pissyouoff 10 months ago
Just love the old quality. This is the only one with the original quality. All the other ones are DVD type quality.
Sasori4986 10 months ago
so creepy and cool! I love it!
lostXinXtexas 10 months ago
@PSTripler Boohh!!!
odinea67 10 months ago
Taco had nothing on Harry.
donn409 10 months ago 2
What is the reason things were better before?
Seriously.
philidor3 11 months ago
loved this...of course fred astaire was great but this is pure entertainment in the raw...choreography was horrible but that is what makes this so special...i am glad i found it...thank you so very much
laurawhitetail 11 months ago
Really neet! Thoroughly enjoyed that! Thanks so much!
brightphoebus 11 months ago
It is just one big circle of life.
gerkins1 11 months ago
political? oh the line:
"spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns from down the levee; all misfits."
might have had something to do with it.
The fact that the black entertainers couldn't get a drink in the front of the house at the time makes the twenties and thirties a hell of a lot different than now. don't sell yourself on the 'bowdlerized' version of the past you see in movies. The truth was civil rights were a shambles in the late twenties and early thirties.
0d2k 11 months ago
I think I might have answered my questio "The Cotton Club"
africa7is7love 1 year ago
What was the name of the club in Harlem during this period.
africa7is7love 1 year ago
This version if far much better than Astaire's.
ramazanoff 1 year ago 2
now THATS entertainment!
kikiru11 1 year ago
jipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehyeaaaaaaaaaah:)
oBERSERVEReYESbRAIN 1 year ago
Those people have no IDEA how to dance!!!
u2control 1 year ago
@u2control They dance better then anyone in the show business today.
nederland4045 6 months ago
Why is there a politically battle in the comments of a VIDEO about music?XD
Pooky1991 1 year ago
This song is older than I thoughtXD I used to thing it was at least 50's, 60's, or even 70's (from the tons of covers this song has).
Pooky1991 1 year ago
EFF TACO!
BritiShNee1 1 year ago 3
@PSTripler besides just because you didnt like it dosent mean at all that it sucks
kallemick 1 year ago 15
@kallemick It just means he has no taste.
nederland4045 6 months ago
@PSTripler you gotta be kidding me this is talent unlike taco who uses all kind of technology to make un needed sounds that just makes it even worse
kallemick 1 year ago 2
Well at least 7 other people agree with me that this version sucks!! Long live Taco!!!
u2control 1 year ago
@u2control If you don't like it, don't comment on how much you didn't like it, now that;s just rude. -__-
THRILLER761 1 year ago
@THRILLER761
At least it prevents all those "who were the 8 people who disliked this hurrr" comments.
SteffeBNL 11 months ago
@SteffeBNL True. >3>
THRILLER761 11 months ago
TCM showed the movie once, years ago. It's almost impossible to see it today. What a pity!
Rollich 1 year ago
wow thant you for putting that online
vacheamaillot 1 year ago
wow! what a treat to see the original performance of this song! thankyou！ I love the creepy buildings looming overhead. this is one of the timeless classics of the twentieth century. as meaningful today. if not more so.
setphaser 1 year ago
When did anything political come into this? Its a great song, with wonderful choreography. Just watch and enjoy it.
aplethoraodirigibles 1 year ago 33
@aplethoraodirigibles It's always been political - the whole song laughs at poor black servants on their night off, trying to look smart and have a good time with no money. Jazz and politics are intimately related, there's no way or need to divorce them.
potentperson 3 months ago
@odinea: it kills me you can't see Taco's cover for what it is; an interesting reinterpretation of a classic.
riffraffselbow 1 year ago
Great video-love it !!
bobroth1951 1 year ago
It's ironic that some Irish are so anti-immigrant (and racist) considering how many emmigrants we exported all over the world. I've never visited the United States, but I rejoiced when Obama was elected president. I felt America had redeemed itself.
theprophet20 1 year ago
@theprophet20 Unfortunately, after Bush, almost anyone else would seem like a good leader. Obama has been good for the international image of the USA. But he has done little for us here at home. Even his promise to end the wars has not been fully realized and it has been nearly two years since his swearing in. yes it is an improvement but we, the USA and the world, needs for the USA to have someone much better.
shatros 1 year ago
@shatros I would take Bush in a heartbeat over Obama. Obama is probably the worse president sense Johnson. I would be surprised if I lived to see a worse president in my life.
by making a good image for the USA abroad, don't you mean.....kissing ass and apologizing for who we are?
But I am in complete agreement with you over the fact that we need some one much better.
Alexn1067 1 year ago
@Alexn1067 Bush was by far the worst president in US history bar none. He took us to a war that was by any moral and ethical standard wrong and illegal under both US and international law. I am utterly shocked that he has not been executed for war crimes. Then add to that his complete destruction of the US economy. That said, I agree that Obama is not an especially good president and in fact is pretty bad.
shatros 1 year ago
@shatros to say what you just said YOUR CRACK PIPE MUST BE HOT TO THE DAMN TOUCH.
I am not even going to dignify it
Alexn1067 1 year ago
@Alexn1067 Kissing ass? hmm. The United States has been shitting on a lot of little helpless countries every since the end of the second world war. I think apologies are still owed. We had absolutely no business going into Iraq. We have been meddling in the affairs of other nations for far too long. It is time we stop wasting our resources on trying to be the world police.
shatros 1 year ago
@shatros oh I get it, you are just another america hater, born in the wrong country.
you know you can correct that, I bet you get through life with knee pads and lots and lots of chap stick.
Alexn1067 1 year ago
@shatros then why don't you live somewhere else, I don't give a shit, if you read up on your history, every super power that has ever existed has been the source of complaint from little bitches like you. You would bash the Roman empire while completing forgetting the advancements they made for the world....piss off you arrogant dumbass
for your sake, thank god for chap stick and knee pads.
Alexn1067 1 year ago
@Alexn1067 So lets see, you believe that if one does not agree with the majority nor with their government they should not criticize either? Guess what? Here in the good old U S of A we have a long history of not agreeing with our government and being in the minority is a tradition. The signatures of three of my ancestors are born on our Declaration of Independence. All three died that I may have the right of speaking my mind and speak it I will.
shatros 1 year ago
@Alexn1067 The very reason for the first amendment is to protect the rights of the MINORITY to speak as they will and express their opinion on ANY topic. I am proud of where I am and of my country but gravely disapointed in our leaders who have led us down a dark path. I pity you for being blind to that fact.
shatros 1 year ago
For a mild example see some comments posted on my channel.
theprophet20 1 year ago
Ireland from non-white countries. There is some virulent racism here too as can be seen from comments on videos about immigration into this country.
theprophet20 1 year ago
i just luv it,no score 4 good taste
imnsaneru2 1 year ago
At first it seems tacky then it builds and builds till there is quite a power in it.
cooloperetta 1 year ago
6 people who dislike this have no taste for music.
BabyVegeta9000 1 year ago
Harrr Richmond a true showman........this film was a keeper even in today's world.
HarborGuy 1 year ago
love it many kisses xxxxxxxxxxxx
parisel313 1 year ago
My only comment, and do take this without any attack to the song or performance (I loved it) but...
that ending was freaking CREEEPY. Honestly, this is the kind of stuff I would catch on TV in my childhood that would get twisted and distorted into nightmares.
That's a trend, though, of early filmwork: it always has that dark, odd contrast to it that, mixed in with what may be going on in the film, always seems creepy to me.
Otherwise, yeah, this was awesome to see.
kurisux 1 year ago
@kurisux You are so right; it's like a nightmare. Back in the 50s I would be up late, alone and half-asleep, watching the late show. I would see something like this and think I'd had a hallucination.
Axgoodofdunemaul 1 year ago
Origin of these lyrics were written by, "Irving Berlin" in the year of 1928. His inspiration for the song came from, house butlers and / or maids servant's. Their night to go out on the town, and having Thursdays nights off.
LambLion777 1 year ago
i love his voice :)
SeaMusicAtFour 1 year ago
This song has been stuck in my head for days...and I love it.
LittleMarin 1 year ago
10'a of peoplw re sang this song and remix it too super ;)
thedjkay 1 year ago
I like the version Fred Astaire sang in Blue Skies, it's less racist....
xmen5k 1 year ago
@xmen5k racist? it was 1929 there was other standards besides everything aint racist like people says these days
kallemick 1 year ago
@xmen5k whatcha talking about nigga, don't be a fool. niggas went down the harlem dressed up and shit, dumb ass
SANNAFABICH 1 year ago
@xmen5k Yes it's racist, and America has come a long way since then. What it refers to is the old genre of 'minstrel shows' which were extremely popular from about 1830 to 1920. It's hard to believe how much people liked that stuff for such a long time. The 'blackface' dance you see is influenced by the 'cakewalk' dance that was part of that culture. Someday we'll be able to appreciate this kind of thing without worrying about the race issue, because true equality will have arrived.
Axgoodofdunemaul 1 year ago
@Axgoodofdunemaul I long for it to come soon! :-)
xmen5k 1 year ago
@Axgoodofdunemaul I did not realize the racist background of this song until I heard it referred to on an item on Irish radio just the other day. I love the song and the performance here, including the "creepy" ending referred to in another comment. Perhaps true equality finally arrived in the United States, at least in symbolic form, with the election of President Obama?
theprophet20 1 year ago
@theprophet20 Obama's election means that well-meaning Americans are ready to start the long process of curing our racism. It's like a contagious disease, a virus, a meme. We've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. This culture is our American soul; I love it in spite of its faults. I pray for the day to come when we can enjoy it with clear minds. After all "Yankee Doodle" is a racist song, in which the English satirized simple-minded American colonists.
Axgoodofdunemaul 1 year ago
@Axgoodofdunemaul The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung made the interesting observation in the early 20th century, in what would now be considered racist terms, that white Americans were "black under the skin", having been unconsciously influenced by black people by virtue of living closely with them. And it's also a fact that many African Americans have some white ancestry. It seems a shame that people can't get along - we've had it to a certain extent in recent years with inward migration to
theprophet20 1 year ago
@theprophet20 Jung was 95% right about American culture. Also, Irish everywhere should be proud of their nation with its great steps forward out of communal hatred in Northern Ireland, and also for its great economic advances. The human race is making PROGRESS! Let us REJOICE and not be pessimistic.
Axgoodofdunemaul 1 year ago
@Axgoodofdunemaul The human race is making PROGRESS? I don't think so.
kodachromefilm 1 year ago
@Axgoodofdunemaul bro mankind, has always been what it will be, and will always be what it is. They say change is the only constant, the exception to that rule is mankind.
Alexn1067 1 year ago
@Alexn1067 What we need is a president with the balls of Reagan, the policies of Ron Paul and the charisma of Kennedy. What we got now is someone who started with some charisma no experience and yes I agree the policies of Johnson. Obama is horrible but Bush was still far worse.
shatros 1 year ago
@shatros I like libertarianism as well, but I don't like how some men try to make and express their own facts.
if you conducted a nationwide poll, you can bet that a majority of americans would rather have Bush over Obama
Alexn1067 1 year ago
@Alexn1067 yes and in 1944 the majority of Germans prefered Hitler over Von Hindenburg. Being in the majority does not automatically make you right.
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@shatros careful what you wish for
feratu22 1 year ago
@theprophet20 racism is everywhere in the world. I think it has been more pronounced and more obvious in the USA because of our diverse racial demographics. I work in a factory and last Columbus Day we had a "nationality pride day" where everyone was encouraged to put a colored pin on a map to show where they were from. out of 450 employees there were 121 nations represented. only 55, including myself, put pins in the USA.
shatros 1 year ago
@shatros fuck all this ethnicity shit, I am sick of being trying so hard to feel special by segregating themselves.
either you're american or you're not.
people talk about being irish-american, or african-american when they don't speak a word of the old country, they haven't stepped foot into the old country, their grandparents sometimes beyond that were born here......its stupid.
there are better ways to distinguish yourselves as men and women.
Alexn1067 1 year ago
Did anyone catch where Richman said they were going to??? Listen close--it's HARLEM
stevehenry1 1 year ago
id live in the depression.
gothicjokercro 1 year ago
this song will never die muahhahaha
Jutisan 1 year ago
I really was born at the wrong bloody time
GayGeisha 1 year ago
I love how the covers of this song have been adapted to more modern locations, situations, etc. It's such a great song.
bluespringwater 1 year ago
The woman at 2:49 looks so happy and alive... and sexy.
revjimbob 1 year ago
found it thank you! next stop itunes. I'm forwarding this to a relative that can play this for me.I did find a hits of the 30's mix on there. Owecub I agree with you but I've found out that Taco tried other music from this time that no one noticed.
morestuff75 1 year ago
cooooolll
ByeKitty19 1 year ago
Inesquecivel...
Luigina1977 1 year ago
Taco must be rolling over his grave after watching this!!
u2control 1 year ago
@u2control i think you mean irving berlin must be rolling over in his grave by tacos version not to mention the version by "the you know who" (yes thats what theyre called im serious)
kallemick 1 year ago
@Gekkokamen I can totally see were you're coming from, but I think that's what makes it so cool. It's eirie and spooky, but fascinating too.
livingstranger 1 year ago
I like the video. But I dislike it very much too. It reminds me of those nightmares I used to have when I was a child, that "dooo dooo dooo" sounds really creepy, it's like the spirit of the Great Depression crawling like a ghost everywhere. It looks like somewhere very close to hell, the women sound like moaning spirits and he looks like a semi-diabolical presence, very nightmarish, and very good too. I listen to it a lot.
GekkoKamen 1 year ago
I´m just SO impressed!
This was wonderful!
Btw:Notice the rather "modern" hip movements of the girls.
The 20:s where much more like our times than many seem to think and i guess some of it spilled over into the 30:s (even though things like censorship in movies started then).
I loved everything with this film.
carinha40 1 year ago 25
great
l0b1z0n 1 year ago
Seeing these early talkies always makes me marvel at the invention of recorded film and sound. The performers are long gone, yet their work goes on living.
live4entertainment 1 year ago
He should be singing me and my shadow but I love it.
onebaud 1 year ago
@onebaud
Wrong guy, I think. You're thinking of Ted Lewis. Similar voices, though.
davhar1943 1 year ago
The folks are gettin' down and havin' a great time! In later years performers could do a stellar job but you can't top originality!
1dpoppyman 1 year ago
Those buildings creep the hell out of me.
Good song.
Fargobreath 1 year ago
i want to have some other peoples opinion ok....who do you think did a better job, harry richman, fred astaire, gene wilder, or taco, in my opinion it was gene wilder, on puttin on the ritz
curtismichael14 1 year ago
im tellin you the best music of all time was 30s-50s
CincyBengals84 1 year ago
@CincyBengals84 i agree, such as frank sinatra dean martin, and gene kelly, well..atleast we have seth to carry the legacy, i'm proud of him for doing that
curtismichael14 1 year ago
this is so classy i want to lead a rebellion against Justin Beiber and burn him on a cross and then go and help 2 chickens mate even though they're from 2 different coops
Arantre20 1 year ago
Harry Richman was an extremely wealthy and flamboyant showman. As an amateur pilot he personally financed and co-piloted an attempt to break the return flight across the atlantic in 1936 - seriously ambitious and risky undertaking.
Nice to see the video.
LlygaidAgor 1 year ago
@LlygaidAgor Greatman - love how you write "showman"!
BuyBenco 1 year ago
@LlygaidAgor Why you think? Aftir all his name is "Richman"
BuyBenco 1 year ago
I always listen to this when I'm down, never fails to cheer me up. Anyone for the ritz?
GayGeisha 1 year ago
It's surprising how many people
TheMoviefan1996 1 year ago
Good song.
TheMoviefan1996 1 year ago
Fred Astaire changed sum of the words im surprised
SuperBlondie1992 1 year ago
@SuperBlondie1992 its just the lyrics that got changed :) i dont know why exacley but i like both versions
kallemick 1 year ago