The Andrews Sisters - Alexander's Ragtime Band

[JORGEPSOUSA911]

Composed by the legendary Irving Berlin!

[twokabooz]

Lovely Voices !!!

[joesready4u]

Horns were big in the 30's and 40's.  They are imitating playing a trombone

[TuberOnTheLoose]

@RobbVonZeppelin - Dude. Autotune did not exist in 1947.

[JORGEPSOUSA911]

Good song!

[kingofpointless]

@RobbVonZeppelin It's not auto-tune, it's a harmony caused by the perfect synchronisation of their voices

[TheKnortel]

@kingofpointless I'm sure RobbVonZeppelin appreciates your clarification.

[kingofpointless]

@TheKnortel Thankyou

[TheKnortel]

@kingofpointless I'm sure you appreciate the fact that I was being ironic. As was RobbVonZeppelin.

[hitlersucks101]

i hate people who don't know the date of the titanic sinking... 14-15th april 1912

[zeak62]

They all hate each other, to bad, but they did. Just like my family, not gonna talk, I will "Dis own you" to bad. but love the songs. God rest them.

[agatematt]

Written in 1911, Alexander's Ragtime Band was the first major hit for the greatest composer of popular music ever --- Irving Berlin (White Christmas, Easter Parade, God Bless America and hundreds of others). A friend bet the young Berlin that he couldn't write a song in the then popular ragtime style. Berlin won the bet & the song remains popular a century later. BTW, the Titanic sank in April 1912.

[warnutztheloser]

dam dis old

[Alexandria1812]

@warnutztheloser Learn to type?

[KittyLaRue100]

I love the tunes from this era as they have so many good memories for me. Fabulous

[FBfan47721]

REAL!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheMovieman159]

TITANIC!!!!! :)

[LeahWalentosky]

@TheMovieman159 This came after the Titanic

[Alexandria1812]

@LeahWalentosky It was written in 1911, one year before hand.

[morah76]

love this song and real voices

[Reycied]

Now THIS is real music. :D

[ukemannb]

playing this in band. middle school marchingband. completely different

[SoFlySoAwesome]

@madmanhahaha You never know. They could have remastered the sound to make it have a better quality...and if they did, they achieved really well.

[VentduSud13]

This is perfect. What else!

[therealjoebloggs]

It was written in 1911; reportedly Wally Hartley and the band on the Titanic played it as one of their uptempo dance tunes hours before the shipwreck.

[roselinabonnie1997]

Now that I hear them singing now, they sound sort of sad while there singing, not like the other proformancces I've heard.



[fmichaelb]

Flashing gang signs?

[beowulven]

@fmichaelb

They straight gangsta.

[Mcoov]

@fmichaelb Nope, just playing air trombones.

[agatematt]

@fmichaelb Those are gang signs the Andrews Sisters are flashing but "V for Victory" which was a widely used symbol (from hand signaled to jewelry to you name it) during World War II that the Allies would beat the Axis. It was first popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

[klapka49]

@agatematt The V sign dates from the battle of Agincourt in 1415 .. when the French threatened to cut of the first 2 fingers of captured English archers. As the defeated French were led past the famed English archers the said archers all raised their fingers in a salute .. the VERY famous 2 fingered salute meaing " **** off "

[chadortom]

wut year was this recorded?

[madmanhahaha]

@chadortom weel i know the first version was around 1938 but this is probably like the 40's or maybe even 50's because it's really good quality for old music.

[arcanumEst]

@madmanhahaha The first version was in 1911, I think. This was made around 1940.

[dwtsderekhough]

This is my favorite version of Alexander's Ragtime Band. I wish that it would go on iTunes.

[baronexes]

great !!! that are real voices  , without computers ... not like today

[Fantasticifaction]

@baronexes Granted, but please, don't ever be a scout on singers. Without one another, their productions can hardly be called music :) try Astrud Gilberto, or whatever her name is. That's voice.

[spencerkrause]

@baronexes you can still hear real voices today, you just gotta know where to look! Check out your local Opera house or Jazz club!...

[WheresxYourxHeart]

@baronexes I'm going to school for voice recording and, except for in EXTREME cases where you have a point, that's like telling someone "that's not your real hair" after brushing a few kinds out of it or "that's not your real face" after emphasizing THEIR eyes with a bit of eyeliner. It's still their voice you hear, just with certain parts emphasized. Something that old recording equipment actually did inherenty by muting a lot of sound.

That's just my two cents.

[WheresxYourxHeart]

@WheresxYourxHeart Oh just for the record, I'm not trying to say that nobody completely remasters their voice. If it sounds robotic or if they do sound like crap live, yes, it's them cheating. What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't automatically think "Oh but I bet he/she can't REALLY sing" every time you hear a good voice on the radio.

[roselinabonnie1997]

I wish music was like this now a days. People my age would think I'm weird unless they were cultured in music rather than whats played on the radio.

[bimbo4746]

ahhh yea my kind of music are any of these gals still with us or are they singin in heaven???

[articuno4ever]

@bimbo4746 Patty Andrews is still alive. Maxene and Laverne passed away in 1995 and 1967.

[5100Joey]

I am too

[gn4561]

@xxilovelgandtsxx me too!! what's the school's name?



[AceVendetta2]

@xxilovelgandtsxx me too



[Audraleedavidson]

Beautiful. Period.

[jackierave]

Thanks for posting this...... My Mama used to sing to this and do a little dancing along with it........ ah such cool memories !!!!!!!! Bless your heart !!

[fuzzywiskers]

Heard this in my music clash, I LURV ET SOO MUCH!! Oh god, its stuck in my head :x