Fanny Brice - Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love, 1930

[MissVictoryGirl]

I love Fanny, I didn't know about Be Yourself - I actually found out about this song because Gelber & Manning covered it!

[archie977]

i like this good ole music clears my head of some of this new stuff:}

[AmberRay716]

What a powerhouse. Hilarious and charming, but always like you're best friend. Fanny Brice was beyond a legend. Thank you for the song.

[TheJohnlennongirl]

What a gem! Thank you for uploading the real Fanny Brice's beautiful singing voice. I am impressed for sure. :)

[Northshoreman1]

my grandmother met Fanny,back in the 30's at Macys NYC,she had this recordinbg and plyed it for me as a kid while she made me breakfast

[DavidCKendall]

I looked up the history of soap flakes, and yes, it's LUX!

[johnohconnor]

Great, great tune. Tks

[hitlerwearsadress]

gret stuf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

luv Janey!

[LStrachey]

so very fine

[waynebrasler]

Besides being a great comedienne, she was great actress, a great singer and a great character.

[IChewieK9]

I'm baking a biscuit, {She's} willing to risk it While I'm cooking breakfast for the one I love. {I'm} wiping the dishes and breaking the dishes While I'm cooking breakfast for the one I love. I serve a plate of steaming oatmeal Taste it but schucks! Who the heck wants oatmeal, sprinkled with "Lux?" {She} eats a big plateful (and) Faints right after breakfast For the one {she} loves

[JLRoberson]

Oh, she rules.

By the way, if anyone doesn't see what's remarkable about this song for its time: she's not MARRIED to the guy she's singing about.

[rockgor]

How do you know she's not married?

Apparently he's not Jewish either if he's eating

bacon.

Used to have an LP record of Fanny songs. She was both a comedienne and a torch singer.

Tx 4 the post. Been years since I've heard

this great old song.

[xevcosmo]

Just great! Made my whole day. Maria Muldaur lovingly remade it in the 1990's, great posting.

[SatchmoSings]

A nice, clean transfer from an original 78.

This is so preferable to those masturbators that play poorly mic'ced collectible records with steel needles.

[lilypondlane]

I just ordered a DVD of Be Yourself and am looking forward to watching it!

[jkfan2005]

Fanny sings this in "Be Yourself" which was released on DVD by Kino-- DVD Planet has it.

[jkfan2005]

Janet Klein recorded this song, but without the verse about "sprinkled mit Lux" (soap flakes, which few will remember.)

There is a recent video of Janet performing the complete song. Links don't seem to work in these comments, but you can do a YouTube search for "breakfast"+"janet klein" and you'll find it.

[IChewieK9]

sprinkled with LOVE, not Lux or lox!

[CuConnacht]

It rhymes with "shocks" if I'm hearing right. And why would she ask "Who the heck likes hot milk sprinkled with love?" It's "lox."

[goatface1000]

@Fiftiesflashback Lox is what you Americans call smoked salmon how can you sprinkle smoked salmon? Lux is soap and the idea is that she is an incompetent young housewife

[albertdiner]

enjoyed it a lot. I said what happened to the

yiddish accent, and then she went into it at

the end.

[genia106]

Since you mention giblets, maybe Fanny was preparing Turkey Bacon.

[dzheger]

"Real" or not, it's the epitome of sin in Judaism. The concept of "If sin, you might as well do it big way and enjoy it" is expressed in Yiddish as "if you do eat bacon, let it be such a juicy piece that the fat would drip down your beard". I love Fanny Brice and... bacon. Like B, I'm amused by the accent shift, and merrihew meant "Funny Girl", of course.

[kspm01]

So great to hear another on YT by this great singer, sadly forgotten nowadays.

[barbcard]

How could such a nice Jewish girl be cooking bacon for her man? I love the way she shifts accents and though I'm a "modern woman" applaud the way she sings. Thanks.

[2ekan]

Charming. The lady has a distinctly American way of singing that is very captivating in spite of - or because of ? - the message.

[merrihew]

Not only was she a great Vaudeville star but was immensely popular on radio until the end. And yet, except for a flurry of interest at the time of the play/film Funny Face, she seems mostly forgotten by most people. Youtube to the rescue.

[canegracehasettevite]

LOL, adorable.

[bmcneese45a]

LOL. Now I can just hear all the "modern" women saying "No way, he's cooking breakfast for me". LOL Anyway, I love this song. Thanks for posting. --Bill