Stand Up and Cheer - Broadway's Gone Hill-Billy

[hebneh]

What I really want to find on YouTube is the song that comes after this one, "She's Way Up Thar", purportedly sung by a "real hillbilly" who Stepin Fetchit encounters when he is sent up "into the hills" by Warner Baxter to find such a thing.

"She's Way Up Thar" is super obnoxious, but I've always remembered it for that reason from seeing it on TV from the '60s into the early '80. When I saw this film on video in the 1980s, however, the song had been cut.

[AmbrosiaVoyeur]

@hebneh Wow, that sounds amazing. I didn't realize the version I saw was so edited. Bummer! Come on back and say if you ever find it, hmm?

[hebneh]

@AmbrosiaVoyeur I think other sequences with Stepin Fetchit were later cut from the film also, because his character was such a horrible stereotype of a black man that came to be seen as offensive. He's slow and stupid and lazy, constantly talking to himself. When he stumbles upon the "hillbilly", that's who sings "She's Way Up Thar": "She's way up thar / I'm way down hyar / Oh I love that little gal in the moun-tain".

[saxondog2001]

I love it! Thanks so much!