Roaring Twenties: Six Jumping Jacks (Harry Reser) - Nagasaki

[Lapisha1929]

agree the tragic pics are out of place

[bill3murr]

love this tune. i was just replaying this and became aware of the columbia record label logo on the beach umbrellas in the last photo. ha. thanks again for the tune and photos.

[SSArcher11]

I see no reason to mix these images. This sweet song was written before the bombing.

There must be some better way to expose the horrors of atomic and nuclear weapons.

[wickirsinn]

Very nice!!

[emersontotalyconfuse]

Powerful flow of energy in music form,absolutely perfect!

[furnutx]

what's the tune at the start? it sounds like another really familiar song!

[MANFROMMARS46]

I think it's Gilbert and Sullivan. I think it may be the overture to The Mikado. This comic operetta was set in Japan or at least in G & S's version of it.

[aliceborealis]

@furnutx It's the Popeye song.

[MANFROMMARS46]

Unfortunately it's black humour Ellen. I agree the music is fabulous. So 1920s.

[Shabannie]

Maybe the lyricist was psychic.

-------Ellen

[MANFROMMARS46]

Perhaps he/she was. I wonder what else he/she predicted, modern day Nostradamus no less.

[CrabTastingMan]

@Shabannie Nagasaki? Japan as a whole was still Evil not only before WWII, but before WWI. A quick proper study of history shows the commonly overlooked their version of Nazism that goes back... quite a while, and still openly unremorseful unlike Germany today on their past crimes.

[DouglasUrantia]

this was played on the pipe organ in Japan in department stores in the 1950s.

[BigIronOnHipMan]

I love Harry Warren [Salvatore Anthony Guaranga born in Brooklyn on 24 December 1893 his parents were Italian immigrants] music and "NAGASAKI" is one of my very favourite. I Only Have Eyes For You, 42nd Street, Chattanooga Choo Choo, We're In The Money, Lullaby Of Broadway, Jeepers Creepers, YOU'LL NEVER KNOW ~ I can hear the beautiful ( my 1st love ) Alice Faye singing it now. Harry wrote `em all! The image of this man belongs on a USA postage stamp at the very least...

[felixjazzage]

Honestly, I have a copy of this recording now By Reser and company, and I'm thinking of creating a video that more matches its mood.

[fatsfan70]

This 'novelty' number was composed by the great Harry Warren, lyrics by Mort Dixon, in 1928 and had little to do with the Japanese city port and absolutely nothing to do with the later events of WW2. The lyrics to this and many early songs can be found on the invaluable Heptunes website. One of the best renditions of this silly but fun song.

[felixjazzage]

Well, I never said the images invoked were a "National Geographic" style travelogue of 1920's Japan...

...And, yes, the great Harry Warren strikes again.

[Squarerig]

Let us hope that we never have to behold such apalling spectacles again.The music is terrific;I cannot follow the text-too quick;he must have had an electric tongue!

[IanDundrillon]

Well said.

[felixjazzage]

The images are *completely inappropriate* for this lighthearted song, that invokes a 1920's image of Nagasaki as a wild international port city full of sailors and their "girls."

It's not ironic as much as just crude...

Love Harry Reser and His Six Jumping Jacks, no matter what they're doing, though.

[miffy1950]

I only know this song, sung by "The Hudson Shad" but it's so lovely to hear this in an original version from the roaring twenties.

Thank you for your wonderful vids.

[dzheger]

Yes, in your previous upload with him, and I like this description. His singing is so unique and so enjoyable. I remember you mentioned his sad end too.

[kspm01]

A toe tapper indeed, and right away a brilliant version up there with the best.

[merrihew]

As good as any of the later famous jazz versions in a different way. I didn't know the song went back that far.

[tlt1536]

This record is priceless...and the flip side "When Sweet Susie Goes Steppin By" is also a hoot!

[dzheger]

Another one of these lovely "Oriental" tunes. And again, Stacks' singing is irresistible -- glad to have gotten to know him on your channel. And another reminder of the horrors of war.

[jozefsterkens]

one of the few songs I can't sing

[genia106]

I am writing this secretly. I don't want my JJ shoes to see this video. They just love the Banjo. They danced their way out of the closet and are going crazy whirling around around the room. They are having so much fun and I must protect them or they might have a meltdown/breakdown. This tune is a real toe tapper!!