Hello My Baby- ragtime piano with singing- Jazz Creature!

This is me (Mark Chang) playing "Hello My Baby" on the piano. Featured in the Warner Bros classic 1955 cartoon "One Froggy Evening" and again in the 1987 Mel Brooks film "Spaceballs", a Star Wars parody. Tune is also known as "Hello Ma Baby". I sing a verse in there, but slightly incorrectly. This video is in response to a comment on my other video "Ragtime Piano Player- Charleston" from someone who said I looked like the creature from the blue lagoon crawling out and playing early jazz.

Others have mentioned that I look like Samara Morgan from "The Ring" or the scary ghost from "The Grudge". Cool. I get so enculturated just from reading the viewer comments on my videos.

At the beginning of the clip, the eerie sound is a Theremin, which I played for effect in the editing room. You may also notice that I transport out of the picture at the end, ala first-generation Star Trek. This is how I get from one piano to another.

Check out my channel for more ragtime piano favorites and other musical madness.

Recorded February 28, 2008 in Davis, CA.

SONG INFORMATION:

"Hello! Ma Baby" is a song written in 1899 by the team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson ("Howard and Emerson"). Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone. The song was first recorded by Arthur Collins on Edison 5470.

Although it is portrayed as a "coon song", with African-American caricatures on the sheet music, the song is easily adaptable to any singer.

Its chorus is far better known than its verse, as the introductory song in the famous Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955), sung by the character later dubbed Michigan J. Frog and high-stepping in the style of Bert Williams:

Hello! ma baby
Hello! ma honey
Hello! ma ragtime gal
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, ma heart's on fire!
If you refuse me
Honey, you'll lose me
Then you'll be left alone
Oh, baby, telephone
And tell me I'm your own!

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[Nytheron]

Herman Li's non-famous cousin

[42Alex18]

Oh my god! The asian relative of Skrillex?

[padantic]

Why is the girl from The Ring playing the piano?

[Punkiidoo]

You scared the crap out of me! I had this video up in a different tab and then was hearing ghost R2D2 in the background. But then when I saw you looked like the girl from the ring I laughed. This is great. <3

[gracebaileyfan]

the sound you made when you came on screen sounded like R2D2 and your hair looks like Chewbacca!

[FirstInstruMentalist]

@42Alex18 ummm no

[Sceneyour]

Excellent. I thought I was in a saloon for a minute. Then I realized that was the girl from 'Tesla'. The lead Singer.

[nanuaraq0409]

@rutty415245 ...and the sign said: "Long haired freaky people need not apply"

[satanspilot]

Poor Rutty415245 thought the piano player was girl.

30 years long hair was the style of most musicians .

[rutty415245]

IT'S A DUDE?!