Betty Hutton - Old Man Mose 1939

Certainly its a slapstick song... its making a joke of the euphemism "kicked the bucket".. she is meant to be acting it out literally.
Perhaps its just a way to relax people, so they can communicate about the topic of how someone died.. "well he was in the bathroom and..."

This was on TCM today. I heard her begin to sing and one if the first things that came into mind judging by her voice was "You won't find adobe here in Nairobi!" roflmao

How about posting the whole short film? (Only 3 songs, all great.)

Saw this on TCM the other day and am more and more taken with Ms Hutton each time I see her. This is dynamite stuff.

I Luv Betty Hutton (if u can't tell by my user name... :D) Anyway, I think she wuz great n I love to sing her songs for some of the older people! :D Some day I hope to be at least 1/2 the great actress/singer she wuz!

At the beginning I was thinking that she was very strange with her syncopated dance but at the end it was better that many other modern stuf

Me too!!

Betty is great in this clip! In an interview she said that the opening act for this film didn't show up on time so they tried her instead - knowing very little about her. She said she was afraid she couldn't sing well enough so she added all the running around and physical stuff hoping to distract people from her voice!

better question: who could do this now? answer: no one

I MEANT, I LUV THIS... NUFF SAID