Eddie Cantor- Swing Is Here To Sway

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 1937
• Eddie
• Cantor
• swing
• hollywood

[a07002]

Simply wonderful!  Thank you for posting this.

[nicoley132]

Cab Calloway: the universal language understood by black people throughout history

[devatiriya]

I used to have this on tape... thank you for sharing what is one of the most wonderful songs of all times.;Eddie and Friends really show us young ones how to rock!

[sirwolfit]

This is absolutely marvellous...sheer exuberance from start to finish!

Cantor was a huge star in his own day but is now largely forgotten...why??

Incidentally the number's actual title is "Swing is here to Sway."

[joehancock01]

i sooo agree

[dajghoti25]

There was a time when a "white" man singing "black" music was illegal so when an entertainer wanted to sing "black" music he went "black face". It was meant as appreciation not degredation

[298625]

What a song and dance man! A great talent.

[drednm]

SUPERB... one of Eddie Cantor's best numbers. It incorporates all his stage schtick into a terrific musical number. The dancer is Jeni Le Gon (who is still alive) and the fabulous Peters Sisters. Just a wonderful song and dance number that lampoons popular dance crazes of the era: Struttin', Peckin', and the Suzy Q.

Cantor was one of the biggest stars of this time, famous of black face and dancing. His renditions of "If You Knew Suzy" and "Whoopee" were among the biggest songs of the time.

[bchfront]

...and a quick P.S.: I think that the three-speciality singers who re-prise the number, were billed, as memory serves, as "The Peters Sisters". The song, was probably by the two-"house-guys" at Fox at that time, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel. As with many of the songs my grandad did at WB, Fox really "plugged" the hell out of this one. Noticed recently it was used as underscoring on a Tyrone Power- Loretta Young of that same year, called "Second Honeymoon"! R.J.

[bchfront]

Interesting sidelight to this film: Joesph Schneck, who had just incorporated 20th, with Fox, apparently approached his old-protege, Buster Keaton about directing this. Keaton was very enthusiastic about the idea, but Darryl Zanuck who had the final-say, went with David Butler. Butler would direct some of the "Road" films later-on and became one of my grandfather's closest-chums at Warners', and a good friend of our family's. R.J.