Harry Richman - Puttin on the Ritz
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@Rollich1 Maybe you're right - I don't know - but referring to the black maids collectively as "Lulu Belles" has a condescending ring, if not an outright slur.
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@FoxRunMan No racial slur was intended. The song was written with love not hate.
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@FoxRunMan yeah that and "high browns from down the levee"
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@DrKorn5 Thanks for the enlightenment. "That's where each and every Lulu Belle goes" - definitely not PC. LOL And the segregated dance troupes. When I first heard this rendition, I was wondering what happened to the line about "trying hard to look like Gary Cooper", and then I figured out the whole thing had been changed substantially.
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@FoxRunMan Berlin changed it within a year of writing it. It was even too much for 1930 lol. I like original lyrics of songs like "wont you play a simple melody" people always leave out the ragtime verse talking about music "darkies" play not need to make them pc cause it's history.
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In Brazil we live the beautiful music!
congratulations
No brasil vivemos a bela musica
Parabens
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Who knew this song was originally a racial slur? Not me! It was changed substantially by the time Fred Astaire did it. By the way, the dark set with the threatening buildings reminds me of Gotham City in the Batman movies.
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omg so scary i peed mi pants. omgggg
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Ah, 240p, we meet again.
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That is the most frightening set I have ever seen o.o
ydracomagusy 6 months ago 9
If I told someone that the original version of puttin' on the ritz included segregated dancers an entirely different set of lyrics and killer buildings they wouldn't believe me.
This is disturbing on multiple levels but like a train wreck I can't look away
beatlesopera 6 months ago 9