Uploaded by markalson1938 on May 11, 2009
MANY SINGERS RECORDED THIS CHILDREN'S SONG EVEN NELSON EDDY
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Yes, Nelson sang this song on the Disney animated film-Willie the operatic whale who wanted to sing at the Met. Lorraine
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@KillOffGANGREP14 thanks man, that helps. I agree. can't say it's my favorite kind of music (yet), but I do think it's sad that people don't get exposed to it anymore.
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@epikkalypse This is called "Pop Fifties" or "Fifties Pop" it's normally the music of the years following World War II andthe Mid fifties when Rock N Roll came of age. But the music extened throug out the sixties as well. I think this period had the best Bands and singers of any peiod in our hitory. But the media has forgotten that there ever was any music in the fifties except for Rock.
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what do you call this kind of music? what genre would it be labeled as? I love it that old movies have this kind of music in them, but I don't know where or how to start searching. it sounds like there's a whole orchestra behind the singer and I love it. can anybody help please?
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@NintendoJohnWii These words represent a historical dialect, which is nothing to be ashamed of. People are TOO SENSITIVE!!!
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@SandyInSD 'lest we forget'. Forget what? To me the song has always been a song my mother sang. Until I did a google on it (trying to find the right words to correct the hodge podge I was singing to my kids) I didn't even realize there was anything racial behind it. Mum didn't sing 'Mammy's' she sang 'Mumma's'.
When I hear the song I feel comforted. As a child I was ill a lot & when I was my Mum rocked me & sang. One of the songs she sang was 'Shortin Bread'. I love the song.
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It is racist. The two kids are dying of starvation. And the doctor is telling them to eat shortning bread because it was the cheapest bread you could buy and it was basically just lard. It was considered typical for the blacks because they couldn't afford the expensive bread. It was extremely racist. Check out Charles Mingus's version of 'Shortnin' Bread'..about how Mammy's little baby REALLY loves truffles, caviar (caviar?) and all the "fine" things in life. :)
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@markalson1938 Well, 'Mammy', and 'chillun' are suggestive as hell towords racism
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See my Shortnin Bread video on DonSmales channel. Hope you like it.
I couldn't figure out how to post a link to it.
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Why are americans so fucked up on the topic of racism? Discriminating and treating people like inferiors because of ethnical origins = racism.
Making a little fun of stereotypes = fun. White people does it. Black people does it. Yellow people does it. Brown people does it. Red people, well, they probably do it too... they've got all the right in the world to do so. It's not like it ruins lives to have a little laugh.
onkelmonokkel 2 weeks ago
@onkelmonokkel What we call today racism is part of human nature and will never go away. It's just been driven under ground. You should accept people for who they are and not because thy are just like you. But a joke is a joke and no oneshould be offended by it. That's the reason there are no funny TV shows anymore you just can't make fun of anyone anymore. What I wouln't give to hear a good Pollock joke.
markalson1938 2 weeks ago
Nothing wrong with this kind of music. Was not racist then and is not now! Only people who no nothing about it think it was racist.
TheSealOfTheRose 7 months ago 8
@TheSealOfTheRose Your right, but some people see racist behind every rock if it will further their polictical
aims.
markalson1938 7 months ago 7
This recording is the epitome of the blackface minstrel-show acts by white artists in the early 20th C. Atrociously laughable. Thanks for posting it, lest we forget.
SandyInSD 1 year ago
@SandyInSD Yes this was a Minstrel Show Act Song that was made popular by many acts of the day. And it may be laughable or outrages by to days standards. Some would like to pretend that this period never happened. But you can't change history that's the way we were.
markalson1938 1 year ago 5