Andrews Sisters - Rhumboogie

The Andrews Sisters screen debut in "Argentine Nights" (1940)

Rhumboogie Lyrics

All Harlem's got a brand new rhythm
And it's burning up the dance halls
Because it's so hot.
They took a little rhumba rhythm,
And they added boogie-woogie,
And-a look what they've got:

Rhumboogie.
Rhumboogie-woogie.
It's Harlem's new creation
With a Cuban syncopation -
It's a killer.

Rhumboogie.
Rhumboogie-woogie.
The native rhythm haunts you,
It's barbaric and it taunts you -
It's a killer.

Just plant you toes and both feet on each side,
Let both your hips and shoulders glide,
Then throw your body a-way back and ride.
Sing a little of
The rhumba
The boogie
The woogie
Then put them
Both all together
You have rhumboogie...

Then all together sing rhumboogie.
Rhumboogie-woogie.
Rhumboogie.
In Harlem or Havana
In Poughkeepsie or Savannah
It's a killer.
It's a killer this rhumboogie.

Rhumboogie.
Rhumboogie.
Rhumboogie-woogie-woogie-woogie-woogie.
Do-do-do-do-u-do-do-do-u-do-do-do-u.
There's nothing like rhumboogie!

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[the1musiclad]

is it exploiting different cultures or is it popularising different cultures? without the andrews sisters and other acts at the time foreign music may never have been accepted by america.

[fiftiesflashback1953]

GREAT CLIP! I never saw this one before. Thanks for sharing.

[Peter1999]

more boogie-woogie, than Rhumba. The Good Neighbor policy in action many of their songs are about , the Caribbean Sea , tropical drinks, and Latin-american Sounds.

[TWOTHREEOFCLUBS]

@seaverful I hope your heaven. I dont care who you are, but thats funny!

[Seaverful]

Rest In Peace Patty Andrews. Hope you're in Heaven.

[Sequoia Young]

Wow! AMAZING, Love It!! :)

[BroccoliBeefed]

Times were weird back then. That's why I'm glad I didn't grow up at that time. People were so stuffy and conservative. Thank god I grew up in the 70s, 80s

[BroccoliBeefed]

I don't understand your little mind and accusation. Did Diana Ross and the Supremes exploit white culture? Take a look at their audiences at the time, they were mostly white.

[BroccoliBeefed]

Makes me wonder why white people are so homogenous and insular.

[DemonicMonkey666]

You sir are a racist and a fool and my proof for this is the video in the video suggestions "Andrew Sisters and the Supremes", why dont you go click on that and prove yourself wrong.

[TheFunkhouser]

Which one was the dike?

[asa1973100]

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!