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| the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread netskyIam 30 Sep 08 2:11PM | Thread Closed |
Original colour, 1930, Eddie Cantor's signature song, Making Whoopee.
Women today are less restricted, less in need to glom onto some male with money.
Men, dogs, carry on as ever, wagging tales and tails.
1929 record version, audio only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbcubbf3pDA
1930 VIDEO version, not to be missed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRPmTZRqkg
1930 Eddie in colour again. Look at the banjo eyes at the finish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDzT7ubyFx4
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread netskyIam 30 Sep 08 2:20PM | Thread Closed |
I will comment (gobble gobble gobble) as I go along here. Above you met Cantor, Jewish boy made very, very good. He is one of the masters of communicative arts. He is a humourist above all else. He belts songs because in his day of development, all singing was done by lung power, in acoustic arenas. Look at his closing expression in that final segment? WHAT is he saying to you? I don't imagine these things; I intuit them because he is deliberate and I (and you too) are sensitive. Eddie is saying: "I'm getting plenty of pussy, guys, and I will be getting even more as soon as I get back to my backstage changing room." That's what he says, with his eyes and smirk.
Artists today sing great but lack the STYLE. So many great talents of today, but none came from that daily, weekly grind of showing off LIVE for full houses every day, their licks.
Now you've met Eddie Cantor. Who shall we meet next? There's a beloved English comic singer, I must recall his name and find that video....
more to come,
the happy conductor of your brain waves, Marceled.
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread netskyIam 30 Sep 08 2:37PM | Thread Closed |
Here, not the fellow I am going to find, but a great man of his time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW6LCpHSh7I
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Charles Coborn (4 August 1852--23 November 1945) was a British music hall singer and comedian born in Stepney, East London.
In a long career, Coborn was known largely for two comic songs: "Two Lovely Black Eyes" (which he adapted in 1886 from an existing song) and "The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo" by Fred Gilbert.
Coborn estimated that he had sung the latter song 250,000 times in the course of his career, and could sing it in 14 languages. Described as a 'literate man of high principles', he was never fully accepted by the music hall establishment, but continued to work until the end of his long life. Tracks that he recorded in his 80s can be found on Chairman's Choice - Music Hall Greats CD. This filmclip at ITN Archive British Pathe. He died in London in 1945.
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread netskyIam 30 Sep 08 2:46PM | Thread Closed |
British spoofery at its best.
Not old, just Mod, baby, mod.
Get your "groove" on lately, luv?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1lYuWVNqc
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread netskyIam 30 Sep 08 2:56PM | Thread Closed |
must not neglect George Formby, ukulele and song stylist without peer.
Perhaps the best entertainer, ever. He did more for UK morale than Churchill.
His popularity was without equal. His originality was never challenged, to this day, the best.
Here, a sample from one of his many films,
Fanlight Fanny, the frowsey nightclub queen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55-oNqY1yTU
and that's George, master and inventor of this banjo uke technique.
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread joey 30 Sep 08 4:58PM | Thread Closed |
thanks for the link to this. i have the video tape but i don't know if it's ever been released on DVD. cantor is simply wonderful in those days, so smart, and the interesting thing about this film 'whoopie' is that it's almost a recording of what a ziegfeldt show 'actually' looked like. invaluable to me, since i sometimes want to write poems which reflect musical comedy forms -- and really, i think that any 'poet' that couldn't write a set of songs for one of these manhatten musicals from the 20's isn't much of a poet.
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread netskyIam 1 Oct 08 6:07AM | Thread Closed |
Thank you, joey. That was the nicest thing to say for me today. You happened to have just made me happy, happier than I already was.
Let's find Happy Feet. I still can't find/remember that happy, low-worry old fat English guy with Lloyd-style glasses, singing along as he toodles across the countryside in his automobile. He isn't Cantor, but his super-simple message is a Zen-like reminder: enjoy life while we can, and don't worry.
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread netskyIam 1 Oct 08 6:21AM | Thread Closed |
Early Bing Crosby (1930 King of Jazz)
Happy Feet
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5kXsUpYfQ
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuu0nmK_1S8
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1AHISwtCg
This is original Technicolor, still only a two strip colour process: red and green, mixed.
Blues could be "faked" by special lighting filters.
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Bing's first screen appearance
Paul Whiteman, America's premier band leader, iconic, with a dance-double-joker
Paul is introduced by a wonderfully straight Irishman, Charlie, who knows how to run the show.
ALL the best great, white American jazz musicians worked for the Whiteman band.
Bix Biederbeck, Bing, Joe Venuti, scores of others. But due to the racial restrictions of the time,
Whiteman (he sure would have, if he could) could not have or hire a black musician.
It was not allowed; he'd be out of business overnight if he'd mixed races.
ANYWAY, "Happy Feet" is a truly happy classic of camp and humour and all in colour and wit in full flourish. The entire film is like one long vaudeville act on high budget.
It lost money in the theaters; by 1930, it was just one more of too many "color extravaganzas". However, it was the best of them all; the public had simply been overdosed.
Put on your happy shoes and take a tap lesson right now!
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread netskyIam 1 Oct 08 7:01AM | Thread Closed |
MAKING WHOOPEE
(audio link from above, repeated, with corrected lyric:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbcubbf3pDA
Ev'ry time I hear that march from Lohengrin
I am always on the outside, looking in
Maybe that is why I see the funny side
When I see a fallen brother take a bride.
Weddings make a lot of people sad.
But if you're not the groom, it's not so bad...
Another bride
Another June
Another sunny
Honeymoon
Another season
Another reason
For Making Whoopee.
A lot of shoes
A lot of rice
The groom is nervous
He answers twice
It's really killing
That he's so willing
to make whoopee.
Picture a little love nest
Down where the roses cling
Picture the same sweet love nest
Think what a year can bring.
He's washing dishes
And baby clothes
He's so ambitious
He even sews
But don't forget, folks
That's what you get, folks
for Making Whoopee.
Another year
Or maybe less
What's this I hear?
Well, can't you guess?
She feels neglected
And he's suspected
Of Making Whoopee.
She sits alone
'Most every night
He doesn't 'phone
Or even write.
He says he's "busy"
But she says, "is he?"
He's Makin' Whoopee.
He doesn't make much money
Five thousand dollars, per
Some judge, who thinks he's funny
Says, "You pay six to her".
He says: "Now judge, suppose I fail?"
The judge says, "Bud, right into jail.
You'd better keep her.
You'll find it's cheaper
Than Making Whoopee".
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| re: the old video happy tunes and wisdom in a song thread Mongrol 1 Oct 08 8:24AM | Thread Closed |
you do make me smile and entertain the day Net ;)
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