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Posted By Spadecaller 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & EntertainmentA nastalgic and comical video presentation by Spadecaller that accompanies the Yiddish song, "Bei Mir Bis Du Shein," recorded by the Andrew Sisters. See if you can recognize the old time celebrities featured.
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
In 1937, Sammy Cahn heard a performance of the song, sung in Yiddish by African American performers Johnnie and George at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and on seeing the response, got his employer to buy the rights so he (together with Saul Chaplin) could rewrite the song with English language lyrics. He then convinced The Andrews Sisters to perform the song (recorded November 24, 1937), and it became a major hit.
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Poulenc4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mae West
W. C. Fields
Lucile Ball
Groucho
Margeret Dumont
Harpo
Heyworth
Marilyn
Milto Berle
Bella L.
Charlie C.
Jack Benny
Anna Magnani
Fields and Allen
Burt Lancaster
Joe E. Brown and Jack Lemon
Martha Raye
Jimmy Durante
Ingrid Bergman
Gina Lollobrigida
Dietrich
Desi Arnez
Horn
Satchmo with
Danny Kaye
Virginia Mayo...
Let's see; did I miss anyone?
How'd I do?
Nice work, Spade!
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
James Cagney and Milton Berle were featured in drag and one
frame was devoted to Burns and Allen.
But Tony Curtis was not in this piece.
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
LOL! NO... That was Charlie Chaplin... when he starred in his movie, "The Great Dictator".
Thanks for asking, though. I was wondering why wolfie gave this a negative. He probably thought Hitler was being dignified.
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quackpot4 months, 3 weeks ago
History has a way of sorting out what is excellent.
Big band music and the swing, once dumped for rock-and-roll, is an excellent example of excellence!
A great performance, Spadecaller; BRAVO!
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
fyi
The pictures in the video are of Charlie Chaplin not Hitler!
The Great Dictator is a film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it bitterly satirizes Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism.
The film is unusual for its period, in the days prior to American entry into World War II, as the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Well before the full extent of the horrors of Nazism had been uncovered, Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, the latter of whom he excoriates in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts".
(The film was Chaplin's first "talkie", as well his most commercially successful film)
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
RE Hitler:
The pictures in the video are of Charlie Chaplin not Hitler!
The Great Dictator is a film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it bitterly satirizes Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism.
The film is unusual for its period, in the days prior to American entry into World War II, as the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Well before the full extent of the horrors of Nazism had been uncovered, Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, the latter of whom he excoriates in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts".
(The film was Chaplin's first "talkie", as well his most commercially successful film)
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
A bitter fact of history that is rarely discussed in our history books, is that during this period of time, when this film was released, the U.S. were looking the other way at what Nazi Germany was doing.
We turned away many ships of Jewish refugees from our shores; many of whom became the victims of the death camps...
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BronxBomber4 months, 3 weeks ago
RFE, Chaplin set the standards for all film makers. He was the true measuring stick.
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Radiofreeeuropa4 months, 3 weeks ago
Very well done SC!!! Quackpot points out Big Band music was dumped for rock and roll. It was dumped for economic reasons, not aesthetic ones. There was a transition period too, the crooners. The music industry no longer supported large bands economically, so it focused on individual singers, and small ensembles. This began long before rock and roll caught the attention of the public. It simply was far cheaper to produce than large big band music.
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not2needy4 months, 3 weeks ago
You certainly covered a lot of territory with that one SC, i really enjoyed that, the Andrews Sisters were great!
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Dicax_Maximus4 months, 3 weeks ago
Poulenc - Humble apologies again, dunno HOW I could mistake one from t'other, but I did.....
PS. Thanks for the title of the film....
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Francisca4 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks SC! How refreshing to listen to this video...I love the Andrew sisters, and I am wondering if young can understand what is our feeling when we hear them! Beautiful memories for all of us...
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texangelwings4 months, 3 weeks ago
That was great Spadecaller! I really like listening to the Andrew Sisters. Good song! wow....I recognized almost everyone. Poulenc listed them so well!
I bought an autographed old pencil sketch/picture of Clark Gable several years. The picture was of him when he first starting acting.
I told my kids that we had a black n white TV, with color plastic sheets that would stick to the TV screen, which made it color TV...;) I was just looking at some of my mothers pictures, taken in 1945, same hair style as the Andrew Sisters.
Thanks to all for the great comments!
Thanks Spadecaller, nice trip down memory lane! You did a wonderful job of timing the music with the pictures.
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ciera-marie4 months, 3 weeks ago
SC, I'm not old yet (will be 40 this year.) but grew up listening to music from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's. I also knew who have the actors and actresses were in the video. Watched alot of black and white tv on Friday nights. It was the Tarzan and Jane, Dagwood and Blondie, or any other black and white comedy movie or horror show.
I remember listening to this song on the radio with my dad. Good memories. Thank you SC!
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chevydog4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ciera -- No, not old yet. But it has a way of sneaking up on one. I grew up with TV with the exception of CBS. There was no cable; and the transmitter for the CBS station was so situated with respect to the mountains that all anyone in town could get was a semi-defined blob of black and white dots.
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ciera-marie4 months, 3 weeks ago
chveydog I remember a family vacation to Wyoming in 1978. At our friends home they said my brother and I could watch Saturday morning cartoons. There were only three stations that worked on the dial. One was no sound and had partial snowflakes.
Speaking of cable...remember when it was just HBO and MTV? and MTV played music videos? Got the cable fix when I babysat. Problem was when I babysat for the same family more than twice, saw the cable schedule and went there's nothing on. For the longest time it was "The Incredible Shrinking Woman."
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BronxBomber4 months, 3 weeks ago
I see the usual dullards sank this aesthetically nice post. Guess you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
:o[
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ETproductions4 months, 3 weeks ago
Bela Bela... Bela Lugosi. Cute. Thanks for the chuckles, SC.
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rdy2rck4 months, 3 weeks ago
Gave me a feeling of "back in the good old days" if there is such a thing. Very Nice. Thanks
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Shadowolf4 months, 3 weeks ago
Nostalgia...
...remembering another time...I'm sitting here remembering the IMMORTALS of both the silver and the small screens, a smile on my face and a tear in my eye...and a deep sorrow that they have been "replaced" by the likes of Brittney Spears...
I need COFFEE...and a Puffs...
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