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Posted By Spadecaller 1 year, 5 months ago in Arts & Entertainment

A 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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    Spadecaller1 year, 5 months ago

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    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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      Spadecaller1 year, 5 months ago

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      ML:

      LOL; it dated you X 3...

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        Poulenc1 year, 5 months ago

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        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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        Spadecaller1 year, 5 months ago

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        Poulenc,

        I'm impressed. There must be a few of us still roaming around.

        "Horn" Ha!

        You missed a few... but I will reserve the answers to give someone else a stab at it. Thanks for posting your answer.

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        Poulenc1 year, 5 months ago

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        You know, Spade, I don't think of these folks as "old time"--which tells you that I either:

        live in the past

        or in the ongoing present.

        The VERY ongoing present.

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        quackpot1 year, 5 months ago

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        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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          Spadecaller1 year, 5 months ago

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          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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          Spadecaller1 year, 5 months ago

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          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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            Spadecaller1 year, 5 months ago

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            Chaplin's finale in the movie is quite impressive:

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4

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            Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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            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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              engineer1 year, 5 months ago

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              Loved it. Nostalgia

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                not2needy1 year, 5 months ago

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                You certainly covered a lot of territory with that one SC, i really enjoyed that, the Andrews Sisters were great!

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                  Poulenc1 year, 5 months ago

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                  Decax, I believe--I'll have to watch the vid again--that the guy in drag was Jack Lemon, not Curtis. Both however did drag famously for the movie, "Some Like It Hot."

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                  Francisca1 year, 5 months ago

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                  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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                    texangelwings1 year, 5 months ago

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                    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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                      chevydog1 year, 5 months ago

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                      Great post Spade. I guess I got about half of them.

                      Groucho and Harpo, but not Chico? Margaret Dumont had to be one of the great straight ladies in filmdom. She was also a very good actress. I guess maybe her stuff with the Marx Bothers got her type-cast.

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                      Ciera-Marie1 year, 5 months ago

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                      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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                      Mutainia1 year, 5 months ago

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                      Hey, Spade, I saw some of your paintings. I'd be lying if I said they were just impressive. They are fantastic! it think that's your calling.

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                      ETproductions1 year, 5 months ago

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                      Bela Bela... Bela Lugosi. Cute. Thanks for the chuckles, SC.

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                        Shadowolf1 year, 5 months ago

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                        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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