Puttin' On The Ritz - The Clevelanders, 1930 video free download

João Furtado-Coelho

"PUTIN ON THE RITZ"?!!!... LOL... Lovely tune, and the "graphics" precious, as usual. You are a MASTER! Thanks once more -:))

roggie harry Arm

Great record found 3/3/2015 Tuesday by ROGHARM great singer and arrangement. Rated highest 11+. Thank you poster

Randy Thompson

Good rendition, But the art you used in the slideshow WOW ! I could cover the walls of my home with it. Many thanks for sharing. 

fredjmp

How wonderful!

Linda Comeau

J'adore & Vous... Puttin' On The Ritz - The clevelanders 1930.

Murli Advani

Give those twenty and thirty somethings a bunch of clues.

wollestoncraft

This is marvelous, and the pictures gorgeous. If you like this, listen to the version by Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl orchestra from 1930 also. It is fantastic! Thanks for this video!

1928jazz

Scrappy Lambert on vocals, excellent!

Nidhøggr

its fallout time

Valentina Paguidas

Automatically when I hear this song I remember the film by Mel Brooks, Frankenstein Junior! :D

TrappedIn1968

Love this song ! The Clevelanders did the definitive version ! Better than Fred Astaire !

southwriter

I love the pictures that went with the song! It was great!

lexiphon

I´ve always enjoyed 'Puttin´on the ritz`, but I really thought, that it was brought up by Fred Astaire! This morning I watched "Terra X" -a German documentary series... They were playing this known song in this old style while showing aerchological finds in Germany. I liked it so much!

TheOneTrueKaliban

Tell me about it. I remember back in '84, when Taco covered this number and all the X-ers were talking about "that new song". All I could do was shake my ( even then) graying head. But, last year I attended Wonder-Con, out in Frisko. To my delight, a group of teenagers showed up as the four Marx Brothers and, boy, they had the characters DOWN! I could have cried. We ain't licked yet, folks!

zephir332

po prostu - boski kawałek! : )) świetna oprawa graficzna, co za klimat! ach, co my wiemy o muzyce teraz;) to jest zadziwiająco na czasie= absolutnie:))

amberola1b

what can I say about this version,, but HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!!!

wattever333

great choice of pics!

Howard Aiken

This song was re-written in the 1940's to turn Lenox Avenue (Harlem) into Park Avenue (downtown, rich and white). You have to listen to the words to know which version you're hearing.....

Howard Aiken

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where Harlem sits, puttin' on the Ritz. Spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns from down the levee, all misfits, puttin' on the Ritz. That's where each and every lulubelle goes ev'ry Thursday evening with her swell beaus, rubbing elbows. Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee and see them spend their last two bits, puttin' on the Ritz"

Howard Aiken

It's a great song, but the images used here are wrong. Irving Berlin's lyrics refer to the flashy but cheap nights out in Harlem enjoyed by black Americans in the 1920's. The people for whom 15 dollars was a lot of money weren't the rich but chauffeurs and maids. 'Lullubell' was a nickname for any black maid, and 'high browns' were light-skinned, mixed race women. These were the people whose pictures should be associated with this version of the song.

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