Harry Richman Puttin on the Ritz Number 1 in 1930 (Before Fred Astaire)
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@garammasala196810 жыл бұрын
Harry Richman was an interesting person who is sadly almost forgotten these days. He was an accomplished pilot as well as entertainer. His autobiography is a real romp.
@ariannecat8 жыл бұрын
+garammasala1968 Yes, I was quite young when I met Harry in Santa Monica in 1970- he was a wonderful man back then, already in his70's I think, and he alway spoke of Puttin on the Ritz. How wonderful to see him in this clip. I rented a little guest house from him.
@FlapperMama8 жыл бұрын
What a great story! He had a really commanding voice and style. I miss that style of music a lot. :(
@CoburtCocain2 жыл бұрын
Of course he's almost forgotten it's been 110 years!! Children don't like these type of songs at least some of them plus there's not that many grandpas or grandmas that are 100 years old to tell them about their generation of music
@binaway2 жыл бұрын
He only did one Hollywood movie, which as we know, dominated show business once the talkies arrived. If Hollywood didn't want you that was the decline of many well know known celebrities.
@purromemes73952 жыл бұрын
I listen to him all the time
@jackd.flippin665610 жыл бұрын
It's a 84 year old clip. Just imagine what the world looks like in 84 years from now, in 2098.
@tehgamerfromhell452310 жыл бұрын
i dont want to :(
@MilitaryKid20129 жыл бұрын
Can we live to that point, first? XD
@Souls_p_8 жыл бұрын
+Jack Flippin That's 21 years after nuclear annihilation :( just imagine being a ghoul or a super mutant or having to become a raider, on the other hand you can start up a settlement and start rebuilding civilization.
@Souls_p_8 жыл бұрын
+darksouls45688 Now 22 years even.
@freesaxon68356 жыл бұрын
Jack Flippin I would rather not !
@TroyOi15 жыл бұрын
"The thirties, and to think we're still singing this years later. (Well, I am.) " You're not alone. That song sticks with ya.
@Tictactag4 ай бұрын
How’s your day today?
@tehgamerfromhell452310 жыл бұрын
this video is like 80 years old but it still renders better than half the videos on youtube
@colingznetwork7816 жыл бұрын
TehGamerFromHell it renders worse
@colingznetwork7816 жыл бұрын
TehGamerFromHell I can barley see his face or the background that well
@bigmike99475 жыл бұрын
@@colingznetwork781 Wooooooooooooosh
@DynamiteMustDie3 жыл бұрын
are u fucking serious?
@CoburtCocain2 жыл бұрын
You mean you liked this quality more than the videos on KZfaq nowadays
@ibm348012 жыл бұрын
I don't feel anyone should be offended by this video. It is a great historic piece to a great song. It reflects an era in time that, although different, change was an unstoppable force (Hence the actual “black” African decent dancers). I find it utterly fascinating to watch this video and see how different life is today compared to 1930. We need to remember the past as it was or else we will be doomed to repeat it. This video helps keep that in focus.
@hildahilpert501811 ай бұрын
By the way wealthy New Yorkers would go up to Harlem to the clubs there and watch Cab Callaway and other famous black entertainers .So it was a mix of whites and blacks in these places.
@anyaw3403 ай бұрын
@@hildahilpert5018 Not really. The blacks were on the stage; the whites were in the audience. Blacks were not allowed to be in the audience, or come in the front door.
@anyaw3403 ай бұрын
Old comment - but as a white man, it's not your place to tell the affected group what they should and shouldn't be offended about. It's easy for YOU to overlook or minimize the racism in this song. It may seem like a l long time ago, but generationally, it most certainly is not. Black people alive now had parents and grandparents who were alive and being subjected to the stereotypes/attitudes depicted in this song. Also, it wasn't unusual for black people to be on the stage by the 1930s; however, you certainly didn't see them sitting in that audience.
@billsmith59858 жыл бұрын
Irving Berlin was simply a genius of music..........
@eddyakko4 жыл бұрын
I'm sitting here in front of my computer screen playing ukulele to the chords of this amazing song while young Harry and the dancers sing and jump around the stage - in 2 days it'll be 90 years since they all performed it! It's spooky and wonderful that the technology lets us reach out and actually participate in something that happened long before we were born. I reckon they all would be mighty pleased to know that all this time later they were not only being watched and appreciated, but that a plunker like me could be right in there, playing with them! (but only if I didn't play E7 when Bb was required)
@horarwgt14 жыл бұрын
Harry Richman, Jr. (1896-1972) was a star of vaudeville, Broadway, a few films and a bit of early TV. He was also quite well endowed, according to the countless ladies who surrounded him. Between 1926 and 1932 Harry racked up 11 hits, from "Blue Skies" and "Birth of the Blues" to "Exactly Like You," "It Was So Beautiful" and "On The Sunny Side of the Street." His biggest hit and only chart-topper was 1930's "Puttin' On The Ritz" (this clip is from the 1930 film of the same title).
@babywah32906 ай бұрын
Bigger than Uncle Miltie?😂
@ARBCOOL07 Жыл бұрын
93 year old video, and still great!
@jennifermazur42852 жыл бұрын
2022 this is still relevant, go sit where fashion sits, puttin on the RITZ. Everyone is still trying to impress or degrade the next person. Nothing has changed.
@juniorthekid1867 Жыл бұрын
Lyrics Have you seen the well-to-do Upon Lennox Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare With their noses in the air. High hats and tollard collars White spats and fifteen dollars Spending every dime For a wonderful time 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 Angle down upon the bevee Of highbrowns from down the levee All that fits Puttin' on the Ritz That's where each and every Lulubelle goes Every Thursday evening with her swell bows Rubbing elbows Come with me and we'll attend their jubillee And see them spend their last two bits Puttin' on the Ritz 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 Angle down upon the bevee Of highbrowns from down the levee All that fits And how they're Puttin' on the Ritz That's where each and every Lulubelle goes Every Thursday evening with her swell bows Rubbing elbows. Come with me and we'll attend their jubillee And see them spend their last two bits. Just Puttin' on the Ritz
@jameswolf71328 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this performance 86 years later, great performance but wow times have changed
@rickrazz10 жыл бұрын
Quite the impressive production for its time.
@janetmillsrice2 жыл бұрын
thank you for saving and sharing these vintage recordings!
@LittleMarin14 жыл бұрын
This song has been stuck in my head for days...and I love it.
@GayGeisha14 жыл бұрын
I always listen to this when I'm down, never fails to cheer me up. Anyone for the ritz?
@gggiraffe13 жыл бұрын
Taco's is like a disco version. I already knew this song, from Ella & Louis, from Fred Astaire's version on a vintage 30's LP. But I didn't know that it came from a Broadway musical, before it was filmed in Top Hat, I think it was, with Astaire. This clip from the stage musical is the real deal !! Look at those sets, the decor! - Right out of expressionist art; just like the early expressionist films. The buildings are expressionist even before they start moving at the end. Just fantastic!
@Satans_Legion_of_Evil2 жыл бұрын
Disco was dead in the 1980's, and i think Taco's was synth or something.
@HarborGuy14 жыл бұрын
Harrr Richmond a true showman........this film was a keeper even in today's world.
@LlygaidAgor14 жыл бұрын
Harry Richman was an extremely wealthy and flamboyant showman. As an amateur pilot he personally financed and co-piloted an attempt to break the return flight across the atlantic in 1936 - seriously ambitious and risky undertaking. Nice to see the video.
@susanda94697 жыл бұрын
This entire song is one continuous hook.
@setphaser13 жыл бұрын
wow! what a treat to see the original performance of this song! thankyou! I love the creepy buildings looming overhead. this is one of the timeless classics of the twentieth century. as meaningful today. if not more so.
@dew75452 жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful tune...and they really serve it up!
@angliase8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this amazing historic clip.. Love the dancers & swaying skyscrapers!
@fiabeantiche81873 жыл бұрын
91 years old! Still fresh! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
@pufftailkitty13 жыл бұрын
What an amazing set design! I like the monster buildings.
@robertfischer3808 ай бұрын
Thanks and kudos to all those who have access to and post these musical clips from the past.
@searchers32255 жыл бұрын
I saw this film around 40 years ago, in a 35mm nitrate print, at Eastman House, Rochester. It was a good print.
@moldyoldie78883 жыл бұрын
I wish I could see a good print of it some day.
@garytheroux95266 ай бұрын
What we are seeing is obviously a videotaped copy of the original film (note the image rolls). I'd like to see a direct transfer from the actual film footage.
@MichaelMellen6 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to have seen this in person! This was an amazing performance.
@retailexplorationwithdanny80704 жыл бұрын
90 YEARS I LOVE THIS SONG
@christopherkinzig50788 жыл бұрын
He lived his life to the fullest!
@valeryjkulakov22739 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for loading the video. These days it became very special for many of us! 2015-01-20
@TrueIncredible Жыл бұрын
Even though there is many copies of this song, this is truly the one old song that many people should give recognition to.
@Neil.Y Жыл бұрын
one copy (or version) is by Taco
@TrueIncredible7 ай бұрын
@@Neil.YYou're SOOO wrong 😂 There's like 3 or more
@Paj1v9 жыл бұрын
I simply LOVE this one!
@horarwgt14 жыл бұрын
Mostly a stage performer, the thrice-married Harry only appeared in three feature films: "Puttin' On The Ritz" (1930), "The Music Goes 'Round" (1936) and "Kicking The Moon Around" (1938). He also turned up in two movie shorts, "Hollywood Snapshots #11" (1929) and "Screen Snapshots Series 9 #11" (1930). On TV, Richman was seen twice on "The Texaco Star Theatre" (1948) and three times on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (twice in 1952 and once in 1963). All I can suggest to find them is an online search.
@Kryasil13 жыл бұрын
Just love the old quality. This is the only one with the original quality. All the other ones are DVD type quality.
@jacobreeves31103 жыл бұрын
He does a good job of always staying in motion as not to be boring.
@theconquistador88627 жыл бұрын
This is GOLD
@ronaldcammarata34224 жыл бұрын
Harry Richman was a big star in his day, though little remembered today. He didn't do much in movies, but his recording of this song was a hit.
@zaGATYLO5 жыл бұрын
Масштаб постановки просто поражает... Как же мы деградировли...
@TheRevelationmaster6 жыл бұрын
Primitive as it is, I love it. Love the song. Richman was an interesting study. Brilliant man.
@NathanielJordon11 жыл бұрын
This is the definition of music.
@kiliandrilltzsch827210 ай бұрын
man what i would pay or sacrifice to go there with modern recoding equipment to get a full colour HD high quality version of the original play. it must have been like magic
@jd0315014 жыл бұрын
It may 80, 90 or 100. When it's great music, who cares. This 72 year old such as heck enjoys it every time I hear it.
@BourlivaDivka11 жыл бұрын
dude- Thank you for this upload!!
@johannesfreund8683 жыл бұрын
Great
@the1texasmccoy10 жыл бұрын
I love this, thanks so much for sharing. Our world would be a better place if things were still like this. It's awesome that this clip is still around, considering how much early film from that time has been lost forever.
@randomquentin9 жыл бұрын
Daydreams of a Vintage Girl Still like this? What about segregation? And you're a woman, so you would be treated like a maid.
@the1texasmccoy9 жыл бұрын
You must have been sleeping in history class. And apparently English class too since you can't read that the poster indicates that this film is from 1930. The previous decade of the 1920's was an era of liberation and freedom for women in America. Hardly a time of being segregated and treated like a maid. Sheesh.
@the1texasmccoy9 жыл бұрын
RandomQuentin OK first of all, are we talking about racial segregation or women's rights? I was talking about neither in my original post. You're the one who brought up women. Now this is somehow about race? "Ehow" is hardly a reliable source for anything. You obviously have a bone to pick and have completely missed the point of my first post. I was merely trying to state that there is a beauty and an innocence in early film that is completely lost in the trash entertainment we are force fed in today's "modern" world. I'm not into debate, so if that's what you're seeking you'll have to go indulge someone else. Peace and good day to you.
@telenahelotova46899 жыл бұрын
Daydreams of a Vintage Girl yes smoking cigarettes and marching in suffragete parades, all manipulation by, edward bernays and his mayonaise sauce on all.
@scatdawg1239 жыл бұрын
Times were better
@AbrahamDiner7 жыл бұрын
what talent and choreography. This could be on Broadway right now in 2017!!!!.
@suzzy1790 Жыл бұрын
Kids: Justin Bieber 2010s Parents: Michael Jackson 1980s Grandparents: Elvis Presley 1950s Great Grandparents: Harry Richman 1920s
@myoldmate11 ай бұрын
I watch this, and it's wonderful, but at the same time, one realises that these young, vibrant folks are probably no longer with us. Life goes by so very quickly. It may not seem to, but while you can you might as well enjoy yourself.
@davidhutchinson52332 жыл бұрын
Loved this movie....it had Harry Richman, Joan Bennett and a host of other great early stars.
@davidhutchinson52334 ай бұрын
And Harlem was super popular in 20s and 30s...bit time. Lennox Ave.
@malonethecock2 жыл бұрын
0:33 is the mr incredible becoming old part
@roecatgaming2 жыл бұрын
ok
@user-so9hu6lt8o2 жыл бұрын
@DaveUltrapro Brツ (DaveAnimationsBrツ) bruh it is
@Neil.Y2 жыл бұрын
@DaveUltrapro Br #todoscontraocharlesrylman it is but for ultra extended not the original
@Rollich13 жыл бұрын
TCM showed the movie once, years ago. It's almost impossible to see it today. What a pity!
@Jimmyfresshhtube12 жыл бұрын
Originally written and composed by Irvin Berlin Revised in 1942 to the lyrics people know today Have you seen the well-to-do up on Lenox Avenue On that famous thoroughfare with their noses in the air High hats and colored collars, white spats and fifteen dollars Spending every dime for a wonderful time 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
@LaffinPumpkin14 жыл бұрын
this song is so damn classic
@horarwgt11 жыл бұрын
This was a #1 hit for Richman as Brunswick 4677 over an eight week chart run beginning Febuary 15, 1930. Broadway and movie star Harry had ten other hits between 1926 and 1932 and died in 1972 at age 77.
@powellmountainmike885311 ай бұрын
From 1923 until 1930 The Cotton Club was located on the corner of Lenox Avenue and 142nd Street in the Harlem area of Manhattan. It became a place where rich white folks would come to see the great black jazz acts that played there. The club itself was segregated to white audiences, and the patrons had to "rub elbows" with the residents of the area to get there. That is what this song was originally about. The first black entertainers at the club allowed to come mingle with the white audience were the Nicholas Brothers, the brilliant dancers, who were young kids at the time, because the audience insisted on meeting these exceptionally talented youngsters.
@veecee36694 жыл бұрын
Thank you, this was great fun!
@joseluisaristadelgado47103 жыл бұрын
Una verdadera joya, un bello montaje de la época, con un tema muy famoso y actual, este tema sigue gustando. Muy bello.
@trinitycat914 жыл бұрын
Woooow, super antiq video! This song had a loooooooog life!
@dick1223510 жыл бұрын
Thanks: My Brain needed this.
@jimmcallister56410 жыл бұрын
Great clip; a real curio from the days when Broadway ruled.
@pxn7489 күн бұрын
There's something frighteningly frantic about this!
@pangelingua8547 Жыл бұрын
The real syncopated rhythm he’s singing is just awesome! Most modern renditions are so blah!!! Great voice, too!
@letseeitplease14 жыл бұрын
i always thought this song was just by Taco , i never knew that this song had been around since 1930 , i really appreciate your video it was truely fantastic, i enjoyed it very much, thanks for posting your video,
@brightphoebus13 жыл бұрын
Really neet! Thoroughly enjoyed that! Thanks so much!
@evvv101015 жыл бұрын
Just Amazing! I love this video!
@JackBond123415 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised such an old video was kept in such good condition.
@653j521 Жыл бұрын
There are many movies from the era in far better condition.
@CarlDuke14 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately I cannot answer your questions. My only advice is to go to the TCM website, because Turner Classic Movies is the only place I have seen this film. It is not currently scheduled to be shown, but it is in their film library. They have a function where you can request they show a particular film. I can't promise they will listen, but about 6 months ago I requested a movie they had not shown before. Perhaps it was just a coincidence but they did recently show it.
@will_rage_quit234810 жыл бұрын
Me and my grandfather whas crying a litle bit for he whas 5 when this song come out
@tessiemae403811 жыл бұрын
Everyone on here is way too young to get the context of this song-even before my time but I love the 20s. Read up on some jazz age history. For the first time, black music was listened to and danced to by the "flappers" and 'coming out' parties included a (black) jazz band. Read about Josephine Baker in Paris in the 1920s-Le Jazz Hot! It was daring and a great adventure to go down to Harlem to party. Like chopping off their hair, smoking, raising hemlines. It was an amazing time.
@creamy35989 жыл бұрын
How is a video from 1930 clearer than any video filmed with an IPhone?
@italia6899 жыл бұрын
TheEnterestingEnderman it is called "analog technology!"
@ThawedTroglodyteJury9 жыл бұрын
TheEnterestingEnderman A better question might be why do 78's and cylinder records often sound better than MP3's. Although this clip is a poor example either way. The video isn't from 1930, the original 35mm is. The video looks awful to me because it's a degraded VHS of a beaten up print. This version is clearer, still very degraded: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJyboJaexLupj58.html Check the Blu-rays of 1927's _Sunrise_ or Buter Keaton's _The General_ to see how great film looked then. Few movies today have higher resolution than the best silent cinematographer's were able to accomplish. Modern stuff may look sharper but it's mostly a much duller palette.
@garytheroux95266 ай бұрын
It's not a video. It's an excerpt from a feature film.
@creamy35986 ай бұрын
Thank you for clearing that up for me 8 years later.
@SuperBlondie199214 жыл бұрын
@kallemick ahhh tru thanx and so do i. i love this song ill start singing it in the middle of school or wen ever i start to think of sumthing that reminds me of the vid/song
@pronkerpronker67084 жыл бұрын
Fantastic clip 0 .0 and the stagecraft entertains, too.
@shagrama15 жыл бұрын
Ahhh... The age of the Musicals and the Boudeville... The 20's flavor... Hell YEAH!!!
@Axgoodofdunemaul14 жыл бұрын
@theprophet20 Jung was 95% right about American culture. Also, Irish everywhere should be proud of their nation with its great steps forward out of communal hatred in Northern Ireland, and also for its great economic advances. The human race is making PROGRESS! Let us REJOICE and not be pessimistic.
@kallemick14 жыл бұрын
if you read this i wanna warn you about the "you know who version" they made a good old classic song into some new-techno-shit DONT WATCH IT ITS A PAIN TO THE EARS now youre warned
@unicorn122115 жыл бұрын
AMAZING ! so cool !!
@arthurhistder11563 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful
@terry18004 жыл бұрын
My grandfather grew up with Harry in the Cincinnati. They used to go rabbit hunting together. If you can find it, read his biography "A Hell of a Life". You might be amazed.
@michelewhite82413 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful !!!
@CarlDuke14 жыл бұрын
There is a CD by Richman available as well in which he sings some of the songs he introduced including this one, Birth of the Blues, On the Sunny Side of the Street and Singing a Vagabond Song.
@maryjones31311 жыл бұрын
love it all...of them old songs i heard my mom play on the piano too
@Jasperi8 жыл бұрын
A compressed digital copy of a VHS tape of a 16mm film being projected.
@Fargobreath14 жыл бұрын
Those buildings creep the hell out of me. Good song.
@gmmix13 жыл бұрын
Great production number. GREAT video. Thanks for posting it.
@bacsi1946110 жыл бұрын
that's soo good. they were marvelous. I read that the dancers made 7 bucks for their part and were glad to get it. Harry Richman the Singer, made millions, got to shack up with Clara Bow which makes me jealous.
@hollyhilpert94174 жыл бұрын
Yeah they were quite an item at one time.Believe it or not she went out with Bela Lugosi.Yes, that one,who played Dracula. Of all of the actors who played the character on film, he's my favorite. Also, the rich people of New York used to "slum" it by going up to Harlem for entertainment at the black clubs.Hence the reference to Harlem in the song and in Taco's video. My dad was born in 1919 and my mom in 1925,.Don't know if they ever saw this film with Harry Richman in it, but they may have seen the film with Fred Astire doing the song.
@2000joec10 жыл бұрын
great upload. I love it. thanks so much
@Axgoodofdunemaul13 жыл бұрын
Gosh I'd like to see this in high definition!
@escociaballs84059 ай бұрын
You only came here because of the video on the evolution of music from 1840-2013, right? Hehehe
@ChadEmperor18718 ай бұрын
I was here cause of taco lol
@eltripunlantelluviosoАй бұрын
Me for a restoration and remix of this song
@valmarquez21124 жыл бұрын
siempre vuelvo a este video. Que riqueza de metraje.
@kruppratte2186 жыл бұрын
Good song
@BalletBabyBoy13 жыл бұрын
Fabulous, those were the days!
@vacheamaillot13 жыл бұрын
wow thant you for putting that online
@guyveloz43822 жыл бұрын
Delectable madness and joy overcomes everything and everyone. My parents knew Harry Richman well, my mother even having a kind of crush on this then super duper superstar. My folks, Veloz and Yolanda, were appearing the Empire Room at Chicago's Palmer House at the same time Richman was knocking them dead at Al Capone's Chez Paree. By the time they met Capone had just been sent up to Sing Sing, and gangster Joey Jacobson took over Chez Paree and used to drive my folks around Chi in his bullet proof car with two other bullet proof cars directly in front of and to the rear of Jacobson's -- he called these his "police"
@dkswede14 жыл бұрын
@cwecub amen man. real artists, real talents, real dancers.
@ibm348012 жыл бұрын
There is no defending racism..... HOWEVER.... the facts are: 1930 was a much, much different time then today. I idea that a large scale main stage production actually employeed "black" african decent dancers instead of Caucasians in black face is really quite progressive for that time. The segeration amongst the dancers was the way society was at that time. This video, as progressive as it is for its time, reflects what every day life would of been in 1930.
@Ricardo193911 жыл бұрын
Just read Richman's autobiography, 'A Hell of a Life', a good read. What a lovable rogue!!
@patrixspringer27538 жыл бұрын
these production numbers were also originally filmed in color, but the color sequences don't survive as most copies of this film derive from old copies duped for black & white TV/reissue in the 40's or 50's... So these scenes especially looked washed out as they had color contrast originally & look washed-out in Black & White...
@awiggins70314 жыл бұрын
thought you could colorize B & W. Could this be done with this film?
@simfan964 жыл бұрын
@@awiggins7031 I attempted to do so with the high quality version of the clip using DeOldify, it didn't really do much or make a drastic difference in the clip itself unfortunately and it still looked like it was in black and white. It'd be awesome to see this film in color!
@awiggins70314 жыл бұрын
@@simfan96 Thanks for reply
@dreambyte79264 жыл бұрын
@@simfan96 What astonishes me is that this film was digitized at correct speed (apparently). As far as I know, many of the ancient films from the b/w era were speeded up to get rid of flicker. Because of this, old films do have this typical flair of hectic motion. Or so I heard. :)
@garytheroux95266 ай бұрын
Silent films were shot at a lower frame rate per second (18 fps) than sound films (24 fps). Thus, when silent films are projected at the higher sound speed, they appear sped up.
@elbandito75049 жыл бұрын
Awesome~
@crazypianolady15 жыл бұрын
Nice to see someone else who has the same opinion of music as I do. I hate music today :( It makes me wonder what music will be like in 20years...
@653j521 Жыл бұрын
In 20 years all the oldies will be saying music of their youth was great. It is ever thus.