Let's Do It by Cole Porter With Original Lyrics

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Let's Do It by Cole Porter With Original Lyrics

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14 жыл бұрын

Here is a wonderful performance by Constance Mering of one of Cole Porter's first big hits "Lets Do It" from the show "Paris" You will notice that some of the original lyrics are not used anymore...
Also, please let me explain one of Porter's clever puns that most people do not get nowadays. People from Lithuania are called Lithuanians, however people from Latvia are not always called Latvians; they can be called Letts. Now you can understand the lyric "Lituanians and Letts do it, let's do it, let's fall in love.,

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@Vikkolla 12 жыл бұрын

I'm lithuanian, and I love this song. And I want to do it! Together with Letts! ;))

@balticbushcraft Жыл бұрын

As a Latvian I can confirm that Letts do it! Let's do it!

@AeolianHall1 12 жыл бұрын

It is a paper roll with holes punched in it, and when you put it in a player piano, you can play it. A player piano is a regular piano with the added feature to play automatically. It typically looks like a big old piano, but there are sliding doors in the front and you put the roll in there. You might like some other of my videos. Thanks for writing

@JeffHendrie 12 жыл бұрын

If my grandma were still alive, that song and roll would probably be the single inanimate thing that she'd love the most. She was born that year, June 21, 1929, died January 2, 2012. 81 years old, she would've been 82 tomorrow. Explains why I like this song so much, I knew there had to be somthing special about it. Aside the "hidden" joke in the lyrics.

@samelpaso4433 10 жыл бұрын

Man, this tempo is crazy. Why did people in the 20's do everything so fast? Ahhhhmmmmaaaaaaa-----zzzzzzziiiiiinnnnnggggg.

@marcgoodman4228 5 жыл бұрын

NO You can always set the tempo where you think it sounds best Air motors cannot always be accurate from piano to piano.

@gtimny 4 жыл бұрын

Because they used to DANCE the fox trot... The slow mushy readings of many of these 20s Jazz Age classics came along much later when the WWII GIs of the 1940s wanted to "cling" a bit more to their dates!

@PiotrBarcz 8 ай бұрын

This is fast? Not at all for the foxtrots of the day!

@lilypondlane Ай бұрын

At the beginning of the roll it indicates that the tempo setting is 90 for dancing and 80 for singing.

@visaman 8 жыл бұрын

The song that never ends!

@LuvTheBeatles4Bianca 12 жыл бұрын

luv it! I saw midnight in paris with my dad at age 11 ant I fell in love with this song!

@llspragulus 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your time and recording this!! You and your wonderful piano definitely get a gold star, in my book!

@hakonsoreide 6 жыл бұрын

I think you're right about the Lett pun. I got it first time I heard the song, but then I am quite linguistically minded and sort of knew a person from Latvia could be called a Lett already. When we were listening to the new Ella album and the song came on, I pointed out how clever that pun is to my wife, who knows the song really well, and she thought I was just making it up, so I had to explain to her how Latvia is also called Lettland in several languages: the land of the Letts.

@MyPachina 12 жыл бұрын

Yesterday i saw the film, and i like it. =]] and this melody is one of my favorites//

@sbutros 13 жыл бұрын

I love this!!!! I downloaded it about two weeks ago and I am only 3 months old!!!!!

@levandiem 13 жыл бұрын

i'm 17 and i know it ;), absolutely in love with jazz :D

@richardgreiner9264 Жыл бұрын

Thank you !

@joseluismarianvillar4653 11 жыл бұрын

linda grabacion ......perfecto estado del rollo algo increible.....gracias por compartirla!!!

@CamilaSuperFan 13 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up if Midnight in Paris brought you here!!

@geraldjampol3120 4 жыл бұрын

The original lyrics are lots of fun as long as you're not offended. I've got to find a voice recording with the original lyrics. Noel Coward's version is very funny.

@TestingTakahashi 12 жыл бұрын

It absolutely did.

@regina812 11 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, thank you

@domain387 11 жыл бұрын

I will enlighten you: it's a player piano. Sheet rolls (of music) are placed in like a paper towel rack and the piano plays the music piece all by itself using the holes as instructions. I predict it will catch on in the future because all of us here in 1929 love it.

@IvothePivote 13 жыл бұрын

Beautiful song! MAkes me feel optimistic 'bout love jajaja xD

@AeolianHall1 13 жыл бұрын

Although these rolls are occasionally recut, they leave out the lyrics, although you can write them in yourself. If you want the old, original rolls, there are roll auctions where you can buy them. Go to Mechanical Music Digest on the net and you will find lists of people who have roll auctions

@OnlineTommy 11 жыл бұрын

yup, the point that we heard it and liked it is important.

@1957MCL 6 жыл бұрын

Fuck karaoke, this was where it was at. Can you imagine the partying that went on around the old pianoly back in the day with a few bottles of bathtub hooch?

@prayharpermusic 12 жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable. Thanks for posting!

@Moonlightgrove 12 жыл бұрын

Ilyen volt a második pianínóm:) Még kottáim ma is vannak hozzá. A levegőt alulról egyenletesen két lábpedállal kellett bejuttatni, a zongorába. Sokat pedáloztam, míg hallgattam egy-egy dalt:)

@xMcFlyxBlinkx 13 жыл бұрын

I thank Woody Allen to have shown Cole Porter in Midnight in Paris. I love it now ! (and I'm 16) :)

@AeolianHall1 12 жыл бұрын

It gives a guide on how much vacuum you should be generating by pumping the pedals. In a loud section, you have to pedals faster to make the piano play louder.

@webglider1962 14 жыл бұрын

Excellent quality sound and video. Nothing beats the Duo-art for performance :)

@ANYA.RIZALI 3 жыл бұрын

How cute

@aknabea 12 жыл бұрын

Nice melody!!

@Magamiam 11 жыл бұрын

I'm so lucky to have found this precious gem being played in such a mode : the player piano or "pianola" in my language :) Thank You very much for having it posted Sir and Happiest of Fourth of Julie !!!!!!!!! ( 2013 )) Minerva ~;~

@YanaMusicOfficial 12 жыл бұрын

@CamilaSuperFan Absolutely sensational film. New found love for Cole Porter.

@AeolianHall1 13 жыл бұрын

That's why I put it on. Try watching my video of "Limehouse Blues" or some of the Minstrel Show rolls.The world has gotten better in the last 80 years, but boy, we have a long way to go.

@hotsickle 14 жыл бұрын

Love "It' !

@AeolianHall1 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for explaining it. I shall watch the link you sent.

@AeolianHall1 11 жыл бұрын

At the end of the roll, the number 2812 is printed. That means that this roll was made in Dec. 1928, so the song was probably introduced early in 1928.

@gerardbedecarter 14 жыл бұрын

Wow !

@AeolianHall1 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment; I have a few more Cole Porter tunes such as "You Do Something To Me" and "It's De-lovely" that you might enjoy, and I am putting more on KZfaq in the near future.

@robertwesex6490 8 жыл бұрын

''IT''s good! always was!

@AeolianHall1 14 жыл бұрын

@byrdsmaniac Thanks for the comment; I plan to put a lot more rolls on.

@Volf99 12 жыл бұрын

Tank Girl

@LuvTheBeatles4Bianca 12 жыл бұрын

Oh! Thank you so much! You've got GREAT taste of music! I'm gonna check them out ASAP! :)

@Hawkeye52431 13 жыл бұрын

@yiaustin94 - Completely agree with you on that - I only had the sketchiest idea of who Cole Porter was and just how fantastic his songs are before Midnight in Paris rolled along!

@vanyaborges3936 11 жыл бұрын

I knew the song from the soap Skins Us :o And I loved it since the first time i heard it ^^

@AAErikCO 11 жыл бұрын

Constance Mering brought me here...

@byrdsmaniac 14 жыл бұрын

Oh this is great! (Young people won't even know what that is!)

@byrdsmaniac 12 жыл бұрын

@byrdsmaniac To everyone who keeps responding, I have replied ad nauseum that what the young people won't know is WHAT A PLAYER PIANO IS, not this song! Please stop getting on my case about this remark.

@pianmn199 11 жыл бұрын

Correction - I already posted the Ampico version last Sept.18, 2012 played by Victor Arden.

@SugarBearMosher 13 жыл бұрын

That's what she said

@newPOPCooL 12 жыл бұрын

I love this song and i have 14 years old !!!

@TravelerKM 13 жыл бұрын

I think I speak for everyone when I say, NO ONE CARES HOW OLD YOU ARE.

@sreyashhossain5020 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone watching in 2021??? Cause I am for the first time & i am 10... this vid is older than me

@AeolianHall1 14 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim, let me know what titles from this era you want and if I have them I'll put them on.

@pianmn199 11 жыл бұрын

Great sounding roll! I will post Ampico version soon.

@sineadiloveyou 13 жыл бұрын

i can't believe that so many people knows Cole Porter just from a movie :S u.u

@pcab032007 13 жыл бұрын

Donde puedo encontrar estos rollos muy buen aporte gracias

@AeolianHall1 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, but I am not sure what you mean.

@byrdsmaniac 13 жыл бұрын

@thatTWINKY I actually meant that they (young people) wouldn't know what a player piano is!

@AeolianHall1 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment, and let me plug my channel of AeolianHall1 on YT where I have many videos of historic piano rolls of music that is exactly the same thing people heard 100 years ago. I love it when something becomes "Politically Incorrect" in today's context.

@byrdsmaniac 13 жыл бұрын

@sineaddg Me too!

@AeolianHall1 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I have over 100 more videos you might like.

@JeffHendrie 12 жыл бұрын

Ah, cool, that makes sence. So the line shows you how hard to pump. Interesting.

@fowlerstephen 12 жыл бұрын

I think it's from an old player piano. The music ran through the piano and it used those marks to play the music. Kind of like the way a music box plays music but on a piano.

@AeolianHall1 11 жыл бұрын

If you like Constance Mering, and I do, look up my video of 'Just A Memory'

@josephwaterford 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks to woody allen

@happibunnE 13 жыл бұрын

@byrdsmaniac Some young people do know a thing or two, believe it or not. (Old people don't even know how to be polite!)

@gohanr5 12 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! I love it! Do you by any chance have the sheet music for this? I would love to learn it!

@AeolianHall1 11 жыл бұрын

It is from 1929, when the song was new.

@jim02026 14 жыл бұрын

Very nice! Roll a bit rough but sounded just fine.

@bento3dre 13 жыл бұрын

@byrdsmaniac : dear friend, i'm 24 now and i know this song (even before midnight in paris)...don't judge people for it's age

@gohanr5 11 жыл бұрын

where can i find the piano sheet for this piece? am very interested to play this!

@HerbziCal 11 жыл бұрын

Forget Midnight in Paris- Doctor Who brought me :)

@bill3murr 12 жыл бұрын

"DELISHIOUS"....HA. THANK YOU.

@LePrince1890 11 жыл бұрын

There is one line I always liked as a double entendre. "What's the use of moth b--ls?"

@JeffHendrie 12 жыл бұрын

I just thought of this, what year was this song made? I know (obviously) it's really, really, old... but still.

@AeolianHall1 14 жыл бұрын

@webglider1962 Thank you for your email. I plan to put on many more rolls.

@tomatoherb 12 жыл бұрын

@bkghistorian Yeeeeah good thing those aren't the lyrics anymore.

@xMcFlyxBlinkx 13 жыл бұрын

@KazakageoftheSand Chill out x) I'm telling it just 'cause it's an old song, that's all :).

@AeolianHall1 12 жыл бұрын

Both the song and the piano roll are from 1929.

@jonvgar 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you for wrapping up the mis-interprepation of a historical fact that, as Porter fans, is a tad apparent:)

@AeolianHall1 12 жыл бұрын

You don't sound that curmudgeonly to me, and thank you very much for your interesting comment in any event.

@JeffHendrie 12 жыл бұрын

What's the little black wavy line for? I'm assuming since it starts at "F" it means it goes from loud to soft and such?

@naraku_naru 11 жыл бұрын

hehe, the song caught my attention only because of that 'lithuanians do it, letts do it' bit because i'm from latvia myself. nobody really uses letts anymore, though, that's a rather archaic thing that originated back when germans used to govern here, i think. /random history fact

@xMcFlyxBlinkx 13 жыл бұрын

@KazakageoftheSand Anyway, this quarrel had no reason to be so have a good day.

@gamehelp123ful 9 жыл бұрын

Pls someone make the synthesia piano for this song

@yiaustin94 13 жыл бұрын

@sineadiloveyou I don't really thing it's an appropriate reaction that someone should get upset that a movie introduced people to music. If anything, it's more beneficial for Cole Porter that many people now are familiar with him thanks to Woody Allen. If "Midnight in Paris" didn't have this song on its soundtrack, the amount of people who know Cole Porter would be a lot smaller than what it is now. Music should be embraced for what it is and who made it.

@blubb712 12 жыл бұрын

What's so bad about french people? I'm german and I was in France for several times and the people there seemed very nice

@anonimousehistoria 11 жыл бұрын

Rolls: 20s Singestar

@hinata750 13 жыл бұрын

@byrdsmaniac yea im 18 an i know wat it is lol

@musicman10201 11 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what date the piano roll is from?

@mlongogd 5 жыл бұрын

@Redrawinginari 13 жыл бұрын

@byrdsmaniac HEY THATS NOT TRUE >=O i love this type of music, better than today's stupid main stream stuff. =D

@Volf99 12 жыл бұрын

sorry let me elaborate. The movie tank girl features the song. Here is a link to what I'm referring to.... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtamgKamxL_JiYk.html

@girl73music 13 жыл бұрын

*-* omg, I need the chords/partiture !!!! :D

@garygordon2572 10 жыл бұрын

Do you know if there are any recuts of this roll with the original lyrics? I am sure the PC crowd we be all over it like stink on sh*t. Cole Porter was simply great. Rudy Valle also does a great rendition with some additional lyrics

@VlogSuxx 12 жыл бұрын

@byrdsmaniac Hey, i don't agree with you, i'm 14 years old and i'm a huge fan of Cole Porter

@luannefarmer 6 жыл бұрын

is this stereo, I need Cole Porter songs in stereo but original sounding

@tiberiui4027 7 жыл бұрын

Where can I find this specific music sheet?

@PiotrBarcz 8 ай бұрын

You can't find it, it never existed to begin with.

@xMcFlyxBlinkx 13 жыл бұрын

@KazakageoftheSand Umm what does that have to do with it ? You're going to make me believe that BECAUSE I use this smiley, it means that I'm mentally inferior ? lol, calm down geez !

@xMcFlyxBlinkx 13 жыл бұрын

@KazakageoftheSand Lol that's just cliché ! have a talk with a french and then, we'll discuss about it.