When Sophie heard the playback of her first Edison cylinder she exclaimed, "My God,I sound like a foghorn!"

Think about this. This song is more tan a 100 years old. And now you're playing it on a device that put all the human knowledge at your disposal at any moment of the day or night. It's hard to imagine for me what the future will be in 100 years from now for human race.

Old is gold.

There will never be another SOPHIE TUCKER!👑 As a kid saw her on Ed Sullivan show and was able to get a personally autographed photo! Unfortunately that was lost (long story 😕) I definitely miss 😢 Sophie and that photo.👍and RIP to the LAST of the Red🔥HOT 🥵 Mamas!

The version I want!!! I love the vintage sound!!!

Heck, I remember her still performing on the Ed Sullivan Show when I was a kid!!!

imagine if we were all back 100 years ago. this would be considered "the stuff"

I don't know why. I just find that picture of Sophie Tucker so fascinating.

Boardwalk Empire bought me here too. Loving discovering this whole era of forgotten music thanks to this show its fascinating stuff ,and if it had been written today it would easily stand up to the likes of Rihanna etc.

Incredible to hear these early recordings it takes you back to her early career and how she would have sung this with a more ragtime lilt in 1911 before the more jazz version of the 20s. You can understand why she was such a star of vaudeville

Sophie's manager Jack Olephant was Publicity Director for my teenaged Hollywood band, the Velvet Illusions, in 1967. He was a kind old gentleman. We boys didn't get to meet Ms. Tucker, because she passed away in 1966; but we met and performed with his other client, "Two-Ton Tessie O'Shea', the woman who accompanied The Beatles on their first trip to America. She took an iconic photo with us. (Google is your friend.)

When John Lennon was asked who the Beatles favourite artist was, he replied "Sophie Tucker is our favourite group."

FANTASTIC!! AND AL JOLSON WAS HAVING HIS FIRST RECORDED HITS AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME.

I betcha 1910 adults remember this song and kids/teens.

click LIKE if Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea brought you here!

in the series boardwalk, this song availed the much needed mood!!

cette chanson à 100 ans :D dingue elle aurait jamais imaginé finir sur youtube en 2011 ^^

Fantastic! I grew up with Bing Crosby singing this but I never heard this version. Who knew this song dated all the way back to 1911?! Normally I only listen to operatic records from this era, but it looks like I've been missing out!

Even with that ancient recording technology, Sophie comes through loud and clear with full emotion.

Sophie's first recording of what became her signature song, in 1911 for Edison, was also her best. They didn't have to be miked in those days.

I feel the exact same way :'( I wish I grew up with this music

The Ultimate Video On Evolution Of Popular Music sent me here

the best version.

Roquentin sent me here.

this song is 100 years old

her 1926 one is my way favorite! she sings with so much soul in it!!

incredible. just remember how primitive recording was back then.

Great!

Esta, creo, es la canción que gustaba escuchar Antoine Roquentin, personaje principal de la novela de Jean Paul Sartre: La Nausea.

Beautiful Thankyou

Thanks for uploading!

She performed on television in England in 1936.

lindas cançoes

I remember seeing Sophie Tucker on the Ed Sullivan Show.

the cure for nausea.

Kathy Brier and Vince Giordano brought me here, via Boardwalk Empire.

2021 anyone?

You forgot "Come Josephine, In My Flying Machine". That was a big hit 1911.

really? 1911? wowow

holy fuck this song is now officially 100 years old. How many people have 100 year old songs they can play at home? lol

I'm leaving this comment to make the comments come to 111. Also yeeeaaah Sophie!

Its actually a cover of this song. One of the many covers of the same song in the first season.

Wow this was interesting

What a precident she set for all who followed.

101 Years To Be Exact

It's like the background music was not keeping up with the singer but Vince Giordano's version. Now, that background music totally kept up with Kathy Brier who sang that Boardwalk Empire remake of, "some of these days." When any of you KZfaq users think of that, I assure you, you will know what I mean.

Me, too.

this is the version that they used in boardwalk empire

Canto con gramolofono. Atracciones del años 1888

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre!

yeah

A comment that indeed matches your default pic LOL

111 Comments 1911 music And I’m living in a House that was built in 1911.

Red hot Yidddishe classic. Better than all the modern 'break up songs'

Interestingly, in terms of slang and general language, they're sticking quite close to the way people spoke in the 20s. Additionally, there is a distinction between the speech of people from different social and ethnic backgrounds, so a good deal of care was taken in portraying this particular period faithfully.

People listening to Boyfriend by Ariana Grande.... And I'm listening to this

Quite different to later versions especially the lyrics.

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I'll take your word for it. It's inconceivable to me that anything made today can be any good, have any taste, or be in any way edifying. Back around '84 I felt the whole universe of movies and TV deteriorating as if it had all fallen off a cliff.

which decade is Beowulf made?

I've always liked this loud woman. Sort of an earlier version of Ethel merman.

0:52 :)

Hattie McDaniel brought me here!

Don Rickles brought me here

@BringTheRiot This is it. It just sounds a lot different.

Is anyone out there with me when I say I would love to see Bette Midler as Tucker? Bette has a wonderful way of capturing days gone by, e.g., "Boogie woogie bugle boy." This is but many of my wishes that'll not be answered. But I do wish Bette would be called upon to do the role. Come to think of it, I feel she could also do "Fanny Brice." Why did I always think the title of this song to be "ONE of these days" as opposed to "SOME..."?

Here is some never before seen footage of Sophie Tucker , taken in the late 1930's, in Palm Springs, CA: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9WbhKZ7v7erqXk.html

Edwardian era rap

@RMM1388 thats it im makin my bf strap on the white shirt slacks and suspenders. and no WAY will i be seen in public with him without his hat! >:(

@jaroncreed. I have some over a hundred years old I can play at home. I don't like them too much. It's just too far back. I love 20s music a lot more.

Cincin

@jaroncreed not really anyone now

Edison Amberol 691.

I don't know which is sadder, the fact that you were only able to come up with one word with no reasoning behind it, or the fact that I think you are, for the most part, serious. I need a drink.

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Better than Bad Bunny

Are you trolling? Because I don't think anyone can be that resistant/ignorant to new ideas and concepts. Older is not always better. Have you heard of Michael Kamen? I personally think his best music was from AFTER 1984, and his soundtrack for the movie What Dreams May Come (1998) is mystifying.

Put that down. You don't need any more of those, you've already had 40, and I'm gonna have to cut you off.

Haven't seen Boardwalk Empire. Is it one of those shows that dress the actors up in period clothes and then everyone talks and acts like 21st century hoods?

(Cont'd) All right. Now that I've put my foot in it, I think Bette would also stand out as Mae West. "Is that a pistol in your pocket..."? I can just see Bette camping it up as West. And if you don't think me crazy, you will after I propose either RuPaul or, get this, Liza Minnelli, as Josephine Baker. Both these drag queens would be perfect, don't you think? lol!!!

So everything made after 1984 in pop culture is bad?

Do NOT make generalized statements like that unless you know what you're talking about. Have you even watched TV in the last 25-30 years? The way your last posts were worded makes it seem like you haven't really paid attention to pop culture in recent years, and the fact that you would "take his word for it" makes me assume you haven't, either. So why pass judgment on something you don't know about? It makes no sense.

Satchmo did this one better.

she sounds worse than rebecca black jesus christ my ears