Puttin' On The Ritz - The Clevelanders, 1930
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- The Clevelanders - Puttin' On The Ritz, Imperial 1930 (UK )
NOTE: I was not able to identify the band. The pseudonym "Clevelanders" was used by various hot dance bands, including Harry Reser. This band, however, does not sound Harry Reser's style at all.
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This is the real thing not like it is today...great instrumentals in the background and great vocal also....love it all
It was a big winner back in the day but I like it a lot now in 2022,-
...The Roaring 20's...what a Fun & Fabulously Fashionable Era!
By 1920 my late grandmother was a newly wed adult woman in the upper middle class. 😊
Thank you! That tune is outstanding for me too! It's completely off balance, staggering, with these amazing delayed syncopes... it's most provocative in every sense. I don't find any tune from that time that can be compared with this work of some Paganini of a hot dance era! Therefore in the clip's end I placed a slightly "devilish" photo, which expresses all my amazement and almost fear with that kind of a "roaring" genius
That is Fantomas! )))
It sounds like the Fred Richman version from the 1930 film "Puttin' On the Ritz." I prefer the Fred Astaire version, and Ray Bolger and Ann Miller to a nice version.
I prefer the Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle version in the movie Young Frankenstein....Puuuuttttinnnn onn the Reeeeeetz!@@williambilyeu9801
Nice lively version of this tune, with an excellent choice of illustrations. Its energy reminded me of the exchange between the Rhythm Boys in their version of the song: "Look at all those people puttin' on the ritz!" "You look. I'm too tired."
Performed by the Clevelanders, approved by Fantomas. Unbeatable combination!
Anyone else reminded of "Young Frankenstein" by this song? This song has a kind of minor-key sadness or even forboding to it.
I always love the solos on these swing records.
Yes I remember young Frankenstein scene, hilarious. As was rest of the film.
@@Fred-kz5xh "That's Fron-kon-steen!"
This is absolutely fabulous Gregory old chap. It's a totally brilliant video. I love the art deco artwork and the music is out of this world. Into my favourites it goes instantly and five stars +++.
I wish to thank you for the hours of enjoyment your music and photos are giving me as i deal with old age and its infirmities. You must be a very talented and sophisticated person.
airmuseum Look up Betty Hutton, Annette Handshaw(or Handshaw), Guy Lombardo; just Google em! to lift your spirits, cheer you, and help you, thru music, transcend your travails, and, enfin, prevail.
It's nice to lose yourself in music when you can't actually go back, isn't it?
besides whatever harmonic distortion richness was added inherently in the early electrics, those tubas really gave a propulsion to the rhythm
Invariably just one tuba per band, of course :)
This is the original stuff l! LOVE IT !l This is my style music, for me! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼✌🏼🤓✌🏼🤘🏼🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊
Glorious talkie hit from 1930! I've heard thrilling Phil Spitalny foxtrots as by the Clevelanders, but I'd guess this one was by Jack Albin's orchestra. Thanks for sharing this grand 78!
Cool version. This song was written in 1927 by Irving Berlin.
Sounds like “Istanbul not Constantinople”, just the way the time lilts sometimes. Although to be fair, i should probably have said that the other way around
Istanbul not constantinople is another version of this song
oh! I also think that
this song melody is similar to Istanbul is not Constaninople song.
now I got it is the same melody with two song.
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!
I have always liked this song. I may use a version of it later in one of my videos. I love the art deco as well. This is very creative. I appreciate you sharing this with me.
Peter Boyle even sang this as Frankenstein as produced by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder. A scream.
It was the first version I ever had of this record, long before I had the Brunswick--got it back in the 60's.
Nothing has changed, it's still sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but in those days the music was better. Those players were musicians.
I'll say - and how!!
...and they got paid next to nothing.
Maybe that's the key. They did it for love of music.
Deryck, Yer' only sayin' that cuz it's true!
was the sex better? lol
@@scotnick59 it was less expensive!
Grzegorz, Great rendition of a classic. LOVED it and thanks. And what wonderful posters. Well done G. Very well done.
The music from before the 60's was all with real instruments and no synthesizers. They played real music. Very enjoyable.
Synthesizers first showed up in popular music in 1939 from what I know.
There was Theremin in the early 20s but that's not what you mean I'm assuming.
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!
That was far back enough that Phil still had his All Male Orchestra (never billed as such, naturally).
The best ever version of this song, in my opinion.
"PUTIN ON THE RITZ"?!!!... LOL... Lovely tune, and the "graphics" precious, as usual. You are a MASTER! Thanks once more -:))
I find this version very good... I revisit it from time to time. Let me contribute with some explanations, which in fact I borrowed. These include the original 1929 lyrics:
"The original version of Berlin's song referred to the then-popular
fad of well-to-do white New Yorkers visiting African American jazz
music venues in Harlem. Berlin later revised the lyrics because of
the racial references and to make it more generally applicable to
going out on the town in style [-and more palatable to censors, or "Hollywood-ized]:
Have you seen the well-to-do
Up on Lennox Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare
With their noses in the air
High hats and arrow collars
White spats and fifteen dollars
Spending ev'ry 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
Spangled gowns upon the bevee of high browns
From down the levee
All misfits
Puttin' on the Ritz
That's where each and ev'ry Lulu-Belle goes
Ev'ry Thursday evening with her swell beaus
Rubbing elbows
Come with me and we'll attend
The jubilee, and see them spend
Their last two bits
Puttin' on the Ritz
** Some lyric explanations:
Lennox Avenue - A main thoroughfare in Harlem.
High browns - A variation of the phrase "high yellow", referring to
someone of mixed racial background, usually with the inference that
they're putting on airs beyond their social station.
Lulu-Belle - A generic nickname for a black maid.
Ev'ry Thursday evening - Typically, the maid's night off.
Lyrics Playground (Contributed by Debbie Davis - August 2002)
Thank you
The 1940s rewrite is absolutely awful. It is so contrived -- Berlin tried to make a 4-syllable word of umbrella. Certainly not one of Berlin's brilliant moments. Screw political correctness -- My band recorded it in 1982 with original lyric -- ruclips.net/video/pMzQwfa2rSA/видео.html. By the way, we're using the same stock arrangement.
Thank you
João Furtado-Coelho 64
So what does the "fifteen dollars" refer to?
Thanks Genia! Thanks! Too many compliments as for one little clip! But I accept them happily. And now - thanks to Barbcard's little vocabulary of the "ritzy" words (see below) - I can also call this clip "posh" or "tony"... Well, I just LOVE all these words!
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.....
The word "ritzy" derives from the famous hotel chain founded by Cesar Ritz, born to Swiss peasant farmers. 'Tea at the Ritz' in London's Piccadilly is still a great occasion for those who have the money!
Oh, and add Cab Calloway and the Casa Loma orchestras to The Clevelanders list.
Great - Thank You
How wonderful!
This was the recording from "Puttin' On The Ritz" movie ....performed by Harry Richman and chorus
Marvellous music and marvellous pictures!
Thank you Masquerade! Well, my collection is not THAT big as you suggest. Many pictures re-appear in various clips and in different combinations with another photographs. Sometimes - depending on the kind of a scene displayed on the photo - I am tempted to alternate them a little - the work-up programs make it possible almost to no limits.
Wow...
This was when music was creative and soloists were excellent!
Irving Berlin. This is my favorite version !
Absolutely brilliant. In the same class as Begin the Beguine
I love the pictures that went with the song! It was great!
Super excellent with good photos
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.
I always use "ritzy" rather than "upscale" which reminds me of "upsize" and "upsell". Ritzy has a more natural sound to it. The others sound like "Newspeak" I was singing this at work tonight and all of the twenty- and thirty- somethings were looking at me with a quizzical look. Then I really confused them by mentioning the Marx Brothers.;)
Phil Spitalny orchestra was the other main band using this name
It sounds like Fred Richman from the 1930 film "Puttin' On the Ritz." There is a clip from the movie on RUclips with him backed by Broadway and Harlem dancers. Richman changed the word "fashion" to "Harlem" in his version. I prefer the Fred Astaire version, and there is a good version by Ray Bolger and Ann Miller.
Thank you Lockruff for that interesting and rather bitter comment. I also quite often face such problems with the comunication with younger generations in Poland. E.g. when I called a vacuum cleaner "electrolux" - they didn't know what I meant. Electrolux was a firm (Swedish, I think) producing such home devices in 1920/30 and my parents commonly used it (just as in 1970s in London my aunt commonly used the word "a hoover", "hoovering", "to hoover" - also deriving from the name of a company).
Barbcard used the word 'POSH' - it goes back to the days of the British Raj in India when the great steamship line P&O marked cabin bookings for wealthy passengers "Port Out- Starboard Home" (shaded from the sun).
In 1931 Jack Teagarden and Orchestra sang the song "I Got The Ritz From The One I Love, I Got The Big Go-by". A great record with Fats Waller on piano!
Grzegorz - I lke your story of visiting the Ritz gents; I was in there last year and it is not solid gold - only gold plate!
If you're sad, go watch poor people spend the last of their money trying to have fun.
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!
Beautiful and thanks for sharing!
Brian Rust in American Dance Band Discography suggests that the Clevelanders records in 1930 were made by a band led by Adrian Schubert instead of Harry Reser as were the sessions from 1926-29. All were recorded in New York. This one dates from February 17, 1930. The vocalist is unmistakably Harold "Scrappy" Lambert.
Whoever posted this deserves a mint condition 1929 Duesenburg !!
Thank you for your precious info. I was sure, our Roaring 20s think-tank will not fail!
So you have an American version of this side. In 1920s it was common for recordings to be issued on multiple labels. Imperial was a British label. Probably they had a kind of a leasing exchange program between the labels.
Lovely song👏💕💕💕
Didn't know this was the original.!!!
Sammy Stone, So you thought Taco's version was the original all this 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.
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"
notice how they changed the words later on? dressed up like a million dollar trooper...trying hard to look like Gary Cooper...supa doopa
Great slide show.
THANKS GREAT TUNE GOOD PICS
Fabulous!!
Thanks - Very enjoyable
Love the music xoxox
Thanks fatsfan! I remeber my one and only visit to a mens room at the Ritz Hotel in London, where many years ago, in the 1970s I had a brief appointment with someone in the lobby. I remember, inside all the metalwork was gold-plated. Oh, it wasn't real gold, I presume, but - who knows? I had my torn jeans on me and well-worn adidas shoes, so the attendants looked at me somewhat suspiciously giving me no chance to scratch that "gold" and check what kind of a "ritzy"gimmick it was.
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.
Spot on! In the part of the south where I grew up, mixed race were called "high yellow" or colored; which was more socially acceptable. Now the term red bone seems to be in fashion.
joe welnack That would make Trump high orange and yellow bellied, as in ole BoneSpurs...
Perhaps The Clevelanders was a studio band directed by different individuals at different times, such as Harry Reser and later on Adrian Schubert. :^D 🎺 LP
This does have a fantastic ending compared to other versions
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The band is Jack Albin and his Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra, probably moonlighting on a different record label.
The Roaring Twenties? Dude ... THIS is the Roaring Twenties. We've come 'round full circle! Eeeyarrrgghhh!
Thanks
Automatically when I hear this song I remember the film by Mel Brooks, Frankenstein Junior! :D
Very good
Have you seen the well to do
Up on Lenox Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare
With their noses in the air?
High hats and narrow 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 flits?
Puttin' on the Ritz
Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns
From down the levy, all misfits
Putting' on the Ritz
That's where each and every lulu-belle goesEvery Thursday evening with her swell beausRubbin' elbows
Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee
And see them spend their last two bits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Boys, look at that man puttin' on that Ritz
You look at him, I can't
If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where Harlem flits?
Puttin' on the Ritz
Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns
From down the levy, all misfits
Puttin' on the Ritz
That's where each and every lulu-belle goes
Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus
Rubbin' elbows
Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee
And see them spend their last two bits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee
And see them spend their last two bits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Great Berlin song acc. with beautiful photos! Thank you.
Luis Mántaras, This song was written by the Greatest Musicians & Composers of All Time "The Beatles"!
Thanks B. for that wonderful selection of the ritzy terms! See my answers to Genia and Fatsfan
What a bounce!
Bouncy !
Beautiful, thanks in French. kiss. Patou.
😍,🎵,💓,🎵,💓,🎵,💓,🎵,💓 ,👍
Hi D! Well, and here you are, using that lovely word "ritzy". Read barbcard's comment about it.
Love this in a Cumbia version
what can I say about this version,, but HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!!!
amberola1b, Yes, the Beatles were Hot! 🔥
I think I have this on Romeo!
Wonderful I have serveral versions of this ...I think it is originally from Broadway Melody of l929.........
Irving Berlin wrote it for a talkie of the same name! Fantastic tune!
A Fifth of Bourbon, a Ford Coupe
Where is Vladimir??
The old ones are best "putting on the Ritz "
and a Chicago Typewriter
I think the penguin woulda liked this version best *shrugs*
this is ritz!!!jo
I didn't realize the version I usually hear was a cover.
Just saw "Upscale" in a Wash. Post article re a new building. "Posh" is a better word; I think it's of British origin. "Tony" is also used. Lockruff is right about the younger generation's ignorance re "ritzy." :(
Reminds me of Ray Miller
I always imagine a certain contemporary Russian chap in a good suit with a cigar.
Love this song ! The Clevelanders did the definitive version ! Better than Fred Astaire !
Блеск. :-) "Спасибо" :-)
Reser, like many another leader, did have to damp down the distinctive elements of his style to keep working after 1929.
Great version of this tune,definitely not Harry Richman on the vocal.
+Bigband Lou It's "R.Haines", whomever that is....
One of the many faces of Harold "Scrappy" Lambert.
Lively melodies
I know the " Yiddish lyrics to it ( old advertisement
I' just love you xoxpx
Give those twenty and thirty somethings a bunch of clues.
Vocals?
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