Arthur Fields - How Ya Gonna Keep'em Down On The Farm, 1919
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Arthur Fields - How Ya Gonna Keep'em Down On The Farm (After They've Seen Paree?) (W.Donaldson), Victor 1919
NOTE: Arthur FIELDS (1888-1953) was born Abe Finkelstein in Philadelphia to Mortimer and Elizabeth Finkelstein. He spent most of his early years in Utica, New York, singing solos as a boy in church.
He was a professional singer by age 11 or so, singing illustrated songs with Ray Walker at Wackie's moving picture house, Coney Island. Around age 17 he toured with the Guy Brothers Minstrel Show. From 1914 onwards he recorded with many bands and for many labels and had a varied career in the recording industry. His first hit was "On The Mississippi" (1912) which he wrote the music for with Harry Carroll. In 1914 he wrote the lyrics to "Aba Daba Honeymoon", which was revived for the 1950 M.G.M. film "Two Weeks With Love" and thus got a renewed popularity which brought Fields large royalty incomes during his last two years.
His 1919 recordings with bandleader Ford Dabney may be the very first recordings of a white singer backed by a black band. For a period Fields also formed a vocal trio with brothers Jack and Irving Kaufman, billing themselves as "The Three Kaufields". Fields also often appeared on records under pseudonyms, for example as "Mr X." on Grey Gull Records and related labels. His last records were made in the early 1940s. He suffered a stroke early in 1953 and was killed in a fire at Littlefield Convalescent Home a little later the same year.
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This song is almost like a mantra to me. It describes me so well. I lived most of my lifetime in the midst of farmland. Seven years ago (at the age of 70) I moved TO CHICAGO (and yes, in the city, not in the suburbs). I love it here! One of my best decisions ever. This place keeps my mind as "young" as is physically possible. So much to explore, so much great food to taste, such cool social opportunity and events...
My father was born in 1914, I was born in 1950. I have the memory of my dad bouncing me on his knee singing this tune. I did the same with my kids and my grand kids. I have no doubt my father learned it from his father.
That's a heart-warming story sir!
That's really sweet.
Well if this tune was made in 1919, and your father was born in 1914… I’d have trouble believing that your grandfather would be singing this to him. But what do I know? It might be totally possible.
@@AzeriaCraft_ maybe his father sung it to him when he was little? then he passed it down to his kid, there's a lot of possibilities.
This is by far the best version of the song.
I totally agree! Not only that, I think this is the greatest song ever written because it succinctly foreshadows the predicament of 8 billion humans trying(or not trying) to live within the biophysical limits of the biosphere. Lol
You should hear his version of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning!
When I was in the Army in the 80’s, I was stationed in Germany. I was lucky enough to get to go to Paris France twice.
I saw most all of the Paris sites.
*_WHEN PARIS WAS NICE AND CLEAN._*
Greetings from Germany
when one of my brothers was in Nam he and some friend took R R in Paris. said the taxi drivers scared them to death and to never order a Hamburger there
@@oldermusiclover. Your right about Not ordering a hamburger…. I ordered one and it was medium rare with an over easy Egg on it
@@bernhardstramann6618 Danke !
I love it? Best version! This catchy tune is ageless!
“What’s the last thing President Business would expect a Master Builder to do?”
“This!”
wonderful pictures of the era just before the 20s. My grandmother told me she and her family wrapped bandages and knitted sweaters for the war effort. People were very patriotic in those years.
One of my earliest memories (b 1950) is my father(b 1914) bouncing me on his knee singing this song - no doubt his father sang it to him
Love this song and this is one of my favorite versions
Jazzy ole postwar pick-me-up song. Thanx also for the nifty info on Arthur. History lives on in the music of the EAR-ah !
Imagine Reuben when he meets his Pa
He'll kiss his cheek and holler "OO-LA-LA!"
(One of my all-time favorite lyrics.)
How appropriate, since I just returned from Paree. A still great city despite many changes.
It's really a very well done recording, musically speaking.
I love Arthur Fields! He's amazing.
What a fun version of this song! Thanks!
This is the last thing Lord Business would expect a masterbuilder to do...
To state the obvious, this song humorously touched on a popular anxiety felt at the time that returning American Doughboys, having been given a taste of the less than-Puritan cosmopolitanism of the European metropole, would reject the rural provincialism of small-town life that many knew before the war for the tantilizing bright lights and risqué nightlife of the city. In a way, this fear proved to be true. With the dawn of the 1920s marking the onset of a decades-long American agricultural depression and the first time in American history the US Census recorded more people living in cities than in the countryside, tunes like this also accented a growing rural/urban divide that would manifest in various political and cultural ways as the Roaring Twenties took hold of the nation, producing wide-ranging ripple effects on society that can still be felt today. It is for these reasons that many historians consider the 1920s to be the first truly "modern" decade of the twentieth century.
@@Ryan-on5on Yes. Also in 1920, the medium of radio came into existence, and that too contributed to the modernization of American life.
What an Amazing Song!! Sung almost a century ago come 2019
Hi B., I just returned home and found your message on my answering machine. Welcome! Good to have you back!
My grandad told me about this song so I searched it up :)
A snippet of this version of "How You Gonna Keep 'em Down on The Farm?" was used in the documentary "The Yanks Are Coming" (1964).
The title, of course, being taken from the lyrics of perhaps the most iconic of all songs recorded earlier than 1920, "Over There". The Nora Bayes version will be in my all-time Top 100 if I ever get around to putting such a list together...
@@frankmerrill2366 Another military song of that era with a happy mood is "Fall In And Follow Me", though it's not an American composition but a British one.
Why do people dislike stuff like this? Why not just leave?
No Judy Garland. No Legos brand interlocking building blocks.
It's what brought me here!
My fiancé and I were just talking about all of the ways ancient Rome is misunderstood by the people who idolize it. We got to the topic of class and social mobility, and how it wasn't possible for most people prior to about 1910, and that most people were farmers. I said people moving into the city for factory work created new jobs in cities that hadn't really existed before, and there was more opportunity to leave the family farm and go find a new, mysterious life. My fiancé said oh, WWI probably had a big effect on that, too. Those boys went off and saw the whole world and didn't want to go back to the farm. And I said yeah, there's a whole song about that! "How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm..."
It's indeed a nice and clever story. Thank you!
Brad Paisley has this playing in his Southern Comfort Zone video! Catchy song!
I have this on a 78 rpm record
WWl Great - love it -
Thumbs up if your history teacher was kick ass and you've never seen the Lego movie
I am Legoless. Heard this on Mother's wonderful 78 rpm record. Sound FX remind me of Spike Jones and "Cocktails for Two."
The end of the Bing Crosby song 'Hot Time in the Town of Berlin' references the end of this song. I'm a student-teacher and you can be sure both songs will make it into a lesson plan. :D
La Penserosa More power to ya! The songs of an era teach its history better than a textbook..
Okay this comment was a year ago, so I don't especially expect a reply anytime soon, but what does this have to do with The Lego Movie? Did they have this song in it or something?
does math teacher count?
On the other side of the 78 Victor record is "How Are You Goin' To Wet Your Whistle When The Whole Durn World Goes Dry" which is a wonderful counterpoint to the victory in the trenches of Europe and returning to a dry America.
I'm sure all the guys in the trenches would give their fucking left ball to be back on the farm.
until they saw the barbed wire fence again
Anyone else get here trying to figure out where the hell the opening of Brad Paisley's Mona Lisa song came from? Mystery finally solved.
my life.
That's exactly why I'm here
I dedicate this to all the young people in the Middle Eastern countries (hell, all over the world) who have discovered the free flow of information. Discovered they've been lied to and have been living under someone's thumb. Now they have the internet, cell phones, and social networking......they can't be kept down!
I once saw the sheet music for a song called Good bye Pa good bye Ma good bye mule with your old heehaw, as Junior in his doughboy uniform and his rifle walks away to War. Have no idea if the song was ever recorded. The 1917 sheet music paper disappeared from my town library.
Indeed he is! I have posted many of his songs on my channel!
I use this as the theme song of a couple of English boys that are traveling around America trying American food. Especially Southern BBQ. There is nothing to compare in England like American Southern BBQ. They are the ones that made that statement. Beans on toast? Haggis? Spotted Dick?
I haven't tried refried beans on toast (which is not a UK thing, not that form of beans), but I imagine it would be delicious. I like frijoles refritos by themselves or mixed in with other Mexican food. I also WANT to try haggis if I ever manage to get to Scotland. I can't even imagine NOT liking it, I think it would be delicious.
The Lego Movie brought me here.
what? this isn't in it
@@gunnarthefiesty9581 it is. metalbeard sings it.
@@charcoal3711 first or second
@@gunnarthefiesty9581 first.
Amazingly good sound considering it was mechanically recorded as opposed to electronic recording which used tube amplifiers. Most recordings after 1925 used electronic recording which had better base response.
Some of the early acoustic recording stars like Billy Murray, Ada Jones, Irving Kaufman, Arthur Fields etc., who were really mostly professional studio singers (although some went on tour or appeared in vaudeville for a while), had voices that lent themselves particularly well to the acoustic recording process in range and timbre.
This can particularly be heard by comparing Irving Kaufman’s 1940s recordings on the “Thesaurus” record label, with his earlier work. The 40s recordings, backed by the NBC Studio orchestra (which, playing original arrangements, are really being a pop ragtime orchestra of the day), are not only musically excellent, but recorded so well that we get a very rare authentic glimpse of music of that era, in great sound, WITHOUT any of the “camp” and “hokum” that marred so many records of the 1950s/60s honky-tonk and Dixieland craze, which often was more about a certain 50s aesthetic than about authentic recreations and pure musicianship.
Here’s one of those amazing late Irving Kaufman records. The entire set is amazing. This is the closest we have short of a time machine to going back and hearing what really went on in a vaudeville theatre in the early ‘teens: ruclips.net/video/H69dX45al9Y/видео.html
The Little Rascals brought me here.
It's 2023 . I've dropped the college and I'm preparing for Bank exams.
Got from LEGO Movie.
How Ya Gonna Keep'em Down On The Farm after they've seen Karl Hungus
Greetings! The song was recorded by Byron G. Harlan at least twice (on both VICTOR and COLUMBIA labels) under the title "Long Boy"
"...And Oh! My sweetheart, don't you fear; I'll bring you a king for a souvenir. I'll get you a Turk and the Kaiser too, and that's about all one feller could do."
Ty for the history. Love this song. I never heard that version before.
Love It!!!!!
in the social aspect after WW1 this song proves the slackening moral traditions in the west so much so that the behaviour of prewar was never recovered.
"I left an America where our women were modest and I could buy a drink, only to return to find neither." A much repeated lament of the returning soldiers.
And that goes double for WWII. Don't expect people to go abroad to kill people and return home the same.
WW1 museum in kansas city brought me here
1918 Nora Bayes - How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm? (After They’ve Seen Paree)
ruclips.net/video/A_79VPps6KY/видео.html
Tony Azito brought me here.
Um, it's been ten years. That's not quite what's happening.
ahah, da queste illustrazioni sembra che la guerra è stata tutta caffè, teatri, passeggiate nei parchi con belle donne con ombrellino ;)
the lego movie got all of us here
Hahaha, right? XD
*all*?
No, not all
Nope. Little Rascals.
Not me either, but now I have a good reason to see the Lego movie and especially after having just visited Legoland in Denmark. BTW, of Denmark’s 8 billionaires, four of them are associated with the Lego Corporation. Each weighs in at $6.7 billion. Lol
Not a mention of James Europe, how could you
Lego movie
As an American in Japan, whose legal address in America (which is in Virginia) is a place that I do not even consider home, I can identify with this song. I would much rather stay in Japan than go to Virginia.
SirSnivy ofNottingham I hope you realize that America isn't just Virginia
This song should really be, "How Ya Gonna Get Them Off Of The Farm". God knows they would rather be shoveling shit on a farm than sitting in a trench contracting dysentary while being shelled.
Yeah, practically none of the WWI songs (at least the popular ones), dealt with how bad the war actually WAS, at least for the soldiers. A few allude to sadness on the home front when people don’t come back.
Why this?
The Lego movie
You say that song's author got musical ideas from CHURCH, but his real name was ARTHUR FINKELSTEIN? Was this an error?
Arthur Fields, the singer here, was a studio singer. He may have been in vaudeville too but I’m not sure. The composer of the song was Walter Donaldson, and the lyrics were by Sam M Lewis and Joe Young, all three famous songwriters. From what I understand, Fields, Lewis, and Young were Jewish, and Donaldson was Christian, but I don’t know what denominations of Judaism or Christianity they followed, or how observant they were. I would bet if there are book length biographies of any of these men, they might get into more detail about their religious beliefs.
I have a friend that escaped the rioting in Minneapolis and is now working remotely from the family farm! I told him he's reversed this song. "How you gonna keep him in Minneapolis, after he's worked at the farm." What a deal, eh? Let the rioters unurbanize America.
By destroying businesses and letting BLM take the entire fall for the violence and damage, both the combination of coordinated efforts of white-power groups to smear the entire movement by framing them, and the non-coordinated efforts of ordinary criminals of all colors to take advantage of police distraction during protests to loot and pillage (a phenomenon which has always happened throughout history), have resulted in smearing the movement for some, when in reality what should be happening are criminals actually caught on camera doing the smashing (whether white supremacists, far-leftist anarchists, or just plain amoral and non-aligned opportunistic criminals), should be brought to justice and made to pay for the damage, and the community should be coming together to rebuild. I believe this is happening in some cities, and should be happening in all. Between the pandemic and lack of money to rebuild, the rebuilding efforts have been hampered, but hopefully are again starting up. IMO by moving out of the damaged cities instead of staying and rebuilding, and then blaming BLM for all the damage, you are actually doing exactly what the white power groups want people like you to do, and believing what they want you to believe. Are you OK with them pulling your strings like that?
Who else is here because of Brad Paisley?
Bukowski Factotum
Dr Dolittle can parlez-vous a cow!
This is by far the best comment!
The dude that made this song is in the deepest pit of hell rn, lmao.
Although on the one hand, the horrors of war are more widely known and it’s no longer cool to write new songs boasting about how great current wars are etc (since no one on any side really likes them that much; I believe they are considered an (un)necessary evil, except perhaps by some of those in power who like to start them), however on the other hand, back in the day, these songs were considered important on the home front as morale boosters.
This particular song came out after the war was OVER and when troops started returning home in 1919. I doubt any particular songwriter was roasted or lambasted by soldiers etc although collectively they may have resented the phenomenon, BUT songs either celebrating war, or at least intended to give troops impetus to fight, as well as help mollify anxious feelings among family members back at home, are actually way older than WWI. That is just one more facet of that whole societal/cultural mentality of not necessarily pushing for war, but supporting the troops all hot and heavy once a war is underway.
In the current more enlightened era, it is now better understood both that wars should not necessarily be blamed on the entire varegiated population of a country in a sort of racist way (as they used to be), but are more correctly now pinned on the LEADERS who aren’t necessarily under the control of the people (definitely NOT, in the case of dictators).
Also, I think most soldiers don’t necessarily want to hear or need silly songs urging them to fight or trying to keep up their morale in an ignorant way etc although I don’t know, perhaps some do like those songs. But anyway although a war song, this is not one of those KIND of war songs.
But my point was that certainly although some of the WWI troops hated these songs, others tolerated or even liked them, either for personal reasons, or for their role / function in the culture of that day, which was different than our own today.
I should add there were even anti-war songs for WWI popular in about 1915, a well known one being “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier”. After popular opinion/consensus shifted about entering the war in 1917, songs like this were not only unpopular but also lambasted: for example a parody song titled “I Didn’t Raise My Dog to Be a Sausage”. (Or something to that effect).
@@andrewbarrett1537 I don’t view this song as about war. To me it’s a prescient song which foreshadows the predicament of 8 billion humans trying(or not trying) to live within the biophysical constraints of the biosphere. Lol