DANG! 🎵 Taco - Puttin' On The Ritz REACTION
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I remember hearing this song in old movies, but since "Young Frankenstein" I only see Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle tap dancing.
Every time I hear this song, I can only hear Peter Boyle in the creature's voice saying "Puttin' on the Ritz".
Best version 🧟♂️
"Super duper!"
After hearing this song on Young Frankenstien, i made it my goal to find this song on youtube
@@Reno_Slim "Ooper Duper!"
This was originally written in 1929 by legendary composer Irving Berlin ("God Bless America"). Harry Richman introduced it in the 1930 movie musical Puttin' on the Ritz and had a #1 hit. It famously became a hit for Fred Astaire in 1946 when he performed it in the movie Blue Skies. Taco pays homage to Astaire by including a tap-dance solo in the middle of the song.
The expression "Puttin' On The Ritz" means to dress fashionably. The saying comes from the upscale Ritz-Carlton hotel company.
The well-known version is about the upper-crust citizens of New York's glitzy Park Avenue, but the song has a racially charged backstory. In the 1930s it was fashionable for affluent white folks to go "slumming" in Harlem, a poor black neighborhood where the jazz scene was hot. The original lyrics, heard when the song was performed throughout that decade, reference the locals who pretended to be wealthy by donning their flashy duds (i.e. puttin' on the ritz) and hanging out on Lenox Avenue in Harlem:
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
The story continues with Lulubelle hitting the town every Thursday (Lulubelle was a slang term for black maids and Thursdays were typically their nights off). The lyrics also mention the "Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns from down the levee." High browns refers to light-skinned African Americans.
Another Berlin tune, "Let's Go Slumming on Park Avenue," flips the narrative and has Harlemites descending on the swank avenue to spy on the rich ("They do it, why can't we do it, too?"). Not everyone bought into the slumming fad, though. In the high society spoof "The Lady is a Tramp," the title lady refuses to go to Harlem driving "Lincolns or Fords" or dressing in "ermine and pearls."
Taco's entire repertoire was comprised of older songs including some by jazz bandleader Glenn Miller and show tune writer George Gershwin. He played the role of "Chico" in a Marx Brothers stage show in Germany
(Songfacts.com)
Interesting that Taco would also have dancers in blackface in the video version of the song. I know it was the fashion back in the 'Golden Age of Hollywood,' but he needn't included that aspect (black faced dancers that is) in 1980s. I did a YT search for it but it's been scrubbed of that version. I did, however, come across this video commentary 'bout it here for reference: ruclips.net/video/7csXpAzWe_A/видео.html
@@Motown-1966 It was included as a way to instruct the 80's generation of historical racism.
Sometimes you have to do something in order to highlight it.
Your willingness to sanitize everything is only going to lead to a weak and vulnerable population.
Then again, perhaps that's what you want
If I wanna do blackface, I am going to, NO ONE will stop me, I’ve seen White Chicks
@@Motown-1966 Yeah, not something hardly anyone under 50 is going to much care about. Plenty enough real problems to worry about these days ;)
Thanks, Randy! I so want to learn more about this era now
I’ve said it before, nothing was off the table in the 80s. I remember watching this performance on TV.
😂😂😂 So true.
That's what I loved so much about the 80's. It was wild!
The original video was was certainly something else.
Please be Taco and a back up dancer next Halloween, 😳🥰😯😁🎀😎 Can you picture Brad all decked in a classic tux with tails,a cane,and top hat ,Lex in the sparkly white costume, with her cane too, holy cow, even if no one gets the reference, so adorable!!!!😲
I love it! Heck, even if no one gets the reference, they can just tell everyone they're the King and Queen of Clearwater lol
@@ninja_tony 😂😁😎
The cane definitely has to light up, though.
When I grow up I am going to name my first born son Taco.
I hope your last name is "Supreme"
1980s: "We need an electronic cover version of some pre-world war 2 music. Can we make the solo part just tap dancing?"
1980s: "Yes, of course. The sign says anything goes. This way to the charts."
"Sniffs coke..."
@@21stcenturyhiphop 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
Beleive it or not this song was all over the radio on pop stations even.
This was such an odd mid-80s one-hit-wonder. How an old song from the 20s, re-popularized in the 40s, and then the 1974 Young Frankenstein moment made a crazy resurgence here, who the hell knows. But this did get a lot of MTV and radio play for a few months there.
Wow, a cleaned up version of a cleaned up version of a cleaned up version. Even Taco's original MTV video had blackface performers, and the actual original song has no "Gary Cooper" who himself only came along as a popular figure much later.
It's wild that you just reacted to this today of all days, because I hadn't heard the song in years, but just got it stuck in my head last night and looked it up lol. I knew you would both get a kick out of it, especially Lex. It's just such a feel good, energetic song that automatically makes you smile as soon as it comes on.
I prefer the Young Frankenstein version
Uttin ahnnn a iizzz!!
Right on man!
Me too!
Super Duper
Yes!!! One of my favorite movies...top 5
Like the version from Young Frankenstein better 😂
I was thinking exactly how Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle did a much better job 😉
You stole my post. I was wanting to scream out unintelligibly 'Puttin on the Ritz' when he got to the first refrain.
In the 80s, for some reason this was played multiple times a day, on different radio stations on Halloween (Not the Young Frankenstein version).
It is experimental music. New wave music from Germany like Falco. With some funky synths techno. It is a cover of a very old song from the 1920s. There is a actual music video for this song which is kind of spooky when we were little. Watch in in your own time. "Singing in the Rain" is his other video to watch.
You probably don't wanna watch the video since it has the infamous blackface scene. Also, I do believe he's originally Indonesian.
@@user-cs4fg1rm5k I did see the videos many years ago as a kid. 1980s. On MTV
You should see this in Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and the Monster are singing and everytime he was to say "puttin' on the ritz" he sounded like "puuuuhhnnn ooooon riiiiiiizz"
That's all I can hear now with this song 🤣
If you're going to use Wilder's name you should at least throw out Peter Boyle's name as well 😆. So many good actors in that film. So many of them taken away from us.
@@charlessalzman4377 I had forgotten what it was...lol. You are correct but at the time of the typing the comment, I just could not think of his name.
@@moorek1967 It's all good, thus the laughing emoji. Wilder is definitely more iconic.
I believe those were Irving Berlin songs. He was a composer back in the 20s and 30s which is why it sounds like it does they were going for that mood
Hysterical, and I actually liked it at the time. Mostly because he was so over the top and to me that is always amazing. 🤘🤗
You don't now, though?
@@geoculus5606 I do. I worded it wrong.
This version of the song was really popular globally in the '80s. There were many musical fashions that looked back to the "good old days." This was a very good example of the trends back then. The idea of the darkness behind the organ synth is because, in the original video, it contrasted Taco's tuxedo-clad character with the have-nots. This was probably because the song came out in 1929, the same year the Depression started. Lots of folks who used to have a lot didn't anymore, and those who never had much to begin with suffered even more depreviation . But Taco is nodding to an entire generation here, who lived through it, danced through it, and made all the way to the 1980s!
3:11 Taco isn't from Germany. He's Indonesian-Dutch but his career started in Germany.
The original video is much better despite the black-face cameo in it. I know it offends some people, but it fit the time period the song was originally done in.
Who remembers the show "Putting on the Hits"?
I think the eighties were the decade of 1-hit wonders thanks to MTV.
We’re all better for it too
The decade of one hit wonders was probably the 60's. By the late 70's music had become very corporate and producing and marketing new artists became more and more planned, according to demographic research.
MTV actually hastened this transition with the emphasis on video production.
@Rick & Zack Explore Offroad 60s did have more 1 hit wonders than the 80s, using the definition of hits being anything to hit top 40.
MTV probably plays a part, but it's only in the perception of it being a 1 hit wonder filled decade. There are a number of iconic 1 hit wonders that had 2 or more songs reach the top 40. Men Without Hats, Flock of Seagulls, A Ha, and Dead or Alive are all known for a specific song and charted with others.
Certainly not eighties ! One hit Wonder the more on the nineties
The song is a Irving Berlin song from 1929 it's been recorded several times,used in musicals and movies.
80's alternative
This is a full performance of RiverDance. Watched this with my grandmother before she passed away on PBS. Its amazing.
ruclips.net/video/9jxCbaLG0w4/видео.html
Who here remembers the show that the had on the 80's it was like American Idol but it was a lip sink show. I'm gonna go look it up, il put another comment below lol
Puttin on the hits what a great show. I like the one that a guy was pretending to be in a drive thru and he did a skit :I wanna cheese burger, onion ring and a large Orange drink please " I thought it was the best one ever really funny. Reminds me of Taco, one album I think
The singer so reminds me of te Broadway musicial "Rockly Horror Picture show"'s main chariacter played but the the greaaaat Tim Curry (played the Clown in Stephen Kings movie addaftaion of It".
In the 1930's this song had a faster tempo. Listening to Taco doing it in slow motion was kind of off. Double the beat with new Tecno sound would have so much better. Irving Berlin wrote it. He also wrote for Ethel Merman "God Bless America". Miss Merman's voice could fill a theatre . It was before mics.
I'm with Jim (below). I'm a Fred Astaire and old movies fan, but can't hear this song without thinking of the hysterical Young Frankenstein.
Ya'll need to watch Tap with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.!its a great movie about Tap Dancing.
If you liked this try Cab Calloway Minnie The Moocher its old. There is a newer version of him singing it in the Blues Brothers (A Classic film/semi musical)
"Puttin' On the Ritz" was written by Irving Berlin in 1927 and used in the 1930 musical Puttin' On the Ritz -- some fifty plus years before Taco dropped this in 1983. Hence the references in the lyrics to Gary Cooper, one of the biggest stars of golden age Hollywood, and the Rockefellers, considered the richest family on the planet back when. The Ritz was a 40 floor luxury residential high rise built on Park Avenue in New York City in the 1920's. "High hats and Arrow collars \ White spats and lots of dollars" indeed!
There's also a medley of other Irving Berlin tunes at the end, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band".
The Ritz, short for Ritz Carlton which is a huge luxury chain of hotels/resorts. That the Ritz we are talking about?
@@vaskylark yes! The original Ritz Carlton was in New York City and thus the references to Fifth Avenue. The composer Irving Berlin lived in NYC his whole life.
Naw! It's the official (and original uncensored) video that is the must-see.
Lounge before the Brits thought they invented it with Mike Flowers's Pop.
When this was on MTV I thought of my grandfather, before changing the channel.
The song is great in its original form ..but this? A novelty cover song at best…
its like a bad dream when you fall asleep during a black and white movie
This song was written by Irving Berlin in 1927 and performed in the movie Puttin’ On The Ritz in 1930 but the most popular version was performed by Fred Astaire in the 1946 movie Blue Skies.
You got it right! 😀
This song makes me think of old movies like ““Weekend at the Waldorf” where they all dance in some exquisite ballroom. ❤️
he looks like the actor who played penny wise
This was huge in the 80s I had the mixed album when I was in elementary school.
You guys should do Falling in Love Again by Klaus Nomi
I had this album! You guys need to watch “Tap” and “White Nights” with Gregory Hines. Damn he could tap! The 80’s were a little strange, but FUN! Oh, and Lex would definitely look good in a showgirls outfit! 😎 There are snippets from various Broadway showtunes in here. Gene Kelly’s ‘Gotta dance!’ for example. Lex would love him in “Singing In The Rain” if she hasn’t seen it. If you ever do a musical themed show, Gene Kelly’s last movie was “Xanadu,” where he performs with Olivia Newton-John. The “Xanadu” video is super fun.
Gregory Hines was such a treasure!
Yes, Gregory Hines is great in White Nights.
So is that other dancer.
@@RamseyHaddadWZ: That "other" dancer? You mean Baryshnikov? Also a treasure of ballet as opposed to tap.
La la la. La la cheese on your ritz well put together😊
Taco’s version of this song was a hit in the ‘80s, but it originated in the 1930s. Check out Ella Fitzgerald’s version.
I loved this. I also liked the 60s songs Close Cover Before Striking and Winchester Cathedral. They slid right in with Rolling Stones and Beatles and Supremes. We listened to a lot of different types of music then.
Tomorrow putting on the Ritts is a fun song 🎵
Listen to Micheal Damien rock on
Never really cared for this. Lot of people did though. Just me I guess.
I can’t stand this song.. never liked it at all.
Makes me nauseous, but people seem to really like the too hat thing I guess.
This was a fun odd campy 80’s song
This was the first I ever heard of Taco and he is very talented.
My dad owned a shoe shop in the early 60,s. Lots of boy came in to have dad put toe and heel taps on their shoes which back then the soles were leather so they were nailed on. They did it just to make clicking sounds as they walked down the school hallways.
The old TV studio lip synch. Huge choreography on this! Hadn't seen the extended "live" version. I proudly worked at a network that never did replay performances. We fully rigged and engineered every musical talent. But I can see how the cost, time and need for expert staff would be difficult for full time music shows on some networks.
Original lyrics: 1. “…go to where fashion sits…” Strike “fashion”, insert “Harlem”. 2. “…up and down Park Avenue.” Strike “Park Avenue” and insert “Lenox Avenue.” 3. “Spending their last dime, for a wonderful time…” 4. There’s more. This racist song mocked black people. That’s why they performed it in blackface. In 1947 Berlin changed the lyrics.
Original lyrics: 1. “…go to where fashion sits…” Strike “fashion”, insert “Harlem”. 2. “…up and down Park Avenue.” Strike “Park Avenue” and insert “Lenox Avenue.” 3. “Spending their last dime, for a wonderful time…” 4. There’s more. This racist song mocked black people. That’s why they performed it in blackface. In 1947 Berlin changed the lyrics.
So many people have covered that song. It reminds me of the movie Young Frankenstein.
The detail in the song and video is epic.
He also later attempted to do a techno remake of the classic "Singin' in the Rain", but that one wouldn't become successful like this one did.
Something I notice in every reaction I see to this performance, EVERYBODY pauses after the tap break. EVERYBODY.
Brad should watch the video of Billy 'Bojangles' Robinson with Shirley Temple tap dancing up and down the stairs in the Shirley Temple movie "The Little Colonel". The song Mr Bojangles was written about Billy 'Bojangles' Robinson. Video: ruclips.net/video/wtHvetGnOdM/видео.html
Man, I remember this. It was a HUGE song.
I found out today that Taco Ockerse is een fellow countryman, a Dutchman born in Indonesia, has experienced a worldly youth, living in countries such as the USA, Germany and Singapore.
Great comments. If you haven't ever watched Sammy Davis Jr tap, you should. Mr. Bojangles is one of the best. Peace, Love!!
Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle sing and tap dance "Putting` on the Ritz" in the movie Young Frankenstein.
And that is the REAL version of this song. Toco does an..ok(ish) job of it but Gene and Peter...now that is the real thing!
This song is from back in the early 1930s, or earlier. "Putin on the Ritz," was a term meaning your using the best china at a dinner, wearing your most elegant clothes, driving the most expensive car, in order to impress someone. "The Ritz", was a fancy Hotel back in those days, that only the very rich could afford to stay at, so if you looked like you were dressed to impress , you were "Putting on the Ritz." This song is an updated cover version from the early 80s I think.
I remember people saying they were going to stay at a Ritzy vacation spot or go to a Ritzy restaurant. It meant that it was going to be expensive and extravagant.
The 80s were so weird
People just now starting to see what real entertainment was is what's going on they don't know about tap dancing they don't know about none of that stuff y'all need to look up Gregory Hines the Nicholas Brothers Sammy Davis Junior you need to look these people up man Sammy Davis Jr and Gregory Hines got a whole movie called tap where they got all of the great tappers in it but the fact that people don't even know what real entertainment is see they don't know about this this is real entertainment right here people are used to this bull crap that they've been seeing at the super bowl and the BET awards show they used to that bull crap they used to that devil listed bull crap
OMG! I've loved this song since I was a kid in the 80s. This is the original 80s music video that I saw on MTV back when they still had music videos: ruclips.net/video/YsGjFh1ke44/видео.html And this is the original from the 1930s which I just found out about a few years ago now that we have the Internet: ruclips.net/video/66km3m_UE_k/видео.html
Every time 'audience participation' claps along it totally wrecks the rhythm of a song. Once again, as usual, the studio version of this song is MUCH better!
Hi B&L., For Tap Dancing, check out Mr. Savion Glover videos, I think he is one of Best Tap Dancers ever.. ♠W.G.
Jim Cox is absolutely correct, if I hear this, it’s definitely Young Frankenstein going through my mind. You have to watch that movie.
I loved this song when I was a kid. My mother still has the 45 somewhere.
If I'm not mistaken, I remember watching this performance on TV at the '83 grammys.
My favorite performance of Outtin' on the Ritz is in the Mel Brooks' classic comedy Young Frankenstein in which Dr. Frankenstein & his monster perform this song.
You really ought to compare this video to the original. I like both, but for different reasons. This one had more and better dancing, and the show girls were a nice touch. The original had some commentary on the disparity between the haves, and have-nots, as well as several tropes from the vaudeville era. Sadly, you can only get the editted version of the original video here on RUclips; you'll have to go hunting elsewhere for the uncut version.
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies put out a much jazzier, more traditional version of the song, with several differences in Lyrics. In fact, I've heard several versions of this song by different artists, and they all have at least slightly-different words. Sort of like the song 'The Cat Came Back,' which is rarely performed exactly as written. There is a yt channel called 'Sheet Music Singer' that focuses on playing the exact original versions of old-time songs, which can be a valuable resource for this music.
This is one of the most lifeless interpretations of the song. The synth update does absolutely nothing for me.
Oooooper dooooper!
Great version of the song, but not nearly as good as Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle's performance in "Young Frankenstein" =)
I love this song! Dud you know it is from 1927? But it wasn't released until 1931.
Irving Berlin song from 1929. The video reflects this. Great reaction.
Tap dancing is pretty easy. just loosen up your feet about an inch or two above the ground and shake them forward and back to get the metal bit to hit the floor. do that to a rhythm and dance while you do it. well now that I say it its actually kinda hard. I believe he's actually Dutch and Indonesian as well.
Big thing in Germany in the early 1980's. I think the singer was a netherland guy.
Horrible.
he got nothing on Diana ankudinova 'putting on the ritz'. brad she'll drive ya crazy shes got real style by the way its caberet 1930s
This Genre is a standard "Musical Theatre Production Number" .The Star, with a Chorus of Dancing Girls was used in almost every Musical from the 1910's through the present day
I can ONLY think of Young Frankenstein when I hear this song LOL. ruclips.net/video/ab7NyKw0VYQ/видео.html
In the movie young Frankenstein, gene wilder trains Frankenstein to sing and tap to this song. It's pretty funny. The movie is a classic.
The 80s were a time for odd videos and song choices. For your own edification, check out Klaus Nomi.
Please find the Young Frankenstein clip of Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder doing this song, you will love it.
now, review the original version... with BLACKFACE.
I thought it was going to be a reaction to the video. The remade version is just weird. The original is weird but also features black face 😬
Please do yourself a favor and watch the movie "Young Frankenstein" ♥
IMHO, best cover of this is from "Young Frankenstein".
I just wanted to say that I love your name girl! My daughter is Alexis and I've always called her Lex! Love the sign with y'all name
The original lyrics were incredibly racist. Taco in an early performance included blackface dancers.
The singer looks like an extra from the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show.
😂 he made sure he told his girl that he was going to get her one of them out this though that's what I'm talking about bro that's what I'm talking about man said he want to see his own woman and one of them outfits anyone even really down with them being an outfit he want to see his girl in that outfit that's when you know a dude is in love cuz he done picked out a outfit so he can put on his wife so he can see this on his girl
Now you should check out the original.
Thanks for finally getting around to Playing Taco - Puttin On The Ritz!
The original music video was....problematic
Puttin' On The Ritz [Song by Irving Berlin] 1930