"Singin' In The Bathtub" (1929) Winnie Lightner

[@ramonaturpin8208]

We have to keep this music alive. I play it for my two year old granddaughter while she takes a bath. Move it forward.

[@ThomasDelRuth]

Winnie was my mom... I was a trip growing up with her, she is surely missed..

[@penumbraman99]

Thomas, that is so neat! After buying a cheap ukulele to try to play in my retirement, I started to look for uke songs on KZbin. A lot of people liked to play "Singin' In The Bathtub" on their plastic ukuleles. Even though my uke is not plastic, I thought I would learn the song. After I noticed your comment, I saw your mother's Wikipedia, your father"s, Roy, Wikipedia and your Wikipedia articles. You have a very talented family!

[@clintonearlwalker]

That's unbelievable, it's amazing the stuff you find on the internet. Thanx for your comment. I'm here because I like 1920's and early 30's music and I ran across this song and wanted to hear the original.

[@LostCause-69]

Your mother was a very lovely person.

[@heavenbounddaughter1125]

I like your mom's singing.

[@ThePookosh]

Wow! It's great to see your post here!

[@richardmoderate]

oh god do i love this -i play it almost every day-there isnt enough Winnie Lightner online for me

[@antoniod]

The song was immortalized by being used in all those Warner cartoons!

[@AmericanoNYC]

That's how I know it!

[@thomase13]

The first Looney Tune ever made! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkin%27_in_the_Bathtub

[@tomitstube]

winnie lightner, i think i'm in love. bathtubs in 1929 were still a big deal. running water, electricity, flying contraptions, and cars. it was all going so fast. this a beautiful example of early movies drawing off vaudeville for their material.

[@melissa2688]

This movie was on TCM last week and forgot this number was in it. Bull has some serious cauliflower ear 👂big time!

[@hebneh]

Back in the '70s, the version of this by R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders was a fave of mine and my friends.

[@TheDejael]

Winnie had a really delightful singing voice. This song is one of Robert Crumb's favorites, which he performed with his Cheap Suit Serenaders.

[@jongilchrist7229]

R.Crumb?

[@marytolhurst5165]

@@jongilchrist7229 yep. Robert Crumb, musician & cartoonist.

[@monoped8437]

@@jongilchrist7229 & his cheap suit serenaders. he did the art on big brother's 'cheap thrills' album

[@The1971orange]

Thanks for the background on Bull Montana. Having seen "The Quiet Man" numerous times I can well imagine the sort of knock-down fights McLaglen was capable of with Montana!

[@The1971orange]

According to the book "A Song in the Dark" about the early days of talkies, the guy in the tux was a former pro wrestler named Bull Montana that Warners was trying to groom for films. Good luck with that.

[@hebneh]

"Oh, there's dirt to be abolished But don't forget one thing While the body's washed & polished Sing, brother, sing!"

[@MrRichiekaye]

Great, just great! We need this kind of entertainment today!!!

[@bobpevere2456]

Back when people had their weekly bath on Saturday night. Whether they needed it or not, as my Dad likes to say. 😊

[@wfs1933]

Its from the 1929 film "The Show of Shows" was filmed in 2 color Technicolor system #2 is on DVD (most likely B&W)

[@adamschneider5305]

This song should make everything better for everyone. 😃

[@roderickfernandez5382]

I'm so glad to hear you say that I feel the same way I adore this woman and any chance I get to see her I do and listen to this song at least once a year

[@sallybrown4947]

93 short years ago.

[@StudebakerHawk57]

I was born in the wrong decade. The 'twenties' rocked!

[@thomase13]

It’s the twenties again now! Welcome! 😃

[@swallin19]

Shows of Shows was odd technically, part in colour on 35mm Technicolor, parts in B&W, and part in 65mm Colour, printed for normal viewing on 35mm. Some major cinemas showed it in 65mm, an early attempt at large format, and get more light on the screen for colour. Cost Warners a lot of money, barely returned as interest was fading in musical extravaganzas like this monster production.

[@swallin19]

In Technicolor 2 colour, and shot on both 35mm and Warner 65mm as well for release in major US Warner cinemas on Bigger screens. Not all the "Show of Shows" exists in colour, some was originally B/W anyway, some color is lost, like the finale, (B/W only). Nick Lucas's musical number and the Chinese Dance number exist in colour. Stephen.

[@michaeloleary1867]

Love it!

[@bookbeing]

If only we had performers like her today! 🛀🌞

[@monoped8437]

r. crumb...he covers this song

[@tyroneepps3018]

Hi ! Count disco one I have your new ! Channel I like this song I will put this in my Library so keep the songs coming your new ! No.1fan !

[@swallin19]

@cdadave83814 Larry Ceballos did the staging etc., for this number, complete with training "the chorines", and because of the male chorus line, it nearly resulted in getting the whole number dropped, but Jack Warner insisted it stayed, he just wanted to poke fun at MGM's Singing in the Rain number, adding the end number just to add to the fun.

[@hafgrimsigurdsun8992]

wrote the lyrics from the clip - i'm pretty close to what the lyrics are - sometimes it's hard to make out... why am i excited why am i so gay why am i delighted say what day is today? pardon my elation everything's just right i get inspiration every saturday night I'm singing in the bathtub, happy once again watching all my troubles, go swimming down the drain I'm singing through the soap suds, life is full of hope you can sing with feeling, while feeling for the soap Oh, a ring around the bathtub, isn't so nice to see but a ring around the bathtub, is a rainbow to me' Reaching for a towel, ready for a rub everybody's happy, when singing in the tub oh saturday's children be nice to the bath this is your judgement day now (we ought) to begin so lift up your chin (we're ready) and wash all your sins away Singing in the bathtub sitting all alone Tearing out a tonsil Just like a baritone Never take a shower It's an awful pain Singing in the shower Is like singing in the rain. Oh, there is dirt to be abolished But don't forget one thing While your body's washed and polished Sing brother sing! You can yodel opera Even while you scrub Everybody's happy While singing in the tub.

[@hotsickle]

yes, and four dimension also.

[@swallin19]

@The1971orange Bull Montana was a well known actor in the 1920's always playing heavies and gangsters, he fought Victor Mclagen in a couple of films, and they did not pull punches! He was quite a character, and the joke was his singing a parody of MGM's hit song, Jack Warner authorised it to get at Meyer, the whole staging was designed to spoof Singing in the Rain as well. L.B.Meyer would not talk to Warners for a long time after this film, but was glad it did not return Warner's a profit.

[@longjohn7607]

Covered by R Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders

[@alfredbonnabel7022]

❤😂❤😂❤😂❤

[@ClarasBeau]

You know, I have seen an old still of this particular number depicting small children in the finale, and I'm wondering if that part of it was cut, since it is obvious that the "female" dancers are male...

[@michaelmills7198]

Bull Montana had a nice smile, though.

[@hayatbrrroui7931]

Slm

[@OswaldMiyake35]

This song is similar to a cartoon named siking ina bathtub

[@OswaldMiyake35]

Yes sir ^__________^

[@sonicfanboy3375]

It's the exact song

[@thomase13]

Yes - the first genuine Looney Tune!

[@markwaltz3307]

Spoofed in Gremlins 2.

[@greasycock455]

sing in the bath. true. do.

[@flibberguts2760]

Youuu-ra maid for me see , I'm was made for youuuuu

[@missysmtih7804]

the twenties did rock why do you think they called them the roaring twenties everyone was making money.

[@653j521]

missy smtih Everyone except the farmers.

[@StoopidDub33]

The end was so weird Omg! Dude was outta tune! Ggahhahahhahahah!

[@markokelly2494]

I can't remember his name. He was a pro wrestler who realized that he wasn't getting any younger. He turned to stage and screen, as a less strenuous way to make a living.

[@simonwoods7112]

Wallace Beery, I'm thinking?

[@timothynevin2243]

@@markokelly2494 his name was Bull Montana.

[@sporkbinder2]

those dancers look too serious for this song!