I love this song. It's so much fun to sing...if only I could perform it with an orchestra like this!
@peterroyce34874 жыл бұрын
Roasting peanuts. OMG 😮😮😮😮😮 Thats even more insulting.
@JazzVideoMike4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful - many thanks for sharing it with us
@BruceKaplan3 жыл бұрын
The song was originally recorded by Henry Hall with Val Rosing on vocals. He was my father in law, and I am his official biographer and archivist. I am sure if he were alive today, he would not sing the song as written. In his later years, he was a great fan of black musicians and would not disrispect them with the lyric in question. The historical accuracy argument does not hold water. There are many things that were considered acceptable in the 1930s that we would not tolerate today. When we (his daughter and I) released a Val Rosing's greatest CD in 2010, we replaced the offending line with the saxophone from the later repeat of that section. We took some heat, but I still stand by that decision,.
@DanielJacksonMusic3 жыл бұрын
It’s ok, it was acceptable in 1932
@claireclaire2383 жыл бұрын
The Marxist social engineers want everything to be offensive to divide and conquer.
@M1m1-5052 жыл бұрын
This song: *plays* Everyone: This is amazing Walten Files fans: Hahaha blue Bunny and Mario looking animatronic go brrrrrrrrrr.
@RubtsoffAccordion2 жыл бұрын
I agree. I'm sorry that Walten Files fans everywhere write about how they found out about this song.
@M1m1-5052 жыл бұрын
@@RubtsoffAccordion lol I am actually one but you are right though.
@roaringtwenties62155 жыл бұрын
BRAVO MAESTRO!!!!!!!!!
@PiccDan5 жыл бұрын
Grazie mille!!
@RubberChickenFilms9 жыл бұрын
Great cover, Michael and all!
@PiccDan3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@garyhosty98744 жыл бұрын
Outrageous, disgraceful...how could the Sun which is really really hot...and big...wear a hat ?? absurd. ban it
@blackpoolbarmpot4 жыл бұрын
LOL
@robertmorgan51735 жыл бұрын
Great fun. Glad to see the offending bits of the lyrics excised.
@barrycrump61892 жыл бұрын
Why censor the lyrics? Pandering to the woke culture.
@PiccDan2 жыл бұрын
The replacement line, by Stephen Fry, was written in the 1980s, which is pre-'wokeness' I believe?
@theopelgrave5842 Жыл бұрын
@@PiccDan "Woke" appears to predates the 1980's. "Among the earliest uses of the idea of wokeness as a concept for Black political consciousness came from Jamaican philosopher and social activist Marcus Garvey,[4] who wrote in 1923, "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!"[4][7]" "Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, used the phrase "stay woke" as part of a spoken afterward to a 1938 recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys"...(4)" "The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest such usage to a 1962 New York Times Magazine article titled "If You're Woke You Dig It" by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley, describing the appropriation of Black slang by white beatniks.[8]" The quotes are from Wikipedia so take them with a pinch of salt. The New York Times article is real but behind a paywall.