I'm glad it's still like that. I remember one St. Patty's Day morning on a subway train in the late 80s or early 90s a man who sounded like a Broadway singer started singing Over the Rainbow and sang the whole song. And I got to see some of the parade at lunchtime.
I think Steven Spielberg borrowed straight from this scene for the movie Jaws. When everybody's relaxing on the boat and they're starting to sing songs everybody's having a good time that all of a sudden the shark hits the side of the boat and everybody's got to get serious all of a sudden. It startles the actors and it startles the audience
This is the perfect word for it. I've heard people say it's funny or charming--and it is--but it's moving. There's such a warmth and camaraderie. (Also I've taken many bus trips Boston-to-NYC or Boston-to-Philly and everyone silently looks at their phones. Just once I wish we'd have a singalong.)
damn. i wish people would do this nowadays. if anyone wanted to sing on the bus they'd get the dirtiest looks and people would just stare at their phones as if nothing's worth living for anymore except whatever's in their world.
@@precisionbrown6829 I know. Outside of movies, TV, and some scout trips, people just don't burst into song in public. Not unless they're mentally ill, at least.
wouldn't it be great to get on a bus where everyone is as friendly as that? Times have changed. Not to get all crotchety--I like my privacy, too--but I sometimes wish I could jump on a train somewhere and bust out into song with a bunch of strangers.
It's a beautiful thought. Also, look at the dignified people using long distance public transportation. It's before the motor car was affordable to the average family and before commercial flying was widespread. But thank goodness that a lot of that friendliness to strangers is still alive and well today in much of the American South.
@@celia8294 bro he didnt say everything was better then, he was just saying that it would be that nice if everyone was that friendly on a bus, your comment had nothing to do with his
I saw a video from England where these people got on the bus or the tube and sang Over the Rainbow. After a short time, everyone chimed in. It was lovely.
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beautiful. the entire scene. it feels like an age where people knew how to 'live', despite surviving through some of the toughest times. wish the folks of today understood what their predecessors went through, instead of talking trash about them all the time.
My personal opinion is that people acted happy in those sorts of times because it was all they COULD do short of killing themselves. The anger toward prior generations is a luxury, I'll give you that much, but that alone does not invalidate it. People are angry because they feel like they can be because this time they have something resembling hope for change for the TRULY better.
@@Lheticus It's a delusion, just like so many times before. Sailors of Kronstadt also belived they're making the world a better place... until they didn't. To quote Anthony Esolen: "Everyone, from the cow-eyed sociology major to Hitler, from the drag queen at the local library to publisher Larry Flynt, wants to “make the world a better place.” Nobody wants to do the dishes or change the baby’s diaper."
@@konserwowy1092 You think so? I figure the internet's changed the game for good. It allows people who are actually going through the worst aspects of this world to not only tell people about it, to spread awareness of just how screwed up our world is, but even to provide picture and video evidence, on a far wider scale than the occasional work like Upton Sinclair's jungle. If there really was just as little hope of putting an end to the world's bullshit as before, if the internet didn't increase that amount of hope, I don't think places like North Korea and China would be so afraid of it, would take such pains to control their people's exposure to it.
@@Lheticus North Korea and China? How about Google and Facebook? The latter recently banned an entire parliamentary political party in my native Poland. If anything, interet made it easier for the Powers That Be to weed out the dissent thought.
@@celia8294 Seen a couple of your comments here. Just wondering if you're truly as unhappy as you appear or if you're just trolling for reactions. Either way, good day.
Wonderful movie. I first saw it 12-13 years old around 1969, and even then I enjoyed it immensly. Of all Capra's great movies, this and It's a Wonderful Life come closest to perfection in my view. Someone wrote in IMDB about this scene, that it's Frank Capra doing a cameo here, singing the third verse, while it emphatically is not. The chemistry between Gable and Colbert was wonderful, which is strange since Colbert complained all through the shooting and Gable came on set with a chip on his shoulder. However, he came to like Capra's style very much.
On UA-cam, there is a clip called “Frank Capra Receives Three Best Director Oscars”. It has two samples of his voice, and the way he looked in the 1930’s. I don’t know. What do you think?
@@hoodatdondar2664 IMDB is just plain wrong here. Capra was stocky with a broad face and a raspy voice, not a tenor like this one. Also, in his autobiography, he describes how he set the scene up, leaned back and laughed as the extras had the time of their life.
If movies from the 1930s are at all truthful, people back then were more inclined to sing in public. Before the rise of recorded and broadcast music, people had to rely on themselves to make music. Maybe we've become inhibited to sing out in public.
Note that the singing goes on because there was no electronic entertainment Radios were not portable. If you wanted to be entertained, you had to do it yourself. True everywhere. Even at tony week-ends at fancy mansions, there would be impromptu singing and playing of instruments by the guests. Many more people could do that then, then now. If you were lucky, there might be a Victrola. But this is very plausible. Capra was making a slice-of-life comedy, remember - as much realism as possible.
@PalmerPirateFilms You're right, the 19th century containes the 1800s and ends in 1899, but the sogn is actually from the 19th century. It was first published in 1867
The song is about a real person: trapeze sensation Jules Léotard. This 1867 song was written at the height of his fame. It reflects his approach to the act. His approach did not stress the risk he took, but emphasized the "ease and grace" of his trapeze work, inspiring not fear but wonder. Don’t scare ‘em, just make it look sooo easy. He designed the body stocking known as the ‘Léotard’ for his act. Maximum ease and freedom of movement. And the ladies liked it. He died age 32 - disease, maybe smallpox. Surprised me, I thought maybe the daring young man had got a little too daring. But no, died in bed.
Let’s all sing along! Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn, Like an old coat that is tattered and torn; Left in this wide world to weep and to mourn, Betrayed by a maid in her teens. Now this girl that I loved, she was handsome, And I tried all I knew her to please, But I never could please her one quarter so well As the man on the flying trapeze. CHORUS OHH he floats through the air with the greatest of ease, This daring young man on the flying trapeze; His actions are graceful, all girls he does please, And my love he has stolen away. He'd play with a miss like a cat with a mouse, His eyes would undress every girl in the house. Perhaps he is better described as a louse, But the people they came just the same. Oh, he'd smile from his perch on the people below And one day he smiled on my love. She blew him a kiss and she hollered, "Bravo!" As he hung by his schnoz from above. CHORUS Oh, l wept and I whimpered, I simpered for weeks, While she spent her time with the circus's freaks. The tears were like hailstones that rolled down my cheeks, Alas, and alack, and Alaska ! I went to this fellow, the blackguard, and said, "I'll see that you get your deserts!" He put up his thumb to his nose with a sneer, He sneered once again, and said, "Nertz!" CHORUS One night to his tent he invited her in, He filled her with compliments, kisses, and gin And started her out on the road to ru-in, Since then l have known no repose. But e'en now l loved her, I said, "Take my name! I'll gladly forgive and forget;" She rustled her bustle without any shame, Saying, "Well, maybe later, not yet." CHORUS One night as usual l went to her home, And found there her father and mother alone, I asked for my love, and it soon was made known, To my horror, that she'd run away. Without any trousseau, she'd fled in the night With him with the greatest of ease, From two stories high he'd lowered her down To the ground on his flying trapeze. CHORUS Some months after that l went into a hall, And to my surprise I found there on the wall, A bill in red letters which did my heart gall, That she was appearing with him. Oh, he'd taught her gymnastics, And dressed her in tights, To help him to live at his ease, He'd made her take on a masculine name, And now she goes on the trapeze. (Last chorus:) OHH, she floats through the air with the greatest of ease, You'd think her a man on the flying trapeze, She does all the work while he takes his ease, And that's what's become of my love!
Note that the director has the bus driver join in just then to partly cover the word. There was a worry that some might not even like the euphemism. This made it possible that some would say ‘what?…oh well’.
@@bradburford2155 Code says you can’t say that. Unless you mean ‘Crazy’. You see: it means [male appurtenances]. This was just before the Code, but studios were already starting to be leery.
@@jenniferbursiel8465 Was performed by the Our Gang (Little Rascals) kids as the International Silver String Submarine Band in the 1934 short film Mike Fright. A second Our Gang rendition, by Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, was later included in the 1939 short Clown Princes. The song was the basis of the 1934 Popeye the Sailor musical cartoon The Man on the Flying Trapeze. In the 1934 Fox film George White's Scandals, the song is performed by Rudy Vallee. Dick Powell sings it twice in the 1934 film Twenty Million Sweethearts. Powells version is a direct parody of Capra’s earlier film. One charactcter calls it ‘that hokey trapeze number’.
@@njplr by Samuel Woodworth How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew; The wide-spreading pond, and the mill which stood by it, The bridge, and the rock where the cataract fell; The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it, And e’en the rude bucket which hung in the well - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. There’s two more verses, but you get the idea.
@PalmerPirateFilms Gosh, you're smart and stuff with know'n dem centries n stuff but...you are wrong about this song. By the way, next time you want to correct someone you should perhaps get correct information before doing so.
Wonderful movie. Although I am 17 years old, I really enjoyed it.
In NYC they still sing and play music in the subways and the streets. Bless us musicians 💗
I'm glad it's still like that. I remember one St. Patty's Day morning on a subway train in the late 80s or early 90s a man who sounded like a Broadway singer started singing Over the Rainbow and sang the whole song. And I got to see some of the parade at lunchtime.
This is one of the most moving scenes in motion picture history.
Agreed!
I think Steven Spielberg borrowed straight from this scene for the movie Jaws. When everybody's relaxing on the boat and they're starting to sing songs everybody's having a good time that all of a sudden the shark hits the side of the boat and everybody's got to get serious all of a sudden. It startles the actors and it startles the audience
This is the perfect word for it. I've heard people say it's funny or charming--and it is--but it's moving. There's such a warmth and camaraderie. (Also I've taken many bus trips Boston-to-NYC or Boston-to-Philly and everyone silently looks at their phones. Just once I wish we'd have a singalong.)
Thanks for posting this. I woke up this morning with this song in my head. One of my favorite movies. Capra movies are the best.
A Capra Classic and the very first Screwball Comedy. And one of the best of that genre.
Would life anyone's spirits up when feeling stressed out!
Great picture, when TRUE films were made!!
wonderful scene, wonderful sentiments
very beautiful how strangers are sharing a good time together
damn. i wish people would do this nowadays. if anyone wanted to sing on the bus they'd get the dirtiest looks and people would just stare at their phones as if nothing's worth living for anymore except whatever's in their world.
So true!
When I was working at the airport one of the employees was trying to sing but the shuttle driver stopped the bus and yelled at us
VenusDoomInOurBlood
Lol and where do you live?
@@precisionbrown6829 I know. Outside of movies, TV, and some scout trips, people just don't burst into song in public. Not unless they're mentally ill, at least.
@@avidreader8521 Come to Vancouver. We will prove you wrong.
The kindness shown the young boy and his weak mother. Pricelss.
the second guy just nails it! :)
Thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
wouldn't it be great to get on a bus where everyone is as friendly as that? Times have changed.
Not to get all crotchety--I like my privacy, too--but I sometimes wish I could jump on a train somewhere and bust out into song with a bunch of strangers.
It's a beautiful thought. Also, look at the dignified people using long distance public transportation. It's before the motor car was affordable to the average family and before commercial flying was widespread. But thank goodness that a lot of that friendliness to strangers is still alive and well today in much of the American South.
@@celia8294 bro he didnt say everything was better then, he was just saying that it would be that nice if everyone was that friendly on a bus, your comment had nothing to do with his
I saw a video from England where these people got on the bus or the tube and sang Over the Rainbow. After a short time, everyone chimed in. It was lovely.
@@celia8294 Why are you commenting, you social justice scumbag?
@@kathleenburns7732 Wow! Perhaps you could send the link?
These movies are true treasures! Old movies got it right, great actors and good story lines, NO Special Effects.
Singer of the third verse is the director himself, Frank Capra
I didn’t even know that, thanks.
Alas, alack, and Alaska!
Man that's a hell of movie!
Alas - Alack in Alaska!
Gotta love that!
Ha! 🤣👍
He called his movies Capra Corn. What a guy!
Best RomCom ever !!
very good music and happy.
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great scene and great movie!
beautiful. the entire scene. it feels like an age where people knew how to 'live', despite surviving through some of the toughest times. wish the folks of today understood what their predecessors went through, instead of talking trash about them all the time.
My personal opinion is that people acted happy in those sorts of times because it was all they COULD do short of killing themselves. The anger toward prior generations is a luxury, I'll give you that much, but that alone does not invalidate it. People are angry because they feel like they can be because this time they have something resembling hope for change for the TRULY better.
@@Lheticus It's a delusion, just like so many times before. Sailors of Kronstadt also belived they're making the world a better place... until they didn't. To quote Anthony Esolen: "Everyone, from the cow-eyed sociology major to Hitler, from the drag queen at the local library to publisher Larry Flynt, wants to “make the world a better place.” Nobody wants to do the dishes or change the baby’s diaper."
@@konserwowy1092 You think so? I figure the internet's changed the game for good. It allows people who are actually going through the worst aspects of this world to not only tell people about it, to spread awareness of just how screwed up our world is, but even to provide picture and video evidence, on a far wider scale than the occasional work like Upton Sinclair's jungle.
If there really was just as little hope of putting an end to the world's bullshit as before, if the internet didn't increase that amount of hope, I don't think places like North Korea and China would be so afraid of it, would take such pains to control their people's exposure to it.
@@Lheticus North Korea and China? How about Google and Facebook? The latter recently banned an entire parliamentary political party in my native Poland. If anything, interet made it easier for the Powers That Be to weed out the dissent thought.
Great insight… thanks for your comments.
I wish this version of the song was on iTunes. And that people on trips like this got along like this too
Truly better times. Now everybody would stare at their smartphone....
@@celia8294 Seen a couple of your comments here. Just wondering if you're truly as unhappy as you appear or if you're just trolling for reactions. Either way, good day.
@@celia8294 Do you wash with your menstrual blood, you leftist twat?
Just saw this in my history of motion pictures class
Simple pleasure s are the most edifying
Dude I love this!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wonderful movie. I first saw it 12-13 years old around 1969, and even then I enjoyed it immensly. Of all Capra's great movies, this and It's a Wonderful Life come closest to perfection in my view. Someone wrote in IMDB about this scene, that it's Frank Capra doing a cameo here, singing the third verse, while it emphatically is not. The chemistry between Gable and Colbert was wonderful, which is strange since Colbert complained all through the shooting and Gable came on set with a chip on his shoulder. However, he came to like Capra's style very much.
IMDB seems to think it is indeed he, Capra.
But several fans think not.
There must be a record, somewhere.
On UA-cam, there is a clip called “Frank Capra Receives Three Best Director Oscars”. It has two samples of his voice, and the way he looked in the 1930’s.
I don’t know. What do you think?
@@hoodatdondar2664 IMDB is just plain wrong here. Capra was stocky with a broad face and a raspy voice, not a tenor like this one. Also, in his autobiography, he describes how he set the scene up, leaned back and laughed as the extras had the time of their life.
@@bengt-oveandersson2914 Thanks for the autobio info.
Hardcore insanity. Gotta love it.
If movies from the 1930s are at all truthful, people back then were more inclined to sing in public. Before the rise of recorded and broadcast music, people had to rely on themselves to make music. Maybe we've become inhibited to sing out in public.
Yes.
Oh my it's as if that bus driver drove into that lake on purpose.
Amazing, witty, humorous, happy, cheerful, warm and heated, showing the nature of the american people. But, what's the previous song before this song?
The old oaken bucket that hung in the well, popular poem-turned-into-a-song from the 1820's (I think)
Note that the singing goes on because there was no electronic entertainment Radios were not portable.
If you wanted to be entertained, you had to do it yourself. True everywhere. Even at tony week-ends at fancy mansions, there would be impromptu singing and playing of instruments by the guests. Many more people could do that then, then now.
If you were lucky, there might be a Victrola.
But this is very plausible. Capra was making a slice-of-life comedy, remember - as much realism as possible.
A cool December Evening at the Disney Florida Resort. On a PACKED bus, the driver started “Zip a de Do dah”. Best Bus Ride EVER!
Good movie
This is really great. First time I noticed that the although this is a moving bus the windows don't show any movement of the landscape.
It's night
@PalmerPirateFilms
You're right, the 19th century containes the 1800s and ends in 1899, but the sogn is actually from the 19th century. It was first published in 1867
The song is about a real person: trapeze sensation Jules Léotard.
This 1867 song was written at the height of his fame.
It reflects his approach to the act. His approach did not stress the risk he took, but emphasized the "ease and grace" of his trapeze work, inspiring not fear but wonder. Don’t scare ‘em, just make it look sooo easy.
He designed the body stocking known as the ‘Léotard’ for his act. Maximum ease and freedom of movement. And the ladies liked it.
He died age 32 - disease, maybe smallpox. Surprised me, I thought maybe the daring young man had got a little too daring. But no, died in bed.
I read somewhere that Bugs Bunny's character and demeanor was based on Clark Gable in this movie. If it's not true, it ought to be.
Let’s all sing along!
Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn,
Like an old coat that is tattered and torn;
Left in this wide world to weep and to mourn,
Betrayed by a maid in her teens.
Now this girl that I loved, she was handsome,
And I tried all I knew her to please,
But I never could please her one quarter so well
As the man on the flying trapeze.
CHORUS
OHH he floats through the air with the greatest of ease,
This daring young man on the flying trapeze;
His actions are graceful, all girls he does please,
And my love he has stolen away.
He'd play with a miss like a cat with a mouse,
His eyes would undress every girl in the house.
Perhaps he is better described as a louse,
But the people they came just the same.
Oh, he'd smile from his perch on the people below
And one day he smiled on my love.
She blew him a kiss and she hollered, "Bravo!"
As he hung by his schnoz from above.
CHORUS
Oh, l wept and I whimpered, I simpered for weeks,
While she spent her time with the circus's freaks.
The tears were like hailstones that rolled down my cheeks,
Alas, and alack, and Alaska !
I went to this fellow, the blackguard, and said,
"I'll see that you get your deserts!"
He put up his thumb to his nose with a sneer,
He sneered once again, and said, "Nertz!"
CHORUS
One night to his tent he invited her in,
He filled her with compliments, kisses, and gin
And started her out on the road to ru-in,
Since then l have known no repose.
But e'en now l loved her, I said, "Take my name!
I'll gladly forgive and forget;"
She rustled her bustle without any shame,
Saying, "Well, maybe later, not yet."
CHORUS
One night as usual l went to her home,
And found there her father and mother alone,
I asked for my love, and it soon was made known,
To my horror, that she'd run away.
Without any trousseau, she'd fled in the night
With him with the greatest of ease,
From two stories high he'd lowered her down
To the ground on his flying trapeze.
CHORUS
Some months after that l went into a hall,
And to my surprise I found there on the wall,
A bill in red letters which did my heart gall,
That she was appearing with him.
Oh, he'd taught her gymnastics,
And dressed her in tights,
To help him to live at his ease,
He'd made her take on a masculine name,
And now she goes on the trapeze.
(Last chorus:)
OHH, she floats through the air with the greatest of ease,
You'd think her a man on the flying trapeze,
She does all the work while he takes his ease,
And that's what's become of my love!
NERTZ!
Note that the director has the bus driver join in just then to partly cover the word. There was a worry that some might not even like the euphemism. This made it possible that some would say ‘what?…oh well’.
Does anyone know what "nertz" is supposed to mean or be an approximation for? I have heard it in a few songs from the 1930s and 40s.
"NUTS!"
@@bradburford2155 Code says you can’t say that. Unless you mean ‘Crazy’. You see: it means [male appurtenances].
This was just before the Code, but studios were already starting to be leery.
What kind of bus is this? It's HUGE!
A modern greyhound bus is even larger. They are designed to hold 55 people somewhat comfortably.
Alas and Alaska.
Not the only 1934 film to utilize this song.
David Johnson do tell...
@@jenniferbursiel8465
Was performed by the Our Gang (Little Rascals) kids as the International Silver String Submarine Band in the 1934 short film Mike Fright. A second Our Gang rendition, by Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, was later included in the 1939 short Clown Princes.
The song was the basis of the 1934 Popeye the Sailor musical cartoon The Man on the Flying Trapeze.
In the 1934 Fox film George White's Scandals, the song is performed by Rudy Vallee.
Dick Powell sings it twice in the 1934 film Twenty Million Sweethearts.
Powells version is a direct parody of Capra’s earlier film. One charactcter calls it ‘that hokey trapeze number’.
The cuphead show brought me here
Does anyone have any idea what the other song they were singing at the very beginning is?
Even I too looking for it....
The old oaken bucket, was a poem from the early 1800s, then set to music and popular for the next hundred years.
@@njplr by Samuel Woodworth
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view!
The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,
And every loved spot which my infancy knew;
The wide-spreading pond, and the mill which stood by it,
The bridge, and the rock where the cataract fell;
The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it,
And e’en the rude bucket which hung in the well -
The old oaken bucket,
the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well.
There’s two more verses, but you get the idea.
Do not sing to the driver while the bus is in motion.
Which is the first song they sing?
Who are the singers? One supposedly was Capra.
@PalmerPirateFilms Gosh, you're smart and stuff with know'n dem centries n stuff but...you are wrong about this song.
By the way, next time you want to correct someone you should perhaps get correct information before doing so.
Which came first, Popeye or this show?
they came out the same year, but I think this moive was first.