Motherf**ker I'm Broke (obscure 50s music)

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  • Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
  • Plucked out of vinyl obscurity and restored via ai music magic comes this obscure late 1950s song from Errol Pennywhistle.
    The late 1950s weren’t kind to Doo Wop upstart Errol Pennywhistle. I’m Broke, his first vinyl record, never saw store shelves, instead being sent “accidentally” to a local landfill. “I spent days diggin’ every copy I could outta that garbage palace,” Errol stated in his statement to the local PD after being arrested for trespassing and theft. “How can you be arrested for takin' your own sh*t?” It would be months until Pennywhistle was back on the streets with records in hand, peddling the one by one from his cardboard box on street corners around Detroit. But like so many relationships, what started with pity eventually grew into a little something more. Pennywhistle developed a cult following, allowing him the opportunity to purchase more studio time from a reluctant Motown Records, who wouldn’t voluntarily back him until after his third release.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 216

  • @BLACKLAVENDERfilmscores
    @BLACKLAVENDERfilmscores 2 місяці тому +354

    My dad used to drink and beat me to this song.

  • @walterblaque244
    @walterblaque244 Місяць тому +126

    I dedicate this song to all of my bills.

  • @benjiwon
    @benjiwon 2 місяці тому +551

    "Chuck! Chuck, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Berry. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!”

    • @thefinisher2010
      @thefinisher2010 2 місяці тому +14

      Jeez, I've heard that b4

    • @brettk9316
      @brettk9316 2 місяці тому +17

      I miss BTTF :(

    • @Mister_Sphincter-iv2do
      @Mister_Sphincter-iv2do 2 місяці тому +8

      Well played, Sir

    • @WickedCrispy
      @WickedCrispy 2 місяці тому +26

      I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But.... your kids are gonna love it.

    • @tomg1480
      @tomg1480 2 місяці тому +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @elliotbrown7789
    @elliotbrown7789 2 місяці тому +246

    The next time someone ask me to hang out...

    • @CowTaurog
      @CowTaurog 2 місяці тому +25

      For real. They had better be buying. Shit, I’m over here with coupons.

  • @davidstrickler5362
    @davidstrickler5362 16 днів тому +15

    I remember my beautiful mother in the early 60's singing every word to this song. I was lucky to have such a young mom. We liked all the same music. Miss you, Mama.

  • @adm712
    @adm712 2 місяці тому +127

    I remember back in 1956 playing this on the jukebox at the diner where I met my wife. Now I'm in a nursing home that smells like poop because my kids took my money and I'm singing this song once again.

    • @an-mo2jf
      @an-mo2jf 2 місяці тому +12

      It smells fine, love you dad

    • @danstacks414
      @danstacks414 2 місяці тому +9

      Pizza rolls weren't invited until 1968. So how was he singing about expired pizza rolls 10 years before they were thought of?

    • @MalkomWhite
      @MalkomWhite Місяць тому

      He's so broke he might have actually broke the space-time continuum ​@@danstacks414

    • @brandoncastro6731
      @brandoncastro6731 Місяць тому +7

      @@danstacks414That’s what being broke does to a man. 😂

    • @danstacks414
      @danstacks414 Місяць тому +1

      @@brandoncastro6731 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Chantelee392
    @Chantelee392 Місяць тому +48

    "You shouldn't smoke" part was so wholesome❤

  • @jamesbryant8677
    @jamesbryant8677 2 місяці тому +114

    I love Errol Pennywhistle! Saw him at the Cow Palace in 57.

  • @christianbigeagle2482
    @christianbigeagle2482 2 місяці тому +65

    Been singing this song since the 2008 Great Recession.

    • @ExplorerOfTheGalaxy
      @ExplorerOfTheGalaxy 2 місяці тому +3

      2008 wasn't even a real recession.. not "great" like 1929.. it was nothing.

    • @lh7325
      @lh7325 Місяць тому +3

      Wait until the next one 😎

    • @Standefiant
      @Standefiant Місяць тому +5

      @@ExplorerOfTheGalaxy That's why it was a recession and not a depression

  • @Fooflinger
    @Fooflinger Місяць тому +35

    "and it may not be the life for you, but I'm free, no one to answer to.
    Just kidding, I'm fucking screwed"
    I literally laughed so hard I almost began to choke

  • @user-je5do6jn2f
    @user-je5do6jn2f 2 місяці тому +111

    The AI has bars...

  • @virginiathornton
    @virginiathornton 26 днів тому +9

    Ironically this song went platinum and made him a billion dollars.

  • @shireyed
    @shireyed 2 місяці тому +26

    i remember my grandfather pulling his old records down and pulling this beat up record out and playing this forgotten hit for me when i was a small lade. A classic.

  • @josephbarry
    @josephbarry Місяць тому +9

    "... and my suits are NOT bespoke ..."

  • @tyroneweedon
    @tyroneweedon Місяць тому +24

    Very relatable how most people feel.
    I'm broke as a joke. 😞

    • @triple9fine
      @triple9fine Місяць тому +4

      And I ain’t got a nickel for a coke🎶

  • @billbull1JB-EH
    @billbull1JB-EH Місяць тому +14

    When he said "can't afford a can of coke" i felt that 😔

    • @zarathustra1430
      @zarathustra1430 Місяць тому

      Right there with ya homie

    • @HJRIV
      @HJRIV 25 днів тому

      Coke is expensive as hell now. I don't see how anybody can afford it!

    • @jamesstrickland4501
      @jamesstrickland4501 7 днів тому

      No caffeine nope

  • @ChefTareck
    @ChefTareck 2 місяці тому +16

    I was raised on the classics like this one

  • @megafrankenstien8049
    @megafrankenstien8049 Місяць тому +12

    One of his bests, I remember visiting the landfill and his record were still found to this day!

  • @huntermccoy7641
    @huntermccoy7641 2 місяці тому +26

    The song of my people.

  • @schrodingersgat4344
    @schrodingersgat4344 2 місяці тому +45

    Thank you for this. My Dad used to sing this everytime I wanted a toy. He died in 2016. 🙏
    Thank you for the memories.

  • @burritoanxiety903
    @burritoanxiety903 2 місяці тому +12

    great song! my father showed me this when I was in my teens and been rocking it ever since

  • @reviewaccount469
    @reviewaccount469 2 місяці тому +26

    This is my theme song.

  • @Edward-pp8jc
    @Edward-pp8jc 2 місяці тому +15

    Damn! I just saw Errol dumpster diving just the other day.

  • @richardlincoln8438
    @richardlincoln8438 2 місяці тому +43

    I've been singing this for the last three years.

  • @heidi22209
    @heidi22209 2 місяці тому +18

    Everyone's worried about my safety... lol

  • @monkymonk6
    @monkymonk6 2 місяці тому +87

    True story: Errol Pennywhistle went to his local 7-11 store in 1961, and bought a few scratch off tickets, and he ended up winning 50000 dollars. Later on that year, a good friend told him about investing, and he invested 10k into a fledgling startup company called Amazon, and the rest as they say is history. BTW, Errol is not broke anymore.

    • @TheBaltimoreMovieTrailerPark
      @TheBaltimoreMovieTrailerPark 2 місяці тому +7

      That man...what an inspiration! 🥲

    • @mickeyjanowski9457
      @mickeyjanowski9457 2 місяці тому +2

      Amazing didn’t start up til over 30 years later.

    • @zombieat
      @zombieat Місяць тому

      @@mickeyjanowski9457 that's how much he believed in amazon

    • @jamescorbin5090
      @jamescorbin5090 Місяць тому

      @@mickeyjanowski9457 and scratch lotter didn't start until 1985

    • @VincentNajger1
      @VincentNajger1 Місяць тому

      @@mickeyjanowski9457 shhhh!

  • @melindaunknown6411
    @melindaunknown6411 16 днів тому +3

    Ah yes, we used to play this song over and over at the church summer get togethers.

  • @jarcuadanantus28
    @jarcuadanantus28 2 місяці тому +32

    The love the background singers, no caffeine nope.

    • @dullroar2673
      @dullroar2673 2 місяці тому +4

      (You shouldn't smoke!)

    • @WhuDhat
      @WhuDhat Місяць тому

      Cuz mfer you broke?

  • @yeetlydiscreetly
    @yeetlydiscreetly 2 місяці тому +23

    Grandad was notoriously racist in his day, but he always had a soft spot for Mr. Pennywhistle’s records. I like to think he helped make Grandad a better person with his inspiring music.

  • @sophiah1091
    @sophiah1091 Місяць тому +4

    I'm going to send this song to my Landlord and the electric company. 🤣😭

  • @-whyquestion
    @-whyquestion Місяць тому +9

    Ngl I’m genuinely streaming this on Spotify 😭

  • @OrdinarySupergirl
    @OrdinarySupergirl 2 місяці тому +12

    My grandma used to listen to this song while dancing and me and my sister lunch from food she found from dumpster diving.
    Brought back so many memories for me ❤❤❤

    • @user-kv2vc3is8h
      @user-kv2vc3is8h 2 місяці тому

      Oh god I hope it wasn’t the same dumpster Fatty Charles used…

  • @adamcoe
    @adamcoe Місяць тому +4

    seriously, either the AI and/or the people directing it are getting better. fast. this is absolutely killer and I would really like to know exactly how these songs are being made because it's incredible.

    • @zjwmusic1936
      @zjwmusic1936 7 днів тому

      pretty much all these tunes are written by an actual human, and then parts of it are generated with vocaloids/synths, and at least one real, live, human involved. Various modern, AI-powered vocaloids are being developed and the tech is pretty awesome/terrifying. But somewhere in these fucking hilarious tunes there lays a compositional genius generating these under some level of (intentional) obscurity.

  • @enthiegavoir5955
    @enthiegavoir5955 2 місяці тому +32

    "And it may not be the life for you, but im free, no one to answer to"
    "Just kiddin'. Im fuckin' screwed!"
    Isn't that the truth?

    • @adamkane7513
      @adamkane7513 2 місяці тому +3

      Yup.
      Being broke ain't a joke!

  • @craigcman6738
    @craigcman6738 Місяць тому +3

    Beats all the music being played now.

  • @michaelmontano4280
    @michaelmontano4280 2 місяці тому +9

    Music like this should really come back!

  • @DutchChattahoochee
    @DutchChattahoochee 2 місяці тому +9

    in the 50's this was the song to play every christmas morning!

  • @coolwata105
    @coolwata105 24 дні тому +2

    🤣🤣the Weeknd got Nuthin on these classics 🤣🤣

  • @valerie241
    @valerie241 10 днів тому

    'I guess I'll swim because I can't afford no plane' 😆

  • @blackmagician7645
    @blackmagician7645 Місяць тому +4

    😄This reminds me of the Ray Charles song, 'Busted'.

  • @jagerbolt90
    @jagerbolt90 2 місяці тому +76

    Make this the national anthem!

    • @dinahwhite3929
      @dinahwhite3929 2 місяці тому

      for donald trump when he had to pay his lawyers and the courts
      selling his jet his empire and his friends
      cause muddypudder hes BROKE!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
      and he eats expired mcdonalds cant afford a can of coke

  • @moremartinthanmartin
    @moremartinthanmartin Місяць тому +3

    OMG. You got me laughing in my cubicle man.

  • @-whyquestion
    @-whyquestion 2 місяці тому +4

    Rip to him

  • @JLKDOOM
    @JLKDOOM Місяць тому +1

    BRAVO! I dont think i have EVER laughed as hard as i just did! this is the funniest thing ive ever heard in my life thank you!😆

  • @michaelmontano4280
    @michaelmontano4280 Місяць тому +2

    Should make more records like this.

  • @HeyThisIsBrian
    @HeyThisIsBrian 2 місяці тому +9

    The rhyming scheme of the verses is unironically so cool.

  • @sixgunshauna3486
    @sixgunshauna3486 День тому

    0% bespoke
    0% Coke
    0% smoke
    100% broke

  • @Tier1Norseman
    @Tier1Norseman 2 місяці тому +54

    2024 American Theme Song now. 😂

  • @erniebuchinski3614
    @erniebuchinski3614 2 місяці тому +9

    What's the problem, Errol? Just arrange some job interviews, put on your suit and see what happens.
    No, wait . . .

  • @chrisstrong1110
    @chrisstrong1110 2 місяці тому +6

    I just came to found this I like it never ever thought I find something so good like this

  • @Carter-hx3nb
    @Carter-hx3nb 11 днів тому

    "Everybody I know worries about my safety" is the best line

  • @wozzer2727
    @wozzer2727 2 місяці тому +6

    Errols got a few blowies in his suit!

  • @gilval808
    @gilval808 14 днів тому +1

    And they say the music in the 50s , 60s and 70s were Innocent. This made me laugh my lungs out.

  • @MalkomWhite
    @MalkomWhite Місяць тому +2

    The only music that i can relate to

  • @theboweryking
    @theboweryking Місяць тому +3

    warning: do not listen to this song while drive. your ass will crash cause you're laughing so hard.

    • @rbkstrm
      @rbkstrm Місяць тому

      I hope your med-bill was low, cuz.. you know

  • @James-if3kc
    @James-if3kc Місяць тому +3

    Fun fact: This is a cover of an obscure Sam Cooke song.

  • @michaelmontano4280
    @michaelmontano4280 Місяць тому +1

    I would love to see a video of somebody's grandparents dancing to this.

  • @michaelkanchick7997
    @michaelkanchick7997 Місяць тому

    listening to this song I remember how my parents left me locked in the car on a hot August day , for hours. Back in 1935,

  • @susanmarks416
    @susanmarks416 Місяць тому +1

    Nice backstory.

  • @demithedawg4104
    @demithedawg4104 2 місяці тому +3

    Best AI generated song yet‼️

  • @chefcomfort3294
    @chefcomfort3294 Місяць тому +1

    Gold! Pure Gold! And true! Excuse me, is that the FCC I see. I'm Screwed!

  • @commentresurrection1841
    @commentresurrection1841 Місяць тому +1

    This was in A Bronx Tale

  • @lordtachanka903
    @lordtachanka903 Місяць тому +6

    Why is everyone so mad about it being restored with AI? It’s not like it was WRITTEN by AI, it was made by a person, it’s just the distortion and scuffs on the vinyl that were edited out by the AI. (To my knowledge)

    • @calebm9000
      @calebm9000 Місяць тому +4

      Angry furries on Twitter convinced everyone AI is the devil because they’re worried they’ll lose their commission money.
      Never mind the fact that AI is fine when it does their assignments for them.

    • @MalkomWhite
      @MalkomWhite Місяць тому +1

      ​@@calebm9000"ai took my job motherfucker I'M BROKE!!"

    • @e-naa4118
      @e-naa4118 15 днів тому

      This is not restored. It's part of the joke. If he's like Obscurest Vinyl the lyrics are man made (new) the music and vocals are AI generated (Very specific instructions, many different takes/parts stitched together)

  • @timjones9962
    @timjones9962 Місяць тому

    I love it.
    Big love 😂

  • @aliasfakename3159
    @aliasfakename3159 Місяць тому +1

    It's funny but also relatable

  • @user-dt8ik3wv9l
    @user-dt8ik3wv9l Місяць тому +1

    Love it I love it I love it I love it... hahahaha 😂!!!!!!!!

  • @flobrez2470
    @flobrez2470 23 дні тому +1

    I sing this song to myself every two weeks after looking at my paycheck

  • @UnsettlingSongs
    @UnsettlingSongs 2 місяці тому +2

    This was a big hit when I was a kid. Great to hear it again!

  • @SourAce
    @SourAce 2 місяці тому +11

    Literally me

  • @FuelAirSparkTime
    @FuelAirSparkTime Місяць тому +3

    No way AI came up with the lyrics and the melody .. no way

  • @otherstuffismine5124
    @otherstuffismine5124 Місяць тому +1

    They cut this from Song of the South, that Disney bloke gotta lot to answer for!

  • @johnq.public4252
    @johnq.public4252 2 місяці тому +6

    Dedicated to Antonio Brown

  • @trooperkeither
    @trooperkeither 2 місяці тому +29

    I don't think Coke came in cans back in the 50s.

    • @andystegall7407
      @andystegall7407 2 місяці тому +38

      Hes so broke he created a time paradox

    • @richardscott5422
      @richardscott5422 2 місяці тому +17

      There weren't pizza rolls, either. Frankly those kind of details bug me, cuz it ruins the illusion.

    • @jarcuadanantus28
      @jarcuadanantus28 2 місяці тому

      Unless it’s 50’s style but actually from later.

    • @iGame3D
      @iGame3D 2 місяці тому

      @@jarcuadanantus28 Yeah like 1980s Billy Joel

    • @einarhornraiser9019
      @einarhornraiser9019 2 місяці тому +8

      They actually first began using cans in 1960, believe it or not.

  • @edwinrodeo
    @edwinrodeo Місяць тому

    I’d like to reloop the main verse & put it on my voicemail 😅

  • @horrortackleharry
    @horrortackleharry 2 місяці тому +1

    This was was the inspiration for Nirvana's 'Something In The Way'.

  • @AshtroXHill
    @AshtroXHill 2 дні тому

    Ai is crazy

  • @Jedi_Jargon
    @Jedi_Jargon 2 місяці тому +6

    Can you add this to Amazon Music and Spotify? I will deadass add this to my oldies playlist

    • @AlmostVinyl
      @AlmostVinyl  2 місяці тому +5

      It's now available on most services, including Spotify and Amazon.

  • @cryptocruz6312
    @cryptocruz6312 Місяць тому

    BARS!!! 🎤🗿

  • @beerguy177
    @beerguy177 18 днів тому

    me after leaving the bookies

  • @stevemora7845
    @stevemora7845 Місяць тому

    Nice A.I.

  • @RobinFlysHigh
    @RobinFlysHigh 2 місяці тому +1

    My guy voice sounding like Nat King Cole

  • @aicofrena505
    @aicofrena505 Місяць тому

    America's new theme song for sire

  • @emitlevart7155
    @emitlevart7155 28 днів тому +2

    The holes in his suit crack me up 🤣😂🤣 he would have better clothes if he robbed a fcukin scarecrow (rofl) and paired with the title of the song is *priceless*

  • @simonlee498
    @simonlee498 12 днів тому

    Lol

  • @elperrodelautumo7511
    @elperrodelautumo7511 Місяць тому

    Gta in game 1950s music.

  • @randywilson944
    @randywilson944 2 місяці тому

    Matt Foley’s neighbor 😂

  • @thelostperspective
    @thelostperspective 2 місяці тому +2

    someone please put this in a fallout mod

  • @tradermario7297
    @tradermario7297 Місяць тому

    Not bad

  • @michaelhagerman9965
    @michaelhagerman9965 Місяць тому

    are these songs AI?

    • @user-kv2vc3is8h
      @user-kv2vc3is8h Місяць тому +1

      Why do you ask that? Haven’t heard of Errol Pennywhistle? He has 7 Grammys to his name.

  • @cecilgroomed8365
    @cecilgroomed8365 2 місяці тому +3

    I jam this number every payday when bill collectors come calling.

  • @michaelmontano4280
    @michaelmontano4280 Місяць тому

    Sounds like Sammy Davis Junior.

  • @slamfreepoetry1845
    @slamfreepoetry1845 3 дні тому

    🤖👍 its good. Not great. Not yet

  • @travismcnasty4239
    @travismcnasty4239 2 місяці тому +1

    This one I can hear through.

  • @pruje
    @pruje Місяць тому +1

    Is SNL's Tim Meadows singing this?

  • @whitlcj1
    @whitlcj1 2 місяці тому

    Heh

  • @TonyMyerson
    @TonyMyerson 2 місяці тому +1

    🤙❤️😇😎🌺🤙❤️😇😎🌺 0:47

  • @STILuVa
    @STILuVa 2 місяці тому +4

    👇 mf im broke

  • @monsieurgolem3392
    @monsieurgolem3392 2 місяці тому

    Aaaaaaah.......

  • @JoeDeCarlo-km9nf
    @JoeDeCarlo-km9nf 6 днів тому

    I ain’t sayin she’s a gold digger, but she ain’t messing with no broke broke broke. ,

  • @mrpwp7814
    @mrpwp7814 9 днів тому

    Sam Cook passed on this song. He regretted that until the day he died.