The year is now 2021, I am 34 years young, and I absolutely love this Era and the ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY Phil, Mary, Rochester, Dennis, Don, and Jack! Anyone else my age agree???
Phil Harris has been one of my favorite personalities since my dad introduced me to his songs and music back in 1950. We also listened to The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show on the radio. To this day, it is one of the funniest comedy show ever! No vulgarity needed. Just funny, funny, funny!
The best episode of Phil and Alice was Jack Benny playing Santa for their two daughters on Christmas Eve. Phil hired him to play Santa and Frankie Remley kept telling him just to wait for the real Santa to appear...which he did
Phil is distant relation to me, born in Clay County, Indiana, Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton, Indiana named after him, great All-American performer!! He sings his tune "The Thing" in the movie "Wild Blue Yonder"
COOL!... its such a great song... PHIL is my hero... im in my mid sixties and i remember phil from his appearances on ALL the talk shows in the 60s 70-s 80s... he was ubiquitous i wondered at the time, who the fuck IS this tacky, fat, cool talkin' OLD timer? he wasnt "cool" to us age-ist young hippies i did not like him back then... NOW i'm "old" too and I fucking LOVE phil harris... have done for 20 yrs... he was fabulous and a SUPERSTAR of radio, film and TV.... born in 1904 he lived til he was 91 yrs old!!! good on ya PHIL...ya showed em all.
Phil Harris was a favourite of my brother Albert my dear brother is no longer here but I e lit a ca Del and a playing Phil Harris singing We had such a lot of laugh learning All the word a I miss Albert coming to stay RIP my dear brother
Incredible multi talent. A popular band leader and musician long before he became a radio and, later, TV comedy star. There's an episode of "The Lucy Show" here on You Tube where Phil guest stars as a night club performers and we get to enjoy his piano playing. Had at least one major Top 40 hit in the 1950s' with "The Thing". And, fairly, sure that the song featured in this clip was also a fairly big record for him. Later did quite a bit of animation voice work. Seem to recall that he was also a strong supporter of civil rights. Close friend of Bing Crosby.
Phil actually scored 16 hits between 1933 and 1952, including "One-Zy, Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy)" (reached #2 in 1946), "The Darktown Poker Club" (#10 in 1946), "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette" (#8 in 1947), "The Old Master Painter" (#10 in 1950), "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (#8 in 1950) and, of course, "The Thing" (#1 in 1950). As for his theme song, "That's What I Like About The South," it reached #27 for Phil in 1947.
I know this song as well as The Star Spangled Banner given I listen to Radio Classics hosted by Greg Bell on XM Radio. Phil Harris' Baloo the bear is a hoot and Phil was a guest on ABC's, The American Sportsman. A great fellow.
Phil's explanation of how he wrote this song (from the Benny Show of 10/14/51): "You see honey, one night a few years ago, I was having dinner, and when I finished, I looked around at the leftovers, and there was some hamhocks and turnip greens. So I wrote a song about the garbage and it became a hit."
I have to admit having seen and heard him as a comedian first, then singing on the soundtrack of "Jungle Book", together with Louis Armstrong, but since researching a favourite, Alice Faye, I have learned more about him, and recently bought a CD of his humerous songs. With a 45 year marriage, they must have made beautiful music together!
I guess I was in my thirties when my 20 year old wife Charmed me on to this song over 30 years ago I always thought I was on top of the curve for music and she introduced me to a lot of stuff
I grew up listening to Phil Harris as a kid in Ireland in the 1970s. My dad had a load of records from when he was a young man. A great talent, very funny, he should be remembered for more than The Jungle Book. 'Persian Kitten' is about 100 times more sexy than any starlet getting her trousers off on music TV these days.
Phil Harris sang this song a few times on Jack Benny’s Radio Show. It was a great song. Maybe those “sensitive pampered pets” might have themselves a hissy fit when they hear this GREAT song. You know their kind, they have no life, most don’t even have a job because they CHOOSE to spend their life’s looking for anything to get FAKELY “upset” about. Just as Jesus warns us about, don’t try to get the speck out of someone else’s eye, until you remove the beam out of your own eye first.
On the Benny Show, from the time the song first appeared in 1941, the official story was that Phil wrote it. In real life, that's not true, but then Jack wasn't really cheap either.
Great isn't, Mala? Regarding the volume, this is where head phones come in handy. They can be picked up quite cheaply...ENJOY!!! Love "The Dark Town Poker Club", also...CHEERS!! [JOHN]
@@michaelleesmith5903 It's probably a single channel of music (recorded by just one microphone) or one of your speakers is broken... It's most likely single channel audio, since this was recorded in 1944-45 and multi-channel sound wasn't introduced in movies till 1950.
That's a good story...but Phil didn't write it. The great Andy Razaf ('Honeysuckle Rose', 'Ain't Misbehavin', 'Stompin' At The Savoy' and many others) did. Harris sure did a great version, but...
It's like when I was a drum major in high school you know you had to w a v e your arms around like you were conducting but the God damn band didn't need me all I have to do is to point at you to start then I'll go sit down on the God damn bench
What movies is from anyone know I love Phil Harris’s banter between him and Jack Benny on Jack Benny show it made me google him and find Jack Benny show and also made me search for Dennis Day show
What film's this from, I want it! My poor kids have been subjected to this for some years they are now weird. Are the Jack Benny's available too? Ady Croasdell
@@lcs1956 you just gotta figure it out. I got more in common than I do with southern belles. Only wasted about 30 years. Looking back many opportunities I missed. Just Dayum great looking ladies with attitude and smarts if I hadn't been Mr.Dumas. would probably be in a steady relationship today if I had done what I wanted to do instead of listening to everyone else...in the end it's all the same but maybe you're not happy.
What always gets me is people think the bandleader is conducting them during the performance they already work this s*** out in rehearsal and all he's got to do is say go and they're going to play it like they rehearsed it go ask you to say go and walk off stage and the goddamn band would get through it on their own
Satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer took this song (and songs like it) to their extreme. Never realized that he played on lines directly out of this song. Here's his song: ua-cam.com/video/Ra3qnLXmJDM/v-deo.html
The year is now 2021, I am 34 years young, and I absolutely love this Era and the ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY Phil, Mary, Rochester, Dennis, Don, and Jack! Anyone else my age agree???
Even Remly?
Same in opinion and age!! And the Queen of Comedy in my book is Gracie Allen!!!!
23 and i agree
“YYYYEEEESSSSSS!!??”
Now cut that out !!
In 1943, Mr. Harris dedicated this tune, from the stage, to my Mother at a nightclub in Galveston, TEXAS.
Hahaha... that's what I like about the South! We gonna enjoy good food if it kills us!
A segregated club?
@@CA-ee1et The Democrats controlled Galveston then, so probably yes.
@@CA-ee1et He said Texas 1943. It goes without sayin.
I loved him on the Jack Benny Program. Him, Mary, Rochester, Danny, Jack, and Don. Those shows are really priceless.
Oh Harris its a shame you aint runnin for president so you could be on all 4 networks!
Listen to JB everyday.
Derek Townsend me too
Don who?
@@MalleySimpson Don Wilson! What a great show!
Phil Harris has been one of my favorite personalities since my dad introduced me to his songs and music back in 1950. We also listened to The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show on the radio. To this day, it is one of the funniest comedy show ever! No vulgarity needed. Just funny, funny, funny!
The best episode of Phil and Alice was Jack Benny playing Santa for their two daughters on Christmas Eve. Phil hired him to play Santa and Frankie Remley kept telling him just to wait for the real Santa to appear...which he did
My 86 year old grandpa LOVES Phil Harris and so do I!
Phil is distant relation to me, born in Clay County, Indiana, Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton, Indiana named after him, great All-American performer!! He sings his tune "The Thing" in the movie "Wild Blue Yonder"
In a 1949 episode of Jack Benny, Phil Harris says how he dubbed this song into six different languages, for his movie Wabash Avenue
COOL!...
its such a great song...
PHIL is my hero...
im in my mid sixties and i remember phil
from his appearances on
ALL the talk shows in the 60s 70-s 80s...
he was ubiquitous
i wondered at the time,
who the fuck IS this tacky, fat,
cool talkin' OLD timer?
he wasnt "cool" to us age-ist young hippies
i did not like him back then...
NOW i'm "old" too
and I fucking LOVE phil harris...
have done for 20 yrs...
he was fabulous
and a SUPERSTAR of
radio, film and TV....
born in 1904
he lived til he was 91 yrs old!!!
good on ya PHIL...ya showed em all.
Phil Harris was a favourite of my brother Albert my dear brother is no longer here but I e lit a ca Del and a playing Phil Harris singing We had such a lot of laugh learning All the word a I miss Albert coming to stay RIP my dear brother
Hello Irene, how is everything going with you?
Incredible multi talent. A popular band leader and musician long before he became a radio and, later, TV comedy star. There's an episode of "The Lucy Show" here on You Tube where Phil guest stars as a night club performers and we get to enjoy his piano playing. Had at least one major Top 40 hit in the 1950s' with "The Thing". And, fairly, sure that the song featured in this clip was also a fairly big record for him. Later did quite a bit of animation voice work. Seem to recall that he was also a strong supporter of civil rights. Close friend of Bing Crosby.
Phil actually scored 16 hits between 1933 and 1952, including "One-Zy, Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy)" (reached #2 in 1946), "The Darktown Poker Club" (#10 in 1946), "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette" (#8 in 1947), "The Old Master Painter" (#10 in 1950), "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (#8 in 1950) and, of course, "The Thing" (#1 in 1950). As for his theme song, "That's What I Like About The South," it reached #27 for Phil in 1947.
I wish someone would write a book about Phil! What talent! ♥️
Hello Karen, how is everything going with you?
He's a great fella, and I want to thank you sincerely for uploading this. That's What I Like About the South!
Hello Jennifer, how is everything going with you?
I know this song as well as The Star Spangled Banner given I listen to Radio Classics hosted by Greg Bell on XM Radio. Phil Harris' Baloo the bear is a hoot and Phil was a guest on ABC's, The American Sportsman. A great fellow.
Proud to grow up in the home town in which he did.. Linton, Indiana. (:
Wow that was amazing!
It’s actually a real cool example of a big band performance.
That does rock...glad you think so. 30 years ago my much younger ex wife introduced me to this song...we still get along because of this one thing.
Phil's explanation of how he wrote this song (from the Benny Show of 10/14/51):
"You see honey, one night a few years ago, I was having dinner, and when I finished, I looked around at the leftovers, and there was some hamhocks and turnip greens. So I wrote a song about the garbage and it became a hit."
That's fiction, of course, Andy Razaf, who often worked with Fats Waller, actually wrote the song.
Finally got to hear him do the whole song. Jack Benny still doesn’t know where Do Wah Diddy is, lol.
Love the big boxy old suits. Classic!
I have to admit having seen and heard him as a comedian first, then singing on the soundtrack of "Jungle Book", together with Louis Armstrong, but since researching a favourite, Alice Faye, I have learned more about him, and recently bought a CD of his humerous songs. With a 45 year marriage, they must have made beautiful music together!
Hello Elisabeth, how is everything going with you?
That was with Louie Prima, not Armstrong.
Man being in a club like that must have been fun!
Jack: NOW CUT THAT OUT! That song drives me nuts! :D
love that band! notice how everybody in the audience is dressed up and the waiters, etc.
I love Phil Harris!!
"Hey Jackson, ain't that a lulu?"
"Hey Jackson, the Republicans may like Ike, but I love ME!"
Now Phil. Cut that out.
Kind of like the worlds first rapper!
THIS IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE DONE.
From the movie "I love a bandleader".
thank you.
I was today years old when I found this
me too...and i 64
Same! 48. Kinda Great!
I guess I was in my thirties when my 20 year old wife Charmed me on to this song over 30 years ago I always thought I was on top of the curve for music and she introduced me to a lot of stuff
Jack Benny to Phil: "Where, in the name of Stephen Foster, is Doo Wa Diddy?"
My left ear enjoyed that.
I first heard this song on Dr Demento in the early 1970s.
my dad had the original victor 78 played it so many times that you could'nt hear phil harris voice anymore thanks for posting
Me too. And on the flip side was the Darktown Poker Club.
This would certainly give today's 'rappers' something to think about....
Maybe T-Pain could do this on auto tune
I grew up listening to Phil Harris as a kid in Ireland in the 1970s. My dad had a load of records from when he was a young man. A great talent, very funny, he should be remembered for more than The Jungle Book. 'Persian Kitten' is about 100 times more sexy than any starlet getting her trousers off on music TV these days.
Tip of hat to the great Andy Razaf.
DARN YOU PHIL HARRIS!!!!!
One of the best running jokes from Jack Benny...pity he never got to finish it on radio :P
Hello Katie, how is everything going with you?
Must be Frank Remley playing the guitar … can't be too many left-handed guitar players! Is that Sammy the Drummer???
"Play, Phil!"
Absolutely fantastic!!!
Very good, oh those memories!
are you still around?
@@lucasv2.0plvsvltra44I hope so
They had class in those days
awesome guy
"Play Phil!"
happy b'day, Phil.....
Phil Harris sang this song a few times on Jack Benny’s Radio Show. It was a great song. Maybe those “sensitive pampered pets” might have themselves a hissy fit when they hear this GREAT song. You know their kind, they have no life, most don’t even have a job because they CHOOSE to spend their life’s looking for anything to get FAKELY “upset” about. Just as Jesus warns us about, don’t try to get the speck out of someone else’s eye, until you remove the beam out of your own eye first.
rochester is my fav singer for this song.
Thank you Disney, because I loved Jungle Book, I got invested in Phil Harris
On the Benny Show, from the time the song first appeared in 1941, the official story was that Phil wrote it. In real life, that's not true, but then Jack wasn't really cheap either.
That's Fine & Dandy
Love this clip, but if you could turn the volume up I would love it even more!
Great isn't, Mala? Regarding the volume, this is where head phones come in handy. They can be picked up quite cheaply...ENJOY!!!
Love "The Dark Town Poker Club", also...CHEERS!! [JOHN]
John Still, you're troll handling skills are exceptional.
Why is it only coming out of 1 speaker?
@@michaelleesmith5903 It's probably a single channel of music (recorded by just one microphone) or one of your speakers is broken... It's most likely single channel audio, since this was recorded in 1944-45 and multi-channel sound wasn't introduced in movies till 1950.
Love how they rocked out that standard ending.
Day-um Phil! You were LIT!
ooh ya...
Thats my baloo
Phil Harris was the best.
That's a good story...but Phil didn't write it. The great Andy Razaf ('Honeysuckle Rose', 'Ain't Misbehavin', 'Stompin' At The Savoy' and many others) did. Harris sure did a great version, but...
love it
Hi ya Jackson! "Doo way diddy!" 😄😅
Won't get that fitty I don't think
Hello Laurie, how is everything going with you?
Balu in the jungle book
Hey! It's Thomas O'Malley!!
class !!!
I just realized that take me down to paradise city is very similar to this.
🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️R.I.P.
I see Frankie Remley playing his guitar in the front.
I remember the way Nick Nolte did it.
This must be EARLY in his career; he is so slender I didn't recognize him from the back!
I can't hear this song without thinking of Nick Nolte in Prince of Tides
It is a joy to see him sing and conduct this one. Any idea if there is footage of performing "Mama's On The Warpath" out there? Thanks for this!
It's like when I was a drum major in high school you know you had to w a v e your arms around like you were conducting but the God damn band didn't need me all I have to do is to point at you to start then I'll go sit down on the God damn bench
What movies is from anyone know I love Phil Harris’s banter between him and Jack Benny on Jack Benny show it made me google him and find Jack Benny show and also made me search for Dennis Day show
I see Frankie Remley playing left handed guitar! Lol
Besides the great music, my favorite part is watching the poor captions writer, trying like crazy to figure out what Phil is saying!
What film's this from, I want it!
My poor kids have been subjected to this for some years they are now weird.
Are the Jack Benny's available too?
Ady Croasdell
From the movie "I love a bandleader".
Double meanings thruout.
What I was thinking when hearing him singing, "Don't take 1, take 2, they're dark brown and chocolate too." 😄
@@concatinate Good for me and good for you-that's what I like bout the South
Andy Razaf was not talking about food at all when he wrote it.
@@lcs1956 you just gotta figure it out. I got more in common than I do with southern belles. Only wasted about 30 years. Looking back many opportunities I missed. Just Dayum great looking ladies with attitude and smarts if I hadn't been Mr.Dumas. would probably be in a steady relationship today if I had done what I wanted to do instead of listening to everyone else...in the end it's all the same but maybe you're not happy.
I don't know I love this one but the Chloe version is pretty damn close
Where’s Remley?
Came here from The Price of Tides.
NO WAY! I have never seen Phil doing this! What film was this from??
I was wondering the same thing. What film is this?
@@mmitchellhouston "I Love a Bandleader"
Funny that there's not a song that's what I hate about the North considering how many people hate it.
What always gets me is people think the bandleader is conducting them during the performance they already work this s*** out in rehearsal and all he's got to do is say go and they're going to play it like they rehearsed it go ask you to say go and walk off stage and the goddamn band would get through it on their own
Who else is here because of "The Prince of Tides"...?
Satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer took this song (and songs like it) to their extreme. Never realized that he played on lines directly out of this song. Here's his song:
ua-cam.com/video/Ra3qnLXmJDM/v-deo.html
ONE LOUSY REHEARSAL!
Whatt this the shit
All this s*** is worked out ahead of time in rehearsal
This was how white supremacists entertain co-white supremacists.
You're an idiot.
Especially considering Phil Wonga Harris was of Native American ancestry!!