I met Al Casey around 1983 when he toured the UK and had a good chat about Fats with him. I mentioned to him that I remembered he had recorded Buck Jumpin' with Fats which is a solo guitar side
@@Sagurasu I have 3 RCA Victor vintage Fats albums purchased ~50 years ago. Some solo piano songs from 1929, the rest with his band 1935-1937. The liner notes detail all the side men. The 1st time Al Casey appears is 1936-06-05. Prior to that it is all James Smith. I think this video was 1934, so I'm guessing that's James Smith.
Aw...they probably just don't know what life is all about. What gets me about the dislikes (on any of these tunes) is you don't know the "why" behind it--might be they know the sound quality is better on another version, or as is probably so here and much of the time, they lack something vital--and in so many instances that vital thing is an education, and this makes 'em dangerous in so many ways, as the quantity of those given a terrible "education" outstrips those with a basis for understanding science and culture. The small handful of people (WAY less than 1%) who own everything and attempt control it for their own little short-term benefit have really put a stranglehold on human development. We're lucky when the result is as small as a dislike on a lovely song.
That....or it could be that it isn't a good version of this fantastic song. I personally love the video for the historical aspect alone, and seeing Fats up to his antics is always great....but I was disappointed that he upped the tempo of the song too much. So, though I don't agree with the "dislike", I understand it.
Fats was a wonder--a brilliant musician who added so much with that marvelous pixie-ish humor. I am glad I was introduced to his music at an early age.
Classically trained he left his family to play the devils music. He composed over 100 original tunes. Liked his gin and women but what a guy. Terrific pianist and composer.
I heard Honeysuckle Rose for the first time in Looney Tunes cartoon but I do not remember in which episode :( If anyone knows I am asking for a hint :)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that this is a lip sync performance. You can see some of the piano playing/lip sync issues at 0:41, 1:24, 1:41, 2:12. 2:32. Still, Fats is very entertaining. Very surprising how young he was when he passed away -- or that this film was from 1943 or earlier. If you enjoy this, you also might enjoy the Fats Waller 'Associated Transcriptions' recordings from 1935 and 1939. These recordings have been released on the Stash, Naxos Jazz, Jazz Unlimited, Storyville and other labels.
Of course it was lip synced. That was how it was done then. The technology didn't allow otherwise. If you wanted mics out of the shot, they didn't have directional distance microphones.
JDeezy 1997 Hey me too. I was just reminiscing about the 90's boy do I miss those days and I am going through Living Single episodes on Hulu and yeah the episode at the end of season 3 which I never remembered back then has me hunting down Honeysuckle Rose versions of the song.
In 1935 To my knowledge Fats used 2 guitarists: James Smith & Al Casey. There is a picture of Al Casey in the Wikipedia article, doesn’t look much like the guy playing. I couldn’t find a picture of James Smith.. I love that the guitar player got some screen time! I love that type of mid 30s guitar solo. You mostly only play the top 2 or 3 strings, it’s almost like banjo or ukulele. I’ve worked the one up for “got a bran’ new suit”, i’m going to try to work this one up too.
@@jaykay1053 I reviewed the 3 album liner notes I have. The 1st time Al Casey appears is 1936-06-05. Prior to that it is all James Smith. I love doing the music archeology on this old stuff!
Musicista pazzesco, stratosferico, leggendario. Costretto ad esibirsi con alzate di sopracciglia e smorfie dalle leggi dell'entertainment dei bianchi, sfodera con suprema nonchalance un pianismo incredibile, virtuosistico di livello assoluto - e una musicalità sconvolgente. naturalmente. Allievo di Leopold Godowski (uno dei pianisti più tecnici di tutti i tempi, nonché grande pianista egli stesso, e compositore raffinatissimo), Thomas Waller era in grado di padroneggiare Bach (anche all'organo), Chopin, Liszt, Debussy e altri compositori, insomma la letteratura pianistica più importante. Genio assoluto, il suo incantevole talento e la sua storia personale non smettono né smetteranno mai di commuovermi.
Someone says Al Casey (although he looks and sounds like him to me that same someone says that he's playing on the recording but that isn't him on screen). He was Mr. Waller's gittarist at the time. Mr. Casey included an instrumental version of this tune and a few others by or associated with Fats Waller on his 1960 Prestige LP, Buck Jumpin'--it's worth getting (it's also available on YT).
It doesn’t look like the picture on Al Casey‘s Wikipedia page. I think it’s James Smith. I know from the album liner notes that James Smith played on this recording of “got a brand new suit”, and the style sounds similar. ua-cam.com/video/pwAY82nE2uM/v-deo.html
I have 3 RCA Victor Vintage Fats albums from ~1970 of recordings 1935-1937. The side players are all listed on the album notes. It’s about 50-50 Al Casey/James Smith. This recording was made in 1934 I think.
Fats' style. Others had physical exaggerations, probably held over from vaudeville, but Fats' facial expressions were a trademark and a mirror of his personality. For him, it was his expression of unabashed joy on the outside...while he fought his demons on the inside. Just finished "Fats Waller: His Life and Times" by Joel Vance.
Fats was known as a player, and a player, if you know what I mean. Just check out "Ain't Misbehavin'" and you'll see again the way his expressions complement his tongue-in-cheek lyrics and playing style.
Yes this how black folks had to perform.Its called Shuffle and Shining.To act sing and dance with normal facial expressions ment you were equal with good sense.Men then were called Boys.Women were called Gals
Eisen Heinrich I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve seen this comment 😂 As for the expressions, I’d say they were just a significant part of Fats’ personality. He was always very expressive when he played
The days when music had a heart and soul and Fats Waller did it best.
Best all time SOUNDIE ever! Fat's faces are the best with all those beauties dancing around him. Pure Genius!
Do not stop surprising me this great jazz pianist
Just perfect, just perfect! What a treasure, great music.
Fats will live forever thanks to his genius
Rembering my young age with 78 rpms records love that !
Beautiful rhythm guitar work.
That's Al Casey who really played some beautiful solo work on Fats' records as well. Look for "Buck Jumpin" here on UA-cam.
I met Al Casey around 1983 when he toured the UK and had a good chat about Fats with him. I mentioned to him that I remembered he had recorded Buck Jumpin' with Fats which is a solo guitar side
@@Sagurasu I have 3 RCA Victor vintage Fats albums purchased ~50 years ago. Some solo piano songs from 1929, the rest with his band 1935-1937. The liner notes detail all the side men. The 1st time Al Casey appears is 1936-06-05. Prior to that it is all James Smith. I think this video was 1934, so I'm guessing that's James Smith.
@@jazdumoz The clip was made in 1941: MCMXLI, as can be seen at the start of the video. So chances are that it's Al Casey.
I love his music♥️ That makes me smile :)
All that divine air about them all, magical music.
pure gold
He is the CAT in Alice's wonderland.
No the hell he is not
wait how did I not notice this, he kinda is
The two people who dislike this clearly don't enjoy life.
John D'Alvia they just hate themselves for feeling so jealous of a fat genius like Fats! ;)
Aw...they probably just don't know what life is all about. What gets me about the dislikes (on any of these tunes) is you don't know the "why" behind it--might be they know the sound quality is better on another version, or as is probably so here and much of the time, they lack something vital--and in so many instances that vital thing is an education, and this makes 'em dangerous in so many ways, as the quantity of those given a terrible "education" outstrips those with a basis for understanding science and culture. The small handful of people (WAY less than 1%) who own everything and attempt control it for their own little short-term benefit have really put a stranglehold on human development. We're lucky when the result is as small as a dislike on a lovely song.
John D'Alvia
I agree
That....or it could be that it isn't a good version of this fantastic song.
I personally love the video for the historical aspect alone, and seeing Fats up to his antics is always great....but I was disappointed that he upped the tempo of the song too much. So, though I don't agree with the "dislike", I understand it.
If we could just find all the people who dislike this and sent them off to Mars or wherever, Earth would be a paradise, I’m sure.
Fats was a wonder--a brilliant musician who added so much with that marvelous pixie-ish humor. I am glad I was introduced to his music at an early age.
Love my Fats. Gorgeous.
What a treasure!!!!
Wow the framerate is really high, I'm not used to this nice of a recording from that time
What a talent!
My first thought when he started moving his eyebrows: "Hey, it's the black Jack Black!"
Keen observation. I can see it!
Great music and lots of fun
Thank you for this chanel!!
Out of this planet!!
Those eyebrows!! Yeah baby!!
one hell of a tune!
Just delightful.
Amazing!
Trumpet or sax which one oh my
This guy makes the funniest faces ever 🤣
Classically trained he left his family to play the devils music. He composed over 100 original tunes. Liked his gin and women but what a guy. Terrific pianist and composer.
I wish they’d make a Fats biopic starring Keenan Thompson
Send that dude a piano asap
That is a TERRRRRIFIC idea!!
Fats is white not black
i hope he wouldnt take it... id rather see a story about keenan tbh....
im glad im not the only one who thought they looked alike lol
Priceless........
The hat looks bitchin on him!! 😍
Greatest eyebrows in show biz:Fats Waller,Groucho Marx and Eugene Levy.
I'm here from one of George Burns' Books. He liked to sing this song a lot.
Rock in Roll GrandPapa
I like to much !!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I like how TC Carson sung this on living single... he did Fats Wallers song some justice.
I heard Honeysuckle Rose for the first time in Looney Tunes cartoon
but I do not remember in which episode :(
If anyone knows I am asking for a hint :)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that this is a lip sync performance. You can see some of the piano playing/lip sync issues at 0:41, 1:24, 1:41, 2:12. 2:32. Still, Fats is very entertaining. Very surprising how young he was when he passed away -- or that this film was from 1943 or earlier.
If you enjoy this, you also might enjoy the Fats Waller 'Associated Transcriptions' recordings from 1935 and 1939. These recordings have been released on the Stash, Naxos Jazz, Jazz Unlimited, Storyville and other labels.
Of course it was lip synced. That was how it was done then. The technology didn't allow otherwise. If you wanted mics out of the shot, they didn't have directional distance microphones.
1941. At the start you can read MCMXLI.
Big Fucking g right here. Literally started my love of musix
Excelent !!!😊😂😊😂😊😂😊
A genius!
Who's the guitar player. wow?
Al Casey
So great!
Does the honey drip?
Terrence C. Carson from Living Single brought me here. He owned his version of this song.
JDeezy 1997 Hey me too. I was just reminiscing about the 90's boy do I miss those days and I am going through Living Single episodes on Hulu and yeah the episode at the end of season 3 which I never remembered back then has me hunting down Honeysuckle Rose versions of the song.
interesting tune
Fats' facial expression is so cartooney....
Disney animators turned him into various jungle characters.
But it kept his wallet full.
Wait until he finds out about duke
In these times blacks had shuffle and shine to get work because to act normal ment you were Equal
Fat's could really kick Count Basie in the Mr. Happy!!!
Nothing new under the sun. Folks talk about our generation these women weren't wearing much either...
He is that magic cat in Alice in wonderland.
Não foi citado, mas ali aparece tocando seu sax tenor o grande Charlie Parker.
Ihave some fine delicious dinner on that low temperature barbeque right now! You are welcome to come over whenever you like! ;)
Sax player? Guitar?
Produced by Fred Waller. His brother?
In 1935 To my knowledge Fats used 2 guitarists: James Smith & Al Casey. There is a picture of Al Casey in the Wikipedia article, doesn’t look much like the guy playing. I couldn’t find a picture of James Smith..
I love that the guitar player got some screen time! I love that type of mid 30s guitar solo. You mostly only play the top 2 or 3 strings, it’s almost like banjo or ukulele. I’ve worked the one up for “got a bran’ new suit”, i’m going to try to work this one up too.
@@jimdumas Cool! Thanks for replying. I really appreciate it. All the best with your guitar playing.
@@jaykay1053 This was recorded Aug 20 1935. James Smith on guitar.
ua-cam.com/video/pwAY82nE2uM/v-deo.html
@@jimdumas Thanks!
@@jaykay1053 I reviewed the 3 album liner notes I have. The 1st time Al Casey appears is 1936-06-05. Prior to that it is all James Smith. I love doing the music archeology on this old stuff!
0:14 : Look this fine delicious dinosaurs here this afternoon ..****???
Amy OK
"Fine delicious dinners"
and then
¿? this afternoon.... ?¿
좋당^^
이노래 아는군요!반가워요
Who knows the name of that guitar??
Al Casey
Musicista pazzesco, stratosferico, leggendario. Costretto ad esibirsi con alzate di sopracciglia e smorfie dalle leggi dell'entertainment dei bianchi, sfodera con suprema nonchalance un pianismo incredibile, virtuosistico di livello assoluto - e una musicalità sconvolgente. naturalmente. Allievo di Leopold Godowski (uno dei pianisti più tecnici di tutti i tempi, nonché grande pianista egli stesso, e compositore raffinatissimo), Thomas Waller era in grado di padroneggiare Bach (anche all'organo), Chopin, Liszt, Debussy e altri compositori, insomma la letteratura pianistica più importante. Genio assoluto, il suo incantevole talento e la sua storia personale non smettono né smetteranno mai di commuovermi.
Nice 👍👍
The Real father of Rock'n Roll
Nah.... not really. That would be Louis Jordan, more like.
who's on guitar
Someone says Al Casey (although he looks and sounds like him to me that same someone says that he's playing on the recording but that isn't him on screen). He was Mr. Waller's gittarist at the time. Mr. Casey included an instrumental version of this tune and a few others by or associated with Fats Waller on his 1960 Prestige LP, Buck Jumpin'--it's worth getting (it's also available on YT).
95% sure it is Al Casey. Compare the frames between 1:25 and 1:26 to his wikipedia picture, you can even guess the mole above his lips.
Cuauhtemoc78 Well, you can put it 100%. Looks exactly like Al Casey + Casey was the guitarist in Waller’s band at that time. Until Waller’s death.
It doesn’t look like the picture on Al Casey‘s Wikipedia page. I think it’s James Smith. I know from the album liner notes that James Smith played on this recording of “got a brand new suit”, and the style sounds similar.
ua-cam.com/video/pwAY82nE2uM/v-deo.html
I have 3 RCA Victor Vintage Fats albums from ~1970 of recordings 1935-1937. The side players are all listed on the album notes. It’s about 50-50 Al Casey/James Smith. This recording was made in 1934 I think.
@:52 what's with all the overly exaggerated facial expressions? was that the style of performing back then?
Fats' style. Others had physical exaggerations, probably held over from vaudeville, but Fats' facial expressions were a trademark and a mirror of his personality. For him, it was his expression of unabashed joy on the outside...while he fought his demons on the inside. Just finished "Fats Waller: His Life and Times" by Joel Vance.
interesting...thanks for the info!
Fats was known as a player, and a player, if you know what I mean. Just check out "Ain't Misbehavin'" and you'll see again the way his expressions complement his tongue-in-cheek lyrics and playing style.
LoverofGOD Always What has that got to do with any white or black? That was fashion of the time and especilly Waller’s style.
Yes this how black folks had to perform.Its called Shuffle and Shining.To act sing and dance with normal facial expressions ment you were equal with good sense.Men then were called Boys.Women were called Gals
He would be Lil Fatzy today.
He acted a little tender sometimes
Fats was the classic performer. Great jazz musician. He died way too young. How about "All That Meat And No Potatoes."
Who did his eyebrows? Also what's with the facial expressions?
Eisen Heinrich I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve seen this comment 😂 As for the expressions, I’d say they were just a significant part of Fats’ personality. He was always very expressive when he played
These girls obviously didn't need to wait no damn 1960s to wear mini skirts. :)
quite outdated sexist lyrics, but groovy groove
Awww not here, not on this jam, not this shit. Goddamnit
Is it sexist when Nell Carter sings it in Ain’t Misbehaving?
Idiot
political add got u a disslike
that'll teach em.
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