This was originally written in 1929 by legendary composer Irving Berlin ("God Bless America"). Harry Richman introduced it in the 1930 movie musical Puttin' on the Ritz and had a #1 hit. It famously became a hit for Fred Astaire in 1946 when he performed it in the movie Blue Skies. Taco pays homage to Astaire by including a tap-dance solo in the middle of the song. The expression "Puttin' On The Ritz" means to dress fashionably. The saying comes from the upscale Ritz-Carlton hotel company. The well-known version is about the upper-crust citizens of New York's glitzy Park Avenue, but the song has a racially charged backstory. In the 1930s it was fashionable for affluent white folks to go "slumming" in Harlem, a poor black neighborhood where the jazz scene was hot. The original lyrics, heard when the song was performed throughout that decade, reference the locals who pretended to be wealthy by donning their flashy duds (i.e. puttin' on the ritz) and hanging out on Lenox Avenue in Harlem: Have you seen the well-to-do Up on Lenox Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare, With their noses in the air? High hats and colored collars, White spats and fifteen dollars. Spending every dime For a wonderful time The story continues with Lulubelle hitting the town every Thursday (Lulubelle was a slang term for black maids and Thursdays were typically their nights off). The lyrics also mention the "Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns from down the levee." High browns refers to light-skinned African Americans. Another Berlin tune, "Let's Go Slumming on Park Avenue," flips the narrative and has Harlemites descending on the swank avenue to spy on the rich ("They do it, why can't we do it, too?"). Not everyone bought into the slumming fad, though. In the high society spoof "The Lady is a Tramp," the title lady refuses to go to Harlem driving "Lincolns or Fords" or dressing in "ermine and pearls." Taco's entire repertoire was comprised of older songs including some by jazz bandleader Glenn Miller and show tune writer George Gershwin. He played the role of "Chico" in a Marx Brothers stage show in Germany (Songfacts.com)
Interesting that Taco would also have dancers in blackface in the video version of the song. I know it was the fashion back in the 'Golden Age of Hollywood,' but he needn't included that aspect (black faced dancers that is) in 1980s. I did a YT search for it but it's been scrubbed of that version. I did, however, come across this video commentary 'bout it here for reference: ua-cam.com/video/7csXpAzWe_A/v-deo.html
@@Motown-1966 It was included as a way to instruct the 80's generation of historical racism. Sometimes you have to do something in order to highlight it. Your willingness to sanitize everything is only going to lead to a weak and vulnerable population. Then again, perhaps that's what you want
3:13 I've always felt there was something almost otherworldly about how he sings in this song. Like he's some sort of fey creature trying to convince me to make a deal with him to make me rich or something.
It's wild that you just reacted to this today of all days, because I hadn't heard the song in years, but just got it stuck in my head last night and looked it up lol. I knew you would both get a kick out of it, especially Lex. It's just such a feel good, energetic song that automatically makes you smile as soon as it comes on.
This version of the song was really popular globally in the '80s. There were many musical fashions that looked back to the "good old days." This was a very good example of the trends back then. The idea of the darkness behind the organ synth is because, in the original video, it contrasted Taco's tuxedo-clad character with the have-nots. This was probably because the song came out in 1929, the same year the Depression started. Lots of folks who used to have a lot didn't anymore, and those who never had much to begin with suffered even more depreviation . But Taco is nodding to an entire generation here, who lived through it, danced through it, and made all the way to the 1980s!
This was such an odd mid-80s one-hit-wonder. How an old song from the 20s, re-popularized in the 40s, and then the 1974 Young Frankenstein moment made a crazy resurgence here, who the hell knows. But this did get a lot of MTV and radio play for a few months there.
1980s: "We need an electronic cover version of some pre-world war 2 music. Can we make the solo part just tap dancing?" 1980s: "Yes, of course. The sign says anything goes. This way to the charts."
It is experimental music. New wave music from Germany like Falco. With some funky synths techno. It is a cover of a very old song from the 1920s. There is a actual music video for this song which is kind of spooky when we were little. Watch in in your own time. "Singing in the Rain" is his other video to watch.
You should see this in Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and the Monster are singing and everytime he was to say "puttin' on the ritz" he sounded like "puuuuhhnnn ooooon riiiiiiizz"
If you're going to use Wilder's name you should at least throw out Peter Boyle's name as well 😆. So many good actors in that film. So many of them taken away from us.
"Puttin' On the Ritz" was written by Irving Berlin in 1927 and used in the 1930 musical Puttin' On the Ritz -- some fifty plus years before Taco dropped this in 1983. Hence the references in the lyrics to Gary Cooper, one of the biggest stars of golden age Hollywood, and the Rockefellers, considered the richest family on the planet back when. The Ritz was a 40 floor luxury residential high rise built on Park Avenue in New York City in the 1920's. "High hats and Arrow collars \ White spats and lots of dollars" indeed!
@@vaskylark yes! The original Ritz Carlton was in New York City and thus the references to Fifth Avenue. The composer Irving Berlin lived in NYC his whole life.
This song was written by Irving Berlin in 1927 and performed in the movie Puttin’ On The Ritz in 1930 but the most popular version was performed by Fred Astaire in the 1946 movie Blue Skies.
I loved this. I also liked the 60s songs Close Cover Before Striking and Winchester Cathedral. They slid right in with Rolling Stones and Beatles and Supremes. We listened to a lot of different types of music then.
Please be Taco and a back up dancer next Halloween, 😳🥰😯😁🎀😎 Can you picture Brad all decked in a classic tux with tails,a cane,and top hat ,Lex in the sparkly white costume, with her cane too, holy cow, even if no one gets the reference, so adorable!!!!😲
This Genre is a standard "Musical Theatre Production Number" .The Star, with a Chorus of Dancing Girls was used in almost every Musical from the 1910's through the present day
The singer so reminds me of te Broadway musicial "Rockly Horror Picture show"'s main chariacter played but the the greaaaat Tim Curry (played the Clown in Stephen Kings movie addaftaion of It".
My favorite performance of Outtin' on the Ritz is in the Mel Brooks' classic comedy Young Frankenstein in which Dr. Frankenstein & his monster perform this song.
The decade of one hit wonders was probably the 60's. By the late 70's music had become very corporate and producing and marketing new artists became more and more planned, according to demographic research. MTV actually hastened this transition with the emphasis on video production.
MTV probably plays a part, but it's only in the perception of it being a 1 hit wonder filled decade. There are a number of iconic 1 hit wonders that had 2 or more songs reach the top 40. Men Without Hats, Flock of Seagulls, A Ha, and Dead or Alive are all known for a specific song and charted with others.
If you liked this try Cab Calloway Minnie The Moocher its old. There is a newer version of him singing it in the Blues Brothers (A Classic film/semi musical)
This song was originally done in 1930 by dancer singer actor choreographer Fred Astaire. Written by Irving Berlin who wrote White Christmas, and America the Beautiful among many others
In the 1930's this song had a faster tempo. Listening to Taco doing it in slow motion was kind of off. Double the beat with new Tecno sound would have so much better. Irving Berlin wrote it. He also wrote for Ethel Merman "God Bless America". Miss Merman's voice could fill a theatre . It was before mics.
My dad owned a shoe shop in the early 60,s. Lots of boy came in to have dad put toe and heel taps on their shoes which back then the soles were leather so they were nailed on. They did it just to make clicking sounds as they walked down the school hallways.
I had this album! You guys need to watch “Tap” and “White Nights” with Gregory Hines. Damn he could tap! The 80’s were a little strange, but FUN! Oh, and Lex would definitely look good in a showgirls outfit! 😎 There are snippets from various Broadway showtunes in here. Gene Kelly’s ‘Gotta dance!’ for example. Lex would love him in “Singing In The Rain” if she hasn’t seen it. If you ever do a musical themed show, Gene Kelly’s last movie was “Xanadu,” where he performs with Olivia Newton-John. The “Xanadu” video is super fun.
This song is from back in the early 1930s, or earlier. "Putin on the Ritz," was a term meaning your using the best china at a dinner, wearing your most elegant clothes, driving the most expensive car, in order to impress someone. "The Ritz", was a fancy Hotel back in those days, that only the very rich could afford to stay at, so if you looked like you were dressed to impress , you were "Putting on the Ritz." This song is an updated cover version from the early 80s I think.
I remember people saying they were going to stay at a Ritzy vacation spot or go to a Ritzy restaurant. It meant that it was going to be expensive and extravagant.
I found out today that Taco Ockerse is een fellow countryman, a Dutchman born in Indonesia, has experienced a worldly youth, living in countries such as the USA, Germany and Singapore.
Wow, a cleaned up version of a cleaned up version of a cleaned up version. Even Taco's original MTV video had blackface performers, and the actual original song has no "Gary Cooper" who himself only came along as a popular figure much later.
This is a full performance of RiverDance. Watched this with my grandmother before she passed away on PBS. Its amazing. ua-cam.com/video/9jxCbaLG0w4/v-deo.html
This song was originally in a movie "Putting on the Ritz" in 1930. Here it is : ua-cam.com/video/66km3m_UE_k/v-deo.html Fred Astaire also did it in 1946 in the movie "Blue Skies". This has been cut up badly to get around YT censorship: ua-cam.com/video/bwCC2gUiif8/v-deo.html
Who here remembers the show that the had on the 80's it was like American Idol but it was a lip sink show. I'm gonna go look it up, il put another comment below lol
Puttin on the hits what a great show. I like the one that a guy was pretending to be in a drive thru and he did a skit :I wanna cheese burger, onion ring and a large Orange drink please " I thought it was the best one ever really funny. Reminds me of Taco, one album I think
"I never heard of tap-dancing heels. Have you?" "Yeah, I danced in them. I used to tap dance in them!" "Well that was before, uh...you know, before we met." Nice one, Brad. 😆 Seriously, you both did great with this react video. I've been on a big kick lately, watching these vids and enjoying how others feel about these songs, and hey...if you're feeling good, I'm feeling good. Keep doing what you do.
If you want your jaws to drop on the floor look up the Nicholas Brothers. Or Sammy Davis Jr. singing Bang Bang from the movie Robin and the Seven Hoods. Fantastic tap dancing! 🤯❤️❤️
I remember hearing this song in old movies, but since "Young Frankenstein" I only see Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle tap dancing.
Every time I hear this song, I can only hear Peter Boyle in the creature's voice saying "Puttin' on the Ritz".
Best version 🧟♂️
"Super duper!"
After hearing this song on Young Frankenstien, i made it my goal to find this song on youtube
@@Reno_Slim "Ooper Duper!"
This was originally written in 1929 by legendary composer Irving Berlin ("God Bless America"). Harry Richman introduced it in the 1930 movie musical Puttin' on the Ritz and had a #1 hit. It famously became a hit for Fred Astaire in 1946 when he performed it in the movie Blue Skies. Taco pays homage to Astaire by including a tap-dance solo in the middle of the song.
The expression "Puttin' On The Ritz" means to dress fashionably. The saying comes from the upscale Ritz-Carlton hotel company.
The well-known version is about the upper-crust citizens of New York's glitzy Park Avenue, but the song has a racially charged backstory. In the 1930s it was fashionable for affluent white folks to go "slumming" in Harlem, a poor black neighborhood where the jazz scene was hot. The original lyrics, heard when the song was performed throughout that decade, reference the locals who pretended to be wealthy by donning their flashy duds (i.e. puttin' on the ritz) and hanging out on Lenox Avenue in Harlem:
Have you seen the well-to-do
Up on Lenox Avenue?
On that famous thoroughfare,
With their noses in the air?
High hats and colored collars,
White spats and fifteen dollars.
Spending every dime
For a wonderful time
The story continues with Lulubelle hitting the town every Thursday (Lulubelle was a slang term for black maids and Thursdays were typically their nights off). The lyrics also mention the "Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns from down the levee." High browns refers to light-skinned African Americans.
Another Berlin tune, "Let's Go Slumming on Park Avenue," flips the narrative and has Harlemites descending on the swank avenue to spy on the rich ("They do it, why can't we do it, too?"). Not everyone bought into the slumming fad, though. In the high society spoof "The Lady is a Tramp," the title lady refuses to go to Harlem driving "Lincolns or Fords" or dressing in "ermine and pearls."
Taco's entire repertoire was comprised of older songs including some by jazz bandleader Glenn Miller and show tune writer George Gershwin. He played the role of "Chico" in a Marx Brothers stage show in Germany
(Songfacts.com)
Interesting that Taco would also have dancers in blackface in the video version of the song. I know it was the fashion back in the 'Golden Age of Hollywood,' but he needn't included that aspect (black faced dancers that is) in 1980s. I did a YT search for it but it's been scrubbed of that version. I did, however, come across this video commentary 'bout it here for reference: ua-cam.com/video/7csXpAzWe_A/v-deo.html
@@Motown-1966 It was included as a way to instruct the 80's generation of historical racism.
Sometimes you have to do something in order to highlight it.
Your willingness to sanitize everything is only going to lead to a weak and vulnerable population.
Then again, perhaps that's what you want
If I wanna do blackface, I am going to, NO ONE will stop me, I’ve seen White Chicks
@@Motown-1966 Yeah, not something hardly anyone under 50 is going to much care about. Plenty enough real problems to worry about these days ;)
Thanks, Randy! I so want to learn more about this era now
This was the first I ever heard of Taco and he is very talented.
I’ve said it before, nothing was off the table in the 80s. I remember watching this performance on TV.
😂😂😂 So true.
That's what I loved so much about the 80's. It was wild!
The original video was was certainly something else.
its like a bad dream when you fall asleep during a black and white movie
No, this man's name is Taco Ockerse and he was born in Indonesia. But the songwriter's name is Irving Berlin. He wrote it in 1929.
3:13 I've always felt there was something almost otherworldly about how he sings in this song. Like he's some sort of fey creature trying to convince me to make a deal with him to make me rich or something.
It's wild that you just reacted to this today of all days, because I hadn't heard the song in years, but just got it stuck in my head last night and looked it up lol. I knew you would both get a kick out of it, especially Lex. It's just such a feel good, energetic song that automatically makes you smile as soon as it comes on.
In the 80s, for some reason this was played multiple times a day, on different radio stations on Halloween (Not the Young Frankenstein version).
Beleive it or not this song was all over the radio on pop stations even.
This version of the song was really popular globally in the '80s. There were many musical fashions that looked back to the "good old days." This was a very good example of the trends back then. The idea of the darkness behind the organ synth is because, in the original video, it contrasted Taco's tuxedo-clad character with the have-nots. This was probably because the song came out in 1929, the same year the Depression started. Lots of folks who used to have a lot didn't anymore, and those who never had much to begin with suffered even more depreviation . But Taco is nodding to an entire generation here, who lived through it, danced through it, and made all the way to the 1980s!
I believe those were Irving Berlin songs. He was a composer back in the 20s and 30s which is why it sounds like it does they were going for that mood
This was such an odd mid-80s one-hit-wonder. How an old song from the 20s, re-popularized in the 40s, and then the 1974 Young Frankenstein moment made a crazy resurgence here, who the hell knows. But this did get a lot of MTV and radio play for a few months there.
1980s: "We need an electronic cover version of some pre-world war 2 music. Can we make the solo part just tap dancing?"
1980s: "Yes, of course. The sign says anything goes. This way to the charts."
"Sniffs coke..."
@@21stcenturyhiphop 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
Who remembers the show "Putting on the Hits"?
Hysterical, and I actually liked it at the time. Mostly because he was so over the top and to me that is always amazing. 🤘🤗
You don't now, though?
@@geoculus5606 I do. I worded it wrong.
When I grow up I am going to name my first born son Taco.
I hope your last name is "Supreme"
Naw! It's the official (and original uncensored) video that is the must-see.
It is experimental music. New wave music from Germany like Falco. With some funky synths techno. It is a cover of a very old song from the 1920s. There is a actual music video for this song which is kind of spooky when we were little. Watch in in your own time. "Singing in the Rain" is his other video to watch.
You probably don't wanna watch the video since it has the infamous blackface scene. Also, I do believe he's originally Indonesian.
@@user-cs4fg1rm5k I did see the videos many years ago as a kid. 1980s. On MTV
The song is a Irving Berlin song from 1929 it's been recorded several times,used in musicals and movies.
La la la. La la cheese on your ritz well put together😊
When this was on MTV I thought of my grandfather, before changing the channel.
3:11 Taco isn't from Germany. He's Indonesian-Dutch but his career started in Germany.
Lounge before the Brits thought they invented it with Mike Flowers's Pop.
This was so awesome! I remember hearing this song on the radio but I never saw it performed! Excellent!
This was huge in the 80s I had the mixed album when I was in elementary school.
Havnt heard this is many years. Some how I remember this being so much more fun? Loved this song when it came out
You should see this in Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and the Monster are singing and everytime he was to say "puttin' on the ritz" he sounded like "puuuuhhnnn ooooon riiiiiiizz"
That's all I can hear now with this song 🤣
If you're going to use Wilder's name you should at least throw out Peter Boyle's name as well 😆. So many good actors in that film. So many of them taken away from us.
@@charlessalzman4377 I had forgotten what it was...lol. You are correct but at the time of the typing the comment, I just could not think of his name.
@@moorek1967 It's all good, thus the laughing emoji. Wilder is definitely more iconic.
Man, I remember this. It was a HUGE song.
This song makes me think of old movies like ““Weekend at the Waldorf” where they all dance in some exquisite ballroom. ❤️
"Puttin' On the Ritz" was written by Irving Berlin in 1927 and used in the 1930 musical Puttin' On the Ritz -- some fifty plus years before Taco dropped this in 1983. Hence the references in the lyrics to Gary Cooper, one of the biggest stars of golden age Hollywood, and the Rockefellers, considered the richest family on the planet back when. The Ritz was a 40 floor luxury residential high rise built on Park Avenue in New York City in the 1920's. "High hats and Arrow collars \ White spats and lots of dollars" indeed!
There's also a medley of other Irving Berlin tunes at the end, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band".
The Ritz, short for Ritz Carlton which is a huge luxury chain of hotels/resorts. That the Ritz we are talking about?
@@vaskylark yes! The original Ritz Carlton was in New York City and thus the references to Fifth Avenue. The composer Irving Berlin lived in NYC his whole life.
This song was written by Irving Berlin in 1927 and performed in the movie Puttin’ On The Ritz in 1930 but the most popular version was performed by Fred Astaire in the 1946 movie Blue Skies.
You got it right! 😀
80's alternative
I loved this song when I was a kid. My mother still has the 45 somewhere.
So many people have covered that song. It reminds me of the movie Young Frankenstein.
I loved this. I also liked the 60s songs Close Cover Before Striking and Winchester Cathedral. They slid right in with Rolling Stones and Beatles and Supremes. We listened to a lot of different types of music then.
Please be Taco and a back up dancer next Halloween, 😳🥰😯😁🎀😎 Can you picture Brad all decked in a classic tux with tails,a cane,and top hat ,Lex in the sparkly white costume, with her cane too, holy cow, even if no one gets the reference, so adorable!!!!😲
I love it! Heck, even if no one gets the reference, they can just tell everyone they're the King and Queen of Clearwater lol
@@ninja_tony 😂😁😎
The cane definitely has to light up, though.
This Genre is a standard "Musical Theatre Production Number" .The Star, with a Chorus of Dancing Girls was used in almost every Musical from the 1910's through the present day
If I'm not mistaken, I remember watching this performance on TV at the '83 grammys.
The singer so reminds me of te Broadway musicial "Rockly Horror Picture show"'s main chariacter played but the the greaaaat Tim Curry (played the Clown in Stephen Kings movie addaftaion of It".
My favorite performance of Outtin' on the Ritz is in the Mel Brooks' classic comedy Young Frankenstein in which Dr. Frankenstein & his monster perform this song.
😲😱😲 SOOOOO 80'S!!!!! 😆 🤣 😂 I forgot about this!!
This reminds me of other iconic songs of my childhood, like Chariots of Fire and One Night in Bangkok.
Love this song, so cool and love the tap dancing and the way this song has that voice sound to it I would love to know how tap dance , so cool
Every child in dance class in the early 80’s learned a tap routine to this song!
I'm with Jim (below). I'm a Fred Astaire and old movies fan, but can't hear this song without thinking of the hysterical Young Frankenstein.
Tomorrow putting on the Ritts is a fun song 🎵
I think the eighties were the decade of 1-hit wonders thanks to MTV.
We’re all better for it too
The decade of one hit wonders was probably the 60's. By the late 70's music had become very corporate and producing and marketing new artists became more and more planned, according to demographic research.
MTV actually hastened this transition with the emphasis on video production.
@Rick & Zack Explore Offroad 60s did have more 1 hit wonders than the 80s, using the definition of hits being anything to hit top 40.
MTV probably plays a part, but it's only in the perception of it being a 1 hit wonder filled decade. There are a number of iconic 1 hit wonders that had 2 or more songs reach the top 40. Men Without Hats, Flock of Seagulls, A Ha, and Dead or Alive are all known for a specific song and charted with others.
Certainly not eighties ! One hit Wonder the more on the nineties
If you liked this try Cab Calloway Minnie The Moocher its old. There is a newer version of him singing it in the Blues Brothers (A Classic film/semi musical)
This was a fun odd campy 80’s song
Ya'll need to watch Tap with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.!its a great movie about Tap Dancing.
This song was originally done in 1930 by dancer singer actor choreographer Fred Astaire. Written by Irving Berlin who wrote White Christmas, and America the Beautiful among many others
Thanks for finally getting around to Playing Taco - Puttin On The Ritz!
Can't sit still with music such as this one, it's totally awesome! 😀😀😀
This was very popular when this this song was covered by Taco.
I love this version 😊
Me too!!! It's groovy!!!
he looks like the actor who played penny wise
Something I notice in every reaction I see to this performance, EVERYBODY pauses after the tap break. EVERYBODY.
This is going to be stuck in my head for the next month…
one of my favorite new wave song 😍😍😍
Irving Berlin song from 1929. The video reflects this. Great reaction.
Tell me you can't easily imagine Taco as a black musician from America. This walking beat is IT.
I had this cassette back in the day.
I had this on a 45 rpm record back in '82
In the 1930's this song had a faster tempo. Listening to Taco doing it in slow motion was kind of off. Double the beat with new Tecno sound would have so much better. Irving Berlin wrote it. He also wrote for Ethel Merman "God Bless America". Miss Merman's voice could fill a theatre . It was before mics.
Brad & Lex need to experience the
"Pan's People" dancers 💃
Taco slaps!
My dad owned a shoe shop in the early 60,s. Lots of boy came in to have dad put toe and heel taps on their shoes which back then the soles were leather so they were nailed on. They did it just to make clicking sounds as they walked down the school hallways.
Jim Cox is absolutely correct, if I hear this, it’s definitely Young Frankenstein going through my mind. You have to watch that movie.
I had this album! You guys need to watch “Tap” and “White Nights” with Gregory Hines. Damn he could tap! The 80’s were a little strange, but FUN! Oh, and Lex would definitely look good in a showgirls outfit! 😎 There are snippets from various Broadway showtunes in here. Gene Kelly’s ‘Gotta dance!’ for example. Lex would love him in “Singing In The Rain” if she hasn’t seen it. If you ever do a musical themed show, Gene Kelly’s last movie was “Xanadu,” where he performs with Olivia Newton-John. The “Xanadu” video is super fun.
Gregory Hines was such a treasure!
Yes, Gregory Hines is great in White Nights.
So is that other dancer.
@@RamseyHaddadWZ: That "other" dancer? You mean Baryshnikov? Also a treasure of ballet as opposed to tap.
In the movie young Frankenstein, gene wilder trains Frankenstein to sing and tap to this song. It's pretty funny. The movie is a classic.
I love the version of this in Young Frankenstein.
This song is from back in the early 1930s, or earlier. "Putin on the Ritz," was a term meaning your using the best china at a dinner, wearing your most elegant clothes, driving the most expensive car, in order to impress someone. "The Ritz", was a fancy Hotel back in those days, that only the very rich could afford to stay at, so if you looked like you were dressed to impress , you were "Putting on the Ritz." This song is an updated cover version from the early 80s I think.
I remember people saying they were going to stay at a Ritzy vacation spot or go to a Ritzy restaurant. It meant that it was going to be expensive and extravagant.
Young Frankenstein introduced me to this song, but its even older than that.
Another version of this song is in the movie Young Frankenstien. The monster does it. Insanely funny
I found out today that Taco Ockerse is een fellow countryman, a Dutchman born in Indonesia, has experienced a worldly youth, living in countries such as the USA, Germany and Singapore.
Wow, a cleaned up version of a cleaned up version of a cleaned up version. Even Taco's original MTV video had blackface performers, and the actual original song has no "Gary Cooper" who himself only came along as a popular figure much later.
That's Showbiz I'm watching it for the first time with you.
This song always reminds me of Ritz crackers with a slice of cheese and meat.
This is a full performance of RiverDance. Watched this with my grandmother before she passed away on PBS. Its amazing.
ua-cam.com/video/9jxCbaLG0w4/v-deo.html
The singer looks like an extra from the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show.
It's like "Putting On The Ritz" is a metaphor for "Putting On Airs."
No, I don't think that's right.
It actually just means getting dressed up.
Oooooper dooooper!
This song is legend
I love this song! Dud you know it is from 1927? But it wasn't released until 1931.
All I can think of is Young Frankenstein !
Taco’s version of this song was a hit in the ‘80s, but it originated in the 1930s. Check out Ella Fitzgerald’s version.
I just wanted to say that I love your name girl! My daughter is Alexis and I've always called her Lex! Love the sign with y'all name
I prefer the Young Frankenstein version
Uttin ahnnn a iizzz!!
Right on man!
Me too!
Super Duper
Yes!!! One of my favorite movies...top 5
This song was originally in a movie "Putting on the Ritz" in 1930.
Here it is : ua-cam.com/video/66km3m_UE_k/v-deo.html
Fred Astaire also did it in 1946 in the movie "Blue Skies".
This has been cut up badly to get around YT censorship:
ua-cam.com/video/bwCC2gUiif8/v-deo.html
You should react to "Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers". It's from the 1940s and has fantastic tap dancing and nice jazz.
This was one of those quirky 80s remakes that made it big.
Who here remembers the show that the had on the 80's it was like American Idol but it was a lip sink show. I'm gonna go look it up, il put another comment below lol
Puttin on the hits what a great show. I like the one that a guy was pretending to be in a drive thru and he did a skit :I wanna cheese burger, onion ring and a large Orange drink please " I thought it was the best one ever really funny. Reminds me of Taco, one album I think
"I never heard of tap-dancing heels. Have you?"
"Yeah, I danced in them. I used to tap dance in them!"
"Well that was before, uh...you know, before we met."
Nice one, Brad. 😆
Seriously, you both did great with this react video. I've been on a big kick lately, watching these vids and enjoying how others feel about these songs, and hey...if you're feeling good, I'm feeling good.
Keep doing what you do.
He did a follow-up called singing in the rain
Get Lex a cape, NOW!!!
He said I have it's surreal the first time
If you want your jaws to drop on the floor look up the Nicholas Brothers. Or Sammy Davis Jr. singing Bang Bang from the movie Robin and the Seven Hoods. Fantastic tap dancing! 🤯❤️❤️
This song really reminds me of Dr Seuss
IMHO, best cover of this is from "Young Frankenstein".