My dad used to sing this, so I learned to play it on guitar and we had a great time with it. Now he's gone and I'm as old as he was, but the song will endure forever.
His accent and way of speaking was incredible to the original. He was incredible in boardwalk and was amazing in history. Thanks, banjo eyes. And thanks to Terence winter and Marty for introducing me to the glory that was the 20s
@@JustinSpakable What glory? Bootleggers, corrupt politicians, racketeers and mobsters running around on the streets killing each other for some clams? Or the separated schools, toilets and jail cells for different people based on a few molecules in their DNA? The Boardwalk Empire show is great, but in all of these movies they show us what we don't want to have in our world now. They say that movie makers romanticize things like bootlegging, bank robberies and selling drugs, and I guess they do, but that's the whole point: to show that there is a rewarding side to that way of living, but to get these rewards they make horrible things and every time they go all-in with their life included. Because at any minute some mobster can force his way through and just spray them with a machine gun.
Eddie Cantor's autobiography is still available, it is also a wonderful read. Filled with stories about the great stars of the era and he does not say one unpleasant thing about anybody. I loved it.
This movie, "Whoopee", was thought to have been lost for decades until a cop was discovered in the late 1980s. Luckily, a work of art is preserved for us to enjoy.
I love these old-time entertainers--Cantor, Jolson, Chevalier, Durante, Merman, and even though he's known more for his dancing than singing, Fred Astaire knew how to put over a tune (and was a fantastic musician). None of them had "great" voices, but they just knew how to entertain musically in a way that they just don't do anymore.
@@detectivefiction3701 So did Jolson. He had an incredibe voice. Listen to him on a ballad like I'll Be Seeing You. Had he chosen to go in that direction, he could have been one of the greatest operatic baritones of all time.
@@bennyrobertson I don't think he was a great singer. In his later years though, I think he was pretty good, but not to my taste. He was always more of an entertainer, a guy who put on a show.
I love Eddie Cantor - I have lived in Ireland and England, most of my life - but this New Yorker (If that was his hometown) always makes me smile and sing (badly)
One of the great American standard lyrics, delivered superbly by Cantor in 1930. Notice how he tips his hat to the ladies as they exit, then casually performs a pretty nifty dance step to open the second chorus...good stuff.
I remember this from childhood too , but I’d never seen him perform it. His expressions and gestures and dancing are wonderful. Lots of subtlety then totally over the top, Pete Hutley, Newcastle, Australia.
Eddie Cantor is cool so I have this movie Whoopee!www.amazon.com/Whoopee-Eddie-Cantor/dp/B00CA4S308 and this movie is good and amazing the songs are great
I just realized and looked up that Eddie Cantor was a real person. I’ve been watching Boardwalk Empire and I can’t believe how well that actor plays him. Sound just like him too! Great stuff!
The biggest problem to modern viewers is the lack of audience reaction to Eddie's punchlines, he does time the gags for films, not stage, where he would have paused even longer, before the next line.. Many stage routines were ruined by filming, timing to long or simply the silence of having no proper audience. To appreciate it you have to imagine the reaction of waves of laughter to each gag, wide eyed stare, and double take he did. Stephen..
His eyes, after he is done singing and is walking away ... they get me every time! No matter how foul a mood I may be in, I watch this and have a smile on my face by the end!
The Broadway show in which Canter starred in was produced in 1928 but this Samuel Goldwyn film version was done in 1930. With the same Orchestra by the way, George Olson and his Music.
Several times during my childhood, I ran across Eddie Cantor's movies and I loved his brand of entertainment. In college, I was very fortunate to have read his autobiography, and to this day find it to be one of the most beautiful and inspirational books I have ever read.
Love Eddie Cantor! He's just so adorable ! What an entertainer He could put over a song like a champ, No no like him before or since! Thanks for this wonderful clip! So appreciate things like this !!
I've always loved Eddie Cantor's music. My father was generous enough and appreciated music enough to make sure my family and I were exposed to Eddie's music and other artists of the time. My limited song writing abilities and my own limited guitar playing abilities leave me to wonder what sort of talent this man had to be able to write such an impressive and complicated song. Very appreciative of the talent he possessed.
On this day in 1957 {September 18th} the CBS-TV network's 'The Big Record Show' had its national debut {it was the network’s answer to ABC-TV’s ‘American Bandstand’}... The show's hostess was Patti Page and it lasted for one season with 35 episodes... Eddie Cantor performed “Makin’ Whoopee!” on the show; he first introduced the song twenty-nine years earlier in the 1928 Broadway musical ‘Whoopee!’… Mr. Cantor, Edward Israel Iskowitz, passed away on October 10th, 1964 at the age of 72... May he R.I.P.
Men in those days work suits and ties nearly everywhere. Even laborers, carpenters, the milk man. Women wore dresses to work as phone operators and store clerk's, nurses and teachers. And EVERYBODY wore hats. We dressed up even further to travel. In the 60s, people dressed up to fly on Pan Am to Hawaii. Even into the 60s and half way through the 70s, engineers and draftsmen and scientists wore neckties. My second year of high school was the first time they allowed girls to wear pants, and we were then also allowed to wear jeans for the first time. We all just plain "Dressed up" to do everything. We were goofy. I've always dug Eddie's delivery of all the lyrics of this tune. We don't get that with Frank or Ella. Thanks - Lumpy
@@Ryan-on5on I know that. "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" The point is that if you don't understand the obvious reference, you should just pass by. Trust me pal, it's extremely simple 🤣
@@dr.romanfell1933 is 1912 a movie. because if you're talking about the year they were born. that ain't how that works. like if you were born in 1987 you're not an 80's kid. you're a 90's kid.
Just remember, 'making whoopee' seems to imply commit adultery,, cause since he earns five thousand per, he has to give a portion to his wife....on whom he was cheating by 'making whoopee' with another woman...
This is a classic! Back in Nam me and me mates used to listen to this, still classic! He will love on in our hearts. Classic! Back when life was good and women had rights
I've always been a fan of this piece and particularly with Eddie Cantor singing it, but to see this video makes it all the better. Great music from the era of some of the best show tunes!
I couldn't understand why they would allow a flub at 2:16, but realized he's changing from an old candlestick 2 piece phone to a "modern" 1 piece handset.
at the time it was to expensive to retake the the whole shot leave it,cantor pulled off the best fuck up on film,and it worked. cudos to the bean counters,the public grew aware of a new tech change and cantor was aware of his flub and kept on singing
This was not a flub in anyway. Cantor was the ultimate Craftsman. Look at the perfect body language he uses all throughout this song, including two of his trademark clichés: the rolling of the eyes and the quick clapping of the hands that was parodied in cartoons and by impersonators for decades afterwards. That "flaw" was very cleverly done by Eddie Cantor to switch from using the candlestick "Eliot Ness" style phone to the newer style cradle phone with a hand receiver that we are familiar with today. Nothing flawed in his performance, it was carefully planned out.
I read a David Lee Roth interview once where he gave props to all of these early pioneers and said what an influence they had on his style. That always stuck with me sort of opened my eyes a little to the universal appeal and timelessness of what a true performer is. Eddie Cantor had it all.
Hermoso, estoy en un parque de un pueblo muy antiguo, sentada en el piso, y en la pared de cualquier edificio, ahí los veo, mucha gente del pueblo, felices, sencillos, mirándonos con amor, sin pensar en más, admirados de ver cómo se sostienen los artistas y ahora tienen voz, ¿de dónde saldrá?, y la niña mocosa limpiándose con el brazo. Recordar es vivir.
Eddie Cantor singing live in 1930. He was born in NYC Isidore Itzkowitz sometime in 1892. He had no birth certificate so the date is unknown. His father was Mechel Iskowitz and his mother was Meta Kantrowitz both born in Russia. His mother died when he was 2 and nothing is known about his father. His maternal grandmother Esther Kantrowitz took custody of him. His last name, Kantrowitz due to a clerical error, was shortened to Kanter. His grandmother died in 1917 when he was 24. He married his wife Ida in 1913 who called him Edward (Eddie). His charity and humanitarian work was extensive. He helped to develop the March of Dimes and is credited with coining its name. He died in 1964.
This is a perfect demonstration of a live recording. Watch his lips, totally in sync with the sound. Most singers lip sync for TV and their lip movement is always a little behind. They also try to hide somewhat behind the microphone.
Eddie Cantor and other performers who came up through vaudeville had to be able to fill an auditorium with their voice alone... there was no electronic amplification back then. This led to a singing style that's very different from the more subtle type of singing ushered in later by the crooners. Eddie was an electrifying perfomer. I love his movies and radio show. Glad these clips are available.
a timeless masterpiece... - at ~2:17 Eddie has a glitch with "telephone" - its like a one-shot live take and wonderful! - lets hope all his films including "Ali Baba Goes To Town" are lovingly remastered & released soon to DVD or Blu-Ray
What a talent! He like so many of his fantastic era set the standard for those who would follow but never quite attain the class or for that matter legend that this superstar did even with a congenital bad heart.Izzy or as you were known to the public as Eddie I along with countless millions "down through the countless ages" are thankful To RU-vid that you will never die!!!!
I notice that some posters still do not know that colour film was available in the 1920's, Technicolor had made several colour features before Whoppee in the early two Color system. It is the best surviving example, some others are lost films or colour inserts in longer features. The film survived as a private copy in Jack Warners collection, although the film was a Samuel Goldwynn Production, by United Artists.
It was available, but too expensive and in case of the 2 color systems pretty limited. You will never see a real blue or a real red. But they knew, how to do color with 3 colors, but too expensive.
Rob F - you never saw Hell's Angels" (1930), did you? I have it on DVD, it has a complete red scene, and a blue scene, and a full color party scene with Jean Harlow.
+Joan Smith I've seen hills angels , but only on t.v. when young and black and white t.v. at that so no I never knew about the multi-colored effects you mentioned. thank you for some trial I never knew
2-Strip Technicolor, it was in use since the early 20's. Mostly as a special single reel in longer features like Phantom of the Opera and The Ten Commandments, but I recall seeing a full length 2-Strip feature from the early 20's called The "Toll of The Sea".
