Eddie Cantor - My Baby Just Cares For Me (1930) 

He had an amazing high pitch, harmonious and clear tenor voice...

Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were the absolute best of the best. They were also the best of friends.

This song contains the greatest rhyme any lyric ever had: Tibbets and kibbitz.

He had a very strong and melodious voice. He was quite an entertainer.

An amazing voice

¡Great, The Performance!

Eddie had some voice! He really hit those high notes!

Thanks for Eddie... Great song....

I appreciate Eddie.... Can understand every word...great song too. Wonderful songwriting...part of the GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK..

One of my favorite movies from the early sound era!

Great song...great songwritters... great performer. ...

Real singing. Live!

We are so lucky to be able to watch these surviving snippets from 90+ years ago, as acetate films deteriorated with 20 years, especially so with Technicolor examples like this. 👍🤗

What a great song! And a great performance!

Amazing singing and great picture quality for 1930

That's all there is (what an understatement). Beautiful 2-Strip Technicolor that showcases Eddie Cantor in his prime.

Eddie Cantor is SO adorable! What an entertainer! Terrific song that he put over wonderfully Thanks so much for this treasure!!! I want to see the whole film now!

♪ ♫ ♬"...I'll get my nursing free Then I can feel good for nothing...."♪ ♫ ♬ LOL

素敵なものはいつまでも鮮やかな色を放ち、私達を魅了する。素敵な歌声と映像ありがとう。

Love Eddie Cantor! Hilarious comedian!!!

Absolutely amazing singer and dancer!!

Mr Cantor was a cousin to my mom's mother. A great pioneer in the entertainment industry from Burlesque all the way to the birth of TV. And if that isn't enough, a true humanitarian of the highest order. I only wish I could have gotten to know him.

"My Baby don't care for clothes"...that's why my neighbor built a patio...!

simply wonderful....I love Jolson but I like Cantor's voice more...

For those who may be thrown off by some of the references in the lyrics: Furs and laces High tone places- fancy and elegant John Gilbert- American actor of the silent screen, “the great lover” Ronald Colman- British actor in American cinema from the 20s to the 40s Lawrence Tibbett(s)-American opera, cinema and radio performer Kibbitz- to joke around or make wisecracks Buck Rogers- science fiction newspaper comics character hero Maurice Chevalier- popular french singer active from the 1920s until 1970.

STRIKE ME PINK IS ONE HIS BEST MOVIES. LAUGHED SO HARD I WAS CRYING.

1. The song only makes complete sense in the context of the show - where you know he's a hypochondriac and she's his devoted nurse, and there's The Reprise and that punchline! 2. I have to say it again, of course - when the sherriff confronts him, he's just pulled his head out of the oven, hence the "coloration"!

I love this so much!

Just wonderful theatrics and chord changes!

Wonderful song great singing they don't make them like that any more

True Classic! Thanks!

My nearly 10 month old granddaughter is named Marjorie (after my mom) and we all call her Margie.

simply wonderful

The Broadway cast was put on a train to California, so this film may be the best preservation of 1920 stage musicals in existence.

Outstanding

If an old film's negative still exists (film that photographed the actual scene) scanning and digitizing to process back to positive film stock or to Blu-Ray will make the movie as clear and rich, with all tonal qualities, as the day it was first screened. It's not all as simple as all that but you get the idea.

Under rated comedian. Great all around entertainer.

Great to hear the introducing lyrics. I had it only on sheet music.

Great number!

Thank you! I am grateful.

Love this❤

Super excellent with very good interesting video

I'm so happy since the day That I fell in love in a great big way And the big surprise is someone loves me too Guess it's hard for you to see Just what anyone could see in me But it only goes to prove what love can do My baby don't care for shows My baby don't care for clothes My baby just cares for me My baby don't care for furs and laces My baby don't care for high-toned places My baby don't care for rings Or other expensive things She's sensible as can be My baby don't care who knows it My baby just cares for me My baby's no Gilbert fan Ronald Colman is not her man My baby just cares for me My baby don't care for Lawrence Tibbett's She'd rather have me around to kibitz Bud Rogers is not her style And even Chevalier's smile Is something that she can't see I wonder what's wrong with baby My baby just cares for me, me, only me My baby don't care for shows My baby don't care for clothes My baby just cares for me My baby just loves those consultations And how she enjoys my operations After our honeymoon In April, May, or June I'll get my nursing free Then I can feel good for nothing My baby just cares for me

Priceless🎉

Great...no body does it better!

Eddie Cantor isn't singing in a minstrel dialect style. but as himself. Close your eyes.

Love these old movies, hate the blackface, though.

Wow, this is tough to watch in 2020.

I'll be darned if I can tell if this is TWO strip, bonded, dye-transfer Technicolour (Magenta and Cyan, in this example), or VERY early THREE strip, dye-transfer, bonded Technicolour (RGB or Magenta, Cyan, Yellow). I suspect that the credits were done in 2 strip Magenta. Green, and the rest was done in two strip Magenta, Cyan, but I am just guessing. The shirt colour is the indication that it is probably Magenta and Cyan. Two Strip Magenta and Green was most common, but I suppose it depended upon the set designers. I think Magenta and Cyan works much better than Magenta and Green. Why not the THREE strip dye-transfer, bonding process? If you knew how difficult the TWO strip process was, you would instantly understand! In 1931-32 Kodachrome was invented, but NOT used in commercial photography! It was (and still is) a 25 step development process without a negative. Temperature sensitive in the extreme. A 1/4th degree off, and the process goes south. Still, Kodachrome. was sold for home movies (c. 1935). In 1982, whilst working as a custom darkroom engineer, a customer came in one day with thousands of feet of 8mm Kodachrome home movies made from 1936 to 1939! (a rich family!) The celluloid was fragile in the extreme, but the images were colour and resolution perfect! Not a hint of fade or colour shift. No blur or loss of image in anyway! Fortunately, the family did not play the movies much. I had to bake the celluloid (low temp) and slowly alter the environment of the film for a few days, before I could begin the slow process of making restoration dupes to 16 mm. In the end, the film projected as if it was truly modern 16 MM and not a dupe. The resolution of Kodachrome is that good. . I did not have to do anything but clean each frame -no colour-corrections or other image restoration. The final film looked as if it had been shot yesterday, except for the people and clothing in the films were obviously from another time! -All out door shots as it was very slow film. There was no way to shoot Kodachrome with artificial light. Kodachrome has three emulsion layers and was even more expensive in 1932 than 3 strip Technicolour! Another major reason Kodachrome was not used in Hollywood was that making nightly rushes available was impossible. It took too long to develop the raw film stock. Even by the 1950s, processing took too long for use in Hollywood. Too bad, as Kodachrome remains the best choice of analogue colour film today. It's ASA is higher (64) since about 1960. However, if you want to shoot colour analogue film today and do not want to see ANY grain, regardless of enlargement, Kodachrome is your best bet. The E6 process has gotten awfully good, but Kodachrome remains superior. Eddie was a great Vaudevillian and all-round stage performer of professional merit. He could sing, dance and act. Even Groucho liked Eddie. God bless Eddie Cantor. Eddie Cantor was an unusually decent show business cat. -Really, -a prince of a gentleman. Eddie Cantor practically, single handedly, promoted The March of Dimes, and put it on the map. Cantor's efforts probably raised more money than any other single person. Eddie also gave a lot of his own bread to the cause. No one after The War believed that we'd beat Polio that fast, but Eddie knew about Salk and his research, and put his entire heart and soul into the enterprise. Afrt all, what everage joe can't spare a DIME?!! (c. 1946 a dime was worth about 2 bucks in today's money). It was a brilliant fundraising idea and it surely saved many lives. Maybe I was allowed to walk because of Jonas Salk and Eddie Cantor? I am a First Generation Salk Vaccine Baby. I was amongst the first newborns to receive the Salk vaccine as a baby (I still have traces of the scar). It was a round-ish multi-needle injection with several boosters in the following weeks /months. Today, I think it is simply a liquid -one gulp and your're good to go?! I dunno, but it is a lot simpler for kids these days. The only polio that remains on the Earth is frozen somewhere in a petri dish. Such contagions are not destroyed as they still can help us with other diseases. I am not sure exactly how old I was, but I was vaccinated before my memories began (at 2-1/2 years). Anyway, I have that old round scar on my left arm to prove it. Few Americans knew that President Roosevelt was crippled from polio, and that The President spent a lot of his own bread in the previous years on a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, AK. -Hey, all of you Americans out there; would you elect a cripple as President today? I fear not. Sociopaths traitors are okay, but not the disabled! Go figure. Americans today, need to read more and watch TV less. God bless Eddie Cantor.

Thank you for keeping this up! It's a gift, not only for me, but also for children.

Two color Technicolor process number three. "Toll of The Sea" 1922 (in process number two) is the oldest surviving Technicolor feature. Read the new book The Dawn of Technicolor 1915-1935. Kinema Colour was the first viable color process 1906 to 1915 but had fringing. The history of the first forty years of cinema history is not all black and white. Read about it and watch some films on RU-vid. Also, that is Eddie Cantor in black face! It's not right but I'm sure malice was not his intent. We all know he didn't work in a vacuum as there were producers, directors, playwrights, scriptwriters, managers and all those that put these films together. Yes he was a minsteral and stage performer. Nevertheless, these young talents were urged to perform before the cameras to become film stars in order to make money as it is today. These old films are time capsules and the only time machine you'll ever find. Although times have changed these movies are a priceless heritage and once lost...

Well. .. the thumbnail was quite misleading.

This was Ethel Shutta's finest hour in films. And her husband George Olsen played the music. Perhaps the best of all the surviving early musicals.

He really could hit those high notes!

Great!

lovely film thanx for sharing...try 'Keep young and beautiful 'from Roman Scandals

BRAVO!

Thank you! Wish someone would post the entire film.

You have to admit he had rhythm and a voice, and could hit every note.

We're just gonna ignore the elephant in the room then...

The greatest actor of all time. Way better than Gable, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper or any other actor. Eddie Cantor was an actor without equal.,

The Royal Society Jazz Orchestra of San Francisco does a very great reproduction of this. And everything else that they do.

Please correct the printed lyrics: Cantor doesn't say "Bud Rogers." There wasn't any Bud Rogers at that time. He's saying "But Rogers is not her style," a reference to the great Will Rogers who was at the height of his popularity, with movie roles and a syndicated newspaper column. Will Rogers also happened to be a buddy of Cantor's from their Ziegfeld Follies days.

This is history

Molto bello

It is indeed Eddie!

It would be interesting to know how they got blue to appear in two strip Technicolor. Maybe in the modern version they took the red and green channels to create a black and white luminence channel and then did some subtraction of both green and red to get a blue channel. The same technique used for analog compatible color television. The ending western scene is missing blue. The first full spectrum technicolor was a Disney cartoon in 1933. It was actually one strip, for they shot the RGB in sequence on the same reel.

Nina Simone's choice to cover this has a hidden irony that most will miss. No wonder she got sick of singing it.

great stuff no matter what they say

this is the colorized version

I've seen this without blackface and now, I'm looking for it.

Oh, 1930.

I clicked the video and once i saw eddie , i almost spat out my coffee and nearly fell back in my chair laughing XD

Lmaooo so nobody gonna speak on the black face?

There's something very surreal about this. The black face and that dance, reminds me of Spike Milligan.

wery interesting.

Did u know that EDDIE CANTOR was not related to bob at all??? 🤔🤔🤔

"My baby don't care for clothes . . ." So she's a nudist, then?

They don't make movies like they used to

Original "Exit music" starts at 4:01. Most broadcast versions of the film have it cut.

As great as Eddie was, the blackface makes me cringe 😬

At 1:49, I think Eddie should have sung Buddy Rogers, not Bud Rogers.

I first saw "Whoopee" in the 1970's Eddie is GREAT and evean more so in BLACKFACE! Have You seen Eddie Cantor in "Roman Scandals"? say, THAT is a fine Musical Show fore SURE! it even has Lucille Ball NUDE (under a Blond Wig)

He was cute

Anyone washing this on 2021

Help, where do you watch this movie

In the second clip, you can really see the facial expressions copying Groucho Marx. Makes you think, those eyebrows and thay moustache must have been to help with rhe expression clarity on rhe old picture's

I like Simone's rendition of this song, but I personally prefer the original because of how upbeat it feels.

Who was the girl

So, we are all gonna ignore the black face in the room. Geez.

After seeing the obviously offensive version of this tune, it's funny to think that years later this was a hit for none other than Nina Simone.

Too bad the scene is marred by the black face.

0:36 The song begins

Nobody's going to address the blackface? C'mon

How is it that he sang better "when he was black"..go figure.

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er.. Wow! How did THAT happen!? I mean, leaving aside the astonishing of-its-time racism etc, how did a fairly dull song get transformed int the brilliant jazz classic as sung by say, Nina Simone?

Very interesting to hear the original form of the song. Nina Simone transformed it. Haley Reinhart and Jeff Goldblum have done another take on it, also brilliant.

Color in 1930?? Was this a show?

Surprising no one is talking about how racist