Puttin' On The Ritz 1930 Version with original lyrics (not PC) 

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Thanks corrected .

@Sage Marchand it's meant to be making fun of poor black people putting on airs for a night of fun downtown. Later versions of the song switched to making fun of the rich folk.

@@user-rj9cw6bx2v Sorry, but your remark sounds pretty bigoted, to me. And I am white.

@@user-rj9cw6bx2v Jesus christ, I don't know if you're Asian (I assume you are given your username) but you of all people should know that even our people suffered discrimination here in America, especially during this time. For shame, you're a disgrace to our community

@@user-rj9cw6bx2v Yes, pretty much every mention of black people in the 30s was racist, because it was a racist time. Yes, references to high browns (light-skinned black people) who are poor spending their last two bits, dressed to the nines and sticking out like sore thumbs is, in fact racist. If things are a product of a time where people were inundated with racist tropes, the racist tropes are still... racist. Just because it's old doesn't mean we can't look at it for what it is.

Here's the original lyrics in an easier to read format (see the link). Note the use of: - Lenox Ave (in Harlem) - "Spending every dime For a wonderful time" - Harlem - "Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns From down the levy, all misfits" - "That's where each and every lulu-belle goes Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus Rubbin' elbows" (lulu-belle - old slang for black maid; "Thursday evening" - maid's traditional night off) - jubilee (allusion to Emancipation - see the Civil War song Kingdom Coming: "It mus' be now de kindom coming, an' de year ob Jubilo!) - "see them spend their last two bits" Racist enough to revise for Fred Astaire's "Blue Skies". genius.com/Irving-berlin-puttin-on-the-ritz-lyrics

Taco version is the best one!

I'm pretty sure the out-of-tune rag-timey sound is what they want

A player piano isn't supposed to be in tune.

@@travisdurrans8866 Nope, Randolph Herr who owned this piano and a couple others said it himself that he was quite tone deaf and he used an old strobe tuner. A lot of these videos show the piano when it was not tuned for seemingly months on end.

@@ChuckTeStA97 I hate it when people say this, any piano will sound better in tune. Not to mention pianos that are kept out of tune will suffer significant string damage.

I hope you can get one!

They are out there, but unless recently restored, will cost a small fortune to do so,, if you can find someone to do it. Then, it will be a joy for years.!

You shouldn't have too much a problem finding on in decent shape for a couple thousand bucks. Also, this wasn't a player piano playing this roll, it was a push up piano player.

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u better have GOTTEN IN DUN BY NOW

Credit the channel owner who is dead anyway. Link the video in the description or something.

Or better yet, punch back!

Push up pianola with no duo-art holes to begin with and missing the outer 4 notes.

A very out of tune Steinway grand that frankly the only thing good about it was the dampers xD

Okay but the song is still racist. You can deny that. Your just white and dont see others pov.

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April Mazza this is a joke right

Oh my God I'm a complete nitwit and even I can see the lyrics on the right side of the piano sheet music you idiot

This is what is called a 'word roll', and the words to the song are printed along the right side of the roll for sing-along purposes. Tens of thousands of 'word rolls' have been made, by many different companies. It was the first-ever kareoke.

WHAT! They are on the roll- just look!

You won't find any for this arrangement

It's playing it 😎

Yeah it did, too bad Randolph Herr died the same year you said it...

He's dead.

Also, 'politically correct' is a term invented by racists to try to fool average people into thinking common decency is somehow tied into either politics, or subterfuge, when it is neither. I don't use that term because 1. to hell with politics and politicians, and 2. decency is decency.

@@andrewbarrett1537 Politics is that annoying thing that the schooled dorks fail to master, we only need it when we are outnumbered...sadly....it is a word overused to describe a groups point of view......PC = groupthink....and like most things designed by a committee, it rarely flies.

@@andrewbarrett1537 And i don't think it's 'racists" so much as BIGOTS...and they are the worst hypocrits when it comes to stopping others points of view, so as to install their own.

@@scottleft3672 I'm sorry, I can't understand what you mean by "schoold dorks frew p to master".

@@andrewbarrett1537 Don't know what happened there?...maybee i was falling asleep....i get up for work early.

​@Sage Marchand P C can indeed be used to unfairly persecute someone who has 'stepped out of bounds' and said something untoward without knowing they did, or knowing it was bad. And- different people have a different amount of tolerance for different things being said. Some people are more easily hurt than others, not always due to thin skin, but especially to past life experience. That being said, I am not in favor of silencing either conservatives OR past (historical, non-living) racism, because- it is history and contemporary people need to know about to realize past mistakes. I mainly am here because I love vintage music and piano rolls. That does not mean I also love past racism, but I realize it is a past people's mistake that people should not fall into the trap of still following today. In fact, were it not for these lyrics, and the YT poster's fascination with them, most or all of the comments would be about THE MUSIC. As for present racism, that SHOULD be shouted down (if not silenced), because it is always bad. On one online news article just posted two days ago, I counted no less than thirty-six either blatantly racist, or coded racist comments (in among all the other comments... for about two-hundred-odd comments, that was still a very large percentage). I did not even know all the 'code words' so had to look them up. It's one thing to see historical racism in the old days when people supposedly didn't know any better; that's bad enough; it's disgusting to still see it today.

I think these are great melodies. You don't have to sing the same words, but the music is timeless. However I think you have a pretty strange idea to conflate people espousing common decency with people who follow conspiracy theories.

Steinwaygrande i dont know if i can take you serious

I am serous. I have NEVER subscribed to this Political Correctness hogwash . I`ll call it as I see it. Lits of people around the world feel the same way as I do. - each to their own I guess

Steinwaygrande well i agree aswell

Thanks.

Too many tender people getting their feelings hurt. Ahhh... Get a life and spend your time on something productive.

Randolph Herr, the late owner of this channel, said he was tone deaf himself so the piano would probably fall out of tune quite badly before he would notice and do anything about it.

Yes.

I see you have carefully selected a pic of Charley Patton for your trolling account.

@@andrewbarrett1537 maybe I was a troll two years ago but now I try not to be

@@CheeseMan78 Glad to hear it!