@@zenxth103 people overlook the fact the meaning of words has changed over the years, no offence was intended when this was recorded in 1932, it's a light hearted happy song.
Good to hear the uncensored version of the record that has just achieved the dubious distinction of being probably the first to be added to the BBC banned list following an 82-year gap after it first came out! Interesting that infamous line at 1'01" caused such a kerfuffle, but "now we'll all be gay" passed without comment, though.
al jolson sitting on top of the world. there is a line in the song [ a bundle of money don't make me feel gay] which means happy. not homosexual. people nowadays need to chill out a bit.
i aked my local radio station (angel radio) to choose a song from 1932 for my late parents wedding they choose this and love is the sweetest thing by al bowley
if it's so bad why wasn't it in a volt so deep inside the BBC nobody would accidentally play it poor old bloke sack when he accidentally played it yet Clarkson says it on purpose and gets away with saying sorry
In the 1933 version of "who's afraid of the big bad wolf" Henry Hall sings "number one [wolf] is "very gay"! Does that mean that 80+ year old tune is now banned incase we offend "gay" people???? My life!
That's the point I'm making. Words can have a change of personality over the years and mean something entirely different years later, like "gay" for example. We should not apply a new meaning to an old word - which meant something different decades ago - and then ban it! I can find no possible connection between "gay" and "homosexual" whatsoever but that's what that word now means in the second decade of the 21st century.
An excellent recording. One thing I'd like to point out to the PC brigade, it's not the 'n' word itself that is offensive, it is the context in which it is used. What I find offensive is that black people are allowed to use the word in films and rap songs without censure.
We used to have this record and me and my sister thought the offending line was "He's been sanding knickers out in Timbuktu". I know it doesn't make sense but most things don't when you are a child and I am not sure they do when you are an adult either. Certainly the furore this has caused seems out of all proportion when you consider the many and much more serious examples of malignant racism that still exist in the world today.
The word was cut (but originally broadcast) from the rhyme "Eeny meeny miny mo" from the Dads Army Episode "Keep Young and Beautiful". In the film "The Dam Busters", this was the real name of Guy Gibson's Black Labrador but it was bleeped out or dubbed as Trigger, or Rigger, or just cut altogether. The Agatha Christie story now known as "And Then There Were None" was originally known as "Ten Little ***** (you can guess)" Even Enid Blyton and Noddy and Big Ears have been classified as racist, and I'm sure we all remember the little fellow who used to be on Robertson's Marmalade. There is something very sinister about rewriting history for political reasons. Something that smells very much like Orwell's 1984. All these things were products of their time and they should be left untouched as a reminder of how things were. "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me"is absolutely correct. Simply being called names is never going to hurt anybody physically, and I'm not sure that things should be eliminated purely because they cause offence. After all, amongst many things, paying tax offends me, Jeremy Clarkson offends me (not because of the recent controversy but because he's an out and out waste of space - I hope he's not offended), the present government and opposition parties all offend me. No-one will suggest, in all seriousness, that all these should be eliminated just because they offend ME.
On other contemporary versions of this song, that word is covered neatly by two muted trumpet notes, so even then they realised some could be offended. Neverless, David Lowe and his whole show was axed most arbitrarily and unfairly by the BBC, when a simple apology would have sufficed. This is part of a continuing BBC Radio policy to eliminate all nostalgia programmes. Recent losses include "Listen to the Band" and "The Organist Entertains". Dance band music has disappeared altogether.
@@brians78s94 Maybe just their overpaid executives. The latest casualty of this policy is Don Black, whose Sunday night show on Radio 2, playing the classic songs and singers, has just been axed.
frank spencer I agree but the sheeple will sheep....the trouble is the sheeple don't know what it is the should be focused on....tooooo much tele visual programming
The BBC these days seems to have full control over what WE are allowed to say or even think, yet every night I am deeply off ended by them showing stuff on TV that uses very many expletives, de-nationalise the Beeb ASAP!
@Geoff Currie. Absolutely agree about the BBC. Just look at the Beebs website,..they only allow you to comment on non-important issues but not on anything that's really worth talking about such as world current affairs, like politics, religion, wars etc etc. I don't have a BBC licence anymore, (not for two years now). because I'm fed-up with all their crap! This DJ of many years on BBC radio unfairly gets the sack for not knowing about the so-called 'offensive lyrics' in this song yet Jeremy Clarkson gets to keep his job. The BBC are a joke and has been in decline for many years now.
The word causes such offence nowadays because many people associate it with its use as an insulting and highly pejorative ter. However, I believe when this song was written it was much milder, maybe condecendi ng rather than hate-filled.
This song should be banned. Excited boys and delighted girls sitting in the sun all day! With no hats on... only the sun with the hat on!! Didn't anyone, apart from the sun, know about Melanoma in 1932!
the radio presenter should not have lost his job over this, he should have been given the change to apologise on air and that should have been the end of it. Yes the line in the song is racist and wrong and should not be played (unedited) on radio. However, a lot of people are commenting that the word or the context are not racist but the word is racist. just because some people use the word in a different context doesn't mean that all black people are fine with using or hearing a word that was made to insult, dehumanise and humiliate.
My version: The sun has got its hat on, in the south of Spain but here in Scotland its pouring which is really quite a pain Some people like it rainy, but its not for me I like it to be sunny and windy when sailing on the sea The sun has got its hat on, far far south of here but we've got cloud and rain, which makes me sigh oh dear Some places need it rainy but what's the point at sea ? I like it to be sunny and windy when sailing, that's the best for me
If the roles were swapped around and a derogatory term had been used about a white man from a black man, nothing still would of been said. The same with sexism it it is never offensive when a women makes a comment about a man
The n word has changed it's meaning since this was recorded back in1932. back then just a name for a black person. Like Gay meaning just happy, now that a word is associated with being homosexual. This is not the problem, the problem is the misunderstanding of people in regards to the context of this old but charming recording.
