The year is now 2021, I am 34 years young, and I absolutely love this Era and the ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY Phil, Mary, Rochester, Dennis, Don, and Jack! Anyone else my age agree???
Phil Harris has been one of my favorite personalities since my dad introduced me to his songs and music back in 1950. We also listened to The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show on the radio. To this day, it is one of the funniest comedy show ever! No vulgarity needed. Just funny, funny, funny!
The best episode of Phil and Alice was Jack Benny playing Santa for their two daughters on Christmas Eve. Phil hired him to play Santa and Frankie Remley kept telling him just to wait for the real Santa to appear...which he did
That wudda been the Balinese Club on Seawall Blvd. Built on a pier, completely over the gulf. Destroyed 2009 by Hurr Ike. ZZ TOP wrote about the Balinese....
Phil is distant relation to me, born in Clay County, Indiana, Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton, Indiana named after him, great All-American performer!! He sings his tune "The Thing" in the movie "Wild Blue Yonder"
I know this song as well as The Star Spangled Banner given I listen to Radio Classics hosted by Greg Bell on XM Radio. Phil Harris' Baloo the bear is a hoot and Phil was a guest on ABC's, The American Sportsman. A great fellow.
COOL!... its such a great song... PHIL is my hero... im in my mid sixties and i remember phil from his appearances on ALL the talk shows in the 60s 70-s 80s... he was ubiquitous i wondered at the time, who the fuck IS this tacky, fat, cool talkin' OLD timer? he wasnt "cool" to us age-ist young hippies i did not like him back then... NOW i'm "old" too and I fucking LOVE phil harris... have done for 20 yrs... he was fabulous and a SUPERSTAR of radio, film and TV.... born in 1904 he lived til he was 91 yrs old!!! good on ya PHIL...ya showed em all.
Phil Harris was a favourite of my brother Albert my dear brother is no longer here but I e lit a ca Del and a playing Phil Harris singing We had such a lot of laugh learning All the word a I miss Albert coming to stay RIP my dear brother
Incredible multi talent. A popular band leader and musician long before he became a radio and, later, TV comedy star. There's an episode of "The Lucy Show" here on You Tube where Phil guest stars as a night club performers and we get to enjoy his piano playing. Had at least one major Top 40 hit in the 1950s' with "The Thing". And, fairly, sure that the song featured in this clip was also a fairly big record for him. Later did quite a bit of animation voice work. Seem to recall that he was also a strong supporter of civil rights. Close friend of Bing Crosby.
Phil actually scored 16 hits between 1933 and 1952, including "One-Zy, Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy)" (reached #2 in 1946), "The Darktown Poker Club" (#10 in 1946), "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette" (#8 in 1947), "The Old Master Painter" (#10 in 1950), "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (#8 in 1950) and, of course, "The Thing" (#1 in 1950). As for his theme song, "That's What I Like About The South," it reached #27 for Phil in 1947.
Phil's explanation of how he wrote this song (from the Benny Show of 10/14/51): "You see honey, one night a few years ago, I was having dinner, and when I finished, I looked around at the leftovers, and there was some hamhocks and turnip greens. So I wrote a song about the garbage and it became a hit."
I have to admit having seen and heard him as a comedian first, then singing on the soundtrack of "Jungle Book", together with Louis Armstrong, but since researching a favourite, Alice Faye, I have learned more about him, and recently bought a CD of his humerous songs. With a 45 year marriage, they must have made beautiful music together!
Great isn't, Mala? Regarding the volume, this is where head phones come in handy. They can be picked up quite cheaply...ENJOY!!! Love "The Dark Town Poker Club", also...CHEERS!! [JOHN]
@@michaelleesmith5903 It's probably a single channel of music (recorded by just one microphone) or one of your speakers is broken... It's most likely single channel audio, since this was recorded in 1944-45 and multi-channel sound wasn't introduced in movies till 1950.
That's a good story...but Phil didn't write it. The great Andy Razaf ('Honeysuckle Rose', 'Ain't Misbehavin', 'Stompin' At The Savoy' and many others) did. Harris sure did a great version, but...
I guess I was in my thirties when my 20 year old wife Charmed me on to this song over 30 years ago I always thought I was on top of the curve for music and she introduced me to a lot of stuff
I grew up listening to Phil Harris as a kid in Ireland in the 1970s. My dad had a load of records from when he was a young man. A great talent, very funny, he should be remembered for more than The Jungle Book. 'Persian Kitten' is about 100 times more sexy than any starlet getting her trousers off on music TV these days.
On the Benny Show, from the time the song first appeared in 1941, the official story was that Phil wrote it. In real life, that's not true, but then Jack wasn't really cheap either.
What movies is from anyone know I love Phil Harris’s banter between him and Jack Benny on Jack Benny show it made me google him and find Jack Benny show and also made me search for Dennis Day show
It's like when I was a drum major in high school you know you had to w a v e your arms around like you were conducting but the God damn band didn't need me all I have to do is to point at you to start then I'll go sit down on the God damn bench
What film's this from, I want it! My poor kids have been subjected to this for some years they are now weird. Are the Jack Benny's available too? Ady Croasdell
Phil Harris sang this song a few times on Jack Benny’s Radio Show. It was a great song. Maybe those “sensitive pampered pets” might have themselves a hissy fit when they hear this GREAT song. You know their kind, they have no life, most don’t even have a job because they CHOOSE to spend their life’s looking for anything to get FAKELY “upset” about. Just as Jesus warns us about, don’t try to get the speck out of someone else’s eye, until you remove the beam out of your own eye first.
@@lcs1956 you just gotta figure it out. I got more in common than I do with southern belles. Only wasted about 30 years. Looking back many opportunities I missed. Just Dayum great looking ladies with attitude and smarts if I hadn't been Mr.Dumas. would probably be in a steady relationship today if I had done what I wanted to do instead of listening to everyone else...in the end it's all the same but maybe you're not happy.
What always gets me is people think the bandleader is conducting them during the performance they already work this s*** out in rehearsal and all he's got to do is say go and they're going to play it like they rehearsed it go ask you to say go and walk off stage and the goddamn band would get through it on their own
Satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer took this song (and songs like it) to their extreme. Never realized that he played on lines directly out of this song. Here's his song: th-cam.com/video/Ra3qnLXmJDM/w-d-xo.html
The year is now 2021, I am 34 years young, and I absolutely love this Era and the ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY Phil, Mary, Rochester, Dennis, Don, and Jack! Anyone else my age agree???
Even Remly?
Same in opinion and age!! And the Queen of Comedy in my book is Gracie Allen!!!!
23 and i agree
“YYYYEEEESSSSSS!!??”
Now cut that out !!
Phil Harris has been one of my favorite personalities since my dad introduced me to his songs and music back in 1950. We also listened to The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show on the radio. To this day, it is one of the funniest comedy show ever! No vulgarity needed. Just funny, funny, funny!
The best episode of Phil and Alice was Jack Benny playing Santa for their two daughters on Christmas Eve. Phil hired him to play Santa and Frankie Remley kept telling him just to wait for the real Santa to appear...which he did
True that!🙏
In 1943, Mr. Harris dedicated this tune, from the stage, to my Mother at a nightclub in Galveston, TEXAS.
Hahaha... that's what I like about the South! We gonna enjoy good food if it kills us!
A segregated club?
@@CA-ee1et The Democrats controlled Galveston then, so probably yes.
@@CA-ee1et He said Texas 1943. It goes without sayin.
That wudda been the Balinese Club on Seawall Blvd. Built on a pier, completely over the gulf. Destroyed 2009 by Hurr Ike.
ZZ TOP wrote about the Balinese....
My 86 year old grandpa LOVES Phil Harris and so do I!
I loved him on the Jack Benny Program. Him, Mary, Rochester, Danny, Jack, and Don. Those shows are really priceless.
Oh Harris its a shame you aint runnin for president so you could be on all 4 networks!
Listen to JB everyday.
Derek Townsend me too
Don who?
@@MalleySimpson Don Wilson! What a great show!
He's a great fella, and I want to thank you sincerely for uploading this. That's What I Like About the South!
Phil is distant relation to me, born in Clay County, Indiana, Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton, Indiana named after him, great All-American performer!! He sings his tune "The Thing" in the movie "Wild Blue Yonder"
Relations you say?…well, hello “cousin”! 😊
Proud to grow up in the home town in which he did.. Linton, Indiana. (:
I wish someone would write a book about Phil! What talent! ♥️
I know this song as well as The Star Spangled Banner given I listen to Radio Classics hosted by Greg Bell on XM Radio. Phil Harris' Baloo the bear is a hoot and Phil was a guest on ABC's, The American Sportsman. A great fellow.
In a 1949 episode of Jack Benny, Phil Harris says how he dubbed this song into six different languages, for his movie Wabash Avenue
COOL!...
its such a great song...
PHIL is my hero...
im in my mid sixties and i remember phil
from his appearances on
ALL the talk shows in the 60s 70-s 80s...
he was ubiquitous
i wondered at the time,
who the fuck IS this tacky, fat,
cool talkin' OLD timer?
he wasnt "cool" to us age-ist young hippies
i did not like him back then...
NOW i'm "old" too
and I fucking LOVE phil harris...
have done for 20 yrs...
he was fabulous
and a SUPERSTAR of
radio, film and TV....
born in 1904
he lived til he was 91 yrs old!!!
good on ya PHIL...ya showed em all.
Miss you grandfather….blessed to see you here, now. 🙏Philip
Finally got to hear him do the whole song. Jack Benny still doesn’t know where Do Wah Diddy is, lol.
I love it that someone else remembers this from the Jack Benny show.
Phil Harris was a favourite of my brother Albert my dear brother is no longer here but I e lit a ca Del and a playing Phil Harris singing We had such a lot of laugh learning All the word a I miss Albert coming to stay RIP my dear brother
Incredible multi talent. A popular band leader and musician long before he became a radio and, later, TV comedy star. There's an episode of "The Lucy Show" here on You Tube where Phil guest stars as a night club performers and we get to enjoy his piano playing. Had at least one major Top 40 hit in the 1950s' with "The Thing". And, fairly, sure that the song featured in this clip was also a fairly big record for him. Later did quite a bit of animation voice work. Seem to recall that he was also a strong supporter of civil rights. Close friend of Bing Crosby.
Phil actually scored 16 hits between 1933 and 1952, including "One-Zy, Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy)" (reached #2 in 1946), "The Darktown Poker Club" (#10 in 1946), "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette" (#8 in 1947), "The Old Master Painter" (#10 in 1950), "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (#8 in 1950) and, of course, "The Thing" (#1 in 1950). As for his theme song, "That's What I Like About The South," it reached #27 for Phil in 1947.
love that band! notice how everybody in the audience is dressed up and the waiters, etc.
I love Phil Harris!!
My left ear enjoyed that.
Wow that was amazing!
It’s actually a real cool example of a big band performance.
That does rock...glad you think so. 30 years ago my much younger ex wife introduced me to this song...we still get along because of this one thing.
my dad had the original victor 78 played it so many times that you could'nt hear phil harris voice anymore thanks for posting
Me too. And on the flip side was the Darktown Poker Club.
Man being in a club like that must have been fun!
Absolutely fantastic!!!
From the movie "I love a bandleader".
thank you.
I first heard this song on Dr Demento in the early 1970s.
Kind of like the worlds first rapper!
....except that 'rap' has no melody.
THIS IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE DONE.
I miss and love you grandfather 🙏
DARN YOU PHIL HARRIS!!!!!
Love the big boxy old suits. Classic!
awesome guy
Phil's explanation of how he wrote this song (from the Benny Show of 10/14/51):
"You see honey, one night a few years ago, I was having dinner, and when I finished, I looked around at the leftovers, and there was some hamhocks and turnip greens. So I wrote a song about the garbage and it became a hit."
That's fiction, of course, Andy Razaf, who often worked with Fats Waller, actually wrote the song.
I have to admit having seen and heard him as a comedian first, then singing on the soundtrack of "Jungle Book", together with Louis Armstrong, but since researching a favourite, Alice Faye, I have learned more about him, and recently bought a CD of his humerous songs. With a 45 year marriage, they must have made beautiful music together!
That was with Louie Prima, not Armstrong.
"Hey Jackson, ain't that a lulu?"
"Hey Jackson, the Republicans may like Ike, but I love ME!"
Now Phil. Cut that out.
Jack: NOW CUT THAT OUT! That song drives me nuts! :D
Love this clip, but if you could turn the volume up I would love it even more!
Great isn't, Mala? Regarding the volume, this is where head phones come in handy. They can be picked up quite cheaply...ENJOY!!!
Love "The Dark Town Poker Club", also...CHEERS!! [JOHN]
John Still, you're troll handling skills are exceptional.
Why is it only coming out of 1 speaker?
@@michaelleesmith5903 It's probably a single channel of music (recorded by just one microphone) or one of your speakers is broken... It's most likely single channel audio, since this was recorded in 1944-45 and multi-channel sound wasn't introduced in movies till 1950.
That's a good story...but Phil didn't write it. The great Andy Razaf ('Honeysuckle Rose', 'Ain't Misbehavin', 'Stompin' At The Savoy' and many others) did. Harris sure did a great version, but...
Very good, oh those memories!
are you still around?
@@lucasv2.0plvsvltra44I hope so
I was today years old when I found this
me too...and i 64
Same! 48. Kinda Great!
I guess I was in my thirties when my 20 year old wife Charmed me on to this song over 30 years ago I always thought I was on top of the curve for music and she introduced me to a lot of stuff
happy b'day, Phil.....
Jack Benny to Phil: "Where, in the name of Stephen Foster, is Doo Wa Diddy?"
...Aristotle Onassis.
Must be Frank Remley playing the guitar … can't be too many left-handed guitar players! Is that Sammy the Drummer???
"Play, Phil!"
Hey! It's Thomas O'Malley!!
And Baloo! And Little John!
Day-um Phil! You were LIT!
ooh ya...
They had class in those days
rochester is my fav singer for this song.
Balu in the jungle book
One of the best running jokes from Jack Benny...pity he never got to finish it on radio :P
...or on TV while Jack was around.(always hauling out a map for some reason.)
class !!!
"Play Phil!"
love it
This would certainly give today's 'rappers' something to think about....
Maybe T-Pain could do this on auto tune
...imagine if they had used this in Spike Lee's "Bamboozled."
That's Fine & Dandy
I grew up listening to Phil Harris as a kid in Ireland in the 1970s. My dad had a load of records from when he was a young man. A great talent, very funny, he should be remembered for more than The Jungle Book. 'Persian Kitten' is about 100 times more sexy than any starlet getting her trousers off on music TV these days.
Thats my baloo
Love how they rocked out that standard ending.
It is a joy to see him sing and conduct this one. Any idea if there is footage of performing "Mama's On The Warpath" out there? Thanks for this!
On the Benny Show, from the time the song first appeared in 1941, the official story was that Phil wrote it. In real life, that's not true, but then Jack wasn't really cheap either.
Hi ya Jackson! "Doo way diddy!" 😄😅
Won't get that fitty I don't think
Thank you Disney, because I loved Jungle Book, I got invested in Phil Harris
What movies is from anyone know I love Phil Harris’s banter between him and Jack Benny on Jack Benny show it made me google him and find Jack Benny show and also made me search for Dennis Day show
I just realized that take me down to paradise city is very similar to this.
Phil Harris was the best.
🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️R.I.P.
Tip of hat to the great Andy Razaf.
I see Frankie Remley playing his guitar in the front.
This must be EARLY in his career; he is so slender I didn't recognize him from the back!
It's like when I was a drum major in high school you know you had to w a v e your arms around like you were conducting but the God damn band didn't need me all I have to do is to point at you to start then I'll go sit down on the God damn bench
What film's this from, I want it!
My poor kids have been subjected to this for some years they are now weird.
Are the Jack Benny's available too?
Ady Croasdell
From the movie "I love a bandleader".
Phil Harris sang this song a few times on Jack Benny’s Radio Show. It was a great song. Maybe those “sensitive pampered pets” might have themselves a hissy fit when they hear this GREAT song. You know their kind, they have no life, most don’t even have a job because they CHOOSE to spend their life’s looking for anything to get FAKELY “upset” about. Just as Jesus warns us about, don’t try to get the speck out of someone else’s eye, until you remove the beam out of your own eye first.
I can't hear this song without thinking of Nick Nolte in Prince of Tides
I remember the way Nick Nolte did it.
hammy jammy
I have this on 78 rpm record. Does it have any value?
Yes. Take it to an antique dealer. There are people who collect those things.
Besides the great music, my favorite part is watching the poor captions writer, trying like crazy to figure out what Phil is saying!
NO WAY! I have never seen Phil doing this! What film was this from??
I was wondering the same thing. What film is this?
@@mmitchellhouston "I Love a Bandleader"
Don't forget. He voiced a bear!
Where’s Remley?
I see Frankie Remley playing left handed guitar! Lol
I don't know I love this one but the Chloe version is pretty damn close
Double meanings thruout.
What I was thinking when hearing him singing, "Don't take 1, take 2, they're dark brown and chocolate too." 😄
@@concatinate Good for me and good for you-that's what I like bout the South
Andy Razaf was not talking about food at all when he wrote it.
@@lcs1956 you just gotta figure it out. I got more in common than I do with southern belles. Only wasted about 30 years. Looking back many opportunities I missed. Just Dayum great looking ladies with attitude and smarts if I hadn't been Mr.Dumas. would probably be in a steady relationship today if I had done what I wanted to do instead of listening to everyone else...in the end it's all the same but maybe you're not happy.
Early rap!
What always gets me is people think the bandleader is conducting them during the performance they already work this s*** out in rehearsal and all he's got to do is say go and they're going to play it like they rehearsed it go ask you to say go and walk off stage and the goddamn band would get through it on their own
Satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer took this song (and songs like it) to their extreme. Never realized that he played on lines directly out of this song. Here's his song:
th-cam.com/video/Ra3qnLXmJDM/w-d-xo.html
Came here from The Price of Tides.
Funny that there's not a song that's what I hate about the North considering how many people hate it.
ONE LOUSY REHEARSAL!
Whatt this the shit
Who else is here because of "The Prince of Tides"...?
All this s*** is worked out ahead of time in rehearsal
This was how white supremacists entertain co-white supremacists.
You're an idiot.
Especially considering Phil Wonga Harris was of Native American ancestry!!