Al Jolson and The Yacht Club Boys - "I Love to Singa" - from "The Singing Kid" (1936)
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- In a delightful and elaborate musical number from "The Singing Kid" (1936), the zany singing quartet The Yacht Club Boys descend upon Al Jolson ("Al Jackson" in the movie) and berate him for singing the tired old "Mammy Songs" that Jolson was famous for. The argument proceeds out on to the street to involve dozens of extras. Luther (Lutar) Hoobyar is the operatic vendor. Video looks frozen at the beginning but it's not. For a great little cartoon with the same main song, see the video here:
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It’s hilarious to reimagine this as the suits desperately trying to talk him out of doing blackface
Indeed! How was blackface ever acceptable? Different times! Cute song, though.
It basically was.
The number is a parody on The Minstrel and Southern Soul style fading out in favor of Swing and trying to coax him out of typecasting himself.
I read a TH-cam review in which the [obviously white] commenter claimed the imitation was flattery, so blackface was actually a compliment to Black people. WTF?!?
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@@cdarwIt certainly can be, as it clearly was in Jolson’s case, even if it started out quite the opposite!
It seems the real issue is the stereotypes affecting people’s perception of minorities more than reality, as white men have been the ones allowed to play *anyone* for centuries, while the reverse has not been accepted. (Black people have done blackface, and whiteface, and they generally haven’t been successful with the latter because black people playing white people genuinely upsets white supremacy)
This was Al Jolson’s last starring film as the lead.
The cute owl brought me here
Owl Jolson lol
I'm old enough to remember the owl whose parents wanted him to sing that slow song. Until they loved it on the radio.
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And Cartman brought us to the cute owl, probably
I still love when the cartoon owls sang it!
My favorite cartoon of all time!!!
Gotta admit, "Mammy" is such a sweet lady. She's all cute and comforting tbh
This is going on 100 years old…. Think about that.
A true refection of Jolson's career at this point. His style of singing had become passe. Talkies had long since become a novelty, and new stars, Crosby, Sinatra, et al, were on the ascendant. That said, Jolie still had it, as this clip clearly shows. Still in great voice and would be until the end of his life in 1950.
Yes indeed and only ten years away from ‘The Jolson Story’ in 1946 where Jolie enjoyed a resurgence of his career and was voted America’s top vocalist before he died in 1950.
Yes, he sounds great here.
Jolson was in his prime from 1927 through 1936. After he contracted malaria and had a lung removed overseas in 1943, he sang 4 keys lower. He sang well enough until sometime in 1950.
Sinatra got known from 1939 on.
This is so much different than the cartoon.
drexalexander what cartoon
Merrie melodies “I like to singa”
-Owl Jolson
@@markostermayer3614 or South Park.
@@djbrownsville
South Park was just parodying Owl Johnson with archive audio.
@@user-fg9oy3uo3h haha....of course. come on man.
1) Brilliant melody
2) Brilliant Al Jolson
3) Brilliant choreography
4) Brillian Yacht Club Boys
5) Brilliant arrangement
6) Brilliant suits
7) Brilliant humor
8) Brilliant era
...why did it end so early :(
World War II
7) Blackface
The lyrics, performances, originality, whit, hilarity, and Al's charm are genius. As usual, the pure entertainment value and effort displyed here has vanished completely in present culture. The level of language and musical talent of the past has sank to a simplistic, vile, silly level today.
Now, I really want to hear MAMMY!!
Singing Kid 1936 released by Warner Bros First National stars Jolson as Al Jackson, a radio star who loses his voice and his fiancé but all is well after a retreat into the country where he gets his voice back and a new love. Great musical numbers by Al and the great Cab Calloway and the Yacht Club Boys: a cartoon send up ‘Owl Jolson’ was also created and It’s nice to see Jolson in fine form by this time, 1936 where he seems more relaxed in front of the camera
Wow. They even had music videos way back in 1936!
This isn't a music video. This is from the movie "The Singing Kid"
Taylor Desotell I mean it's a video with music
They did Charlie Brown by the coasters there's one by the chordettes
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Technically it's just one scene cut out from an entire movie musical lol
"hey! Y'all singing about black mammies in here?"
"What if I am? What are you gonna do about it?"
1:20
"oh shi-"
I have seen a lot if Jolson's films but never that number. It's fun, exuberant and actually funny. The Yacht Clib boys remind me of a similar comedy singing group from German cinema and stage in the '20s and '30s (before relocating to America and Britain during the War) -- the The Comedian Harmonists. Wish they'd do more of this comic singing / talking in films, it was always great fun.
LYRICS:
I LOVE TO SINGA
As sung by Al Jolson and the Yacht Club Boys
Music and Lyrics written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
[Transcribed in Vim by ShakespeareCafe]
I love to singa
give me a songa
about a son-a done-a went-a done-a wrong-a
but keep it a-clean-a
with a cottage small by a waterfall
any sob-a that'll throb-a to a bluebird's call I love to
I love to sing
I was born a singing fool-a
La-Di-Da
Major Bowes is gonna spot me
La-Di-Da
got through Yale with Boola Boola
La-Di-Da
Oh, microphone's got me
I love to sing-a
I love to wake up with a South-a in my mouth-a
and wave the flag-a
with a cheer for Uncle Sammy
and another for my Mammy I love to sing
Mammy, Mammy...
STOP!
you love to singa
you'd better stick to moon and june-ah and the spring-a
but not a thing-a
about your old black Mammy
or the shack in Alabam-i
if you're for us please don't bore us with that same old chorus
they'll be murder if there's a word about...
Mammy, Mammy
The thing is nix-a
you can't do that to us in ninteen-thirty-sixa
we're through with Dix-a
people wish that you've forgotten
about your cabin in the cotton
cause the cotton's gotten rotten and the
cabin's good for notten'
I was born a singing foola
La-Di-Da
Mammy, Mammy hold me closer
go to heaven on your mule-a
Sun is out
no sir, no sir, no sir, no sir
I love to sing-a
we'd love to stuff the sunny South-a in your mouth-a
and wave the flag-a
Wth a cheer for Uncle Sammy
But I've gotta have my Mammy or I won't sing
But, Al, those Mammy songs have whiskers and thy're hammy songs
My Mammy may be ham today, she made me what
I am today
You'd suit your public finer if you took your
Carolina and your Mammy and your diner and you hung them neck to neck-a on the Mason-Dixon line-a
But, I don't know from other songs
Why, Al, there's lots of other songs
Songs of Jack and Jilly love
Songs of hilly billy love
He loves her and she loves he
You love you and I love me
songs of sweet eternal love
songs of evening journal love
songs of Warner Brother love
But I wanna sing of mother love
Mammy, Mammy...
Mammy, stay away from his door
Why don't you sing-a
like Rudy Vallee, Lanny Ross-a, or a Bing-a
Be up-to-date-a
Croon a tune of love and bliss-a
with the romance in your kisser
something modern, something gentle
give em something highly mental
Like...
Lookie, lookie, lookie!
You mean, here comes Cookie!
Mammy, Mammy
Say, how about a cheek-to-cheek
a flesh-to-flesh
a beak-to-beak
a neck-to-neck
a you-to-you
an eye for an eye
a tooth for a-tooth
the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth
Look, here's a red, red poppy song
a sure five-million copy song
but I don't want to sing a poppy song
How's about a Mommy song?
why not sing a dreamy song
a dream walking
No
a dream talkin
No
A dream balking
No
a dream squawking
No
A dream fluttering
No
a dream stuttering
No
Keep me
a calm a memento
Keep me drunk
There's an idea
the world is up awfully for crazy now
Puccini's up to daisy now
The low-brows are all coming off and
yelling for Rachmanioff
and chimsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
Tchaikovsky
Boris Godunov
Good enough or bad enough
ain't I got trouble enough
But Hollywood is your bonanza
if you can pull a lilly ponza
Ah Ah Ah Ah
AHHHHH!
Mammy, Mammy
Wait, Al, how about a cheerful little earful
or a graceful little faceful
or a harmful little armful
or a zestful litle chestful
or a gleeful little kneeful
not with the knees
They've got it
we've got it
I've got it
Everybody's got it
you'll certainly regret it
if you die and haven't met it
so if you haven't got it why you've
got to go and get it
we've got it
they've got it
you got it
What?
rhythm rhythm
you get it you get it
you got it you got it
Gotta dance
gotta prance
here's your chance
rhythm rhythm of the bar
rhythm rhythm of the car
rhythm rhythm of the plane
rhythm rhythm of the rain
rhythm of the wave
rhythm of the till
rhythm of the wheel
rhythm of the drill
East Side, West Side
All around the ...
everybody's got St. Vitus
Gotta dance
Everybody's got laryngitis
Gotta dance
Rhythm
Rhythm
Rhythm
Rhythm
It comes in every color
it comes in every size-a
but never double chin-a
or every dreamy eyes-a
rhythm in your knees
rhythm in the air
rhythm to the Z's it's getting in your hair
rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, rhythm
we die for dear old rhythm
Mammy, Mammy
For you I sing-a
For you I wake up with a South-a in my mouth-a
and wave the flag-a
with a cheer for Uncle Sammy
and another for my Mammy...
We love to sing!
[ShakespeareCafe.com]
ShakespeareCafe it's not sun is out it's sunny south
ShakespeareCafe a youth to a youth not a you to a you, it rhymes to tooth and makes sense
This waaaay harder than I thought to sing this shit.....😕
Finally!
Wow! This performance is real talent on display.👌👏
Interesting comment on how much popular culture had changed in the nine years since "The Jazz Singer" (And Al had first sung "Mammy" years earlier than '27). Another Yacht Club Boys song in this referred to the Production Code.
What gorgeous suits!
Everything back then was quality
You wonder how long did it take to shoot this number ? It deserves a special "best technical musical arrangement"...etc. !
Truly marvellous!
The good old days...
The lyrics in this number are a sad reminder that talented writers of today must be hiding, or else they've been forced to work in retail.
retail is that sweet mistresss
They found common ground in rhythm and let him sing what he wanted in the end 😂
This may be the most elaborate dance scene Warner Brothers ever filmed.
"Chi mi frena in tal momento," from "Lucia di Lammermoor"
I missed these old days when Music is a masterpiece.
miss* was a masterpiece*
Me too
This movie is better than some movies that come out today
Indeed!
yeah but that blackface bit would NEVER fly today
@@madhatter6790I’ll make it work
@@XxXxTwofirstnames69420xXxXx how?
One of the "Yacht Club Boys", James V. Kern, later became a producer/director in films and TV.
"And i know i am NOT under alien control!"
Owl Jolson brought me here...
I’m black
Officially 1st time watching this. Maybe I tried avoiding it before bcoz I just want to remember the cartoon version! LoL.
Sept. 2019
There was a cartoon with a little bird that sang this song... We were kids at the time...
th-cam.com/video/2y6CNuffBi0/w-d-xo.html
Owl jolson looney tunes
You can see an annotated clip of this number at
Al Jolson The Singing Kid - I Love To Sing-a
Wow you know I’m italian if I search this after watching the cartoon lmao
What does that have to do with being Italian?
Epic Rap Battle of 1936. Still picture owls when I hear this song though.
Lmbo!...Loved it, up until the last 10 secounds...YIKES!
Written by Harold Arlen (1905-1986) and Edgar Harburg (1896-1981).
Mammy Mammy hold me closer!!! 😂😂😂
Well, they don't make 'em like that any more! lol
Wow , that is a plot twist XD
Al at his best; great musical from 1936
That was awesome!
Wow! That was amazing! The best video I've seen in years.
God bless, Al!
yeah… loved the back face 😒
@@david.1539 Yeah, that was cleverly done.
@@david.1539 It was really common in 1936
Evergreen
I can relate to this.
I saw this for the first time 2 weeks ago and couldn't believe what a delight it was. Can't remember when I've enjoyed anything so much. Glad you enjoyed it. Search for a video called "I Wanna Singa - Owl Jolson" for a great little cartoon rendition of the main song. I may have a link up in the description soon.
The owl version is a well known rendition, almost everyone knows it. Unfortunately, almost no one knowns about this one. Al Jolson is only known for The Jazz Singer, which is not very well known either.
Brilliant
The ending is hilarious
I do agree this is an amazing performance, but my god, this would not fly now adays nor should it
Thank goodness it DOES exist. If you don't like it don't watch it. So tired of all these "better than thou" people running around.
@@tonyultrasound the whole better then thou thing doesnt really apply here, being against racist stuff isnt a better then thou thing its sorta just majority belief
@@tonyultrasoundif i disrespect your people in a way thats extremely insulting, it doesn't mean you think youre better than me by pointing it out & hoping something is done about it in the future.
If you doubt this, mock Islam & the prophet muhammad in the streets of london & see how quickly people will help you understand. If a black kid even whistled at a white woman back then, he might not live to see sunrise yet media companies could insult his black culture in any & every mockable way without consequence.
Its just a respect issue & my people didnt have the power to demand respect back then..to even try to demand anything could spell fatal troubles.
30 years later with hundreds of racist songs, films, cartoons, & lynchings of innocent blacks & finally MLK jr effectively demanded respect as did others who were tired of drinking from "colored fountains", sitting at the back of the bus, & being assaulted for not segregating.
Did MLK think he was better than people by pointing out this bs mistreatment or was it his oppressors who thought themselves better?
Either way, things were still so socially dark that his peaceful protest got him assassinated & many protesters got assaulted for merely saying enough is enough with him.
Do you really shrug all that historic turmoil off just cuz the joke isnt on you & youre inner circle had nothing to fear from the mocking, provoking, & prejudices or are you just too selfish to care about the plight of others until it effects you the way modern day obnoxious woke culture is now oppressing what i presume are your white people?
Why not just do as i do & laugh when its funny but note the offense of minstel show culture while admiring the neutral nostalgia of the era?
Even today in comedy, the best jokes are offensive & i take this as comedy in a way however i do note that my people had little room to object to such & mock back like we do today without fear of extreme consequences like getting cancelled or killed.
Call it karma but the tables have turned & now we both know how it feels to face a biased mob who singles us out by color...if you dont like it, just remember thats why we dont like how we were treated back then. Treat others as youd treat yourself...Jesus said that.
@@Bunny-bb2sd What is racist NOW isn't what was racist THEN.
Blackface was never intended to be abusiver or negative towards black people. Black people were considered as great singers so white people emulated them, their singing and their look.
@@buddhistsympathizer1136 Its racist now because it was racist then, it was created to literally make fun of black people I've literally never heard anyone dispute that before.
4:32 shes got it lol
5:26 "Everybody's got Laryngitis"
"Gotta dance!" Compare the Broadway Melody number in Singing in the Rain.
I think that was a homage.
I feel his pain.
3:25 my guy is looking like he's having veatnam flashback
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
I remember the owl cartoon
Wow that ending...
...was hilarious!
Scott Jacobs I'm going to go with 'Nope' with a side of 'You fail at being funny.'
. . . was a MAJOR anticlimax 😔
Corny, as usual.
What was wrong with it? It's what Al Jolson was popular for with his blackface act with Mammy.
Wait, one of the nay-sayers looks like the bartender in It's A Wonderful Life. Also, the 4 notes they sing for "mammy" sound exactly like how "mammy" and "muqin" is sung in Thoroughly Modern Millie!
2:32 lmfao
Owen jolson and eric cartman
They’re totally under mind control
Yes, they all have Warner Bros. contracts and did what they were told--or else.
"Mammy" won out in the end!
La mujer negra que se ríe al principio , está basada en la negra que sale en Tom y Jerry, y los negritos tambien basados en las caricaturas de merrie melodies
Más bien al revés .... Era la caricatura que se hacía en esa época de los negros.
Fallout??
Back when actor's had talent, not like today's shit.
2:47
This is an excerpt of the NY Times review of this movie. Not only did they not like it, but there wasn't a word about PC or racial issues. Maybe this will persuade the commenters here not to apply the standards of the 21st century to entertainment vehicles made close to 100 years ago. From the Times: "Among its slender store of assets might be numbered Mr. Jolson himself, singing as exuberantly as ever and trying with might and mammy to give zest to an indifferent score and a lifeless script; the Yacht Club Boys, who continue to be our favorite comic quartet, and one pleasantly unreal song and dance sequence staged by Bobby Connolly and taking, as its arena, a city street filled with rhythmic pedestrians and harmonic motorists. Beyond that-Well, beyond that, to be accurate about it, there is so little that it scarcely meets the eye or ear."
Yeah they didn't mention it because being a bigot towards black people was the norm, but that you feel it neccessary to whine about as if the NY Times was or ever has been anything but a guardian of the status quo.
@@TheEvolver311 What NY Times are you reading? The Times I read supports every 'progressive' cause they can find - anything but the status quo. As for being bigoted being some kind of norm, you didn't live in that time and neither did I. And the whole point of this number is that minstrelsy was no longer acceptable in 1936. The Evolver311? More like the devolver.
@@dmiller1000 "what is racist about "black face " on Halloween?" - Megan Kelly 2018 on her NBC daytime talk show. So far in the past. We have a Black man elected president and the premier reactionary response is that he isn't an American citizen and they guy who popularized that conspiratorial claim wins the election right after he leaves office. The NY times doesn't support every progressive policy lol they are centrist corporatist the reactionary rightwing is simply sad that out and out bigotry isn't profitably marketable like has been in the past. Minstrel shows didn't stop until the 1960's but mostly occurred at local theater's and highschool performances, they didn't die off because the country got less racist but because they got dated and replaced by vaudeville shows. To pretend like blackface performance were anything other than portraying black people as dim witted simpletons or worse is ludicrous. Jolson built his career on a nostalgia for black face after the turn of the 19th century, the same people who loved the Jazz singer were the same people who grew up going to minstrels and just had to get that nostalgic itch like people a decade ago with 1980's
@@TheEvolver311 Where is the gain in finding 'racism' under every rock? Racism exists and will continue to exist on some level long after you are dead. It will never disappear but will always be subject to interpretation. So what? I choose to enjoy life, enjoy art, rather judge and condemn everything around me, including this great country. Try it. You might like it.
@@dmiller1000looking for racism under every rock? Yeah that describes a pretty delusional response to black face in media. Go hold hands with the numerous people in the chat singing their love for depiction of black people as subhuman simpletons.
Like choosing to think you're being ridiculed when you're not.
Music's pretty good but even though this was social acceptable, doesn't mean it was okay. Wish there were more movies like this but without the blatant racism
God what a racist awful time, we definitely live in better times then ever but the song is beautiful. Fantastic performance by everyone involved. Although that ending is PAINFULLY stupid. Glad we matured as a society pass this 12 year old mentality shit.
This isn't 12 year old mentality. It's a completely different mentality from most modern day people
@@damoji5332 not many in this comment section from a quick read over just mostly a bunch of people longing for a time when they to could pretend to be black people
I'm here because of South Park.
GREAT ABSOLUTELY JOLLY HAVE SO MUCH FUN.
Yes, being offended is a choice, just like standing up for yourself when you're being ridiculed.
Only 8 black people were lynched in 1936 in the USA
This needs to be played everyday of Black History Month! *_:D_*
@Dreaded88 Really! And your point would be.....????????????
With kindness and love, I believe the message would be just how racist our country was (still is) toward the beautiful African Americans (Mammy being one). Yes, show this to everyone! And then Roots, and then MLK speaking. It violates my soul to see the men lined up shining shoes!! And that was a “good” job.
Maybe a better sensitivity would emerge regarding “black face” if we showed this at least to our youth to let them see what oppression and racism looked like in the 30s.
@@juiianadebeers8230 cringe
@@juiianadebeers8230 the movie itself despite showing blackface was a great step because Al Jolson wanted to show Cab Calloway in the same level as him. It has many of the horrible aspects of the day but that’s how the streets were. It would be great to show where we were and how we can move forward. Jolson was very progressive.
Lmao you buggin
1:35
The owl does it better
South Park?
Owl cartoon for me
Jolie would be kicked off the planet if he was around today.
Says a lot about the planet, really . . .
Help, Help, I'm offended!
Good ole fashioned family racism
Wait...this song is against racism right?
To be fair, Jolson wasn't doing anything back then that wasn't considered socially acceptable entertainment. Would be wrong to single him out. But you didn't find it a little offensive when the car drove through a puddle of mud that resulted in perfect black faces and accentuated lips for Jolson and the Yacht boys? As for singing about pain, despair, and loves, "Mammy" was a slave term given to the slave woman who was put in charge of the white children. So yes, "Mammy" was a very racist song.
No, I didn't find it offensive. It was a comedy vehicle used in the thirties. I don't view the film with a modern eye.
If it offends you, don't watch it. Simple.
@4:45--Is this where the "Hot Chocolate" song from _The Polar Express_ comes from?
0:32, 0:59
Owl Jolson did it much better
Why did they all end up in blackface at the end. Wtf lol.
So racist
Help, help! I'm offended!
They just thought it a clever way to put him in blackface for a gag. It's no more offensive than blackface itself, which doesn't bother me. It was an odd convention of the day. Jolson comes alive in blackface. I bet it projected well on the stage. Why does it have to be considered automatically offensive? Are cross-dressers automatically offensive to women? And what's offensive about an affectionate song about your old black nanny? Which Jolson sang in blackface, I might add?
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Minstrel shows began in the South. White showmen blackened their faces to ridicule blacks. The world has changed a hundred fold since then, though racism survives and always will no matter how many laws are passed.
@@markmiller9579 They blackened their faces to lose themselves in a different persona or to take on a uniform persona with other blackface performers. It rather overstates it to say their purpose was "to ridicule blacks." Even a hugely popular Black entertainer, Bert Williams, worked in black face. When Eddie Murphy was made up as an old Jewish white man he was stunned at how liberating it was to take on an entirely different physical persona.
@@billdavis9612 you must have read your daughter's of the Confederate revisionist history book
@@TheEvolver311 Al Jolson was a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire and had no connection to slavery or the confederacy. Most blackface performers at this time had no connection to the south.
Perhaps, sure. And to your point, there's no shortage of whiners from all walks of life claiming some slight or another, real and imagined. One need look no further than religious folks who cry bloody murder the second someone questions the existence of their god. But I'm inclined to side with blacks in matters like these considering they were subjugated for so long (and fairly recently). But sure, reasonable people can disagree.
you may "side with blacks" on this,but theyre not siding with you.i know plenty of black friends of mine who wouldnt even consider being offended by blackface.i gotta side with cragarrows,you being offended by a movie that was made 76 years ago is your choice.i could watch this whole movie today with black friends of mine who would laugh and cry at the same parts i do, whereas in 1936 i wouldnt even be sitting in the same part of the theatre. things change for the better, dont dwell in the past
E McGuire but then again al jolson did care for black rights and even demanded cab calloway get as much recognition and respect as or he was walking out on the movie and many black people enjoyed al jolson so yeah i can agree with al and you
Hold on now a black friend swears it
How racist is this?!!!! This is not the past, it is the present & the future! Not a goddamn thing has changed!!!!
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it’s the black face for me 😑
There are so many bad things about this.
Then don't watch it
Don't like my comment, don't read it.@@buddhistsympathizer1136
@@calsavestheworld I loved your comment. And you have the right to express your opinion as you see fit . . . for now anyway
@@buddhistsympathizer1136 The world is saved again.
The owl sang it better
I think that the South Park characters did it justice. lol
Because we know some much more now? I think Al Jolson gets a raw deal. Here's someone who literally takes on the color of the Black race and sings about pain, despair, loves, and fears. What's actually bad about that?
How about the people he is painting himself up to mimic find it at a minimum deeply disrespectful.
@@TheEvolver311 Funny, black comedians of the time worked in whiteface and it doesn't bother me at all. The portrayal of blacks in a minstrel show was infinitely more positive that the portrayal one finds in gangsta rap.
@@billdavis9612 Take a look at all the black shuck and jive that happened on TV in the late 70's and 80's....and actually continues to this day. I'll take a blackface minstrel show over this crap any day....and, by the way, I'm Creole.
Wow, people used to consider this garbage "entertainment"?
I'm a minority in other ways, but I don't go around cultivating and cataloging all the various ways the past and current culture is offensive and insensitive to me. Being offended is a choice. Too many blacks think walking around being offended is part of their identity, so much so they do it automatically. I accept that people are different. If this movie was suppressed because of instances of blackface, then they also deprived the world of some great Cab Calloway performances.
Most black people are not like this at all actually. I think this is another kind of ignorance ironically, because so many people want to speak for the whole of black people, when most of us are really just keeping to ourselves and living our lives. This video is a product of its time; people should accept it for what it is. I think a lot of it actually has to do with the Hayes Code of 1934, which was one of Hollywood's first steps in targeting media considered to be "problematic". Many amazing cartoons from animation's golden age were also banned for decades thanks to it. All that aside, opportunists will always try to profit off our past though, regardless of their individual skin color. Cheers 🍻
People really need to get over being offended by EVERYTHING!!! It wasn't "racist" at the time, and, by the way, blacks performed in blackface also. So tired of all the snowflakes being offended and thinking how morally superior they are. Just shut up. Idiots!
lmfao This is definitely racist, but it's an awesome scene! Gotta love black people :)
thomcat2415 al did it to spread black culture and many black ppl accepted him and thanked him even cab calloway
Patronizingly racist but no one seemed to know better back then.
gotta be the most racist thing ive seen in a long, long time--LAUGHED TILL I CRIED!!!!!
WOW people thought like that!.......incredible to think we EVER won a war!!!
Al at his best; great musical from 1936