+guts knucklebone Technically all of the bananas are clones of one banana, planted a special way. That is why they have no seeds, and that is how the disease was so devastating. I wish some geneticists would put their talents to good use and create a genetically modified/engineered Gros Michel that is immune to the fungus. (and the new fungus as well) We DO have the technology to do it, and there are actually Gros Michel banana plants and bananas left on the planet, however rare they are.
The gros michel isn't extinct. It's just not viable commercially because the larger the crop, the more susceptible it is to disease. For about $30 on amazon you can have a sapling sent to you to grow one yourself, and (excluding Panama Disease, which is mostly limited to south america) from what I've heard it's a pretty hardy plant.
I came here because I’m bringing back the “Gentleman “ look, mentality, and work ethic. Just figured I’d see what great minds were listening to 100 years ago..
I remember my great aunt singing this to me and my cousins back when I was a kid in the 90's. We would go swimming in the river near our family cabin in the Texas hill country and she would be floating along in her inner tube singing it. Good memories.
My grandmother wrote the lyrics of this song as a poem that won a prize in her school and was published in the news paper in Pittsburgh, PA. The family story is that the songwriter came through town, saw the lyrics and wrote the music. It was then recorded and became a huge hit. My grandmother, Ruth Michels never saw a dime.
I'm not sure. It's a story that was told in my family for many years. She was born in 1910 and was in elementary school -up to 8th grade at the time, as I understand it. I've been researching this for awhile. She passed away in the 1970's.
have you ever tried looking through historical archives in the area? you may be able to find either the actual news paper or at least a microfiche copy to give some veracity to the story. You would be surprised how far back you can find newspapers in history centers. One in a small town i lived in had the local papers all the way back to pre civil war era
also being from a town that's very proud of preserving its history like Pittsburgh, the odds of not finding a preserved copy of the papers from that time frame are slim. So in reality it should be a fairly simple, though time consuming process to verify the story. Dont mean to doubt you but many people claim to have a relative that helped write this song and you seem to have a potentially easy way to back yours.
My grandmother used to sing this song to me and my sisters and I sang it to mine. Now I get to sing it with my grand babies. This song deserves a lifetime achievement award for still being well known almost 100 years later!!!
This makes me smile and tear up at the same time. I remember my Grandpa going around, singing and humming this as long as I can remember. He went Home in 1997, and I miss him so much. ❤🤟🏻
We were taught this song in school in the 1970s in New York City at a very artsy school. I sing it to my husband all the time. It’s one of many zany songs we happily sang out in music class at my old school. We learned many old American show tunes and standards and I pretty much know them all still. I’m 55 and a woman, not a dad!
This was a favorite of Queen Mary (1867-1953), grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Despite her dignified exterior, she sang along to it in private with family and friends.
"So copyright has [definitely] expired according to US copyright regulations." Yeah, as of TODAY. However, in 2013 it was still under protection. Happy public domain day!
This was a number one song in 1923. Billy Jones teamed up with Ernest Hare and Hare and Jones became one of the most popular duets during the very early days of radio in the 1920s. In fact; Hare and Jones were thought to be the highest paid entertainers on radio for a time in the 1920s. They truly do deserve to be remembered better today.
My friend John referred to this when I told him to have banana on toast. I thought he was mad. He is. But it turns out he's right as well because I now have 'that tune' stuck in my head. I'm smiling about it tho, it's good to have friends that bring a little joy into our lives, bananas or no bananas.
What memories. My grandma and grandad still had their crank phonograph player when I was growing up in the seventies. I used to love playing these records. My grandad was born in the 1800s so it was new fangled for him lol.
A resident at the nursing home I work at was pissed when we were out of bananas and started singing this...then I watched "A River Runs Through It" like 2 days later and heard a guy singing it and realized it was a real song...was a weird coincidence from my perspective. The universe wanted me to hear this song. Good lookin out universe, this song is sweet.
Band director in middle school had this as a piece we'd play, and another called "Choo Choo Cha Cha Cha." Obviously we thought he was mad. This is a cool tune almost a hundred years old. So it only took me 15 odd years to look it up.
The February 12, 1924 concert by Paul Whiteman at New York’s Aeolian Hall was billed as “An Experiment in Modern Music.” As reported by New York Times critic Olin Downes, who attended the event, “the concert was referred to as ‘educational,’ to show the development of this type of music [jazz].” and while the playlist shows "Yes! We have no bananas" being performed The concert is now best remembered for being the setting for the world premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, with composer George Gershwin at the piano. As Times critic John S. Wilson wrote in 1987, “this concert is today considered a defining event of the Jazz Age and the cultural history of New York City.”
It’s a double joke about lovingly hoodwinking the customer/listener….”yes, we don’t have TWO red herrings!” The Power of Positive Thinking was alive and well for that immigrant entrepreneur. Me mum loved contradictory humor like this! Thank you, n78de, for giving us this recording. Singers like Luis Prima don't compare!
100 year anniversary of this song, "Yes! We Have No Bananas"! If you like this song, you might like Eddie Cantor's "I've Got the Yes We Have No Bananas Blues" from the same year.
justforever96 Oh, no you mistaken me, I wasnt even looking for the song, I was reading about these certain bananas on wiki being extinct coz I read somewhere why the taste of banana flavoured things were so different and someone said its based off this banana thats gone extinct so I searched it on wiki and it referenced this song so I looked it up and was like oh this is THAT song. Hope you understand, whatever floats your banana boat :D
one of my alltime favetunes ..... it sums up those who agree to some arrangement by saying "YES" - which in reality means "maybe / possibly / erm? / yes - i think" .... etc.
My curiosity about this song was piqued after this song was in two movies I watched on TCM today, A RIver Runs Through It and The English Patient. Good movies, silly song. I guess this was the Ring Ring Ring Ring bananaphone of its day.
“Sunrise.... sunset.... Cat‘s in the cradle and the silver spoon... yes, they have no bananas!” - Homer Simpson while Bart was preparing for his first date.
Actually Disney is one of the biggest perpetrators of this insane extensions to the copyright law. Every time one of the characters created by Walt Disney gets close to the expiration date, they lobby Congress to extend it. The original intent of the Constitutional protection of patents and copyrights was for "limited times." (Article I, Section 8). However, what is considered "limited" is never defined in the Constitution. So Congress and the Supreme Court are left to decide. Lifetime of the author + 75 years seems a bit much considering how long people live now vs. the 18th century.
The late US Rep. Sony Bono R-CA and the NYC Schubert organization share blame with Walt Disney Corp. for the insane corporate copyright greed. And I write as a journalist and author!
The original composition is in public domain, but the recording is a different matter. Audio recordings were not included in copyright law until 1972. Copyright does not apply to recordings prior to 1972, so they can never fall into public domain. Whoever owns the Emerson catalog at this point still has full ownership of this recording.
Math teacher sent this to our whole class on the last day; we had a kid that kept on bringing bananas to class in a metal container rather than just in the pell like a normal person
THE BANANA STORY. Ever since I can remember, my mother would always sing, "Yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today." I never actually heard the song but I always thought it was funny. A customer came into my gas station the other day and wanted bananas but we only has one brown banana that he was not interested in. I told him that it's like the song my mother used to sing. I played it for him on my phone and heard it for the first time ever and he, my co-worker and myself, all laughed our asses off, when we heard the beginning. I called my mother to tell her and she loved it! I'll always remember this. ❤🍌
In the early 1920s, a fungal disease which afflicted bananas spread across South and Central America. The disease, known as Panama disease, became so pervasive that banana shortages became widespread. The shortages were so widespread that Musicians Frank Silver and Irvin Cohn wrote this song in which a fruit stand vendor repeatedly informs his customers they have no bananas today.
It's a shame that "AdShare MG for a Third Party" keeps violating US coyright law without issueing a certificate of the "Third Party". It is also a shame that TH-cam forbids further objection!. How to fight against that kind of copyright frauds? "Good bye TH-cam"?
@Conservatards In the US's copyright law, it's not as simple as that. The copyright for works created between 1923 and 1963 is 95 years after the publication of the work itself, and is not Life + 70 years. As this was published in 1923, the composition is now in the public domain. However, historical uncertainties about phonographic copyright of actual recordings and the recent Music Modernization Act means that this actual recording from 1923 is probably still copyrighted until 2024, which is ridiculous.
Just an fyi to the poster of this video, it is 90 years from original publishing in the u.s., not 75. This song just hit public domain jan1, 2019. It has been like 20 years since a copyright expired due to time limit instead of being allowed to expire
That's a great old recording. I don't hear any scratchy surface noise. No doubt it was recorded orthophonically, not electronically. Back then, they sang, talked, and played instruments into an orthophone, a horn which vibrated a needle cutting grooves in a wax disc.
Me! Sabrina brought me here too! I have watched that movie over and over again along with Roman Holiday from 1953. Audrey was sensational in that movie too!
A whole school of fish escaped into the public domain at last, in 2019... which is why the record companies rushed into law a extension of music copyright to 125 years so none of their prizes will escape before any of your children have died of old age.
I remember hearing this from A tom and jerry cartoon which is the human versions of them and they drew fruits or vegtables or both that sang this song and I have been hearing this since I was A child and now 25 I have finally found the version I have always been familiar with
My dad always randomly sings “Yes, we have no bananas” and I am glad I finally decided to search it up. Legend.
This is usually my dad’s answer if anyone asks for a banana. Finally looked it up after 30+ years.
Do all dads sing this song when they hear their kids use a double negative? Hilarious
Mine too!
Same!
My Dad too! Still makes me laugh.
thank u shane madej
LOL that man stroke my curiosity and here we are
Same. We're so lame
I've been waiting for 93 years and they still have no bananas today.
+guts knucklebone Technically all of the bananas are clones of one banana, planted a special way. That is why they have no seeds, and that is how the disease was so devastating. I wish some geneticists would put their talents to good use and create a genetically modified/engineered Gros Michel that is immune to the fungus. (and the new fungus as well) We DO have the technology to do it, and there are actually Gros Michel banana plants and bananas left on the planet, however rare they are.
The gros michel isn't extinct. It's just not viable commercially because the larger the crop, the more susceptible it is to disease. For about $30 on amazon you can have a sapling sent to you to grow one yourself, and (excluding Panama Disease, which is mostly limited to south america) from what I've heard it's a pretty hardy plant.
Nice fanfiction. Why aren't you published yet?
lol
My comments are all still there lol.
I came here because I’m bringing back the “Gentleman “ look, mentality, and work ethic. Just figured I’d see what great minds were listening to 100 years ago..
Finally entered the public domain as of New Years.
Yes, we have no copyright.
I remember my great aunt singing this to me and my cousins back when I was a kid in the 90's. We would go swimming in the river near our family cabin in the Texas hill country and she would be floating along in her inner tube singing it. Good memories.
sounds delightful!
My grandmother wrote the lyrics of this song as a poem that won a prize in her school and was published in the news paper in Pittsburgh, PA. The family story is that the songwriter came through town, saw the lyrics and wrote the music. It was then recorded and became a huge hit. My grandmother, Ruth Michels never saw a dime.
+Lisa Craze What year did your grandmother wrote this song and how did she come up with the idea?
+Lisa Craze Which songwriter? The song is attributed to two people.
I'm not sure. It's a story that was told in my family for many years. She was born in 1910 and was in elementary school -up to 8th grade at the time, as I understand it. I've been researching this for awhile. She passed away in the 1970's.
have you ever tried looking through historical archives in the area? you may be able to find either the actual news paper or at least a microfiche copy to give some veracity to the story. You would be surprised how far back you can find newspapers in history centers. One in a small town i lived in had the local papers all the way back to pre civil war era
also being from a town that's very proud of preserving its history like Pittsburgh, the odds of not finding a preserved copy of the papers from that time frame are slim. So in reality it should be a fairly simple, though time consuming process to verify the story. Dont mean to doubt you but many people claim to have a relative that helped write this song and you seem to have a potentially easy way to back yours.
My grandmother used to sing this song to me and my sisters and I sang it to mine. Now I get to sing it with my grand babies. This song deserves a lifetime achievement award for still being well known almost 100 years later!!!
This makes me smile and tear up at the same time.
I remember my Grandpa going around, singing and humming this as long as I can remember.
He went Home in 1997, and I miss him so much.
❤🤟🏻
We were taught this song in school in the 1970s in New York City at a very artsy school. I sing it to my husband all the time. It’s one of many zany songs we happily sang out in music class at my old school. We learned many old American show tunes and standards and I pretty much know them all still. I’m 55 and a woman, not a dad!
My 91-year-old Grandpa sings this when I ask if we have bananas. :3
That's cute tho
Same!!!
Surface noise is so minimal.... It sounds great.....loud and clear! I like this version!!!
My Dad, born in 1921 loved to sing this song, perhaps it was his lullaby
My Grandad used to sing this. Love it.
This was a favorite of Queen Mary (1867-1953), grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Despite her dignified exterior, she sang along to it in private with family and friends.
Var queen Mary diligent Johan Lönroth?
No one cares.
"So copyright has [definitely] expired according to US copyright regulations."
Yeah, as of TODAY. However, in 2013 it was still under protection. Happy public domain day!
This was a number one song in 1923. Billy Jones teamed up with Ernest Hare and Hare and Jones became one of the most popular duets during the very early days of radio in the 1920s. In fact; Hare and Jones were thought to be the highest paid entertainers on radio for a time in the 1920s. They truly do deserve to be remembered better today.
Heard this all growing up, never knew what it was. Good to finally know!
My 90-y/o Dad sings this song to his pugs all the time.
My friend John referred to this when I told him to have banana on toast. I thought he was mad. He is. But it turns out he's right as well because I now have 'that tune' stuck in my head. I'm smiling about it tho, it's good to have friends that bring a little joy into our lives, bananas or no bananas.
i can't stop listening to this song
TH-cam respecting fair use or copyright expiration? That'll be the day when we got bananas.
As of 1 January 2019, this is PD in the USA.
I thought my gran was crazy for saying it was a song when I heard her singing "Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today".
5/5 pretty gud.
I've been wondering who sang this for YEARS & finally found it TODAY! Thanks so much for the upload.
1 January 2019, and this song is finally in Public Domain in the USA!
Yes! we have no copyright infringement.
Erik G Actually, yes! As of January 1st, 2019, this song is under public domain!
Oh really??! Just ask, (during seance) Larry Flynt!!
When I was a young boy my dear Mom sang this song to me.
mine too
This song had a second wave of popularity during WW2 due to food rationing and curtailed imports.
Most likely a response to the Panama disease wiping out banana crops.
@@h7opolo That would be very farsighted of them, considering that didn't happen until the 1950s.
What memories. My grandma and grandad still had their crank phonograph player when I was growing up in the seventies. I used to love playing these records. My grandad was born in the 1800s so it was new fangled for him lol.
We had an old player piano with rolls you put in and one of the tunes was this. It was great.
Buzzfeed Unsolved anyone?
I knew the song beforehand (Because of the Three Stooges episode "Yes We Have No Bonanzas") but yeah I'm here from the Agatha Christie episode.
March, 2024 There's a banana shortage in the UK. It made me think of this old song my grandma sang😂❤ Thanks for sharing this.
Thumbs up if you came here from Buzzfeed Unsolved
A resident at the nursing home I work at was pissed when we were out of bananas and started singing this...then I watched "A River Runs Through It" like 2 days later and heard a guy singing it and realized it was a real song...was a weird coincidence from my perspective. The universe wanted me to hear this song. Good lookin out universe, this song is sweet.
Band director in middle school had this as a piece we'd play, and another called "Choo Choo Cha Cha Cha."
Obviously we thought he was mad. This is a cool tune almost a hundred years old.
So it only took me 15 odd years to look it up.
In 2019, this song will enter the public domain.
and here we are
The February 12, 1924 concert by Paul Whiteman at New York’s Aeolian Hall was billed as “An Experiment in Modern Music.” As reported by New York Times critic Olin Downes, who attended the event, “the concert was referred to as ‘educational,’ to show the development of this type of music [jazz].” and while the playlist shows "Yes! We have no bananas" being performed The concert is now best remembered for being the setting for the world premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, with composer George Gershwin at the piano. As Times critic John S. Wilson wrote in 1987, “this concert is today considered a defining event of the Jazz Age and the cultural history of New York City.”
Homer Simpsons: Yes! We have no bananas
It’s a double joke about lovingly hoodwinking the customer/listener….”yes, we don’t have TWO red herrings!” The Power of Positive Thinking was alive and well for that immigrant entrepreneur. Me mum loved contradictory humor like this! Thank you, n78de, for giving us this recording. Singers like Luis Prima don't compare!
I find this appealing ;)
(seeing sign that said "Copyrighted, looks at Calendar)
...Not Anymore.
Looks like we've got some Bananas starting *Today*.
It's 2023 now, hard to believe this song has lasted so long.
Thank God for public domain. 🥰
When I was little my Nana would play this on her old Motorola and just laugh. Miss her.
Welcome to the public domain
Yes!!! Thank you!!!
100 year anniversary of this song, "Yes! We Have No Bananas"!
If you like this song, you might like Eddie Cantor's "I've Got the Yes We Have No Bananas Blues" from the same year.
My mum loved this big memories
My grandparents sing this I love this
Now I’m playing this in band. And yes, we have no bananas today!
This is the new rick roll
Absolute best song ever!!!
2020 remix: yes we have no toilet paper.
Brilliant. Next step is to create the rest of the lyrics. !
my mom sings this and finally I managed to find my way here checking about the bananas that went extinct on wiki
MiuNya Might have been easier and faster just to type in "we have no banannas today" into the google search bar...but, whatever floats yer boat...
justforever96 Oh, no you mistaken me, I wasnt even looking for the song, I was reading about these certain bananas on wiki being extinct coz I read somewhere why the taste of banana flavoured things were so different and someone said its based off this banana thats gone extinct so I searched it on wiki and it referenced this song so I looked it up and was like oh this is THAT song. Hope you understand, whatever floats your banana boat :D
Love this🎉😂
Perfect!!!
Straight Bioshock music
^
Bioshock music?
This was the first oldies song my boyfriend stumped me on. :-)
It’s in the public domain now. No copyright. I’m so happy 😁😁😁😁😁
one of my alltime favetunes ..... it sums up those who agree to some arrangement by saying "YES" - which in reality means "maybe / possibly / erm? / yes - i think" .... etc.
My curiosity about this song was piqued after this song was in two movies I watched on TCM today, A RIver Runs Through It and The English Patient. Good movies, silly song. I guess this was the Ring Ring Ring Ring bananaphone of its day.
“Sunrise.... sunset.... Cat‘s in the cradle and the silver spoon... yes, they have no bananas!” - Homer Simpson while Bart was preparing for his first date.
100 years ago today this song was published!
I first heard this on the Dr. Demento album: First Century Dementia. It's absolutely hilarious! One of the first novelty albums if I'm not mistaken.
Handel's Messiah + My Bonnie lies Over the Ocean
What is your avatar source pls?
Bravo!
I remember singing this song with the whole assembly on stage
Actually Disney is one of the biggest perpetrators of this insane extensions to the copyright law. Every time one of the characters created by Walt Disney gets close to the expiration date, they lobby Congress to extend it. The original intent of the Constitutional protection of patents and copyrights was for "limited times." (Article I, Section 8). However, what is considered "limited" is never defined in the Constitution. So Congress and the Supreme Court are left to decide. Lifetime of the author + 75 years seems a bit much considering how long people live now vs. the 18th century.
The late US Rep. Sony Bono R-CA and the NYC Schubert organization share blame with Walt Disney Corp. for the insane corporate copyright greed. And I write as a journalist and author!
It’s called the Mickey Mouse protection act of 1998. I’m so mad because if it wasn’t for that Stardust would be in the public domain already
wunderbar
The original composition is in public domain, but the recording is a different matter. Audio recordings were not included in copyright law until 1972. Copyright does not apply to recordings prior to 1972, so they can never fall into public domain. Whoever owns the Emerson catalog at this point still has full ownership of this recording.
Menitoned in David Niven's the The Moon's a Balloon in his first encounter with Nessie ... available on Audio books read by author.
This song is now officially in the public domain!
Math teacher sent this to our whole class on the last day; we had a kid that kept on bringing bananas to class in a metal container rather than just in the pell like a normal person
We need a metal cover version of this
i had no idea that this song was almost 100 years old!
Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset...
I love that song too. Fiddler on the Roof was a great movie with fantastic music!
THE BANANA STORY.
Ever since I can remember, my mother would always sing, "Yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today." I never actually heard the song but I always thought it was funny.
A customer came into my gas station the other day and wanted bananas but we only has one brown banana that he was not interested in. I told him that it's like the song my mother used to sing. I played it for him on my phone and heard it for the first time ever and he, my co-worker and myself, all laughed our asses off, when we heard the beginning. I called my mother to tell her and she loved it! I'll always remember this. ❤🍌
Its public domain as of today!
Public domain here we come!
In the early 1920s, a fungal disease which afflicted bananas spread across South and Central America. The disease, known as Panama disease, became so pervasive that banana shortages became widespread. The shortages were so widespread that Musicians Frank Silver and Irvin Cohn wrote this song in which a fruit stand vendor repeatedly informs his customers they have no bananas today.
I am from the future!!! You still have no bananas.
It's a shame that "AdShare MG for a Third Party" keeps violating US coyright law without issueing a certificate of the "Third Party".
It is also a shame that TH-cam forbids further objection!.
How to fight against that kind of copyright frauds? "Good bye TH-cam"?
@Conservatards In the US's copyright law, it's not as simple as that. The copyright for works created between 1923 and 1963 is 95 years after the publication of the work itself, and is not Life + 70 years. As this was published in 1923, the composition is now in the public domain. However, historical uncertainties about phonographic copyright of actual recordings and the recent Music Modernization Act means that this actual recording from 1923 is probably still copyrighted until 2024, which is ridiculous.
Saw the lyrics in an Archie comics from the 50's had to look it up
Just an fyi to the poster of this video, it is 90 years from original publishing in the u.s., not 75. This song just hit public domain jan1, 2019. It has been like 20 years since a copyright expired due to time limit instead of being allowed to expire
That's a great old recording. I don't hear any scratchy surface noise. No doubt it was recorded orthophonically, not electronically. Back then, they sang, talked, and played instruments into an orthophone, a horn which vibrated a needle cutting grooves in a wax disc.
Great post! I learned something new today! I always wondered how recordings were made back almost 100 years ago!
I’m here from the latest Half as Interesting video
When you're playing as UK in hoi4 and this pops up
How many versions of this song are there?😂 This one’s my favorite, I dig the conversational phrasing. Also this dude sounds like the Buggles singer.
Online delivery order today-and we got no bananas, at least we could sing a funny song!
Sabrina brought me here 😆💗 anyone loves this movie ?
Me! Sabrina brought me here too! I have watched that movie over and over again along with Roman Holiday from 1953. Audrey was sensational in that movie too!
Yes! We Have No Toilet Paper 2020!
Weird hearing music that is a century old
Oh god I remember this song! I think it was used in a Disney short once!
A whole school of fish escaped into the public domain at last, in 2019... which is why the record companies rushed into law a extension of music copyright to 125 years so none of their prizes will escape before any of your children have died of old age.
i have this record except its Silver and Cohn. FURMAN AND NASH Tenor and baritone
Yes Asda have no bananas today, why ???!!
I remember hearing this from A tom and jerry cartoon which is the human versions of them and they drew fruits or vegtables or both that sang this song and I have been hearing this since I was A child and now 25 I have finally found the version I have always been familiar with
But in this day of fearful food buying--March 2020 ....we HAVE bananas. YAY!
Today is November 18th, 2019....still no bananas
"Sabrina" brought me here xD
Oh Linus...