I remember hearing this song in old movies, but since "Young Frankenstein" I only see Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle tap dancing.
@Reno_Slim
Жыл бұрын
Every time I hear this song, I can only hear Peter Boyle in the creature's voice saying "Puttin' on the Ritz".
@_LVC
Жыл бұрын
Best version 🧟♂️
@brettkenschaft4239
Жыл бұрын
"Super duper!"
@primusfan87
Жыл бұрын
After hearing this song on Young Frankenstien, i made it my goal to find this song on youtube
@WmTRiker
Жыл бұрын
@@Reno_Slim "Ooper Duper!"
@randytorres8211
Жыл бұрын
This was originally written in 1929 by legendary composer Irving Berlin ("God Bless America"). Harry Richman introduced it in the 1930 movie musical Puttin' on the Ritz and had a #1 hit. It famously became a hit for Fred Astaire in 1946 when he performed it in the movie Blue Skies. Taco pays homage to Astaire by including a tap-dance solo in the middle of the song. The expression "Puttin' On The Ritz" means to dress fashionably. The saying comes from the upscale Ritz-Carlton hotel company. The well-known version is about the upper-crust citizens of New York's glitzy Park Avenue, but the song has a racially charged backstory. In the 1930s it was fashionable for affluent white folks to go "slumming" in Harlem, a poor black neighborhood where the jazz scene was hot. The original lyrics, heard when the song was performed throughout that decade, reference the locals who pretended to be wealthy by donning their flashy duds (i.e. puttin' on the ritz) and hanging out on Lenox Avenue in Harlem: Have you seen the well-to-do Up on Lenox Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare, With their noses in the air? High hats and colored collars, White spats and fifteen dollars. Spending every dime For a wonderful time The story continues with Lulubelle hitting the town every Thursday (Lulubelle was a slang term for black maids and Thursdays were typically their nights off). The lyrics also mention the "Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns from down the levee." High browns refers to light-skinned African Americans. Another Berlin tune, "Let's Go Slumming on Park Avenue," flips the narrative and has Harlemites descending on the swank avenue to spy on the rich ("They do it, why can't we do it, too?"). Not everyone bought into the slumming fad, though. In the high society spoof "The Lady is a Tramp," the title lady refuses to go to Harlem driving "Lincolns or Fords" or dressing in "ermine and pearls." Taco's entire repertoire was comprised of older songs including some by jazz bandleader Glenn Miller and show tune writer George Gershwin. He played the role of "Chico" in a Marx Brothers stage show in Germany (Songfacts.com)
@Motown-1966
Жыл бұрын
Interesting that Taco would also have dancers in blackface in the video version of the song. I know it was the fashion back in the 'Golden Age of Hollywood,' but he needn't included that aspect (black faced dancers that is) in 1980s. I did a YT search for it but it's been scrubbed of that version. I did, however, come across this video commentary 'bout it here for reference: kzitem.info/news/bejne/mJmpvqR3s4mWknY
@ShaunHensley
Жыл бұрын
@@Motown-1966 It was included as a way to instruct the 80's generation of historical racism. Sometimes you have to do something in order to highlight it. Your willingness to sanitize everything is only going to lead to a weak and vulnerable population. Then again, perhaps that's what you want
@dedfishermen985
Жыл бұрын
If I wanna do blackface, I am going to, NO ONE will stop me, I’ve seen White Chicks
@supertrexandroidx
Жыл бұрын
@@Motown-1966 Yeah, not something hardly anyone under 50 is going to much care about. Plenty enough real problems to worry about these days ;)
@ReneeBishop369
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Randy! I so want to learn more about this era now
@wompa70
Жыл бұрын
I’ve said it before, nothing was off the table in the 80s. I remember watching this performance on TV.
@jco207
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 So true.
@annahanguiano8931
Жыл бұрын
That's what I loved so much about the 80's. It was wild!
@whiterabbit75
Жыл бұрын
The original video was was certainly something else.
@ninja_tony
Жыл бұрын
It's wild that you just reacted to this today of all days, because I hadn't heard the song in years, but just got it stuck in my head last night and looked it up lol. I knew you would both get a kick out of it, especially Lex. It's just such a feel good, energetic song that automatically makes you smile as soon as it comes on.
@Pilutta100
Жыл бұрын
Hysterical, and I actually liked it at the time. Mostly because he was so over the top and to me that is always amazing. 🤘🤗
@geoculus5606
Жыл бұрын
You don't now, though?
@Pilutta100
Жыл бұрын
@@geoculus5606 I do. I worded it wrong.
@debinull3511
Жыл бұрын
This was the first I ever heard of Taco and he is very talented.
@barbarabrown733
Жыл бұрын
This version of the song was really popular globally in the '80s. There were many musical fashions that looked back to the "good old days." This was a very good example of the trends back then. The idea of the darkness behind the organ synth is because, in the original video, it contrasted Taco's tuxedo-clad character with the have-nots. This was probably because the song came out in 1929, the same year the Depression started. Lots of folks who used to have a lot didn't anymore, and those who never had much to begin with suffered even more depreviation . But Taco is nodding to an entire generation here, who lived through it, danced through it, and made all the way to the 1980s!
@jamesshort8660
Жыл бұрын
I believe those were Irving Berlin songs. He was a composer back in the 20s and 30s which is why it sounds like it does they were going for that mood
@redsmoker37
Жыл бұрын
This was such an odd mid-80s one-hit-wonder. How an old song from the 20s, re-popularized in the 40s, and then the 1974 Young Frankenstein moment made a crazy resurgence here, who the hell knows. But this did get a lot of MTV and radio play for a few months there.
@Tijuanabill
Жыл бұрын
1980s: "We need an electronic cover version of some pre-world war 2 music. Can we make the solo part just tap dancing?" 1980s: "Yes, of course. The sign says anything goes. This way to the charts."
@21stcenturyhiphop
Жыл бұрын
"Sniffs coke..."
@Tijuanabill
Жыл бұрын
@@21stcenturyhiphop 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
@vaskylark
Жыл бұрын
Beleive it or not this song was all over the radio on pop stations even.
@danmayne3458
Жыл бұрын
its like a bad dream when you fall asleep during a black and white movie
@lisemzarate4029
Жыл бұрын
Please be Taco and a back up dancer next Halloween, 😳🥰😯😁🎀😎 Can you picture Brad all decked in a classic tux with tails,a cane,and top hat ,Lex in the sparkly white costume, with her cane too, holy cow, even if no one gets the reference, so adorable!!!!😲
@ninja_tony
Жыл бұрын
I love it! Heck, even if no one gets the reference, they can just tell everyone they're the King and Queen of Clearwater lol
@lisemzarate4029
Жыл бұрын
@@ninja_tony 😂😁😎
@whiterabbit75
Жыл бұрын
The cane definitely has to light up, though.
@fl350r
Жыл бұрын
The detail in the song and video is epic.
@ditsiwt
Жыл бұрын
In the 80s, for some reason this was played multiple times a day, on different radio stations on Halloween (Not the Young Frankenstein version).
@jkbezo1
Жыл бұрын
It is experimental music. New wave music from Germany like Falco. With some funky synths techno. It is a cover of a very old song from the 1920s. There is a actual music video for this song which is kind of spooky when we were little. Watch in in your own time. "Singing in the Rain" is his other video to watch.
@user-cs4fg1rm5k
Жыл бұрын
You probably don't wanna watch the video since it has the infamous blackface scene. Also, I do believe he's originally Indonesian.
@jkbezo1
Жыл бұрын
@@user-cs4fg1rm5k I did see the videos many years ago as a kid. 1980s. On MTV
@joy88867
Жыл бұрын
This was so awesome! I remember hearing this song on the radio but I never saw it performed! Excellent!
@moorek1967
Жыл бұрын
You should see this in Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and the Monster are singing and everytime he was to say "puttin' on the ritz" he sounded like "puuuuhhnnn ooooon riiiiiiizz"
@brettkenschaft4239
Жыл бұрын
That's all I can hear now with this song 🤣
@charlessalzman4377
Жыл бұрын
If you're going to use Wilder's name you should at least throw out Peter Boyle's name as well 😆. So many good actors in that film. So many of them taken away from us.
@moorek1967
Жыл бұрын
@@charlessalzman4377 I had forgotten what it was...lol. You are correct but at the time of the typing the comment, I just could not think of his name.
@charlessalzman4377
Жыл бұрын
@@moorek1967 It's all good, thus the laughing emoji. Wilder is definitely more iconic.
@woodymeadows9363
Жыл бұрын
Man, I remember this. It was a HUGE song.
@trailcameralakeloon
Жыл бұрын
When I grow up I am going to name my first born son Taco.
@joemachine4714
Жыл бұрын
I hope your last name is "Supreme"
@ReneeBishop369
Жыл бұрын
This song makes me think of old movies like ““Weekend at the Waldorf” where they all dance in some exquisite ballroom. ❤️
@brianbarnett1004
Жыл бұрын
Havnt heard this is many years. Some how I remember this being so much more fun? Loved this song when it came out
@julienielsen4462
Жыл бұрын
This was huge in the 80s I had the mixed album when I was in elementary school.
@Gretzelpolanco
Жыл бұрын
Who remembers the show "Putting on the Hits"?
@mbsnyderc
Жыл бұрын
The song is a Irving Berlin song from 1929 it's been recorded several times,used in musicals and movies.
@mikecaetano
Жыл бұрын
"Puttin' On the Ritz" was written by Irving Berlin in 1927 and used in the 1930 musical Puttin' On the Ritz -- some fifty plus years before Taco dropped this in 1983. Hence the references in the lyrics to Gary Cooper, one of the biggest stars of golden age Hollywood, and the Rockefellers, considered the richest family on the planet back when. The Ritz was a 40 floor luxury residential high rise built on Park Avenue in New York City in the 1920's. "High hats and Arrow collars \ White spats and lots of dollars" indeed!
@ediefolta9494
Жыл бұрын
There's also a medley of other Irving Berlin tunes at the end, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band".
@vaskylark
Жыл бұрын
The Ritz, short for Ritz Carlton which is a huge luxury chain of hotels/resorts. That the Ritz we are talking about?
@ediefolta9494
Жыл бұрын
@@vaskylark yes! The original Ritz Carlton was in New York City and thus the references to Fifth Avenue. The composer Irving Berlin lived in NYC his whole life.
@michelleplombe7019
Жыл бұрын
Naw! It's the official (and original uncensored) video that is the must-see.
@angelskunk2206
Жыл бұрын
This song was written by Irving Berlin in 1927 and performed in the movie Puttin’ On The Ritz in 1930 but the most popular version was performed by Fred Astaire in the 1946 movie Blue Skies.
@sergeeternal3778
Жыл бұрын
You got it right! 😀
@lindanicholson950
Жыл бұрын
I loved this. I also liked the 60s songs Close Cover Before Striking and Winchester Cathedral. They slid right in with Rolling Stones and Beatles and Supremes. We listened to a lot of different types of music then.
@SonOfMuta
Жыл бұрын
3:11 Taco isn't from Germany. He's Indonesian-Dutch but his career started in Germany.
@ArlynMeylan-jo7hq
Жыл бұрын
La la la. La la cheese on your ritz well put together😊
@sarahdixon1943
Жыл бұрын
😲😱😲 SOOOOO 80'S!!!!! 😆 🤣 😂 I forgot about this!!
@colemanpike
Жыл бұрын
I loved this song when I was a kid. My mother still has the 45 somewhere.
@lgwappo
Жыл бұрын
When this was on MTV I thought of my grandfather, before changing the channel.
@kenrock8692
Жыл бұрын
80's alternative
@sergeeternal3778
Жыл бұрын
Can't sit still with music such as this one, it's totally awesome! 😀😀😀
@vernhoke7730
Жыл бұрын
I think the eighties were the decade of 1-hit wonders thanks to MTV.
@Tomekkplk
Жыл бұрын
We’re all better for it too
@RickZackExploreOffroad
Жыл бұрын
The decade of one hit wonders was probably the 60's. By the late 70's music had become very corporate and producing and marketing new artists became more and more planned, according to demographic research. MTV actually hastened this transition with the emphasis on video production.
@charlessalzman4377
Жыл бұрын
@Rick & Zack Explore Offroad 60s did have more 1 hit wonders than the 80s, using the definition of hits being anything to hit top 40.
@charlessalzman4377
Жыл бұрын
MTV probably plays a part, but it's only in the perception of it being a 1 hit wonder filled decade. There are a number of iconic 1 hit wonders that had 2 or more songs reach the top 40. Men Without Hats, Flock of Seagulls, A Ha, and Dead or Alive are all known for a specific song and charted with others.
@magaliedeconto1682
Жыл бұрын
Certainly not eighties ! One hit Wonder the more on the nineties
@joedonlewis9820
Жыл бұрын
So many people have covered that song. It reminds me of the movie Young Frankenstein.
@it-really-hurts2092
Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of other iconic songs of my childhood, like Chariots of Fire and One Night in Bangkok.
@onsesejoo2605
Жыл бұрын
Lounge before the Brits thought they invented it with Mike Flowers's Pop.
@BGRPiccu
Жыл бұрын
My favorite performance of Outtin' on the Ritz is in the Mel Brooks' classic comedy Young Frankenstein in which Dr. Frankenstein & his monster perform this song.
@robinreiley1828
Жыл бұрын
This Genre is a standard "Musical Theatre Production Number" .The Star, with a Chorus of Dancing Girls was used in almost every Musical from the 1910's through the present day
@jamielandis4308
Жыл бұрын
I had this album! You guys need to watch “Tap” and “White Nights” with Gregory Hines. Damn he could tap! The 80’s were a little strange, but FUN! Oh, and Lex would definitely look good in a showgirls outfit! 😎 There are snippets from various Broadway showtunes in here. Gene Kelly’s ‘Gotta dance!’ for example. Lex would love him in “Singing In The Rain” if she hasn’t seen it. If you ever do a musical themed show, Gene Kelly’s last movie was “Xanadu,” where he performs with Olivia Newton-John. The “Xanadu” video is super fun.
@argonwheatbelly637
Жыл бұрын
Gregory Hines was such a treasure!
@RamseyHaddadWZ
Жыл бұрын
Yes, Gregory Hines is great in White Nights. So is that other dancer.
@argonwheatbelly637
Жыл бұрын
@@RamseyHaddadWZ: That "other" dancer? You mean Baryshnikov? Also a treasure of ballet as opposed to tap.
@kerrijohnson2303
Жыл бұрын
Every child in dance class in the early 80’s learned a tap routine to this song!
@lynnabe26
Жыл бұрын
one of my favorite new wave song 😍😍😍
@chrisd913
Жыл бұрын
If I'm not mistaken, I remember watching this performance on TV at the '83 grammys.
@MySherry10
Жыл бұрын
Love this song, so cool and love the tap dancing and the way this song has that voice sound to it I would love to know how tap dance , so cool
@MrCzarGuy1
Жыл бұрын
This was a fun odd campy 80’s song
@TheGathumpus
Жыл бұрын
If you liked this try Cab Calloway Minnie The Moocher its old. There is a newer version of him singing it in the Blues Brothers (A Classic film/semi musical)
@marydrake8491
Жыл бұрын
I love this version 😊
@theinsightfulvisionary0197
11 ай бұрын
Me too!!! It's groovy!!!
@stevenblock9712
Жыл бұрын
I'm with Jim (below). I'm a Fred Astaire and old movies fan, but can't hear this song without thinking of the hysterical Young Frankenstein.
@charleswilliams6236
Жыл бұрын
Tomorrow putting on the Ritts is a fun song 🎵
@nicholasthomas4382
Жыл бұрын
Tell me you can't easily imagine Taco as a black musician from America. This walking beat is IT.
@Hartlor_Tayley
Жыл бұрын
Irving Berlin song from 1929. The video reflects this. Great reaction.
@ChicagoDB
Жыл бұрын
This was very popular when this this song was covered by Taco.
@harleyjackson3708
6 ай бұрын
Something I notice in every reaction I see to this performance, EVERYBODY pauses after the tap break. EVERYBODY.
@trevorknapp4218
Жыл бұрын
Ya'll need to watch Tap with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.!its a great movie about Tap Dancing.
@827dusty
Жыл бұрын
This song is from back in the early 1930s, or earlier. "Putin on the Ritz," was a term meaning your using the best china at a dinner, wearing your most elegant clothes, driving the most expensive car, in order to impress someone. "The Ritz", was a fancy Hotel back in those days, that only the very rich could afford to stay at, so if you looked like you were dressed to impress , you were "Putting on the Ritz." This song is an updated cover version from the early 80s I think.
@2dashville
Жыл бұрын
I remember people saying they were going to stay at a Ritzy vacation spot or go to a Ritzy restaurant. It meant that it was going to be expensive and extravagant.
@dougbarton4668
Жыл бұрын
Jim Cox is absolutely correct, if I hear this, it’s definitely Young Frankenstein going through my mind. You have to watch that movie.
@fjarusa9939
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for finally getting around to Playing Taco - Puttin On The Ritz!
@uigogeta9441
8 ай бұрын
This song is legend
@elevenbucks5682
Жыл бұрын
My dad owned a shoe shop in the early 60,s. Lots of boy came in to have dad put toe and heel taps on their shoes which back then the soles were leather so they were nailed on. They did it just to make clicking sounds as they walked down the school hallways.
@elizabethfranco1284
Жыл бұрын
This song was originally done in 1930 by dancer singer actor choreographer Fred Astaire. Written by Irving Berlin who wrote White Christmas, and America the Beautiful among many others
@Lady_Embalmer007
Жыл бұрын
This is going to be stuck in my head for the next month…
@joemachine4714
Жыл бұрын
Brad & Lex need to experience the "Pan's People" dancers 💃
@jasondavidstapleton
20 күн бұрын
he looks like the actor who played penny wise
@davidbrock2450
Жыл бұрын
The singer so reminds me of te Broadway musicial "Rockly Horror Picture show"'s main chariacter played but the the greaaaat Tim Curry (played the Clown in Stephen Kings movie addaftaion of It".
@glenrichardi7052
Жыл бұрын
Oooooper dooooper!
@robertherring9277
Жыл бұрын
I had this cassette back in the day.
@wendywoodruff2871
Жыл бұрын
If you want your jaws to drop on the floor look up the Nicholas Brothers. Or Sammy Davis Jr. singing Bang Bang from the movie Robin and the Seven Hoods. Fantastic tap dancing! 🤯❤️❤️
@Yowza78
Жыл бұрын
I love the version of this in Young Frankenstein.
@russelltoothman3168
Жыл бұрын
I had this on a 45 rpm record back in '82
@bobriemersma
Жыл бұрын
Wow, a cleaned up version of a cleaned up version of a cleaned up version. Even Taco's original MTV video had blackface performers, and the actual original song has no "Gary Cooper" who himself only came along as a popular figure much later.
@JerseyMay22
Жыл бұрын
I just wanted to say that I love your name girl! My daughter is Alexis and I've always called her Lex! Love the sign with y'all name
@ProdigyBowlersTour
Жыл бұрын
Taco’s version of this song was a hit in the ‘80s, but it originated in the 1930s. Check out Ella Fitzgerald’s version.
@NickyDiamond44
Жыл бұрын
Taco slaps!
@1drsausage
Жыл бұрын
Young Frankenstein introduced me to this song, but its even older than that.
@billw6954
Жыл бұрын
In the movie young Frankenstein, gene wilder trains Frankenstein to sing and tap to this song. It's pretty funny. The movie is a classic.
@Bridgetgethins
Жыл бұрын
In the 1930's this song had a faster tempo. Listening to Taco doing it in slow motion was kind of off. Double the beat with new Tecno sound would have so much better. Irving Berlin wrote it. He also wrote for Ethel Merman "God Bless America". Miss Merman's voice could fill a theatre . It was before mics.
@Meppeler1971
10 ай бұрын
I found out today that Taco Ockerse is een fellow countryman, a Dutchman born in Indonesia, has experienced a worldly youth, living in countries such as the USA, Germany and Singapore.
@BM-hb2mr
Жыл бұрын
Who here remembers the show that the had on the 80's it was like American Idol but it was a lip sink show. I'm gonna go look it up, il put another comment below lol
@BM-hb2mr
Жыл бұрын
Puttin on the hits what a great show. I like the one that a guy was pretending to be in a drive thru and he did a skit :I wanna cheese burger, onion ring and a large Orange drink please " I thought it was the best one ever really funny. Reminds me of Taco, one album I think
@frankhatton2089
Жыл бұрын
That's Showbiz I'm watching it for the first time with you.
@richardfeldkamp1707
Жыл бұрын
Another version of this song is in the movie Young Frankenstien. The monster does it. Insanely funny
@dannycasson1551
Жыл бұрын
The singer looks like an extra from the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show.
@Paj1v
Жыл бұрын
I love this song! Dud you know it is from 1927? But it wasn't released until 1931.
@scottvanhille5688
Жыл бұрын
This song always reminds me of Ritz crackers with a slice of cheese and meat.
@torreyholmes7205
Жыл бұрын
You should react to "Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers". It's from the 1940s and has fantastic tap dancing and nice jazz.
@bluebear1985
Жыл бұрын
He also later attempted to do a techno remake of the classic "Singin' in the Rain", but that one wouldn't become successful like this one did.
@woodymeadows9363
Жыл бұрын
It's like "Putting On The Ritz" is a metaphor for "Putting On Airs."
@DerEchteBold
Жыл бұрын
No, I don't think that's right. It actually just means getting dressed up.
@t0dd000
Жыл бұрын
This was one of those quirky 80s remakes that made it big.
@davidhutchinson5233
Жыл бұрын
You should check out Harry Richman and his rendition of the original version. It's really something to see.
@rebeccalipps23
Жыл бұрын
IMHO, best cover of this is from "Young Frankenstein".
@williamburnham3659
Жыл бұрын
I prefer the Young Frankenstein version
@qhl5579
Жыл бұрын
Uttin ahnnn a iizzz!!
@jeffreyflint6286
Жыл бұрын
Right on man!
@vernhoke7730
Жыл бұрын
Me too!
@NeutronDance
Жыл бұрын
Super Duper
@bender21man
Жыл бұрын
Yes!!! One of my favorite movies...top 5
@bwilliams463
Жыл бұрын
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies put out a much jazzier, more traditional version of the song, with several differences in Lyrics. In fact, I've heard several versions of this song by different artists, and they all have at least slightly-different words. Sort of like the song 'The Cat Came Back,' which is rarely performed exactly as written. There is a yt channel called 'Sheet Music Singer' that focuses on playing the exact original versions of old-time songs, which can be a valuable resource for this music.
@MarcosElMalo2
Жыл бұрын
This is one of the most lifeless interpretations of the song. The synth update does absolutely nothing for me.
@cotadog4472
Жыл бұрын
All I can think of is Young Frankenstein !
@brianellinger6622
Жыл бұрын
He said I have it's surreal the first time
@kylesummers1565
Жыл бұрын
Great comments. If you haven't ever watched Sammy Davis Jr tap, you should. Mr. Bojangles is one of the best. Peace, Love!!
@simple3d326
Жыл бұрын
Tap dancing is pretty easy. just loosen up your feet about an inch or two above the ground and shake them forward and back to get the metal bit to hit the floor. do that to a rhythm and dance while you do it. well now that I say it its actually kinda hard. I believe he's actually Dutch and Indonesian as well.
@MysticRhythms87
Жыл бұрын
"I never heard of tap-dancing heels. Have you?" "Yeah, I danced in them. I used to tap dance in them!" "Well that was before, uh...you know, before we met." Nice one, Brad. 😆 Seriously, you both did great with this react video. I've been on a big kick lately, watching these vids and enjoying how others feel about these songs, and hey...if you're feeling good, I'm feeling good. Keep doing what you do.
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