Chaim should sing this song when he walks by the black guy to tease him back

[Aces High]

 

[Zelhar]

Good Idea 

[Moshe92]

 

[Moshe92]

Today, it seems strange that there was once a day when black people sang like that. 

[New Yorker]

Hmmm, I'd sing that song when slaving away at a job. "Tote that barge! Lift that bale!... Old man riveeeeer!" 

I'm a network engineer, so that makes it even more funny in a hyper-modern work setting. 


I watched the whole thing, it was actually very enjoyable. 

[briann]

Thats 1000x more enjoyable than hip hop.

[Rubystars]

He could actually sing unlike hip hop stars.

[Chaim Ben Pesach]

בס''ד

The music was written by Jerome Kern, a Jew.

Most of the "black" music that became popular among whites was written by Jews. Even the melodies were taken not from African "music" (jungle noise), but from klei zemer (a mix of Eastern European Jewish and Middle Eastern Jewish music that is one of the main foundations for rock 'n roll).

[cjd]

That video clip was from the old 1936 "Show Boat" movie. It's filmed in black and white however it is well worth watching for the entertainment value. The acting and the music was so much better back then. It really is sad that regular TV no longer runs the old time movies like this on their late night broadcast time like they once did. I take movies like this with a grain of salt because the people who wrote the scripts were liberals of the first order and they were attempting to form an opinion in the viewers mind of oppressed blacks. F.D.R was in the White House and Eleanore spent most of her time with radical feminist and black civil rights activist. It was the early days of the so called black civil rights movement. Robeson who is singing "Old Man River" was a well known black activist and is said to have one of the largest F.B.I file of any entertainer ever.

Robeson sang the song as written whenever he appeared in a production of Show Boat, but in later recitals he made alterations to the lyrics to transform it from a song of black lament to one of defiance and perseverance

The entertainment value is great in old movies like this with actors like Hattie McDaniel and a few other big names but sadly the message conveyed is one the liberals of the time wanted instilled in the  mind of the American public.

[Debbie Shafer]

Good response. I would have said Sittin on the Dock of the Bay by Ottis Retig.  I love the picture it paints.

[Secularbeliever]

Today, it seems strange that there was once a day when black people sang like that. 

Yup Robeson was extremely talented.  I believe he was an excellent athlete also.  Unfortunately he became a Communist at some point or was blacklisted.

[Secularbeliever]

I caught a bit of Walter Williams and Tom Sowell on Rush's show today.  They were talking about how before the minimum wage started Black unemployment was lower than that of Whites.  I think the real story of Black people is not so much that they are animals or whatever you want to call them but how easy it is to destroy the fabric of a society.  Welfare and the coarseness of popular culture has done more harm to Black people than the Grand Wizzard of the Ku Klux Klan could ever have hoped to do.

[Moshe92]

I caught a bit of Walter Williams and Tom Sowell on Rush's show today.  They were talking about how before the minimum wage started Black unemployment was lower than that of Whites.  I think the real story of Black people is not so much that they are animals or whatever you want to call them but how easy it is to destroy the fabric of a society.  Welfare and the coarseness of popular culture has done more harm to Black people than the Grand Wizzard of the Ku Klux Klan could ever have hoped to do.

Yes, but what does that have to do with my post? I wasn't laughing at black people. I was laughing at the thought of Chaim singing that song.

[Moshe92]

Today, it seems strange that there was once a day when black people sang like that. 

Yup Robeson was extremely talented.  I believe he was an excellent athlete also.  Unfortunately he became a Communist at some point or was blacklisted.

It says on wikipedia that he eulogized Josef Stalin. That's too bad because he was a great singer.

[briann]

בס''ד

The music was written by Jerome Kern, a Jew.

Most of the "black" music that became popular among whites was written by Jews. Even the melodies were taken not from African "music" (jungle noise), but from klei zemer (a mix of Eastern European Jewish and Middle Eastern Jewish music that is one of the main foundations for rock 'n roll).

Jerome Kern is one of my all time favorite composers.  He wrote "The Way You Look Tonight". One of my favorite lines was from the lyricist who later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."  (Wikipedia)