Annie Lennox singing "Keep Young & Beautiful"

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 7/8/06 at 7:43pm

Has anyone seen this before? Was this a remake that I just never heard of?

It doesn't seem to be a song of Lennox's style...but interesting nonetheless.

Video

Updated On: 7/8/06 at 07:43 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/8/06 at 7:55pm

This song is from her "Diva" CD in 1992. It was the closing track. I have seen the video but I don't think the song was actually released as a single.

Updated On: 7/8/06 at 07:55 PM

[NCGuy]

Posted: 7/8/06 at 8:10pm

It‘s an old Harry Warren and Al Dubin song written for (I think) Eddie Cantor.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 7/8/06 at 8:13pm

Well, I was talking about the fact that it's in 42ND STREET.

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/8/06 at 8:14pm

That's correct. It is from 1933.

[NCGuy]

Posted: 7/8/06 at 8:19pm

Sorry I didn’t catch that from your original post (I've never seen a stage production of 42nd Street). Just trying to be helpful.

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/8/06 at 8:22pm

You didn't say that in your original post. So the year I posted for the song was the year Mr. Cantor did it.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/8/06 at 10:27pm

The song was NOT in the original stage version of 42nd Sreet (or the movie). It was added for the revival - perhaps due to it's cult popularity from Annie Lennox's version.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 6:18am

Annie's version is amazing! Very tongue-in-cheek. Love, love, LOVE it!

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:00pm

Especially her "ha, ha, ha"

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:08pm

I'm probably the biggest Police (and Sting) fan in the world. Two summers ago I saw Sting in concert at Jones Beach with Annie Lennox. I have to tell you that Annie was hands-down one of the best live performers I've ever seen. Her voice was just gorgeous, and she just completely drew you in. Dare I say it...she was BETTER than Sting (and he is a god to me). I had always respected and liked Annie Lennox, but I loved her after seeing her live.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:10pm

It's from the Eddie Cantor film ROMAN SCANDALS - the number is one of Busby Berkeley's most notorious as it involves nude showgirls (clothed only by long blonde wigs....among them was a very young Lucille Ball) and leggy African-American 'slave girls' who attend them. Ah, the glories of Hollywood "before the code"...
Roman Scandals

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:10pm

"Of the six films Eddie Cantor made for Samuel Goldwyn, ROMAN SCANDALS was his fourth and second only to THE KID FROM SPAIN. When Goldwyn's idea to adapt George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles And The Lion" as a vehicle for Cantor proved too difficult, the producer hired Robert Sherwood and George S. Kaufman to fashion a story that would take Cantor to imperial Rome. Displeased with their draft, Goldwyn brought in Nat Perrin, George Oppenheimer, and Arthur Sheekman to add jokes, and William Anthony McGuire to get the whole thing into shape for shooting. This film turned out to be one of the best Cantor-Goldwyn associations. With humor, music, and more than a little female flesh, Roman Scandals is a sort of WIZARD OF OZ in that Cantor, a wacky delivery boy in West Rome, Oklahoma, goes into a dream sequence and imagines himself to be a slave in old Rome. His major job is official food taster to the evil emperor, Edward Arnold. The slim plot includes Cantor proving that Arnold is a fraud, a love story between Gloria Stuart and David Manners, and a chase (this time a chariot chase, a direct satirical shot at BEN HUR by the sequence's director Ralph Cedar). In the end, Cantor wakes up and is back in the present. Making the story a dream was a mistake; the prolog and epilog were not needed. The picture is slapstick nonsense from the moment it goes to Rome and is verbally funny as well, although Cantor has a totally anachronistic "black face" scene that sticks out badly. Every penny of the then-huge million-dollar budget is on screen. Busby Berkeley, in his last choreographic job before going on to Warner Bros., staged one scene in which The Goldwyn Girls, including Lucille Ball, are totally nude except for long blonde wigs. Harry Warren and Al Dubin, who would later join Berkeley at Warner Bros. for a host of hits, wrote several tunes including: "No More Love" (sung by Ruth Etting, Goldwyn Girls, danced by Grace Poggi), "Build a Little Home" (sung by Cantor, Goldwyn Girls), "Keep Young and Beautiful" (sung by Cantor, Goldwyn Girls, Billy Barty), and "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day." Warren and L. Wolfe Gilbert teamed to write "Put a Tax on Love" (sung by Cantor)."

Updated On: 7/10/06 at 01:10 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:12pm

"The song was NOT in the original stage version of 42nd Sreet (or the movie). It was added for the revival"

Actually, the song was in the road company that went out in the late 1980s. I saw a tour in 1987 or 88 that had the song in it.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:54pm

blueroses -- I saw the same tour, but in Cincinnati. My partner got us 2nd row center tickets for my birthday. I have to agree that Annie stole the show. I've seen Annie perform several times (both solo and with Eurythmics). She's such a perfectionist and SO personally invested in her performance that it's hard NOT to be blown away by her. My partner really isn't a big fan and he even admitted that she was unbelievable.