Jokes, lines, or songs that dont sit right anymore- Page 4
Jokes, lines, or songs that dont sit right anymore
#75Jokes, lines, or songs that dont sit right anymore
Posted: 2/20/18 at 5:50pm
Ladies and gents, I give you the most unambiguously offensive song in the history of Broadway. It makes Springtime for Hitler look like Climb Every Mountain. You won't believe your ears.
From the 1961 musical Let it Ride with Mr. George Gobel.
https://youtu.be/Oop7yUk2M-c
#76Jokes, lines, or songs that dont sit right anymore
Posted: 2/20/18 at 9:24pm
Ohhhhhhh I can top this. Like, don't get me wrong, that's AWFUL and even by 1961 standards it's horrendous, but it at least is intended as a send-up of hypermasculine postering...I hope. It's so over the top I can't imagine any song praising Stanley Kowalski would be meant to be taken seriously.
But digging further back into Broadway's long, glorious history; from one of the first smash hit musical comedies, way back in 1896, THE GEISHA, comes this completely unironic, massively popular hit song. Brace yourselves y'all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9c1Nqg3K-A
#77Jokes, lines, or songs that dont sit right anymore
Posted: 2/20/18 at 10:12pm
Yes, that was very, very bad. Each song is offensive in it's own specific way. Denigrating an entire culture is never good. But then, neither is wringing laughs from domestic abuse.
I'd really like to find the NY Times review of Let it Ride and see if there was any comment made about that song at the time by the reviewer.
In the early '90s, I hosted a show called Standing Room Only on WERS 88.9 FM in Boston. At there time, there were dozens and dozens of old Broadway record albums, and I would put on random tracks. Well, I put that one on, and didn't pay attention to the lyrics, as I was picking my next record. The phone suddenly lit up like a Christmas tree!
I put a note inside the record sleeve warning future hosts!
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