Makin' Whoopee

Makin ' Whoopee is a song that was written in 1928 by Walter Donaldson (music) and Gus Kahn.

Donaldson and Kahn wrote the song for the Broadway show Whoopee! , Where it was sung by Eddie Cantor. Love Me or Leave Me, also written by Donaldson / Kahn, was this the first time interpreted by Ruth Etting. Energy produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. show saw 379 performances; on the show played by George Olsen Orchestra, which was replaced after two months from the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. The film rights sold to Samuel Goldwyn Ziegfeld, and Eddie Cantor, whose first film Whoopee! was, at that time became the star. Cantor singing in the musical was described by Thomas S. Hischak, author of The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia, as follows:

Makin ' Whoopee came in the following versions in the American charts:

• Eddie Cantor (1929, with the Nat Shilkret Orchestra, # 2 )
• Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1929, with Bing Crosby, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord and Austin Young ( vocals), # 8)
• Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra (1929, with Scrappy Lambert ( vocals), # 16)

1944 saw the song again use in the film show business, in which Eddie Cantor played the lead role; Further, in the film I'll See You in My Dreams (1951 ) with Danny Thomas and Doris Day in The Eddie Cantor Story (1953 ), in which Cantor himself the actor Keefe Brasselle lends voice. Last sang him Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys ( 1989). Makin ' Whoopee, which should have been the favorite song of Winston Churchill, was, inter alia, several times by Art Tatum, from Count Basie Orchestra as well as Chet Baker / Gerry Mulligan, Ella Fitzgerald, Don Senay / Charles Mingus, Buddy Collette, Roland Kirk / Jack McDuff, Frank Sinatra ( Songs for Swingin ' Lovers, 1956), Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington and Branford Marsalis (Trio Jeepy ) interpreted. The duo version of Dr. John and Rickie Lee Jones was awarded the 1990 Grammy.

1981 brought the Donaldson Publishing Company and Gus Kahn Publishing Company copyright claims against Yoko Ono's song I'm Your Angel; This corresponds largely to the song Makin ' Whoopee. The Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) took Makin ' Whoopee in Eddie Cantor's version in its list of Songs of the Century on.