"Makin' Whoopee!" is a golden silly song - the title means having sex - which was surprisingly riske' for 1928, and it still causes shy people to blush because the feel is just so darn jiggiddy.
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"Makin' Whoopee!" is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical. -end quote -
I found it in an old pile of sheet music and I gave it a whirl on my new Ewi ["Electronic Wind Instrument"] with a clarinet sound and by golly, it is really fun to play. Everybody smiles when they hear it, and it tends to run through one's head all day, on a good day at least - and if it isn't a good day this song can change that!!
From 1928 until today, 2014, it has not lost a bit of it's charm. Many people have recorded it, Nora Jones might have been the latest to do so, in 2011.
Ella, Frank, and other "swingers" made use ot the sexual reference on their "album for Swingers" word plays. More recently names such as Elvis Costello+ Diana Krall, Elton John, oh - who is Rachael McFarlane? - she did it in 2012 [tough luck, Nora].
And wasn't there something about John Lennon getting sued for using the music [sans lyrics] as one of his own?
The chord changes are classic, logical, and standard - and I am sure they have been used by many artists in their own way.
"Makin' Whoopee!" is a golden silly song - the title means having sex - which was surprisingly riske' for 1928, and it still causes shy people to blush because the feel is just so darn jiggiddy.
Quote Wiki: "Makin' Whoopee!" is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical. -end quote -
I found it in an old pile of sheet music and I gave it a whirl on my new Ewi ["Electronic Wind Instrument"] with a clarinet sound and by golly, it is really fun to play. Everybody smiles when they hear it, and it tends to run through one's head all day, on a good day at least - and if it isn't a good day this song can change that!!
From 1928 until today, 2014, it has not lost a bit of it's charm. Many people have recorded it, Nora Jones might have been the latest to do so, in 2011. Ella, Frank, and other "swingers" made use ot the sexual reference on their "album for Swingers" word plays. More recently names such as Elvis Costello+ Diana Krall, Elton John, oh - who is Rachael McFarlane? - she did it in 2012 [tough luck, Nora].
And wasn't there something about John Lennon getting sued for using the music [sans lyrics] as one of his own?
The chord changes are classic, logical, and standard - and I am sure they have been used by many artists in their own way.
Ooooo, Makin' Whoopie [with you?], yaaaa.