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On "Makin 'Whoopee," Dinah Washington's blues inflections and harmonic variations seem unconnected to the material; Charles dropped it several socioeconomic notches below Eddie Cantor, did it low-down and confessional, and wrung every last drop of rueful comic juice from it.
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On "Makin 'Whoopee," Dinah Washington's blues inflections and harmonic variations seem unconnected to the material; Charles dropped it several socioeconomic notches below Eddie Cantor, did it low-down and confessional, and wrung every last drop of rueful comic juice from it.
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On "Makin 'Whoopee," Dinah Washington's blues inflections and harmonic variations seem unconnected to the material; Charles dropped it several socioeconomic notches below Eddie Cantor, did it low-down and confessional, and wrung every last drop of rueful comic juice from it.
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Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn had written a song for Eddie Cantor called "Makin 'Whoopee" -- and that's just one example.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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In 1928, Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn had written a song for Eddie Cantor called "Makin' Whoopee" -- and that's just one example.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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And yes Whoopee, that is what we call "Rape-Rape" you stupid-stupid.
Latest Articles 2009
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Last time I checked, the fellow's never been accused of flying to Argentina at taxpayer expense to make "Whoopee".
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"Whoopee," said Sushi, twirling a finger in the air.
Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001
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"Singin 'in the Rain" (1952), you get the idea that screen musicals took plenty of time to reach maturity, and that's surely how we now feel when we watch "The Jazz Singer" (1927, a smash hit in its day), "Rio Rita" (1929) or Eddie Cantor musicals like "Whoopee" (1930).
NYT > Home Page 2010
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"Singin 'in the Rain" (1952), you get the idea that screen musicals took plenty of time to reach maturity, and that's surely how we now feel when we watch "The Jazz Singer" (1927, a smash hit in its day), "Rio Rita" (1929) or Eddie Cantor musicals like "Whoopee" (1930).
NYT > Home Page 2010
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