The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151844 Message #3548390
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-Aug-13 - 09:44 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Puttin' On The Ritz (Irving Berlin)
Subject: Lyr Add: Puttin' On The Ritz (Irving Berlin)
PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ (Irving Berlin, 1929)
Have you seen the well-to-do Upon Lennox Avenue On that famous thoroughfare With their noses in the air.
High hats and narrow collars White spats and fifteen dollars Spending every dime For a wonderful time.
If you're blue And you don't know where to go Why don't you go where Harlem flits Puttin' on the Ritz. Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns from down the levy All misfits Puttin' on the Ritz.
That's where each and every lulu-belle goes every Thursday evening with her swell beaus Rubbin' elbows.
Come with me and we'll attend the jubilee And see them spend Their last two-bits Puttin' on the Ritz.
(Boys, look at that man puttin' on the Ritz) (You look at him, I can't)
If you're blue And you don't know where to go Why don't you go where Harlem flits Puttin' on the Ritz. Spangled gowns upon the bevy of High browns from down the levy All misfits Puttin' on the Ritz. That's where each and every lulu-belle goes Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus Rubbin' elbows
Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee And see them spend Their last two bits Puttin' on the Ritz.
Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee And see them spend Their last two bits Puttin' on the Ritz.
Sung by Harry Richman and Fred Astaire in 1929. Fred Astaire sang another version as well (to follow).