Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

[Generic Other]

Run time: 02:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmvcK73MfI   Posted on YouTube: September 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: Larkworthy Views on YouTube: 3   Posted on DU: September 08, 2011 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 1317

 
Larkworthy Antfarm mixes archival film footage with a new soundtrack.

"Millions of Us" (1936) Prelinger Archives.

"Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" performed by Joe Glazer and Bill Friedland. "Songs of the Wobblies" (1954).

[dtexdem]

1. And there are more and more bums being produced --

made out of those who formerly had fairly-secure jobs.

All hail the new plutonomy! ;-)

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[villager]

3. And here I thought it was going to be the Al Jolson song!

;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoxCeioOhPk

[Generic Other]

5. OMG they make being down and out look like a Shirley Temple movie!!!

I guess the old Wobbly song was a little too radical for Jolson.

[villager]

7. Plus, he's in pretty nice duds -- with only a rumpled hat for "bumness!"

n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Thanks Other! Utah Phillips sings it with a funny interlude

a little bit in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0

I'd heard him numerous times back when he was still performing here on earth... Always brought the audience to their feet clapping, laughing and groaning at his humor!

A true friend of the working people.

[Generic Other]

6. I love him!

This is the Harry McClintock version from 1928. That's the one I learned at my pappy's knee!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uKbIkYGsIg&feature=related

[Generic Other]

8. Thanks everyone for watching!

This video had 3 views when I posted here a couple hours ago! Now it has 120.

I am in the mood to put up a fight.

[iemitsu]

9. i've been watching it over and over again.

funny how a song about being a bum can make me feel so good.

[stlsaxman]

10. K&R!!! Great stuff, Otter!

[Generic Other]

11. Generic Otter

I like that!



:yourock:

[stlsaxman]

14. OMFG- my lysdexia must be really, really bad... as long as i've been reading your posts

i have ALWAYS read "Otter"... we're talking months if not years!

(i'm feeling sick to my stomach now)

[lumpy]

12. My God, I remember singing that very popular song when I was

a kid. I had forgotten all about that song as part of my depression years.

[Generic Other]

13. I thought it needed to be shared with a younger generation

I learned it from an oldtimer myself. Seems like every Depression era folk song I listen to, I hear the same stories of pain and endurance as now.