[78-L] another batch of burning questions

[David Lennick]

This one even pauses for the piano interlude and includes the dialogue on the 
Fred Astaire record.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/i/irving+berlin/puttin+on+the+ritz_20068108.html

dl

On 5/15/2012 10:55 AM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> Thank you for using the original lyrics. As you know, they've been
> 'altered' over the years.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:45 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>
>> Have you seen the well-to-do
>> Up on Lenox 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 to
>> 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
>>
>>
>> * I corrected a couple of misquotes but couldn't resist leaving that one
>> intact. That Levy and his high browns, my oh my..
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 5/15/2012 10:32 AM, Philip Carli wrote:
>>> It _is_ to display an attitude of superiority, or, really, to  look down
>> upon or haughtily ignore someone. Think "top hat", which is what it's
>> referring to - still a regular article of men's full evening dress until
>> the late 1940s, and a mark of class division. P
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>>>
>>> "High hat" is a type of cymbal in a drum set. As a verb, perhaps it
>>> refers to hitting someone on top of the head?
>>>
>>> joe salerno
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/15/2012 3:04 AM, Rod Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is meant by "high hat," used as a verb? I've heard this in the
>> Memphis
>>>> Slim song, "Mother Earth." From memory:
>>>>
>>>> You may high-hat me all the time
>>>> And you may never come my way
>>>> Mother Earth is waiting for you
>>>> There's a debt you have to pay
>>>>
>>>> It sounds like to "high-hat" is to display an attitude of superiority,
>> but
>>>> does anyone know their way around this term?
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