Original sheet music is found in Marx Brothers Scrapbook. The song was done by Kalmar and Ruby, not Kaufman and Ryskind. And the nuts line sets up the following line "If I stay here, I'll go nuts". The schnorrer line is Jewish humor typical of Broadway Stage. The acre line is there as a set up for the now snipped rhyme: "I think I'll try and make her". Well you are taking the lines out of context. There would have been concern, scorn and jealousy. Talking and musical stars were starting to go west. By 1927-8 Hollywood would have been on the conciousness of Broadway.
MARX BROTHERS CAPTAIN SPAULDING MOVIE
'"You are the only white man to cover every acre" Could mean that he's big enough to supply the entire movie colony with his "white" powders.Ĭhangsham wrote:It is also a stretch on co-incidence that Groucho comes up wearing the same moniker later on. "Did someone call me me shnrorrer" A suggestion to being a chisler or a snorter? In the first link I provided it mentions another big dealer "the count" who used to sell drugs hidden in peanut shells. Monkey as in "Monkey on your back" or "Monkey Grip" are old terms for heroin addiction. "He went to the jungle where monkeys throw nuts" But without hard evidence it remains speculation.Ĭould very well be singing about a party for release from jail or return from overseas if we assume it is about the drug dealing captain? The content is written in a cryptic and ambigious manner which anyone with imagination could read in many ways. A celebration for a party being planned for the returned intrepid explorer. I have been looking into the lyrics of "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" for any clues on a possible link with the former CS. It is also a stretch on co-incidence that Groucho comes up wearing the same moniker later on. I have read that Daryl Zanuck may have been one of them. Apparently studio moguls had to pay hush money to keep him quiet and also deflect attention from the law. As to the notorious Captain Spaulding he was also billed as "The Drug Dealer to the Stars" and was well known in Hollywood. I guess this is one of those names that can be spelt in different ways so your version may be correct since you have original documentation. I have read some published lyrics of the Hooray song and they spell it as Spaulding. The lyrics of "Hooray for Captain Spalding" are a bit silly but curious and could be interpreted in many ways. This raises the possibilities that Kaufman & Ryskind could have used this name as an "in joke". Thank you for the reply and expansion on this thread. Perhaps the answer to your question will be found in that material. I believe that Kaufman wrote memoirs and of course Groucho left a number of interviews and many published letters. Spalding" - not "Spaulding" as you spelled it - was listed from the start (although on the first page cast listing it is misspelled as "Splading." This does not preclude Groucho from naming the character but Kaufman & Ryskind were top flight playwrights who hardly needed his input. I have a copy of the original typewritten play script, dated December 1928 when the play opened at the 44th Street theater in NYC. I suspect that naming Groucho's character was the idea of one of these gentlemen. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, songs by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar. The play ANIMAL CRACKERS was written by George S. Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.Bobfells wrote:You ask an intriguing question but you perhaps give Groucho too much credit for naming his character.
MARX BROTHERS CAPTAIN SPAULDING SERIES
The song is a series of rhyming gags but ends with a loud repeated chorus that drown out the captain's attempts to speak. In 1951, Groucho recorded the song for release by Decca Records. The line, "I think I'll try to make her" was cut from the movie, being considered too risqué. The modern version of the situation comedy radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel uses this song for its opening theme. It later became well known as the theme song for the Groucho Marx television show You Bet Your Life (1950–1961), and became Groucho's signature tune and was usually played when he was introduced on various talk shows and the like. " Hooray for Captain Spaulding" is a song, composed by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby originally from the 1928 Marx Brothers Broadway musical Animal Crackers and the 1930 film version.
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