MAKIN' WHOOPEE

Makin' Whoopee' is a jazz and blues song, first popularised by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 comic musical 'Whoopee'. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical. At that time, the show was a euphemism for sexual intimacy, and was described as a dire warning to men, about the 'trap' of marriage. The musical 'Makin' Whoopee' begins with the celebration of a wedding, honeymoon and marital bliss, but moves on to babies and responsibilities, and ultimately on to affairs and possible divorce, ending with a judge's advice. The musical was based on Owen Davis's play, 'The Nervous Wreck'. The song has been recorded by numerous esteemed artists such as Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington who sang an arrangement by Quincy Jones.
Walter Donaldson (1893'1947) was a prolific and popular American songwriter, composing many hit songs during the 1910s right th

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