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Puttin On The Ritz Lyrics
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Taco - Puttin On The Ritz Lyrics
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[ Originally by Irving Berlin ]

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types of wear all day coat pants
With stripes and cut away coats for perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-duper
Come lets mix where Rockerfellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Have you seen the well to do
Up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thorough fare
With their noses in the air
High hats and narrow collars
White spats and lots of 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 fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types of wear all day coat pants
With stripes and cut away coats for perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-duper
Come lets mix where Rockerfellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-duper
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Down, down
Up, down
Get your kicks
Got the Ritz
Dine and wine but not till nine
The time is right for us tonight
We can move
Move to the rhythm
We can
Move
Dance to the rhythm
I want you to move
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If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types of wear all day coat pants
With stripes and cut away coats for perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-duper
Come lets mix where Rockerfellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Have you seen the well to do
Up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thorough fare
With their noses in the air
High hats and narrow collars
White spats and lots of 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 fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types of wear all day coat pants
With stripes and cut away coats for perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-duper
Come lets mix where Rockerfellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-duper
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Down, down
Up, down
Get your kicks
Got the Ritz
Dine and wine but not till nine
The time is right for us tonight
We can move
Move to the rhythm
We can
Move
Dance to the rhythm
I want you to move
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Writer: Irving Berlin
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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Taco - Puttin On The Ritz Video
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Puttin On The Ritz Info:

In 1982, singer Taco released a synth-pop cover version of "Puttin' On the Ritz" as a single from his album After Eight, released in Europe on Polydor and by RCA in the US. The single was accompanied by a music video, the original version of which contains characters in blackface and has since been banned from many networks. An alternative version eliminates many shots of the blackface characters, though some remain.

The cover features interpolations of Berlin-penned songs "Always," "White Christmas," "Alexander's Ragtime Band", and "There's No Business Like Show Business", as well as "Broadway Rhythm" from the film Broadway Melody of 1936, which was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown.

The single was a global hit, reaching No. 1 on Cash Box as well as No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making Irving Berlin, then 95, the oldest ever living songwriter to have one of his compositions enter the top ten. It was certified gold by the RIAA for selling over one million copies. It was Taco's only hit in the United States. This version of the song was ranked No. 53 in VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s special.

The song topped the charts in Sweden and New Zealand, and entered the top 5 in numerous countries including Australia, Norway, Austria, and Canada.
Performed by: Taco
Originally by: Irving Berlin
Genre(s): Synth-pop, new wave, One Hit Wonder
Language: English
Length: 3:25
Written by: Irving Berlin
Year: 1982
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