A popular song from 1933
Words by Mack Gordon
Music by Harry Revel
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Where do we get that music
That puts that swing so hot in us?
Where is life, never dull
Hum-drum or monotonous?
Hop a subway, hop a cab
Shoot right up to Harlem
Where the population
Found a new sensation
Chorus
Screen celebs and stage satellites
Social debs and High hat-el-lites
Masses, classes
Doin’ the Uptown Lowdown
Where they spend their semolians
Just to watch those Creolians
Skippin’, hippin’
Doin’ the Uptown Lowdown
You’ll find laughter after midnight
That’s their play-time
Hi-de-hay time!
What price, Yeah, man!
Bankers with their Cinderellatives,
List’ning to those hot hi-yellatives,
Up in Harlem
Doin’ the Uptown Lowdown!
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: