1930 pre-code risque musical number: "I'd like to do things for you" from King of Jazz

Fascinatingly slightly risque number, "I'd like to do things for you," from the pre-code 1930 "King of Jazz," celebrating the then-famous bandleader Paul Whiteman.

The film was shot in 2-strip technicolor, and this early number in this revue features two couples singing about what they would do for (and TO) each other. After the sweet lovey-dovey couple of Jeanie Lang (reminding me of Betty Boop!) singing to Paul Whiteman, we then switch to the tarter, surprisingly kinky-tinged couple!

"King of Jazz," produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. for Universal Pictures, is a revue. There is no story, only a series of musical numbers alternating with "blackouts" (very brief comedy sketches with abrupt punch line endings) and other short introductory or linking segments. It still survives in a near-complete color print and is not a lost film, unlike many contemporary musicals that now exist only either in incomplete form or as black-and-white reduction copies.

King of Jazz was the nineteenth all-talking motion picture filmed entirely in two-color Technicolor rather than simply including color sequences. At the time, Technicolor's two-color process employed red and green dyes, each with a dash of other colors mixed in, but no blue dye.

King of Jazz marked the first film appearance of the popular crooner Bing Crosby, who, at the time, was a member of The Rhythm Boys, the Whiteman Orchestra's vocal trio. Crosby was scheduled to sing "Song of the Dawn" in the movie but a motor accident led to him being jailed for a time and the song was given to John Boles.

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