Sophie Tucker - Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong free for downloading

I can't remember a time when 50 million Frenchmen were ever right.

The recording is from 1927 and the song is by Willie Raskin, Billy Rose, and Fred Fisher, not Cole Porter. Porter wrote a musical by the same title later.

Catch the line about Prohibition.

I totally believe that the French men, appreciated Ms Tucker.

Her autobiography is "Some of These Days". It's readily available even yet; I've been told that unautographed copies are by far the hardest to find! It's sure worth reading.

I didn't think there were that many Frenchmen.

This song is the basis for the "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong" album name. It's the one with the famous gold lame suit.

Her entire career Sophie dressed to kill. Even as an older, bigger lady she always epitomized elegant fashion. She was extremely generous to good causes and when she toured she had great friends waiting for her in every city, friends she'd made on previous visits. She was an exceptional cook and loved to come to people's homes to make Sunday dinner for everyone to enjoy. Her show, once considered so very naughty, today seems nearly innocent. But not quite!

For De Mille, young fur–henchmen can’t be rowing.

It was an impulse purchase at a local thrift store that turned me on to Sophie, I had heard her name in the movie "Chicago" and was curious. She is amazing, and it turns out she grew up in Hartford, CT. I was raised not too far from there

Miff Mole on trombone; Red Nichols, trumpet; Jummy Dorsey, clarinet and alto sax; Recorded April 11, 1927. The band was Miff Mole and his Molers.

In fact when this song was written there were only 40 million people living in Metropolitan France.... I'm not sure where this leaves the force of Sophie's argument..

My favourite Sophie song! Thanks for posting.