Makin' Whoopee (cover)
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Our version performed live at ' Rose's Turn' in Manhattan with Alexia Tate!
"Makin' Whoopee!" is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Walter Donaldson wrote the music and Gus Kahn the lyrics for the song (and indeed for the entire musical).
The title is a euphemism for sexual intimacy,[1] and the song itself is a "dire warning", largely to men, about the "trap" of marriage.[2] "Makin' Whoopee" begins with the celebration of a wedding, honeymoon, and the early years of marital bliss, but moves on to babies and responsibilities, and ultimately on to affairs and possible divorce, ending with a judge's advice.