Makin' Whoopee arranged by Dan Mitchell ready to upload
Channel: Dan Mitchell
Date: 2021-03-20

"Makin' Whoopee" is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical.

The title refers to celebrating a marriage. Eventually "making whoopee" became a euphemism for intimate sexual relations.  The song has been called a "dire warning", largely to men, about the "trap" of marriage.  "Makin' Whoopee" begins with the celebration of a wedding, honeymoon and marital bliss, but moves on to babies and responsibilities.