Time for another unusual vaudeville act. This is Chaz Chase in a film from 1928 with what may be the original soundtrack. It sounds too clean to be the original but this was an early "talkie" and its soundtrack was recently restored. If it's the real thing, it's especially intresting because both songs that were later used as the themes for Warner Brothers cartoons — "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" and "Merrily We Roll Along" — turn up in it, one right after the other.
Mr. Chase did this act his entire life, right up until he died in 1983. A year before, he had been performing it on Broadway in the musical revue, Sugar Babies. He first did it on Broadway in The Ziegfeld Follies of 1925. The act did not change much over the years.
So what's unusual about Chaz Chase's act? You'll see. This runs four minutes.
