This is the last "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" post, at least for a little while. I received a few complaints about the repetition and one very outraged one from a guy who insisted the name of the song is "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" with a "G." Yes, people sometimes write it that way but the original sheet music spelled it with an apostrophe so that's good enough for me.
I decided to close this run with the number as performed in the movie…with Stubby Kaye belting out the number as it (reportedly) never failed to stop the show on Broadway. Looking at all the ways it's been staged since tells us something about how the theater has evolved. It's no longer acceptable to just sing it. You have to orchestrate the hell out of it and have dynamic choreography. It's that way with just about every revival but I kinda like the way it's performed here.
Fans of The Dick Van Dyke Show may recognize the famed gangster Big Max Calvada among the mugs being "saved" at the mission. This was from back when he went under the name of Harry the Horse and before that, he was a bartender named Nick visible in It's a Wonderful Life.
But now, here's Stubby showing that you don't always gotta get a gimmick…