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The song “Puttin’ On The Ritz” made a big splash when Fred Astaire danced to it. Personally, I have always consideered his to be the “authentic” version, certainly the best. There is just a timeless, classic apeal in the singing and dancing talents of Fred Astaire.

In the 1980s, long after Fred Astaire was finished with it, Taco remade the song with more modern effects. However, no sooner was the video released then controversy hit, and BIG. The whole video had to be edited and re-released, because Taco’s original video showed two men in vaudevillian minstrel “blackface”. The fact that the makeup was exactly in keepig with the period of the song made no difference, history was swept under the rug in favor of political correctness. THIS is the “banned” version, which still contains the minstrel makeup. You decide.

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