Talk:You Rascal You

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This page says Sam Theard wrote the song in 1931 but according to Abrams, Steve and Settlemier, Tyrone. "BRUNSWICK Records - 7000 'Race' series 78rpm numerical discography." The Online Discographical Project. The Online Discographical Project, 23 Mar. 2009. he recorded it in 1929; and so does the article about Sam Theard.

Koenkamphuys (talk) 11:56, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Go ahead and fix it. Chrisrus (talk) 13:27, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Reunion in France

A version of the song appears in the 1942 anti-Nazi film "Reunion in France," starring Joan Crawford, John Wayne, and Philip Dorn, and directed by Jules Dassin, the American film director who was blacklisted in the 1950s and ended up working mostly in Europe; his best-known film is probably 1960's "Never on Sunday," starring his Greek wife Melina Mercouri. In "Reunion in France," which involves various intrigues involving the French resistance and collaboration with the Nazi occupiers, with Wayne playing an American pilot who volunteered with the Canadians before the U.S. entered the war, there is one scene in a Paris night club in which a Black American jazz performer (played by the singer and actor Buck Woods) sings the song with altered lyrics: "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you/I'll be glad when you're dead, and Adolf too," directly at a self-satisfied German couple who don't understand English and smile benignly at him as he sings his wishes for their deaths and that of all Nazis. The film itself is a bit of a curiosity, since many of the plot elements resemble "Casablanca," a film released less than a month later.Maccb (talk) 01:38, 23 June 2025 (UTC)