Madeline Kahn - You'd Be Surprised (1988)

I've watched a few versions of this song written in 1919 when Irving Berlin was 31 years old. America first got to hear this song when Eddie Cantor performed it in Ziegfeld's Follies of that year. However I feel it was far better performed and more appropriate for Madeline Kahn to take this song on. I think her arraignment of the tune might have been exactly what Berlin had in mind when he wrote it. She performed it in the style reminiscent of 'The Cakewalk'. A popular dance back in those early days when it was written.


From Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration in 1988

WIKIPEDIA:
List of 100's of songs written by Irving Berlin


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