[78-L] waring workshop

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Anthony Baldwin" <jazztrash at wanadoo.fr>
> ...Waring's Pennsylvanians feature the line "...You can bet your
> Ingersoll" (i.e. wristwatch) in "Hello Montreal".
>  In "Ich bin die fesche Lola", Marlene Dietrich tells us, "...Ich
> hab' ein Pianola." (trademark of the Aeolian-Vocalion Co.)
>  And If we're accepting cars as appliances, the list goes way beyond
> Henry's Lizzie:
>  "...A boy kissed Bessie in a Buick one night." ("Bessie Couldn't
> Help It" — Louis Armstrong). Don Redman gives his girlfriend a "big
> Packard coupe" in "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?" — McKinney's
> Cotton Pickers. Dizzy Gillespie recorded "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac",
> and Jean Goldkette "In my Merry Oldsmobile" — though that's really an
> ad jingle.
>
No! "In My Merry Oldsmobile" was NOT  originally an "ad jingle"...it was
a "Tin Pan Alley" tune of 1903, written in hopes the "auto-mobile" craze
might promote its sale...!

...stevenc