[78-L] waring workshop

[Anthony Baldwin]

Sure, but i
On Dec 6, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
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