[78-L] waring workshop

Anthony Baldwin jazztrash at wanadoo.fr
Sat Dec 6 14:05:30 PST 2008


Sure, but to my knowledge the two surviving 1927 Goldkette 'special'  
Victor recordings of the 1903 song were designed specifically to  
promote auto sales rather than for commercial release to the public.

Tony B


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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