[78-L] Popyeye, Spinach, Hell, etc.

[Taylor Bowie]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>


> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:02 -0800, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> Poley was a mainstay of the Waring group for years...I've seen a picture 
>> of
>> him performing with Waring on TV in the 50s.
>>
>> I think he was doing  "Popeye" before there was a Popeye!
>
>
> He was. And one of the oddest things to hear today is a recording the
> Waring group made in 1932, about a year before the first Popeye cartoon:
> I Say It's Spinach, And To Hell With It.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_1Qy_BYW0
>
> MS


Thanks for the post,  Michael...I hadn't played that record in a long time 
and had never stopped to think about the pre-Popeye connection to spinach? 
What a powerful band...that lead trumpet is amazing on these late Warings.

Any earlier use of the word "Hell" on a pop tune record?

On the 1928 All Star Orch of "Oh,  Baby!"  our friend Scrappy coyly sings 
"Wouldn't it be 'H' " instead of Hell.


Taylor