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

[Philip Carli]

I think "I Say It's Spinach, And To Hell With It" was the first caption James Thurber published in the New Yorker (to another artist's cartoon).  The image is of a small child looking up at his mother from his dinner plate. PC
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Bowie [bowiebks at isomedia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 3:58 PM
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Subject: [78-L] Popyeye,  Spinach,  Hell,  etc.

----- 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


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