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

[David Lennick]

Carl Rose, actually..I've had that in "One Dozen Roses" for decades. E. B. 
White came up with the caption.

Mother: "It's broccoli, dear."
Little Girl: "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."
http://www.jimandellen.org/feministblog/332.html

Thurber redrew another famous cartoon that had originally been too bloody in 
Rose's version (fencer decapitating his opponent and shouting "Touche!")

dl

On 1/25/2011 4:12 PM, Philip Carli wrote:
> 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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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Shoshani"<mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>
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>> 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
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>
> 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.
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>
> Taylor
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