[78-L] Hell to pay

[David Lennick]

Hell's Bells, of course..lots of euphemisms as well, like "If I Knock the 'L' 
Out of Kelly".

dl

On 1/25/2011 6:08 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Thanks,  Bud!  I'd totally zoned on that one for some reason.
>
> Any other old "Hells" in early pop song lyrics?
>
> Taylor
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bud Black"<banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> To:<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Popyeye, Spinach, Hell, etc.
>
>
>> "Good news is welcome to me,
>> Bad news is hell come to me....": (from the musical Good News)
>>
>> Bud
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>> -------Original Message-------
>>
>> From: Philip Carli
>> Date: 01/25/11 16:12:31
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Popyeye, Spinach, Hell, etc.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> 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.
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>> ----- 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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