[78-L] Oompah question (sort of)

[David Lennick]

A dirty phrase is like a melody......I'm still looking for the feelthy lyrics 
to Colonel Bogey (BS..was all the band could play). And the joke whose 
punchline is "Not tonight, Josephine".

My CBC producers and I spent ages on the telephone and researching elsewhere, 
trying to find the source of "There's a town in France" when Peter Schickele 
quoted it in one of his pastiche works. It seems to date from a pre-1900 
World's Fair and the snake charmer or can shaker or something like that. No, 
not from Saint-Saens' Bacchanale.

dl

On 1/24/2012 12:13 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> I was playing one of those Gene Ammons Prestige jam sessions. Ammons
> quotes the phrase I know as  "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper",
> as does Jackie McLean who follows him. Does this phrase (like "There's a
> town in France") have a specfic melody associated with it?
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