[78-L] Oompah question (sort of)

[Taylor Bowie]

David,  Julian and others,

Somewhere I've read that it was Sol Bloom,  later a distinguished member of 
Congress from New York,  who put together that snake dance melody for the 
side show girls at the '93 Chicago World's Fair.

In the early 1960s,  the boys (and girls) at my grade school would sing 
these lyrics to the first measures:

"There's a place on Mars..where the women smoke cigars."  Much more up to 
date than "There's a town in France..."

Here is a link to Bloom on Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Bloom



Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Oompah question (sort of)


>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?
>>
>>
>>        Julian Vein
>>
>>
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