[78-L] i don't want to play in your yard addendum by original poster

[Ray]

The song never was a hit, as defined by Joel Whitburn.  His book on Pop 
Memories goes back to 1890, but no mention.
It was recorded on cylinder around the time it was written.  The Cylinder 
Archive at UC Santa Barbara has such a cylinder but it is in such poor 
condition that they could not transfer it or even identify the artist.
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr 
1=1016&query=I+Don%27t+Want+to+play+in+Your+Yard&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id
Could you be confusing it with the VERY similar song PLAYMATE(S) which was 
popular in 1940 by Kay Kyser and revived in 1955 by the Fontane Sisters?
RayK
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From: Eric Goldberg
And so we come to these questions......Was this song ever a hit song and for 
whom? Who recorded it in the early 78 era? ...and let's not forget Alfalfa, 
did he sing it in the movies?