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red dog 1

(27,872 posts) Mon Aug 7, 2017, 04:52 PM Aug 2017

What's your favorite song from 1922?

"I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise"
- Music by George Gershwin
- Lyrics by Ira Gershwin & B.G. DeSylva

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What's your favorite song from 1922? (Original Post) red dog 1 Aug 2017 OP

Not so much a song, as a moment in time... lapucelle Aug 2017 #1

Toot, Toot, Tootsie! Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #2

I'm Just Wild About Harry... First Speaker Aug 2017 #3

Good pick! red dog 1 Aug 2017 #4

I heard Eubie Blake play in person as a kid... First Speaker Aug 2017 #5

A local high school is named after him. kwassa Aug 2017 #6

Second Hand Rose - Fanny Brice emulatorloo Aug 2017 #7

lapucelle

(18,356 posts)

1. Not so much a song, as a moment in time...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 05:11 PM

Aug 2017

Gallagher and Shean of Follies Fame recorded for posterity.

Mr. Shean was the uncle of Leonard, Arthur, Julius, and Herbert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers#Brothers.27_names.2C_family_background.2C_and_lifetimes

Mr. Gallagher's name is still in lights on Broadway.
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/gallaghers-steak-house/

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

2. Toot, Toot, Tootsie!

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 05:19 PM

Aug 2017

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)

3. I'm Just Wild About Harry...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 05:29 PM

Aug 2017

red dog 1

(27,872 posts)

4. Good pick!

Reply to First Speaker (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 06:00 PM

Aug 2017

Music by Eubie Blake
Lyrics by Noble Sissle
written for the Broadway show "Shuffle Along"

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)

5. I heard Eubie Blake play in person as a kid...

Reply to red dog 1 (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 08:22 PM

Aug 2017

...talk about seeing history!

kwassa

(23,340 posts)

6. A local high school is named after him.

Reply to First Speaker (Reply #5)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 10:03 PM

Aug 2017

James Hubert Blake.

emulatorloo

(44,192 posts)

7. Second Hand Rose - Fanny Brice

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Wed Aug 9, 2017, 03:39 PM

Aug 2017

Did that one in junior high choir, 1970. Part of our choir director's custom "Rose Medley"

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