Yup. Hello Ma Baby dates from 1899 and celebrates the wonderfulness of the telephone - lots of turn-of-the-century songs were about about planes, trains, automobiles and new technology.
Let’s try this better linkage.
Damned brackets.
Every Mame and Jane and Ruth…
Here are the songwriter’s names and full lyrics for “Hello, My Baby”.
“Come Back to Erin” is a traditional song.
I can’t remember if the operatic bit was from “The Barber of Seville” or not.
I was singing along right from the start to “Hello, My Baby,” but not because I know it from the Michigan T. Frog cartoons.
In about fourth grade or so (c. 1960), we had one of those classroom talent shows, and three friends and I decided we’d do a barbershop quartet thing. Our moms helped us with the costuming (striped shirts, garters on the sleeves, painted on mustaches, etc.), and somehow I had an album called “The Four Roses Sing Barbershop Favorites” – put out as a promotional thingee by the folks who made Four Roses whisky.
So we got up in front of the class and lip-synched to this song and a couple of others. I have no doubt that we were really “cute.”
Anyway, I can still hear “Hello, My Baby,” just the way they sang it, in my head all these years later.
From Weehawken to Duluth…
Slide, ride, glide the Michigan…
Um, CheapBastid, what was that page supposed to be? It came up as a generic page for CDNow, and the URL read (in part)…redirect/leaf=refused/…
Stump, hump, bump the Michigan…
(Balance, I’ve never seen you and f’r all I know you could be uglier than home-made lye soap, but when we meet I am going to kiss you for those links you provided. Between the SDMB and the Toonopedia, I’m gonna get no work done for the next few weeks.
And, geez, ya found the “Come back to Erin” song… That’s great, I never knew what he was singing there.)
Oh, fine, Balance gets a kiss for those links, but when I post up the “Holy Legos” site, I get a nice “thank you”. Sheesh!
Michigan J. Frog.
OK, wise guys, try this one…
“Mow him down, McCloskey!”
Are you KIDDING?!?
[sub]sniff She doesn’t remember…[/sub]
You posted that link and I proposed! sub[/sub]
…and all I got for it was a fight with blessedwolf while you gleefully looked on.
-Tygr, who to this day awaits an answer from the lady who appreciates Monty Python, Legos, and Looney Toons
Aw sweetie, I remember - you two vicious carnivores both fought very well…to a tie.
[sub]Was my gleefulness THAT obvious?! Damn. Gotta work on the “Vulcan poker face”.[/sub]
Eh, if you could use a second wife to tidy up around the house while Mrs. Tygr is occupied, I suppose I could help out for awhile. Check with her, first.
Let’s speed things up a bit–we have several more verses to go. Here’s the end of “Michigan Rag”:
That lov-ed raaaaaag!
And the rest of Olentzero’s verse:
Was to be the battle cry!
Mow him down McCloskey
You can lick him if you try!
[sub]FTR, Tygr, I’m male, and homemade soap is tough comptetition. But what the hell, I take kisses where I can get them. :D[/sub]
You can find lyrics and MIDIs to that and many other rags at Perfessor Bill’s web site
All I remember of the “McCloskey” song is the last two lines:
And future generations
with wonder and deliiiiiight
Will read on history’s pages
of The Great McCloskey Fight!
I’d sure like to know how the middle part goes.
[sub]Yeah, Balance, I know yer a guy. Which goes to show how much I appreciate them links. :D[/sub]
screech-owl, she said that was fine. NO!-dont’ e-mail her to make sure. Just trust me, she’s fine with all that. And don’t worry about having to tidy up the house, you can hang out with me and have fun. Besides, she’s doing a great job of keeping the house clean.
[sub]ow! What was THAT for?[/sub]
Well, if Mrs. Tygr has a problem with you helping out, I’ll be more than glad to take his place. There is no Mrs. Superdude.
Someone has to pick up the Legos while you watch cartoons.
Those two verses are all the frog sings of the McCloskey song, Tygr. From the sound of it, those verses seem to fit together–I don’t think there’s anything between them.
Next:
I want to play things,
A dolly or two
R-O-T-F-L-M-A-O!!!
Oh my god, Lady Owl, that’s the funniest thing I’ve had anyone say to me yet. What, do you have a camera in my house? You just exposed my defense against the 24-hour soap opera channel.
Guess I didn’t need to propose after all - I think I may already be married to you. Only a wife would say something like that. falls over laughing again