This might be better suited for general questions, but I figured I would try in Cafe Society first.
My mother swears that there is a song like this but doesn’t know the lyrics. I’ll post what she quoted but if anyone could tell us the title of the song or the lyrics, I’d appreciate it.
The song goes…
“Toot-toot-tootsie goodbye, Toot-toot-tootsie don’t cry”
and she thinks it is from the 20’s or 30’s.
Thanks in advance.
Brendon
Hm. Better lyrics.
Toot-Toot-Tootsie was an **extremely **popular song in the '20s, recorded by Al Jolson.
(and more recently, by Brent Spiner :eek: )
Very popular as a barbershop number among Sweet Adelines. My chorus is learning it for competition right now. Fun to sing!
Rio by Duran Duran?
::: Runs away:::
Ted Fio Rito, Robert A. King, Gus Kahn and Ernie Erdman wrote Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye in 1922. Al Jolson introduced the song in the theater musical Bombo. He recorded it for Columbia, then sang it again in the movies The Jazz Singer, Rose of Washington Square, The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again (in the last two Jolson’s voice was dubbed for actor Larry Parks for the singing parts).
Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye was also recorded in the 78 RPM era by Billy Murray and Ed Smalle (in a duet), The Hoosier Hotshots, Clyde McCoy, Mel Blanc, Bob Crosby, Emil Coleman, the Benson Orchestra of Chicago, Arthur Fields, Arthur Lange, Billy Jones and Ernest Hare (The Happiness Boys), the California Ramblers, the Dixie Demons, Frank Westphal, Nathan Glantz, Vincent Lopez, Art Mooney and Bailey’s Lucky Seven.
**Eve ** must have gone to bed early; otherwise, she’d be here, expressing dismay at a doper not being familiar with this song.
Thanks for the answers! I left my parents so I didn’t have internet until just a bit ago when I got home, and I called my mother and she was so excited to know the song’s name and artist. She has been teaching it to my nephew to sing because “tootsie” is my dog’s name.
I think I’ll be making a trip to Amazon to order me a cd and see how this sounds…
Brendon
On an episode of the Andy Griffith Show, Aunt Bea sings and plays this on the piano after taking some patent medicine that turns out to be mostly alcohol.
And no one seems to notice that there’s patent medicine in 19 frickin 66. Sorry, my issue.
There’s a reprise of sorts on the '73 (ish) Todd Rundgren album A Wizard/A True Star. On the song Just Another Onionhead.
Da da Dali goodbye
Da da Dali don’t cry
Your soft alarm clocks quake me
So boil your beans and meet me at Perignon Station
Crutch me Dali I’m young
Lobster telephone friend
Stay in your seat
Watch what you eat
If you don’t get a dead mule
Then you’ll show up in heat
Da da Dali hello
Da da Dali…
You’re just another onionhead…