I saw a documentary that showed that this song was still being performed in 2001.
Typo: I meant 1892 [Daisy/ On a Bicycle Built for Two]. There was a big bicycle craze in this era. A couple bicycle mechanics/manufacturers people might remember are the Wright Brothers.
There are a bunch of these from the 78 RPM era:
Crazy Words - Crazy Tune: https://youtu.be/p0pL3KGqb3g?si=jf2-UskFiiELpvZ4
I’m Wild About Horns on Automobiles That Go ‘Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta’: https://youtu.be/kEjPnGDL0eg?si=quK0ige1ydZ1wb2Z
On the Party Line: https://youtu.be/L3vu85OWvWk?si=EUEoIO5oZYJ3ShHT
Get 'Em in a Rumble Seat: https://youtu.be/dcqV3ZAu31w?si=9s0rgANGLXZl3vqV
Soul Coughing’s Janine features band founder Mike Doughty’s girlfriend, Rachel Benbow Murdy singing in a payphone in Sheridan Square in New York into their answering machine. It also has the lyric:
I fell asleep by the blue light of Live at Five
And as I drifted off, I heard Al Roker say to me:
Dial one nine hundred
Four Jay Ay En Eye En Ee.
“Weird Al” Yankovic - “Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung”
