A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
- THEODORE AUGUST METZ & JOE HAYDEN
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A HOT TIME IN OLD TOWN TONIGHT (SCREEN SONGS) 1930
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A Hot Time In Old Town Tonight is a ragtime classic composed by Theodore August Metz in 1896, with lyrics by Joe A. Hayden. At the time, Metz was a bandleader on tour with McIntyre and the Health Minstrils. When the tour went through a place called "Old Town", Metz was watching some kids starting a fire from the train's window. A remark from the boys was overheard by Metz, and that inspired the name of the song - "It'll be a hot time in the old town tonight".
In 1930, the song was featured in a Screen Songs cartoon starring a group of mice. In 1949, the song was used again in the Famous Studio's Screen Songs cartoon The Big Flame Up. The song has become a popular standard, and it has been widely used in film and television, and it has also been a popular fight song and march used by many schools. |
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1927
BESSIE SMITH |
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DAN W. QUINN |
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1927
MIFF MOLE |
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KEN CARSON AND THE CHORALIERS |
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SKILLET LICKERS |
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AL JOLSON |
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1949
FAMOUS STUDIOS SCREEN SONGS |
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1949
GUY LOMBARDO |
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1958
LaVERN BAKER |
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1958
FRED BURTON |
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1960
BOB CREWE |
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1964
LOUIS ARMSTRONG |
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BING CROSBY |
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6-YEAR OLD MOLLY RINGWALD |
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1966
LAWRENCE WELK SHOW |
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DUKES OF DIXIELAND |
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1964
FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO |
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MAGNOLIA JAZZ BAND |
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MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT |
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FOZZIE BEAR AND THE MUPPETS |
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THERE'LL BE A HOT TIME IN OLD TIME TONIGHT
Come along, get you ready Wear your bran', bran' new gown
For there's gwine to be a meeting In that good, good old town
Where you knowded everybody And they all knowded you
And you've got a rabbit's foot To keep away de hoo-doo.
When you hear that the preaching does begin
Bend down low for to drive away your sin
And when you gets religion, you want to shout and sing
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, My baby
When you hear dem a bells go ding ling ling
All join 'round and sweetly you must sing
And when the verse am through in the chorus all join in
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.
There'll be girls for ev'ry body: In that good, good old town,
For there's Miss Consola Davis And there's Miss Gondolia Brown
And there's Miss Johanna Beasly She am dressed all in red,
I just hugged her and I kissed her And to me then she said:
Please oh please, oh do not let me fall,
You're all mine and I love you best of all,
And you must be my man, or I'll have no man at all,
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, My baby
Come along, get you ready Wear your bran', bran' new gown
For there's gwine to be a meeting In that good, good old town
Where you knowded everybody And they all knowded you
And you've got a rabbit's foot To keep away de hoo-doo.
When you hear that the preaching does begin
Bend down low for to drive away your sin
And when you gets religion, you want to shout and sing
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, My baby
When you hear dem a bells go ding ling ling
All join 'round and sweetly you must sing
And when the verse am through in the chorus all join in
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.
There'll be girls for ev'ry body: In that good, good old town,
For there's Miss Consola Davis And there's Miss Gondolia Brown
And there's Miss Johanna Beasly She am dressed all in red,
I just hugged her and I kissed her And to me then she said:
Please oh please, oh do not let me fall,
You're all mine and I love you best of all,
And you must be my man, or I'll have no man at all,
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, My baby
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