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A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
- THEODORE AUGUST METZ & JOE HAYDEN




A HOT TIME IN OLD TOWN TONIGHT    (SCREEN SONGS)    1930


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 that was overheard by Metz 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 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. It has also been a popular fight song and march used by many schools.



1927

BESSIE
​SMITH


19??

DAN W.
​QUINN

1927

MIFF
​MOLE


​

19??

KEN
CARSON
AND THE
​CHORALIERS

19??

SKILLET
​LICKERS

19??

AL
​JOLSON

1949

FAMOUS
STUDIOS
SCREEN
​SONGS

1949

GUY
​LOMBARDO


1958

LaVERN
BAKER

1958

FRED
BURTON

1960

BOB
CREWE

1964

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

19??

BING
CROSBY

19??

6-YEAR
OLD

MOLLY
RINGWALD

1966

LAWRENCE
WELK
​SHOW

19??

DUKES OF
​DIXIELAND

1964

FIREHOUSE
FIVE
PLUS

TWO

19??

MAGNOLIA
​JAZZ BAND

19??

MISSISSIPPI
​JOHN HURT


19??

FOZZIE
​BEAR
AND THE
​MUPPETS


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

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