Mr. Gallagher & Mr. Shean
music by AL SHEAN • lyrics by BRYAN FOY
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MR. GALLAGHER & MR. SHEAN - ED GALLAGHER & AL SHEAN
MR. GALLAGHER & MR. SHEAN (SCREEN SONGS) 1931
MR. GALLAGHER & MR. SHEAN (SCREEN SONGS) 1931
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Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean was the most successful song in the history of vaudeville. The popular song was named after the comic duo that performed the song for the first time in 1921. It has been said that the song was never performed the same way twice, and there have been hundreds of versions over the years. The strength of the single song placed the comedy duo, which lasted a mere 6 years, as one of the most famous vaudeville performers of all time. The song was featured prominently in several movies, including a 1931 installment of Max Fleischer's Screen Songs. Gallagher had died in 1929, so Shean appears solo in the live action segment of the Screen Songs film singing both parts of the song.
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1922
GALLAGHER & SHEAN |
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1922
EDWARD MEEKER & STEVE PORTER |
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1922
BILLY JONES & ERNEST HARE |
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1922
PAUL BIESE TRIO |
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1922
RIVER PLATE JAZZ BAND |
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1922
THE HAPPINESS BOYS |
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1922
PAUL BIESE'S ORCHESTRA |
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1923
featuring SAVOY HAVANA BAND |
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192?
VINCENT LOPEZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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192?
BENNY KRUGER AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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1923
PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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192?
DOOLEY & SHEA |
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1923
IN YIDDISH |
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192?
GUILLERMO ALVAREZ |
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1934
GALLAGHER & SHEAN |
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1938
BING CROSBY & JACK MERCER |
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1941
from the film ZIEGFELD GIRL featuring Charles Winninger as Gallagher |
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1944
from the film ATLANTIC CITY |
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19??
WAG ABBEY'S ORCHESTRA |
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1959
MILTON BERLE PARODY |
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1966
DEAN MARTIN & PHIL HARRIS TEATIME (PARODY) |
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19??
BIG BIRD & MR SNUFFLEU-PAGUS |
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1983
PITNEY- BOWES COMMERCIAL (PARODY) |
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1989
ZIEGFELD LONDON CAST RECORDING |
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2006
GEORGE MELLY |
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2007
CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE |
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2008
THE MELLOMEN |
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200?
KIMBERLY SUMMER THEATRE |
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20??
SHELOCKIAN VERSION |
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20??
SWING REPUBLIC (ELECTRO SWING VERSION) |
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2005
PIANO ROLL |
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MR. GALLAGHER & MR. SHEAN
VERSE 1
Shean: Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Oh! Mister Gallagher!
Gallagher: Hello, what's on your mind
This morning, Mister Shean?
Shean: Ev'rybody's making fun
Of the way our country's run
All the papers say
We'll soon live European.
Gallagher: Why Mister Shean,
Why Mister Shean.
On the day they took away
Our old canteen,
Cost of living went so high
That it's cheaper now to die.
Shean: Positively, Mister Gallagher.
Gallagher: Absolutely, Mister Shean.
VERSE 2
Shean: Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Oh! Mister Gallagher,
If you're a friend of mine,
You'll lend me a couple of bucks.
I'm so broke and badly bent,
And I haven't got a cent.
I'm so clean you'd think
That I was washed with Lux.
Gallagher: Oh! Mister Shean,
Oh! Mister Shean,
Do you mean to say
You haven't got a bean?
On my word as I'm alive,
I intended touching you for five.
Shean: Oh! I thank you Mister Gallagher.
Gallagher: You are welcome Mister Shean.
VERSE 3
Shean: Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Once I think I saw you save a lady's life
In a rowboat out to sea.
You were a hero then to me,
And I thought perhaps
You've made this girl your wife.
Gallagher: Oh! Mister Shean,
Oh! Mister Shean,
As she sunk I dove down like a submarine,
Dragged her up upon the shore,
Now she's mine forever more.
Shean: Who, the lady, Mister Gallagher?
Gallagher: No, the rowboat, Mister Shean.
VERSE 4
Shean: Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Oh! Mister Gallagher,
What's the name of that game
They play on the links?
With a stick they knock the ball
Where you can't find it at all,
Then the caddie walks around
And thinks and thinks.
Gallagher: Oh! Mister Shean,
Oh! Mister Shean,
You don't even know a hazard from a green.
Its become a popular game,
And you don't even know its name,
Shean: Sure it's croquet, Mister Gallagher.
Gallagher: No, lawn tennis, Mister Shean.
VERSE 1
Shean: Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Oh! Mister Gallagher!
Gallagher: Hello, what's on your mind
This morning, Mister Shean?
Shean: Ev'rybody's making fun
Of the way our country's run
All the papers say
We'll soon live European.
Gallagher: Why Mister Shean,
Why Mister Shean.
On the day they took away
Our old canteen,
Cost of living went so high
That it's cheaper now to die.
Shean: Positively, Mister Gallagher.
Gallagher: Absolutely, Mister Shean.
VERSE 2
Shean: Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Oh! Mister Gallagher,
If you're a friend of mine,
You'll lend me a couple of bucks.
I'm so broke and badly bent,
And I haven't got a cent.
I'm so clean you'd think
That I was washed with Lux.
Gallagher: Oh! Mister Shean,
Oh! Mister Shean,
Do you mean to say
You haven't got a bean?
On my word as I'm alive,
I intended touching you for five.
Shean: Oh! I thank you Mister Gallagher.
Gallagher: You are welcome Mister Shean.
VERSE 3
Shean: Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Once I think I saw you save a lady's life
In a rowboat out to sea.
You were a hero then to me,
And I thought perhaps
You've made this girl your wife.
Gallagher: Oh! Mister Shean,
Oh! Mister Shean,
As she sunk I dove down like a submarine,
Dragged her up upon the shore,
Now she's mine forever more.
Shean: Who, the lady, Mister Gallagher?
Gallagher: No, the rowboat, Mister Shean.
VERSE 4
Shean: Oh! Mister Gallagher,
Oh! Mister Gallagher,
What's the name of that game
They play on the links?
With a stick they knock the ball
Where you can't find it at all,
Then the caddie walks around
And thinks and thinks.
Gallagher: Oh! Mister Shean,
Oh! Mister Shean,
You don't even know a hazard from a green.
Its become a popular game,
And you don't even know its name,
Shean: Sure it's croquet, Mister Gallagher.
Gallagher: No, lawn tennis, Mister Shean.
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