SONG CAR-TUNES TUNES
1924-1927
The SONG CAR-TUNES series produced the first ever animated film with sound. The series pioneered the use of sound on film in animation beginning with
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MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME (SONG CAR-TUNES) 1926
This 1926 Max Fleischer short film was the first sound carton ever produced.
This 1926 Max Fleischer short film was the first sound carton ever produced.
The first technology used for adding sound to animated films was Phonofilm. It was used on the Song Car-Tunes animated shorts made for sing-a-long that were released on May and June of 1924. They had very poor quality and the technology was replaced in 1928 for Disney's Steamboat Willy.
The first set of Song Car-Tunes were Oh, Mabel; Mother, Pin a Rose on Me; Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Come Take a Trip on My Airship
Contrary to the indefatigable Disney publicity machine, the first cartoon with synchronized sound was “My Old Kentucky Home,” a Fleischer cartoon. It was issued in 1926, almost two years before “Steamboat Willie.”
One of the first entries in the Fleischers' series "Song Car-Tunes" featuring the bouncing ball - allowing audiences to sing along with the lyrics to the song - along with Oh Mabel (1924) and Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1924).
Since the invention of the "Bouncing Ball" in 1924, music has been a powerful element of the cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios. "Follow The Bouncing Ball" was a feature used in the Song Car-Tunes series produced between 1924-1927. These early cartoons were the first efforts to combine sound and animation, pre-dating Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie - which has been widely considered to be the first synchronized sound cartoon. Max and Dave Fleischer produced 36 one to three minute films in the Song Car-Tunes series. Many of the cartoons were produced using Phonofilm Sound On Film, a process invented by Lee De Forest in 1919. In 1924 DeForest used Phonofilm to film Calvin Coolidge at the White House - making him the first US President to appear in a sound motion picture. In 1924 the Fleischer brothers teamed up with DeForest and others to form Red Seal Pictures Corporation, which opened 36 theaters on the east coast. In 1926, Phonofilm and Red Seal Pictures filed bankruptcy. The following year producer Pat Powers unsuccessfully tried to take over Phonofilm. Powers hired a former DeForest technician to clone the Phonofilm system - infringing on DeForests patent. Powers named his system Cinephone, and he convinced Walt Disney to use this process for Steamboat Willie, as well as for Disney's Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony cartoons.
The first set of Song Car-Tunes were Oh, Mabel; Mother, Pin a Rose on Me; Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Come Take a Trip on My Airship
Contrary to the indefatigable Disney publicity machine, the first cartoon with synchronized sound was “My Old Kentucky Home,” a Fleischer cartoon. It was issued in 1926, almost two years before “Steamboat Willie.”
One of the first entries in the Fleischers' series "Song Car-Tunes" featuring the bouncing ball - allowing audiences to sing along with the lyrics to the song - along with Oh Mabel (1924) and Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1924).
Since the invention of the "Bouncing Ball" in 1924, music has been a powerful element of the cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios. "Follow The Bouncing Ball" was a feature used in the Song Car-Tunes series produced between 1924-1927. These early cartoons were the first efforts to combine sound and animation, pre-dating Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie - which has been widely considered to be the first synchronized sound cartoon. Max and Dave Fleischer produced 36 one to three minute films in the Song Car-Tunes series. Many of the cartoons were produced using Phonofilm Sound On Film, a process invented by Lee De Forest in 1919. In 1924 DeForest used Phonofilm to film Calvin Coolidge at the White House - making him the first US President to appear in a sound motion picture. In 1924 the Fleischer brothers teamed up with DeForest and others to form Red Seal Pictures Corporation, which opened 36 theaters on the east coast. In 1926, Phonofilm and Red Seal Pictures filed bankruptcy. The following year producer Pat Powers unsuccessfully tried to take over Phonofilm. Powers hired a former DeForest technician to clone the Phonofilm system - infringing on DeForests patent. Powers named his system Cinephone, and he convinced Walt Disney to use this process for Steamboat Willie, as well as for Disney's Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony cartoons.
THE TUNES FROM SONG CAR-TUNES 1924-1927
1924
COME TAKE A TRIP IN MY AIRSHIP - 3/09/24
- music by George Evans, lyrics by Ten Shields
OH MABEL - 5/24
- music by Ted Fio Rito, lyrics by Gus Kahn
This is the first "Song Car-Tune" animation film produced by Max and Dave Fleischer using the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
GOODBYE MY LADY LOVE - 6/24
- written by Joseph E. Howard
Max and Dave Fleisher remade this film as _Goodbye My Lady Love_ (1929) with a new soundtrack recorded in RCA Photophone.
1925
OLD FOLKS AT HOME - 2/01/25
- Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
- written by Steven Foster
DAISY BELL - 5/30/1925
- Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built For Two)
- written by Harry Dacre
SWANEE RIVER - 7/15/25
- Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
- written by Stephen Foster
MY BONNIE - 9/15/25
- My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
- (traditional)
DIXIE - 11/15/25
- (I WISH I WAS IN) DIXIE LAND
- written by Daniel Decatur Emmett
SAILING, SAILING, OVER THE BOUNDING MAIN - 11/15/25
OH, SUZANNA - ?/25
- written by Steven Foster
OLD PAL (DEAR OLD PAL) - ?/25
THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK - ?/25
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE - ?/25
1926
I LOVE A LASSIE - 1/15/26
- written by Harry Lauder and Gerald Grafton
WHEN I LEAVE THIS WORLD BEHIND - 1/30/26
DARLING NELLY GRAY - 2/16/26
- written by Benjamin Russell Hanby
TA-RA-RA=BOOM-DEE-AYE - 2/26
- Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-der-e
- written by Henry J Sayers
HAS ANYONE HERE SEEN KELLY - 4/26
- music by C. W. Murphy, lyrics by Will Leters
- American lyrics by William J. McKenna
SWEET ADELINE - 5/26
- You're The Flower Of My Heart (Sweet Adeline)
- music by Harry Armstrong, lyrics by Richard H. Girard
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME - 6/26
- written by Steven Foster
My Old Kentucky home is the first sound cartoon ever produced and finds a dog getting ready for dinner as the story takes us into a sing-a-long with "My Old Kentucky Home".
The first sound cartoon ever produced (a credit often erroneously given to the Walt Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie (1928) starring Mickey Mouse). The first sound cartoon ever released was Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1924).
TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP THE BOYS ARE MARCHING - 7/26
- (aka The Prisoner's Hope, 1864)
- written by George Fredrick Root
One of the 50 films in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. This film is preserved by the Library of Congress (AFI/James Lippincott collection) and has a running time of 4 minutes.
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME - 8/26
- music by George Evans, lyrics by Ten Shields
ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND - 9/01/26
THE SHEIK OF ARABY - 9/15/26
ANNIE LAURIE - 9/30/26
- music by Lady John Scott, lyrics by William Douglas
COMING THROUGH THE RYE - 9/19/26
OH HOW I HATE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING - 10/01/26
- written by Irving Berlin
- remade in 1932
WHEN I LOST YOU - 10/15/26
- written by Irving Berlin
MARGIE - 10/30/26
- music by Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson, lyrics by Benny Davis
OLD BLACK JOE - 11/01/26
- written by Stephen Foster
WHEN THE MIDNIGHT CHOO-CHOO LEAVES FOR ALABAM' - 11/01/26
- written by Irving Berlin
MOTHER, MOTHER, MOTHER PIN A ROSE ON ME - 12/01/26
- written by Bob Adams, Dave Lewis and Paul Schindler
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES - 12/15/26
- Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile Smile Smile
- music by Felix Powell, lyrics by George Asaf
YAK-A-HULA-HICK-A-DOOLA - 12/36
- Yak-A-Hoola-Hicj-A-Doula
MY WIFE'S GONE TO THE COUNTRY - 12/30/26
- My Wife's Gone To The Country (Hurrah! Hurrah!)
- written by Ted Snyder, lyrics by Irving Berlin and George Whiting
TOOT TOOT TOOTSIE - ?/26
1927
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON - 1/01/27
- music by Gus Edwards
WAITING FOR THE ROBERT E. LEE - 4/15/27
- music by Lewis F. Muir, lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert
hot dog - first cartoon scored by lou fleischer
discent Bimbo's express
discect bizze bee - museum
billy murray did BIMBO voice in BB ups and down 32 & BB museum 32
lou - musical supervisor
sammy - musical director
The Fleischer Studio's ever popular Follow-the-Bouncing-Ball series began in the early 1920s when studio boss Max Fleischer was approached by songwriter Charles K. Harris (best known for "After the Ball") who wondered whether audiences could be inspired to sing along with an animated cartoon. Magic lantern shows offering sing-along's to illustrated slides had been a popular form of entertainment long before the invention of motion pictures, but Harris believed the form could be modernized. Max put his brother Dave Fleischer to work on the project, and Dave came up with the concept: a live-action ball would bounce along atop the lyrics and guide the audience through the verse at the appropriate tempo, and as the song progressed the lyrics would be illustrated with visual puns and sight gags. It was a great idea, wildly popular with audiences from the very start. In later years, incidentally, both Max and Dave Fleischer claimed credit for creating the series, but it appears that Harris was the guy who got the ball rolling, as it were.
The earliest series entries were silent, and it was up to local pit bands, organists or pianists in each theater to accompany the cartoons. In 1924 the Flesichers struck a deal with engineer Lee De Forest to produce some shorts with prerecorded sound tracks. De Forest, an unsung pioneer of the cinema, had been experimenting with a sound-on-film system of his own devising, producing short works featuring musicians, politicians delivering speeches, and stage stars such as Eddie Cantor and DeWolf Hopper. Together, De Forest and the Fleischers created the first animated sound cartoons fully four years before Disney's Steamboat Willie.
The Fleischer/De Forest 'Song Car-Tunes' were simple little films that followed the same pattern established in the silent shorts. Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?, one of the survivors, begins with Koko the Clown emerging from his ink well, smoothing his hair in familiar "conductor" fashion, then raising an Asbestos curtain to start the show. He calls forth a chorus of dignified-looking singers, and the song begins. No attempt was made to synchronize the words to the singers' lips; instead, the filmmakers cut directly to the lyric sheet. As the lyrics roll across the screen a comical stick figure dances across the tops of the words and occasionally acts them out (i.e. waving goodbye on the line "since he said goodbye," etc.) And because the subject of the song is an Irishman, the song concludes with a drawing of a typical vaudeville-style "stage Irishman" of the day filling the screen, complete with green necktie and fringe of red beard. I gather original prints of this subject were hand-colored, but the one I've seen is in black-and-white and the animation is rudimentary, while the sound quality is no worse than surviving phonograph records of the period.
Animation buffs will find this significant, though the average viewer may not consider it anything special. It's a pleasant song in any case, and it's interesting to see -- and hear -- a sound cartoon that predates Mickey Mouse by a couple of years.
----in the good old summertime--I found this piece thoroughly charming! I picked it up on eBay in Super-8 with no idea of what it might be, and was agreeably surprised to find a Fleischer sing-along 'Car-Tune'. Those demanding the justly celebrated Fleischer pyrotechnics should pass on this title, since the Car-Tunes weren't full cartoons but an animated answer to the magic lantern slide theater sing-along. As such they're very enjoyable, especially if you do sing along. There was originally special sheet music that synchronized with the film, adding a few sound effects as well.
The (admittedly simple) animations as well as the time-tested lyrics of 1902's classic hit 'In the Good Old Summertime' provide a nostalgic evocation of old-fashioned summer fun that should bring a smile to most faces. So if you come upon this little film, go ahead-- hold hands with your 'Tootsey Wootsey' and join in!
----sweet adeline---This short cartoon from the Fleischer Brothers is important historically, as it's a sound cartoon--two years before the much more famous "Steamboat Willie" from Disney. I think the reason why "Sweet Adeline" is not well remembered is because it was technically important, it's a very dull film and does not at all hold up today like the Disney film. The animation looks a negative image (white on black) and consists of the song by the same name being sung along with Karaoke-like lyrics flying across the screen in order to have an audience sing-a-long. As this lame sort of idea was used later by the Fleischers in the 30s and 40s, I assume audiences at the time actually sang along--whereas this sort of thing might start a popcorn fight but that's all. Lame but important...and forgotten.
---tramp tramp tramp ----Dave Fleischer was responsible for many gems. Ones that were amusing and charming, though over-cuteness did come through in some efforts and the stories were always pretty thin, with appealing characters, outstanding music and visuals that were inventive and with innovative animation techniques.
Ko-Ko similarly was an always amiable character to watch and among the better recurring characters in Fleischer's early work. Likewise, his series of Out of the Inkwell cartoons were among the best early efforts of Fleischer and silent cartoons in general. Fleischer may not be at his very finest and there are far better Ko-Ko cartoons than 'Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys are Marching'. It is still pretty good though as long as not too much is demanded.
The story is as thin as ice, not really one at all. Sometimes it's a bit pat and with little surprises. Ko-Ko could have had more to do.
However, there is a good deal to like. The animated sing-along portion is fun and charming and the character interplay likewise.
One expects the animation to be primitive and very low quality, judging by that it's the 20s when animation techniques were not as many, as refined, as ambitious and in their infancy. While Fleischer became more refined and inventive later certainly, the animation is surprisingly good with some nice visual wackiness and wit.
Everything is bright and breezy and there are amusing moments, though never particularly imaginative. The characters are likeable.
In summation, pretty good.
COME TAKE A TRIP IN MY AIRSHIP - 3/09/24
- music by George Evans, lyrics by Ten Shields
OH MABEL - 5/24
- music by Ted Fio Rito, lyrics by Gus Kahn
This is the first "Song Car-Tune" animation film produced by Max and Dave Fleischer using the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
GOODBYE MY LADY LOVE - 6/24
- written by Joseph E. Howard
Max and Dave Fleisher remade this film as _Goodbye My Lady Love_ (1929) with a new soundtrack recorded in RCA Photophone.
1925
OLD FOLKS AT HOME - 2/01/25
- Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
- written by Steven Foster
DAISY BELL - 5/30/1925
- Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built For Two)
- written by Harry Dacre
SWANEE RIVER - 7/15/25
- Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
- written by Stephen Foster
MY BONNIE - 9/15/25
- My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
- (traditional)
DIXIE - 11/15/25
- (I WISH I WAS IN) DIXIE LAND
- written by Daniel Decatur Emmett
SAILING, SAILING, OVER THE BOUNDING MAIN - 11/15/25
OH, SUZANNA - ?/25
- written by Steven Foster
OLD PAL (DEAR OLD PAL) - ?/25
THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK - ?/25
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE - ?/25
1926
I LOVE A LASSIE - 1/15/26
- written by Harry Lauder and Gerald Grafton
WHEN I LEAVE THIS WORLD BEHIND - 1/30/26
DARLING NELLY GRAY - 2/16/26
- written by Benjamin Russell Hanby
TA-RA-RA=BOOM-DEE-AYE - 2/26
- Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-der-e
- written by Henry J Sayers
HAS ANYONE HERE SEEN KELLY - 4/26
- music by C. W. Murphy, lyrics by Will Leters
- American lyrics by William J. McKenna
SWEET ADELINE - 5/26
- You're The Flower Of My Heart (Sweet Adeline)
- music by Harry Armstrong, lyrics by Richard H. Girard
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME - 6/26
- written by Steven Foster
My Old Kentucky home is the first sound cartoon ever produced and finds a dog getting ready for dinner as the story takes us into a sing-a-long with "My Old Kentucky Home".
The first sound cartoon ever produced (a credit often erroneously given to the Walt Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie (1928) starring Mickey Mouse). The first sound cartoon ever released was Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1924).
TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP THE BOYS ARE MARCHING - 7/26
- (aka The Prisoner's Hope, 1864)
- written by George Fredrick Root
One of the 50 films in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. This film is preserved by the Library of Congress (AFI/James Lippincott collection) and has a running time of 4 minutes.
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME - 8/26
- music by George Evans, lyrics by Ten Shields
ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND - 9/01/26
THE SHEIK OF ARABY - 9/15/26
ANNIE LAURIE - 9/30/26
- music by Lady John Scott, lyrics by William Douglas
COMING THROUGH THE RYE - 9/19/26
OH HOW I HATE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING - 10/01/26
- written by Irving Berlin
- remade in 1932
WHEN I LOST YOU - 10/15/26
- written by Irving Berlin
MARGIE - 10/30/26
- music by Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson, lyrics by Benny Davis
OLD BLACK JOE - 11/01/26
- written by Stephen Foster
WHEN THE MIDNIGHT CHOO-CHOO LEAVES FOR ALABAM' - 11/01/26
- written by Irving Berlin
MOTHER, MOTHER, MOTHER PIN A ROSE ON ME - 12/01/26
- written by Bob Adams, Dave Lewis and Paul Schindler
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES - 12/15/26
- Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile Smile Smile
- music by Felix Powell, lyrics by George Asaf
YAK-A-HULA-HICK-A-DOOLA - 12/36
- Yak-A-Hoola-Hicj-A-Doula
MY WIFE'S GONE TO THE COUNTRY - 12/30/26
- My Wife's Gone To The Country (Hurrah! Hurrah!)
- written by Ted Snyder, lyrics by Irving Berlin and George Whiting
TOOT TOOT TOOTSIE - ?/26
1927
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON - 1/01/27
- music by Gus Edwards
WAITING FOR THE ROBERT E. LEE - 4/15/27
- music by Lewis F. Muir, lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert
hot dog - first cartoon scored by lou fleischer
discent Bimbo's express
discect bizze bee - museum
billy murray did BIMBO voice in BB ups and down 32 & BB museum 32
lou - musical supervisor
sammy - musical director
The Fleischer Studio's ever popular Follow-the-Bouncing-Ball series began in the early 1920s when studio boss Max Fleischer was approached by songwriter Charles K. Harris (best known for "After the Ball") who wondered whether audiences could be inspired to sing along with an animated cartoon. Magic lantern shows offering sing-along's to illustrated slides had been a popular form of entertainment long before the invention of motion pictures, but Harris believed the form could be modernized. Max put his brother Dave Fleischer to work on the project, and Dave came up with the concept: a live-action ball would bounce along atop the lyrics and guide the audience through the verse at the appropriate tempo, and as the song progressed the lyrics would be illustrated with visual puns and sight gags. It was a great idea, wildly popular with audiences from the very start. In later years, incidentally, both Max and Dave Fleischer claimed credit for creating the series, but it appears that Harris was the guy who got the ball rolling, as it were.
The earliest series entries were silent, and it was up to local pit bands, organists or pianists in each theater to accompany the cartoons. In 1924 the Flesichers struck a deal with engineer Lee De Forest to produce some shorts with prerecorded sound tracks. De Forest, an unsung pioneer of the cinema, had been experimenting with a sound-on-film system of his own devising, producing short works featuring musicians, politicians delivering speeches, and stage stars such as Eddie Cantor and DeWolf Hopper. Together, De Forest and the Fleischers created the first animated sound cartoons fully four years before Disney's Steamboat Willie.
The Fleischer/De Forest 'Song Car-Tunes' were simple little films that followed the same pattern established in the silent shorts. Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?, one of the survivors, begins with Koko the Clown emerging from his ink well, smoothing his hair in familiar "conductor" fashion, then raising an Asbestos curtain to start the show. He calls forth a chorus of dignified-looking singers, and the song begins. No attempt was made to synchronize the words to the singers' lips; instead, the filmmakers cut directly to the lyric sheet. As the lyrics roll across the screen a comical stick figure dances across the tops of the words and occasionally acts them out (i.e. waving goodbye on the line "since he said goodbye," etc.) And because the subject of the song is an Irishman, the song concludes with a drawing of a typical vaudeville-style "stage Irishman" of the day filling the screen, complete with green necktie and fringe of red beard. I gather original prints of this subject were hand-colored, but the one I've seen is in black-and-white and the animation is rudimentary, while the sound quality is no worse than surviving phonograph records of the period.
Animation buffs will find this significant, though the average viewer may not consider it anything special. It's a pleasant song in any case, and it's interesting to see -- and hear -- a sound cartoon that predates Mickey Mouse by a couple of years.
----in the good old summertime--I found this piece thoroughly charming! I picked it up on eBay in Super-8 with no idea of what it might be, and was agreeably surprised to find a Fleischer sing-along 'Car-Tune'. Those demanding the justly celebrated Fleischer pyrotechnics should pass on this title, since the Car-Tunes weren't full cartoons but an animated answer to the magic lantern slide theater sing-along. As such they're very enjoyable, especially if you do sing along. There was originally special sheet music that synchronized with the film, adding a few sound effects as well.
The (admittedly simple) animations as well as the time-tested lyrics of 1902's classic hit 'In the Good Old Summertime' provide a nostalgic evocation of old-fashioned summer fun that should bring a smile to most faces. So if you come upon this little film, go ahead-- hold hands with your 'Tootsey Wootsey' and join in!
----sweet adeline---This short cartoon from the Fleischer Brothers is important historically, as it's a sound cartoon--two years before the much more famous "Steamboat Willie" from Disney. I think the reason why "Sweet Adeline" is not well remembered is because it was technically important, it's a very dull film and does not at all hold up today like the Disney film. The animation looks a negative image (white on black) and consists of the song by the same name being sung along with Karaoke-like lyrics flying across the screen in order to have an audience sing-a-long. As this lame sort of idea was used later by the Fleischers in the 30s and 40s, I assume audiences at the time actually sang along--whereas this sort of thing might start a popcorn fight but that's all. Lame but important...and forgotten.
---tramp tramp tramp ----Dave Fleischer was responsible for many gems. Ones that were amusing and charming, though over-cuteness did come through in some efforts and the stories were always pretty thin, with appealing characters, outstanding music and visuals that were inventive and with innovative animation techniques.
Ko-Ko similarly was an always amiable character to watch and among the better recurring characters in Fleischer's early work. Likewise, his series of Out of the Inkwell cartoons were among the best early efforts of Fleischer and silent cartoons in general. Fleischer may not be at his very finest and there are far better Ko-Ko cartoons than 'Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys are Marching'. It is still pretty good though as long as not too much is demanded.
The story is as thin as ice, not really one at all. Sometimes it's a bit pat and with little surprises. Ko-Ko could have had more to do.
However, there is a good deal to like. The animated sing-along portion is fun and charming and the character interplay likewise.
One expects the animation to be primitive and very low quality, judging by that it's the 20s when animation techniques were not as many, as refined, as ambitious and in their infancy. While Fleischer became more refined and inventive later certainly, the animation is surprisingly good with some nice visual wackiness and wit.
Everything is bright and breezy and there are amusing moments, though never particularly imaginative. The characters are likeable.
In summation, pretty good.
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THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK - THE DOCUMENTARY
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THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK
Down in front of Casey's old brown wooden stoop
On a summer's evening we formed a merry group
Boys and girls together we would sing and waltz
While Jay played the organ on the sidewalks of New York
East Side, West Side, all around the town
The tots sang "ring-a-rosie," "London Bridge is falling down"
Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York
That's where Johnny Casey, little Jimmy Crowe
Jakey Krause, the baker, who always had the dough
Pretty Nellie Shannon with a dude as light as cork
She first picked up the waltz step on the sidewalks of New York
Things have changed since those times, some are up in "G"
Others they are wand'rers but they all feel just like me
They'd part with all they've got, could they once more walk
With their best girl and have a twirl on the sidewalks of New York
Down in front of Casey's old brown wooden stoop
On a summer's evening we formed a merry group
Boys and girls together we would sing and waltz
While Jay played the organ on the sidewalks of New York
East Side, West Side, all around the town
The tots sang "ring-a-rosie," "London Bridge is falling down"
Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York
That's where Johnny Casey, little Jimmy Crowe
Jakey Krause, the baker, who always had the dough
Pretty Nellie Shannon with a dude as light as cork
She first picked up the waltz step on the sidewalks of New York
Things have changed since those times, some are up in "G"
Others they are wand'rers but they all feel just like me
They'd part with all they've got, could they once more walk
With their best girl and have a twirl on the sidewalks of New York
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