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The melody of the song may have originated from an Irish tune "All the way to Galway" in which the second strain is identical to Yankee Doodle. [4] [5] There are rumors that the earliest words of "Yankee Doodle" came from a Middle Dutch harvest song which is thought to have followed the same tune, supposedly dating back as far as 15th-century ...
Sections of the song arranged by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane are sung to the tunes of "Kingdom Coming" and "Yankee Doodle". In the 1951 film Across the Wide Missouri it is sung by Clark Gable (while playing a Jew's Harp) and others throughout the movie. In the classic Western The Searchers (1956), Ken Curtis uses the song to serenade Vera Miles.
James Cagney as George M. Cohan performing "The Yankee Doodle Boy" in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Verse 1. I'm the kid that's all the candy, 1 I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, I'm glad I am, So's Uncle Sam. I'm a real live Yankee Doodle, Made my name and fame and boodle, Just like Mister Doodle did, by riding on a pony. I love to listen to the Dixie ...
Historically, the term "pocket" referred to a pouch worn around the waist by women in the 17th to 19th centuries. Skirts or dresses of the time had an opening at the waistline to allow access to the pocket which hung around the woman's waist by a ribbon or tape.
Hasty pudding is a pudding or porridge of grains cooked in milk or water. In the United States, it often refers specifically to a version made primarily with ground ("Indian") corn, and it is most known for being mentioned in the lyrics of "Yankee Doodle", a traditional American song of the eighteenth century.
The song has been recorded many times. It was featured prominently in a solo song-and-dance sequence done by James Cagney in his Oscar-winning performance in the 1942 film about Cohan's life, Yankee Doodle Dandy. It has also been performed by Jimmy Roselli, Judy Garland, and Patti LuPone.
No other popular song caught the spirit of its time with such urgency." [ 7 ] In 2007, Clyde Haberman wrote that the song "endures as an anthem for the downtrodden and the forgotten". [ 12 ] In 2011, Zinsser wrote that "Brother" "still hovers in the national memory; I can hear its ghostly echo in the chants of the Occupy Wall Street marchers ...
Divvil a man can say a word agin me H, A, double-R, I, G, A, N you see Is a name that a shame never has been connected with Harrigan, that's me! Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs (1961) The song was used decades later for a 1960-1961 ABC television series, Harrigan and Son, about a father