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"Yes! We Have No Bananas" is an American novelty song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn published March 23, 1923. It became a major hit in 1923 (placing No. 1 for five weeks) [2] when it was recorded by Billy Jones, Billy Murray, Arthur Hall, Snoopy's Classiks on Toys, Irving Kaufman, and others.
He was best known for co-writing and co-composing the popular song "Yes! We Have No Bananas" in 1923 with Irving Cohn. He wrote at least 75 songs in his career. Born in Boston, Silver grew up on the lower East Side of Manhattan. He began playing drums in a Bowery music hall's orchestra when he was 15. [2]
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"30,000 Pounds of Bananas", sometimes spelled "Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas", is a folk rock song by Harry Chapin from his 1974 album, Verities & Balderdash. The song became more popular in its live extended recording from Chapin's 1976 concert album, Greatest Stories Live that started the phrase "Harry, it sucks."
Shubert sent the show on tour after it had closed on Broadway. In Philadelphia, in the last week of the tour, Cantor introduced the song Yes! We Have No Bananas, written by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn. [4] The song, later recorded by Cantor for the Victor Talking Machine Company, became the most popular novelty hit of the 1920s. [5]
US Billboard 1923 No. 22, US No. 3 for 1 weeks, 8 total weeks 25: Great White Way Orchestra (vocal Billy Murray) "Yes! We have No Bananas" Victor 19068: April 26, 1923 () July 1923 () US Billboard 1923 No. 25, US No. 3 for 1 weeks, 6 total weeks, 610,101 sales (Victor 1920s memo) [4] 28: Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "Wonderful One"
Yes, we have no bananas. But most of those holiday goods can sit in warehouses, or even in shipping containers, for months at a time. That’s not the case with perishable goods that flow through ...
One of the company's major hits was "Yes! We Have No Bananas" published in 1923. The same year the song was published, they sued lyricist and publicist C.F. Zittel who was making a film using the title "Yes, We Want No Bananas" which they considered an unauthorized use of the title.