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'Shoo-Fly' is said to have come originally from the Isthmus of Panama, where the black people sang 'Shoo Fly' and 'Don't Bodder Me' antiphonally while at their work. A black person from there, Helen Johnson, took it first to California and taught the song to 'Billy' Birch [a performer with the San Francisco Minstrels troupe].
Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, originally Shoo Shoo Baby, is a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in World War II, preserved and currently awaiting reassembly at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. A B-17G-35-BO, serial number 42-32076 , and manufactured by Boeing, it was named by her crew for a song of the same name made popular by The Andrews ...
Fly in the buttermilk, shoo, fly, shoo. There's a little red wagon, paint it blue. I lost my partner, what'll I do? I'll get another, as pretty as you; Can't get a red bird, jay bird'll do. Cat's in the cream jar, ooh, ooh, ooh. Off to Texas, two by two.
The first evidence of this was in a 1886 article complaining of “hoodlums” who didn’t live in Shoo Fly terrorizing the unlit neighborhood nightly with “malicious mischief.”
Thomas Brigham Bishop (June 29, 1835 - May 15, 1905) (usually referred to as T. Brigham Bishop) is best known as an American composer of popular music.Various disputed claims have been made by Bishop and others that he authored, or at least contributed to the authorship of, a number of popular 19th-century songs, including John Brown's Body, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and Shoo Fly, Don't ...
"Shoo Shoo Baby" is a popular song written by Phil Moore. The song was made famous by The Andrews Sisters, [1] as they sang it in the 1943 film Three Cheers for the Boys. "Shoo, Shoo Baby" was a big hit for the trio in 1944, reaching No. 2 in the chart. Their version features a jazzy vocal pop arrangement typical of the time, with a key hook ...
"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song.
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