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"Oh By Jingo!" (also "Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee You're The Only Girl For Me"), is a 1919 novelty song by Albert Von Tilzer with lyrics by Lew Brown. The song was featured in the Broadway show "Linger Longer Letty", and became one of the biggest Tin Pan Alley hits of the post-World War I era.
Albert Von Tilzer's 1919 novelty song Oh By Jingo! was one of the biggest hits of the Tin Pan Alley era. [5] The 1970 song "After All" by David Bowie, from the album The Man Who Sold the World, also makes prominent use of the expression "Oh by Jingo". The original US release of the album additionally features the phrase on the back cover ...
G. H. MacDermott on a sheet music cover by Alfred Concanen (1882). Gilbert Hastings MacDermott (born John Farrell; 27 February 1845 – 8 May 1901) was an English comic singer or lion comique, who was one of the biggest stars of the Victorian English music hall.
At the time when the above song was composed and sung, the Russians were nearing their goal, through the Treaty of San Stefano; eventually, the British were able to push the Russians back by means of diplomatic pressure and the threat of war. The phrase "by Jingo" was a minced oath, scarcely documented in writing, used in place of "by Jesus ...
"Jin-go-lo-ba" (or "Jingo") is a song by Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji, featured on his first album Drums of Passion (1959). In Yoruba (Olatunji's native language) it means, "Do not worry." The song featured "African-derived rhythms and chants" along with "swooping orchestration". [1]
George William Hunt (c.1837 – 1 March 1904), known in later life as 'Jingo' Hunt, [1] was an English writer of music hall songs, best known for "MacDermott's War Song" also known as the "Jingo Song".
Jingo, from the Discworld series "Jin-go-lo-ba" or "Jingo", a 1959 song by Babatunde Olatunji, covered by multiple artists; Jingo, Kansas, a community in the United States; Jingo, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States; Jingo, the main town on Rossel Island in Papua New Guinea
Just Visiting This Planet is the second album by Jellybean, the nickname for American producer, remixer and songwriter John Benitez.The album was released in 1987 and contains the singles "Who Found Who", "The Real Thing", "Jingo" and "Just a Mirage".