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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.
The expression by Jingo is a minced oath that appeared rarely in print, but which may be traced as far back as to at least the 17th century in a transparent euphemism for "by Jesus". [1] The OED attests the first appearance in 1694, in an English edition of the works of François Rabelais as a translation for the French par Dieu!
Charlotte Greenwood, "Oh By Jingo!"(1919) "The Sheik of Araby" (1921) A novelty song is a type of song built upon some form of novel concept, such as a gimmick, a piece of humor, or a sample of popular culture.
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.
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 "Jingo", fifth movement of Statements for orchestra by Aaron Copland; By Jingo, a minced oath from the 17th century "Oh By Jingo!", a 1919 popular song
The American War-Dog, a 1916 political cartoon by Oscar Cesare, with the dog named "Jingo". Jingoism is nationalism in the form of aggressive and proactive foreign policy, such as a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests. [1]
"Nagasaki" is an American jazz song by Harry Warren and Mort Dixon from 1928 and became a popular Tin Pan Alley hit. The silly, bawdy lyrics have only the vaguest relation to the Japanese port city of Nagasaki; part of the humor is realising that the speaker obviously knows very little about the place, and is just making it up.
Recording for The Man Who Sold the World began on 17 April 1970 at Advision Studios in London, with the group beginning work on "All the Madmen".The next day, Ralph Mace was hired to play a Moog synthesiser [d] following his work on the single version of "Memory of a Free Festival". [14]