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Thread #171930   Message #4159562
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
17-Dec-22 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Songs They Sang in Boston Speakeasies
Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs They Sang in Boston Speakeasies
Documented by Damon Runyon*, who is around and about at the time, and who I trust is not one to confuse the issue:

Little White Lies
The Old Oaken Bucket
My Dad's Dinner Pail
Chloe
Melancholy Baby
Home, Sweet Home
I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby

This is all at four o'clock in the morning in Good Time Charley Bernstein's little joint in Forty-Eighth Street. But as they do quartet singing, this may bias the sample, or otherwise tilt the table, at that.

* At the beginning of The Lily of St Pierre, in Runyon on Broadway.