Animal's Ragtime Band

Subject: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: prodnose
Date: 09 Jan 23 - 08:31 AM

My father used to sing the following song.
He only ever sang one verse and chorus.
I feel sure there would have been more verses but I can find no trace online.
Any ideas?

"A wondrous sound of reverie awoke the zoo one night.
The keeper cried: "By jingo, they've begun another fight."
But soon they heard the fife and drum. The noise was great but grand
And everybody cried: "Here comes the animals' ragtime band.
chorus
The elephant played the trumpet. The rhinoceros beat the drum.
The kangaroo conducted them though he was deaf and dumb.
The crocodile played the clarinet though he never would learn his scales
And they played "God bless the weasel" and "Pop goes the Prince of Wales"

All information welcome

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: leeneia
Date: 09 Jan 23 - 11:28 AM

I can't find it either, but in the first line, reverie (memory) should be revelry (merry-making.) Good luck; it looks like fun.

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: GUEST,John
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 03:28 AM

My dad used to sing it too. I found this online.
http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/blog060.html

And this is the recording (see next to last para of the above link):
http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/gallaries/2015tagb/AnimalsGermanBandexOZ.mp3

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 08:53 AM

The links above don't work - error message "The page robdempster.com redirected too many times".
Can you do the blue clicky instead, Guest John?

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 10:00 AM

I got the same error. If it's a small IP company the site owner may not be supporting all of its pages (this happens if they sell out or the owner dies, etc.)

Dropping the URL into Internet Archive's the Wayback Machine lets me take a look at it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210121045932/http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/blog060.html

The main page shows up but the Wayback Machine never "crawled" the rest of the site (I didn't try every link, but none that I tried work.) But this might give you enough information to continue your search elsewhere.

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 11:13 AM

http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/blog060.html
http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/gallaries/2015tagb/AnimalsGermanBandexOZ.mp3

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: GUEST,John
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 11:19 AM

See above. The links work for me. I notice it's only HTTP not HTTPS, which your browser might not like.

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 12:06 PM

My computer defaults to https, even when http is entered. And there is enough security software in the computer to push back at insecure sites that I don't usually force the issue.

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: GUEST,John
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 12:22 PM

If the link still doesn't work, See here for suggestions:
https://university.webflow.com/lesson/too-many-redirects-error#:~:text=as%20the%20default.-,Troubleshooting%20tips,with%20browse

This link suggests the error can be caused by https checks, so you could try turning that off in your browser settings:
https://blog.hubspot.com/website/too-many-redirects

Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 01:01 PM

I can click on your link and it works because you set it to http, and the browser followed it. But if I copy and paste it into my browser it automatically adds the "s" to http. We've come a long way from when using https was a novelty.