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Thread #108166   Message #2248122
Posted By: Peace
29-Jan-08 - 04:06 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I'm Gonna Dance wit' de Guy wot Brung Me
Subject: RE: Origins: I took my girl to the Palais de Danse
"The knock-about novelty duet with Jack Kaufman I'm Gonna Dance Wit' De Guy Wot Brung Me (also known as The Gum Chewers Song) was originally written by Walter O' Keefe with music (for ukulele) by Harry Archer. This wonderful comedy song is made all the more humorous by Vaughn's attempt to sound like someone from the Bronx but actually sounds like Dick Van Dyke's attempt at a London cockney in the film Mary Poppins. The song had already been recorded in June of the same year by Aileen Stanley and Billy Murray with Nat Shilkret and his Orchestra. Like Lily Strickland, Aileen Stanley was another of Vaughn's contemporaries from whom interesting parallels can be drawn having made blues records as Mamie Jones for the exclusively black run label Black Swan, known mainly for its recordings by black artists.
The song had also been recorded three weeks prior to Vaughn's recording by the black male blues singer Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon."

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