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Thread #57013 Message #2941806
Posted By: Tannywheeler
08-Jul-10 - 12:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Gal's a Corker/...Girl's a New Yorker
Subject: RE: Origins: My Gal's a Corker/My Best Girl's a Corker
Well, Guest Ray V., I think it's interesting that you believe you "wrote" a song in 1941 which was being sung already around the world & could be traced from versions actually written (even possibly recorded) in the late 1890s. Is it possible you just adapted a camp-song thingy you'd heard, & made a paper record of what you'd come up with? Tw