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Thread #147770   Message #3426715
Posted By: Joe Offer
27-Oct-12 - 12:54 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Streets Of Cairo third verse
Subject: RE: Origins: The Streets Of Cairo third verse
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The song is featured in "The Tortured Life of Shady Jones" at fanfiction.net


Nice page at ethanhein.com

Great stuff in the "Visions of Salome" chapter of a book titled Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era By Larry Hamberlin - looks like a great book


gildedserpent.com has a great page, with information similar to that at shira.net (and attributed to Shira).


Our college-age "ladysitter," Rachel, was here this evening to take care of my mother-in-law. Rachel says there's a popular song by a performer named Ke$ha that makes use of this melody. Morwen, is the Ke$ha recording what brought this to mind for you?

-Joe-