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Thread #434 Message #3831621
Posted By: Jim Carroll
10-Jan-17 - 04:05 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I'm a Little Teapot
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm a Little Teapot
I'm sure people have checked, but this is the Wiki information:
The song was originally written by George Harold Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley and published in 1939.
Clarence Kelley and his wife ran a dance school for children, which taught the "Waltz Clog", a popular and easy-to-learn tap dance routine. This routine, however, proved too difficult for the younger students to master. To solve this problem, George Sanders wrote The Teapot Song, which required minimal skill and encouraged natural pantomime. Both the song and its accompanying dance, the "Teapot Tip", became enormously popular in America and overseas
Jim Carroll