Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Apr 12 - 04:52 PM

I don't know if he ever recorded it, but I've always associated it with Dennis Day. When I heard the song when I was growing up, it was Day singing it every so often on the Jack Benny show on radio.

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 04 Apr 12 - 03:44 PM

A great recording of a great song!

(Greater today than in 1901, because now it has "historical value"!)

Subject: Recordings '...Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?"
From: Genie
Date: 04 Apr 12 - 02:35 PM

I meant to say, above, that Giefer wrote the song in 1898 but it wasn't published till 1900, then recorded by Favor in 1901.

Here's Edward M. Favor's 1901 recording on YouTube.

Subject: ... The Overalls In Mistress Murphy's Chowder
From: Genie
Date: 04 Apr 12 - 02:16 PM

The song was written by Giefer in 1898 but

You can hear Edward Favor's 1901 recording of the song here..
The lyrics he sings are "Mrs. Murphy" and "Tim Nolan," not "Mistress Murphy" and "McGinty."


Apparently, Julie Andrews also recorded it.   http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0056424_U7.

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 28 Aug 10 - 10:48 AM

Oscar Brand did it on his album, "Songs That Killed Vaudeville". My dad (John Henry Faulk) had this in his collection in the late 1950s. When I was finishing high school in another town then he let me keep it with me & enjoy it. "Hang On The Bell, Nellie" was also on that one, I think...Tw

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: Louie Roy
Date: 27 Aug 10 - 08:01 PM

I've been singing this song for over 60 years and I probably got it off of Bing's recording

Subject: George L Giefer 'Who Threw The Overalls ...'
From: Genie
Date: 27 Aug 10 - 02:44 AM

I just found the sheet music for "Who Threw The Overalls In Mistress Murphy's Chowder".   The songwriter was George L. Giefer but the sheet music has a copyright date of 2006, so it wasn't helpful for determining the original publication date.

This sheet music was for Julie Andrews's recording of the song.

Subject: Who wrote 'Who Threw Overalls In Murphy's Chowder
From: Genie
Date: 27 Aug 10 - 02:24 AM

Bob, do you have that sheet music handy?
I'd love to know who the songwriters were and what the original copyright date was.

Genie

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: Deckman
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 01:33 PM

Somewhere in my boxes of goodies, I have the original sheet music for it! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 11:54 AM

You are seeing the file code (not garbage!) because the owners of the site haven't set the MIME types on their server properly, and your browser thinks it is looking at a text file. In order to play the file, right-click on the link on their page and select "copy shortcut" (IE) or "copy link location" (Netscape). Open a media player that can handle mp3. Windows Media will do it (I prefer Winamp); in WM, go to "file: URL" and paste the link into the box. You should now be able to play the music.

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 09:20 AM

Unfortunately, when I access the URL given and try to play the recording I just get a screen full of computer garbage.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: GUEST,misophist
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 12:50 AM

I've only seen it as sheet music. It think the copy I hqd attributed it to the 1890's.

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 08:19 PM

Well, I've HEARD it, but know of no really recent recordings. Friends of mine used to do it every now and then but have not recorded it.

The Bing Crosby version was the one I knew when I was growing up. Think we might have had a 78 of it.

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 07:16 PM

Cool... even an MP3!

LOL

:-)

Ta very much folks...

Anybody more contemporary record it?

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 04:08 PM

Recording on this page Edward Favor, 1901!

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 03:09 PM

Bing Crosby for one, in his IRISH COLLECTION...

01. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
02. Macnamara's Band
03. Galway Bay
04. Top O' The Morning
05. Rosaleen
06. How Can You Buy Killarney?
07. It'sThe Same Old Shillelagh
08. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby) (First Version)
09. The Rose Of Tralee
10. Dear Old Donegal
11. Danny Boy
12. St. Patrick's Day Parade
13. I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
14. The Donovans
15. Where The River Shannon Flows
16. Eileen
17. With My Shillelagh Under My Arm
18. My Girl's An Irish Girl
19. That Tumbledown Shack In Athlone
20. Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan
21. The Isle Of Innisfree

***22. Who Threw The Overalls On Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?

23. Did You Mother Come From Ireland?
24. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby)

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: paddymac
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 02:47 PM

It's a humorous song I've heard many times. I think Mitch Miller might have recorded a version, but can't swear to it. It's one of those "Tin Pan Alley" songs that some purists seem to enjoy grousing about. I've even heard people complain about it being "anti-Irish" because of the way they perceive it to characterize folks of Irish descent. I can see that in some circumstances, but it's still a good bit of humor. Enjoy it, says I.

Subject: RE: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 02:18 PM

The song is still under copyright protection, so the copy of 1937 on the Levy sheet music website as Box 1558, Item 244a, doesn't give a .GIF of it, nor does it say who recorded it.

Subject: Who recorded 'Who Threw The Overalls...'
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 02:02 PM

"... In MISTRESS MURPHY'S CHOWDER?"???

The parents of a chum of mine what me to sing it, but I've never heard it before... Looked it up in the DT and got the lyrics... But I need to hear it...

???

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