Lyr Req: Homer Tracy

Subject: Lyr Req: Homer Tracy
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:25 PM

Comic song popular in the 1940s (I heard Fred Allen sing it on the radio), TTTO "Old Joe Clark". "Our hero was a floorwalker. His name was Homer Tracy. He walked the floor in a department store, And the store was owned by Macy." He gets trampled to death by a mob at a girdle sale, and is buried in the basement.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Homer Tracy
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:51 PM

Reference found here, but no actual lyrics. Sorry Joe

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Homer Tracy
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:02 PM

According to The RadioGOLDINdex, the song is called THE LAMENT OF HOMER TRACY, and it was sung by Bing Crosby and Fred Allen on "The Bing Crosby Show," on CBS radio on May 17, 1950. Similar information is given at Steven Lewis' Bing Crosby Internet Museum, but it says the name of the program was "The Chesterfield Show."

I can't find any evidence that the song was ever published, performed, or recorded apart from that program, but a recording of the program apparently exists.

Radio Station KBRD (Olympia, WA) lists it on their playlist, with the same performers, but it doesn't say where the recording comes from.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Homer Tracy
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:38 PM

Sorcha & Jim: Thank you for your researches. It is possible that the program mentioned is the one on which I heard it, tho we did not regulary listen to The Bing Crosby show. It is of course possible that Fred Allen also sang it on his own show. It was also in oral circulation; I heard it sung by some teenagers in Utah, but I cannot easily put a date to that.

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